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- 16531: Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis Taking Place Involving Gregor and Its Effect on the Family
- Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis Taking Place Involving Gregor and Its Effect on the Family Metamorphosis. This means a change in form, structure, or appearance. Change is a major theme throughout Franz Kafka's novella, The Metamorphosis. There is a significant relationship between the title, The Metamorphosis, and the theme of change. Kafka's main character, Gregor Samsa, undergoes many changes and his transformation evokes change in his family. Several metamorphosis take place involving Gregor. First, a physical change occurs "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." After that happened, Gregor's voice changes from human into the voice of a bug. "That was the voice of an animal," Gregor's manager said, but the words seemed perfectly clear to him. Beginning to see things less ...
- 16532: Tale Of Two Cities 2
- ... because the wine shop owner, Ernest Defarge, and his wife, Madame Defarge, are key leaders and officials of the revolution. Action in the book is scattered out in many places; such as the Bastille, Tellson's Bank, the home of the Manettes, and largely, the streets of Paris. These places help to introduce many characters into the plot. One of the main characters, Madame Therese Defarge, is a major antagonist who ... cannot escape the memory of being held and sometimes relapses to cobbling shoes. Dr. Manette is somewhat redundant as a character in the novel, but plays a very significant part in the plot. Dr. Manette's daughter, Lucie Manette, a positive protagonist, is loved by many and marries Charles Darnay . She is a quiet, emotional person and a subtle protagonist in the novel. One who never forgot his love for Lucie ... the premises of the two promises between Dr. Manette and Darnay. Right after the marriage, while the newlyweds are on their honeymoon, Dr. Manette has a relapse and cobbles shoes for nine days straight. France's citizens arm themselves for a revolution and, led by the Defarges, start the revolution by raiding the Bastille. Shortly before the start of the revolution, the Marquis runs over a child in the streets ...
- 16533: Watergate Scandal
- ... of the end for many high ranking jobs, including the commander and chief of the United States. The Republicans were not bad off in the year 1972. Nixon had been elected President of the U.S. for the second straight term and the Republicans were gaining some ground. That all changed, however, on June 17, 1972 when 5 men decided to break into the Watergate Hotel and steal files and documents in the chairmen of the Democratic National Committee's office. Lawrence O'Brien was the chairman. They put bugging devices on the ceiling above two panels. It was late at night, around midnight. Frank Willis, the watchman, was making his normal checks when he ... tells the police that there are lights on in the entire 8th floor of Watergate. So the three officers entered the building, surrounded the 8th floor partition, and in a few moments one intruder "Don't shoot-You've got us"! The intruders were then ordered up against a wall and the police notice that they had $1,300 of new money, each were consecutively marked $100 dollar bills. Yet ...
- 16534: A Review of "The Rattler"
- ... of life being dear for the snake, also. When the author first introduces the snake to the reader the snake did not have his head “drawn back to strike.” The detail to include the snake's “ calm watchfulness” and demeanor of the snake creates an effect of a snake that is not mean or despicable, but of a snake that is “fair.” The author's use of the word “fair” creates an effect of an innocent snake who did “not even” rattle when he first viewed the man, which creates an atmosphere that is “sportingly” and the snake waited for ... to show his intentions.” The overall selection of detail and language the author uses creates an effect of a likable, innocent animal, whom the reader can not hate, which is used to enhance the author's major effect of life being dear even of the snake. To continue to enhance the authors theme of life being dear, he displays the man as having to justify his intention to kill the ...
- 16535: Brave New World - Religion
- Thesis: Man's need for answers to questions that cannot be solved through known applications of science and technology has resulted in the widespread belief in religion. I. Purpose Elimination of stress Addiction to soma 1. Rioting addicts ... in a world of science and technology. Major changes have occurred during the future; Utopia now revolves a religion of drugs and sex. God and the cross have been replaced by Ford and the symbol T, the founder of the age of machines. Instead of Sunday church, members now attend solidarity services where morals and tradition are not learned, but rather faith is taught in the belief of hallucinations produced by ... soma." Soma has effectively replaced the belief in a higher being by its elimination of problems and stress resulting in a lack of imagination , creativity, or "soul." Yet religion can still be found in today's society because of man's continuing need for answers to questions that cannot be solved by science or technology. Religion can be regarded as the beliefs and patterns of behavior by which humans try ...
- 16536: The Need For Capital Punishment
- ... it was his or her right to take vengeance on the person that had wronged them. This mentality still exists, even today, but in a lesser form because the law has now outlined a person's rights and developed punishments that conform to those rights, yet allow for the penalty for their crime. However, some feel that those laws and punishments are too lax and criminals of today take advantage of ... crime, knowing very well that the punishments for their crime, whether it be murder, theft, or any other number of criminal activities, will be so insignifigant that it may be well worth their risk. Today's current form of punishments are no longer a sufficient deterrent for serious crimes and have contributed to a ever rising crime rate. So, this is where the real issue of whether or not capital punishment should exist begins and such a controversial issue could be best understood if we looked at capital punishment in a perspective of how it fulfils or does not fulfil society's ideas of punishment : Is not one of the four fundamental objectives behind punishment retribution? The sentencing objective based on the principle of "an-eye-for-an-eye", which means that what one person has ...
- 16537: Elizabeth Bishop Roosters
- ... basic education, Bishop attended Vassar College in the state of New York. Bishop met Mary McCarthy, and they worked together on a literary magazine while attending Vassar called Con Spirito. Bishop graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1934. After graduating, Bishop pursued her literary career and became wealthy as a result. Due to the overwhelming popularity of her first publication, North and South, Bishop edited and re-released it. With the publication's new makeover, the popularity increased earning Bishop the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1956. Bishop's works were extensive and thought provoking. Although many of her publications were magazine submissions (The New Yorker), Bishop released different collections of her poems. Questions of Travel (1965) focused on many of the settings ...
- 16538: Kazin's "Summer: The Way to Highland Park"
- Kazin's "Summer: The Way to Highland Park" There are two main reasons why I have chosen Summer: The Way to Highland Park as my essay. My first reason is I love the city. In the city ... the city to the point you can almost smell the city. His scents and sights bring this story to life. This brings me to the other reason I chose this story. I find Alfred Kazin's view of the world as refreshing. I find the world to be a beautiful place and I think Kazin does too. His mind escapes the ordinary day and floats to another place, a more romantic ... a level that I find very deep and fulfilling. Bibliography Kazin, Alfred. “Summer: The Way to Highland Park.” Inventing America: Readings in Culture and Identity. Ed. Gabriella Ibieta and Miles Orvell. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 330-336.
- 16539: The Yeti
- The Yeti The Yeti or abominable snowman has been sighted in the Himalayan Mountains for 100's of years. It is described as being a tall manlike creature with shaggy hair, cone-shaped scalp, pointed ears, hairless chest and human-like face. It has many names like Wild Man, Meh-Teh, Sasquatch ... of fact and fiction about the legend did turn up. The main evidence of its existance is footprints, sightings, and scalps or hair. Sir Edmund Hillary believed the first footprints were found in the 1890's. Others sources give 1832 as the earliest findings, when B.H. Hodson, the Court of Nepal's first British Resident, reported his native hunters have been frightened by a "Wild Man" that "moved erectly, was covered in long dark hair, and had no tail". The first reliable report was in 1925 ...
- 16540: Nucular War
- ... in August 1942, during World War II. It was made by a group scientist including the physicists Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the chemist Harold Urey, and was in charge by an U.S. Army engineer, Major General Lesle Groves. After the war, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission became in charge of all nuclear matters, including weapons research. Other types of bombs were developed to tap the energy of light elements, such as hydrogen. In these bombs the source of ... compressed by the powerful, inwardly directed pressure, or implosion. The density of the metal is increased, and a supercritical assembly is produced. The Alamogordo test bomb, as well as the one dropped by the U.S. on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, were of the implosion type. Each was equivalent to about 20 kilotons of TNT. Hermonuclear, or Fusion, Weapons Even before the first atomic bomb was developed, scientists ...
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