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- 10461: Cinderella: A Comparison Of Multiple Cinderella Tales
- ... she rises from poverty to royalty with the help of a fairy godmother. And, from Africa originated one about a slave girl who, with the help of magical frogs, captures the heart of the chief\\'s son. Although on the surface these stories discuss a girl who rises from the ashes and becomes a princess they are also largely about the manifestation of one of her parent\\'s love, even after death. In Perrault\\'s version the father is characterized as a nobleman though his role in Cinderella\\'s life is very limited. Her mother had died and the father had remarried. Perrault reinforces her father\\'s neglect by ...
- 10462: The French Revolution's Affect on Romanticism
- The French Revolution's Affect on Romanticism The literature of a country is affected and influenced by how the people of that country live. This paper will prove that The French Revolution greatly influenced 19th Century French Romanticism. First ... between the two movements. Before the Revolution, the citizens of France lived in a strict, confined society with no freedom to express their feelings. Government had imposed strong, unfair laws on the common people (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia "French Revolution"). They wanted a voice in a stable government with a strong economy (Johnson 105) and a strong sense of individuality and independence within the people. (Moss and Wilson 180) Eighteenth- century ... revival throughout France (Peyre 59). This lead to new laws and standards for the citizens, including newer, less imposing literary standards. Romanticism marked a profound change in both literature and thought. Romanticism, according to Webster's Dictionary, is defined as "a literary movement (as in early 19th century Europe) marked especially by an emphasis on the imagination and emotions and by the use of autobiographical material." Although this may be ...
- 10463: Mac Beth 2
- ... in the end he was right and Lady Macbeth wrong. Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth when the king is in their castle to Your hand, your tongue: look like th innocent flower, but be serpent under t. What this meant was that Macbeth looked and talked like an innocent little flower, but under that fake mask he was an evil serpent. I agree that Macbeth was unimaginative to a degree but then ... is imagining that there is a dagger in front of him. I think that this shows that he does actually have an imagination and sometimes it gets the better of him. Another example of Macbeth s wandering imagination is when he orders the killing of Banquo and his son Fleance, and when he is at the dinner he freaks out when he imagines Banquo s ghost. Ross. His absence, sir, Lays blame upon his promise. Please t your Highness To grace us with your royal company? Macbeth. The table s full Lennox. Here is a place reserved sir. Macbeth. ...
- 10464: The Battle Between the Spanish Armada and the British Fleet in 1588
- ... Fleet in 1588 In the later part of the 16th century, Spain was the major international power and either ruled, colonized, or exercised influence over much of the known world. Spanish power was at it's height and Spain's leader, King Philip II, pledged to conquer the Protestant heretics in England that began as a result of the Reformation. Philip held personal hostility towards England's Queen Elizabeth I and was desirous of eliminating a major sea-going rival for economic reasons. Elizabeth encouraged Sir Francis Drake and other English seamen to raid Spanish ships and towns to invest in ...
- 10465: The Causes of the Holocaust
- ... focus for the German people. Some historians will argue that extreme nationalism was the cause of the Holocaust because of the power of the Nazi party. While a large part of this is true, Germany's anguish after World War I sent people looking for reasons to blame someone or something for their burdens, Germany's humiliation after World War I, its dire economic situation, and antisemitism all came together to cause the Holocaust. Germany's embarrassment after losing World War I was one of the major reasons for the cause of the Holocaust. After Germany's defeat in World War I, Germans found it hard to believe they had ...
- 10466: Consciousness As Determined Through The Times
- ... it is aware of itself and that it is a physical and emotional being. Consciousness is a psychological condition defined by the English philosopher John Locke as "the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind".1 Consciousness is defined and perceived differently in many psychological view points. For instance the earlier views around the 19th century was diversely considered. Most perceived consciousness as a substance or "mental stuff ... toward objects in nature, and a view that consciousness was a continuous field or stream of essentially mental "sense data." The method believed by most early writers in determining consciousness was introspection—looking within one’s own mind to discover the laws of it’s operation. This belief was limited when it was apparent when observationalists could not agree on observations. Obviously due to the differences in one’s own idea of introspection and the underlying views they possessed. ...
- 10467: The Different Shades Of Love
- In Silas Marner by George Eliot, she wrote of Silas Marner's different changes of love. In the beginning of the book, he focused his love on the lady who had captured his heart but then it turned to money. As the story ends, he found true love in his daughter Eppie. She greatly displayed how love can change from greed to the true, eternal love. When living in Lantern Yard, Silas's attachment to the community and belief in the church made him an average guy who everyone liked. At this time in his life, he had "another attachment of a closer kind", his love for ...
- 10468: Breast Cancer
- ... life expectancy drops nineteen and a half years. This cancer is within the top three cancers of all women above the age of 15, and comprises 6% of all health care costs in the U.S. totaling an astounding 35 billion dollars a year. An average woman is said to have a one in thirty chance of getting the cancer, but if that person had family history of the disease, their ... been measured up to a one in six chance. 69 percent of African American women survive from it, and there are predicted to be nearly two million new cases reported this year in the U.S. The disease is breast cancer. Breast cancer is a group of rapidly reproducing, undifferentiated cells in the area of the breast in women. The earliest changes occur in the epithelial cells of the terminal end ... up with cancerous cells thus leaving an awkward feeling in the chest area. Other complications that result from this cancer and others is on top of the clogging and cramming of the system, the body's need to not only supply for itself, but for the large tumors. Bone mass is a cumulative effect of estrogen on bones scientists say, and so the study focused on the more easily observed ...
- 10469: Reason's For Japan's Aggression
- Reason's For Japan's Aggression During the twentieth century, Japan has been in an almost constant state of aggression against her neighbors. While some would say this aggression was initiated in reaction to western bullying and imperialism, this is false. Instead, Japan's aggression can be attributed to its feeling of superiority to other nations and to its lack of natural resources. During this period of unjustified aggression, Japan committed horrible war crimes against its enemies. An ...
- 10470: Excessive Alcohol Consumption--its Effects And Social Accept
- ... wives tales such as stress makes women heavier drinkers, divorce prompts heavy alcohol use, people drive better when they are drinking, and teenagers are the main group of drunk drivers, are being thrown at today s society left and right in an effort to blame the other guy. With all the talk about alcohol use and abuse these days, people are lost between fact and fiction. All of this tossed in ... between tradition and personal beliefs. Alcohol is a destructive drug that can lead to addiction, arrest, illness, and even death; all of these consequences, however, have not caused much of a dramatic change in alcohol s social acceptance or usage. Most people know what alcohol is, but not everyone knows its history, where it comes from, or how it is produced. Alcohol is a word derived from the Arabic al-kohl ... link between alcohol and violence. One theory is that aggression is triggered by sensitivity to pain and frustration. Furthermore, the frustration may be caused by lack of problem-solving skills through effects on the brain s frontal lobe (Wolfgan 8-9). In alcohol metabolism, the first sip of alcohol usually only takes a few minutes to move to the brain. The alcohol briefly irritates the mouth and esophagus lining, and ...
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