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- 22381: Tintern Abbey
- ... a chance to reflect upon his quick paced life by taking a moment to slow down and absorb the beauty of nature that allows one to see into the life of things (line 49). Wordsworth s Tintern Abbey takes you on a series of emotional states by trying to sway readers and himself, that the loss of innocence and intensity over time is compensated by an accumulation of knowledge and insight ... in the Wye had consoled him mid the din of towns and cities (lines 26-27). With tranquil restoration Wordsworth has changed from the state of observing to the state of recalling his unremembered pleasures[s] (31). He had many times returned in spirit to the Wye, to escape the fever of the world (53). These memories have produced emotions beyond his understanding; enlightening him and relieving his frustrations. It is ... the meadows and the woods, and the mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth (102-105) but indeed, in a more composed way. Nature played a major role in this poet s life but it was not all about his physical senses that he took as reality. It was due to the fact that he was a "worshipper of Nature" (152) and he knew that "nature ...
- 22382: Sir Rich Arkwright
- ... in Bolron-le-moors in 1760. Soon afterward he traveled throught the country buying human hair. At that time he had a valuable chemical secret for dying the hair to make wigs out of. Arkwright's hair was commented to be the finest hair in the country. In 1761, Richard Arkwright married Margaret Biggins, and this marriage brought him to an aquaitance with Thomas Highs. Highs was probably one of the ... In 1781, Arkwright began to take action against these people for still using these improvements by suing them for pattent infringement. Unlike what would happen today, only one case was tried against Col. Mordaunt. Mordaunt's defence was that Arkwright had never specified the inventions as required by law, theref making the pattent invalid. Soon after the trial, Arkwright published "The Case." The object of "The Case" was to obtain from ... paper, and Hargrave, who was dead, could not deny or approve of what was written. For those of you who have been wondering all this time about what the water frame exactly is, well, it's not a drenched picture frame. It's really an improvement on a spinning machine called the spinning jenny. The jenny, however, was only able to spin transverse threads. The jenny's inventor, Highs, believed ...
- 22383: Affirmative Action
- ... a generation ago. We should not punish them, but rather treat everyone fairly. We should treat everyone as Americans. As Bakke quotes the Constitution, "...The guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment extend to all persons. It's language is explicit: "No State shall... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." It is settled beyond question that the rights created by the first section of the Fourteenth ... everyone, including our children. Under the affirmative action law, our schools are currently recruiting students according to race and color. According to a critic on affirmative action, "A college board survey, described in Andrew Hacker's Two Nations, in 1992 the average combined SAT score for black students whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." (Rosen, p.3) In effect, the solution by supporters of affirmative action is to lower the school's standards so that they can accept a more diverse group of students. This solution is ridiculous, simply because everyone has a chance to do good. It is just a matter of effort. If a ...
- 22384: The Lottery
- ... to fit right in. Is it to good to be true. It promises better schooling for children and lower taxes for the average worker. It is toasted as the answers to all of a state’s problems. A lottery is a game in which no skill only luck is at work despite the fact that many lottery officials imply such. Many other interesting facts have been uncovered by Duke University professors ... are one in six hundred thousand. That means you are eight times more likely to be struck by lighting than to win the lottery.(Issues of Gambling) The odds always sound better on television. That’s because state lotteries are exempt from Federal Trade Commission truth-in-advertising standards.(Reno 1) This means that state lotteries are allowed to advertise whatever they want without fear of prosecution. So if any one ... years. Most people do not have the money or the time to pursue justice in the case of false lottery claims. How are state lotteries falsifying odds and misleading those who participate. In Ronald Reno’s article he quote The New Republic as saying “ Take a current Washington D.C. lottery ad campaign for D.C. Daily Million. The slogan is “A Million a Day—Just Play.” D.C. Daily ...
- 22385: Comparing The Works Of Richard Wright
- Comparing The Works Of Richard Wright One of America's most prominent black authors is Richard Wright writes mostly from the African American perspective. Both his novel Native Son and his short stories The Man Who Was Almost a Man (from the collection Eight Men ... he also deals with society in terms of racism, oppression, as well as "black" dialogue. Each of the aspects of society that Wright uses in his works are the key to making all of Wright's works what they have become as well as making Wright the author that he has become. Native Son is a novel that tells the story of a young black man (Bigger) and the constant struggles ... of his life that were oppressing him, not allowing him to become a man. Therefore because he could not find manhood with those that he sought the title from he decided to go elsewhere. Wright's popularity among black readers comes mostly from his realistic portrayal of the black community. In these two works the realism comes from the struggles that the characters go through, the dialect used in his ...
- 22386: Lincoln At Gettysburg-the Mani
- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address The Manipulation of Language The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize a gruesome battle. Instead he gave the ... guns. The Civil War is, to most Americans, what Lincoln wanted it to mean. In this book Garry Wills brilliantly explains how Lincoln wove a spell that has not, yet, been broken. Lincoln at Gettysburg's book is a tribute not just to the genius of Lincoln, but also to the power of language itself, which sometimes compromises the mind in order to save the soul. For Example, depending on the state he was giving a speech, Lincoln would advocate or reject slavery in order to capture the audience's attention, therefore, compromising his thought process with his beliefs. To extract the original context and relevance of an American institution, Lincoln, in his account of the Battle of Gettysburg, nearly five months later, a ...
- 22387: Henry Adams
- The Education of the Henry Adams reviews Adams s and the United States s education and growth during the 19th century. Adams was an old man who had Puritan beliefs about sex and religion. In this autobiography, Adams voices his skepticism about man s newfound power to control the direction of history, in particular, the exploding world of science and technology, where all certainties of the future have vanished (anb.org, 1). Adams grew up in the United ...
- 22388: A Gathering Of Old Men
- ... that she would like to die. The women and the nurse hear Medea wishing for death as if it were a treasure or something valuable. The nurse and women are not in agreement with Medea’s view of death. To them, death would be something that lurks around anything and anywhere waiting to strike. "He strikes from the clear sky like a hawk, he hides behind green leaves, or he waits ... compare to death. A hawk is a swift predator that attacks unnoticed, but to Medea death is a trophy. For Medea death has a value of importance. A friendship has been established. Death is Medea’s friend. She uses it as a weapon to get what she views as justice. "Then if you have a dog eyed enemy and needed absolute vengeance . . . Unchild him, ha? And then unlife him"(23). Medea ... her miserable and craving for revenge. Thus, she went on taking the life of his bride-to-be and the life of their children. She also wanted to wash herself from the impurities of Jason’s touch. "Ah, rotten, rotten, rotten: death is the only water to wash this dirt" (12). This is a metaphor for she compares death to a water, which is a symbol of pureness, to cleanse ...
- 22389: Rumpelstiltskin
- ... Bedtime Stories. New York, Macmillan, 1994, Page 13). The story, in both interpretations that I read, contains a element of human nature that has remained unchanged throughout the years. In the story "Rumpelstiltskin" the miller's daughter is a beautiful girl. However the miller has no money. He makes up a story that she is able to spin straw into gold. A king hears this story and challenges the girl. She ... no longer a girl, goes to great lengths to get out of her promise and prospers by showing tremendous strength of character. Exploitation is defined as the use or manipulation of another person for one's own advantage ( Webster's Universal College Dictionary. New York. Gramercy. 1997). This is an element of human nature that is found in the interpretations of this story that I read. The miller, The king and Rumpelstiltskin all exploit ...
- 22390: Epic Of Gilgamesh 2
- ... a characteristic that makes them more human. Achilles, the hero of The Iliad, is flawed with too much pride. During the scene where Achilles has now finally captured Hector, Hector had slain one of Achilles's close friends, Achilles had struck hector in the throat with his sword. Achilles was careful not to cut his windpipe so he could talk back. Hector pleaded and begged Achilles to give him a proper burial, but Achilles did nothing but laugh in his face, "Beg me no beggary by soul or parents, whining dog!" Achilles then takes Hector's naked body and drags it over his friends grave. Achilles's pride almost overtook his other traits and this flaw demonstrates the fact that Achilles was still human. The hero from the Bhagavad-Gita, Arjuna, did not posses such super-human strength as Achilles did ...
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