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- 2571: The Existence of God
- ... all know that someday we will ‘physically’ die, Yet, we continuously deny the forces working inside ourselves which want to search out the true outcome of what may or may not come after death. It’s far easier for humanity to accept that they will go on to a safe haven and be forgiven for all, rather than to question the existence of a super omnipotent being. Fortunately, there are some of us who tend to question the why’s and how’s that come before us. We question the creation of humanity and the religious teachings received from our parents, our church and our society. This paper examines the many rational arguments for and against the ...
- 2572: Serial Killers 3
- ... be identified. Serial killers are hard to find and virtually undetectable until they start murdering the innocent. Like all evolved predators, they know how to stalk their victims by gaining their trust. "Serial killers don't wear their hearts on their sleeve. Instead, they hide behind a carefully constructed façade of normalcy." (Crime Library) Serial killers have been an integral part of American history and plagued this country for many years ... Many serial killers were often exposed to childhood abuse. Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, was sold off as a slave by his alcoholic father. Others have lived abnormal adolescent lives. Ed Kemper beheaded his sister's dolls while playing execution games (Crime Library). Daydreaming, compulsive masturbation, isolation, chronic lying, and bed-wetting are common characteristics serial killers shared as youths. Research shows great similarities among the different killers, which suggests that ... of his house and vowed to kill the first good-looking girl he saw (Egger 11). Henry Lee Lucas was forced by his mother to watch while she had sex with her clients. Ed Gein's religiously fanatical, notorious mother convinced her son that women were vessels of sin and cause disease. In his own interpretation, Gein made literal vessels out of women and used their skulls for bowls and ...
- 2573: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Symbolism
- ... things from word choice to the way the story flows. In this way, the reader gathers more interest out of reading the book because they have the ability to hunt out the symbolic meanings. Jim’s meaning to Huck changes as they proceed through their adventure. He starts out as an extra person just to take on the journey, but they transform into a friend. “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger.”(Pg.84) Huck tries to squeal on Jim but can’t because he remembers that Jim called him “de bes’ fren’ I ever had;…de on’y white genlman dat ever kep’ his promise to ole Jim.”(Pg.87) Huck realizes that he can not turn ... act as runaway outcasts on the river. The support they have for each other sprouts friendship. The events that Huck comes in contact with carry a certain sequential order. Huck started off despising the Widow’s rules, and when his Pap kidnaps him, he has no interest in returning. The juxtaposed thoughts in Pap’s mind, money and education, make him feel unworthy to Huck. Since Pap has neither quality, ...
- 2574: Canterbury Tales The Knights T
- ... Faulkner suggests that only when a person can face and conquer their fear, can they attain charter, experience and maturity. Faulkner effectively uses symbolism in "THE BEAR" by using the bear to represent the boy's deepest fear and the relation, in which Ike lives in. "Then it moved. It made no sound. It did not hurry. It crossed the glade, walking for an instant into the glare of the sun ... geeing to grow, as he grows up to complete with the earth, the world, it had been strong and lived within its own code of morality, it dissevered to be treated with respect. And that's what that little boy did. He learned not about bears, from the bear but he learned about the world, he learned about man. About courage, about pity, about responsibility, from that bears. It seems that ... life is it going to be for good or bad. Ike deliberate and disciplined mature of the woods… represents his dedicated struggle for self-discovery and self-knowledge .The forest, as it is in Hawthorne's fiction, is symbolic of the unconscious self. Ike must wander through the maze; he must search the labyrinths of his own deepest self in order to discover who he is and learn the essential ...
- 2575: Opinions on Esoteric Practices
- ... to birth time and period are fairly accurate, but very general. On the other hand I would not put any scope into truly predicting the future via this becuase the whole theory behind it doesn't work any longer if they are using the present day calendar and symbols. The original basis of astrology was not 12 but 13 Astrological constellations, which were the predominant sign for each Lunar month (13 ... I remember correctly, on one side of Scorpio. If anyone is claiming true accuracey and results using Astrology they must be ignoring the current calendar and co nverting back to the classical one. I don't doubt there are some who do just this, but they are not the majority. Never believe Mass-marketed horoscopes in books, magazines or newspapers...they pay no attention to the time you were born or actual day and thus lack the information on your ascendency sign. Again don't put all your faith into this nor your hard earned dollars that you can't afford to lose. Remember Hitler had an astrologer he followed dilligently, and so did Napoleon, neither got the result ...
- 2576: Macbeth: Macbeth Is Not A Killer
- ... opinions change. Macbeth turns from a keen, moral, skilled kingsmen to a power hungry murderer. In this essay you will see that Macbeth did not want to kill the king (Duncan) and with Lady Macbeth's smart and cunning ways, brainwashed him and convinced him to commit the murder and turn him into a heartless killer. The story of Macbeth started when three witches confronted him and tell him that he ... me from crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty."(I V 48-50). Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that the king Duncan will be coming and leaving the next mourning, thus Lady Macbeth see's this as an excellent opportunity to murder the king, Macbeth becomes worried and nervous as his facial expressions show. Lady Macbeth tells him to look normally and show a happy, welcoming face. "Your face my ... matters...Bear welcome in your eye, your hand and your tongue. Look th' innocent flower" ( I VI 73-77). Lady Macbeth then offers a plan for the murder of Duncan, "But be the serpent under't he thats comeing must be provided for, you shall put this nights great business into my dispatch"( I VI 78-80). Macbeth seems interested however after Lady Macbeth gives him the idea of murder ...
- 2577: Comparing Events In History To
- ... McCarthyism is the unfairly accusing other of disloyalty and subversion.” (DiBacco et all, R47) All this person did was just scare many Americans just like in the Salem Witch trials. I guess that was McCarthy’s crucible, to make Americans think that a large amount of Communists worked for the State Department. Luckily we had a good congress and they didn’t let McCarthy’s ideas spread around. This relates to “The Crucible” by how one man tried to gain power by making false accusations. This is like when Parris saw the girls dancing in the woods he assumed ...
- 2578: In Cold Blood: A Review
- ... family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, but not before the reader gets to know Dick and Perry almost to well at times. While reading Truman Capote's nonfiction novel, "In Cold Blood," Capote's presentation of the facts surrounding the murders of an obscure Kansas farmer and three of his family members becomes almost frightening. At many times, the author of this paper was left wondering why this book ... to him. Initially, one may think the answer to be that the book was a true account- because these things had actually happened, and they were not simply a fictional story produced by some author's overactive imagination. However, it becomes apparent it wasn't just the horrific story of these murders that is troubling, but the aspect of how Capote tells the story that makes reading it uneasy. Unlike ...
- 2579: Hackers Misunderstood
- ... what the rest of the world is following or brainwashed into doing. Hackers thrive off curiosity, and have an unsatisfying hunger for knowledge. The word impossible or access denied does not exist in a hacker’s vocabulary. They can access anything and everything that is kept in a computer. Particularly when a price has been placed on knowledge and information. Why should only a select few have leisure of knowing what ... and should always remain free. A hacker will share his knowledge, encourage it to be reproduced and distributed. Hacking is a skill that takes years and years and tons of practice to achieve. A hacker’s qualifications are based on qualifications and performance. Prejudice is non-existence, a person’s title such as degree or position means nothing over the Internet. Discrimination is impossible, hackers are judged on how much they achieved in the quest for knowledge. Hackers have ethics, contrary to what the ...
- 2580: Brave New Worlds Social Outcas
- The characters in Aldous Huxley s Brave New World represent certain political and social ideas. Huxley used what he saw in the world in which he lived to form his book. From what he saw, he imagined that life was heading ... detrimental. One such character he uses to represent the idealogy behind this is Bernard Marx. Bernard Marx is a character that represents those that are different from the norm, a character still relevant in today s culture. He is an archetype of those that are looked down upon as different. He signifies those that look and/or think uniquely. Bernard is the outcast who longs to belong. Bernard is pretty high ... Alpha Plus at the top of the caste system and he works in the Psychology Bureau as a specialist on hypnopaedia. Bernard, though, is flawed according to his culture on the inside and out. He s so ugly! And then so small. Fanny made a grimace; smallness was so horribly and typically low-caste (46). Bernard s looks pushed him to be an outsider. His physical insufficiencies cause him to ...
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