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- 16611: As I Lay Dying
- As I Lay Dying William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is a novel about how the conflicting agendas within a family tear it apart. Every member of the family is to a degree responsible for what goes wrong, but none more than Anse. Anse's laziness and selfishness are the underlying factors to every disaster in the book. As the critic Andre Bleikasten agrees, "there is scarcely a character in Faulkner so loaded with faults and vices" (84). At twenty ... wife seems money better spent on false teeth to him. "I never sent for you" Anse says "I take you to witness I never sent for you" (37) he repeats trying to avoid a doctor's fee. Before she dies Addie requests to be buried in Jefferson. When she does, Anse appears obsessed with burying her there. Even after Addie had been dead over a week, and all of the ...
- 16612: The Scarlet Letter - Punishment and Death
- The Scarlet Letter - Punishment and Death Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter deals with many themes, among those including punishment and death. Utilizing the theme of punishment, the central character, Hester Prynne, was forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter on "her bosom" for ... a fiend" which appears to peep out of Pearl; "Whether it peeped or no, her mother so imagined it." She is a beautiful charismatic little child and thus a blessing, but the stress of Hester's environment twists and turns the actions of the girl into evil things. In that respect she is more of a punishment to Hester then a piece of cloth she must over her clothing. On her visit to Governor Bellingham's house to plead for Pearl's custody, Hester passes by a suit of armor in which the breast plate so magnifies the letter "A" she wore almost consuming her. In later chapters, after a ...
- 16613: Murder
- ... justifiable. Back then, it was an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Or a life for a life. But in these fast paced and politically correct times, is there justifiable murder? Webster's Dictionary says that murder is "the unlawful killing of another human being, especially with premeditated malice." Unlawful killing of another human being. And most people would tend to agree, that there are circumstances in which ... neither realize. Both would agree that the life of a child is a precious thing that must be protected to the fullest extent of the law. They would also agree that it is a woman's exclusive right to make decisions concerning her own body. But what determines whether or not abortion is murder or not is: Is the fetus a person? That question is what has been fought over for decades. In 1981 the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee held hearings to discuss the question of when biological life begins. The testimony was revealing. An overwhelming majority of the experts answered emphatically that biological life begins at conception or implantation. ...
- 16614: Nikola Tesla
- ... For nearly a year he redesigned dynamos for Thomas Edison in New York City. He began an impressive career of research and invention when he established his own laboratory in 1887. He became a U.S. citizen in 1891. By the turn of the century Tesla s accomplishments had made his name as world famous as Thomas Edison s. Tesla's first and probably greatest achievement was his discovery of the rotating magnetic field. This was a magnetic whirlwind produced in a motor winding by the interaction of two or more alternating currents. ...
- 16615: To Judge A Book By Its Cover
- ... able to catch thoughts on paper, writers have created socially disturbing material. Years ago, the acceptability of a book was either met by beheading the writer, or honoring him with a seat at the queen s table. How times have changed. America, home to freedom of intellect, speech, and expression, has created an environment that allows objectionable material within easy reach of young children. The framers of the Constitution could never ... minds. Presently, just about anyone, regardless of age, can wander the aisles of local libraries and peruse the contents of any book and then check it out with virtually no safeguards in place. A parent's signature is required when initially opening the account to ensure checked out material is returned, but after that, youngsters basically have carte blanche access to everything the library has to offer. Parents may never see ... their adolescents are finding of interest. The minds of children, full of curiosity, snooping and filling the void that parents have good reason to make elusive, greedily lap up the dribble of some warped author's pen. Shelves and rows loaded from floor to ceiling with books containing pictures of art illustrating various sexual positions, manuals graphically depicting murder victims, books upon books full of political ideologies, rape, sex, illegal ...
- 16616: The Theme of Nature in the Works of Plato, Bryant, Twain, and Thoreau
- ... ideal" cannibals than any man could be. They kill with no remorse, eat their own kind dead or alive, and even attack their own bodies when wounded. This representation of a cannibal deepens the reader's understanding of what an "ideal" cannibal is and later used by Melville when Ahab is compared to a shark. This syllogism states that if a shark is the epitome of a cannibal and Ahab is ... employed. Mark Twain and Henry David Thoreau both use nature as an entity to explain certain truths of human existence. Both stress the essential role that nature plays in society and the importance of man's relationship to nature. The fashion in which each deal with this importance, however, differ greatly. Twain focuses on nature's role as a refuge and a source of peace when compared to civilization. Thoreau, a transcendentalist, focuses on nature as a "reflection of an inner spiritual reality." In Huckleberry Finn, Twain presents nature as ...
- 16617: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- ... Injun Joe was upstairs and Tom has to be quiet. It seemed nothing else mattered. Tom works best under pressure because he thinks more about it. Somehow, Tom had sensitivity for others, even others didn't have it for him. Like the situation with the torn page of the teachers book. Even though Tom didn't tear the page he still took the blame for Becky when Becky was being mean to him. He got a whipping Tom didn't care he had gotten them before that was just same as it ever was for Tom. Tom's upbringing most likely leads to his adventurous side. The fact he doesn't have a mother ...
- 16618: Euclid
- ... Centered on Geometry (Euclid) The ancient Greeks have contributed much to the development of the Western World as we know it today. The Greeks questioned all and yearned for the answers to many of lifes questions. Their society revolved around learning, which allowed them to devote the majority of their time to enlightenment. In answering their questions, they developed systematic activities such as philosophy, psychology, astronomy, mathematics, and a great ... the turning point in the history of knowledge and formal thought. Plato (428-347:348 BC) one of Socrates students founded the Academy. The Academy was key in spreading thought and knowledge because of its devotion to teaching the sciences. Aristotle (384-322 BC), Platos brightest student, founded Biology and is given credit for his accomplishments in varying fields. Out of all of the great Greek accomplishments which influence the world today, I chose the one which I believe ...
- 16619: Darwinism: The Theory That Shook The World
- ... under scrutiny still today as missing fossils which are to have been the bridge between a two familiar species are not yet found (Hitching p 3). Whatever the reason of belief or disbelief in Darwin's theories, he astounded the scientific world as well as the public and was able to convince many in the presence of a misguided past belief. This fact alone makes him one of the most important ... love for nature. When he was not reading about nature and its quirks he was out in the forest looking for wild game , fish, and insects (Campbell p 424). His father, although noting his son's interest in nature, felt that all the discoveries of the natural branch of science had been accomplished so he sent his son to medical school at Edinburgh instead (Bowler p 62). While Darwin was there ... of natural phenomena (GEA & RBi p 42). Upon graduating in 1831, Henslow suggested that he go on the Beagle as an unpaid naturalist on the scientific expedition (GEA & RBi p 43). Darwin gladly took Henslow's advice and set out on his voyage to South America to analyze and collect data that would later back up his evolutionary theories (Campbell p 424). Even as Darwin collected his data pertaining to ...
- 16620: Literary Theory And African Am
- Race is defined as one group of the populations constituting humanity. (Coon 62) Since the 1970s, the conclusion has been stated that race is a social, cultural and political concept based largely on superficial appearances. The notion of race is so emotionally charged that objective discussion of its significance in relation ... have been created throughout the configuration of the Post-Modernist, Feminist and Post-Colonial theories. Post-Modernism is a complicated term, one that has only emerged as an area of study since the mid-1980s. Post-Modernism, by its very nature, is virtually impossible to come up with one single definition, though, Post-Modernism in its totality is the movement in arts, music, literature and drama which rejected the past Victorian ideas ...
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