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- 5831: Frederick Douglass
- ... single 's' in his name). All throughout, he clung to Frederick, to 'preserve a sense of my identity' (Norton, 1988). This succession of names is illustrative of the transformation undergone by one returning from the world of the dead, which in a sense is what the move from oppression to liberty is. Frederick Douglass not only underwent a transformation but, being intelligent and endowed with the gift of Voice, he brought ... ironically, the torturous beginning of Douglass' existence was inadvertently made (by him) into a treasure for 'us' (being mainly white America). The story of the American Dream, wherein a young man, born into a hostile world, never loses sight of one goal, is not all that distant in theme from Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass. The story of the American Dream has been embedded deeply in our (American) culture ... from the individual and leaves scars just as deep as those of slavery itself. It makes fundamental alterations in the very identity of the host, who is morally obligated to present his boons to the world. A man in this position is called upon to balance his experiences of the two realities. He must embrace the new world he finds himself in and glean as much as he can from ...
- 5832: Shusterman And The Aesthetic E
- ... the fruits of this immeasurable labor are unclear, after so many decades of toil, if present at all? Modernity is responsible for the coining of the term aesthetic. The word served to rid the art world of beauty, so to speak, in favor of a more specific, descriptive term that explained not only the work but also the experience coupled with the viewing of the work. Richard Shusterman would probably say ... his essay the End of the Aesthetic Experience Shusterman attempts to explain how analytic aesthetics misunderstood the notion of the aesthetic experience and how this is not only relevant but important to the contemporary art world. In this essay, I will explore Shusterman's ideas concerning these concepts, and discern his validity and his theory's ability for implementation into the current art world. Shusterman makes a point of noting that the aesthetic experience from Dewey to Danto has made an obvious decline. He notes, "While Dewey celebrated aesthetic experience, making it the very center of his philosophy ...
- 5833: Ben Franklin
- ... man of many ideas. He was able to come up with hundreds of inventions which played big roles at that time and for the future. He greatly affected the lives of many people around the world at that time period and at this time period with the things that he had invented. One of Ben Franklin’s greatest inventions was the Franklin stove. He took the model of the old stove ... inches distance on silk cords, with hooks of thick leaden wire, one from each side charged together with the same labor as one single pane”(Donovan 65). This was considered the first battery in the world. This was a great inventions because people were able to store electricity. It greatly help the people in the future. They used the battery for cars, electrical gadgets, and other thing like that. Batteries are ... electricity was the greatest thing has ever done because electricity is so important. If Ben did not experiment with any electricity, we may not have had any source of energy. It would be very different world without being able to use electricity or his other inventions. Ben Franklin was a man of many ideas. He was able to effect the lives of many people around the world with his inventions. ...
- 5834: Lewis Carroll In Wonderland
- ... logician, photographer, and novelist ("Carroll, Lewis"). From the imagination of Lewis Carroll came Alice in Wonderland and many books like it created for children. These books have been compared and interpreted by adults around the world to get a better understanding of who Carroll was as a person. For ages children have enjoyed reading about Alice and her adventure but that story is not the only thing accredited to Carroll. Carroll ... a double state of reality; she sees that she exists "in" a fairy tale, yet fairy tales are magical and unreal like the ones she reads about. Therefore, through Alice, the reader sees Alice's world of fantasy as reality. Carroll uses dialogue in Alice in Wonderland to reflect the passionate feelings of his character Alice. At one point, in the story she exclaims that she is in the middle of ... passion, and went stamping about, and shouting 'Off with her head!', about once a minute (Collingwood 327). The use of true fantasy is used when examining the relationship between the mad croquet game in the world of the Red Queen and a normal croquet game in Alice's world in many ways parallels the relationship between Fantasy and Reality (Wallace 38-9). According to Eric Rabkin, (Quoted by George P. ...
- 5835: GREED
- ... pursuit of happiness, particularly as it involves our fondness for money, food, love, power, and sex. The love of money can not only be harmful to oneself, but to others as well. Money rules our world. This planet revolves around money as sure as it revolves around the sun. If no one had money, then perhaps we would all be equal. Greed drives us further apart; it creates a caste system with the industrialized nations at the top, and the second, third and fourth world nations occupying the lesser orders. In short, it's a system that destroys the very values we pretend to honor, if not fully observe. Greed is one of the few forces strong enough to tear ... is one form of greed that I wish was not around. Sex is a very strong physical pleasure. Some people become extremely greedy for sex. This is what makes people commit egregious sexual crimes. This world needs reproduction, but I feel that it is a pleasure that should be shared only with the one you love. When people commit sexual crimes they are being greedy. Greed for this immensely gratifying ...
- 5836: Billy Budd
- ... believe that through this book, Melville is telling us that we need to strike some kind of balance between these two ideas; we need to have morality and virtue; we need to be in the world, but not of the world. To illustrate his theme, Melville uses a few characters who are all very different, the most important of which is Billy Budd. Billy is the focal point of the book and the single person whom ... who are truly ready and without regret, as Billy was. The question, then, is presented. Innocence or wisdom? Which philosophy, which way of life is more correct? Claggart, who represents the natural evil in the world, serves as the opposition and corruption which we face everyday. He is the obstacle that Billy must deal with, and the way in which he confronts that obstacle determines which of these answers is ...
- 5837: The History of Greek Theater
- ... to others. As the Greeks grew toward city-states and colonization, it became the destiny and ambition of the hero to gain honor by serving his city. The second major characteristic of the early Greek world was the supernatural. The two worlds were not separate, as the gods lived in the same world as the men, and they interfered in the men's lives as they chose to. It was the gods who sent suffering and evil to men. In the plays of Sophocles, the gods brought about ... Murray, Gilbert, Euripides and His Age, New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. 4. Reinhold, Meyer, Ph.D., Essentials of Greek and Roman Classics, New York: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1960. 5. Trawick, Buckner B., World Literature, Volume I: Greek, Roman, Oriental and Medieval Footnotes William McAvoy, Dramatic Tragedy, 1971, p. ix Ibid., p. x William McAvoy, Dramatic Tragedy, 1971, p. xi Ibid., p. vii Meyer Reinhold, Ph.D., Essentials ...
- 5838: The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism in the Forest
- ... mans book on that night. She explains that the only reason she does not sign is because Pearl is still in her life. At this time the forest itself is a open door to another world, a wicked world that would take her away from her present situation, but that is not the only door that the forest holds. The forest is an open door to love and freedom for both Hester and Dimmesdale. It is a place where the letter on their bodies can no longer have an effect on them if they choose. A world ruled by nature and governed by natural law as opposed to the artificial strict community with its man made puritan laws. Its as if the forest represents a key to the shackles the Hester ...
- 5839: Something Wicked This Way Comes" Supernatural Forces
- ... their death are used to scare the community into furthering the goals of the carnival. During the story, Ray Bradbury’s Dust Witch best embodies the carnival’s strategy of using fear to control the world around them. To begin with, the Dust Witch uses the boys’ fear of her and the carnival to locate their homes. Bradbury describes the old gypsy as being, “... blind, but [a] special blind. She could dip down her hands to feel the bumps of the world, touch house roofs, probe attic bins, reap dust, examine droughts that blew through halls and souls that blew through people, draughts vented from bellows to thump-wrist, to pound-temples, to pulse-throat, and back to bellows again (Bradbury 143).” The carnival selects her because of her unique ability to sense emotions and feel the body’s reaction to the world around it. After the boys thwart her first attempt to find them and give them to Mr. Dark, the old witch went in search of them during the parade, but encounters Will’s father ...
- 5840: Bob Marley
- ... considered as highlights of the decade for the band. The shows were recorded live and made it to the charts. The live version of No Woman No Cry became a huge hit around the entire world. In this song, No Woman No Cry, Bob Marley is reminiscing about his days in Trench Town. He talks about spending time with friends by the firelight. Marley shows that he knew that the poor ... Opposite Edward Seaga. Bob arranged a meeting on stage between the two rivals. He also visited Africa for the first time in his life. Later that year Bob got the Piece Medal of the Third World from the United Nations (White 36). A concious effort was made on Bob's part not to be political because of a great distrust for the system and political parties, known to Rastas as Babylon (Boot 99). This is kind of ironic that this effort was made because the majority of his songs address social and political problems in Jamaica as well as the rest of the world. Bob combined the aspects of Judeo-Christian peaceful beliefs with the more promenent Rastafarian messages of freedom for blacks. Bob hoped to awaken blacks, bringing them with others to world peace and unity. Bob ...
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