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- 1731: An Essay for Humanities Courses: The Bible
- An Essay for Humanities Courses: The Bible PART A MARK'S THEOLOGY REFLECTED IN WRITING Mark and the other evangelists used basically five ways to change, edit or enhance Jesus' sayings to reflect their own views of Christianity. According to the Five Gospels Book, plagiarism and changing of writing was not a crime, but actually very common Mark's time. Besides, Mark never knew Jesus first-hand, he somehow had to make a 'story' from basically Hearsay! Mark groups different parables and sayings of Jesus by topic; making a false impression that these things ... the Rich) & (Parable of The Camel and the Eye of a Needle). It is doubtful that these things happened at the same time; however, they are GREY in The Five Gospels anyway ... and probably didn't happen as Mark describes. This brings us to Mark's writing style. Mark seems to "tack-on" sentences to Jesus' teachings to make them more "Christian." This really changes the meaning more than any ...
- 1732: John Updikess Pigeon Feather
- John Updike tells good stories in his new collection, "Pigeon Feathers." What's more -- or, rather, what helps to make them good -- is his conspicuous devotion to the perilous marksmanship of words. All readers are bound to be grateful to him for that. He is no Pater and ... Joyce. Clichés and banalities he knows, have their valued uses in making a story flow. They provide comfortable, reassuring cadences -- and he employs them when he does not want to interrupt our concentration on what's going on with a trip to the dictionary or a muttered what-the-devil-does-that-word mean. Time and again, though, he finds just the right words to give a fresh shine to a ... magical life language leads within itself" -- not entirely unaided, of course, by wide margins, Devonshire-cream paper, and clear type. Speaking of which, I am happy to report that his publisher felicitously chimes Mr. Updike's Pennsylvania-Dutch tones with a Linotype contribution named for Janson, a Dutchman. And paper made at Spring Grove, Pa. Over Territory and Time The stories in "Pigeon Feathers" float from Pennsylvania to England, to ...
- 1733: Lacan
- ... the phallus for the words of mom the privileged words with mom. Pleasures that are gone. Once you are in language you are force in to a split your being or your meaning. You can t have both of them. your being your jouissance your pleasures stemming from earlier development and socialization. You can be in those pleasures but not at the same time in societies meanings in the language of ... do is try and articulate feelings and emotions in societies language. So we are all alienated by language. The unconsciousness structured like a language but not accessable to language. In a sense that we can t use it consciously like we use language. All of our desires are forced into a domain of substitution. We are always having to use the language of the father, signifiers, to represent the law signifier ... lost pleasure from mom and is used as a substitute. We partner up with someone where we find that phantasmatic quality that we have been projecting on them that turned us on. Well they weren t really doing that for us we were projecting it on them. We then become dissolusioned and fall out of love. It turns in to shit. Then we go looking for another women. Desire is ...
- 1734: The Writings of Plato and Dantes
- ... ways that capture our interest and make us want to pass those traditions on. It is those life lessons that we learn best when they are not being beaten into our heads with a preacher's bat. It is through the use of hidden meaning or allegory in the text that we can see this. Plato argued that the literature is mimetic and that all Poetry is a failed replication of ... of great writers and philosophers. Plato is without a doubt the father of Western Society, and we are the great-great-great grandchildren of that father. It is necessary to review the precepts of Plato's ideal world. There existed, for Plato, a world of ideas where all things exist in the perfect form. That ideal place is where all ideas that we have and that appear in material form originate ... the idea that the poet is but an imitator of something already imitated in its form. Making poetry a third layer thus two removed from perfection. That is to say what the poet writes i s but mimicry of the real thing and not of worth in a society where people value contributions which enhance the community(Plato 21-29). Plato's ideal state is such a society. The tenth ...
- 1735: Jane Austen: Her Life and Work
- Jane Austen: Her Life and Work Jane Austen had many influences in her life that led to the material written in her books. All of Austen's books "focus on young women in their path to marriage." (Southam, pg. 2) Jane Austen wrote on life as she knew and events that could have or did influence her. Jane Austen was born on ... of Jane Austen was her older sister, Cassandra. As well as being born in the same year (Howard, pg. 11), "they shared the same interests, enthusiasm and sense of humor. (Wright, pg. 7) "The Austen's were a happy, lively, reputedly good-natured and sweet tempered family. Family squabbles were almost unknown." (Wright, pg. 6) The Austens spent their nights together. They played "charades around a candle-lit table. After the game, the girls sewed or embroidered while the boys read aloud." (Wright, pg. 7) Jane and Cassandra spent their whole life together, from birth till Austen's death, where Jane died "with her head pillowed on Cassandra's shoulder." (Wright, pg. 11) At age 7 , Cassandra and Jane "sent to a small school run by a relative. (Wright, pg.7) They ...
- 1736: Internet, Its Effects In Our Lives And The Future Of The Internet
- ... literally, a network of networks. It is comprised of ten thousands of interconnected networks spanning the globe. The computers that form the Internet range from huge mainframes in research establishments to modest PCs in people's homes and offices. Despite the recent hype, the Internet is not a new phenomenon. Its roots lie in a collection of computers that were linked together in the 1970s to form the US Department of Defense's communications systems. Fearing the consequences of nuclear attack, there was no central computer holding vast amounts of data, rather the information was dispersed across thousands of machines. A set of rules, of protocols, known as ... send across the world almost instantly, and that it can unite people in wildly different locations as if they were next to each other. The soundest claims for the importance of the Internet in today's society are based upon these very facts. People of like minds and interests can share information with one another through electronic mail and chat rooms. E-mail is enabling radically new forms of worldwide ...
- 1737: Pigeon Feather
- John Updike tells good stories in his new collection, "Pigeon Feathers." What's more -- or, rather, what helps to make them good -- is his conspicuous devotion to the perilous marksmanship of words. All readers are bound to be grateful to him for that. He is no Pater and ... Joyce. Clichés and banalities he knows, have their valued uses in making a story flow. They provide comfortable, reassuring cadences -- and he employs them when he does not want to interrupt our concentration on what's going on with a trip to the dictionary or a muttered what-the-devil-does-that-word mean. Time and again, though, he finds just the right words to give a fresh shine to a ... magical life language leads within itself" -- not entirely unaided, of course, by wide margins, Devonshire-cream paper, and clear type. Speaking of which, I am happy to report that his publisher felicitously chimes Mr. Updike's Pennsylvania-Dutch tones with a Linotype contribution named for Janson, a Dutchman. And paper made at Spring Grove, Pa. Over Territory and Time The stories in "Pigeon Feathers" float from Pennsylvania to England, to ...
- 1738: Arthur Miller And His Distorted Historical Accuracies
- ... Scare", as it was later called by historians was led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose paranoia of a communist takeover spread through the nation like a wildfire. Men and women alike fell victim to McCarthy’s pointed finger and as a result of this hysteria, were mostly deported from the country, their careers and lives ruined. Some argue today that McCarthy’s plan had been to use the fear of the American people to throw his enemies out of office and gain power himself. Whatever McCarthy’s motives may have been, Arthur Miller realized the senator’s ludicracy when he attempted to accuse the President himself to be Communist. Miller and the rest of the American people drew the line and ...
- 1739: The Use Of The Internet In Mar
- Computing (IT)- essay by matthew foote Will the internet keep the U.K competitive in a world market, in terms of industry? Recently there has been emphasis for electronic business. Judging by IBM s recent advertising campaign you would be forgiven for thinking that launching a company website leads to instant profits. IBM s portrayal of a grandmother taking her olive oil business from rural Greece into global markets neatly demonstrates the potential of the internet for huge exposure and trade without the barriers of geography and at a ... this potential for any business in the U.K and elsewhere is no easy matter. Although several large firms in the U.K are now making real impact through e-commerce, although examples of profit s being made in small and medium (SME) sized business s are few and far between. Even though the effects of the internet on U.K s industry can only be predicted at this early ...
- 1740: Lizzie Borden
- ... guilty, the insufficiency of evidence and the lack of conclusive evidence all point to Lizzie Borden as being falsely accused. Her previous job as a Sunday School teacher and the fact that she probably wasn't capable of killing her own father and stepmother all lead to the apparent outcome that Lizzie Borden was most likely not the only one possibly at fault in the Borden murders, if she was even guilty at all. Lizzie Borden had, what seemed to others, a life that was fairly normal. The city of Fall River, Massachusetts, was, and is, full of Bordens. The Bordens were among the area's first settlers. Some branches of the family prospered, while others did not. Andrew Borden, Lizzie's father, was the son of a fishmonger, who was born on the less fortunate side of the family. He dedicated his entire life to changing this situation, and succeeded handsomely(Meganet, 1998). He accumulated ...
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