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- 19471: Great Gatsby
- Gatsby's Pursuit of the American Dream The Great Gatsby, a novel by Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its illusionary goals. The attempt to capture the ... to the American Dream in the 1920s, a time period when the dream had been corrupted by the avaricious pursuit of wealth. The pursuit of the American Dream is the sublime motivation for accomplishing one's goals and producing achievements, however when tainted with wealth the dream becomes devoid and hollow. Jay Gatsby, the central figure of the story, is one character who longs for the past. Surprisingly, he devotes most ... Nick Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know…if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over (p83)." Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want. Later, as we see in the Plaza Hotel, Jay still believes that Daisy loves him. He is ...
- 19472: Roman Pantomime
- ... that the nature of the art is in most cases, directly related to its origins. Once the nature of the art has been established, one will clearly see the connection between the latter and it’s origins. The term pantomime, which was, introduced by the Italian Greeks referrs to the actor. The mimer of everything. The pantomime was considered a solo performer who wore a mask, and expressed himself through dance ... called pantomimes ‘manual philosophers.’ Futher evidence of the versatility of the pantomime in showing emotion and character can be seen in the words of Timocrates: I know not what truth there may be in Plato’s analysis of the soul into the three elements of spirit, appetite and reason: but each of the three is admirably illustrated by the pantomime; he shows us the angry man, he shows us the lover ... items throughout the performance. An example of the extrordinary versitlity of the pantomime is given by Suetonius: “As pantomimes, when they dance clad in their mantles, with one and the same mantle represent a swan’s tail, the tresses of Venus, a Fury’s scourge…” Pantomime was a very unique type of performance in that it served a double purpose. Unlike some types of drama that served to be a ...
- 19473: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... Anslinger said that this "evil weed" led to killings, sex crimes and insanity. How can two such highly respected experts have such night and day outlooks on the same thing? While Anslinger presided as America's leading anti-drug official his McCarthyish hunt down of Marijuana users led to the downfall of many well respected Americans. During the 1900's the United Stated has committed itself to and unprecedented war on marijuana that is costly, unjustified and impossible to win. The topic of Marijuana is quite broad. It encompasses history, legislation, and the benefits as ... used for rope and to construct material similar to linen. Early in the Christian Era, Marijuana reached the Mediterranean countries of Europe. Its cultivation spread through the rest of Europe during the Middle ages. Hemp's progression to Africa can easily be marked through the Middle East where it remains a major cash crop. It is unknown how the plant found its way to the America's. One of the ...
- 19474: Francisco Franco
- ... the Spanish political party, into an official political party at the service of his government. Tens of thousands of executions during the war and in the years immediately following it guaranteed the stability of Franco s authoritarian regime. Franco kept Spain officially neutral during World War II, but after the Axis defeat he was labeled the last of the Fascist dictators and ostracized by the United Nations. As the Cold War ... the return of Spain to international society. Franco permitted the United States to build air and naval bases in Spain in exchange for economic and military aid. This aid helped bring about industrial expansion. Spain s living standard rose thanks to Franco, but it remained as one of the lowest in Western Europe. Franco s regime became somewhat more liberal during the 1950s and 1960s. It depended for support not on the Falange, renamed the National Movement, but on a range of political families running from those on the ...
- 19475: Galileo
- ... of the natural world. As a youth, Galileo was engaged into mathematics even though his father, Vincenzio, intended for him to become a doctor to support his family off his fortunes. Regardless of his father's opinion, Galileo had no inspiration in the medical field, but was motivated in the field of mathematics where he thought he could improve on the theorems of levers proposed by the Greek mathematician Archimedes. Growing ... how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go (81). While he was in custody, the Inquisition managed to find something to which Galileo would confess. He admitted to having asserted for the earth s motions stronger than he had intended. My error was one of vain ambition, pure ignorance, and inadvertence, he confessed (94). However, Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino, a leading Jesuit theologian, cautioned Galileo against stating that the earth ... or said anything that contradicted it was in for a lot of trouble with the inquisition. As the reader turns the pages of the book, he or she will find illustrations and diagrams of Galileo s work that the authors uses to defend Galileo s ideas against other philosophers. Galileo, on the other hand, had too low of a status to be able to contradict the other philosophers successfully. Unfortunately, ...
- 19476: George Berkeley
- ... notion of a material world in favor of an immaterial world. Berkeley felt that all we really know about an object we learn from our perception of that object. He recognized that in the materialist s view the real object is independent of any perceiver s perception. The pen on my desk would exist, whether or not I was in the room to see it or have a sensory experience of it in some way. Berkeley rejected this idea. He realized ... that knowledge is limited to perception. In this realization, he postulated that everything we know we learned through some sort of sensory perception. He demonstrated that there was a veil of ignorance separating the materialist s real object and the perceived object. For instance, if one could not ever perceive the pen, how could one ever know of its existence? He held that if an object is independent of one ...
- 19477: A Child Called It
- ... and medical abuse created by his mother. The exploitation of alcohol plays an important role in the abuse by the mother and the neglect to see and the courage to intervene the problems by Dave’s father. Dave considered the abuse he endured by his mother, ‘games’. But he always tried to be one small step ahead of her. Like Death From Child Abuse . . . And No One Heard, the outside world does nothing to help out a small child suffering from various forms of abuse. The few people who took notice were David’s teachers and the school nurse. Yet it took them a considerable amount of time to finally build up suspicion and finally report Dave’s problems to the proper authorities. I find the unreported instances observed by the public to be just as substantial a crime as the child abusers themselves. One of the things I enjoyed and always ...
- 19478: Galileo 3
- Galileo Galilei was one of the greatest astronomer and mathematician of the seventeenth century. His support of support of Copernican cosmology against the Church s strong opposition and his development of a telescope and his unorthodox opinions as philosopher of science were the central concerns of his career. He struggled brutally for freedom from the higher authority because of unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation. However, Galileo s science and career did not get him any where farther in his life; he was forced to withdraw his theories before the inquisition, and was sentenced to indefinite imprisonment by the pope and eventually became blind. Life of Galileo is visualized clearly in Bertolt Brecht s the most fascinating novel Galileo. Galileo is one of Brecht s truly brilliant characters, immensely alive complex human. Throughout his life Galileo dedicated himself to science and research and discovered many amazing things; one ...
- 19479: World War 189
- ... get along without resorting to mass destruction. On the naval bases men whose ages ranged from fourteen to eighty-nine were drafted into battle and later sent to the NAASSA for their last good bye’s to their mothers, wives, sisters, kids, grandmothers and girlfriends. President Hogan was also delivered from the war dressed in women’s clothes to conceal his gender. The earth truly became a man’s world, for there was no female species in existence in that land. The women’s arrival to Helrac highlighted the absence of men, but as women often do, they forget about them. Helrac were ...
- 19480: Harriet Tubman 2
- Harriet Tubman, originally named Araminta Ross, was one of 11 children born to slaves Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. She later adopted her mother's first name. Harriet was put to work at the age of five and served as a maid and a children's nurse before becoming a field hand when she was 12. A year later, a white man either her overseer or her master hit her on the head with a heavy weight. The blow left her ... legally a slave, but her master allowed her to live with her husband. However, the death of her master in 1847, followed by the death of his young son and heir in 1849, made Tubman's status uncertain. Amid rumors that the family's slaves would be sold to settle the estate, Tubman fled to the North and freedom. Her husband remained in Maryland. In 1849 Harriet Tubman moved to ...
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