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- 691: Harrison Ainsworth Rookwood An
- ... early nineteenth century, an interest in criminals and the common highwayman arose in Europe. Many magazines in London, such as Bentley s Miscellany, Fraser s Magazine, and The Athenaeum featured sections that were reserved for stories about highwayman and their numerous adventures. The growing interest in the subject inspired many authors to write about the various exploits of popular criminals and highwayman. Some prominent examples of this type of novel were ... based upon famous crimes and criminal careers of the past (Eugene Aram, Dick Turpin in Rookwood, and Jack Sheppard); others derived from contemporary crime (Altick, 1970, p. 72). Although many authors chose to base their stories on criminals, William Harrison Ainsworth s Rookwood and Jack Sheppard are two of the best examples of the theme of crime and punishment in the nineteenth century. Ainsworth started his writing career as a writer of Gothic stories for various magazines. Gothic elements are included in Ainsworth s novel: the ancient hall, the family vaults, macabre burial vaults, secret marriage, and so forth (John, 1998, p. 30). Rookwood is a story about ...
- 692: Mark Twain 2
- ... the United States, and they helped win his way into the hearts of thousands. Twain, from a river town called Hannibal, was no stranger to the ways of the country and river. Quite often his stories were based on his own experiences in this setting. The use of a regional dialect like in "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", was more pleasing for the public to read and was also ... standards of reading. His knowledge and use of local dialect, and his life experiences in the heart of America helped make his literature be "American" and helped create the American experience. Twains humor in his stories was used partly because it was his way of writing but also because during those times America was going through great tribulation and was in need of relief from the Civil war. Through humor he ... the American experience. He traveled through out America experiencing much of the country, the life and the people, and writing things down as he went along. He used these experiences as the basis for his stories and since they were based on truth, spoke of America, and included humor, were a great success and still stand as American classics today. Mark Twain, spoke about what it was to be an ...
- 693: The Odyssey
- ODYSSEUS: A MERE MORTAL, BUT PURELY MORAL In Homer's Odyssey, he uses the stories of Calypso and Circe to give a reader a glimpse at Greek values. Odysseus is a “perfectly” moral man by Greek standards. In the Calypso episode, Odysseus demonstrates the value of faithfulness, and in the ... faithful to Penelope, not by modern day standards, but he chooses Penelope over the goddess. When Calypso questions Odysseus, he recognizes that fact that Calypso is more beautiful. Odysseus even mentions that Penelope “falls far short” (159) of Calypso, but yet, Odysseus’s heart is with Penelope. Next, Odysseus must build a raft himself. Yet, he finds this labor minimal since he is given a chance to return home. He even ... the man still wishes to return home and return to his wife. Thus, one of the highest values for a Greek was to be faithful to their home and their wives in their hearts. The stories involving Circe describe several values. The stories describe hospitality, the loyalty between a commander and his troops, the relationship between host and guest, and burial rights. When the story begins with an analysis on ...
- 694: Investing In Stocks
- ... traders. MMs can not relate to long-term holders in the OTC BB. That makes absolutely no sense what so ever. They feel a large percentage of trades in the OTC BB market consist of short-term or day-trades, MMs merely view the barrage of buy and sell orders as relatively neutral to the market. How they figure it is when the average dumb money buys shares in a company ... or rather know with some certainty it is very likely that dumb money will want to sell back those shares relatively quick on the slightest drop. Now somewhat comfortable with this logic the MMs merely short sells into the buying and attempts to take the stock down in an effort to "shake out" the weak. Since it is tough to know for sure whether a move is the beginning of a ... to make a small amount of money for your momentum and day trading style by shorting it at these levels and trying to get a bear raid each time. Each failure is compounding the MMs short position so they let it go to the next level. Now come more deliberate tactics MMs use to coerce Bear Raid or panic selling. Once the MM is caught short and the strength of ...
- 695: Meaning Of Illusions
- ... the Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia as “a false sensory perception of an actual stimulus” (Encarta, par.1). This article is convincing us that most of our mental images are in a form of basically interrupted stories that are made up partially of our memories and full of frequent scenes from what we encountered in our daily vitality. They can also have an integration of parts from our emotions that are constantly ... on the sensory information available it is plausible to suppose that these functions will not always lead to correct perception. Sometimes, writers are always integrating the experience of having an illusion in their novels and stories, this is to help the readers to have a more open and better understanding of the inexplicable connections between the characters of a given story. The story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, is ... only for her benefit “She lived according to the laws of her own fantasy world, outside of which he had never seen her set foot” (323). O’connor is setting a great example in her short story by explaining that people who had lost their social position no matter how long ago, she still walk around believing that their position had never been lost as well as using their imagination ...
- 696: Individual Understanding
- ... specifically the strong Artificial Intelligence (AI) camp, concerning the concept of understanding. While John Searle poses a strong non-functionalist case in his AChinese Room@ argument, I find that his definition of Ato understand@ falls short and hampers his point. I criticize his defense that understanding rests on a standardized knowledge of meaning, but not before outlining the general background of the issue. Functionalists define thought and mental states in terms ... story understanding capacity that they can answer questions about [a] story even though the information they give was never explicitly stated in the story. . . . [Strong AI claims that m]achines can similarly answer questions about [stories] in this fashion. . . . Partisans of strong AI claim that in this question and answer sequence the machine is not only simulating a human ability but also (1) that the machine can literally be said to ... those of [a] native Chinese speaker, and I can have any formal program you like, but I still understand nothing. For the same reason,@ Searle claims, A[strong AI=s] computer understands nothing of any stories . . .@ He goes on to argue that with English sentences, he knows what they mean, and therefore understands them, but with the Chinese symbols, he knows nothing of their meaning and therefore does not understand ...
- 697: Cloudstreet, Tim Winton
- ... meant the move into the city from the outback, brought him his own home and a steady job at the mint. A rather large irony, as Sam is a compulsive gambler, more often than not short of cash. Although for Fish, losing his mental faculties and the ability to communicate to others, in his near drowning experience, gave way for his unimaginable bond with water and his abilities as a visionary ... Winton’s language is also profoundly secular in both its joyousness and relation to the concept of piety. However, the language evokes the bible in its rhythm and godliness, and another aspect is how biblical stories are more often than not noted for their relevance to everyday life. Such as this quote exemplifies found on page 151; “Those bible stories and words weren’t the kind you forgot. It was like they’d happened to you all along, that they were your own memories.” Fish, as the novels narrator serves as the essence of ...
- 698: Civ. And Its Discontents And G
- ... lives that it can be only justly described as religious. This is also true about the whole time that both men spent together because they grew a deep connection between each other in such a short time. This religious feeling made them feel untouchable and they learned the hard way that sometimes we are as inviolable as we think. This is the same idea that Freud discusses in Civilization and Its ... are untouchable or free to become one. This has a religious essence because religion makes people feel happier and safer like love. Also, because they have something to believe in just like religion. These two stories show how a strong connection between two people can give them a feeling of security, which is religious and boundless at the same time. In my opinion both these stories have strong religious implications if you look at them from such an angle. I decided when looking at these two stories to look at it from a religious standpoint and realized that most of ...
- 699: Confucianism And Taoism In Joy
- ... her husband as a god as her culture taught her, unlike the Taoist equal. Lindo's character lacks metal, a part that determines personality and the ability to be an independent thinker. The Jong's stories are based around the concept of accepting different ideas than they were used to; as in accepting Taoism over restrictive Confucianism or the tension between American values and Chinese. Lindo did not value herself above ... that her situation was unhealthy and that it is possible to leave it. In Taoist terms, she had no te, meaning doesn't fulfill her purpose and do what was best for her, despite the short-term sacrifices. Her mother also gave her a luck-pendent on her wedding day, and through mother-daughter transference, gives her the key to manipulating the Confucian system. She got out of her marriage by ... that we're exposed to. Her only link comes from relatives and elders in the states and the western view. The point of the novel is exactly that- American born daughters interpreting their mother's stories of their lives in China despite their Western biases. The only way to accurately depict these perspectives is to live them firsthand. Just as the daughters knew little of their cultural heritage, except the ...
- 700: How Sensationalism Affects Eve
- ... reporting of crime and celebrities. Sensationalism returned in the late 19th century in the form of ¡§Yellow Journalism¡¨. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst competed viciously for readers of their respected newspapers. They both sensationalized stories about alleged atrocities committed by the Spanish, calling for the United States to step in on behalf of the Cubans. Equally important, when the USS Maine mysteriously blew up, both papers immediately blamed the Spaniards ... and less confident in the objectivity of the news that is reported. Just last year a reporter for The New Republic and two reporters for the Boston Globe resigned over charges of plagiarism and falsifying stories. In addition CNN ran a story on Vietnam that was proven inaccurate. The radio waves and television sets are flooded with sensationalized shows featuring beautiful young women and handsome men. The news watched today is ... survey done by the American Society of Newspaper Editors reports that ¡§spelling errors, bias, and sensationalism are corroding the credibility of newspapers.¡¨ The survey shows: „h 23% say they find factual errors in the news stories at least once a week. „h 50% believe there are particular groups or people that get a ¡§special break¡¨ in news coverage, while 45% feel that others ¡§don¡¦t get a fair shake.¡¨ „h ...
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