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- 19261: Is There Such A Thing As The American Dream?
- ... The American Dream? People always ask me, how can a patriotic Bahamian be so much into American history? I find Americans fascinating, actually, and I will not say to much in case I hurt anyone's feelings, but I find the United States to be a strange, self-destructive nation, clinging to long ago exploits while decrying their current situation. In my eight grade history textbook (yes, we studied you Americans ... in the stomach. When people come to America searching for the dream, everyone is given a chance to succeed; however, it is extremely rare to exceed the social barriers. Although this may seem pessimistic, one's surrounding often molds their character and their incentive to succeed. The Great Gatasby for example written during the Depression shows that if a person were to grow up in a poverty-stricken area for all ... how safe are the citizens? The truth of the matter is an interesting paradox: these flaws that allow criminals to go free are simultaneously attributes to the justice system which protect the rights of America's people. This makes justice an honorable system, which attacks the freedoms and rights of this country. Each person is guaranteed a fair trial, and if someone believes their trial was unfair under any circumstances ...
- 19262: The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven
- The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven The rise of Ludwig van Beethoven into the ranks of history's greatest composers was paralleled by and in some ways a consequence of his own personal tragedy and despair. Beginning in the late 1790's, the increasing buzzing and humming in his ears sent Beethoven into a panic, searching for a cure from doctor to doctor. By October 1802 he had written the Heiligenstadt Testament confessing the certainty of his ... of the high-Classic style, his increasing deafness landed him in a major cycle of depression, from which was to emerge his heroic period as exemplified in Symphony No. 3, op. 55 ("Eroica"). In Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament of October 1802, he reveals his malaise that was sending him to the edge of despair. He speaks of suicide in the same breath as a reluctance to die, expressing his helplessness ...
- 19263: Ethan Frome --- Contrast Betwe
- ... Ethan Frome , the movie has sought to capture the haunting tragedy as it was portrayed in the novel by its author, Edith Wharton. The movie starts with the introduction of the equivalent of the novel s narrator, now a pastor instead of an engineer. The reason for this change in roles is perhaps for the narrator to have a better reason for judging the people of Starkfield in the way they ... Frome household in the middle of nowhere, with no houses nearby, in the middle of winter. This, with the addition of appropriate music, creates a bleak atmosphere, and there is no doubt in the audience s mind of an impending sense of gloom and tragedy. The darkness of the house amongst the pure white of the snow is a symbol of the darkness within the house. It shows that the people ... The poverty of the Fromes is also evident as the Frome house is shown to be old and worn. Just as it is described in the novel, viewers are treated to a sight of Frome s house as one of those New England farm-houses that make the landscape lonelier . The movie shows how Zeena took care of Ethan s mother. It portrays the young Zeena as a capable young ...
- 19264: The Significance of Food in "Like Water for Chocolate"
- ... and excitement, two subjects into which this story pursues. Sex, food and magic are mixed in sparingly in the story, which revolves about Tita, third daughter of a Elena. The time is the early 1900's and the Mexican Revolution is raging, but in the kitchen of the family ranch, the emphasis is on cooking. The family servant, Nacha, Tita's surrogate mother, teaches the her secrets and makes her the next in an ancient line of great family chefs. From Nacha and her mother Tita learns the art of cooking. While all the food did ... her emotional connection to the food she cooked later in her life a new form of realism. By family tradition, Tita, as the youngest daughter, is fated to care for her mother till her mother's death. She cannot marry, cannot have children. And yet she falls in love with Pedro who, when he is refused Tita's hand, marries her sister Rosaura instead. Tita was ordered to prepare her ...
- 19265: ... the great detail used in the Shakespearean plays of Venice, and other European locations.(Sobran 45) The sonnets have never been able to fit into Shakespears life, On the other hand they fit into DeVere's life well. (Sobran 45) There are facts that lean both ways in this age old mystery of authorship, Though the Strafordian man does not fit into the story very well, He may have some advantages ...
- 19266: Satanism
- ... of a crisis of faith badly resolved, and by hypothetically supposing that the principal reason for this crisis is tied to the inability to accept the experience of physical evil and to live serenely one's own relationship with those moral norms showing the characteristic steps of the Christian path towards God. Unfortunately, this is a recurring situation which, fortunately does not generally result in involvement with satanic practices, but which ... well as being the source of those ethical norms which are seen to lead to so much discomfort. A third possibility can take the form of believing as one pleases in a god of one's own making, forged for personal use and consumption, in order to consent to one's wishes and to forbid only what one willingly allows to be forbidden, a god with whom one can speak if desired, as desired and when desired. In any case this is not the God ...
- 19267: Ethan Frome
- ... has many complex problems going on at the same time. His family has died and he has a wife that is continually sick, and the only form of happiness he has is from his wife's cousin Mattie. This, however, at times, proves to be hard because of his wife s interference. Nothing seems to be going in Ethan's favor. The main theme of the book is failure, and this is shown through marrying his wife, not being able to stand up to his wife, and his involvement concerning the "smash up." The ...
- 19268: Banded Iron Formations And The
- ... 3800-2500 mya) 3.Proterozoic 2500-570 mya. The present atmosphere is greatly depleted in Ne, Xe and Kr which are inert gases that should be preserved in the atmosphere. This suggests that the earth s initial atmosphere was lost early on either by boiling away during the magma ocean event or by being carried away by intense solar wind in the early solar system. At the end of the Hadean ... greenstone belts ca 2800 mya) and is a common sediment type formed until approximately 1800 mya. Although some younger formations with similar structure can be found there is great distinctions between them and the BIF s of the Precambrian. The BIF s can occur in sequences which range from 15 ferric iron. Some people believe the iron to be of volcanic origin, weathered and transported into the oceans or exhaled from fumeroles Relation to the atmosphere ...
- 19269: Computers That Mimic The Human Mind
- ... speech recognition software products have become mainstream(Lyons,176). All of the ways that humans gain information are mimicked by computers. Humans then proceed to analyze and store the information accordingly. This is a computers main function in todays society. Humans then take all of this information and solve problems logically. This is where things get complex. There are expert systems that can solve complex problems that humans train their whole lives for. In 1997, IBMs Deep Blue defeated the world champion in a game of chess(Karlgaard, p43). Expert systems design buildings, configure airplanes, and diagnose breathing problems. NASAs Deep Space One probe left with software that lets ...
- 19270: Civil War-54th Massachusettes
- ... Arms!" Training began as soon as recruits began arriving and continued until the regiment sailed to its first post. On May 12, the 54th reached its full number of 1,000 soldiers. At Colonel Shaw's insistence his men were issued light blue infantry uniforms instead of the darker blue worn by blacks doing support labor for the army. On May 18, Shaw's regiment received a request from General David Hunter, commander of the Department of the South, for their regiment to proceed to Beaufort, South Carolina. On May 28 the regiment marched from Readville through Boston and down to the harbor. Their procession through Boston passed Shaw's family home and the Boston State House amid crowds lining the streets. 1863 June On June 3 one of the companies sailed to Hilton Head, South Carolina. On June 10 some of the 54th ...
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