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- 18271: Wuthering Heights: Use of Atmospheric Conditions to Emphasize Events and Highlight the Mood of the Characters
- ... sometimes desolate landscape. This theme of a rough countryside filled with hidden beauties and seasonal storms fits well into the storyline of Wuthering Heights. The title of the novel and the name of the Earnshaw's dwelling is used by Emily Brontë's to project the overall mood of the book. She herself writes that the word "Wuthering [is] a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station (the Earnshaw house) is exposed in ... Thrushcross Grange are accompanied by a change in the weather. Emily Brontë uses the weather to show the beginning of a transition from calm to turbulent events in the storyline. The books starts with Lockwood's arrival, a severe winter storm raging outside foreshadows the unfriendly environment he is about to enter and the chaotic events that he is going to witness through Nellie's story telling. When Nelly begins ...
- 18272: Of Mice and Men: The Feeling Only the Lonely Could Feel
- ... have everything you enjoy crushed by the absence of companionship. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck explores the relationship of loneliness to a human being by his three characters: Crooks, Candy and Curly's wife. These characters are an example of how loneliness can effect a person's life forever. Crooks is one of the loneliness characters in the book and it is because of prejudice that he suffers this exile. The fellow workers on the Ranch cause Crooks not to be a ... was forced to have his best and only friend killed. His friend was a loyal and loving sheepdog that grew up with Candy and had stuck with him through thick and thin. This destroyed Candy's heart and replaced it with an empty pit of loneliness. Candy felt he had no one to live for anymore. This is a horrible tragedy because Candy allowed the lonesomeness to devour his hopes ...
- 18273: Lincoln - The Truth
- ... that the United States had. He was not perfect, and he was not always truthful, but his few departures from the straight and narrow path of rectitude came during a war in which the nation's very existence as a united nation was at stake. And, "on those occasions he had to rise above both principle and the Constitution in pursuing what he regarded as the nation's interest." While some of the presidents that followed may have also done some of the same things he did on different occasions, none of these instances was the existence of the nation in anywhere near ... look bad on the acting president, none of the corruption on these financial matters ever pointed to Lincoln. This loss of money, was more the cause of confusion and waste than dishonesty on the president's part. One early scandal fell upon General John Frémont. The people working for him managed to obtain big army contracts without looking for the lowest bidder like is required by law. The required items ...
- 18274: Agamemnon
- ... justice and revenge. The story takes place in a city called Argos. It starts with Agamemnon, the king of Argos, away at the Trojan War. The city is eagerly awaiting the news of their king’s welfare and the outcome of the war. Watchmen are posted in the city, watching for the beacon that would report the capture of Troy and Agamemnon’s return. Beacons are set up from Troy to Argos; when one beacon is lit, the next one will be lit, until the last. The play starts when a palace watchman discovers the beacon and tells Agamemnon’s wife, Clytemnestra, the good news. The chorus enters relating the story of Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus. When Menelaus’ wife, Helen, ran away to Troy with Paris, the prince of Troy, Menelaus gathered an ...
- 18275: Julius Caesar: Addaddination
- ... Yet having survived brutal battles on foreign soil, he died of murder- by Romans in Rome. Why was one of the greatest soldiers in all history, a man who, more than any other, personified Rome s rise to glory, brutally stabbed to death? Beneath the persuasive allure of his charm, lay an insatiable hunger for power. Although he was strong and clever enough to wield that power, his tragic flaw, an unbearable arrogance, brought him to a tragic end. It was Caesar s overwhelming ambition and arrogant personality that resulted from his success, that made his assassination inevitable. Caesar was a fortunate man; he had lived in a great city, seen much of the western world, loved a foreign queen and accumulated enormous wealth. In a world where most rarely left their villages and were always under the shadow of debt, famine, and conquest, Gaius Julius Caesar was privileged. Throughout Caesar s life, he effectively displayed great political and military skill and an undeniable ability to use propaganda to promote himself. Despite his overconfidence and great abilities, he was blind to any threats posed by the ...
- 18276: Creative Writing: Sir. Baldric and The Evil Threshmit
- ... with the news from King Crenshaw. Suddenly from the dark of the night came Threshmite, the great enemy of man. The description of the beast given by the churl , who stood witness to Sir Morgan's dismemberment, was that of a giant, man eating firs snorting, three headed savage warthog gargoyle. As the lightening flashed, and the thunder clapped, the it reared it's center head up, and gave a fell glare into the eyes of the helpless peasant, who was frozen in a horrified Position. It took nearly five hours, and the help of the resident magician to ... Lenson grieved deeply over his departed friend. He then asked for volunteers to hunt down the scatheful beast. The reaction to his request was pathetic, not a man stood. It seemed as though King Lenson's valiant knights were nothing more than a flock of recreants. At last Sir. Baldric stepped forward, he had risen to the occasion, proving true to his troth. He was truly a stalwart knight. Early ...
- 18277: Isaac Newton
- ... and the new natural philosophy that treated nature as a complicated machine. Almost immediately, still under the age of 25, he made fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in his career science. The Fluxional Method, Newton's first achievement was in mathematics. He generalized the methods that were being used to draw tangents to curves and to calculate the area swept by curves. He recognized that the two procedures were inverse operations ... developed in 1666 a kind of mathematics that is known as calculus. Calculus was a new and powerful method that carried modern mathematics above the level of Greek geometry. Optics was another area of Newton's early interests. In trying to explain how colors occur, he arrived at the idea that sunlight is a heterogeneous blend of different colors of which represents a different color. And that reflections, and refraction's cause colors to appear by separating the blend into its components. Newton demonstrated his theory of colors by passing a beam of sunlight through a type of prism, which split the beam into separate ...
- 18278: Personal Writing: Fickle Fisherman
- ... to the lake at about 6:30 and started to fish. As the day progressed more and more people showed up. Before noon there was no place to sit around the lake and people couldn't fish. Lines were being crossed and people were getting kind of mad. Beside me was an old, hardened looking man who I just ignored. Then finially i had a bite! I looked at the line ... i could. I fought the fish for 5 or 10 min and netted it up. Not a bad catch, it was only a catfish but it was fair sized.But the guy beside me didn't seem to think so he looked at it and gave a little laugh and kept on fishing. I really didn't know what to think, was he laughing at something i didn't see or was there something wrong with my fish? I just disregarded it and continued fishing. Then as i was getting bored ...
- 18279: Summary of Burk's "Runs With Horses"
- Summary of Burk's "Runs With Horses" Brian Burks has also written classic westerns for adults. This was his first book for young adults. He lives in Tularosa, New Mexico with his wife and five children. This book takes ...
- 18280: Symbolism in Hopkin's "The Windhover"
- Symbolism in Hopkin's "The Windhover" The windhover takes its' name from its ability to hover steady over one spot in the face of the wind. The subject of the poem is the poets admiration for a balance acheived ...
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