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- 23351: The Characterization Of Gilgam
- ... However, throughout the epic Gilgamesh also shows he is emotionally unstable and immature. The author created Gilgamesh with this flaw of immaturity so that he would be a more believable character. The depth of Gilgamesh's physical strength first appears to the reader in the prologue. Gilgamesh is said to be "the man to whom all things are known"(Gilgamesh 13). The gods created him with great care giving him beauty ... Humbaba and by killing the Bull of Heaven, his emotional strength is put to the test when Enkidu, his companion, dies. Gilgamesh wants everyone and everything to mourn his death. He could not accept Enkidu's death. "Seven days and seven nights he wept for Enkidu, until the worm fastened on him"(Gilgamesh 13). His irrational actions prove Gilgamesh is emotionally unstable and immature. Another example of Gilgamesh's immaturity is his infactuation with immortality. He abandons his normal way of life, leaves Uruk, and begins a new life as a hunter. Gilgamesh goes on a long and dangerous journey to find Utnapishtim, ...
- 23352: A Clockwork Orange
- ... phases into maturity represents a part of us. His youth is characterized as that of a rapist, practitioner of extremely violent acts, and a lover of Beethoven. These three adjectives point out what drives Alex’s actions: emotion. He follows no moral code nor does he even have one. However, he does follow his natural desire to sin, and can thus be described as a clockwork orange in that his actions are controlled by his emotion. We can clearly see how Alex’s inclination to do things that satisfy his emotion are strikingly similar to our desires to do the things that we want to do. This is the whole message behind the doctrine of original sin, where Adam’s first sin against God carried into his descendants. All humans are born with the desire to do evil, and thus we can justify Alex’s violent actions. Eventually, Alex’s friends betray him and ...
- 23353: Cloning 6
- Millions of people. They all look alike, think alike, and dress alike. Sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, right? Well, with cloning it’s possible, maybe. They will look alike, but that’s about it. Cloning will help the world, not make it the same. Three pros to cloning are that cloning may hold the secret to eternal youth, the research of genes has changed the thinking of ... In the future people will be able to decide what their child will look like and what kind of base intelligence the child will have, but they will not be able to decide the child’s fate. For the people who want to control what their children will look like, there is the possibility of cloning a famous person. Finally, parents will be able to clone a model’s appearance ...
- 23354: Sociology Of Movie
- "BRAVEHEART" " I shall tell you of William Wallace, historians from England will say I am a liar, but history was written from those who have hanged hero's…" William Wallace was born in Scotland around 1280 BC during times of great instability. The entire country was in chaos and conflict because of an evil tyrant known as Edward the Longshanks. Longshanks claimed the thrown and entire rule of England, including Scotland. Under his rein the towns were imprisoned with steep taxes and magistrates. Several of the commoners, William's father and brother included, opposed his rule and chose to take action. They set off into battle, never to return. William, left without a family, was heart broken. The day of his family's funeral, a majestic man arrived to take him away, Uncle Argil. Together they traveled on many journeys across the world, becoming true renaissance men. Many years later, William returned to his forgotten home with ...
- 23355: The Demon Lover
- Natural Events: The Demon Lover The events in Elisabeth Bower s The Demon Lover can be explained naturally. The story being as vague as it is leads most to concur with the title of the story and imagine that there is a supernatural aspect in the ... She is not expected, yet she finds a letter addressed to her on a table in the hallway. Twenty-five years has past since the leaving of her former lover during World War I. Kathleen s lover is had been presumed dead after months of being missing in action and she has moved on. She is now married to a William Dover and living the countryside with her immediate family. What ... the possibilities of these events. The promise made to the lover by Kathleen is unclear. It may have been too upsetting for Kathleen to think about or even remember at that time. Like her lover s face, the promise may have been forgotten. She may have gone to the house the day she had promised to meet him subconsciously. She was suppose to wait for her lover s return, yet ...
- 23356: End of the Cold War
- End of the Cold War Overview The events of the late 1980’s greatly altered the political and economical landscape of Europe. They brought dramatic changes as well as revealing much uncomfortable continuity from the past. The decade threw up as many new difficulties as it did gains. Together these presented the EU with many challenges that few expected when the Berlin Wall was breached. Challenges of the 1990’s Initially the seemed to be very welcome. This led people to believe that further integration could be achieved inside the EC and the EFTA states. Western states were in the position to completion and there ... the replacement of communism did not produce a swift and painless transition which was expected. In fact some of the Eastern countries found the Western way so hard it sent them back to communism. Yeltzin’s Russia also began to gain power and raise western fears. All this raised issues in the west. The disarmament process slowed down and attempts to devise some form of European security which could cope ...
- 23357: The Corrruption Of Innocence
- ... it go by. Some would see it as corruption, and others see everyday life. I see it as the pure loss of innocence in a world of corruption. This new issue has risen in today s generation leaving no one free of it wrath. This has not been the first we have seen of this. The loss of innocence has been referred to over years by many authors, but now we ... are probably phonies and only doing it to be hot-shots and makes lots of money to impress society. (Salinger 172) The outcome of his thoughts was that everybody had conformed and followed each society s ideas, which upset Holden because no one was free of corruption accept the children of society, like Ally. Holden sees it as a major issue in the book and serves as a major role of Holden s throughout the book. The issue even leads to the title of the book in the sense that it is named after his supposed job he wishes to under take as a Catcher in the ...
- 23358: Assassination Of President McKinley
- ... His hand was wrapped in a handkerchief, which he held close to his chest, but no one seemed to notice. When the President reached him, Leon extended his left hand, pressed it against the President’s chest, and shot him twice with the gun he held under his handkerchief (Secret Service Guard…1). He did not have a chance to fire again, because a black man - next in line to shake the President’s hand - had already tackled him. In seconds, more than a dozen men had tackled him and were beating him up. At the same time, Secret Service officers and exposition police seized Leon and tore the ... power while others have none." The police led him to his cell, where he would await trial. Meanwhile, McKinley was on his deathbed, getting worse each day from the wounds to his stomach. Outside Buffalo’s First Precinct Police Station where Leon was housed the 65th Regiment stood on alert, dispersing some of the hundreds of furious protesters (President McKinley Shot…1). On September 27, 1901, Leon was moved to ...
- 23359: Manuscript For Experimental Ps
- ... rural, urban, 1st world countries, 3rd world countries etc.) would definitely bring about more concrete support in determining how gender and the number of bystanders affect helping behavior. Helping behaviors is important and in today's 'dog eat dog' world, it is pretty much a dying trait. Help is no longer offered out of empathy for personal satisfaction, but done with hope that they will be rewarded. A person would actually ... future. References Amato, P. R. (1983) Helping behavior in urban and rural environments: Field studies based on a taxonomic organization of helping episodes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45(3), 571 - 586. Belansky, E. S., & Boggiano, A. K.(1994) Predicting helping behaviors: The role of gender and instrumental/expressive self schemata.. Sex Roles, 30(9 10), 647-661. Bell, J., Grekul, J., Lamba, N., & Minas, C. (1995) The impact of ... F. (1982) Sex, costs, and helping behavior. Journal of Psychology ,112, 231- 236. Dovidio, J. F., & Campbell, J. B. (1983) Waiting to help? Attention and helping behavior. Academic Psychology Bulletin, 5(2), 229-236 Erdle, S., Sansom, M., Cole, M. R., & Heapy, N. (1992) Sex differences in personality correlates of helping behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 13(8), 931-936. Harada, J. (1983) The effects of positive and negative experiences ...
- 23360: The Night
- ... still red, his eyes were not yet glazed. Behind me I heard a man asking: Where is God now?" Besides the brilliant descriptions found in Night and the feeling that I was walking in Elie's shoes, The Night opens a person s mind to the atrocities of the Holocaust and concentration camps. We take for granted, today, our knowledge of how many Jews were killed by the Nazis. Although we have a general idea of the kind ... whose life was devoted to studying the Torah and was changed to a life of terror. The book also shows how the German forces were so harsh at breaking the spirits of the Jews. Elie's faith in God, above all other things, is strong at the beginning of the novel, but grows weaker as time goes on. On the day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, thousands of ...
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