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- 3101: KING LEAR
- ACT ONE, SCENE ONE KING LEAR Lines 248 ¡V 260 It is said by Lear that it would have been better if Cordelia ¡§hadst not been born than not t¡¦have pleased me better¡¨, but France supports her by referring to her as ¡§Fairest Cordelia¡¨ to put her into a better light. As France is portrayed as a ¡§true gentleman¡¨ his views and opinions are respected more by the audience than Lear¡¦s, because Lear appears to the viewers as an egotistical and cruel man. Therefore, when France describes Cordelia as being ¡§rich¡¨ but ¡§poor¡¨, ¡§Most choice¡¨ yet ¡§forsaken¡¨ and ¡§most loved¡¨ though ¡§despised!¡¨ the audience sees a major contrast through these paradoxes and agrees with France. This makes Lear look as if he is doing something ¡§monstrous¡¨ as his opinion differs so much from France¡¦s. The fact that Lear is saying such shocking things about his daughter who he earlier called ¡§our joy¡¨ shows that his words are not to be trusted. Lear¡¦s ¡¥monstrous¡¨ behaviour is greatly emphasised ...
- 3102: Lord Of The Flies - Chapter Summaries
- ... and collects wood for a fire, which breaks up the meeting. At first the boys have nothing to light the fire, until Jack robs Piggy of his glasses and uses them to magnify the sun's rays to heat the tinder-dry wood. The fire, although majestic, unfortunately only generates a tiny amount of smoke, so the boys stack green branches on to get more smoke. At the next meeting, Ralph ... missing, and the group fear for his life. Chapter Three: Huts on the Beach. Ralph and Simon start to build shelters on their own and become angry because of the amount of kids who won't help. Ralph and Jack chat about each others views of their predicaments, and find that they are very different. Jack starts to become obsessed with hunting and killing pigs and loses sight of their goal ... and Long Hair. The hunters start painting themselves to stay camouflaged from their targets. Piggy suggests making a sundial to tell the time, but has no support. A ship sails past the island but doesn't notice the boys because Jack's choir had let the fire out completely. The boys had lost interest in the fire and decided to go hunting instead. This makes Ralph angry. Jack and his ...
- 3103: American Beauty
- ... goes without saying that the beauty bias is even more powerful and universal for women. Beautiful women are thought to be more feminine, and femininity is associated with being emotional, passive and nurturing (Heilman). There's not much bad news about being beautiful. Helena Maria Viramonte s Miss Clairol focuses on this point. She uses the characters of mother and daughter, Arlene and Champ, to emphasis the vanity of our culture and the reliance on the products required for a transformation into ... as they flocked to enter public life. The first social history of American beauty culture: a richly textured account of how women created the cosmetics industry and how cosmetics created the modern woman. You don't need the latest census to tell you that America is, more than ever, a rainbow of faces with worldwide roots. More and more women of African, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American heritage are celebrating ...
- 3104: Huck Finn, Violence And Greed
- Violence and Greed in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Violence and greed motivate much of the characters' actions in Mark Twain's, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Acts of violence include1 the Grangerfords feud with the Shepardsons, the robbers' plans for Jim Turner, and one town's revenge against the King and Duke. Also, Jim's escape and his plans to steal his children, possibly with the help of an abolitionist, is an example of violence in Twain's novel. Greed can be found in Pap's wishes to gain ...
- 3105: A Rose for Emily: Victim of Circumstance
- ... Circumstance Life is fickle and most people will be a victim of circumstance and the times. Some people choose not to let circumstance rule them and, as they say, "time waits for no man". Faulkner’s Emily did not have the individual confidence, or maybe self-esteem and self-worth, to believe that she could stand alone and succeed at life especially in the face of changing times. She had always ... died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad being left alone. She had become humanized" (219). This sounds as if her father’s death was sort of liberation for Emily. In a way it was, she could begin to date and court men of her choice and liking. Her father couldn’t chase them off any more. But then again, did she have the know-how to do this, after all those years of her father’s past actions? It also sounds as if the townspeople ...
- 3106: Great Gatsby
- ... B. Johnson had to say about materialism. He knew the value of money, and he realized the power and effect of money. Money can have many effects, however money cannot buy happiness. Many people don’t this fact, and many continue to try and actually buy things that make them happy. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Fizgerald shows us how Jay Gatsby is one of these people. Gatsby believes that if he has money, he can have many great goals. Gatsby is a sensible man, But he has ... house, his clothes, and through Daisy. He owns a large portion of finances due to some mysterious source of wealth, and he uses this mystery source to buy his house, his clothes, and Daisy. Gatsby's house, as Fitzgerald describes it, is "a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble ...
- 3107: Effects of Advertisements
- ... have any effect upon us? If so, is it bad or good? Almost all businesses, and even the government, use advertising as a way to promote their products and services. They try to manipulate people’s minds by running the same words and same pictures through people's heads over and over. So when people go shopping and see the products that have been advertised, their minds unconsciously recall the commercials they have seen. This biases them in favor of those products over ... them use a lie as an advantage in competition with other businesses. That hurts not only honest businesses, but also customers using their products. For example, every time people see a new commercial they don't necessarily disbelieve it. So some of them go out and buy those products and when they discover that those products don’t do what they have been advertised to do, people get disappointed and ...
- 3108: Research Paper On Index Vs Mut
- ... are good and bad aspects of both Index and Mutual Funds, however whichever one is better for any particular person depends on his/her situation and willingness to wait certain times, or pay certain fee s. Whether money is be the root cause of evil or not, I don t know. What I do know it that since the dawn of man, the concept of currency had been intimately intertwined with human society. It helps form the basis of governments, and most laws. The world stock market is where these global force that powers our atomic age society merges into a complex matrix of financial void; opportunity in it s most complex form. The raw power of the stock market that can either bring a man to rapid success, or completely ruin him. Two of the prominent worlds of the stock market are the ...
- 3109: Censorship And The Internet
- ... A banned book on the health history of former French president Francois Mitterrand was republished electronically on the World Wide Web (WWW). Apparently, the electronic reproduction of Le Grand Secret by a third party wasn't banned by a court that ruled that the printed version of the book unlawfully violated Mitterrand's privacy. To enforce censorship of the Internet, free societies find that they become more repressive and closed societies find new ways to crush political expression and opposition.13 Vice - President Al Gore, while at an ... Internet."15 Many other organizations have fought against laws and have succeeded. A prime example of this is the fight that various groups put on against the recent Communication Decency Act (CDA) of the U.S. Se nate. The Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition on 26 February 1996 filed a historic lawsuit in Philadelphia against the U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Janet Reno to make certain that the ...
- 3110: Television Violence and Children
- ... do go hand in hand. The truth about television violence and children has been shown. Some are trying to fight this problem. Others are ignoring it and hoping it will go away. Still others don’t even seem to care. However, the facts are undeniable. The studies have been carried out and all the results point to one conclusion: Television violence causes children to be violent and the effects can be life-long. The information can't be ignored. Violent television viewing does affect children. The effects have been seen in a number of cases. In New York, a 16-year-old boy broke into a cellar. When the police caught him ... are certainly startling examples of how television can affect the child. It must be pointed out that children watching violent television directly caused all of these situations. Not only does television violence affect the child’s youth, but it can also affect his or her adulthood. Some psychologists and psychiatrists feel that continued exposure to such violence might unnaturally speed up the impact of the adult world on the child. ...
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