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- 18051: Julius Caesar: Brutus Is The Protagonist
- ... is the story of a man trying his best to make reasonable, rational decisions. Marcus Brutus is this struggling character who evades constant pressure from all sides to gloriously pull through, yet dies at play's end. Undoubtedly, Brutus is the main character, and driving force of the play, despite the misleading title of Julius Caesar. Three separate, critical aspects help to show the reader how unimportant Julius Caesar is to ... ensuing tragedies multiple times, and not once is he listened to. Calpurnia cries out terrified three times during the night, "Help ho - they murder Caesar!" The reader soon learns of a dream in which Caesar's wife visualizes her husband's death. She begs and pleads Caesar to stay home that day, however, nobody ever pays any attention to her dream. In this instance, Caesar has no influence on the outcome of the play. Again, ...
- 18052: The World Of Odysseus
- ... The World of Odysseus, is the smoothly flowing relationship between the mythological stories and the historical facts. The author rarely explains the great stories of the gods and heroes of Ancient Greece without identifying it's historical impact, relating it to actual events, or explaining how it describes the values and morals of the men living in Greece in that time period. For example, after describing the relationship between Penelope and ... relationship between Odysseus and Penelope nor in any other relationship between man and mate in the Homeric poems was there the depth and intensity, the quality of feeling. . . ." It was pleasing to read the author's unusual approach for writing this book by first retelling mythical stories from ancient poems and then informing the reader of the poems' purpose. Though the author connected his thoughts and stories ingeniously, the book was quite a tedious task. Some of the stories mentioned were simply not interesting or too confusing to fully understand. The author's amazing transition skills between stories and actual facts were outweighed by the book's slow moving pace and sometimes uninteresting stories. Many significant historical results came from the period in time that the author ...
- 18053: A HANGING AUDIENCE
- I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. After reading and understanding George Orwells feelings through his experiences in his essay A Hanging. We come to realize that George Orwell, a visitor from the European establishment, gets the opportunity to participate in the execution of a Hindu man. We realise that the author is degraded by what he has witnessed and experienced, and decides to share his feelings with the rest of the establishment through his writings. We understand that the authors purpose is to show how degraded he feels by the events that took place that morning in Burma. Throughout his essay the author shows, that the prisoners are treated like animals. We see this when ... way it took six guards to escort a puny wisp of a man. He says, It was like men handling a fish which is still alive and may jump back into the water. The authors purpose is to also allow the audience to understand the way the guards and superintendent felt towards the prisoners. We see this when the superintendent is upset because the execution is running late, and ...
- 18054: To Kill A Mockingbird Essay-ev
- Throughout history, racism has played a major role in social relations. In Harper Lee s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, this theme is presented to the reader and displays the shallowness of white people in the south during the depression. The assumption that Blacks were inferior is proved during the ... of raping Mayella Ewell and is found guilty. Many examples from this novel support the fact that Tom Robinson was in fact innocent. Atticus Finch represented Tom Robinson in the trial. He showed that Tom s left arm was crippled due to a former injury using a cotton gin. Atticus expanded on this point by unexpectedly throwing a ball at Tom Robinson. Tom s only reaction was to catch the ball with his right arm. This point is connected to Heck Tate s testimony in telling the court that the right side of Mayella s face had been ...
- 18055: Taoism
- ... great philosophical and religious traditions that originated in China. The other religion native to China is Confucianism. Both Taoism and Confucianism began at about the same time, around the sixth century B.C.E. China's third great religion, Buddhism, came to China from India around the second century of the common era. Together, these three faiths have shaped Chinese life and thought for nearly twenty-five hundred years. One dominate ... harmonious life. It is only when a person rids himself of all desires can tao be achieved. By shunning every earthly distraction, the Taoist is able to concentrate on life itself. The longer the person's life, the more saintly the person is presumed to have become. Eventually the hope is to become immortal, to achieve tao, to have reached the deeper life. This is the after life for a Taoist ... of the word tao must be understood. The Chinese character for tao is a combination of two characters that represent the words head and foot. The character for foot represents the idea of a person's direction or path. The character for head represents the idea of conscious choice. The character for head also suggests a beginning, and foot, an ending. Thus the character for tao also conveys the continuing ...
- 18056: Luis Gutierrez
- ... December 10 1954, in Chicago Illinois. He received a Bachelors degree from Northeastern Illinois University, in 1975. His professional experience is as follows: teacher in Puerto Rico from, 1977 to 1978; social worker for Chicago's Department of children and family Services, from 1979 to 1983; An advisor to Chicago mayor Harold Washington, from 1984 to 1987; Chicago city Alderman from 1986 to 1992; President of the Pro. Tem, from 1989 ... to represent Illinois district four in 1992. The congressional committees he serves on include Banking and Financial Services; General Overnight and Investigations; Housing and Community opportunity; Veteran Affairs and Hospital and Health Care. Mr. Gutierrez's addresses in Washington and in Chicago are: 408 Longworth House office Building, Washington Dc 20515; 3181 North Elston Avenue, Chicago 60618; 1715 west 47th street, Chicago 60609; 3659 Halsted Chicago 60609; and 2132 West 21st ... Hispanic; fifty-nine percent were white and forty percent were of other ethnic groups. There were 383,285 people eligible to vote. Fifty-eight Hispanic; six percent African-American; twenty-four percent had college education's; forty- nine percent married and thirty- one percent married with children. The average rent was 393 dollars a month. The cost of housing is relatively low in this area. The average value of a ...
- 18057: Hard Times
- ... firm character basis with. The opening chapter emphasizes on Thomas Gradgrind Sr., and his students fittingly referred to as "little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts." (Dickens 10). Gradgrind's methods of education are employed to show Dickens' view on the evil of the educational system. Among the "little pitchers" are Bitzter and Sissy Jupe. They exemplify two entirely different ideas, serving Dickens for allegorical purposes. Bitzer, the model student of Gradgrind's school of "facts, facts, facts" becomes the very symbol of evil in the educational system that Dickens is trying to portray, as he learns to take care for number one, himself. Reflection of this and Bitzer's informative definition of a horse, as a child in book one, occurs in book three as he speaks of the necessity of apprehending Tom Gradgrind Jr. Sissy represents what Dickens is attempting to foster ...
- 18058: Fruedian Psychoanalysis With E
- Psychoanalysis is a system of psychology originated by the Viennese physician Sigmund Freud in the 1890's and then further developed by himself, his students, and other followers. It consists of activities such as using methods for research into the human mind, a systematic knowledge about the mind, and a method for ... a completely healthy physical body, such as a numbness or paralysis of a limb, loss of voice, or blindness. This state could be caused by unconscious wishes or forgotten memories. Many women of the 1800 s were diagnosed with hysteria, given the disorder was thought to be primarily female. Freud began telling his patients, through interpretations, what was going on inside the unconscious part of their minds, thus helping the unconscious ... in the relations between mother and son or between father and daughter. These drives are known as the so-called Oedipus and Electra complexes. These complexes may also spread to other relationships, such as Lisa s viewing of the love affair between her mother and uncle. However, most societies strongly disapprove of the sexual interests of children, and Lisa never spoke of what she saw to anyone but Freud. She ...
- 18059: The Crucible 7
- ... Warren sent her spirit up to the rafters and began to talk to the spirit. "Oh Mary, this is a black art to change your shape. No, I cannot, I cannot stop my mouth; it's God's work I do." The other girls all stared at the rafters in horror and began to repeat everything they heard. Finally, the girls' hysterics caused Mary Warren to accuse John Proctor of witchcraft. Once the ... argue early on about a plot of land. Corey claims that he bought it from Goody Nurse but Putnam says he owns it, and Goody Nurse had no right to sell it. Later, when Putnam's daughter accuses George Jacobs of witchery, Corey claims that Putnam only wants Jacobs' land. Giles says, "If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property - that's law! And there is none ...
- 18060: Psychology
- ... has been received, we interpret it and arrive at an understanding of what it means, a process referred to as perception. Sensation and perception make up an extensive information gathering system. Each sense has it's own receptors that constantly monitor our environment. All sensory systems have certain characteristics: The sensory system must be selective, which means that only certain types of incoming information are processed. For example, we have more ... sudden noise does not require analysis, as it does a speedy response. However, the visual system will respond quickly to a blur as something comes towards us, a potential danger, yet it will take it's time when analyzing a complex scene. The system must also be sensitive, but not too much. If our ears were too sensitive we would hear blood running through artery at the base of the ear ... area of the brain called the visual center . This is where people "see" objects in the sense of recognizing and reacting to what their eyes look at. In other words, seeing always involves the brain's visual center. Here sensation turns into perception. The brain must learn by experience to analyze correctly the impulses it receives from the eyes. For instance, the lens system of the eye, like that of ...
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