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- 23691: The Loyalty Of Antigone To Bot
- ... father as dear to her by stating in the story "and we share your pain, your fait is ours" (Colonus 1257). By saying she shows her love of understanding and serves empathy for her father's harsh life. Due to what he did in the past, just the fact that he loves her more then anything gives her reason to be loyal and always there to help him no matter what ... father everyday, she put herself in danger of being caught by the new king of Thebes, Creon. He was held accountable for Anitgone and Ismene by request from Oedipus himself. She knew of her father's great need, so she battled the hardships with Creon to see her father she loved so dearly. Their love was so strong for one another that she would do anything, even risk everything she had ... those just recently with the occurrence with their father. She devotes herself to looking after him even though he was cruel and selfish. She told him out of her kind, peaceful heart that she didn't want him to fight Eteocles for fear of the worst to come. He refused to listen to her honest words, and continued on with what he wanted. From Antigone having put aside her opinion ...
- 23692: Summary of "A Raisin in the Sun"
- ... the Younger family moves themselves into a white suburban neighborghood the whites in the community are upset that they have come to be with them. Their direct neighbors who have a son that is Travis's age no longer lets her son play with Travis and he become hurt and confused. Walter has to explain that many people that are white beleive that they are better then those who are black ... Walter becomes enraged and hits the man directly in the face as hard as he can. This brings an upraw amongst the Youngers and the entire community. Thus bringing the whites, even those who weren't before, totally against the Younger family. After the eventual calming down of the community and the lowering of racial tensions of the blacks against the whites, grandma Ruth who paid her own $10,000 for ... to college because of the death. Walter has a private talk with ehr and convinces her that it would be the best for her future, and that she would regret her decision if she didn't go. Slowly but surely the Youngers wanted to become a part of the community, and were taken as some. The first people of the Younger family to associate and try to become friends with ...
- 23693: Hamlet - Act 2 Summary
- ... I am ready to kill him. I was having doubts of the ghost recently. At first, I figured it to be a legitimate specter. Showing up at a time very shortly after my great father's death and wearing his shining armor. He seemed to speak of wisdom that only my dead king could portray. Now, I wonder if it wasn't a phantom sent from hell to lure me into killing my mother's lover and king. If true, I would never be able to live with myself, for that would be a horrible deed, done wrong. Yet, I cannot just dismiss this apparition, so I will carry ...
- 23694: Frederick Banting
- Frederick Banting Diabetes is a chronic disorder in which the pancreas doesn't produce enough insulin. Insulin is an important hormone for the metabolism of sugar in the body. When the pancreas fails to provide the body with insulin, these sugar build up in the blood stream. Therefore, the body can't use the food energy ingested each day. Diabetes and complications may cause blindness, cardiac deficits, renal failure, non-injury related amputations and erectile dysfunction. Frederick Grant Banting was born November 14, 1891 in Alliston, Ontario ... 11, 1922.) They were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine/physiology in 1923. They were the first Canadians to ever receive that honor. Banting initially threatened to refuse the award because he felt Charles Best's work as research assistant had been vital to the project and that he should be included in the honor. Ultimately Banting accepted, and shared his portion of the prize with Best. Later Banting was ...
- 23695: Emily Dickenson
- ... another so Emily had plenty of privacy for writing. During her childhood, Emily and her family attended The First Congregational Church on a regular basis. Emily did not like going to church because she didn't think of herself as being very religious. She refused to believe that Heaven was a better place than Earth and eventually rebelled from the church. Emily saw herself as a woman who had her own ... from whom she got a very good response and a strong friendship developed. He acted as her mentor but she never seemed to have taken any of his advice. It became evident that she didn't like the idea of having her works published, she made 40 packets of about twenty poems apiece from 814 poems. She placed these in a box along with 333 other poems. Emily died on May ... style in writing. She chose her words for her poems in a way that allows the reader to choose the meaning. In conclusion, she wrote nearly eighteen hundred poems, most ignoring rhyme and punctuation. Emily’s poems did not have titles because she never wanted them to be published. Many of her poems are dark and mysterious but all are true works of art.
- 23696: Rawls' View of Ignorance
- ... principle guarantees the right of each person to have the most extensive basic liberty compatible with the liberty of others. The second principle states that social and economic positions are to be a) to everyone's advantage and b) open to all. A key problem to Rawls is to show how such principles would be universally adopted and here the work borders on general ethical issues. He introduces a theoretical "veil ... a generalized point of view that bears a strong resemblance to the moral point of view. "Moral conclusions can be reached without abandoning the prudential standpoint of positing, a moral outlook merely by pursuing one's own prudential reasoning under certain procedural bargaining and knowledge constraints." Rawls proposes that the most reasonable principles of justice for a society are those that individuals would themselves agree to behind the "veil of ignorance ... these characteristics upon another. They are nothing more than components of a people. With the "veil of ignorance" we exempt our responsibility for caring for that of which we do not know. If we don't see something physically everyday should it be an not be a concern or an aspect of our own life? If this were so, could it not be possible that some things could be ignored ...
- 23697: Atlantis
- Atlantis Deep in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean lies one of mankind’s greatest achievements, the Sunken City of Atlantis. Many people believe this to be true. Many other people believe that Atlantis never even existed. As you read this report you may decide to accept or deny ... be parts of Atlantis. Scientists even believe that the island of Thera might possibly be Atlantis. It was also said that Atlantis was closely linked to the Americas and the Scandinavian Peninsula. Because of it’s size, Atlantis was said to be a land bridge between the Americas and the area around the Pillars of Hercules. It is speculated that early Asians, animals, and plants traveled across Atlantis to get to ... Drug use was common to Atlantis. They always burned incense. They used narcotics, and they even got drunk by drinking too much alcohol. Sun worship was the traditional religion of the Atlantean culture. They didn’t sacrifice humans, but they did sacrifice fruits and flowers to the sun. They believed in immortality of the soul and resurrection of the body. In his other work Critias, Plato says that the political ...
- 23698: Brave New World: All Things are Relative
- ... If a person from the present were to see the sacrifices and eating of the human flesh by the Aztec Indians, that person would see it as barbaric in contrast to his own culture. Isn't it true that what we view as barbaric or uncivilized is always in comparison to own. Doesn't it stand to reason that in a society without families, they would view monogamy as uncivilized? This society has been shaped by hundreds of years and will continue to change in the years to come ... a significant amount of jobs would be lost and people would not be able to support themselves. This would cause homelessness and poverty which were not allowed in this culture. With time and distance people's cultures diverge. This has been true for a millennia past and a millennia to come. It should be apparent, that when comparing past civilizations with our own, that the word civilization is relative.
- 23699: The Lady Of Shalott -
- ... deal with the possible effect of tension on the reader and how the poem might be perceived by him/her. 2. Growth of Consciousness and Development of Tension 2.1. Initial Isolation Lord Alfred Tennyson s poem starts out with the total seclusion of the beautiful, young Lady of Shalott surrounded by four grey walls, and four grey towers . (Tennyson, line 15). She is largely unaware of the world outside and ... constant increase of tension attained by the use of iambic and trochaic tetrameter and an -aaaa bcccb- rhyme scheme repeating in each stanza. This is always interrupted by sudden drops produced by the plosive sound t as in Camelot , Shalott or Lancelot in lines 5 and 9. The whole scheme could already be seen as an indicator for the omnipresent basic suspense of the poem. Almost as if something or someone ... end. Is it possible she eventually commit suicide, because she had realized that her love for Sir Lancelot was futile ? These are some questions that stay in the back of your head after reading Tennyson s poem. Even today you can feel the infinite struggle the Lady of Shalott had to undergo. Tennyson impressively shows the development of a young woman who is faced with one of the most difficult ...
- 23700: Suicide -- Causes And Effects
- ... Not everyone attempts suicide when faced with unbearable situations. Some people cannot cope with it as others can and they feel suicide is an easy way out. It is a known fact, that in today¡¯s fast moving world there is so much of competition everywhere in every field. Every day we hear cases of adults, teenagers, and even children being pushed around to their best. It brings out the best ... feel as if they are not wanted anymore by the society. This creates a low self-esteem. There are a lot of misconceptions about suicide. It is believed that people who talk about suicide won¡¯t attempt it. It is also believed that people who commit suicide are insane and nothing can stop them from attempting it. But research has proven that people who talk about it go on and attempt ... society one lives in. In western countries specially, a lot of emphasis is laid on the rights of an individual. There is a huge debate about whether a person has the right to end one¡¯s own life. In some countries suicide is illegal, but it makes no difference to the person who is determined end his life. If he survives he is made to feel like a criminal. It ...
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