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- 491: Pride in The Iliad
- ... was proven through the actions of Hector, when he stood his ground against Achilles; Patrocleus, when he asked to employ Achilles' armor; and through Achilles, when he gave permission for Patrocleus use his armor. By studying the Iliad and this period in time, we can learn from the mistakes of these characters, and compose our choices based not upon some self-centered rationalization, but to look at the whole picture, and ...
- 492: Fahrenheit 451: Books - A Part of Our Past
- ... up one. In the time of Shakespeare there were no televisions, not even close to that technology yet. Who would we study and learn about, if no one had written things. Man kind would be studying the man who had invented the television because he would have been able to record himself, and then everything after that, which is only about fifty years. But without the recordings of Einstein and all ...
- 493: A Separate Peace: Contrasting Gene and Phineas and the Struggle for Power
- ... himself more powerful? Most likely, not. Phineas is the perfectly natural and spontaneous person who is not capable of doing something mean or ugly. He responds to life with natural emotions and all things, except studying, come easily to him. He is not capable of such emotions as jealousy or envy. He lives in a world of happiness and joy and he communicates these qualities to the people whom he meets ...
- 494: Book Report on "The Lost World"
- ... left on the island and also to some detailed maps. They had two dangerous nights there following this but on the fourth night they found a way out of this death trap. After hours of studying the maps, and thinking they found it. A small building about the size of a two car garage was sitting by the river leading to the ocean. They determined that it was a boat house ...
- 495: Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Review
- ... begins to overcompensate for his sins, but to no avail. His sinful ways overcome his spiritual values, and Stephen decides to abandon his religion. He vows to change his life for the better, and begins studying at a university. Here, his artistic nature surfaces, and Stephen embraces it. He explains his new theories to all who will listen, and decides to move away from Ireland and his repressed beliefs, and to ...
- 496: Essay on Romanticism in Frankenstein
- ... all that she could give, had its source in her, she shall atone,; be hers the punishment! (pg. 137) When he first went into the world, all he desired was human interaction. After watching and studying a family of cottagers, the monster felt that he was part of their family without ever meeting them. Even after the cottagers rejection he still had hope that they would accept him. But I did ...
- 497: Elie Wiesel
- ... concerned about his community yet, he was not an emotional man. His parents were owners of a shop and his two oldest sisters worked for his parents. Elie was a school boy and interested in studying the Zohar the cabbalistic books, the secrets of Jewish mysticism(Wiesel 3). His teacher was a foreigner, Moshe the Beadle, a poor barefoot of Signet(Wiesel 3). He was Elie's teacher until he was ...
- 498: Black and White
- ... Mark Twain was a popular white author by this time. Charles Chesnutt, the son of free blacks, decided to pursue a dream of becoming an author in order to remove the spirit of racism. By studying these authors in particular, the views of a white raised in the slave holding south are juxtaposed with the views of free black. Both Twain and Chesnutt satirize whites in different ways through their literature ...
- 499: Dante's "The Hermaphroditic Joyce"
- ... and topics of interest will usually be subconcious admittances to the idea that women must obey men, and remain socially submissive (Coates, 203). Joyce's realistic portrayal of Dante does not end there, however. In studying the findings of linguists, it becomes clear that during the Renaissance, it was proper for a woman to be silent and a man to be eloquent. However, the increased level of female literacy in the ...
- 500: Historical Background To "Animal Farm"
- Historical Background To "Animal Farm" Karl Marx was a German scholar who lived in the nineteenth century. He sp most of his life studying, thinking and writing about history and economics. A many years of study, much of it spent in England, he believed that he understo more deeply than anyone who had ever lived before him why there ...
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