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- 6981: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung U
- ... Bradstreet wrote many poems on familiar British themes and produced skilled imitations of British forms, her most remarkable works responded directly to her experiences in colonial New England. They reveal her attraction to her new world, even as the discomforts of life in the wilderness sickened her. Her poetry contains a muted declaration of independence from the past and a challenge to authority. Although Bradstreet's verses on the burning of ... to men. In "The Prologue" (1650), Bradstreet writes, "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my hand a needle better fits, / [than] A poet's pen. " Bradstreet's instincts were to love this world more than the promised next world of Puritan theology, and her struggle to overcome her love for the world of nature energizes her poetry. Taylor, a poet of great technical skill, wrote powerful meditative poems in which he tested himself ...
- 6982: Adorno And Horkhiemers Dialect
- ... xi). The result is a totalising critique of modernity; a diagnosis of why the Enlightenment project failed with no attempt to prescribe a cure. This is achieved by a historical-philosophical study of the mythic world-view of animism and anthropomorphism and the Enlightenment attempt to dissolve myth through objectification and instrumental reason. DoE also uses Homer s Odyssey as a metaphorical interpretation of this historical change, where Odysseus is the ... make the unknown known through animism and anthropomorphism, that is, it attributes a human explanation to the unknown forces of nature#. In myth the subjective is not confined to man but is extended to the world and the objective and purely independent is not yet realized#. The magician and shaman use ritual magic to influence nature but never to dominate it. The tool of the shaman is mimesis (imitation in an ... control nature instead of a mere mimetic reaction it. Adorno and Horkheimer describe Enlightenment as that which compounds the animate with the inanimate just as myth compounds the inanimate with the animate# (p.16). The world s demythification, and preparation for domination, requires the objectification of reality to repeatable and law governed experience and the reduction of the multiplicity of forms to mere position and arrangement in a unified whole ( ...
- 6983: A Clockwork Orange
- ... revolved around the corrections aspect of reforming the criminal element. Within the confines of the seventies Londoner. The character, Alex is created as the ultimate juvenile delinquent leading a small gang. Living within his own world the use of old Londoner language and attire reflect the non- conformity with society. Let loose within a large metropolitan, Alex is engulfed in the affairs of several criminal practices, from rape to aggravated assault ... of institutions like this, though more in than out for most of you, or are you going to attend to the Divine Word and realize the punishment that await the unrepentant sinner in the next world, as well as in this?"(Burgess 90) and the main focus for reforming is in the hands of God and individual moral choice. Through religion Alex soon becomes a model prisoner, externally, yet internally still ... overshadows any curiosities of the treatment. Transferred from a state prison to a private facility insures his release from incarceration. "In a little over a fortnight you will be out again in the big free world, no longer a number"(Burgess 108). With the increase in population comes an increase crime, this has also brought on encouraging new rehabilitating techniques to corrections. Stated by one government official the importance of ...
- 6984: Mentoring
- ... crave. This may lead to isolation and oppositely over hyperactive children starved for attention. In other cases, some children who are not so fortunate as to be offered after-school programs are subject to the world outside all on their own. In too many cases, these are the children that become statistics. These are the children who turn to drugs or crime, be it out of fear, or simply to feel ... in schoolwork, less likely to hit someone, and get along better with their families This organization has been around for many decades, and has been successful at helping the lives of kids in a violent world. If everyone could dedicate one or two hours a week to a less fortunate child can help create harmony in the world. If you teach children well when they are young, they are less likely to have criminal instincts as they mature. Simple things like taking a child to the zoo, or the movies, or even ...
- 6985: Dreaming
- ... In an Out-of-Body Experience (or OBE) a person feels that they are separated from their body and are free to float or fly about. They feel as if they are perceiving the physical world from a location outside of their physical body. The OBE has also been linked with the Near-Death Experience (or NDE) wherein a person who is at the brink of death has an OBE. The ... dream which felt like an OBE but was just a dream. Further research into this area is certain to be done in the future. Since we spend about 9% of our lives in the dream world it would make sense to make the most of that time. By exploring that world with a conscious awareness one can see the inside of their own head, actually see their thoughts being formed. A lucid dream has infinite possibilities, it can happen every night of oneΥs life, and ...
- 6986: Computers and The Disabled
- ... have given disabled people a whole new perception on life. It has given them the mobility to go just about anywhere they want to go. It has given them the ability to explore an unknown world, and progress intellectually as well as spiritually. Computerized vans allow many disabled people to drive, by having onboard computerized lifts to place the disabled in the driver's seat. Movement sensitive hardware, as well as ... ease. With the newest technology these children can now go to public schools with their peers, and have an active social life. They also are learning that there is a place in this fast paced world for them, and are teaching the rest of us that with strength and the will to succeed, all things are possible. The Windows 95 help system was designed to help users with hearing, motor and ... lives more endurable. Considering the limitations that they have overcome in their everyday lives the disabled should be commended for the strength and will, that has let them overcome, at least somewhat, the difficulties the world provides. The computer age has brought them many changes and they have adapted and excelled in them. With Windows 95 and programs like it, the computer world has been brought to almost everyone, even ...
- 6987: Grendel
- ... was glad." showing the hope for destruction of the human race. In Grendel's eyes humans are going to destroy themselves and he will be glad when it happens. Grendel is very lonely in the world of man. He has only one person close to him and that is his mother. She cares for Grendel but just with the natural motherly instincts which Grendel sees as mechanical. Grendel doesn't understand, "Why can't I have someone to talk to?" as the world starts to look darker in his eyes. Animals of all sorts are enemies of his because they don't understand him. Grendel is more superior Grendel's role in society is to be the great destroyer. The Dragon tells Grendel this " You improve them, my boy!
You stimulate them!" but Grendel dose not want to except it. HE want to be part of the humanistic world. He want a different role in society. This makes Grendel very unhappy that he cannot be accepted. The Dragon puts a spell on Grendel that lets weapons not harm him. At first he dose ...
- 6988: Society And The River The Adve
- ... himself. The river is freedom, the land is oppression, and that oppression is most evident to Jim. In Huck s dealings with society he sees people for who they truly are, "He sees the real world; and he does not judge it-he allows it to judge itself" (Eliot 329). Huck is rejuvenated by the river, when he goes ashore he faces society and all the injustices that it carries. When ... the one thing that both Huck and Jim are searching for they only find on the river. Twain is showing us in this story that sometime we must break away from society and what the world views as correct and just. He is showing us that we have the strength inside to stand on our own and make decisions for ourselves. Twain, through Huck, gives us the chance to see all the things in the world as they really are. Not so that we judge the world but so we can stand up for what is right.
- 6989: Personality
- ... types an stages of personality throughout life. I think there no way to judge a personality, and that's if you go by what researchers go by. Do researchers gather all the people in the world and judge the way they act, think, and go through what they do? I think everybody chooses their own personality, what I mean is there personality goes through what prson want it to be. People ... times. People change their personality through the environment they go to everyday. There is really is no defintion to me, because personality changes too many times and people change each time to a new social world. A personality is very unique to a person, because it defines a person characterstics toward life. Personality usually has to constitute the meaning of that person and the way he or she lives in the world. Personality has to be with that person at all times, because it will help it will help distinguish you from other people. Personality is a key element for a person to establish his or ...
- 6990: Does The Mass Media Cause Undesireable Social Consequences With Specific Reference To Pornography
- ... Media Cause Undesireable Social Consequences With Specific Reference To Pornography It started by way of messengers and scribes, evolved through the presentation of newspapers and radio, brought us together with television, and now serves us world-widevia the ever-popular Internet. It is the mass media, and even from the earliest days of its existence, it has contributed greatly in ways that both enlighten and enrich society, and ways that deteriorate and perplex it. It is not a surprise to learn, then, that the mass media is the most powerful sourc of information we have, and nothing else in todays world influences public perception quite as heavily. Unfortunately, however, most of what is broadcast or transmitted in the news today is with reference to the chaotic condition of our planet, or something that society as a ... that pornography is largely a male interest, a noted increase in female interest would certainly cause an increase in the amount of pornographic material geared for women; this relates to the laws of the business world (Christensen 1990:50). Having discussed the untruthfulness of the claims against pornography and showing that pornography is not evil, it is now possible to consider the violence issue. Are men who are exposed to ...
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