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- 8581: The Swamp Dwellers: Tragic Flaw of Igwezu
- ... swamp. Igwezu: I know that the floods can come again. That the swamp will continue to laugh at our endeavors. I know that we can feed the serpent of the swamp and kiss the Kadiye’s feet-but the vapours will still rise and corrupt the tassels of the corn. Although Igwezu realized that his town would shun him, he spoke the truth anyway. Although, Igwezu had the courage to counter ... tradition with reason, that was part of his tragic flaw. He did not know how to conform. This was his downfall. Was he a farmer or a businessman? If he were a farmer, he wouldn’t have left his crops for months at a time. “Makuri: No, no. Of course not. The poor child [Igwezu] has been away for eight…whole…months…” Farming takes many months of careful planning, care and work to produce a fruitful crop. Igwezu lacked all three characteristics; he should not have counted on his crops because he wasn’t present to observe their growth. He also wasn’t a businessman. His heart wasn’t into making money, but into pleasing his wife. “Alu: If you’d [Makuri] kept you eyes about you, you ...
- 8582: Night
- Nobody wants to read such a morbid book as Night. There isn’t anybody (other than the Nazis and Neo-Nazis) who enjoys reading about things like the tortures, the starvation, and the beatings that people went through in the concentration camps. Night is a horrible tale of murder and of man’s inhumanity towards man. We must, however, read these kinds of books regardless. It is an indefinitely depressing subject, but because of its truthfulness and genuine historic value, it is a story that we must learn ... innocence and his faith in G-d. He saw his family, friends and fellow Jews first severely degraded and then sadistically murdered. He enters the camp a child and leaves a man. At the book’s end, Elie bears little resemblance to the teenage boy who left Sighet almost a year earlier. Night is a memoir exquisitely written. Wiesel’s eloquence makes his descriptions seem terrifyingly real and repulsive. It ...
- 8583: Descartes Meditations
- ... is presented with the deeper question of what he, himself actually is. Descartes knows that he is not just a body based on his doubt of the senses. Despite the fact that he feels he s not a body, he does believe he has properties, such as doubt, that make him a substance. From this he concludes that his is an immaterial substance and that his essential property is self-consciousness ... new acceptance of a perfect being in addition to himself that asks why would a perfect being create or even have the ability the conceive imperfect beings such as humankind. In other words, why didn't God equip Descartes with an all-inclusive intellect if that was God s only option within his power. This question is actually part of a much larger area of debate that is known as the 'problem of evil'. This 'problem of evil' stems from the question of ...
- 8584: The Metamorphosis
- ... because of the metamorphosis. “Gregor would not eat in her presence, she withdrew quickly and even turned the key, to let him understand that he could take his ease as much as he liked.” Gregor’s sister is the only member of the family who seems human in her treatment of Gregor. She treats him fairly well by bringing food to his presence, showing that she still has solicitousness. “He had been of the opinion that nothing at all was left over from his father’s business” The family now has a financial problem, Gregor is unable to work and he is struggling against his own form, his own identity. Gregor, who was once fairly self-sufficient, must now rely on his parents for food and shelter. After Gregor’s transformed, it is not a metamorphosis of himself physically, but it is the larger metamorphosis of the family. The transformation of not only Gregor but of his entire family as they respond to his ...
- 8585: Women In The Odyssesy
- The Treatment of Women by Men in Homer’s The Odyssey Women in Homer’s The Odyssey are judged mainly by looks. If important men and gods consider a woman beautiful, or if her son is a hero or important king the woman is successful. The way women in The ... over men. During Odysseus’ journey to the underworld he sees the shades of many prominent women. We hear about their beauty, their important sons, or their affairs with gods. We hear nothing about these women’s accomplishments in their lifetime. Odysseus tells how Antiope could “boast a god for a lover,”(193) as could Tyro and many other women. Epikaste was called “that prize”(195) her own son unwittingly married. ...
- 8586: Dave And Busters Inc.
- ... among Americans to be diverted in ever more imaginative ways -- through high-thrill parks, virtual reality arcades, and theme restaurants, plays right into the hands of Dave Corriveau and Buster Corley, co-founders and CEO s of Dave and Busters. The duo s 50,000 square foot complexes include pool hall, an eye popping, cutting edge midway arcade, a formal restaurant, a casual diner, a sports bar and a nightclub rolled into one sprawling complex. In business since 1990, this is a high energy, highly efficient operation that s comparable to a Vegas extravaganza. As a matter of fact there are even for fun cashless blackjack tables, with fake $10,000 chips. Pricey, but not outrageous, and you get value for your money. ...
- 8587: Eva Peron
- ... in Los Toldos Argentina. She was the youngest illegitimate child of Juan Duarte and his mistress Juana Ibarguen. Eva had a difficult childhood, her father had his own wife and children, and he gave Juana s Ibarguen children his last name and would visit them once in a while. When Eva was seven her father died living them in very poor conditions, all the family, her mother and the five children lived in a tiny one room and in order to pay the rent and have something to eat Eva s mother her sisters and herself had to work as cook s for a rich and powerful family in Los Toldos. It was then that Eva got her fist close look at the very wealthy families who controlled Argentina. Eva would recall her childhood in her ...
- 8588: Shakespeare's Sonnets: Time and Decay
- Shakespeare's Sonnets: Time and Decay Eventually, time and decay effect everything. Shakespeare uses this theme in many of his sonnets. The sonnets give no hint of an afterlife and express that nothing survives time. Shakespeare used ... personification, metaphors and similes. Even though Shakespeare says that time destroys everything, he also addresses how to “defeat” time to a degree. One way to “defeat” time is to marry and have children. A person’s offspring will in some measure carry him or her on throughout time. Shakespeare also believed that poetry is immortal and those who are featured in them will be also. He offers this immortality to his ... year is used to describe life in sonnet 18. Spring equals youth, summer equals maturity and perfection, fall equals middle age and winter equals old age. Shakespeare writes “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate…And summer’s lease hath all too short a date…” (lines 1,2 and 4). He is saying to his friend that he is in the ...
- 8589: The Great Gatsby
- The Great Gatsby Doesn’t it always seem as though rich and famous people, such as actors and actresses, are larger-than-life and virtually impossible to touch, almost as if they were a fantasy? In The Great Gatsby, set ... portrays Jay Gatsby as a Romantic, larger-than-life, figure by setting him apart from the common person. Fitzgerald sets Gatsby in a fantasy world that, based on illusion, is of his own making. Gatsby’s possessions start to this illusion. He lives in an extremely lavish mansion. “It is a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin ... and has a three-noted horn.” (64) It has a “monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes, supper-boxes, tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields and a green leather conservatory.” (64) Amidst Gatsby’s possessions, he develops his personal self. His physical self appearance sets him apart form the other characters. His smile is the type “that comes across four or five times in life. One of those ...
- 8590: Correlation Between Proper Nut
- ... YOUR SCHOOL) athletes do not adjust their diets to enhance performance, which can come about with proper nutrition. The nutrition of athletes is extremely important affect on their performance. At some period in an athlete s career they will find a decrease in performance as a result of nutrition related difficulties. By choosing sound eating habits problems such as decreased endurance, reduced speed and impaired concentration may be prevented and will ... up 14% of the total student athlete population. The next step was analyzing the surveys, the 5 day nutrient intake from each athlete was analyzed by using a Nutrition program on one of the library s computers. This provided an analysis of the average intake over 5 days. Included in this was a wide variety of information ranging from total caloric intake to whether particular vitamins met the Recommended Daily Allowance ... class of nutrients are the most readily available source of food energy. This is because all carbohydrates are gradually broken down to simple sugar glucose through digestion and metabolism, and are used as the body s primary energy source. Glucose in its stored form is called glycogen and is found in the liver and muscles. The main fuel for most sports is muscle glycogen and a diet high in Carbohydrates ...
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