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- 5591: Extreme Roles
- By: sia E-mail: siaboumis@hotmail.com Extreme Roles In every country, city, town and neighborhood in the world, there are stereotypes. We all live in a classified area where you can be regarded as rich, poor or middle class. Within those three types there becomes sub-categories, where ethnicity , gender and sexuality also ... Women willing to sacrifice themselves for the love of a man. Even a man whose love is completely without worth."(Act three, scene three, pg.92). Song knew from experience that men of the Western world loved submissive women who would do anything to please the man they were with. Femininity is displayed as weak and passive. In order to find a man, a women had to do anything, even accept ... fact that there husbands would find a mistress on the side. It was socially acceptable to be intentionally blind to what your husband was doing. The same also seemed to take place in the Western world as well, although not at such extreme cases.. Helga assumed that Gallimard took up a mistress while living in the Orient. Masculinity in this novel seems to be, the more women you have in ...
- 5592: Crime And Punishment
- ... and extra-ordinary people, believing himself to be of the latter kind. He spends most of his time inside buildings in small rooms, thus avoiding to meet and talk to other people outside his petite world. Raskolnikov often evades looking through or at windows. However, often during conversations he instinctively walks towards windows while thinking about something else. This shows that his inside wants to be free and knows the truth ... while the conscious part of his mind is not able to comprehend that until the very end. His mind is like a “fly as it … [beats] against [a] windowpane” (pg. 332) longing to join the world out there, but not understanding this desire rationally yet. Marmeladov’s room is “suffocatingly hot, but [Katerina] [has] not opened the windows” and in Alyona’s apartment “all the windows … [are] closed, in spite of ... of his inner desires is neglected for a while. Therefore in moments like this his body follows its instincts and he moves to the window physically showing his need to join the rest of the world repeatedly like the fly does as it "[swoops] and [beats] against the windowpane" (pg. 332). Until the very end, the reader usually never finds out what Raskolnikov sees through the windows, probably due to ...
- 5593: Barney The Hitler Of My Genera
- ... for her two years old son(Tolentino 2). Thus, the Barney phenomenon was born. Conceived as a show that would help little children celebrate childhood and understand the complex business of growing up in a world where sixth graders carry guns to school, Barney & Friends has achieved a cult-like following among toddlers who swear upon their mother's graves that he is God himself. Barney has become a marketing win-fall. With an international fan club of more than six hundred thousand and video sales that outnumber copies of Cannonball Run and Playboy's Lingerie Video combined, Barney is slowly taking over the world. Barney has brainwashed the world's children into thinking he is a god, when truly he is the spawn of Satan himself. Recently, a student at Duke University published a theorem about Barney being the spawn of Satan: Given ...
- 5594: Communication Technology
- ... and integration. Many people are using home computers as well. The Internet has given people the ability to communicate across the globe with the click of a button. Many things involving communication have changed the world. Like the invention of morse code, the telephone, radio, TV, and more advanced things like the fax, cell-phone, pager, and Internet. 3. Communication technology affects the world in several different ways; Political, Environmental, Cultural, and Ethical. Every thing we do involves some form of communication technology. The effects the mass media has on us is huge. Things like T.V., radio, newspapers ... or engineering design. They are used in buildings, designing parts, or houses. Architects and engineers use computer programs to design their new products. Programs like Auto Cad and Design Cad are used all over the world to design and manufacture new products and buildings. These drafts and designs are compatible all over the world because there is a international standard. Standards are rules that say what symbols and letters can ...
- 5595: The Color Purple
- ... and all respect, Celie, a persecuted African-American woman suppressed by tyrannical rule sparked from the agonizing, torturous fires of ignorance and egocentrism, prevailed against the incessant degradation of society's superiors, . . .a man's world"(Klosowski 4). As a result of Celie's environment she never get's a fair opportunity to self-discover until she gets away from her surroundings. The society in which she lived forced her to ... the presence of the other women in the novel. Celie undergoes several changes brought about by her contact with other people and a change of surrounding. Since Celie has many misconceptions of herself and her world due to her upbringing of pain and mistreatment, and her ignorance of a better world. Her image of herself and her own potential were very low. The story of Celie's growth and self-discovery is the main theme in the novel. which she achieved through her own commitment ...
- 5596: Odysseus A Hero
- ... a hero of all times thanks to Homer who wrote his story in The Odyssey. Odysseus is a hero in his on time because of all his adventures and characteristics. Homer wrote about the Trojan War, in which Odysseus took part in, in the Iliad, and about Odysseus long journey home in, The Odyssey. There have been theories that suggest that Homer was illiterate and could not have possibly recited poems ... However, there is evidence that a city, possible Troy, existed and was destroyed. Also there was a kingdom of Ithica which allows for a king Odysseus. Even if the King did not go to the war there was still a chance that he might have existed. In the Odyssey, Homer used a narrative structure to tell his stories. The original texts were wrote on papyrus scrolls and it is theorized that ... also disguises him when he finally reaches home in order to help trick the suitors. Finally Odysseus super human strength helps him become a hero. Out of all the heroes that went into the Trojan War, Odysseus was one of the few that came back alive and lived. His strength and fighting ability helped him in the war. Also without his strength he would have not been able to escape ...
- 5597: Laidlaw
- ... where other detectives would normally rather keep their secret stashes of liquor." Unlike many other detectives with uppity tastes in literature, no one congratulates him for this or encourages him in any way; the whole world tells him that he thinks too much to be a good detective . However, he persists in trying to understand crimes as well as solve them : "You want to live as if the rest of the world was just a necessary evil and that you have to be a monster to be a criminal ,it's fucking not true , it's all in peoples concealed heads. That may be a nuisance to ... is found. Unlike most inverted novels, Laidlaw has no trouble at all in maintaining the tension and pacing of the investigation. Laidlaw has an interestingly muscular argument for maintaining an engaged stance toward a brutal world. When his wife whines at him for working long hours (the bane of police marriages the world over, it seems), he snaps and he discovered he had been shouting. "Don't swear. The children ...
- 5598: Why Y2K?
- Why Y2K? In the year 2000, people will be dancing, singing, partying, kissing each other...and computers around the world will shut down, electricity plants will fail, and financial institutions will go belly up. Such is the Y2K crisis. Basically, the bug is this: Many of the computers used have a set clock that runs ... million lines of code...Which is only 20% of the total! Now realize this: Many companies are just Starting! Some HAVEN'T! And what about Embedded Chips? There are billions of embedded Chips in the world, with their codes burned into them. These ones cannot be repaired. They have to be either replaced, or in most cases, the whole unit has to be removed, and a new one put in its ... fail in the year 2000. What I want to know is...if these Knee-jerk compu-nerds knew this was going to happen...why didnt they try and fix it sooner!? Were looking at a world wide crisis, involving lives, billions of money, and Society itself and these pocket-protecting dimbulbs just sat there on there big, fat wallets and probably plan to fiddle while "Rome" burns. Ok, so we ...
- 5599: Karl Marx
- ... own philosophy. While Hegel felt that philosophy explained reality, Marx felt that philosophy should be made into reality, an hard thing to do. He thought that one must not just look at and inspect the world, but must try to transform the world, much like Jean Paul Sartre's view that "man must choose what is best for the world; and he will do so." Marx is unique from other philosophers in that he chooses to regard man as an individual, a human being. This is evident in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of ...
- 5600: The Beak Of The Finch
- ... observations were valid. This moth business illlustrates not only poor logic but flawed scientific method. It appears as though the establishment will grasp at any straw uncritically when it has the appearance of supporting its world view. For reviews of this see Nature, 5 Nov. 1998, and Back to Genesis, Apr. 1999. See also Star Course, "Notes from Nature." The Second Part of Darwin's Title And, you know, that is ... for. When Charles dropped out, his father recognized Charles' interest in science, so he arranged for him to take the job a ship's surgeon on the Beagle, where he could see some of the world and learn a suitable trade. One of Lyell's original intentions was "to sink the diluvialists," people who believed in the Genesis Flood and that that explained most geological sediments and fossils. (Gillispie, 1960, 299 ... This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of His dominion he is wont to be called Lord God pantokrator, Universal Ruler.(Newton, 1687, 369, 370)6 This God no longer "seemed compelling" to ...
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