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- 22801: "A Rose for Emily": A Review
- ... to state is to always expect the unexpected, like when Miss Emily killed Homer. Faulkner chooses to use third person narration in this particular story for a couple of reasons. He tries to show Emily's world to us as seen through the eyes of a respectable resident, so we can understand the town life as if we lived there. This way we were able to understand how the people of ... would have been the narrator we would have understood the story in a hole different manner. Faulkner used third person narration and from that we were able to find out many things about Miss Emily's past. For instance the death of her father, the love she had for Homer, and how she felt the need for affection. Those ideas she would have kept to herself, if she were to have ... of the story, because we see that Miss Emily does not like the idea of change at all. Faulkner uses many symbols throughout the story, one of them being the crayon portrait of Miss Emily's father. The picture symbolizes many things' one of them being that it shows how she thinks of things in the distant past. Another symbol is the poison that she uses to kill Homer Barron. ...
- 22802: How "First Love" is Represented by Different Artists
- ... important to most artists, no matter how, when or who. How first loves impacted the artists play a significant role in determining the lives of the artists and their topics of writing. In Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," Hayden writes about his father and the abandonment his family showed him even though he worked so hard to provide for them. Hayden writes, "…cracked hands that ached from labor in the ... it. When artists realize their first loves differs greatly also. Some realize very quickly who, or what their first loves are, and some do not realize for a very long time. In A.E. Houseman's "When I Was One and Twenty," Houseman writes about his ignorance toward his first love. He writes about how ignorant he was toward the whole situation and how relatively quickly he realized that he should ... At every step you missed, My right ear scraped a buckle" (758). This means that Roethke was very young to have been experiencing this and unless he was a child when he wrote "My Papa's Waltz," he did not realize his first love until he was much older. Some artists realize very early their first loves and some take a long time, but the point is that they all ...
- 22803: The Scarlet Letter - Plant Ima
- ... he questioned with himself whether the grass would ever grow on it, because an accursed thing must there be buried” (131). In addition, weeds symbolize secrecy and the impurity of society. During Chillingworth and Dimmesdale’s covert discussion about “the powers of nature call[ing] so earnestly for the confession of sin,[and discussing] that these black weeds have sprung up out of a buried heart, to make manifest an unspoken ... crime” (120) illustrates the idea of weeds filling the heart with sin and guilt. Moreover, “the black flower of civilized society” (45-46) refers to the Puritans harsh attitude towards sinners as they view Hester’s punishment. Most importantly, the imagery used with leaves allows for different interpretations. “Thou shalt forgive me! cried Hester, flinging herself on the fallen leaves beside him [Dimmesdale]” (178) illustrates that Hester begs natures’ forgiveness for ... that “the forest leaves [have] risen up all made anew” (185) meaning that their guilt was forever gone, and God had forgiven them. Similarly, “the yellow leaves will show no vestige of the white man’s tread” (180-181) because they cover the trail of guilt left behind by man. Though Hawthorne places either good or bad plant images with his characters, Pearl stands as a blend of them both. ...
- 22804: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Good Influence or Bad Influence
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Good Influence or Bad Influence Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of America's most influential authors and thinkers. In the 19th century, his writings were considered dangerous and revolutionary. Emerson taught that each man must think for himself and he also believed in the concept of the oversoul ... find a way to express a modern relationship between man and God. In my opinion, Emerson is a good influence on the modern world and a reading of Emerson would be good for society. Emerson's teachings were somewhat controversial in the 19th century. He supported the pantheist view that since Christ is divine then all men are divine. This was of course criticized by the church and therefore by society ... would not be criticized as it was in the 19th century. Some people might say that it would go against the church but there would be many people that believe in it. Another of Emerson's ideas is that of the oversoul. The oversoul is Emerson's name for God. He sees God as an entity and inside it is the world, as we know it including humans, animals and ...
- 22805: Fahrenheit 451
- ... killed because she is caught possessing books. "She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about."(37). Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a futuristic city while a war is taking place. Oddly enough the city has its own problems. The protagonist , Guy Montag, goes against society and steals books to read ... him on fire, killing him. "Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent."(119). Montag then barely escapes the fire station's deadly mechanical hound, by jumping in the river and floating down stream, disguising his scent. "Then he dressed in Faber's old clothes and shoes. He tossed his own clothing into the river and watched it swept away. Then, holding his suitcase, he walked out in the river until there was no bottom and he ...
- 22806: Gateway 2000, Inc
- ... awards and constant expansion in 1997 they reported revenues of 6.3 Billion dollars and accumulated more than 100 professional awards. In December of '93 gateway began to be publicly traded on the market. It's symbol was GTW (NYSE), or GATE (NASDAQ). April 24, 1998, gateway was added to S&P 500. Since 1985 many things have happenedto this partnership and many more are still to come. Now we will take a look at a stock quote and explain the numbers to you. First you ... highest and lowest that the stock has been in the last five years. The P-E ratio is just a simple price to earnings ratio, saying that you spend and receive this much. Sales 100's are how many of the stock was traded in 100's. So 12 would be 12 x 100 = 1200. Next you have the Weakly high and low, again, which is just a high and ...
- 22807: Oedipus 2
- ... prediction that he was to kill his father and marry his mother, he was determined to prevent the prophecy. Therefore he left his homeland of Corinth never to return. Then when he solved the Sphinx s riddle, Oedipus pride rose to a new level. He was praised by the people of Thebes, resulting in his marriage to Jocasta, Queen of Thebes. Oedipus also shows his determination when in search of Laius murderer. He stated that he would avenge the King s death as if Laius were his own father. He cursed the murderer, announcing May he drag out an evil death-in-life in misery. These characteristics of pride and determination, which Oedipus emanates throughout the play, may appear to be positive attributes to one s personality. However, Oedipus actions, based on these characteristics, are what led him to his eventual downfall and suffrage. If Oedipus had not been so determined to escape and prevent the prophecy, he would not ...
- 22808: Youth And Poetry
- ... realize how important it is. Educational institutions have introduced and taught us poetry, but still we do not grasp the quality and meaning of having poetry in our lives. With poetry comes imagination, but today s literature does not promote of the exercising of our imagination. In the past, poetry affected young people even if it was to a small or large degree. It was always present in some part of ... a piece of work. Today, instead of reading literature, we are fulfilled by watching movies in theatres. The movies are made in a way that we do not need to use our imagination. Even today s literature is extensively descriptive to the point where it leaves nothing to the imagination because everything is laid out for us. We are told what colour hair, height, frame size, etc. a character has. When comparing the literature of the past, for example Ulysses, we can find a distinct difference in the context from today s writing. The media lets us have the easy way out by carving every single aspect of a story leaving nothing to the mind. The importance of poetry is lost to young people. Youths cannot ...
- 22809: A Comparison Of Durkheim And Frued On Native American Cultur
- ... occasion, proper rituals were enacted. The Native Americans focused extensively on rituals in joining a specific culture or tribe, involving the whole community and bringing everyone together throughout the area. These bonding rituals reiterated Durkheim's belief that everyone belonged to a specific social structure rather than being an individual. Thus, after the Native Americans performed the ritual, one became a new person on a higher level. A perfect example in ... Of course, Durkheim believed there was a fine line between the sacred and the profane. The sacred was something revered and could be anything from a tree, to a rock, to a building (Durkheim). Durkheim's philosophy is exemplified by the worship of the natives, since trees, rocks, and other objects are considered sacred. This shows that Native American sacred ways are ways of fulfilling life. Besides explaining initiation rites and ... closer. Clearly, Durkheim agrees with Native American traditions, because of their initiation rites, their view on the sacred, the effervescence they receive, and their deep-rooted connection with the earth. In direct contrast to Durkheim's philosophy, Sigmund Freud disagrees with the tenants of Native American Religion. Instead, Freud believes in wish fulfillment and religious ideas are illusions (Freud). This contradicts the traditions of the Bole Maru. The people of ...
- 22810: History Of Photography
- ... was exposed to. Those who saw the process for the first time thought it to be magic.An English scientist and scholar, William Henry Fox Talbot, invented the Collotype. The process was similar to Daguerre’s and in 1840 Talbot improved it. Instead of leaving the paper in the camera until it darkened, he brought out the latent image by development. This reduced exposer time to a matter of seconds compared ... finished you sent the camera to Kodak where the film was developed. With $10 you could get a new roll of film which also included the cost of the new roll.Not until the 1920's were photographers able to use a handy compacted instrument that could take pictures in dim light. The first of these candid cameras was the Ermanox marketed under the slogan of “What you can see, you ... of industrial films. The field is constantly expanding, particularly in the area of scientific investigation, space experimentation, atomic energy, missiles and aeronautics (Encyclopedia of Photography 1807). “In its first short century and a quarter, photography’s scope has been enormously expanded. Pictures which only a few decades ago seemed beyond the camera’s capability are now within the reach of all. But as the scope expands the tradition stays the ...
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