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- 21111: Analysis Of -guests Fo The She
- ... constant interaction, both sides began to recognize some benefits each culture possessed. It takes time, immersed in a particular community to understand the cultural ethos and eventually the community as a whole. Through Elizabeth Fernea s ethnography on Iraq s El Nahra village, we learn that all cultures have unique and equally important aspects. In El Nahra, for example, the cultural ethos is family honor. All actions in the community are based on the strong ... majority, predetermined. This practice in America would be seriously questioned and generally disregarded, based on the cultural ethos of individualism. Americans put a large emphasis on courting their own spouse. However, based on El Nahra s cultural ethos of family honor, the people trusted their family to make quality decisions for them. Obviously, from an American perspective, women s freedom of choice in this aspect of El Nahran culture is ...
- 21112: Should Surrogate Motherhood be Permitted?
- ... or lawyers and may be found through listings in telephone books. Commercial surrogate agencies typically charge a fee of $10,000 or more to make the arrangements, which is in addition to the surrogate mother's expenses and fees. These agencies are not legal in all states. Most commercial surrogacies are handled through a contract between the prospective parents and the surrogate mother. The contracting couple agrees to pay the surrogate mother's expenses during the pregnancy and delivery plus a fee for the surrogates's services. The fee can vary between $10,000 and $100,000 per pregnancy. The surrogate mother also agrees to terminate her parental rights to the infant and turn it over to the contracting couple ...
- 21113: Ancient Mariner
- ... not speak" - is performed by Nature. Nature shows us more strength as we realize that people of today often can not forgive someone who has shot or killed another person. At a spiritual level, Nature's power can decide if we will live, or be condemned. Nature is capable of presenting "innermost suffering" (Coburn 33) upon people. The mariner's suffering included having his "soul in agony" soon afterwards. After attempts at prayer and realization of what he has done - "I looked to heaven and tried to pray", his penance to forgiveness begins spiritually. The mariner releases the weight of the crime greatly at the "moment he could pray". "The albatross around the mariner's neck was an emblem of an inner state" (Fraser 204), as it "fell off and sank", the mariner was forgiven. Guilt follows many of us throughout our lives today as we do brash things ...
- 21114: Nat Turner
- ... armory at Jerusalem, the county seat. While en route, he planned to gather a number of slaves, and then proceed to the Dismal Swamp. Turner decided that it would be difficult to be apprehended. Turner’s rebellion started with seven fellow slaves whom he trusted greatly. Travis and his family were murdered in their sleep, and Turner marched to the county seat. After only the first two days of the rebellion ... 60 whites had been brutally murdered. On October 24th, an armed militia and local forces totaling over 3000 men cam to challenge Turner and the 75 slaves that supported his efforts. This force encountered Turner’s force a few miles outside of Jerusalem. Most of Turner’s force was killed or captured, however, many other innocent slaves and free blacks were killed in the confusion that followed. While Turner’s rebellion was put down on the 24th, Turner himself was able ...
- 21115: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Boston for work in which there would be none. Defeated he enlisted in the Army and soon regret the decision. Once out he would again try a military career, he was accepted to the U.S Military Academy. (Encyclopedia Britannica) This time he immediately regretting the decision. After his expulsion he entered a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. His story “MS. Found in a Bottle” “was considered to be the one of the world’s first science fiction stories, he won both the $50 prize and acclaim for its 24-year-old author.” (Internet source) He would then work at several different editorials, none of which really worked out for ... concentrate on “Ulalume” to express his mourn. He would try to remarry on two different occasions the first was ruined by rumor the second by his drinking habit. How his habits effected his writing? Poe’s writing would be greatly influenced by the habits. The greatest of these that would eventually end his life would be his love for the drink. This would cost him many opportunities in life where ...
- 21116: Thomas Hobbes
- ... like people in that they are selfishly motivated, and that every country was in constant battle for power and wealth. He wanted people to stop fighting and relinquish control to a single ruler. Hobbes idea's weren't just about government, though. He was one of the strongest opponents to the idea of spirituality. He believed in materialism - that everything that happens is a result of the physical world, and that the soul does not exist. According to Hobbes, nature is made up of material matter - there is nothing spiritual or magical about it. Hobbes didn't like the idea of spirit in the mind, because he felt it led people to cause trouble by claiming they were directly in contact with God. In fact, during Thomas Hobbes' life, people often ...
- 21117: Columbus
- ... early as 1484 Columbus got a plan to sail west from the Canary Islands to the Indies (now East Indies) and the island kingdom of Cipangu (modern day Japan). When King John II declined Columbus’s “Enterprises to the Indies” he decided to go to the Spanish monarch. Columbus traveled to Cordoba, in 1488 he and his mistress had another son. Columbus presented his plan to King Ferdinan and Queen Isabella two different times but both times a counsel of experts rejected his project. Columbus’s ideas were made fun of by many in the court. However he received support from other powerful people, for example “Luis de Santagel”, “chancellor of the royal household of Aragon and prior Juan Prez (the Queen’s confessor). As a result of this Queen Isabella approved to Columbus’s project. Columbus’s first was to find a short voyage to the Indies by sailing west, and the second goal was to ...
- 21118: Allegory
- Allegory ALLEGORY, pronounced AL uh gawr ee, is a story with more than one meaning. Most allegories have moral or religious meanings. Famous allegories include the fables attributed to Aesop, an ancient Greek writer. Aesop's fables seem to describe the adventures of animals and human beings. But the author actually wanted to teach his readers something about human nature. One of Aesop's best-known fables is "The Fox and the Grapes." On its surface, or its literal level of meaning, the story tells of a fox who wants a bunch of grapes hanging above his head. The ... the things they cannot have are not worth having. Allegories had their greatest popularity during medieval and Renaissance times in Europe. The Divine Comedy, written by the Italian author Dante Alighieri in the early 1300's, literally tells of a man's journey to heaven through hell and purgatory. Allegorically, the poem describes a Christian soul rising from a state of sin to a state of blessedness. Other allegories include ...
- 21119: Oedipus Rex
- ... virtue and justice, and yet on the other hand does not fall into misfortune through vice or depravity, but falls because of some mistake; one among the number of the highly renowned and prosperous.” Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero is clearly shown by the main character in the Greek tragedy Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Oedipus, the protagonist in this Greek tragedy, is exemplary of Aristotle’s idea of a “tragic hero.” In Oedipus the King, Oedipus, the main character is a great man who saves the city of Thebes from the plague of the Sphinx by answering an extremely difficult riddle ... Everything is going for him. He becomes the king and marries the widowed Queen of the land. However, as the plot unfolds, Oedipus begins to show the signs of being a “tragic hero” by Aristotle’s definition. Aristotle says that a tragic hero is a person, usually the main character, who starts out as a great and noble individual. Oedipus is not an evil man but a good, upright, man ...
- 21120: Oliver North
- In October and November 1986, two secret illegal U.S. Government operations were publicly exposed. In addition to naming other people as illegal operatives, the scapegoat of it all was Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North. Only months before he was being heraled in the New York Times as "President Reagan's Man of Action", and now North was being handed the blame of all guilty of illegally negotiating deals with Iran and Nicaragua. As the Iran-Contra Scandal was led into the national spotlight, so was ... Third Division from December 3, 1968 to August 21, 1969. During his service, North led many covert operations, and was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts. He was a "marine's marine", and was a one-of-a-kind leader. While in Vietnam, he was assigned to counterinsurgency operations in which he met General Singlaub and General Secord, then lieutenant colonels. After coming back from ...
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