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- 25881: Hedda Gabler and Phaedra: Death and the Heroine
- ... notice that throughout the play she has not slandered or even made any accusations at or to anyone but has always implies so. Oenone has always been the scapegoat, she lied to Theseus about Phaedra's and Hippolytus's encounter. Phaedra acquiesced to entire idea as she was in a weak state of mind and was distressed. In such a state, on being shown a light at the end of the tunnel by Oenone ... proclamation of her victory and her desire to break free from the usual moribund rituals of society. If one analysis the situation she is in, one can possibly imagine the agony - Hedda is General Gabler's daughter who has inherited an aristocratic view of life. She is used to the better things in life and hence the transition becomes all the more difficult. She moved from a person living in ...
- 25882: Family A Tough Bond To Break
- ... The struggle of good versus evil, finding true love, and the rise and fall of important people have been written about since the discovery of pen and paper. One theme that stands out in Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, is the desperation to keep a family together. Odysseus, Telemacus, and Penelope all suffer hardships trying to keep the tight bond their family has, as close as possible. Odysseus is determined he ... after the war of Troy was won. Many trials and tribulations are presented to Odysseus on his journey home. Polyphemus, the Cyclops, tries to detain the hero from returning to his home of Ithaca. Poseidon’s son failed and ended up being blinded (Milch p. 29). Odysseus was also tempted by Calypso. The nymph-goddess offered to make him immortal if he would just stay with her on the island for ... She does this knowing that Odysseus is the only man who could do this. She devises these plans in the hopes that her dear husband would soon return home to her and her son. Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, contains many intertwined plots and themes. The fight between good and evil is alive and well. The gods protect the ones that they favor. It is always wise to help out ...
- 25883: Macbeth 2
- ... to climb up a cliff. Scar was at the top of the cliff. Mufassa reached out his paw to his brother for help. Instead of pulling his brother up, Scar drove his nails into Mufassa's paw. Mufassa fell and was killed. Simba ran to his father. Scar came up behind Simba and told him that he was the cause of his father's death. Scar encouraged Simba to flee from the Pride Lands and never return. Simba took his uncle's advice and ran away, followed by three murderers hired by Scar. Simba made it to safety and lived in the jungle. Scar became King and enjoyed the time that he ruled very much, although ...
- 25884: The Banning of Guns Is Ineffective
- ... fighters discovered the power of the Minuteman, the average American gun owner. These Minutemen, so named because they would pick up their personal guns and jump to the defense of their country on a minute's notice, served a major part in winning the American Revolution. The founding fathers of this country understood that an armed populace was instrumental in fighting off oppression, and they made the right to keep and ... their plans work completely. It was a full century before the civil rights activists of the 1960s were able to restore the constitutional freedoms that blacks in this country were granted in the 1860s. Today's gun control activists are a slightly different breed. They claim that gun violence in this country has gotten to a point where something must be done to stop it. They would like to see criminals ... not the law allows them to do so. Criminals will always find ways to get guns. In this country we have criminalized the use, possession, sale, and transportation of many kinds of narcotics, but it's still easy for someone to take a ride and purchase the drugs of their choice at street corner vendors. Firearms and ammunition would be just as easy for these black-market entrepreneurs to deliver ...
- 25885: The Political Power of England and France Increased Greatly in the 17th Century
- ... In England, taxing had become under the control of Parliament. In addition to this, the cost of running a government in general had gone up and the country needed more money. Because the king didn't have as much power to tax as he pleases, the government could make a firm and accurate taxation of the people. In France, the price of government had also gone up. However, here the was ... economic changes in this century required new relationships between the King and his subjects. In England, the parliament because of this need, grew to have power over the king and cause great toleration of people's beliefs, in addition to keeping a strong central government. In France, the Parliaments of Henry IV were totally changed by the next active king, Louis XIV. Louis XIV created a powerful monarchy the gave him ...
- 25886: Dreaming
- ... that one is dreaming. Lucid dreams usually happen during REM sleep. Working at Stanford University, Dr. Stephen LaBerge proved this by eliciting deliberate eye movement signals given by lucid dreamers during their REM sleep. LaBerge's subjects slept in the laboratory, while the standard measures of sleep physiology (brain waves, muscle tone and eye movements) were recorded. As soon as they became lucid in a dream, they moved their eyes in ... after you fall asleep. If you nap for 90 minutes to 2 hours you will have plenty of dreams and a higher probability of becoming lucid than in dreams you have during a normal night's sleep. Focus on your intention to recognize that you are dreaming as you fall asleep within the nap. (LaBerge, 1985) External cues to help people attain lucidity in dreams have been the focus of Dr. Stephen LaBerge's research at the Lucidity Institute for several years. Using the results of laboratory studies, he has designed a portable device, called the DreamLight ($950), for this purpose. It monitors sleep and when it detects ...
- 25887: Essay On Book, An Angel At My
- ... as about the age and society in which she lives. Discuss this statement with the specific references to the book (Min. 750 words). From the "down the line" to the "first ocean voyage and it's running smoothly". For someone who is not familiar with Janet Frame biography it sounds almost as a fiction, but for everyone who had read the novel it is living history, proof that there is no limit in ordinary human life. Janet Frame's "journey" had begun on day of her arrival in a big city Dunedin. From day one she started to feel anxiety that was significant point for her future life. Being alone, afraid of the city ... by "the pity of war" (page 55) and yet have noticed that noone in society recognized that the atom bomb had been born (page 60). It may seem that not much have changed in today's society. Or it may change for the worse? Following "the latent period" she appeared to be a lovely girl, no troubled at all. However, underneath she started to think that suicide was the only ...
- 25888: Descartes Existence Of God
- ... theory to bring doubt to all senses and hence making them false. The theory says that it is possible that there is someone (an evil genius) who is controlling our mind. If so we wouldn’t be sure whether or not what we see was real or just a dream, therefore all of our senses would be doubtable and thus taken as false. This theory proves that nothing external is certain ... says that nothing can be created from nothing, and that the less perfect can not create something more perfect or better than itself. Then if there is an idea in our minds that we didn’t create, something else created it. If God is more perfect than us, then we could not have created God but God created us. Descartes then wrote about the idea of God. He said that God ... similar ideas in their premises’. For instance, they both rely on the faith that there is an idea of God; he is perfect and self evident. God could not have been conceived if there wasn’t a God. Though, Descartes says that the less perfect can not create something more perfect or better than itself, and that we are less perfect than God therefore we could not have created God. ...
- 25889: Traditions in "A Moment Before the Gun Went Off" and "The Lottery"
- ... Moment before The Gun Went Off" and "The Lottery," there is the situation in which a group of people cling to traditions very blindly. In both stories the traditions are so dug into the people's way of life that questioning them is considered sacrilege within these communities. Furthermore, the members of the community no longer even remember why the traditions were set up in the fist place. They follow the ... character of the story is Mr. Van der Vyver. In the story Mr. Van der Vyver accidentally kills a young farm hand by the name of Lucas. Mr. Van der Vyver is more than Lucas's employer he is his father, so Mr. Van der Vyver feels truly sorry for killing Lucas. Mr. Van der Vyver does not grieve with his wife for the death of their son because he is not married to the Lucas's mother. The tradition in this story is that interracial marriages do not occur. While this tradition is not as brutal as the one from "the Lottery" it is just as sad. I believe that ...
- 25890: Eagles 2
- ... lower 48 states. Bald eagles have few natural enemies. But in general they need an environment of quiet isolation; tall, mature trees; and clean waters. Those conditions have changed over much of the bald eagle's former habitat. History notes many wilderness areas were cleared for farms and towns, and virgin forests were cut for timber and fuel. And, today, an increasing number of people flock to the nation's waterways for recreation, with growing impacts on bald eagle habitat. Meanwhile, these birds of prey became prey themselves. Although primarily fish and carrion eaters, bald eagles and other raptors were seen as marauders that killed ... Species Act of 1973) in all areas of the United States south of the 40th parallel. Federal and state government agencies, along with private organizations, successfully sought to alert the public about the bald eagle's plight and to protect its habitat from further destruction.
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