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- 5661: Summary of Aycliffe's The Lost
- Summary of Aycliffe's The Lost My book I reviewed was The Lost, by Jonathan Aycliffe. The main setting for this book is modern day Romania. As a naive Englishman, Michael Feraru travels to a remote, forbidding castle in the mountains of Transylvania and then fleshes it out with appealing characters and a different plot. Michael leaves his beloved girlfriend behind at home where he thinks it's safer, her name is Sophie Wandless. This book is made up of a different way of writing, Sophie and Michael exchange information about each others and what's going on by letters, or postcards back and forth. We also learn about the characters from personal journal entries, letters to other people, and letters to them from other people. The evil beings in ...
- 5662: A Clockwork Orange
- ... Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess has been heralded as one of the greatest literary geniuses of the twentieth century. Although Burgess has over thirty works of published literature, his most famous is A Clockwork Orange. Burgess’s novel is a futuristic look at a Totalitarian government. The main character, Alex, is an “ultra-violent” thief who has no problem using force against innocent citizens to get what he wants. The beginning of ... At the Staja or state penitentiary, Alex becomes inmate number 6655321 and spends two years of a sentence of fourteen years there. Alex is then chosen by the government to undergo an experimental new “Ludovico’s Technique.” In exchange for his freedom, Alex would partake in this experiment that was to cure him of all the evil inside of him and all that was bad. Alex is given injections and made ... with past victims finds himself at the home of a radical writer who is strongly opposed to the new treatment the government has subjected him to. Ironically, this writer was also a victim of Alex’s but does not recognize him. This writer believes that this method robs the recipient of freedom of choice and moral decision, therefore depriving him of being a human at all. These themes are played ...
- 5663: "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers": Women and Society
- "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers": Women and Society In the course of our life we need to make many decisions. The way we live our life is a decision each person makes for him/herself. Usually, one choice is better than the other, yet society doesn't always support the better one. The poem, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" and The Scarlet Letter present two ways in which women can react to a society dominated by men and how their lives are shaped by their different decisions. A woman can just ignore ...
- 5664: Analysis Of Karl Marx And Comm
- ... the Tavern Club and joining a club for poets that included some politically active students. However, he left Bonn after a year and enrolled at the University of Berlin to study law and philosophy. Marx's experience in Berlin was crucial to his introduction to Hegel's philosophy and to his "adherence to the Young Hegelians." Hegel's philosophy was crucial to the development of his own ideas and theories. Upon his first introduction to Hegel's beliefs, Marx felt a repugnance and wrote his father that when he felt sick, it ...
- 5665: WEB DuBois's Influence on Literature and People
- WEB DuBois's Influence on Literature and People In his work The Souls of Black Folk, WEB DuBois had described the life and problems that blacks in America was not easy. DuBois had a very different plan in ... is called. We are rather ashamed that we have not developed more millionaires and more big business. (Paschal 154) DuBois believed that assimilation was the best means of treating discrimination against blacks in the 1920's. Education was a key to a diverse and cultural society. DuBois being a well-respected intellectual and leader, worked to reach goals of education and peaceful resolutions between the races and classes. DuBois felt that the black leadership, of Booker T. Washington, was too submissive. Washington wanted black to try and get along with society "trying to fit in". He was encouraging blacks to become educated in the "white man's world". He tried to ...
- 5666: Russia and US International Relations
- ... instances, must fall into separate and independent states" Former President James Madison had enough clairvoyance, in 1821, to predict the downfall of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991. At that moment, the Soviet Union's fifteen members became a commonwealth of separate nations; each filled with self-determination to succeed with their newfound autonomy. The dissolve of the Soviet Union effectively ended the cold war and gave the United States ... been, and therefore crises that might have escalated to dangerous levels have been resolved safely at low levels. Robert McNamara states that the "sole purpose" of strategic nuclear force "is to deter the other side's first use of its strategic forces." Robert Jervis brings up the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction, and how it discourages the use of nuclear weapons by showing the inevitability of total destruction on both sides ... threat of nuclear weapons in unstable countries. Different threats arise when unstable states attain nuclear weapons. First are the threats that can be approached through a modern realist examination. One state might misinterpret another state's attainment of nuclear weapons as an attack on their own state's security and therefore attain weapons of equal or greater destruction. This would then bring about a security dilemma, which is expected in ...
- 5667: Hamlet - Was Prince Hamlet Wacko?
- In Shakespeare's "Hamlet", the main character offers a puzzling and ambiguous persona. Throughout the play, Hamlet often contradicts himself. He seems to balance the virtues of "playing a role", with being true to himself. Further proof of ... and inactions. The ambiguity noted here, lies in two conflicting mannerisms displayed by the young Hamlet: One that is perfectly calm and rational; and another which displays madness. These conflicting behaviors are related within Hamlet's internal struggle-to kill Claudius for revenge of his fathers' murder; or act responsibly, and await further proof of Claudius' guilt. Throughout the play, Hamlet teeters on the brink of insanity induced by his actions, or inactions. Hamlet's sanity is clarified, in the first act, by statements and feelings expressed within his dialogue. When asked about his depressed appearance and demeanor by Gertrude, Hamlet replies, "Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know ...
- 5668: Spin Cycle
- ... press. And within the narrow scope of his research, he had only fragmentary access to important information. For legal and political reasons, white House aides were probably not inclined to volunteer the whole truth. What s more, the story is still unfolding. Though he adds nothing to what is known about recent happenings in the Oval Office, he does shed light on a subject that remains of considerable importance: the techniques ... the public for what Kurtz calls the tabloid presidency or, for the revelations that today so dominate the news. The fact is that during the 1996 campaign, most major news organizations did not treat Clinton s growing ethical problems in any comprehensive way. In particular, the media opted to pass on the Paula Jones case. This lapse may be explained in part by the success of the spin-control methods Kurtz ... and the president and his advisers face once again the challenge of spinning news to their advantage, a challenge they have mastered many times before. In Spin Cycle, Kurtz reveals the inside workings of Clinton s well-oiled propaganda machine--arguably the most successful team of White House spin doctors in history. He takes the reader into closed-door meetings where Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Mike McCurry, Lanny Davis, and ...
- 5669: Myth or Reality, Today's Perception on Monsters
- Myth or Reality, Today's Perception on Monsters Monsters, which are seemingly just myth and fantasy, do have some truths to their legend. In fact, some creatures may have actually existed and still do today, even though they should not ... State after a recent sighting. "This is the first time that I'm aware of that anybody will be able to do any DNA extractions on Bigfoot," said Frank Poirier, chairman of Anthropology. "I don't expect anything to happen because I'm pretty sceptical about this. But good science requires some wild goose chases from time to time." The hair that is being tested was from creatures reportedly observed at ... Loch Ness Monster is one of the most compelling myths in human lore, and for good reason because some of the scientific fact that lay behind it is amazing. The vast majority of the Earth's oceans and seas are unexplored. Is it really hard to believe that there are creatures that live so far down or in such remote areas, that they are rarely, if ever, seen by humans. ...
- 5670: Alcoholics Anonymous
- ... and 1939 when Alcoholics Anonymous was an integral part of “A First Century Christian Fellowship” (Pitman 56). A.A. was the outcome of a meeting between Bill W., a New York stockbroker, and Dr. Bob S., an Akron surgeon. Both had been hopeless alcoholics (Fingarette 14). Before this time, Bill and Dr. Bob had each been in contact with the Oxford Group, a mostly nonalcoholic fellowship that emphasized universal spiritual values in daily living(Fingarette 15). During this period, the noted episcopal clergyman, Dr. Samuel Shoemaker, headed the group. Under this spiritual influence, and with the help of an old time friend, Ebby T., Bill had gotten sober and had then maintained his recovery by working with other alcoholics, though none of there had actually recovered (Wekesser 23) . Meanwhile, Dr. Bob’s Oxford Group membership at Akron had not helped him enough to achieve sobriety. When the doctor met Bill, he found himself face to face with a fellow sufferer who had made good (Pitman 62). ...
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