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Stephen Kings Electronic Media
1,414 wordsThe frenzy over electronic media is becoming a hot topic for many reasons today. E-books, one of the newest electronic sources, are becoming more and more talked about in debates dealing with readings. Although e-books have their advantages, the disadvantages seem to overwhelm in many cases. I feel the Internet is very useful to get electronic articles, but they are easier to read if they are on paper. According to Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in Click if You Dar: Its Cyberscript, the e-book was ve...
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Symbolism In Moby Dick
645 wordsSymbolism is using a person, place, or thing to represent something else which is larger and often untouchable. It is used in literature to allow authors to be objective while still expressing his / her views. Symbols in a story can be interpreted differently by different people Some symbols stand for things that are obvious while others need a more involved explanation. In Moby-Dick, Herman Melville uses symbolism of the whale to express the theme of humanistic relationships with nature. The co...
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Congress Of Vienna King Of France
1,440 wordsThere were numerous events at the turn of the nineteenth century. They can be best characterized as the French Revolution, Napoleons reign, and the Congress of Vienna. The French Revolution consisted of the numerous revolts of the Third Estate against the monarch, Louis XVI. Napoleons reign consisted of numerous conquests, totaling in most of Europe, and ending in a few tragic errors and miscalculations on his part that would cause him the throne. The Congress of Vienna was a one-year convention...
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Spanish Inquisition Jewish Population
1,537 wordsThe Spanish Inquisition is known for the terror it caused the inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula. The Inquisition began as a way to cleanse the nation of supposed heretics, but eventually came to have more racial and political motives as time wore on. The beginning of the Inquisition is generally credited to the reign of Ferdinand V and Isabella, though the anti-Jewish sentiments have been shown to begin well before their reign. Living in fourteenth century Spain, in Seville, there was an arch...
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Atlantic Treaty Organization North Atlantic Treaty
447 words(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) N. A. T. O to Americans and many Europeans is a security blanket, but to others it is a terror. A terror only interested in its own politics, not human rights. To "Americans" it is there to prevent human suffrage and a crisis like the Holocaust. N. A. T. O has made many mistakes in the past months that no apologies can repair, but are they doing it for the right reasons, if any right reason remains? Or is it a mistake to be interfering with the Balkans? Does ...
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Death Penalty Hard Work
815 wordsIn his commentary of "On Crimes and Punishments" by Beccaria, Voltaire argues that the overuse and or the misuse of the death penalty erodes the very strength of a society. Voltaire's work acts like a thermometer for the age of enlightenment. During the enlightenment era, there was a shift in thought and deed regarding humanity. As a result of this shift, the use of torture, punishment, and the death penalty were reevaluated. Speaking about torture, Voltaire said that "[r]edified tortures, in wh...
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Six Years 8 Hours
1,032 wordsMY VIEW ON LIFE AS WE TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT August 11 th. 1998 I am now 62 years old and I have plodded through the years, at first, enduring the terror of World War Two as a child, surviving the "Blitz " of London, escaping death by minutes. Then, in peacetime, [if you can call it that, but in my world it was] through the schooling years, at which I reached the pinnacle of personal achievement. The last year of my Secondary Modern School, I was top of my class. It was not that I was so smart, it...
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Stephen King King Recalls
1,891 wordsStephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling writers. King's major contribution to horror literature is to situate it within the general anxieties of contemporary life. His focus is not on vampires, werewolves and such, but on ordinary people faced with these horrors and the darker horrors of lost jobs, disintegrating families, mental breakdown, and all the other fears that haunt the modern age. What makes Stephen Kings stories almost magical is that the settings of his sto...
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Ku Klux Klan Martin Luther King Jr
1,080 wordsMartin Luther King Jr. and the Ku Klux Klan have been major parts of prejudice in the 1900 s. Martin Luther King Jr. had one of the most powerful speeches ever. He helped many people in the United States in the movement against prejudice. The Ku Klux Klan has, however, has contributed to prejudice in the United States. Although the Ku Klux Klan has diminished, even disbanded at a time, it exists now and is spreading strong hate. People come out to protest against the Ku Klux Klan when the have a...
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Edgar Allan Poe Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
1,584 wordsWebsters Collegiate Dictionary defines existentialism as a chiefly 20 th century philosophical movement embracing diverse doctrines but centering on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for his acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or good or bad (407). Without question existentialism is extremely complicated and almost incomprehensible. However Katharena Eiermann ...
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Bram Stoker Forty Five
1,531 wordsJust who was this peculiar Vlad Tepes Dracula? An explorer of the further realms of experience, a demon to some and Angel to others. Nevertheless he was the fifteenth century ruler of Romania. Bram Stoker based his Dracula novel on Vlad Tepes. His real history is perhaps more interesting than any vampire story. Vlad was born in 1431 in the town of Sighisoara. He was the second son of the Prince of Wallachia, Vlad Dracula. Dracula, his father was the ruler of a country called Wallachia. He was al...
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Von Laue Bolshevik Revolution
1,174 words... had Trotsky murdered. Stalin also rid the Soviet regime of all Trotsky's followers. Stalin proceeded to remove Trotsky from all Soviet history records, referring to him only as "Judas" Trotsky. The irony is that a supposedly atheist leader used a biblical traitor as a reference to his rival. One of Stalin's main strategies to attain power was his allegiance to Lennon. He issued an address to the II All-Union Congress of Soviets. This became known as "The Vow to Lennon." He said, "We Communis...
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Pity And Terror William Shakespeare
1,022 wordsWilliam Shakespeare wrote four great tragedies, the last of which was written in 1606 and titled Macbeth. This "tragedy", as it is considered by societal critics of yesterday's literary world, scrutinizes the evil dimension of conflict, offering a dark and gloomy atmosphere of a world dominated by the powers of darkness. Macbeth, more so than any of Shakespeare's other tragic protagonists, has to face the powers and decide: should he succumb or should he resist? Macbeth understands the reasons f...
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Veronica Cartwright Suzanne Pleshette Birds
1,063 wordsThe plot of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 "The Birds, " taken from a Daphne Du Married (who wrote the novel "Rebecca") short story, seems ludicrous. Birds attacking a small town, actually killing people. But in the competent hands of the master of suspense, the movie is frighteningly, well, suspenseful. Evan Hunter (who also writes under the name Ed McBain) wrote the screenplay, and while not all of the characters are well enough developed for the viewer to understand their occasionally awkward behavi...
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Attack On World Trade Center
688 wordsTerrorism is the bug of 21 century. Throughout history it has appeared in many various ways: hijacked planes, ships, trains. But never was terrorism committed in such a terrible way as on Tuesday, September 11 in New York City. This tragedy affected us all. It was nice Tuesday morning. Everybody were rushing to their jobs in the most beautiful and remarkable city of the world. Planes in the sky were usual routine of this city at this time. Manhattan was ready to welcome millions of its residents...
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Simple Rational Explanation Providing Just Enough Information Vivaldi
1,511 wordsIn Ann Radcliffe's "The Italian", the very first thing that we see described is a veiled woman: "It was in the church of San Lorenzo at Naples, in the year 1758, that Vincent di Vivaldi first saw Ellena di Rosalba. The sweetness and fine expression of her voice attracted his attention to her figure, which had a distinguished air of delicacy and grace; but her face was concealed in her veil. So much was he fascinated by the voice, that a most painful curiosity was excited as to her countenance, w...
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U S Troops Saddam Hussein
1,484 wordsWhen Iraq invaded and occupied the country of Kuwait in August 1990, the Bush administration was faced with several dilemmas. From a foreign policy point of view, this action could greatly destabilize the balance of power in a part of the world that was vital to U. S. interests. The United States was dependant on a continuous flow of oil to drive its economic machine, which Kuwait supplied greatly. In addition, this move would put more power into the hands of a government that was not only unfri...
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Jack And His Tribe Lord Of The Flies
1,109 wordsThe novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding used a group of British boys beached on a deserted island to illustrate the malicious nature in mankind. Lord of the Flies dealt with the changes the boys underwent as they gradually adapted to the secluded freedom from their society. William Golding's basic philosophy that society was inherently evil could be espied in such instances as the death of Simon, the beast within the boys, and the way Ralph was fervently hunted. Through the story Simon ac...
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Nobility Of The Mind Neitzche Felt Nature
876 wordsNeitzche once wrote He who strays from tradition becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary. It might be said that this was a reflection of himself. Obviously a true romantic, his love for nature and humanity, even the sheer disgust he had for Christianity. All of his essays and writings represent his strong feelings about Romanticism. Frederich Neitzche was best known for his observations of humankind and their nature. It was commendable that he was passionate about his philosophical writings and...
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Edgar Allen Poe His Life And Work
1,696 wordsIn human nature there exists a morbid desire to explore the darker realms of life. As sensitive beings we make every effort to deny our curiosity in the things that frighten us, and will calmly reassure our children that there arent any creatures under their beds each night, but deep down we secretly thrive on that cool rush of fear. Despite our efforts to maintain a balance of respectable emotions, we are a society of people who slow down to look at traffic accidents and find excitement in the ...
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