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- 16151: Julius Caesar - Analyses Of Characters
- ... but he is very unwilling to do anything to gain trust. Ordinary people have a great deal of respect for Caesar and probably believe that he would be a good, powerful leader who has Roman’s troubles at heart. Caesar probably believes those things as well but he is ruthless and he craves power. He also believes that everybody likes him and that is why he’s surprised when the conspirators approach him. Then he realises that they have seen through his façade and see that he is really an arrogant power-crazy man. Mark Antony is a very honourable soldier who is loyal to anyone in power. He was a great friend to Caesar and thought very highly of him. He is extremely angry at Caesar’s death. He is a very cunning man as can be seen in the second part of the scene and he is able to manipulate people. He cared a lot for Caesar and as a ...
- 16152: A Rose For Emily -- Symbol Of
- ... him. His attitude toward women, as evident in the treatment of his daughter, reflects his old-fashioned ways and his inability, or his lack of desire, to move on into the future. Throughout Miss Emily’s childhood, her father believed that “none of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily.” Mr. Grierson did not allow his grown daughter, even at the age of thirty, to make her own ... the household. The name and the attitudes that Mr. Grierson passed on to his daughter Emily symbolically opposed the change that was going on around them. Even after his death, Miss Emily kept her father’s decaying body in the house. Following in her father’s footsteps, she clung tightly to the past telling everyone in the town he was still alive and refusing to accept the her father’s death. Although the law intervened and buried her father, the “ ...
- 16153: The Atrocities of the Vietnam War
- The Atrocities of the Vietnam War The many decisions made by the policymakers in Washington regarding the War in Vietnam, perhaps America’s greatest foreign policy failure, had many consequences that, though unforeseen, could have been avoided. The main policymakers include: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon. These men and their advisors created a "policy of atrocity" in Vietnam. The decisions that created the most widespread destruction, besides the bombing escalation’s by Johnson and Nixon, was Robert McNamara’s proposal to JFK for a "quantified war". A "quantified war" is a war where the enemy body count, not territory, is the measure of winning or losing. Perhaps unforeseen, this notion of a body ...
- 16154: Chivalry
- ... are still praised by society, one rarely finds a man true to his word regardless of cost. Chivalry towards ladies is sometimes mistakenly decried by those supporting equality for women. And Courtly love, in it's modern form, is frowned upon. Those who might have a keen sense of justice often have only indirect methods of fighting for the right -- legislation just can never be as satisfying as clouting a knave ... Gawain made a promise to the huntsman to give him whatever gifts he received that day in exchange for whatever gifts the huntsman received that day. On the third and final day of Sir Gawain's visit, he received a green girdle from the huntsman's wife, who was his secret lover. The only reason that he accepted it was because he, like Lancelot, had fear in his heart; only Gawain's fear was dying. The huntsman's wife told ...
- 16155: The Odyssey 2
- ... is lost, feeling that he has no identity. In order for him to get some direction, he still needs divine help. Seeing that Telemachus was in need of direction, Athena feels obligated to help. Athena's main motive for going to see Telemachus is to "rouse [him] / to a braver pitch, inspire his heart with courage (page 80, lines 104-105)" She realizes that Telemachus needs to be advised by a wise older man, she disguises herself as an old friend of Odysseus's, Mentes. As opposed to Athena disguising herself as just some stranger, she disguises herself as a very close friend of Odysseus, an equal, in order to seem more reliable. In the following passage Athena tries ... suitors to leave Odysseus' premises at once. The suitors, who already have been courting Penelope, were also causing great amounts of chaos, by eating large amounts of cattle each day, and feasting off of Odysseus's riches. Not only, according to the Greeks, was this a way of taking advantage of the action of generosity, but this was also greatly offending Odysseus and Telemachus, not only by trying to woo ...
- 16156: Early Flight
- ... in the latter part of his life. Before aviation, Langley was a distinguished mathematician and astronomer who later became the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Langley was the first major aviation figure in the U.S. Langley did not always have great success in the aviation field. He was mocked and ridiculed for his many unsuccessful attempts of flight powered by steam engines. Langley called his airplanes "Aerodromes". Samuel P. Langley ... engineering and architecture in Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. After this, he went back to Boston and received an assistantship at the Harvard Observatory. He later went on to teach mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. In 1867, when Langley was 33 years of age, he took the position of a director at the Allegheny Observatory. He then became a professor of physics and astronomy at ... and drag of an airplane traveling at certain speeds. After these experiments, Langley was the first person that could provide a reason why birds can fly without noticeable movement from the wings. In the 1880’s, Langley became the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. While at the institution, he conducted several experiments to find out more about the mysteries of flight. For example, in 1887, he had an experiment ...
- 16157: To Kill A Mockingbird 3
- ... to play before calling them back home for going too far. The setting of a boundary portrays what will come in the novel. The summertime boundary emerges as the area in which Scout and Jem's games take place. This also accounts for where they meet Dill, another player in their game. The main character, Boo Radley, lives next door to the Finches. None of the children have ever seen Boo ... from the image they construct emerges a vivid character. "Boo was about six and a half feet tall, judging him from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands are blood-stained - if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were ... boundaries as well as their own imaginations by constructing the image. It adds to the game and encourages Jem and Scout to develop distinctions for their boundaries. Children also learn about boundaries from other people's games where boundaries develop. Scout's teacher plays the game of a sympathetic southern schoolteacher. She appears to be the perfect gentlewoman, set in tradition and very sympathetic to the less fortunate, such as ...
- 16158: Personal Writing: My Friend's Death From AIDS
- Personal Writing: My Friend's Death From AIDS While thinking about an important event that became a turning point in my life, my thoughts were drawn to the death of an old family friend, I'll call Jim. Jim's death from AIDS has made me think about life and how important it is to be aware of such a deadly disease. Funding for research and education about the AIDS disease should be a top ... We as a country need to be aware of the danger of AIDS, and I believe that the most effective way is for Congress to set up a national program of education. Up until Jim's death my life was insulated from any situation that was outside my little world created for me by my parents. Jim's death opened up a new world, bigger and more complex. It started ...
- 16159: Macbeth Responsible For His Ow
- ... to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow Macbeth. Act V, Scene V, Lines 19-24 In one of his most celebrated plays, 'Macbeth', William Shakespeare illustrates the classical tragic hero pattern: a character regarded with the utmost admiration ... own tragic downfall. Led by his overpowering ambition, Macbeth commits the greatest act of treason against his country; and when discovered, makes the noblemen rethink their loyalty to their king. Upon the discovery of Duncan's body, Macbeth announces that he accidentally killed the attendants, who appeared to be the guilty party. Responding to this, Macduff asks him, "Wherefore did you so?" (2.3.108) The first signs of suspicion come from Macduff, who distrusts Macbeth after he hastily 'destroys the evidence' at the crime scene. This is important because over time, Macduff's suspicions grow, and provide him with a reason for fleeing to England and forming a rebellion against Macbeth. Furthermore, after his confession speech at the royal banquet, the thanes and noblemen realize Macbeth's ...
- 16160: A Short History On Computers
- ... numbers of 50 decimal digits (or words) and having a storage capacity (memory) of 1,000 such digits. The machine was supposed to operate automatically, by steam power, and require only one person there. Babbage's computers were never finished. After Babbage, there was a temporary loss of interest in automatic digital computers. A strong need thus developed for a machine that could rapidly perform many repetitive calculations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Use of Punched ... like turning the wheels of an adding machine. Such systems included features to: ofeed in a specified number of cards automatically oadd, multiply, and sort ofeed out cards with punched results As compared to today's machines, these computers were slow, usually processing 50 - 220 cards per minute, each card holding about 80 decimal numbers (characters). At the time, however, punched cards were a huge step forward. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Electronic Digital Computers The ... school of Electrical Engineering of University of Pennsylvania decided to build a high - speed electronic computer to do the job. This machine became known as ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator) The size of ENIAC's numerical "word" was 10 decimal digits, and it could multiply two of these numbers at a rate of 300 per second, by finding the value of each product from a multiplication table stored in ...
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