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- 6601: Stoker and Rice's Books About Vampires
- ... compare with our own ordinance survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well known place” (Stoker 2). In contrast, Rice sets her story in the modern world. New Orleans is the main area which her story takes place. Her vampires like to live in houses rather than castles. This now brings up the subject of contact with people. Lestat likes to talk ... of five female vampires living with him in his castle. Other than that there is no mention of contact with other vampires. Actually there is no mention of any other vampires that exist in the world Stoker created. Anne Rice, obviously with more space to explore her vampires, made an entire world of vampires living incognito with mortals. She actually has a family tree of vampires which decends from a vampire in ancient Egypt. Her vampires can be found in every country and area in her ...
- 6602: Hamlet - He Loves Her? He Loves Her Not?
- ... to seek revenge for his father’s murder. Since, Hamlet discovers the murder of his father, and the adultery and incest committed by his mother he retains a very bitter and pessimistic view of the world. "That the Everlasting had not fixed His cannon ‘gainst self-slaughter … how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world." (14 Act 1 Scene 2 Line 131). It is through his soliloquy’s that the audience learns the depths of Hamlet’s depression. Hamlet not only regards the world with pessimism, but he also has suicidal feelings. The main reason at this point for his anger and frustration, is his mother’s abrupt marriage to Claudius. The actions of his mother seem to ...
- 6603: Sigmund Freud
- ... calls the Id. The Id contains everything that is inherited, and is present at birth. It is an individual'! s instinct. The Id remains the most important throughout life. Under the influence of the real world a portion of the Id has undergone development. Freud suggests because of birth there is now beginning to develop an intermediate between the Id and the external world. Freud named this region of our mind the Ego. (Freud, 1924). The principal characteristics of the Ego are that it has voluntary movement at its command. It has the task of self preservation. It also ... storing up storing up experiences about them (in memory), by avoiding excessively strong stimuli (through flight), by dealing with moderate stimuli (through adaptation) and finally by learning to bring about expedient changes in the external world to its own advantage (through activity)."(McGrath, 1986). In relationship to the Id, the Ego controls the demands of the instincts. By controlling the instincts of the Id tensions can be introduced into the ...
- 6604: The Display Of Peer Pressures
- ... Separate Peace by John Knowles are classic examples of peer pressure." These novels are a perfect display of how adolescents falter under the influence of their equals. At the time the characters are surrounded by war and confusion in their lives. The choices they make are not determined by their consciences, but by the mental domination of their fair weather friends. They experience freedom from adults which is a factor in ... learn valuable lessons through their suffering, through death amongst each other, and through intellectual regression. In A Separate Peace the boys are tested in a series of events. They are all pressured to go to war. At the tree Gene was tempted by Finny to jump from the branch. Although Gene knew that he could be injured, he did what he thought would please Finny. That night Finny and Gene formed ... died, Gene is heartbroken. Leper was rejected by the boys and his only relationship was with Gene, who really did not care that much either. Leper is the first of the boys to go to war. Although the army shows the satisfaction you will find in battle, it does not tell of the hardships faced. Leper mentally changes and is eventually declared AWOL. By leaving he is trying to abandon ...
- 6605: The Scarlet Letter: Do You Dread Guilt?
- ... guilt in another way. Instead of worrying about it day after day and letting to fester, she makes it outward. At the beginning of the book she wears the most awesome clothes and shows the world she's not guilty for what she has done. An example of this is, "And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from ... young wife that also didn't love him. But Roger doesn't notice is second sin, taking revenge on Arthur Dimmesdale. An example of this is, "We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse then even the polluted priest! That old man's revenge has been blacker then my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I ... fate was the most horrible of the three. To overcome this great guilt the character's handle it in there own way. Hester Prynne handles it by trying to hide nothing, trying to show the world, see what I did and I'm proud of it! Arthur Dimmesdale handles his terrible guilt by concealing it to himself. To overcome it he would whip himself, take long walks into the forest, ...
- 6606: Mk Ghandhi
- ... of his experiments as modern science demands."(Pg. 395) he says. He was incidentally a politician and occasionally a saint but in my eyes he will always be a nation builder and a contributor to world peace rather than a saint attempting to unite the world. Gandhi had no intentions to be a politician, the power, the title, the office meant nothing to him. He was constructive and objective when it came to politics, not to get power for himself but ... of this article that I strongly, disagree with. When the April number of the East West states Shall we not now try for a larger symbiosis such as Buddha and Christ preached, and bring the world to breath and prosper together? Mr. Gandhi seemed destined to be the apostle of such a movement. (Pg. 394) Gandhi states in the essay that he disagrees with that comment, however, not as strongly ...
- 6607: Air Pollution
- AIR POLUTION Problem: The first thing people see, in the morning, when they walk outside is the sky or the colored sun. Is this world giving us the privilege of seeing the natural colors of the sun through all the layers of pollution within the air (Dinanike 31)? Not only are beautiful sights such as this hidden behind the pollution this world causes everyday, but an increase in diseases, infections and death occurs. What causes pollution? What can we do to prevent it, and get rid of it? Is it fair to the children of the future ... order to stop air pollution. Save the children of tomorrow and the environment of today by doing something to prevent air pollution. Justification: Each method mentioned above can be used in factories all over the world. The question is does it cost a lot of money? Yes, it does. In order to apply all of the above methods it can cost the factory and businesses millions. The estimated costs are $ ...
- 6608: The Monitor and the Virginia
- The Monitor and the Virginia The U.S.S Monitor and the C. S. S. Virginia were the first ironclads to grace the waters of the American Civil War. Their battle in 1862 at Newport News Point is still considered one of the best and most exciting naval engagements of all times. The reason people think of it as the battle of the "Monitor and the Merrimack" is because the Merrimack had been the Virginia's name when she was still a union ship. Since the Union won the war, they wrote the history with their name for her. When rebel forces were about to invade the port at Norfolk, the U.S.S. Merrimack along with every other ship in the yard was set ... was almost impervious to cannon balls and her ram made short work of the giant wooden targets. The Union knew they had to build an ironclad of their own if they wanted to win the war, and so the Monitor was born. The Monitor rode almost completely submerged, with the bare minimum of wood required, but with absolutly none of it showing. Unlike the Virginia, the Monitors hull was only ...
- 6609: Reading Provides An Escape For
- ... sought to live out their dreams and fantasies through reading. Reading served as morphine allowing them to escape the pain of everyday life, but reading like morphine closed them off from the rest of the world preventing them from making rational decisions. It was Anna and Emma's loss of reasoning and isolation that propelled them toward their downfall. Emma at the beginning of the novel was someone who made active ... and when the consequences caught up with her latter in the novel she secluded herself from her friends, Vronsky, and even her children. Anna and Emma both had character flaws that made them view the world as fantasy so that when their fantasy crumbled they resorted to creating a new fantasy by living their lives through the books they read. Books allowed Emma Bovary to withdraw from her deteriorating life. They ... dreams of love, affairs, and knights; from the wreckage of her marriage with Charles. Emma's, experience at La Vaubyessard became a source of absurd fantasy for Emma, and ingrained in her mind that the world that the novel's she read depicted was with in her reach. She devoured without skipping a word, every article about first nights in the theater, horse races and soirees; she was interested in ...
- 6610: The New Deal
- ... wealth more equally. Many economic, political, and social factor lead up to the New Deal. When staggering statistics such as 25% unemployment, and the fact that 20% of NYC school children were underwieght and malnourished (World Book, p.200) hit the White House, the government knew something had to be done. With the economy at on all time low people wanted change, Roosevelt's legislative program represented a new way of ... I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." When Roosevelt became President on March 4, 1933, business was at a standstill and a feeling of panic hit the nation (World Book, Vol.14, p.200). Roosevelt responded with a controversial policy that rocked the nation and what our nation stood for. Roosevelt's New Deal programs aimed at three R's- relief, recovery, and reform ... relief and immediate recovery, especially in the first two years. They then set up long-range goals which included permanent recovery and reform of current abuses particuarly those that produced the boom-or-bust catastrophe (World Book, Vol.14, p.748). The Congress authorized the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in a daring attempt to simulate a nationwide comeback. This scheme was to perform immediate relief with long range recovery and ...
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