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- 5361: The Scarlet Letter: Hester Prynne and Adultery
- ... Hawthorne 1185). Immediately we see that Hester is alone because she has set herself free. The townspeople repress her quest for personal freedom, and oust her from the community. Thus, Hester is thrown into a world of moral ambiguity. She cannot deny the sin that she has committed, nor can she regret it. Indeed Hester is overwhelmed by shame. Hawthorne reveals to us her thoughts upon her first visit to the ... where she dwells with her daughter Pearl. Engaging in needlework, Hester begins her new life of isolation. She represents a new woman, unfamiliar to Puritan New England. She is modern, feministic, and unafraid of the world that punishes her. She lives on the edge of the forest - forbidden land to a true puritan. However, she cannot escape being affected by that world, for it is all around her, even in the form of her own daughter. When Hester goes to Governor Bellingham's house, we recognize an irony in Hester's environment. "This was a large ...
- 5362: Exploration of Themes in The Song of Roland
- ... subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation. In the epic The Song of Roland there are many themes displayed throughout the storyline. Some of these themes are loyalty, revenge, and the prices of war on a kingdom. Loyalty is the quality or state of being loyal. Many characters in the epic demonstrate loyalty to another character or to their kingdom. The narrator speaks of loyalty to a religion, "The ... soldiers. Revenge is when a person takes vengeance and justice into their own hands and does whatever they feel is just. Revenge is displayed by both feuding sides in this epic. Some quotes are "This war you've started wage on, and make no cease; to Saragossa lead your host in the field, spend all your life, if need be, in the siege, revenge the men this villain made to bleed ... Paynim king has paid"(84) when speaking of Charles. This quote is not speaking of the physical damage of revenge but of other ways revenge can be, like changing sides in the middle of a war. Also "'Thou hast one for whom I'll make thee pay!'" (114) and "'For Roland's I think they'll dearly pay'" (166), statements made by the narrator. War always takes it's toll ...
- 5363: Forests Cannot Absorb CO2 Emissions
- Forests Cannot Absorb CO2 Emissions The world's dwindling forests cannot be relied upon to absorb the industrialized world's carbon dioxide emissions. Environment ministers and experts from around the world will be meeting in Buenos Aries. There they will try to map a course for industrialized countries as they try to rein in emissions of greenhouse gases in line with the Kyoto treaty, signed ...
- 5364: How Technology Effects Modern America
- ... competition, technology, deregulation, the decline of unions and defense cuts – technology is probably the most critical. It has favored the educated and the skilled,” says M. B. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report (7/31/95). Since 1973, wages adjusted for inflation have declined by about a quarter for high school dropouts, by a sixth for high school graduates, and by about 7% for those with some ... under the age of 18. This government policy was conducive to our economic markets, and allowed our country to prosper from 1950 through 1970. Now, our own prosperity has moved us into a highly technical world, that requires highly skilled labor. The natural answer to this problem, is that the U.S. Government’s education policy must keep pace with the demands of the highly technical job market. If a middle ... a college diploma, as it was for the children of the 70’s to get a high school diploma. This brings me to the issue of our country’s political process, in a technologically advanced world. Voting & Poisoned Political Process in The U.S. The advance of mass communication is natural in a technologically advanced society. In our country’s short history, we have seen the development of the printing ...
- 5365: Sex In Society
- ... in the most literal sense of the term. This method of eliminating the social and political destiny of half of humanity is the most effective form of supremacy." (Janssen-Jurreit, 1982, pp. 15-16) The world we live in today is still man-made, no less now then in the nineteenth century. Eve Zaremba states in Privilege of Sex: "Women's self-awareness as females has until very recently reflected the world's (i.e. men's) image of them; how well their personal performance matched male expectations." As English Canadians began to develop an identity in 19th century society, they mirrored the "ideals" for women of ... evaporate. (p.26) Beginning in early adolescence, children develop their own ideas of male and female roles with the perception of the conduct and activities of his or her parents and other adults in their world, including characters on television. Young people are exposed to advertising from a very early age. The effect, says the Ontario Ministry of Education, especially of advertising on television, "has a significant bearing on girls' ...
- 5366: Forever
- ... Or is it a lifetime? Forever to the individual, but is there more? I want to know. That one word means so much, eternity. Unending? But how can something be everlasting? Is anything in this world forever? Eternal life? Eternal love, but what is it all in the end really, In this lifetime only one thing is eternal. Power, power and fame. Does anyone remember the true lovers? No, but no one ever forgets power. Who was the most powerful man in the world in the BC. era, Caesar, the ruler of all of Europe. And next came Christ, the essence of power, power over not only those of his day, but still to all of those who fight ... cut off from all external stimuli. Waiting, until the time will come when I understand. But, for now it must be only me, me and my mind. I can feel the rest of the external world drift away. If those men only knew, this place is so much easier, inside my head I have no daily battle, I don’t even have the need for food or drink. All I ...
- 5367: Ragtime
- ... middle and upper class citizens had the impression that they were in an era of prosperity. They turned a blind eye towards all the suffering and hardships of the lower class, in their perfect, ignorant world There were no Negroes. There were no immigrants (3). Doctorow recognized the dominant attitude of the times for what it was, pure ignorance, and set out in Ragtime to educate the middle and upper class about the real world and the hardships that many people have to endure. In the beginning of the novel, the nameless family that the story revolves around has an air of purity to it. At this point in time ... departure for the North Pole marks the beginning of what the family would have viewed as a decline in their quality of their lives. In truth however, they are merely opening their eyes to a world that is not as perfect as they had perceived. As Father s ship left the harbor, a passing immigrant ship caught his gaze and he could not remove his eyes from them. He saw ...
- 5368: Diamonds Are My Best Friend
- ... imagination with anecdotes of Cal Ripken Jr. s remarkable streak, Ozzie Smith s amazing back flips, Pedro Martinez s menacing fastball, and the magical summer of 1998 when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire mystified the world with their long ball heroics. Only in recent years have I begun to truly appreciate the game for what it really is. While some go to the ballpark to see home runs, popular players, or ... That s all. Just like any other game. However, this one was special, and meant so much more. Everyone went crazy. My father and I were cheering, as were all the baseball fans around the world. It didn t matter whether you were old, young, male, female, die hard baseball fan, or just an occasional sports viewer; this was history. In the midst of all the commotion, I sat down and ... season trade and excite St. Louis with three game winning hits in his first week with the team. I have seen fresh-faced kids from the minor leagues come out and light up the baseball world, and likewise, I have seen the games greatest marquee players sit and stare at a scoreboard that reflects their mishaps. Randomness is underrated, and in the game of baseball it happens almost daily. When ...
- 5369: Jim Henson
- ... Kermit the Frog, was introduced along with Miss Piggy, Rizzo the Rat, Rowlf the Dog, Fozzie Bear, and of course Gonzo the Whatever. The Muppet Show became the most widely viewed television program in the world. From this show many movies and spin-off television shows have been produced. Jim Henson died in 1990 from pneumonia right after his last project for Muppet Vision 3-D, an attraction for Disney World, and right before he was going to sell his company to Disney Studios. Today his son runs and owns the Henson Company. Jim Henson possessed many lovable qualities about him but his most important characteristic was his creativity. Jim Henson created characters that were out of this world and quite unexpected. Jim Henson also had an extraordinary sense of humor, which attracted young and old to his television shows. Jim Henson once said, "Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love ...
- 5370: Jim Jones
- ... absolute power. They were left with few options, being surrounded by armed guards and by the jungle, having given their passports and various documents and confessions to Jones, and believing that conditions in the outside world were even more threatening. The members poor diet, heavy workload, lack of sleep, and constant exposure to Jones's diatribes exacerbated the coerciveness of their predicament; tremendous pressures encouraged them to obey. By the time ... is accessible and that anything done in the name of that purity is moral. By defining and manipulating the criteria of purity and conducting an assault on impurity (Discord especially) the organization creates a narrow world of guilt and shame. This is maintained by a belief of constant reform, the demand that one aspire permanently and painfully for something which not only does not exist but is alien to the human ... to manipulate and control members. The organization becomes an authority without limit in the eyes of members and their power is nowhere more evident that in their capacity to "forgive". We live in a dangerous world, a world often caught in the midst of disastrous group dynamics. Cult leaders use their knowledge to bemire the minds of unsuspecting victims. Until, recently cult's were able to run freely in public ...
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