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- 13771: Gulliver's Travels
- Gulliver's Travels Although it appears simple and straightforward on the surface, a mere travelogue intended solely for the amusement of children, Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, proves, upon closer examination, to be a critical and insightful work satirizing the political and social systems of eighteenth-century England. Through frequent and successful employment of irony, ambiguity and symbolism ... and criticisms eventually progress to a point where they may shock or offend even the most unsuspecting reader. In order to witness this evolution of presentation, one need only observe the development of the work's central character, Captain Lemuel Gulliver, as Swift has designed his novel in such a way that, as his aspersions harshen and intensify, so do Gulliver's actions and attitudes. For instance, in book one, " ...
- 13772: Ted Bundy
- Ted Bundy Ted Bundy's Trail of Terror From the Beginning of Taking Life Until The End of His Life Serial killers tend to be white heterosexual males in their twenties and thirties. While it is impossible to predict who ... the country. After all was said and done Ted left behind a trail of bloody slayings that included the deaths of 36 young women and spanned through four states. The biggest question in many people's mind was how could someone as intelligent,highly accomplished, and praised as Bundy do such a thing? Theodore Robert Bundy was born November 24th, 1946 in Burlinton, Vermont to a 21 year old mother. Ted's mom never told him much about his father except that he was in the armed forces and they had only dated a few times. Ted was left in foster care for two months while ...
- 13773: El-nino
- There's trouble in the air. Specifically, in the west coast of the Americas, where the sea surface has been heated to abnormal extremes by an ominous, intermittent flood of hot water called El-Nino. The term ... the Pacific waters is not the only thing El-Nino is to be blames for. The current El-Nino warming has been so strong, is has added noticeable zip to atmospheric winds and slowed Earth's spin, suggest scientists who track the planet's rotation. El-Nino exert these profound effects by speeding up the eastward movement of the atmosphere, relative to the solid body of te planet. The change shows up in the analyses of the atmosphere' ...
- 13774: Television Advertisement
- Television Advertisement Television advertisement takes an important part of everyday human's life. Everyday tons of people in America and world watches Television and advertisements. Television advertisements are very common these days. They appear in public where a lot of people can hear and watch. For example ... beer commercial contains a lot of stuff that might get people to feel an association going on if he or she drinks that Coors light beer. On one of the Coors light beer commercial, there's a commercial that shows couple of young man and woman drinking Coors light beer and playing volleyball up on the Rocky mountains. A lot of people especially the people around their 20's would be convinced that if he or she drinks Coors light beer, then they could enjoy the coolness of being young and active. Since the commercial contains both sex, it would refer to the ...
- 13775: Pocahontas
- ... Some time later, Powhatan sent part of the ransom and asked that his beloved daughter be treated well. Argall returned to Jamestown with Pocahontas still as his captive in April of 1613. Pocahontas remained Argalls prisoner for one year afterward. During this time, she became aquatinted with John Rolfe, a pious widower noted as the first colonist to grow tobacco as a crop. Pocahontas converted to Christianity and took the ... to have been a very emotional encounter, but it is unknown which emotion was exhibited. The Powhatans claim that she called him a liar and turned her back to him in fury. According to Smiths distorted rendition of this meeting, she was initially too overcome with emotion to speak but later they spoke fondly of old times. Seven months later, Rolfe decided to take his family back to Virginia. They ... survive the journey home and they stopped in Gravesend, England. It was there that she died at just 21 years of age, far from her homeland. Her body was laid to rest at St. Georges Church. It is unclear why she died at such a young age. The cause of her death is rumored to be pneumonia, although it is also possible that she contracted smallpox or tuberculosis. Any ...
- 13776: Analyzing King Lears Tragic Fl
- ANALYZING KING LEAR S TRAGIC FLAWS King Lear is a play about a tragic hero, by the name of King Lear, whose flaws get the best of him. A tragic hero must posess three qualities. The first is they ... has the highest rank of any leader. He is a king. The next quality is they must have a tragic flaw, and King Lear has several of those. Finally, they must experience a downfall. Lear s realization of his mistakes is more than a downfall. It is a tragedy. Lear is a tragic hero because he has those three qualities. His flaws are his arrogance, his ignorance, and his misjudgments, each ... in the first scene of the play that causes him to make bad decisions. He expects his favorite, youngest daughter to be the most worthy of his love. His pride makes him expect that Cordelia s speech to be the one filled with the most love. Unfortunately for King Lear s pride, Cordelia replies to his inquisition by saying, I love your majesty/According to my bond and nothing less ( ...
- 13777: Edward Gein
- Edward Theodore was born on August 27, 1906, to Augusta and George Gein in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Eddie was the 2nd of two children. Eddie's mother was a fanatically religious women, who was determined to raise the boys according to her strict moral code. Eddie's mother repeatedly warned her sons of the immorality and looseness of women, hoping to discourage any sexual desires the boys might have. ( In the Beginning) Augusta was a domineering and hard woman, while her husband ... to move away from the sinners in the city. In 1914 they moved to Plainfield, Wisconsin to a one-hundred-ninety-five-acre farm, isolated from any evil influences that could disrupt her family. Eddie's father died in 1940. ( In the Beginning ) Eddie was average in school, but he loved to read. His schoolmates shunned Eddie because he was effeminate and shy. He had no friends. In 1944 Eddies ...
- 13778: Child Stars: From Mozart to Gary Coleman
- ... and current inability to reproduce those successes. Yet this is what Mozart had to endure for much of his adult life, mainly from his father but also from those around him. Indeed, much of Mozart's early adult life can be seen as a struggle to break free from the expectations and limitations imposed on him after his prodigious childhood. It is unclear when or where the "Myth of the Eternal ... Thus Mozart was kept a child for as long as possible, and his initial efforts at more mature compositions were rejected as some people could not let go of the eternal child myth. Certainly, Mozart's early life fits the bill of a child prodigy. Perhaps never before had a child so captivated the imperial courts of Europe as he did. From Paris to Rome, London to Vienna, he and his family were feted by the richest and most powerful people in the world at that time. Mozart's amazing ability was tested and studied by the foremost musicians of the day, and all came up with the same answer: this boy is a genius. Constant travel became the norm for the family, ...
- 13779: Margaret Thatcher
- ... the party in 1974, and then led the Conservative party to victory in 1979. Thatcher is the only British prime minister in the twentieth century to serve three consecutive terms. In 1990, controversy over Thatcher's tax policy and her reluctance to commit Great Britain to full economic integration with Europe inspired a strong challenge to her leadership. Ms. Thatcher was ousted from leadership, and resigned in November 1990 and was ... by her protιgιe, John Major: who, consequently, only served one short term. Margaret Hilda Roberts was born October 13, 1925 to Beatrice and Alfred Roberts in the flat above her parents small grocery store. Margaret's father was the greatest influence in Margaret's life, politically as well as religiously and socially. Alfred Roberts came to Grantham during the First World War where he met and married Beatrice Stevenson. "The young couple worked hard and saved money with ...
- 13780: The Metamorphosis: The Last Four Pages
- The Metamorphosis: The Last Four Pages At first glance, the final four pages of Franz Kafka's novel The Metamorphosis seem to be meaningless. This assumption, however, is anything but the truth. The final four pages, although seeming to be of no importance, serve to show the reader how the Samsa family changes as a result of the main character's, Gregor Samsa's, death. The family's changes are best exemplified in two different scenes: the scene at the kitchen table, and the scene on the trolley. During the scene at the kitchen table, there is a ...
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