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- 24571: Scarlet Letter Scaffold Scenes
- In Nathaniel Hawthorne s, The Scarlet Letter, the author uses three scaffold scenes to mark the development of Hester Prynne. The image of Hester atop the scaffolding is a metaphor for her forced solitude; for her banishment from society ... and it seems as if she is trying to find a way to forget about her sins. What is also learned from this quote is that Hester, is a proud women. This quote symbolizes Hester s pride because even though her life is at a low ebb, and, she faces the reality of the Scarlet Letter, she attempts to hold her head and the head of her infant high. Here the ... great love for the man with whom she had an affair and this may never change. Furthermore, her banishment has given her time to focus on her love for Dimmesdale. Here the scaffold represents Hester s unwillingness to not love Dimmesdale. In the third scaffold scene, the Hester remains unchanged. She still has her love for Dimmesdale. Shall we not meet again? Shall we not spend our immortal life together? ...
- 24572: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... became dependent on his brother for cash. Indeed, for the next 10 years Theo, who had also gone to work for Goupil, sent an allowance to Vincent, encouraged him to work, and wrote regularly. Vincent's thinking during his short career (approximately 750 paintings, 1,600 drawings, 9 lithographs, and 1 etching) was documented in more than 700 letters that he wrote to Theo and others. Van Gogh's early years includes all his work from 1879 through 1885. Between August 1879 and November 1885 he worked in Etten, The Hague--where he received some instruction from his cousin, Anton Mauve and in Nuenen ... period (March 1886-February 1888) is extremely important because it enabled Vincent to see and to hear discussed work of virtually every major artist there. Although van Gogh admired many. During these years van Gogh's style shifted from the darker manner characteristic of his Nuenen period to a postimpressionist style heavily influenced by divisionism . Van Gogh left Paris and moved to Arles in February 1888. His mature work and ...
- 24573: Scarlet Letter Reflective Mono
- In the 1600 s, in a small town in a market place, in a time when religion was the only base of all morals among people, and the government worked on behalf of god. A small town is filled ... a cow to a pig in the eyes of a believer. And when god was brought in the matter things were even more mystical. Some traits of society have been brought down since the 1600 s, and this one. It seems that something s must be justified as human nature, rather than society s regulations and morals, such as guilt, curiosity and fear of the unique.
- 24574: Oedipus The King - Blindness
- ... in Sophocles’ tragedy "Oedipus the King." First, Sophocles presents blindness as a physical disability affecting the auger Teiresias, and later Oedipus; but later, blindness comes to mean an inability to see the evil in one’s actions and the consequences that ensue. The irony in this lies in the fact that Oedipus, while gifted with sight, is blind to himself, in contrast to Teiresias, blind physically, but able to see the ... sin so hidden from Oedipus’ and the peoples’ eyes was quite visible to Teiresias. What Teiresias lacked in his ability to see the world, he made up for in being able to see a person’s heart - a skill that nearly cost him his life after a lengthy argument with Oedipus. Yet what distinguishes Teiresias from the others was his genuine concern for others – a concern that he voiced before demolishing ... The murder of his father, Laius, and the subsequent marriage to this mother, Jocasta, further elucidate the extent of Oedipus’ blindness; blind in deed, reason, and consequence. Tragically, Oedipus’ anagnorisis occurs simultaneously with his mother’s/wife’s suicide. With a heart full of despair and a pair of newly opened eyes, Oedipus makes his transformation complete as he exchanges his limited physical eyesight for the spiritual sight possessed by ...
- 24575: Scarlet Letter (character Deve
- ... family with the man she loves (p173). That man who Hester loves so deeply, Mr. Dimmesdale also undergoes major changes due the sin he bears. In the beginning of the book we see this man s weakness and unwillingness to confess sin even as he begs Hester the person he committed his sin with to come forth with her other parties name (p56). As The Scarlet Letter progresses we see Dimmesdale ... long hidden in his heart (p218, 219). Mr. Chillingworth as can be seen at the beginning of the novel is a good person but is also somewhat devious because he changes his name. Mr. Chillingworth s good side is seen as he takes care of Pearl and Hester with only good intentions even though Hester has partly wronged him (p62). As the book progresses he becomes close to reverend Dimmesdale and is issued to take care of him due to his sickly state. Because of the time he spends with Dimmesdale he finds out Dimmesdale s secret and how to play him psychologically. Chillingworth s lust for revenge turn him to an evil person and eventually destroys him in the end. Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth are all well developed in ...
- 24576: The Inevitable Inequality in Modern Democracy
- ... in life that shapes what kind of people we will eventually become. Thus, it is arguable that because all men are created equal, all men have the equal opportunity to succeed, at least in today’s modern times. The reason that economic disparity surfaces is because some do not choose the path of education and thus create a difference in skill and talent between themselves and those who chose to attend ... this likely phenomena is quite immense. Firstly, the individuals that attain under-graduate and perhaps even graduate degrees will pursue various careers including those in business and politics. Eventually, these same people will become CEO’s of large corporations and political leaders of prominent parties. The end result is that the wealthy will come to occupy all the important positions of power. Their occupation leads to control of power, which means ... of the market and what Adam Smith called the invisible hand. Therefore, one cannot claim that these forces are unethical or that they somehow violate the law, as they are the necessary backbone of Canada’s economy. Socialist and Communist writers, most notably Karl Marx, proposed that society be made over so that a genuine equality of economic conditions would prevail. (Meanings of Democracy 1997) Only in such a setting ...
- 24577: Hemophilia Manitoba
- ... hemophilia, but women can also have hemophilia. This is extremely rare though because two defective X-chromosomes would be needed. In fact, the first proven case of women having hemophilia was not until the 1950 s (Bornstein 89). Female carriers are also at risk. These women are known as asymptomatic carriers and may suffer excessive menstrual bleeding, bruising, nosebleeds, and problems during childbirth. One serious problem with hemophilia is joint bleeds ... Victoria married Prince Henry of Battenberg and they had several children from the marriage. The two sons both acquired the hemophilia gene from their mother and died of the ages twenty and thirty-one. Victoria s second child, Alice was born in 1843 and married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt. There were two sons of the marriage, of which one died at the age of three because of hemophilia ... Prussia. Victoria, not being a carrier, had a grandson who passed a normal blood-clotting gene back into the royal family of England. Alice, a carrier, married Nicholas II, Czar of Russia bringing Queen Victoria s gene into the Russian family. On August 12, 1904 during the middle of the Russo-Japanese War, Alice had a baby boy named Alexis with hemophilia. Alexis s first sign was when the umbilicus ...
- 24578: Root 2
- ... of the women singing Toubob fa! And when he had finally been chained back down in his place in the dark hold, his heart throbbed with a lust to murder toubob." This sentence implied Kunta's insult, and in Kunta's mind, the white men were like devils. Next, Haley used "growing in volume and intensity" instead of "growing louder and louder" because the prisoners feared the white men would know they could communicate with each other. In addition, the prisoners were excited that they knew more than one tongue. They communicated with each other without white men's language. Therefore, Haley used "growing in volume and intensity" to describe the emotion and excitement of the prisoners' communication instead of just noise, "growing louder and louder." Haley used "communicate" instead of the more ...
- 24579: The FBI and Its History
- ... Investigation was founded in 1908 when Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte appointed an unnamed force of Special Agents to be the investigative force of DOJ. Prior to that time, DOJ borrowed Agents from the U.S. Secret Service to investigate violations of federal criminal laws within its jurisdiction. By order of Attorney General George W. Wickersham, the Special Agent force was named the Bureau of Investigation in 1909. Following a series of changes in name, the Federal Bureau of Investigation officially received its present title in 1935. During the early period of the FBI's history, its Agents investigated violations of some of the comparatively few existing federal criminal violations, such as bankruptcy frauds, antitrust crime, and neutrality violations. During World War I, the Bureau was given responsibility for espionage, sabotage, sedition, and draft violations. Passage of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act in 1919 further broadened the Bureau's jurisdiction. The Gangster Era began after passage of Prohibition in 1920. Criminals engaged in kidnapping and bank robbery, which were not federal crimes at that time. This changed in 1932 with the passage of ...
- 24580: Absolute Monarchs
- ... academy of Sciences. Tsar Peter I was the only one of the autocrats to build an entirely new capital, called ST. Petersburg. Policies were implemented to establish precedence. Louis XIV implemented polices to expand Frances’s frontiers and to assert his superiority over other European states. In the early 1680s, Louis adopted the Marquis aim and asserted his right to a succession of territories on Frances’s northeast border. Also, in 1685 Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes, he forced France’s 1 million Huguenots either to leave the country or to convert to Catholicism. In 1648 Frederick William, backed by both the Dutch and the French, restrained Sweden in northern Europe during the negotiation leading ...
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