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- 5401: Diary of Hatchet
- ... the book, Jake, the pilot, has a heart attack and dies. To be honest, I, myself, have thought about what I would do if I was on plane and the pilot died. I really don't know what I would do, I don't know how to fly a plane. Luckily, Brian had been taught by Jake how to fly the plane. Brian didn't know how to land so he flew the plane into a lake. This part of the book was hard to believe, there was a lot of "coincidents." Brian showed his intellectual side when he ...
- 5402: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Brief Synopsis: The book opens with a scene of a ship in the Arctic Ocean. The ship is stuck in the ice and unable to move. Robert Walton, the ship's captain, is writing letters to his sister back home. The letters tell of his explorations and the events that occur on the ship. Walton's crew pulls abord a lifeless body and revive the man back to life. This man is Victor Frankenstein. Walton and Frankenstein talk about why Victor is in the Arctic and Victor explains the horrible ...
- 5403: William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare English playwright and poet, William Shakespeare is recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. A complete, authoritative account of Shakespeare's life does not exist, but it is commonly accepted that he was born in 1564, and it is known that he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. In 1582 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. They ... and a playwright. The publication of his two narrative poems Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594) and of his Sonnets (1609) established his reputation as a gifted and popular poet. Shakespeare's modern reputation, however, is based primarily on the 38 plays attributed to him. He formed his own acting company, the Chamberlain's Men, later called the King's Men, and two theaters, the Globe Theatre and the Blackfriars. Shakespeare's dramatic career is generally divided into four periods: (1) the period up to 1594, (2) the ...
- 5404: Individual Understanding
- ... and output. They claim that what we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch (input) creates a mental state or belief, and that particular mental state in turn creates our reaction (output). If I see it=s raining outside, I believe that if I go outside I will get wet, and therefore I take an umbrella with me. The functionalists define a mental state strictly through its cause and effect relationships, through ... symbols together, a native Chinese speaker outside the room would say yes, Searle does understand Chinese. Chinese questions were sent in, and flawless answers came back out. There were input (Chinese questions), obvious processing (Searle=s matching symbols according to the rulebook), and appropriate output (Searle=s pieced-together responses), just as strong AI proposes. But is this understanding? Searle claims it is not. He argues that locked in the room, he certainly does not understand Chinese. AI have inputs and ...
- 5405: Macbeth Makes For Fasinating T
- ... audience is fascinated by the dramatic impact. The development of the characters is another element that makes MacBeth popular. From the first act it is established that MacBeth is a traitor, yet the audience doesn't hate him, the audience feels for him. MacBeth is a human, dynamic character who the audience can relate to. MacBeth is a play surrounded by the universal, human problems. Good and evil, appearance and reality ... one, flowing with harmony. Thus these elements together assist in making MacBeth fascinating theater. The supernatural, violence and suspense play an essential role in MacBeth as a play. From the weird sisters entrance to MacBeth's vivid hallucinations and apparitions to his eventual death by sword fight there is constantly popular dramatic impact at work. Shakespeare, with the knowledge that the supernatural was popular, includes the witches. From the first scene ... characters in MacBeth have, arguably, the biggest impact on the plays popularity. Each of the main characters grows and develops as the play unfolds, creating an emotional relationship between the actors and the audience. macbeth's character, as is well known, is seriously flawed. His greed and ambition fueled with circumstance lead him to commit and unthinkable deed. Originally MacBeth was observed as "valiant cousin, worthy gentleman" by the King ...
- 5406: Jane Eyre-criticism Of The Mai
- ... governess for self-realization and dream-fulfillment. In that determined and almost obsessive struggle Jane appears as a self-involved person in an absolute denial of the world around her. This particular layer of Jane's complex personality is important because it shades a general course of the novel. At one point it even raises social and moral issues from the standpoint of Victorian conventionality. In this passage I will show ... the denial; I will seek for the evidence and reasons of that; and at last I will give the explanation of how this 'innocent', 'honest' creature developed its mechanisms that influenced broad picture of Jane's personality. Jane grabbed her reward with blind happiness and joy. "I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow. Again and again he said, 'Are you happy Jane?' And again and again I answered, 'Yes.' " (224). Jane doesn't have any questions for Rochester. She accepts the rapture of the moment and steps into the future refusing to discern or reveal the vale of mystery that surrounds them. Her strong individuality and feeling ...
- 5407: Life In A Medieval Village
- ... the people formed an integrated whole for agricultural production. There they lived, labored, socialized, loved, married, sinned, went to church, paid fines, and had children. The medieval village represented a new stage of the world's oldest civilized society, the peasant econonmy. Houses didn't necessarily face the street, but might stand at odd angles, with a fence fronting on the street. Their were two types of houses, the peasant cottage,(which wasn't that big) and the long house which had more space by far. The village wasn't a very delightful place to be in. It was a place of bustle, clutter, smells, disrepair, and dust, ...
- 5408: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huckleberry Finn's Experiences
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huckleberry Finn's Experiences In Mark Twains novel, Huckleberry Finn, the main character, Huck, discovers many ways of the world, things he could never learn in a classroom. As a young boy, Huck comes across many things that some grown men had never experienced, such as a tumultuous relationship with his father, encounters with scoundrels, and acts of bigotry against his friend, Jim. Hucks Pap is not the typical loving father that Huck could respect and look up to. Pap not only abuses him verbally, but also physically because he thinks Huck is trying to be better than ...
- 5409: Malcolm X 4
- ... to go through. Showing the misleading teachings of the honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, and how Malcolm learns the real truth of his religion. All should study the journey of Malcolm X's life because it gives great insight into one of America's great leaders. The struggles he had as young black boy and the influences he got there. To his teenage years where he developed most of his street smarts and learned how people really worked. Also ... father is killed. Not only is this very terrible to a any young boy, but it is the way that his father is killed and by whom is killed that makes the most influence. Malcolm's father was a Baptist minister and an organizer for the Marcus Aurelius Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association. When Malcolm used to go with his father to the meetings that his father threw for ...
- 5410: Othello 8
- Othello Essay Each individual has a different opinion on what love is, but it is amazing how these opinions differ between Desdemona and Emilia in William Shakespeare s, Othello. Othello is a play written about love, betrayal and relationships, and each character has a strong opinion on how a relationship should be. Although they all have different opinions, the one s of Desdemona and Emilia seem to be the most interesting as well as the complete opposites of each other. Both married, they have completely different standards for their husbands and one would be surprised to ... souly physical way. Typically, men usually are the ones to have these opinions of woman, yet Emilia very strongly feels that as long as she is physically satisfied, that is all she needs. She doesn t look for emotional support in a man; Emilia tends to look to other woman for that kind of support. In Emilia s opinion, men are useless for anything other than sex. Let husbands know ...
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