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- 1341: Freud And Caligula
- ... he was insane. The writers differ as to how this condition came about, but all agree that after his good start Gaius began to behave in an openly autocratic manner, even a crazed one. Outlandish stories cluster about the raving emperor, illustrating his excessive cruelty, immoral sexual escapades, or disrespect toward tradition and the Senate. The sources describe his incestuous relations with his sisters, laughable military campaigns in the north, the ... developing psychosexual problems; he had acquired an overwhelming id that engulfed his ego and superego. This awkward and unfortunate combination did not make him popular with the government, cutting both his reign and his life short.
- 1342: Five Creation Myths
- Five Creation Myths After reading five myths about the creation of the universe, I can identify several similarities and differences that appear in the stories. The most obvious similarity in the stories is the presence of a god (or goddess) t hat brought the universe to its present state. He or she brought light from darkness, produced sea and land to make the Earth, and populated it ... living in different regions. The Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin mention creation of forests, streams, and lakes, while The Pelasgian Myth mentions Mount Olympus and the Teutonic myth mentions the Northern Sea. From the way the stories are written, one can guess at the way that the cultures think and live. The Wisconsin Indians seem to think simply, talking about tangible things. The Pelasgian myth talks about people and their feelings. ...
- 1343: Eveline 2
- In his short story, "Eveline", James Joyce discusses the difficult decision of when the time is right to leave home and start your own life. The main character, Eveline, has to decide whether to leave to Buenos Aires ... Eveline really didn't know Frank that well. She was a lonely person, and when Frank came along he seemed to be her ticket to happiness. All she knew really knew about him was the stories he had told which led me to believe he wasn't really honest. At this point in story Eveline's emotions start to shift. She realizes that as of late her father really hasn't ...
- 1344: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- ... dollar bills and generous checks poured into the campaign headquarters, and the ranks of NOW and other women's rights organizations swelled to historic sizes. Every women's magazine and most general interest publications had stories on the implications of the ERA, and the progress of the ratification campaign. Elizabeth Cady Stanton proved prophetic once again with her prediction that the movement should anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ... to vote their support, so male legislatures once again had it in their power to decide if women should have equal rights. In 1982, the deadline for ratification came and ERA was just three states short of the thirty-eight needed to write it into the US constitution. Seventy-five percent of the women legislatures in those three pivotal states supported the ERA, but only forty-six percent of the men ...
- 1345: Essay Comparison
- ... way death is something that cannot be fixed or controlled. In The Battle of the Ants , written by Henry Thoreau and in The Geese , written by E.B. White, death is a problem in both stories. In The Geese and The Battle of the Ants , both stories are keen observers in nature, while one tends to focus on old age death, and the other tends to focus on death of a war. In The Geese and The Battle of the Ants , there ... step to step in and try to break up one another, if they did step in they would effect the outcome and therefore, nothing would be solved between the animals. However, in both of these stories there are also some differences that take place. One example of this can be seen in the story of The Geese when the narrator talks about his personal relationship with the older goose. As ...
- 1346: Canines On The Police Force
- ... is a late breed of various breeds of Shepherd dogs in Germany. Through selective breeding, they were adapted for the rough job they had, plus new ones. Their shaggy coat developed into a thick, dense, short coat. They are relatively tall, (22-26 inches) and have a medium sized head with a long nose. This large body helps it support more muscle mass, so German Shepherds are usually very powerful. They ... air conditioners it is also tough very to figure out because the vents blow the scent all around. Chemicals can also affect a dog s PAGE 6 sense of smell, but usually just for a short period of time. This is why people try to cover up food or drugs by putting them in perfume soaked clothes, or hiding them in a shoe. A scent can not be masked. The only way to affect a dog s sense of smell is to deaden it. This is when a scent washes out the cells in the nose, and everything smells like that for a short period of time. German scientists did a study on the effects of pollution on scent. From zero to five feet up, the pollution was the thickest. A German Shepherd s nose is even with ...
- 1347: Fairies
- ... most about the fairy lore, or traditions, of Europe. This is because most of the people of North America came from Europe. These ancestors passed down to their children, and to their childrens children, stories about fairies. But stories about fairies have been found among the Eskimos, the American Indians, and the Arabs. In places as far apart as India and the Island of Saamoa in the South Pacific, people tell stories about fairies.
- 1348: If I See A Ghost Are My Senses
- ... the minority of the outer senses which are stimulated. Same thing with hallucination, but this time the inner senses do probably play a stronger role. We all know how young persons, when exposed to ghost stories, do have nightmares and/or restless nights. From this we can understand how this retrieval of memory together with imagination and lack of common sense can bring about hallucinations. In fact these same tricks are ... me and see that a ghost does not have flesh and bones as I do (Lk. 24, 39). This implies that we can not touch these spirits but as we will see from the various stories, they can touch US. These ghosts who may venture in our dimension can be perceived either by the known outer-senses or by ESP (extra sensory perception). The ESP can possibly be another sense that ... recording equipment . When such things are recorded then various scientists can test their evidence in order to get the truth out of it. An important factor, which is highly considered in the approval of ghost stories, is the feeling. A relatively essential factor, most of the times present in hauntings, is the presence of the so-called cold spots. These are small air pockets within the room where for example ...
- 1349: Shampoo Planets - Book Report
- ... God and then came Microserfs. His last book was Poaroids From the Dead, but before that was Shampoo Planet. Life After God and Polaroid From the Dead are not really novels but just compilations of short stories and anecdotes, some from his own life. I think that this book, about a guys life. The cover has a picture of the top part of a person s head, forehead and up, with messy ...
- 1350: Social Darwinsim History
- ... a theory called Social Darwinism, which on one hand was regarded as a primary defense of business activities, and on the other, was nothing more than a myth. Social Darwinism, the experts say, "was a short-lived theory of social evolution, vigorously discussed in America, which rationalized and justified the harsh facts of social stratification in an attempt to reconcile them with the prevalent ideology of equalitarianism. The emergence of Social ... Any organism that is able to obtain the necessary resources, often at the expense of other organisms, will survive, reproduce and pass on the "favored" qualities onto it's offspring (the "principle of inheritance"). In short, the weak, "unfit" will die, and the strong, will continue its existence. This whole theory was summarized in one laconic phrase - "survival of the fittest." For almost a decade before Darwin's The Origin of ... bookish" and intelligent enough to use the theory of Social Darwinism to justify their ruthless and unfair business practices. Unfortunately, there were only very few men like that. Social Darwinism, was in fact only a "short-lived theory"; nothing more than a greatly overemphasized myth, given much more credit than it actually deserved. WORKS CITED: "Andrew Carnegie: The Principles of Industrial and Social Progress Illustrated by His Career." The Monthly ...
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