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- 11811: Macbeth
- ... and killing the the rightful King Duncan to get to the crown does cross his mind, but Lady Macbeth has to manipulate and taunt her husband to convince him to do the deed. When it's set in his head what's to be done, Macbeth on his way to Duncan's chamber, sees a bloody dagger floating in the air before him. Do his eyes deceive him? Is it real? He is unnerved but it does not take away his resolve to kill the king. ...
- 11812: Mysteries
- ... this story was proved to be false and just another attention-getting scheme by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.(Guiley 274) Another mind-boggling series of apparitions was the Legend of the Faceless Gray Man of Pawley's Island. The story has it that this faceless man appears just before hurricanes strike at Pawley's Island off the coast of South Carolina. In fact, this particular apparition has been credited with saving thousands of lives. Residents of the island believe him to be the ghost Percival Pawley who was the ... this faceless phantom appeared just before the hurricanes of 1822, 1893, 1916, 1954, and 1955. (Guiley 115) A more recent ghost, and a female at that, was Resurrection Mary. Resurrection Mary is one of Chicago's most famous ghosts. This beautiful blonde, blue-eyed girl dressed in white has been reported in the Chicago environs since 1934, the year of her alleged death. Mary takes her name from Resurrection Cemetery ...
- 11813: Ireland's Michael Collins and Emon De Valera
- Ireland's Michael Collins and Emon De Valera There are many conditions under which Ireland was divided into two nations. Two main men were the main leaders of this split, Emon de Valera and Michael Collins. Sinn ... Ireland, added that de Valera was an 'austere theoretician' (Norman, 265). Michael Collins was born in 1890 at Clonakilty, Co. Cork. Edward Norman said his personality was to be to the contrary of de Valera's; he said Collins was not an intellectual and was a man of violent impulses. He took that statement further when he said the Collins would go as far to tumble his colleagues on the floor and bite their ears in playful attention. Now that de Valera's and Collins' personalities have been established, we can now analyze the events and actual conditions under which Ireland was under that led ultimately to her freedom. All across Ireland people were repulsed by the ...
- 11814: To Kill A Mockingbird 2
- ... not been seen outside of his home in years, mainly because of his suppressed upbringing. They have an impression of Mr. Radley as being this large ugly and evil man. Then comes the trial. Scout s father becomes a defense attorney for a black man, Tom Robinson, who is falsely accused of raping a white women. This has a big affect on Scout. During this trial she gets teased by friends ... the racism that exist. During the trial Scout and her brother and close friend Dill witness the trial. Even though they are young they can see that Mr. Robinson is innocent. Even though Mr. Robinson s innocence was clear even in the eyes of kids, Mr. Robinson was still found guilty. Later in an attempt to escape, Mr. Robinson is shot dead. Scout is extremely disappointed at the verdict and even ... whole story revolved around the prejudice views of this Southern community. The whole reason why the trial was going on was because of people views towards blacks in the south. Since the alleged rape victim s father has such a prejudice view towards black, he is embarrassed that his daughter was actually flirting with a black man. To combat this he falsely accuses the innocent Mr. Robinson of rape. If ...
- 11815: Ordinary People
- Matthew Arnold's Devolpment of Setting In the poem "Dover Beach",witten in 1867 Matthew Arnold creates the mood of the poem through the usage of different types of imagery. He uses a dramatic plot in the form ... the mood by suggesting mental pictures, actions, sights and sounds the man sees. Some examples are "folds of a bright girdle furled", "lie before us like a land of dreams" and "moon-blanched land". Arnold's use of different types of imagery and descriptive adjectives to induce sensory impressions of the setting, create the fluctuating mood of the poem, which is the eternal struggle of nature over man. In "Dover Beach ... of Dover. Arnold writes of the horrible sound of the pebbles beating away at the land. The pebbles are eroding the land away, which the speaker thrives off of and adores. Arnold illustrates the man's internal battle with the land destroying his home and him being helpless to its destruction. These descriptions add "the eternal note of sadness" to the poem. In the second part of the poem, Arnold ...
- 11816: King Lear
- In Shakespeare's classic tragedy, King Lear, the issue of sight and its relevance to clear vision is a recurring theme. Shakespeare's means of portraying this theme is through the characters of Lear and Gloucester. Although Lear can physically see, he is blind in the sense that he lacks insight, understanding, and direction. In contrast, Gloucester becomes physically blind but gains the type of vision that Lear lacks. It is evident from these two characters that clear vision is not derived solely from physical sight. Lear's failure to understand this is the principal cause of his demise, while Gloucester learns to achieve clear vision, and consequently avoids a fate similar to Lear's. Throughout most of King Lear, Lear's ...
- 11817: Experiencing Can Be Corrupting
- ... a state of experience, thus corrupting the individual. As one reads the short story of Hawthorne, it is easy to observe that the overtone is one in which it displays the corruption of a man’s mind. The corruption of the protagonist, Young Goodman Brown, would not have been so clear if it wasn’t for the theme of his state of innocence being stripped of him by his experience. This theme is critical in this short story, whereas without it, Hawthorne would have no criteria for this story. The ... climatic point of the story is where Brown finds himself in the middle of the wilderness, being a witness to a “sac-religious” act. “Bring forth the converts!” “…Martha Carrier, who had received the devil’s promise to be queen of hell” (Hawthorne 109). This, displays the sac-religious acts of Satanism are present throughout the story. These acts are the influential and corrupting force upon Brown’s innocent mind. ...
- 11818: Biofeedback
- ... that source can understand and have control over it (O'Hair, D.)." The principles of biofeedback date back more than a half a century. "Biofeedback" is a term that was coined in the late 1960's. The theories involved in biofeedback and psychophysiology began with the study on homeostatic mechanisms. The human organism insures its survival through the maintenance of homeostasis. In order to control or altar behavior, a person must ... through the senses. In biofeedback, the client obtains information about his biological state from feedback from the sensors. Margolin and Kubic (1944) conducted an early example of this kind of feedback. They used a subject's amplified respiration and heart beat to induce a hypnotic induction. Even though the subjects were not told to adjust these physiological functions, the feedback of their biological system was used to alter their conscious and ... direction. They were able to increase the temperature in their ears, which showed that they could alter their peripheral vascular system. Biofeedback has developed considerably within the years. In the early part of the 1960's first attempts were made at applying biofeedback for managing stress. The majority of health care professionals did not accept biofeedback. The public felt that biofeedback was an experimental procedure used by researchers only. Therefore, ...
- 11819: Similarities and Differences Between The Bridges of Madison County and The Storm
- ... in “The Bridges” is in Iowa, at a time 1965, the family involved lived on a farm in rural Iowa. In “The Storm” the setting was similar to “The Bridges” in one way, “The Storm’s” setting was also on a farm, but it was in rural Louisiana, and the time frame was different, “The Storm” was placed or around the early 1900’s. The novel, The Bridges of Madison County involved one family just as the “The Storm” had, but in “The Bridges” the married couple, Franchesca, and Richard Johnson had two children, Michael, and Carolyn. “The Storm ... Bobinot, they to had children but only one, named Bibi. In both of the stories, there was a man who interrupted the day to day life of the two wives. In “The Bridges”, the man’s name was Richard Kincaidj, a photographer for National Geographic, and in “The Storm, the man’s name man involved was Alcee’. In “The Bridges”, Franchesca was an educated woman, she had been an English ...
- 11820: Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
- Matthew Arnold's Devolpment of Setting In the poem "Dover Beach",witten in 1867 Matthew Arnold creates the mood of the poem through the usage of different types of imagery. He uses a dramatic plot in the form ... the mood by suggesting mental pictures, actions, sights and sounds the man sees. Some examples are "folds of a bright girdle furled", "lie before us like a land of dreams" and "moon-blanched land". Arnold's use of different types of imagery and descriptive adjectives to induce sensory impressions of the setting, create the fluctuating mood of the poem, which is the eternal struggle of nature over man. In "Dover Beach ... of Dover. Arnold writes of the horrible sound of the pebbles beating away at the land. The pebbles are eroding the land away, which the speaker thrives off of and adores. Arnold illustrates the man's internal battle with the land destroying his home and him being helpless to its destruction. These descriptions add "the eternal note of sadness" to the poem. In the second part of the poem, Arnold ...
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