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- 7351: Green Grass Running Water
- ... a celebration where the sacrifice of past difficulties and misdirected ideals and/or paths may cause the participants to gain strength and understanding in their lives . This is also a time to celebrate how the world was once created and to insure harmony between all living things. Thomas King proves this thesis using the characters Alberta, and Lionel. Alberta Frank is a Native American woman teaching native studies to a small ... a part of his culture. The Sun Dance does not allow any form of recording devices or cameras. It is not until Lionel runs into "four old Indians" who are "trying to fix up the world," that he begins to put aside the "white man" in him, "fix up" his past mistakes and community image. After he meets the four Indians, he begins to realize all of the things his family ... is important and his own integrity is worth fighting for, opens him up to the idea of once again participating in the Sun Dance. When his uncle asks "If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?," he responds that most of his life he had been "here. In Blossom." With that, Lionel is taken off and told that it is about time he went "Native," he ...
- 7352: Has The De Beer Diamond Lost I
- ... the fittest in every department." -Andrew Carnegie Since the 1930s when Sir Ernest Oppenheimer established the Central Selling Organisation, De Beers Consolidated Mines have controlled the selling and marketing of approximately 80% of the worlds rough diamond production (Capon, 1998). However, in 1996, Australian company, Argyle, stunned the world by announcing that they would no longer market diamonds through De Beers C.S.O. Many economists predicted that Argyle wouldnt be able to compete against the mammoth De Beers. Yet in the year ... Control of inputs is the factor that constricts entry into the diamond industry. De Beers Consolidated Mines of South Africa, through its ownership of mines and its central sales organisation, controls 85 percent of the worlds diamond output (Browning & Browning, 1989, pg 330). De Beers enormous clasp on the marketing of rough diamonds has made it almost impossible for other producers to enter the diamond market. The combination of ...
- 7353: Handmaids Tale Vs. Fire Dwelle
- ... led to this lost identity and the consequences which occurred as a result of this lost identity. In the book The Handmaid s Tale by Margaret Atwood our main character (Offred) has had her whole world stolen away by the government of Gilead. This new society is sexually repressed, and is founded by religious extremists. Women are only used to produce children, and have no rights at all in the new world of Gilead. In the book The Fire Dwellers by Margaret Laurence our main character Stacey MacAindra has been thrown into a life of responsibility. She has an uncommunicative husband who means well, but shows her ... feels that life has much more to offer than the tediousness of every day routine. The nature of Offred s lost identity is very drastic. Before the new religious group of Gilead took over the world she was a very normal every day woman. She did what was expected of her time and continued to do so after the take over. She had a husband and a daughter who she ...
- 7354: The Prince
- ... The Life of Castruccio Castracani, a narrative essay on the life of man, who founded the state of Lucca in Tuscany, in the fourteenth century. Machiavelli published seven books in 1521 entitled The Art of War. The seven books contain Machiavelli's ideas on war tactics and the superiority of national troops over mercenaries. The Medici family used Machiavelli's services again in 1525; they commissioned him to write The History of Florence. A year later in 1526, Pope Clement ... Mixed troops are better than mercenaries or auxiliary troops, but native troops are incomparable. Machiavelli blames the foreign domination of Italy on the use of mercenaries that were hired to stop Charles VIII in 1494. War is the great equalizer, it can allow a prince to maintain his princedom, and can raise an average man to a seat of power. A prince should study the history of war, imitate the ...
- 7355: Taming Of The Shrew 2
- ... this play remained unquestioned. Men were obviously the ones that had authority over women. Yet in that case, Queen Elizabeth remained in power over Great Britain. While writing the play Shakespeare was influenced by the world surrounding him. These influences included the world s views of women, men, and various other aspects that existed in that time. Though Shakespeare was writing a play that showed a different side of women, he didn t write about women needing to ... this play remained unquestioned. Men were obviously the ones that had authority over women. Yet in that case, Queen Elizabeth remained in power over Great Britain. While writing the play Shakespeare was influenced by the world surrounding him. These influences included the world s views of women, men, and various other aspects that existed in that time. Though Shakespeare was writing a play that showed a different side of women, ...
- 7356: William Lloyd Garrison
- ... people of the town thought he was very nervy. (Faber 32) However, William was just getting started. He had found his voice and intended to use it. William wanted to make his mark on the world and being a printer in a small town like Newburyport-even a printer who also wrote-wouldn't make him famous. Even before his term of service as an apprentice had ended, William was trying ... was no wonder the Free Press failed. What's more, Garrison refused to tone his opinions for any reason. When Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826-exactly fifty years after the adoption of his world-famous Declaration of Independence-Garrison was critical of the author of the historic document. (Faber 36) William wrote that he would not be a hypocrite and praise a man who had held dangerously wrong religious ... slavery everywhere in the land. (Faber 113) "Hallelujah!" That was the headline in the Liberator. "Praise be to God!" Garrison rejoiced. On May 24, 1879, William Lloyd Garrison passed away. (Faber 120) The New York World printed a long article Garrison would have enjoyed. Marveling at the great change in public opinion during a comparatively short period, the paper noted that William Lloyd Garrison was a man whom most respectable ...
- 7357: Gregory
- ... liberation from British domination continues for every cypriot living in Cyprus at around this time. This story Gregory by Panos Ionnides is the direct result of Ionnides' first-hand experience as a soldier during the war when he and a former cypriot, Guerilla, were guarding a british soldier. The soldier was executed in restitution for a violent act played on by the British. Also, the late 1950's was a time ... can assume this based on the fact that he carried out headquarter's task of executing despite how gruesome he may have founded it to be. Also, we can't forget that this was a war. The executioner posessed the typical signs of honor and discipline a normal soldier would have towards his/her higher chief. After all, if there was the slightest bit of betrayl sensed on the behalf of ... is headquarters. In the end, he killed Gregory. He had to, it was his job. He HONORED his job, he honored headquarters. Afterall, it was either Gregory's life or his own. Logically during a war, the task at-hand is to stay alive. Obviously the executioner didn't want to die so he sought-through his job. But it was interesting how after he killed Gregory, the intensity of ...
- 7358: The Illiad
- ... of Achilles in his interaction with the grieving father of Hector, whom Achilles himself slew, the Iliad can be seen to chronicle the maturation of the Greek hero during the terrible battles of the Trojan War. Achilles is a hero in the epic sense, complete with flaws and bad qualities that round out the character, but with passions and convictions that any reader can relate to. Throughout the course of the ... goddess Thetis, ask Zeus to punish the Achaeans on behalf of her and Achilles. Zeus reluctantly agrees to this, and Achilles success in having the whole of his people subjected to a brutal and costly war to get his revenge' on Agamemnon. As the Trojan War presses foreword, taking countless lives of both Trojan and Achaean alike, Achilles stands by and watches, unwilling to participate in the battle even when an apology from Agamemnon and pleading from his comrades is ...
- 7359: The Epic of Gilgamesh
- ... can infer the themes that are consistently passed on to other generations of humans. It is in human nature for people to want to excel in life and strive to make a name in this world for themselves. We want to be remembered by name or for something we have done. Most, who actually succeed, are forgotten about in a matter of years. However, some are remembered for tens, hundreds, and ... character of a story; he is actually a portrayal of people and how they act out of human nature. He, like many of us, does not want his existence to end when he leaves this world. He is not content with what he has, good looks, money, and power, and desires more in life. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a story that we, as people, can relate to. There are similarities ... society and by carrying immortal themes and messages. Epics will always be present because there are certain themes about humanity that can not be denied. In this era, it is easy to say that the world is rapidly changing. But, humans aren't changing with it and there lies the root of most of the problems in society. We must recognize and maybe change the world to be more suitable ...
- 7360: An Exploration Of Femininity I
- ... what it fed on" (143-5) . However, Hamlet is torn by the speech of his father between this idealisation, and the realisation of his father's shame and need for revenge. Love for Hamlet's world is synonymous with obedience, hence the Ghost's: If thou didst ever thy father love ... revenge his foul and most unnatural murder (1.5.23-5) Yet, there is an ignominious sexual aspect to the ... 45-6]). Yet, again Hamlet idealises his father, referring to him as Hyperion, Jove, Mars and Mercury, and describing his countenance in hyperbolic terms ("every god did seem to set his seal/ To give the world assurance of a man" [3.4.63-4]). This exaggeration of his father's stature and status allows Hamlet to blame Gertrude alone. Hamlet, dwelling upon the cuckoldry of the Ghost, turns on Gertrude's ... and so the reality of his father only conflicts with this belief and endangers the mother-son relationship in the domestic sphere. IV The presentation of femininity is inextricably linked to that of the male world; that is to say, as far as bonding and friendship are concerned, the purely male relationships determine the form and depth of the male-female ones. The idealisation of women as virginal or maternal ...
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