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- 721: Nature
- ... Well the answer is quit simple. Nature is a part of us and history. It can’t be avoided. After reading this nature causes many natural disasters such as snow and frigid temperatures. Many classic stories discuss the cold winter and survival. Moby Dick talks about a Captains goal to find the great white whale. Nature is a beautiful thing but it can also be devastating. Natural disasters such as things ... this harsh time of winter these things were a necessity. The long journey up and down the mountain to trade for goods could be fatal in the winter conditions. Jack London was notorious for telling stories about survival. London went off to be part of the Klondike gold rush. In 1903 he wrote the call of the wild, this was known as one of the best dog stories ever told. His stories had true meaning he knew what it went to survive in nature. He was correspondent in the war between Russia and Japan, and also helped in the Mexican revolution. Unlike ...
- 722: Advancement of Technology and Science and Its Influence On Science Fiction Novels
- ... new technologies. With so m any possibilities for the future, science fiction is able to capitalizes on this by showing the audience entirely new worlds and alternatives to our own. Technology presented in science fiction stories most commonly serves a very important role in the stories plausablilty to the audience. While this does not mean that technology is necessarily the focus of such stories it is often used as the vehicle for which such alternative and wonderous events occur. Without the advanced spaceship how could the Segnauts have gotten to the planet Zorgon and defeated the evil empire? ...
- 723: The Awakening vs. A Doll's House
- ... that if a person has enough money, they can have someone else raise their children for them; and that if a marriage gets hard, the couple should just give up on each other. Taking the stories for their literary qualities alone, they are both quite good. Both novels are very well written. Chopin and Ibsen developed their characters well, used excellent imagery, and told interesting stories. Both shared their strong convictions even though they knew their ideas weren't popular. The strong beliefs that are shared in these stories are part of what makes them classics. However, some of the ideas that are portrayed in these works aren't ideas readers should assume to be true or good. The first of these is ...
- 724: Convicts and Australia
- Convicts and Australia WHO WERE THE CONVICTS? WHAT SHORT AND LONG TERM CONTRIBUTION DID THEY MAKE TO AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY?" During January 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip landed in New South Wales. Of the one thousand people who made the journey, roughly seven hundred were convicts ... convicts themselves, there can be little doubt concerning the pivotal role they played in establishing the groundwork of not only the new colony, but of Australia as well. The convicts not only made a significant short term economic contribution they also played an extended role in becoming the founders of Australian society and culture. There is much postulation about the motives for convict transportation to Australia. Some view transportation as part ... records, revisionists were able to achieve a much more confident interpretation of early Australian history . Far from dismissing the efforts made by the early convict labor force they see their role as providing a significant short term economic contribution . They also see the convicts as the forefathers of Australian society and culture. Revisionists hoped to look beyond the use of statistical data to gain a more comprehensive look at the ...
- 725: FUNCTIONS OF MEMORY
- ... also the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information. There are three key processes to memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval. Each of the three stages in memory-sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory focuses on encoding, storage, and retrieval. Sensory memory performs initial encoding and provides brief storage. Semsory memory can change a visual, auditory, or chemical stimulus into a form the brain can interpret, like a photograph. Sensory memory is temporary. Once information is received, it is transferred for additional encoding and storage. Unless you quickly transfer it to short-term memory by writing it down or repeating it, you will forget it. Short-term memory is the storage system that temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use. Short-term memory must further encode, store or maintain information for thirty seconds. A person ...
- 726: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804. His name by birth was Nathaniel Hawthorne. He added the w to his name when he began to sign his stories. (“Nathaniel Hawthorne” American Writers II) One of Hawthorne’s ancestors was actually a judge in the Salem witch trials. The guilt and shame Hawthorne felt of his ancestors were included in some of his stories. (McGraw Hill, pg.67) Hawthorne’s father was a sea captain. He died of fever when Hawthorne was only four. Shortly after his father’s death, his mother was forced to move her three children ... late at night, or when going to another city. “ I had read endlessly all sorts of good and good for nothing books, and in dearth of other employment, had early begun to scribble sketches and stories, most of which I burned.” Reflected Hawthorne. (McGraw Hill, pg.68) Hawthorne’s first novel, Fanshawe, was published anonymously in 1828 at his own expense. Because of a lack of sales, Hawthorne recalled every ...
- 727: To Kill A Mockingbird 2
- ... Dill are curious about the "mysterious" Boo Radley because he never comes outside of his house or associates with anyone in the neighborhood. The children are, in fact, afraid of him because of all the stories they hear about him from the people in Maycomb. For example, Miss Stephanie tells the children that while Boo was sitting in the living room cutting a magazine, he "drove the scissors into his parent's leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities." (pg. 11) After hearing stories like these, the children consider him to be evil. Prejudice is used against Boo Radley because since no one knew who he really was, people made false rumors and prejudice remarks just because Boo wasn ... the story: they even include Mrs. Radley into the story and portrays her as a poor woman, who after she married Mr. Radley, "lost her teeth, her hair, and her right forefinger." (pg. 39) These stories are based on the gossip that trail through their neighborhood. In realty, no one knew anything about Boo Radley; he stayed inside of his house and remained reclusive in Maycomb county. At the end ...
- 728: A Great Heron
- By: ... Joel Chandler Harris' stories are so impressive because of the way he presents them and because of their humorous wisdom. Unlike many stories about black culture, Harris' stories were taken from blacks that he had actually known. Moreover, stories such as "How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox" were told first hand through a black character, Uncle Remus. This way ...
- 729: The Stone Angel 2
- ... excellent novel will provide hidden imagery, so every time it is read, a new meaning or look is given to the story. The Stone Angel, Outsider and King Lear all provide this aspect in their stories. The main characters in these books have all been interpreted differently by any person who reads any of these three books. Some feel sympathy, resentment and even angered by these characters. The authors of these three books have used imagery in their plots to create situations that develop into themes. Color imagery, animal imagery and flower imagery are just some of the themes found throughout these stories. The use of colors provides tones, indicates events and even sets the mood in these stories. The color white especially has the same representation in all three books. It represents wisdom and respect to certain characters in these stories. In the Stone Angel, Laurence uses the color white many times ...
- 730: Aboriginal Beliefs
- ... the natural environment. Each tribe had it s own creation myth. For example, the people of the Arunda tribe believed that the spirits cut them from the earth in the Dreamtime. Originally, myths, or Dreamtime stories, were not expressed simply in verbal or written form but were enacted, chanted, painted, costumed, danced, sung and imagined. Without these the Dreamtime would not be alive today. Every tribe had these, so it was part of the land, their totem, belief system, culture and the community they d grown up with. These stories had an enormous impact on their thinking and were responsible in many ways for them being the oldest surviving race in the entire world. These forms of Aboriginal tradition were often sacred, because they were associated with the Dreamtime beliefs and Aboriginal spirituality. Also, some of these are sacred in the sense of being exclusive only to initiated males. Some stories were secular and included stories for children and those that recorded great battles, memorable hunting expeditions or the arrival of white men into the tribes territory. These enactments were also seen in Aboriginal dances, ...
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