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- 4231: Reservoir Dogs
- ... pretty gory scenes and extreme violent content, Tarantinos' trademark. The way he portrays the real life aspects of crime and violence are unbelievable. I wonder if he experienced some of these things himself and that's why he has a realistic view of them. Then again, I can't really gauge how realistic any of these themes are because after watching this kind of movie it makes me feel like I lead a really sheltered lifestyle. Why does all the violence in Tarantinos' movies become so attractive to us normal people? I think it's because most of his material is underworld stuff. He deals with things we can barely relate to. Topics that are so far fetched to a "normal" person that they kind of hypnotize us into ...
- 4232: Life Of Baruch Spinoza
- ... pension offered by King Louis XIV, king of France, on condition that he dedicated one of his works to the monarch. Baruch had many opportunities to make the voyage of his life easy but didn’t take them and strived for everything that he received. His works were not looked upon as great pieces until about 100 years after his death. Spinoza died much too young at the age of 45 ... free accessible to human mind, mainly, extension, the world of material things, and conscious thought. He thought that extension is considered to depend on and exist in ultimate reality, which is God. Causation, in Spinoza’s system, may exist between individual objects, extension, or between individual ideas in the attribute thought. Spinoza advanced a theory called Parallelism, which explained the apparent casual interactions between objects and ideas. This theory is what ... begetting,” or nature in its creative unity. The modes, as Spinizo said, act as transitory, and their existence assumes temporal form. Spinoza always liked to say that, “God is the eternal, and the only.” Spinoza’s system also consist of that he did think that an indestructible world does exist. He believed that this work is not to be found in the realm of existent things but in that of ...
- 4233: Custer
- Custer’s Last Stand The Tragedy of Little Bighorn is such a tale for over a hundred years. This is one of the most startling defeats in the Military history. More than two hundred cavalrymen were killed in battle on June 25, 1876. Is General Custer to blame for all this mishap with the loss of his troopers including himself? Who was the real person to blame? The details aren’t fully covered in the mystery of what happened at Little Bighorn. The Europeans came to battle with the Indians to conquer the North American land that hundreds of Indian nations had lived on for thousands ... military, political, and spiritual leader. He had a vision that the whites were going to battle with them. So the Indians were ready for battle. Who knows what would have happened if Sitting Bull didn’t get his visions. Would they be prepared? Would they have lost more men then they already did? It was a big concern to go to battle because of the loss of his people, but ...
- 4234: Creative Writing: A Grim Conclusion
- ... and forced a friendly smile, "Of course." He paused as the man sat down, "Do you have a name, son?" The man smiled, "My friends call me Stan. And you...?" "Gregory McFinnly." He shook Stan’s hand firmly and suppressed a yawn. "Its a beautiful morning." Stan nodded and turned to face the sunset, "Its too bad it all has to end." "What?" Gregory cocked his head. "It’ll be all ... tell them to anyone, but, Oh well. What can they do?" He laughed softly, "They’ll kill me. Me and whoever I was talking to." Confused, Gregory shook his head. "I’m afraid I don’t understand." "Oh you will." Stan replied, his gaze still fixed on the sunrise, "You will." Gregory stared blankly into the wash of red and pink that swirled elegantly around the rising sun. He was beginning ... are you trying to say?" "I know more than they ever wanted me to. So they fired me and warned me to keep quiet or else." Stan gestured toward his ragged attire, "I’m don’t intend on keeping quiet and they know it. I’ve been running from them for several days now." He turned to face Gregory, "They’re watching us right now. Believe me, they can hear ...
- 4235: The Metamorphosis: Shape and Form
- ... of communication that existed throughout the story that revealed how unappreciated they were of Gregor and his sister, who was on her way towards becoming like her brother. Gregor was very important to the family's welfare. At first he was the only working member of the family, and his job was very important; the whole future of Gregor and his family depended on it (p.84). For so long he wanted to quit his work, because he wasn't happy with it. But he said to himself, " Besides, I have to provide for my parents and my sister. (pp. 82-83)." He felt that his family was too dependent of him. When Gregor wouldnt ... able to provide. After his secret of change to an insect was discovered, they realized that he was no longer of any use to the family, and he was unappreciated in every way. He didn't have his job and no longer had anything to offer. "The house soon started to fall apart; the household was reduced more and more "(p. 113). Gregor was now a problem for he had ...
- 4236: A Sword in the Stone
- A Sword in the Stone Education has been the key to success for many centuries and its principles haven't changed much. Teachers have different ways of teaching just as students have different ways of learning. Although teacher and student interaction is a very important part in education, I believe that a student should be ... own. That is what I think a education should be, not only from book to student, but from student to whatever is out there in the open world. In The Sword in the Stone, Arthur's education is very interesting; in a way, very similar to my point of view on what a real education should be, but in an a way very different. I believe an education should be like Arthur's in the way that he learns by getting different experiences from Merlyn, his tutor, that include exactly what he needs to learn. An example of the kind of experiences given to Arthur is when ...
- 4237: Louis Armstrong
- ... the age of seventeen. Armstrong played with his band, known as Louis Armstrong Hot 5 or Hot 7, for two years and then King Oliver went to Chicago. Armstrong took a spot in Kid Ory’s orchestra one of the biggest known bands in the town. He played on the riverboats on the Mississippi River and got better at playing. All this without even knowing how to read music. While on ... The next year Oliver and Armstrong made a recording. This made Armstrong one of the first black men to be recorded. In 1924 Armstrong went to Harlem in New York to play in Fletcher Henderson’s band. He had the towns’ respect as soon as he arrived. This is when he started to learn how to write his own music. During this time Armstrong invented a type of singing called "scat singing" a type of wordless singing sounding like a mix of blues and jazz. Even though he was extremely popular over here, he was even more popular in Europe because they weren’t as concerned with racism. Up until the 50’s he still sang and play the trumpet. On July 6th two days after his birthday he died in his sleep at home in Queens, New ...
- 4238: Stoic Death Themes Of In The N
- ... one point or another. These universal themes, however, are experienced in different orders. As in In the Name of the Father, sometimes it takes the death of a loved one to bring meaning to one's life. In the case of The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, though, it is his own death that is dealt with. Ivan lived a pleasant life, attending law school, being in the company of high society ... bit disgraceful. He saw that the same acts did not bother other men, and therefore put them out of his mind. He never questioned himself why these acts were distasteful, or why these men weren't hounded by their inner voices of shame. He went along in life not taking anything from it to learn and to prosper as a good person. After graduating law school, he sowed "his wild oats", as Tolstoy puts it, among an aristocratic society. He moved up in rank and earned a raise in salary. This new power, although not taken advantage of, was accessible in Ilyitch's eyes, and hence the mere thought of corruption existed as a tool for possible future use. He married, not because of love, but because he felt it would be an asset to him. This ...
- 4239: Joy Luck Club 3
- ... being said or done, because the culture is different and they think differently. Therefore I think that some of the problems were cause by the dissimilarities of the two cultures, especially the contrasting dinner etiquette's to explain these differences. The cultural difference that is the easiest to see is dinner etiquette. I was upset when I first came to Canada about how the people kept taking my food because they ... it is just like swearing, and it really hurts the people. We can find some of the examples about the differences in etiquette in "Four Direction" that Waverly Jong wrote. When Rich, who is Waverly's fiancée, was invited by her family for dinner, and made many mistakes which started by bringing a bottle of French wine. If I think about it in American way, it is a polite manner to bring something to eat or drink for the people who invited me, and it is the etiquette. But it is not in Asian way. I really don't know why it is rude if we bring something for the people who invited me. Although I guess it is because the people might not like what I bought for them, or I could ...
- 4240: Superman and Batman: The Greatest Superheros of All Time
- ... both are so different, they have something very important in common. They fight crime and uphold justice in their cities. Superman and Batman are undoubtedly the greatest super heroes of all time. Kal-El, Superman's real name, was born on the planet Krypton to his parents Jor-El and Lara. Jor-El was a well known scientist on the planet Krypton. He tried to convince the Head Council that the planet Krypton was going to explode; no one listened, but Jor-El knew. He didn't have enough time to build rockets for the whole family. He only built one for his son, Kal-El, who he sent to earth just as the planet exploded. The rocket soared past stars and ... named him Clark. Clark realized he was different from everybody at an early age. He had powers that were unlike anything anybody had ever seen. Nobody else knew about them except his parents. He didn't really get all of his powers until he was about seventeen. Clark gets his powers from the radiation absorbed in his body from our red sun. Over time "Clark had developed the powers of ...
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