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- 14831: Dove
- Dove Robin's Trip was a real adventure with many different feelings including fear, courage, loneliness and love. Robin's trip ended up seeming like a love story between him and Patti, but it was much more. Robin's trip was also a fight with fear. When Robin had great waves hit the boat, water flowing inboard, and such things as when his mainsail broke, those were powerful enough to frighten even the ...
- 14832: Chronicle Of A Death Fortold B
- Chronicle of a Death Fortold, by Gabriel Marquez, is concerned with death in life and life in death. It was rainy on the day of Santiago Nasar’s murder, and yet by the account of others, it was not. His death is so mingled with illusory images that everything seems mystified: much like death itself. The fact that the story is about how ... our own views. Not only is the story concerned with death in life on the literary level, but the people of the town feel obliged to honor and offer gifts to a bishop that doesn’t even like the town. It is perhaps because they fear if they do not keep their faith, they are putting in jeopardy their fate after death; this is the primary concern of all religions, life after death and fear of the unknown. "For years we couldn’t talk about anything else. . .and it was obvious that we weren’t doing it from an urge to clear up mysteries but because none of us could go on living without an exact knowledge ...
- 14833: Neoplatonism
- ... The actual reunion is accomplished through a mystical experience in which the soul knows an all-pervading ecstasy. Doctrinally, Neoplatonism is characterized by a categorical opposition between the spiritual and the carnal, elaborated from Plato's dualism of Idea and Matter; by the metaphysical hypothesis of mediating agencies, the nous and the world soul, which transmit the divine power from the One to the many; by an aversion to the world ... He studied at Alexandra with the philosopher Ammonium Saccus. Along with 224 others he helped carry the Neoplatonic doctrine to Rome, where he established a school. Other important Neoplatonic thinkers were the Syrian-Greek scholar's, Porphyry and Lablichus. The Syrian, Athenian, and Alexandrian Schools Neoplatonism was the last of the great schools of classical pagan philosophy. Platonism, as well as Aristotlism, Stoicism, and Pythagoreanism, all provided an awkward understanding of ... succession can be traced at Alexandra. Olympiodorus, the Platonic commentator, was the last pagan head of the school. After his death it passed into Christian hands under the Aristotlean commentators Elias and David. The school's last head, Stephanus, moved to and became head of an academy in Constantinople in 610. In 641 the Arabs captured the Alexandrian school. It thus played an important part in the transmission of Neoplatonic ...
- 14834: Europe And The New World
- Europe and the ‘New World’ Tutorial Question: Why were the ‘westerners’ (Spanish, English, Portuguese’s, French etc) able to displace the native people’s of America with, seemingly, relative ease? Was this evidence of a superior ‘civilisation’? Many believe that there is a great difference between ‘westerners’ and the native people of the lands they conquered. The truth is ... typical western thought they were not deemed as a civilisation, this is frankly not so. By the end of the eighteenth century European nations had already laid claim to more than half of the world’s surface, and controlled more than a third of it. The ‘European assault on the world’ as many historians dubbed it, had never been seen before, and furthermore this transformation was unquestionably a one way ...
- 14835: A Fabulous Analysis Of The Flamboyantly Gay
- A Fabulous Analysis of the Flamboyantly Gay Reaching the Breaking Point Have you ever heard a heterosexual talking about a homosexual, saying things like “Jake would be a cool guy if he wasn’t such a flamer” or “I don’t have a problem with gays, but I just want to know why he has to act so gay”? Perhaps you have even said something similar yourself. Unfortunately the catalyst of today’s gay and lesbian “culture” cannot be easily pinpointed amongst the haystack of parades, festivals, activists, and clubs available. However, this essay provides an informed and hopefully thought-provoking justification of the flamboyantly gay. In ...
- 14836: Old Man and the Sea: Themes
- ... destruction to himself. This might accomplish nothing but the satisfaction of doing this and also has great risks. Finally he comes upon a painful experience with his hand which is in great pain and won't move. This is useful in the place where Christ loses his physical self and has less to deal with. On the third day, he recovers himself and returns to his home even though his only ... events, first it has a hunter vs. his prey. This hunter does respect the prey. Throughout the book it has this series of events: encounter, battle, defeat, and respect for the prey. This is Hemmingway's `Code of Honor'. This part of the novel has to do with relationships between two characters. The first to discuss are Santiago and Manolin, Manolin being the small follower of the old man named Santiago ... rather than being lucky. The other relationship in this story has to do with Manolin and his parents. Manolin seems to be very rebellious against his parents, although he does submit to their demands. Santiago's greatest link to the village is the boy. Santiago may be poor in the story, yet is proud. This story when compared to being imaginative is good, but in real life is somewhat of ...
- 14837: Dress Codes In Public Schools
- ... dress code is itself an important statement, because we want our young children, whether they're poor or rich or middle class, when they're in school to define themselves primarily in terms of what's going on on the inside, not what they're wearing on the outside. And I think it's a very, very good thing" (U.S. Newswire 1). Although many students say they are against a dress code in public schooling because it eliminates self-expression, most of them wouldn't mind it after they experienced it for a couple ...
- 14838: Nanotechnology: Immortality Or Total Annihilation?
- ... nanotech. The STM has been regarded as too big to ever produce nanotech structures (Port 128). Other scientists have stated that the manipulation of atoms, which nanotech relies on, ignores atomic reality. Atoms simply don't fit together in ways which nanotech intends to use them (Garfinkel 105). The problems plaguing the progress of nanotech has raised many questions among the scientific community concerning it's validity. The moving of atoms, the gathering of information, the restrictions of the STM, all restrict nanotech progress. And until these questions are answered, nanotech is regarded as silly (Stix 98). But the nanotech optimists ... questions from some of the scientific community, researchers believe that they are moving forward and will one day be able to produce nanomachines. One such machine is regarded as a replicator. A replicator, as it's name implies, will replicate; much like the way in which genes are able to replicate themselves (Drexler, "Engines" 23). It is also believed that once a replicator has made a copy of itself, it ...
- 14839: Langston Hughes Voice Of A Tim
- ... were still far from the equality that they so longed for. The struggle had just begun. The turn of the century brought many changes for African-Americans. They had slowly built up communities in America’s urban areas or rural land. Although a very few number of African-Americans could actually be considered successful at this point in time, most had cut all ties from their family’s slave master and had made a life for themselves and the generations to come. Despite the advances made, African-Americans were still treated horribly by whites. They were segregated from society, placed on the outside ... The Great Depression of the 1930s increased black protests against discrimination, especially in northern cities. Blacks protested the refusal of white-owned businesses in all-black neighborhoods to hire black salespersons. Using the slogan “Don't Buy Where You Can't Work,” these campaigns persuaded blacks to boycott those businesses and revealed a new militancy. During the same years, blacks organized school boycotts in northern cities to protest discriminatory treatment ...
- 14840: Ghengis Khan The Great
- ... empire was much harder to conquer. It was a very ambitious project. It took his army three years to conquer the empire. Over sixty thousand men were killed. This is not a lot by today’s standard but it is a tremendous amount back in Genghis’s time. With the defeat of the Na-Chung Empire, the Khan ruled all of Asia. He was nearly invulnerable. His empire stretched from Hungary to Korea and from Tibet to Russia. There were over seven ... With the help of his men, he created the largest empire. Other leaders have dreamed of this, but none have ever come close. He also kept his entire empire under control. Other leaders who didn’t even have empires half as big couldn’t keep control. Since his empire was so safe many people came to visit. Marco Polo loved the empire. He wrote many things about the emperor and ...
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