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- 22981: Research Essay, East Timor
- ... remained a relatively safe and easy going place for people to live and it also showed signs of becoming an independent nation. After the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal the decolonisation process spread from Portugal’s African Colonies to East Timor. During this time native political parties emerged with the two most popular being Fretilin (Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor) and the UDT (Timorese Democratic Party). After a time ... real conflict between the church and state was not properly felt until November the 12th 1991. This day was to be one of the darkest days in Timorese history when a procession walked from Dili’s Motael Church to the Santa Cruz cemetery to commemorate a youth killed by Indonesian security forces some weeks before. Frustrated by the cancellation of a Portuguese delegation to East Timor, many of the mourner demonstrators ... and Bishop Carlos Belo are now in the search for peace. Since the Santa Cruz massacre in 1991 there has been much more international interest in the affairs of East Timor as now other country’s can see that basic human rights have been and are still being violated. This foreign interest is momentarily aiding the search for peace because the Indonesian government know now that the big brothers are ...
- 22982: Love 2
- The Lady with the Dog Love is defined by the Webster s dictionary as a passionate affection of one person for another. The short story The Lady with the Dog written by Anton Chekhov, is a love story. The story introduces us to the character Dmitri Gurov ... and therefore did not appreciate nor respect her. This was demonstrated through his unfaithfulness. His wife both carried and raised their children and therefore did not deserve the treatment she received. The narrator records Dmitri s feelings for her, He secretly considered her unintelligent, narrow, inelegant, was afraid of her, and did not like to be at home (175). This same disregard for a spouse with whom you are lacking truly ... each other. The love of Dmitri and Anna demonstrates the feeling of true love which they feel for each other, which is demonstrated by their longing for each other when apart. After leaving each other s side in Yalta and returning to their spouses they each individually dream about the other and the happy time they spent together. Dmitri thought about Anna as we are told, Then a month passed ...
- 22983: The Gift of the Magi: Themes
- ... all together. For instance, Jim and Della live in a flat with just enough money to get by. The setting leads to the theme of sacrifice for love. You can tell that Jim and Della’s love is unconditional by what they each sacrifice and sell for each other: their most prized possessions. Without the setting one would never know why they needed to sell their most prized possessions. The theme ... be displayed as strong. Yet, they are very much in love and play a part in expressing the theme. Again, symbolism gives this story a much deeper plot. The two most treasured possessions are Della’s hair and Jim’s pocket watch. Of course, the two could live without these possessions and they ultimately do. The possessions each symbolize something to each one of the characters. Jim’s watch has sentimental value because it ...
- 22984: Is Mesopotamia a Civilization?
- ... of a civilization and so much more. They had many of the same characteristics of a society as today. They had inventions, language and a law code to abide by which is not unlike today’s civilizations. An in depth examination of the religion, inventions and the law code of Mesopotamia will prove why they were a civilization. The religion of the Mesopotamian culture was one of polytheistic beliefs. They had ... would enter a dark underworld that was a land of no return. Some believed it to be a place where the dead would live forever, alone and in darkness. When the king died, the people’s fear of death rose because it was a bad omen to the future of the country. The fear of death and the afterlife was explained in many legends of their time. Many of the inventions of the Mesopotamian society have led to similar contraptions of today’s society. One of the earliest inventions that are still used today is the wheel. Found on almost every contraption of the present, the wheel was one of the most important inventions of the Mesopotamian. ...
- 22985: Brave New World: Escape from Reality
- ... whether it be called advertising, television, consumerism, and the gods of efficiency, materialism, and self interests, all these things seem much more at ease with one another and a lot easier to come by. Huxley’s idea is to make his new world not overtly oppressive, but superficially attractive, because it is clean, comfortable, and without conflict or stress. However, it is a world without emotion, feelings, and problems. All these ... dehumanization. This occurs through the absence of spirituality and family, the obsession with physical pleasure, and the misuse of technology. In this world, each person is raised in a test tube rather than a mother’s womb, and the government controls every stage of their development, from embryo to maturity. Each new human is placed into a certain class, such as Alpha, Beta, and so on. The embryos are manipulated chemically ... a “safe” manner. This created a society full of human clones, completely devoid of personality. Every person is conditioned to love three things: Henry Ford, their idol; soma, a wonder drug; and sex. In today’s society we find that it would be a lot easier to be cruel or unjust to someone if we did not see them as a human being. As something as the same of ourselves. ...
- 22986: Fahrenheit51
- ... 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 ...
- 22987: Character Sketch For Shiloh
- Character sketch for Shiloh Character Sketch In Bobbie Ann Mason’s story “Shiloh” she presents the character of Norma Jean as having a strong personality but an emptiness deep within. Norma Jean is presented as a strong character on the outside in the opening of the ... feeling of emptiness to her husband. Due to this, Norma Jean lets her emptiness overcome the strength that she is perceived as having and decides to end her marriage. As the story proceeds, Norma Jean’s emptiness begins to overcome her. She feels more of an emptiness toward her mother. She feels as though her mother, Mabel, is always nagging her about something; whether it be smoking or that her laundry ... deceased son. A feeling of emptiness is created through the death of her son due to the emotions which she felt. Norma Jean did not feel comfortable enough to share her thoughts of her son’s death with her husband. After her son’s death, she bottled up her emotions and never spoke of them again. “They never speak about their memories of Randy, which have almost faded, but now ...
- 22988: Exile And Illusion In Araby
- ... Irish merchants, although like all Irish Catholics of the time, "the Joyces inherited a tradition of legal and cultural repression."(Bloom) As time wore on the Anglo-Irish aristocracy took its toll on his family's wealth taking away all of his fathers land as well as his career. This slide in social standing seemed to have discouraged Joyce's creativity, as symbolized in his short story "Araby". Joyce believed he was a victim of circumstance, and saw his Irish homeland as a prison because of that circumstance. Joyce 's creativity was discouraged in a few different ways, we will examine the two major culprits, the church and religious symbolism, as well as the social restrictions he had to contend with. First let us ...
- 22989: THE ILLIAD
- ... entered a new millennium filled with special effects, and computer graphics , many of us continue to appreciate the excitement of the written word from those authors that produce masterpieces. The Iliad does just that. Homer’s use of language evokes the passion of his characters and their heartfelt emotions. The Iliad embodies action at it’s very onset, and although long in content, captures and to an extent , possesses it’s reader. I am sure that it is the style and meter, that Homer uses to convey his thoughts, that make the Iliad such a classic epic. Crawford pg. 3 In the opening lines of ...
- 22990: Hurricanes
- ... air that acts like an invisible ceiling or lid. Once in a while, something happens in the upper air that destroys this lid. Scientist don not know how this happens. But when it does, it's the first step in the birth of a hurricane. With the lid off, the warm, moist air rises higher and higher. Heat energy, released as the water vapor in the air condenses. As it condenses ... vapor gets pulled into the thunderhead updrafts, releasing still more energy as the water vapor condenses. This makes the updrafts rise faster, pulling in even larger amounts of air and water vapor from the storm's edges. And as the updrafts speed up, air swirls faster and faster around the storm center. The storm clouds, moving with the swirling air, form a coil. In a few days the hurricane will have ... a dough-nut. At the center of this giant "dough-nut" is a cloudless, hole usually having a radius of 10 miles. Through it, the blue waters of the ocean can be seen. The hurricane's wind speed near the center of the hurricane ranges from 75 miles to 150 miles per hour. The winds of a forming hurricane tend to pull away from the center as the wind speed ...
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