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- 19831: The Pyramids of Egypt
- ... I am older the sight not only amazes, but the craftsmanship that was used to build these wonderful gravestones, fills my mind with sheer perplexity. The pyramids were designed to impress Egyptians with their ruler's godlike strength and to give the ruler eternal life. The Sphinx is a figure having the body of a lion and the head of a man. The three pyramids of Giza are the work of ... many as 100,000 laborers working under conditions of forced servitude and given rations consisting in large part of onions and garlic. The pyramid of Pharaoh Zoser that Imhotep erected at Sakkara was the world's first large stone structure, a tomb copied in stonework from earlier brickwork piles (Peck). In its most common form, a pyramid is a massive stone or brick structure with a square base and four sloping ... probably filled with astonishment. These colossal monuments first started rising from the golden Egyptian sands around 2630 BC. At the time they were the biggest and finest masterpieces ever built; indeed they were the world's largest buildings (Brommer 14). The ruins of thirty-five pyramids still stand near the Nile River in Egypt. Each was built to protect the body of an Egyptian king. The Egyptians thought that man' ...
- 19832: A Picture Of Dorian Gray By Os
- Oscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, makes Basil's life change drastically by having him paint a portrait of Dorian Gray and express too much of himself in it, which, in Wilde's mind, is a troublesome obstacle to circumvent. Wilde believes that the artist should not portray any of himself in his work, so when Basil does this, it is he who creates his own downfall, not ... in it the secret of his soul" (Wilde 23). This is another paradox because he has not only shown the secret of his soul, but the painting eventually comes to show the secret of Dorian's soul also. In the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde explains that "to reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim" (Wilde 17). Basil realizes that he has not concealed ...
- 19833: Billy Budd By Herman Melville
- ... attitude, Billy is transferred to another British ship, the Indomitable. And while he is accepted for his looks and happy personality, “…hardly here [is] he that cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship’s companies of the merchant marine”(14). It is here, on the Indomitable that Billy says good-bye to his rights. It is here, also, that Billy meets John Claggart, the master-at-arms. A man ... books or licentious living but born with him and innate, in short ‘a depravity according to nature’”(38). Here then, is presented a man with a personality and character to contrast and conflict with Billy’s. Sweet, innocent Billy immediately realizes that this man is someone he does not wish to cross and so after seeing Claggart whip another crew-member for neglecting his responsibilities, Billy “resolved that never through remissness ... surprise and concern when ultimately he found himself getting into petty trouble occasionally about such matters as the stowage of his bag…which brought down on him a vague threat from one of [the ship’s corporals]”(31). These small threats and incidents establish the tension between Claggart and Billy, and set the stage for a later confrontation. They also force Billy to search for help. The person he goes ...
- 19834: Changing Attitudes of Ferhat Abbas
- ... to look for these in a peaceful fashion and that the people have to be asked what to do with their country and not to be terrorised to be convinced differently. However in the 1950's we can see a clear change, a turn in his thoughts. He accepts more violent ways in order to gain what he believes in. In order to explain the change in attitudes of Ferhat Abbas ... to Cairo to join the Front de Libération Nationale (F.L.N.), an Algerian organisation committed to revolutionary struggle for independence from France founded in 1954. In 1956 we can see the change in Abbas's attitude. In that year he joins the F.L.N. which was committed towards the similar views as him but believed in different techniques in gaining them. F.L.N. believed that the use of ... French government that the change is really needed and that if they will not allow it the conflict will spark off. These peaceful attempts were a failure. Another important factor was the assassination of Ferhat's brother because it was believed that he was connected with the French in 1955 and this was blamed on French although it was a deed of F.L.N. Many historians argue that Abbas ...
- 19835: The Gothic Novel
- ... for the sentimental character idealized by Ann Radcliffe could not transcend into reality. Although the Gothic novel influenced many of the emerging genres, the Gothic ceased in approximately 1820 with the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The Gothic novel had come full circle, from rebellion to the Age of Reason's order, to its encompassing and incorporation of Reason as derived from terror. The influence of the Gothic novel is felt today in the portrayal of the alluring antagonist, whose evil characteristics appeal to ones sense ... author is removed wholly from the text by the language. As in art, it is the separation from reality that accentuates the value of subjectivity of the text rather than the ambiguities of an author's soul imprinted upon the text. If the author's presence is felt in text, it is only as a shadow. Art is distinct and separate from the reality, and the author. For Summers, the ...
- 19836: The Magnificence Of Autumn
- ... In 1816, he became a licensed druggist, but he never practiced the profession. Keats' first published poems appeared in 1816 in the Examiner, a literary periodical edited by the essayist and poet Leigh Hunt. Keats's first book was Poems by John Keats (1817). His second volume, Endymion (1818), was attacked by two of the most influential critical magazines of the time, the Quarterly Review and Blackwood's Magazine. In 1820 Keats contracted tuberculosis. His book Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems appeared that year. The three title poems, which explore mythical and legendary themes of ancient, medieval, and ... and phrasing. The volume also contains three odes considered among the finest in the English language: "Ode on a Grecian Urn,""Ode on Melancholy," and "Ode to a Nightingale." In late 1820, under his doctor's orders to seek a warm climate, Keats went to Rome, where he died. Some of his best-known poems were published after his death, including "Eve of St. Mark" (1848). Keats's letters, praised ...
- 19837: Roe v. Wade
- Roe v. Wade Many critics of the Roe v Wade resolution dispute that the Supreme Court's decision was mistaken because, as said by Robert Bork, "the right to abort, whatever one thinks of it, is not to be found in the Constitution". Consequently, they say the court did not translate the ... with termination of a pregnancy. Some critics of the decision regarding Roe v Wade feel that the court is, in a sense, legalizing murder. Most refined critics on the other hand believe that the Court's decision on this issue was indeed wrong, but for different reasons. Like Bork, many feel that the Court had no right to interpret the binding piece of our country, the Constitution. Since the word "abortion ... say " It is unlikely that it ever will, because the right to abort, whatever one thinks of it, is not found in the Constitution ". (Pg, 103, Bork) Dworkin, distinguished author of the book titled Life's Dominion, feels differently than the critics described above. He deems that the court does in fact have the right to interpret the Constitution. Dworkin agrees with Justice Blackmun's opinion in this great philosophical ...
- 19838: Christianity Vs. Islam
- ... that brings the news of Jesus' birth.). The message Muhammad received was that there was but one God, not many gods, as most Arabs believed. This God was creator of the world (In Christianity, it's documented in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth), and He would one day judge. Both of these religions share almost the same framework, but they also ... In Christianity this was Adam, who had dominion over all the animals and beasts of the earth. Islam sees humanity as weak and prone to disbelief in God and to disobedience to His will. Humanity's weakness is pride. In the Christian religion it was pride that caused the downfall of man, Eve thought that God had no right to tell them what they could and could not eat after the ... the "five pillars of Islam." Similar to the five pillars, the Ten Commandments are regarded as law in the Christian faith. The Koran, the Islamic "Holy Scripture", relies heavily on Christian traditions. It was Muhammad's contention that Christianity had departed from belief in God's message as revealed in their Scriptures. God had sent many prophets, among them Abraham, who is considered the founder of the faith for Islam, ...
- 19839: The Environmental Protection Agency
- ... and political dilemmas. Our relationship with the environment raises fundamental issues about who we are and what we care about. It challenges a basic belief of industrial society; namely, that mastery of nature is mankind's greatest project. It may force a choice between health and beauty on the one hand and prosperity on the other. It requires us to consider our relationships not only to fellow humans but to plants ... Defense Fund (EDF) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). These had fewer members and relied on grants from foundations for their sustenance. From the outset, their main goal was to influence governmental policy. EPA's purpose is to ensure that: All Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn and work. National efforts to reduce environmental risk are based on the best ... not only guides the deployment of limited agency resources, it also instructs the choice of whom it is most important to coordinate activities with. It implies that those parts of government that share the agency's focus upon the physical condition of cities and towns – the department of Housing and Urban Development; the Department of Transportation; and the other federal, state, and local housing, transportation, industrial development, and urban recreation ...
- 19840: Cloning 7
- ... undercut by cloning? That is, if you can deliberately make any number of copies of an individual, is each one special? How special can clones feel, knowing they were replicated like smile buttons. "We aren't just our genes, we're a whole collection of our experiences," says Albert Jonsen. But the idea, he adds, raises a host of issues, "from the fantastic to the profound." When anesthesia was discovered in ... of frozen embryos sitting in liquid nitrogen storage around the country. "Suppose somebody wanted to advertise cloned embryos by showing pictures of already born children like a product," says Prof. Ruth Macklin, of New York's Albert Einstein College of medicine, who specializes in human reproduction. Splitting an embryo mat seem a great technological leap, but in a world where embryos are already created in test tubes, it's a baby step. The current challenge in reproductive medicine is not to produce more embryos but to identify healthy ones and get them to grow in the womb. Using genetic tests, doctors can now ...
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