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- 21551: All Quiet On The Western Front
- All Quiet On The Western Front "Good literature substitutes for an experience that we have not ourselves lived through" This quote simply means that a well written book can spark someone’s imagination so much, that they are able to live through events which they in reality have not. They become so in touch with the books characters and story, that they can have a greater appreciation of the major themes of the book. I agree with the quote. This idea applies very well to Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front. In this novel, the author uses excellent imagery and descriptive writing to portray the lives of several German school mates who are eventually destroyed by World War I. Ramarque's purpose in writing this book was to display the hidden costs of war. The physical aspects of death and wounds did not begin to show the mental anguish that the soldiers experienced during and ...
- 21552: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: One and the Same
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: One and the Same Walt Whitman asks himself and the reader of the poem, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," what significance a person's life holds in the scope of densely populated planet. The poem explores the difficulties of discovering the relevance of life. The methods that helped Whitman grasp his own idea of the importance of life are ... similar accomplishments. The suggestion that Whitman offers as a means of becoming distinguished, or obtaining an identity, is to live a life of self-satisfaction. The persuasive devices in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" successfully communicate Whitman's own theory of breaking the molds of society by living as a self-satisfying individual. What makes one person's life different from the next? Whitman leaves the apprehension that the distinguishing characteristics are few. Whitman informs the audience that he has lead the same life as they, who lead the same life as ...
- 21553: Alternative Energy Sources
- Alternative Energy Sources In the not-too-distant future -- with regard to history's timeline -- there will come a point when fossil fuels will have been depleted and humans will be forced to find alternative sources with which to power automobiles, household heating units and myriad other machinery that ... also those that reduce and often eliminate pollution -- have been in the works for several years. It is imperative that these alternatives be implemented long before the current supply is depleted. Without question, the world's energy demand has increased due directly to the fact that the population continues to rise. What this translates to in correlating statistics is that energy demands throughout the past half century have tripled, the global economy has quintupled and the world population increased twofold (Anonymous em_txt4.html). Richard Cromwell, general manager of SunLine Transit Agency in Southern California's Coachella Valley, is a firsthand proponent of alternative fueling. Having to smell the awful odor emitted day after day from his fleet of forty-seven buses, Cromwell (Silverstein 10) encourages the changeover. Phil Bostley, ...
- 21554: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- ... in becoming Edward Hyde. Dr. Henry Jekyll is a physician in London. He is very well respected and is currently experimenting the dual nature of man kind. Edward Hyde is a manifestation of Dr. Jekyll's personality. He is accused of committing evil acts throughout the novel. The first scene consists of Mr. Richard Enfield's and Mr. Utterson walking along a street in London. Mr. Enfield has a recollection of a previous incident in which he witnessed an extremely unpleasant man trampling upon a small screaming girl while this man ... with this is the fact that he drank this potion so many times, he was no longer able to control this process. He was unable to transform back into Dr. Jekyll. Another example of Hyde's evil is in the killing of Sir Danvers Carew. Sir Danvers appears to have been killed for no apparent reason. The murder of Sir Danvers was seen by a maid who was working nearby. ...
- 21555: Allegorical “Young Goodman Brown”
- Allegorical “Young Goodman Brown” An allegory is a narrative in which the characters and objects personify deeper meanings than what the reader can see on the surface. The allegorical meaning is the writer’s real purpose in writing the narrative so that a lesson can be found when reading below the surface. “Young Goodman Brown”, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a perfect example of an allegorical story and is ... his wife Faith are clear symbolic elements. Goodman Brown stands for the naïve, immature young man who only sees the good in his fellowman, and has yet to be confronted with evil. Faith, Goodman Brown’s young wife stands for what Goodman Brown believes in. He sees his wife as all that is good and when he realizes that she too has made a pack with the devil he cries “my faith is gone…There is no good on earth.” This makes Brown a stern, sad and distrustful man. I think Hawthorne was saying that when man’s faith is gone he is lost and without purpose. There are many objects in “Young Goodman Brown”, that have dual meaning such as the pink ribbons Faith wore upon her hat, the staff offered ...
- 21556: The Invisible Man
- The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man shows the conflict or struggle of one man versus an entire society. The most important section of this novel is that in which the narrator joins “the Brotherhood”, an organization designed to ... the first people he meets is Brother Tarp, a veteran worker in the Harlem district, who gives the narrator the chain link he broke nineteen years earlier, while freeing himself from being imprisoned. Brother Tarp's imprisonment was for standing up to a white man. He was punished for his defiance and attempt to assert his individuality. Imprisonment made him similar to the invisible man: he lost part of his identity, However, he regained it by escaping and making a name for himself in the Brotherhood. The chain becomes a symbol between the narrator and Brother Tarp because the chain also symbolizes the narrator's experience in college, where he was restricted to living up to Dr. Bledsoe's rules. He feels that he too escaped, in order to establish himself again .The narrator identifies with Brother Tarp because ...
- 21557: Church and State
- ... Oddly, it is commonly accepted that all living things are the product of evolution, that evolution is taking place today, and that evolution will continue to shape the destiny of life in the future. Darwin's theory of evolution, based upon the idea of natural selection, set off a bitter controversy among scientists, religious leaders, and the general public. Noted British scientists such as Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace supported Darwin's work, and many different groups eventually accepted the theory of evolution. After Darwin's idea of the origin and development of life became well known, others used the concept of evolution for developing theories about society. A number of new philosophies began to emerge based on the Darwinian ...
- 21558: The Lost Trees
- The Lost Trees The double shame in man's war against man is the residual effect on nature; an innocent , helpless bystander. The sense of potential devastation is the prevailing tone throughout the poem, "Gathered by the River," by Denise Levertov. The spoliation caused ... to years of recovery required to reinstate the slow-growing trees. When Levertov notes, "the trees are not indifferent" (l 13), she is saying that nature has a huge stake in the outcome of man's tendency towards self- destruction. "[I]f our resolves and prayers are weak and fail / there will be nothing left of their slow and innocent wisdom" (ll 49-50), demonstrates the trees' awareness of how lengthy ... have long-range effects on the course of nature. For example, we now know how the destruction of the rain forest in South America is affecting the percentage of oxygen available around the globe. Man's wholesale destruction of these areas for financial gain, despite the negative results, is a study of the nature of man's inhumanity to man. Do we not all breathe, even those who fell the ...
- 21559: American Push For Independence
- ... their laps. The Virginia model of Independence grew out of this original plan of settlement. Economic status became very important after the colony found its savior in Tobacco. The crop was the answer to everyone s prayers. The high tobacco prices in England brought prosperity to the colonists. The Virginia way was started and thrived on this cash crop. The second biggest influence to the Virginia idea of independence was introduced ... I stayed till dinner was ready .I stayed there a little time and then went to take a walk about the plantation to examine what the rest had done and was contented with the overseer s management .I said my prayers and had good health, good thoughts, and good humor, thank God Almighty. This passage is a perfect example of what a Virginian would want in independence. To live a life ... He worked and got back what he needed to be independent. The New Englander saw independence as living a comfortable Godly life from his own land, not taking excess, and not being dependent on other s goods or services to survive. As time progressed the New England idea of independence had changed somewhat. After a few generations, the religious theme that was so central gave way to the freeholder/yeomen ...
- 21560: Witches
- ... first person that was executed, as a witch, in America was Margaret Jones, in 1648. Jones was a midwife and lay healer, who was accused of several different practices. Minister John Hale, who witnessed Jones's hanging in Boston when he was a boy, later said that she "was suspected partly because that after some angry words passing between her and her Neighbors, some mischief befell such neighbors in their Creatures ... things which she foretold came to pass accordingly; other things she could tell of ... she had no ordinary means to come to the knowledge of."(P.20) John Hale pointed out that several of Jones's neighbors tried to get her to confess and repent. One of them, he said, "prayed her to consider if God did not bring this punishment upon her for some other crime, and asked, if she had not been guilty of stealing many years ago." (P.22)Jones admitted the theft, but she refused to accept it as a reason for her conviction as a witch. Hale's writings, on the other hand, showed that stealing, and other crimes such as fornication and infanticide, were regularly associated with witchcraft, by both the clergy and the larger population . . . " (p. 22) This first account, ...
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