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- 4471: Billy Bud: Contrast Between Good and Evil
- ... tries to antagonize what is good. Therefore, Claggort was Billy's antagonist throughout Billy Budd. Also symbolic to the novel is the actual demise of both Claggort and Billy Budd. Claggort's death is very short and appropriate "to his navel grade." In contrast, Billy's death occurs during the dawn where " Billy ascended; and ascending took the full rose of the dawn." Claggort's death completely contrasts with the pure ...
- 4472: The Linux Operating System
- ... Linux Penguin, which was selected by Linus Torvalds to represent the image he associates with the operating system he created. Although many variations of the word Linux exist, it is most often pronounced with a short " i " and with the first syllable stressed, as in LIH-nucks. Advantages: Linux is cheap, fast, flexible, efficient, stable, secure, reliable, legal, easy to install, low maintenance, thoroughly tested, and currently running somewhere around half ...
- 4473: Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
- ... Nations struck me as a mini course in basic economics. However, given the time period it was written, it did give me an insight into how our own country prospered so greatly in such a short time using natural resources, division of labor, and machinery. Also, as I read about the division of labor and how it has prospered nations, I couldn't help reflecting back on the principles Rousseau put ...
- 4474: A Street Car Named Desire
- Irony: incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected results. Huh? Well take the short story Lady with a Dog written by Anton Chekhov as an example. First lets get a look at our main characters, Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, and how they met. Then we will take ...
- 4475: The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath
- ... oppression, so did the Wife of Bath. She states that double standards for women are deeply rooted in society. The Wife of Bath addressed and dispels the justification for multiple marriages through biblical figures and stories. "I woot wel Abraham was an holy man, And Jacob eek, as fer as evere I can, And eech of hem hadde wives mo than two, And many another holy man also" (p.118, ll ...
- 4476: A Tale of Two Cities: Summary
- ... this book were because it was worded in old English and the words were unfamiliar. Also, I am not a history kind of person. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy history and stories from the past. Dickens made use of the history of the period that the story occured in.
- 4477: Belove Analysis
- ... so much control over her. This cycle is broken when Denver seeks help, because in this action the townspeople see that Sethe is not inhuman, just in some severe trouble. Ella, her friend during that short happy time eighteen years ago, plays a large role in this "saving" of Sethe. "Ella didn't like the idea of past errors taking possession of the present" (315), and so she organizes a group ...
- 4478: Modern Relevancy of A Christmas Carol
- ... Christmas-time over one hundred and fifty years ago, but many people today can use the morals that the story possesses. A Christmas Carol is considered by many people to be one of the greatest stories ever written and although it is old, the ideas that it holds about Christmas are still relevant to our society today. The Christmas of the past and our modern Christmas are not much different, although ...
- 4479: Summary of Lord Of The Flies
- ... on it. Ralph sounds the conch and the other boys appear. Among them is Jack Merridew, marching the boys' choir, military style, in the blazing sun. There are also the twins, Sam and Eric. Simon, short and skinny with black hair, joins the group. Many other boys who are never given names straggle in. The group elects Ralph as their leader even though Jack would like to be chosen. Ralph, Simon ...
- 4480: Old Man and the Sea: Themes
- ... part or reference in the story was the dream of lions on a beach of Africa, which this fisherman probably had never even visited much less seeing lions on a beach. This was like most stories in the main plot. First characters are introduced, then a threat reveals itself, showing true natures of all the characters, and finally the threat is fought off or it remains, leaving the reader in suspense ...
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