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- 17911: The Mortal Sin Of Pride
- ... sinful nature of pride and its serious consequences within the short story. The character of Fortunato is the main capsule for the explanation of the dangers of being prideful of ones self. By examining Poe s use of symbolism, images, and effective backdrops around Fortunato the reader may begin to understand the importance of the deadly sin of pride. Poe deliberately explains to the reader early on within the short story ... of self-pride, one of the seven deadly sins, is projected as a weakness of Fortunato and foreshadows the ideal that this deadly sin of pride may very well lead to the means of Forturnato s own destruction. Fortunato Believes that his connoisseurship in wine (153) is far more developed and advance than anyone else in the area, especially Luchesi and Montresor. For example when Montresor offered to take his business ... said what he did out of pride in his wonderful abilities. Given the knowledge that the reader understands Fortunato and the simple fact that he is driven by opportunities to boost his egotistical self. Fortunato s hidden motive to satisfy (153) Montresor doubts about the cask of Amontillado is to obtain bragging rights , the ability to insult Montresor about how he was taken by a merchant that attempted to passed ...
- 17912: Life
- By: Bob Life’s End Life is like Coca-Cola. It is greatly anticipated when brought forth, greatly enjoyed during its existence, and greatly missed when it’s gone. As in “Do Not Go Gently In that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas, many people get to the end of their lives and only then do they realize what they have missed. They realize that there is something that they just did not do in life and they try to do that thing before life’s end. The poem is based around five people. There is a wise man, a good man, a wild man, a grave man, and a father. For some reason, others more obvious than the ones ...
- 17913: Leadership Ability of Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
- Leadership Ability of Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson The quality of leadership can be defined as one's ability to appeal to and sense the needs, wants, and feelings of one's constituency. A leader must also be innovative enough to have new ideas, but at the same time these ideas must not be so far reaching that the general public cannot relate to them. In addition ... leader must be able to handle pressure from all sides, must also have good decision making skills under all circumstances, and must maintain credibility to his or her constituents. The political candidates during the 1960’s each reflected different levels of this quality of leadership. Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, for example, had vastly different levels of leadership ability. RFK was able to sense what his constituents wanted, and he ...
- 17914: Magic And Science
- ... the native effects themselves (Blackstone, 117). Magicians refer magical appearance of an object as a production. Th 20-century magician David Blaine uses production. He as through time has taken magic to an extreme. Blaine’s productions usually consist of cards and unusual objects. There is no size limit to a magician’s product. “The only limits is in his skill and ingenuity in doing it”. Like all magicians David Blaine has been practicing since he was a kid. From card tricks to mind games, his technique has ... magical effect”. As an object is repeatedly tossed up into the air, the audience is controlled by concentrating on the object. As the final tossed is perceived, the magician fakes the toss and the audience’s eyes follows the imaginary flight. This is an example of psychological conditioning. Till today, it is still used by many magicians. As one of David Blaine’s trick, he is supposedly ripping off the ...
- 17915: Internet Security 2
- ... cases of Internet crimes I have found the following quite interesting. There was a case in 1993 in which investigators in New York City found that three city Employees had found a flaw in city s real estate tax computer system and erased 20,000,000 dollars in overdue property taxes (Intranet Security XVII). Now, the implications of this crime are endless. If this break-in would have gone unnoticed it ... many of these crimes go unnoticed. Another case is when the corporation Citibank had an incident in 1995 in which Russian hackers (a term on the Internet and computer world meaning breaking into another person s computer) stole over 10,000,000 dollars in fraudulent wire transfers by exploiting a hole in its systems provision for money transfers (Intranet Security XVII). This problem is what I think would be one of the best arguments for increased security on the Internet. This money is just ordinary people s money like yours and mine; for people to just be able to go in and take whatever they want is a scary thought. An even greater argument for the security increases is in the ...
- 17916: ABRAHAM LINCOLN One Of The Gre
- ... 16th President of the United States but also one of the most famous speakers in history. I will chronicle for you some of the most remembered and effective public addresses of President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln’s rise to presidency was a lengthy one. His first political speech came in 1830 after he and his family moved to Illinois where they settled on undeclared land along the Sangamon River; he was in ... a leader of the Whig party. September 9th, 1836 Lincoln receives his law license and in June of 1840 he argues his first case before the Illinois Supreme Court. After being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, he delivers a speech on the floor of the House against President Polks war policy regarding Mexico. In March of 1849 he makes an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the Illinois statute of limitations, but is unsuccessful and leaves politics to practice law. Lincoln’s aptitude in public speaking soon gains him a reputation as an outstanding lawyer and is ...
- 17917: Ocean Environment
- Ocean Environment The sea is the most obvious feature of the earth's surface. Approximately seventy percent of this surface is covered by water, in one way or another. Beneath this water are the familiar sands of the beaches, bottoms of bays, and the inshore ocean. Farther offshore ... found on some portions of the deep-sea floor. The sediment type frequently determines the type of organisms that will be found in that specific area. "Waves are variable and transitory features of the sea's surface." (Sandra Smith) All waves, from the smallest ripple to the most destructive tsunami, have common characteristics. They all have crests, troughs, wave heights, lengths, and periods. Also, water particles that make up the waves ... density barriers trap nutrients below the euphotic zone and make them spatially unavailable to the plants in these areas. This is the case in the tropical seas, as well as in all of the world's deep oceans, where the density barriers are permanent. Plant nutrients tend to cycle throughout marine systems, from their simple, low-energy, dissolved forms to plants, animals, and then to bacteria. When considering the cycling ...
- 17918: Introduction to Public Choice Theory
- Introduction to Public Choice Theory "Everybody's business is nobody's business." Russell Hardin, Collective Choice, 1982. The social phenomena discussed in this series of essays all center around the problem of individuals in groups faced with the choice of doing what is best for themselves or what is best for the group. Instances of the phenomena are called by many different names: "Volunteer's Dilemma", "Prisoner's Dilemma", "Collective Choice", "Rational Choice", "Social Choice", and "Voter's Paradox" to just list a few. Unfortunately, the academic programs that cover these various manifestations of the "individual vs. group" dilemma ...
- 17919: Endocrine Disruptors
- ... decreased to no sexual behaviour. (Fry and Toone, 1981) Louis Guillette noticed that male alligators from Lake Apopka in Florida have vestigial penis, follicle-like testis and elevated estrogens/testosterone ratios and the female hatching s ovaries were producing multiple egg follicles and eggs with several nuclei (Luoma, 1995, Guillette et al., 1995) The females also had above normal estrogens levels. When he and his colleagues did a similar injection study ... effects is being used to support demands for tighter emission controls and for drastic changes in the use of industrial chemicals and pesticides. A dramatic example is the proposal to phase out the chemical industry s use of chlorine as a raw material (Montague 1991). One of the most significant examples of synthetic estrogens having possible toxic effect was exhibited through the use of diethylstilboestrol or DES. DES was used extensively ... This exogenous estrogen effects both male and female foetuses. In adulthood it was discovered that men had increase incidences of testicular cancer, low sperm counts and semen volume. (Sharpe and Skakkebaek, 1993, Newbold, 1995) Female s foetuses can have structural malformations of the cervix, oviducts, uterus and vagina as well as anatomical masculinisation. (Newbold, 1995) In adolescence and early adulthood, a number of reproductive cancers can appear as well as ...
- 17920: Freud Foucault And Society
- ... the claim that knowledge is power, then it will be logical to assert that all people want power. The person or persons that have knowledge also acquire the power of that knowledge. In Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish he clearly shows the power-knowledge relationship that is prevalent in society both on the large and small scale, and how these affect society as a whole. Whereas, Sigmund Freud who has mastered the discipline of psychotherapy, which he uses to help others without this knowledge clearly demonstrates the power of knowledge. In Sigmund Freud's Studies on Hysteria there are studies which show this use of power-knowledge to unlock problems in their mind creating the hysteria for which they suffer. These two authors use their power of knowledge in ... ceremony hidden behind walls, and consisting of mental torture. The individual wants to feel that punishment is carried out in some moral way. However, this way is not moral but simply a veil from society's view. This way one can pretend it is not going on. This book is intended as a correlative history of the modern soul and of a new power to judge; genealogy of the present ...
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