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- 11061: Mary Shelley’s Self-help Guide to Life
- Mary Shelley’s Self-help Guide to Life People develop morals and values as they learn from their life experiences. The guidance they receive in life helps them to develop personal value systems. Whether it be from mistakes ... obstacles of life. Mary Shelley sets vital examples for being content without being overly ambitious, taking responsibility for actions, having loving relationships with people, and enjoying life and nature through Victor Frankenstein and his monster’s actions. Mary Shelley begins by telling of the dangers in being overly- ambitious through Victor's obsession with creating life. As Victor toils on a physically and mentally laborious project, he completely neglects the other significant areas of his life, such as his family and his friends. Victor speaks of ...
- 11062: Shakespeare and His Plays
- Shakespeare and His Plays William Shakespeare was a supreme English poet and playwright, universally recognized as the greatest of all the dramatists. A complete, authoritative account of Shakespeare's life is lacking; much supposition surrounds relatively few facts. His day of birth is traditionally held on April 23, and he was baptized on April 24, 1564. He was the third of eight children, and was the eldest son of John Shakespeare. He was probably educated in a local grammar school. As the eldest son, Shakespeare would of taken over his father's business, but according to one account, he became a butcher because of reverses in his father's financial situation. According to another account, he became a school master. That Shakespeare was allowed considerable leisure time in his youth is suggested by the fact that his plays show more knowledge of hunting ...
- 11063: The Good Earth: Summary
- ... needed to be supported through life. I think this would have been hard for him to do and I was surprised he was able to do all that he did. O-lan was Wang Lung's first wife who was sold to the house of Wang by her parents and then sold to Wang Lung. Her feet were not bound when she was little so she had big feet. This allowed ... did not know how to do. She was helpful and loyal to Wang Lung even when he was not satisfied with her. I think the Chinese culture was too strict on the women. Wang Lung's father, an elderly man, was bossy and conservative. He was the oldest of the Wang family alive in the book and in Chinese culture anyone older than you should be respected and treated nicely. Wang ... afford servants (toward the end of the book). I liked the way the Chinese respected and treated their elders. I think we should try harder to do this here in our culture too. Wang Lung's uncle was a lazy and greedy man. Wang Lung did not like him that much and wished that the Chinese custom of paternal relatives living with their families did not exist. The only thing ...
- 11064: The Life And Works Of Frederic
- ... musical culture. The piano had, of course, already been popular for more than half a century, but by the third decade of the nineteenth century, changes in the instrument and its audience transformed the piano's role in musical life. As the Industrial Revolution hit its stride, piano manufacturers developed methods for building many more pianos than had previously been feasible, and at lower cost. Pianos ceased to be the exclusive ... seven he had become sufficiently good for his parents to try and find him a teacher. Their choice fell on Adalbert Zywny, a Bohemian composer then aged sixty-one and now remembered solely as Chopin’s first teacher. Within a few months of beginning his studies with Zywny, Chopin began to play in public, and by the end of 1817, at the age of seven, had already been described by many as ‘Mozart’s successor’. Chopin began to compose around this time, and continued to do so throughout his student years, but only a handful of these works were printed. In the autumn of 1826, Chopin began studying ...
- 11065: Poor Habits and Their Effect on People's Self-Esteem and Self-Worth
- Poor Habits and Their Effect on People's Self-Esteem and Self-Worth Is there anything wrong with habit forming? Look at what most of people do with their wrong habits. Everyone has to work harder everyday in order to survive. People do not have sufficient time to do recreational activities such as hiking, cycling, and so forth. Also, people do not have opportunities to spend time with their friends, families, and relatives. In today's world, people become less appreciative of themselves. Increased technical advancements such as transportation, computers and home entertainment systems have caused many people to feel that they need to keep up with the times. Actually they start the wrong habit which obsesses on these awesome technologies. Economics has become a bigger issue of today's society for example the need to invest for the future, retirement savings, life insurance etc. People have to take that responsible habit associates with money with no choices The computer world has taken over ...
- 11066: Comparison of Margaret Mead's "Coming in Age" to Russian Youth
- Comparison of Margaret Mead's "Coming in Age" to Russian Youth In an attempt to challenge societal values, youth cultures, in the form of rebellion, act and dress radically and form groups in protest. These dissident actions against the structure ... beginning of new small groups which reflect their own rules, structures, class, gender and ethnic ideologies. So, the youth culture, in challenging societal values, at the same time is reflecting them. In comparing Margaret Mead's young adults in Coming of Age in Samoa to Russian youth it is evident where the differences arise. The Samoans strong cultural values leave little need for individual expression. Expectations of the children change as ... feel part of a recognizable group. Margaret Mead noticed little individual differences among the Samoans. "We have seen that the Samoans have a low level of appreciation of personality differences" (Mead, 1973, 161). The Samoan's strong cultural and family traditional values do not allow for individualism. In comparison, Soviet youth express their individualism through youth cultures such as punk, 'metallist' hard-rock groups and "golden youth". Although they feel ...
- 11067: Macbeth 2 - Fixed
- ... 1606 during the English Renaissance, the hero, Macbeth, constantly declines in his level of morality until his death at the end of the play. Because of his change of character from good to evil, Macbeth's attitude towards other characters, specifically Duncan, Banquo, Lady Macbeth, and the witches, is significantly affected. The first of the four characters is Duncan. Since Macbeth interacts with Duncan only a minimal amount before Duncan's death, Macbeth's attitude towards him changes very rapidly. Before Macbeth hears the witches' first prophecy, he is very close to Duncan, and would never even think of doing something against him. When the thought of murdering ...
- 11068: Julius Caesar
- ... he was killed? Caesar was a major part of the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome’s transition from republic to empire. When he was young Caesar lived through one of the most horrifying decades in the history of the city of Rome. The city was assaulted twice and captured by Roman armies, first in 87 BC by the leaders of the populares, his uncle Marius and Cinna. Cinna was killed the year that Caesar had married Cinna’s daughter Cornelia. The second attack upon the city was carried our by Marius’ enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter’s return from the East. On each occasion the massacre of political opponents was followed by the confiscation of their property. The proscriptions of Sulla, which preceded the reactionary political legislation enacted during his dictatorship ...
- 11069: Paradise Lost
- Good vs. Evil Milton's Paradise Lost John Milton divided the characters in his epic poem Paradise Lost into two sides, one side under God representing good, and the other side under Satan representing evil and sin. Milton first introduced ... lead character in the battle against God, Satan. His name means "enemy of God." He was a former high angel from Heaven named Lucifer, meaning, "light bearer" (John). Satan became jealous in Heaven of God's son and formed an allegiance of angels to battle against God, only for God to cast them out of Heaven into Hell (Milton 35). This did not bother Satan at first since he became the leader in Hell rather than a servant in Heaven. Satan believed that it was, "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" ( I-l. 263). Much of Satan's reliance on getting things accomplished came from his ability to lie and deceive. He lied to the fallen angels about the Son and his "vice-regency" in Heaven in order for them to follow ...
- 11070: Ukraine’s Genocide
- Ukraine’s Genocide In 1932, Soviet leader Josef Stalin unleashed genocide in Ukraine. Stalin determined to force Ukraine’s millions of independent farmers called “Kulaks” into collectivized soviet agriculture, and to crush Ukraine’s growing spirit of nationalism. Ukraine’s nightmare had begun in 1932. Faced by resistance to collectivization, Stalin unleashed terror upon Ukraine. Moscow dispatched 25,000 young party militants and earlier visions of Mao’s “ ...
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