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- 541: The Most Dangerous Game
- ... them just for the fun of killing them. Rainsford had no sympathy for animals before he encountered Zaroff. During the middle of the story, Rainsford becomes the next prey of General Zaroff. Due to the stress and the feelings of fear, I think Rainsford might have changed his mind about animals and how they feel. After this event, I know that Rainsford has now become sorry for his ideas about animals ...
- 542: Gulliver's Travels
- ... though, the Lilliputian's lack of trust towards their giant helper ruined their chances of him staying, and Gulliver was forced to leave. He found their hospiatlity to be great, but only at a severe stress to their own resources. At this point, some very strong assertions have been made about humanity, but we must go farther into the story to draw any real conclusions. Although there wasn't much said ...
- 543: Beyond The Horizon and Diff'rent by Eugene O'Neill
- ... realize that his love for her remained untarnished, while hers for him was flawed." Emma's flaw is her high moral standards, whereas Rob's is his lack of foresight. "It is ironic, but the stress is on emptiness, not on the irony." The emptiness, as the audience realizes, is all that is left of the characters of both plays. Emma Crosby and Rob Mayo were both physically destroyed by the ...
- 544: 12 Angry Men: Boy Is Innocent
- ... just too loud for him to possibly hear the yells of the boy. After leaving his house, the boy went to see a movie to get away from all of this. He was under total stress. I am sure he did not care to look at the title of the movie. He probably just wanted in to get away. This way his mind was focused on other things other than his ...
- 545: Pride and Prejudice: Irony
- ... assured it has taken place in Scotland..." (pg. 262) Likewise when Charlotte Lucas marries the idiotic Mr. Collins for purely materialistic reasons, Elizabeth knows their friendship can never be the same; they will separate. This stress on good sense brings characters together as well. Jane, Elizabeth, and the Gardiners are tied to each other by affection and an alert confidence in each other's judgment. They can rely on both the ...
- 546: Moby Dick
- ... son of Allan and Maria Melville. During Herman's childhood he lived in the good neighborhoods of New York City. In 1832 Herman suffered tragedy when his father died after trying to cope with the stress of debts and misfortunes. After a short time in a business house in New York City, Herman determined he needed to go to sea. He spent years traveling on a variety of ships, including whaling ...
- 547: Brave New World: Huxley Predicted Many Events of the Future
- ... react to certain stimuli. The end results of these tests were dogs who had been broken, became mentally insane. Prime human examples are the veterans of the world wars, where victims became incapacitated from intense stress and fear (known as "shell shock"). Huxley suggests that teaching under such stressful conditions can also be considered torture (in its most refined state). Huxley once wrote, "The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends ...
- 548: Michael Korda's "Defining Success"
- ... person's dream is so far then sometimes it could inspire them to go for it. If they only have a small dream then it could lead to laziness and they wouldn't want to stress out because of a small outcome on success. Another thing is that if that person is from a rich family then their dreams is most likely beyond their reach. This is because they have capitol ...
- 549: The Madness of King George
- ... well with his son, the Prince of Wales. At the beginning of the American Revolution George began to have pains at night. William Pitt the Younger, the King's Prime Minister, put it off as stress due to George's lack of power over the Americas. Any time the Americas were brought up George had fits of anger and his stomach got very upset. As time progressed George got worse. He ...
- 550: Analysis of Chris Marker's "La Jetee", and Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida"
- ... The individual photograph cannot be interpreted, it yields itself wholly to the viewer, and the viewer cannot and does not need to go anywhere else but to the photograph in order to understand it. I stress this point now because it is important when examining La Jetee. If the photograph arrests interpretation, then one must go to the narration of the film to find out what Marker is trying to say ...
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