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- 9691: Kafkas The Metamorphosis
- In franz kafka's "the metamorphosis", kafka describes a son who suffers botha literal and symbolic transformation into a huge, repulsive, fatally wounded insect. through characterization, metaphors, and irony, kafka gives his story deep underlying meanings, yet writes so ... novel, believes himself to be useless to society in general. kafka uses characterization, by transforming gregor into an insect one morning, to even further illustrate how low he feels himself to be. kafka uses gregor's present external condition to demonstrate how poorly gregor feels about his family members, his work, and himself, and to make the feelings of loneliness, hopelessness, and detachment strikingly evident. as a grotesque insect, gregor samsa ... as a son, and began to consider him a despicable monster, and eventually to hate him. here, the poor gregor and his relations with his ineffectual parents demonstrates how we are perceived by others. kafka's beetle shows that our society, past and present, focuses too much on our outside characteritics. whoever a person may be on the inside and however great and wonderful he may be is altered by ...
- 9692: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Love
- Their Eyes Were Watching God: Love Love plays a very important role in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes were watching God. Janie spent her days looking for love. She thought of love just as she thought of the elements of springtime: Sunny days, bright skies, a bee pollinating pear tree blossoms. She searched far and wide for this kind of perfect love. Logan Killicks couldn't give this kind of love to Janie. He may not have loved her at all. To him, Janie was just another working set of hands. He treated her almost like another man. He was inconsiderate of her feelings, her hopes, her aspirations. He probably didn't know the color of her eyes. Janie was worked hard by Logan. He made her do all sorts of things that only men should have to have done. He was even going to make ...
- 9693: The Study Of Violence In Ernes
- The Study of Violence In Ernest Hemingway s The Snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Hemingway was a nineteenth century author. He is remembered for such work as Fifty Grand, A Way You ll Never Be, and especially The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The Snows of Kilimanjaro, one of Hemingway s famous stories, shows how violence and dangerous people can be. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, his farther, a doctor is fond of out door sports. He taught Ernest his son to hunt and fish at a very early age. Ernest was the first of six children. His farther gave him his first shotgun at age of 10. The happiest day of Ernest s childhood and probably of his life was hunting and fishing in the wilds with his farther. In 1917 he graduated from Oak Park High School, although he was an outstanding student he was considered ...
- 9694: Contrasts In Taming Of The Shr
- ... plots or themes of the play. Identify three of these contrast and explain how these help to develop the plot or the theme. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies. This play is about a young girl "Katherina" who acts like a shrew. In "Taming of the Shrew" one of the main ways that themes and plots are shown is by using contrasts ... Bianca, the contrasts in settings like the relationship of Kate-Petruchio and Bianca-Lucentio, and the contrasts in events like 'the marriages of Kate and Bianca'. The most important way that Shakespeare developed his play's theme is through Bianca and Kate. In the beginning of the play Kate is known as a shrew and she appears harsh, cruel and frightening. Even his father is scared of her and he begging ... are. One of the other important contrasts in this play that is help to develop theme is the contrast in setting. As an example of contrast in setting is the contrast in the Kate-Petruchio's relationship and that of Bianca & Lucentio. When we first meet Petruchio, he is only after the money of Katherine, and accepts her harshness as simply a goal he must overcome. But as we read ...
- 9695: Paul Ehrlich
- ... To Change Everyone on this earth has to be grateful to Paul Ehrlich because he made so many advances in medical research. Our life expectancy rate would still be around forty years if Ehrlich hadn’t been interested in chemistry and biology as a young boy. If Ehrlich hadn’t combined so many different chemicals, he would have never combined the chemical known as number 606. Ehrlich helped Emil von Behring find an antitoxin for diphtheria. Diphtheria is a disease that particularly affects children and sometimes leads to death. In 1894, mothers no longer had to worry about their child dying of diphtheria because of Ehrlich’s help in the discovery of the antitoxin for the deadly disease. Another discovery Ehrlich made was of a dye called trypan red. Trypan red helped destroy cells that caused sleeping sickness. His research of ...
- 9696: Lucid Dreams: The First Virtual Reality
- ... of horror, my most terrifying nightmare has been where my family and friends have been taken control of by evil monsters that cannot be stopped. Rather than kill me they make me watch old 1970's television shows over and over. For years, men have thought that there should be a way of preventing or controlling these nightly events. Humans must, like any animal, sleep. We do not fully understand why ... factors that must be considered when endeavoring to find meaning in a dream. Because of these numerous factors that contribute to the condition of dreaming, many different paths have been created for exploration. From Freud's sexual symbolism to the current random recollection theories diversity in dream interpretation abounds. However, there is a way to dream and not be at the mercy of your subconscious mind. For the past ten years ... a bright psychologist at Stanford University, by the name of Steven Laberge, has been studying dreams and the physiology of the human body during the dream state. His research may sound commonplace if it weren't for the added fact that he is training people to control their dreams. His subjects are learning to become aware of their dream experience as it is happening. Once they are aware of their ...
- 9697: Ethan Frome Essay - Irony
- ... Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton tells the story of Ethan Frome and the tragedy he faces in his life. The story mainly focuses on the relationships between and among Ethan, his wife, and his wife s cousin, with whom he is in love. Wharton uses different literary devices to develop the plot, including irony as one of the most effective. The use of irony in the novel, especially in the climatic ... the two have in the novel, sledding becomes one of the first topics. Mattie relates an incident, Ned Hale and Ruth Varnum came just as near running into the big elm at the bottom Wouldn t it have been too awful? They re so happy (19). Coasting on the hill is a spirited pastime for young couples in the small town. The elm offers a bit of a scare and a ... to show off their skill. Ethan and Mattie simply want to enjoy this amusement. The chance for a sledding ride does not come until the night Mattie is supposed to leave. Their sorrow over Mattie s departure changes their motives concerning sledding. They see a collision with the elm as a way to avoid parting. Mattie suggests, Right into the big elm So t we d never have to leave ...
- 9698: Othello
- ... Desdemona. Through Act II, Scene I, Othello presents himself to us as a grandly positive and content character, "It gives me wonder great as my content To see you here before me. O my soul's joy!" (Act II, Scene II). At this stage in the play Othello has also assembled his character to impose on us an impression, that he is a noble and prominent figure in the Venetian establishment, and respected military man and a loving husband. He carries himself with an impressive dignity while frankly delighting in his young wife's unconditional love, which he values above the "seas worth", (Act II, Scene I). When the couple defend their marriage against the prejudiced Brabantio, father to Desdemona, who associates Othello with witchcraft, (because Othello is black ... half of the play Othello abandons this perfect love, for a blind and unfounded jealousy too strong to act in a just manner. He loses all faith not only in Desdemona, but especially himself, "That's he that was Othello; Here I am." (Act V, Scene II). Othello says this subsequently, as a result of materialising his now hopeless spirit - it was led to this through the work of a ...
- 9699: OUTSIDE PLANT
- Outside Plant Outside plant is the network of cables, poles, conduit, feeder cable, distribution cable, terminals, aerial and drop wire, and fiber optics that interconnects CO's and connects from the local CO to the home or customer. The local loop or last mile is the link between the CO and the customer. The local loop is mainly made up of twisted ... loop has not changed much but there have been improvements in insulation, cable sheaths, splicing. Most of the outside plant that was aerial has been converted to underground which reduces damage. The connection of CO's have changed dramatically by drunk routes being constructed in underground conduits about ever 6,000 feet. Copper wires can be changed to fiber optics, the material is unlimited, bandwidth provides greater performance, and does not corrode like copper. LEC's don't consider protection equipment and range extension as part of an outside plant. Local loops are routed from the customer to the CO over twisted-pair cable. The twisted pair could be either ...
- 9700: How Should An Economist View The Society?
- ... Uchitelle compares the early and today’ economists’ point of view by quoting from important names like Robert L. Heilbroner, N. Gregory Mankiw and Keynes. Uchitelle illustrates the challenge to scientific economists with Robert L. Heilbroner’s words: “…They favor two-dimensional models that in trying to be scientific leave out too much and leave modern economists without a true understanding of how the system works.” Mr. Heilbroner believes that modern economists don’t include other fields like sociology, psychology or history to their work. According to him, today, the facts and numbers are considered too much, and the morals and the society’s long term benefits are squeezed out. Math and computers have taken over noneconomic motives and the changes in the forces of human nature haven’t taken into account in the process of developing the ...
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