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- 20361: Round Characters In Romeo And
- ... how boring life would be if all humans only demonstrated one personality trait. In literature, characters are made more interesting by being developed as round characters, people with more that one personality trait. In Shakespeare s play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo demonstrates being lovesick, impulsive, and sneaky. One of the personality traits that Romeo demonstrates in the play is being lovesick. First, when Romeo falls in love with Rosaline, she does ... up his windows, locks fair daylight out,/ And makes himself an artificial night (Act One, scene two, lines 137 to 139). Romeo gets over Rosaline when he sees Juliet at the ball at Lord Capulet s house. Obviously, Romeo s inability to find true love forces him to become lovesick. Another personality trait that Romeo demonstrates in the play is being impulsive. One of the parts where this personality trait is shown is in ...
- 20362: Scarlet Letter
- ... this; he meant well by concealing his secret relationship with Hester, however, keeping it bound up was deteriorating his health. Over the course of the book this fact is made to stand out by Dimmesdale s changing appearance. Over the course of the novel Dimmesdale becomes more pale, and emaciated. Hester prevents herself from suffer the same fate. She is open about her sin but stays loyal to her lover by ... Pearl. Hester matures in the book; becomes a stronger character. The fact that revenge destroys both the victim and the seeker is another theme presented in the Scarlet Letter. Dimmesdale is the victim of Chillingworth s revenge upon Hester and whoever her lover happened to be. Dimmesdale, beside his self-inflicted harm was also not helped by the fact Chillingworth enjoyed watching him waste away. However, Chillingworth is also subject to ... responsibility for our actions or suffer the consequences come with them. Hester is the prime example for this here because she was smart and freed herself of this great weight quickly so that it wouldn t drag her down. This theme was not as applicable to Dimmesdale, however, who decided to hide his wrongful actions and was bearing this secret upon his heart and mind at all times. Dimmesdale did ...
- 20363: Scarlet Letter 4
- A critic, Edward Wagenknecht explains that the scarlet letter upon Hester's breast in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter "had not done its office." This means that the actions of the magistrates punishing Hester for her sin is like usurping God's power, and the scarlet letter keeps Hester from living a miserable, guilty life such as the one led by Dimmesdale. Hester openly shows her scarlet letter and the sin she commits and as a ...
- 20364: Walt Whitman
- Walt Whitman Walt Whitman wasn't a very big fan of war. He thought everything about it was negative. We can see this in his poetry. In Beat! Beat! Drums!, he expresses his feelings toward war using symbolism. The drums and ... effects it has on the world. The drums and the bugles are always interrupting things. This is seen clearly in the first stanza. The drums and bugles are interrupting the church and the farmer can't be peaceful. Whitman continues this symbolism throughout the rest of the poem. Whitman also speaks of how he doesn't like the war in other poems of his. He does this in The Wound-Dresser. He speaks of the war as his strangest days. They were long days of sweat and dust. The reader ...
- 20365: Secret Identity
- ... business man in any bustling city of commerce. With his suit, briefcase, and cellular phone, he can not blend in more. But who am I kidding? Underneath that tailored suit lies another with a big S on his chest. Who knew that this mild-mannered reporter is faster than a speeding bullet and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? They call him The Man of Steel . He is Superman. He can fly, has x-ray vision, heat ray vision, and bullets bounce right off him. You don t get any more unique than the man in the red and blue. So then who is Clark Kent? Where does he fit in? He s the secret-identity of the Man of Steel. What of his true identity? That identity which is known for his courage. His nobility. His pursuit for justice and his never-ending battle against evil. ...
- 20366: Sir Issac Newton
- ... of the inventors of the branch of mathematics called Calculus. He also solved the mysteries of light and optics. Formulated the three laws of motions, and derived from them the law of universal gravitation. Newton's birth place was at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Linclonshire. Where he lived with his widowed mother, Until around his third birthday. At this time his mother remarried, leaving him in the care of his Grandmother ... Newton kept his Discovery to himself. However, enough was known of his abilities to effect his appointment in 1669as a Luciasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambbridge. Optics was another area of Newton's early interests. In trying at explain now colors occur, he arrived at the idea that sunlight is a heterogeneous blend of different rays each of, which represents a different color-and that reflections and refraction ... appliquιs, which explained his theories in details. During the following two and a half years, Newton established the modern science of dynamics by formulating his three laws of motion. Newton applied there laws to Kempler's law of orbital motion-formulated by the German astronomer Johannes Kempler-and derived the law of Universal Gravitation. Newton is probably best known for discovering Universal Gravitation, which explains that all bodies in space ...
- 20367: Richard Warren Sears and Sears, Roebuck, & Company
- ... in the Civil War, which he blamed on politicians. He had earned a sizable sum of money working as a blacksmith and a wagonmaker, but he lost it all in a stock-farm venture. Richard's father gave up soon afterwards, leaving Richard to be the family breadwinner at the age of 16. Richard worked in the general offices of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway in Minneapolis to support his ... that year the first of the Sears catalogs that have become so familiar was made. The catalog was the key to the success of Sears. It used simple, direct language that spoke to the nation's farmers. The catolog would claim that the goods featured inside were "the best in the world". The stress of this rapidly growing business was too much for Alvah Roebuck. Richard Sears would take several financial ... growing family were all he needed to drive him to keep building his company. Soon after the departure of Roebuck, Sears sold seven hundred shares of his company. Julius Rosenwald, a successful merchant of men's suits who had done business with Sears in the past, and Aaron Nausbaum, who had been in business selling pneumatic tube systems, each purchased 350 shares. Sears would later sell 150 more shares of ...
- 20368: Sense And Sensibility
- ... situation has marked Austen as an astute observer of human nature. This is highly evident in her treatment of the complex relationship between sense and sensibility in her novel of the same name. Jane Austen s Sense and sensibility contrasts two sisters: Marianne, who, with her doctrines of love at first sight and enthusiastic emotions openly expressed, represents sensibility , and Elinor, who has much more "sense", but is still not immune ... old Marianne is governed by her feelings, not by reason, unlike Elinor. Passionate in her opinions and certain of their morality, Marianne lacks prudence and relies on instinct, typical values of the Romantic Movement. Elinor s sense, on the other hand, reflects the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which had advocated a commitment to reason and considered and other source of conviction irrational. Marianne, says of love, "To love is to burn ... lacking: "I saw ... nothing but a series of imprudence towards myself and want of kindness to others. I saw that my own feelings had prepared my sufferings." Acknowledging her errors, Marianne decides to imitate Elinor's reserve and self-discipline. Whereas Marianne is driven by sensibility, Elinor is governed by " sense", by reasoned perception and independence, evident in her tact and attentiveness. Her response to Robert Ferrar's idiotic jabber ...
- 20369: Pierre Elliot Trudeau
- ... clerical and communist visions he obtained while in his adolescent years. However, as the nationalist movement gained momentum against the Provincial government, Trudeau came to the startling realization that Provincial autonomy would not solidify Quebec's future in the country (he believed that separatism would soon follow) and unless Duplessis could successfully negotiate (on the issue of a constitution) with the rest of Canada, the prospect of self-sovereignty for Quebec ... first essay (Quebec and the Constitutional Problem) explores the trials and tribulations which occurred between the Provincial and Federal governments during the ensuing constitutional problems in Canada. Trudeau candidly lambastes and ridicules the Federal Government's inability to recognize the economic and linguistic differences in Quebec. He defends the province by stating that "The language provisions of the British North American Act are very limited" and therefore believes that they continue ... Ideology. The emphasis he places on equality and individualism is a testimonial to his character and integrity as a politician. The next essay (The Practice and Theory of Federalism) is the opening composition for Trudeau's firm stance on Federalism and how it can be applied to the current Executive system of administration already in turmoil with its dominion. "Federalism is by its very essence a compromise and a pact" ...
- 20370: Shakespearean Tragic Heros
- The name tragic hero , which has become synonymous with Shakespearean dramas, was developed before Hamlet, Macbeth or any of Shakespeare s well-known plays were written. The literary term was actually discovered around 330 BC by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Through his theory of catharsis, Aristotle debated that the great plays of Sophicles, Euripides, and ... flaw, or harmartia, they all were from a noble class, with very human personalities, and they all face their tragedy with dignity. It is not until the late 1500s that Shakespeare began to utilize Aristotle s observations in the production of his many tragedies (Desjardens). Probably the most important characteristic of a Shakespearean tragic hero is that one must posses a tragic flaw, because without the flaw, there would never be a downfall. The ultimate flaw varies from one play to another, King Lear s flaw is that of arrogance while Macbeth s it one of ambition. Some characters may be guilty of harboring many flaws, like Othello. Among Othello s wrongs are gullibility and stupidity. In either case, ...
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