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Death Of Socrates Laws Of The Gods
1,247 words... sition. Regardless of the righteousness of his condemnation of Antigone, he believes that, should Antigone be allowed to defy the law and live, his own rule would suffer. To Creon, the most important element of the situation is the disregard for his decree -- the strength of the state, he vows, must never be held in check by an individual (especially a woman). During Socrates' trial, he also maintains his innocence on grounds that he was doing only what the gods required of him. However, the...
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Reader Feels Final Decision
717 wordsWhen a play-write creates a tragedy, two of the main aspects that need to be included are feelings of pity and fear on the readers part. In Sophocles Antigone, the presence of fear and pity are very obvious. The people who suffer cause the reader to feel the need to comfort them. It is an example of a very strong tragedy. The main idea or theme behind Antigone, is that one should listen to other peoples opinions or advice and consider it before making any final decision or actions. This theme ca...
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Delegate Democracy And Capital Punishment In Canada
722 wordsThe issue of capital punishment cannot simply be summed up in a few paragraphs, it is an topic of great debate, over both the issue of deterrence and of conscience. There are few matters which stir such heated debate, there are both abolitionists and receptionists, there are also those in the middle, the people who can discern legitimacy from each group. Each group has a set of beliefs which do apply to this matter, perhaps some groups subscribe to the old testament and its injunction an eye for...
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Rape Fantasies Margaret Atwood
1,028 words... n this little episode we can see Estelle's honesty and sweetness, since none of the disguised brutality found in the fantasies of the other two women is evident in the story that Estelle reveals. Along with maintaining an ironic balance within Rape Fantasies, Estelle's personality revelations introduce other ideas into the story. Her casual friendly banter can take a complex, weighty topic such as rape and simplify it into one naive workingwoman's thoughts. She mentions growing up as a Catho...
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The Participial Adjective Part Of English
1,197 wordsThe Participial Adjective Part of English Ive always found the I-N-G words in English grammar rather annoying and bothersome. Of course Gerunds are I-N-G words that look like verbs but act like nouns in sentences. For example the sentences Skating is fun, My favorite sport is skating, I like skating and There are many moves in ice skating show the Gerund skating as a subject, as a predicate nominative following a linking verb, as a direct object following an action verb and as an object of the p...
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Make A Good Sci Fi
1,089 wordsSo, you just wrote your first science fiction novel. Your friend read it and told you that you were the next Ray Bradbury or Gene Roddenberry. Your fertile mind fantasizes your name up there on a Borders wall poster right next to images of Isaac Azimov and Jules Verne. Before going off the deep end and equating yourself with Hemingway and Steinbeck, give your ego a stiff reality check. Few of us mortals are literary Mozart's that can plop down in front of a computer screen and author a perfect m...
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Makes The Play Dont Care
666 wordsBennett makes us want to ask many questions. It is such a silly thing to have done. This makes us want to know what she has done, and what is silly. Bennett uses everyday experiences. I should never have tried to dust. This is good, as nowadays people can relate to the quotation. Doris is an interesting character, she is old. Doris is in her seventies. The means she can tell us all about the 20 th century. Bennetts play A Cream Cracker Under The Settee. (A Cream Cracker) is a monologue. Monologu...
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H G Wells Time Traveller
1,327 words... disposition. The only way the Time Traveller changed throughout the story was in his knowledge of the future of mankind. This knowledge, I believe, made him more prepared and confident in his own time and place. However, he needed not be confident, for in the end, he didnt stay in his own place for long. Though the Time Traveller was the main character in the story, the narrator was probably the most important. He was one of the men at every dinner, so his insights into the story were very a...
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To Kill A Mockingbird Style
615 wordsThe stylistic elements that an author chooses are instrumental in ensuring that the theme or tone that he or she wishes to convey is in fact conveyed to the reader. Harper Lee obviously realizes this, for in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, [New York: Warner, 1982 ] 278) she wisely selects a distinctive style to relate the moving story of a young child discovering harsh truths regarding human nature The predominant stylistic element Miss Lee uses is her diction...
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Serial Killers Brain Damage
1,107 wordsI hated all of my life. I hated everybody. When I first grew up and can remember, I was dressed as a girl by Mother. And I stayed that way for two or three years. And after that I was treated like what I call the dog of the family. I was beaten; I was made to do things that no human bein would want to do. Ive had to steal, make bootleg liquor; Ive had to eat out of a garbage can. I grew up and watched prostitution like that with my mother till I was fourteen years old. Then I started to steal, d...
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Alphanumeric Data Item Numeric Data Item Cobol
431 wordsCobol profile In this paper I pursue the goal to create a short profile for the programming language COBOL, I am going to tell about languages main applications to show the Metalanguage applied, to illustrate syntactic elements of this programming language. COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language) is a high-level language of programming created by the CODASYL Committee (Conference on Data Systems Languages) in 1960. COBOL is developed for business, normally file-oriented, applications. It is no...
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Pros And Cons Negative Consequences
1,325 wordsDiscussion on Animal Rights Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; The Declaration of Independence holds these rights to be self evident and unalienable. In the eighteenth century when these words were written they were called natural rights, today we call them human rights (Mc Shea 34). The issue of whether or not to grant animal rights such as those that humans retain, is a greatly disputed issue. Philosophers, clergyman, and politicians have argued the point of animal rights for years, ...
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Half An Hour Thomas Hardy
668 wordsThomas Hardy feels that Edgon Heath, the setting of the novel The Return of the Native is a powerful, scary, dark and dreary place. He uses various techniques to express this attitude. Some of the techniques he used to convey this thought are diction, imagery, syntax, and tone. The diction he choose was specific and concrete, presenting an actual place that was depressing. The words he used attempted to present a specific, concrete perception of things. Such as when he writes, ? approaching the ...
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H G Wells Red Room
1,928 wordsHow H. G. Wells, Builds and sustains tension In " The Red Room" . ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? The title " The Red Room" immediately attracts the readers attention; it is symbolic but leaves unanswered questions. ? " What is the red room? " ? " Why is it red? " ? We associate red with fear and danger. ? Is this room dangerous? ? Overall, the title raises so much curiosity that it has an overwhelming effect, wanting us to read on and find answers to our questions....
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York New York Ability To Communicate
946 wordsIn a world where scientists are incessantly attempting to examine the intelligence of life forms other than humans, linguists have presented the idea that language in itself is reserved strictly for humans. One therefore, must attempt to solve that dilemma and come to a conclusion regarding the question is language unique to humans? If language is viewed solely as a system of communication, then it could be said that many differing species possess the ability to communicate. Humans also use cert...
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Hand Printed Slides Preparation And Delivery Presentation
1,476 wordsOften in your career you will be faced with the prospect of giving an oral presentation. If youre able to express yourself clearly and forcefully when you need to, you will undoubtedly have an advantage over your contemporaries. The objective of this paper is to identify some of the basic concepts involved in the preparation and delivery of an effective oral presentation. If you have nothing to say, you cannot give an effective talk. Assuming that you do have something to say, it is important to...
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Nick Time Hemingway's
370 wordsThe Nick Adams stories were my favorite of the collection because I got to know Nick through the reading. I started to understand Nick and I could anticipate the actions and feelings that he was feeling. I am not sure if this is because I became familiar with Nick or because I have done many of the things Nick has done and was able to understand what he was doing. Big Two-Hearted River: Part I and II were the most enjoyable short stories of the ones I read. The language that Hemingway uses is id...
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Nick Time River
373 wordsIn Our Time The Nick Adams stories were my favorite of the collection because I got to know Nick through the reading. I started to understand Nick and I could anticipate the actions and feelings that he was feeling. I am not sure if this is because I became familiar with Nick or because I have done many of the things Nick has done and was able to understand what he was doing. Big Two-Hearted River: Part I and II were the most enjoyable short stories of the ones I read. The language that Hemingwa...
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Nick Time Hemingway's
370 wordsThe Nick Adams stories were my favorite of the collection because I got to know Nick through the reading. I started to understand Nick and I could anticipate the actions and feelings that he was feeling. I am not sure if this is because I became familiar with Nick or because I have done many of the things Nick has done and was able to understand what he was doing. Big Two-Hearted River: Part I and II were the most enjoyable short stories of the ones I read. The language that Hemingway uses is id...
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Chinese Culture American Culture
391 wordsIn the book Iron and Silk, written by Mark Salzman as his point of view, is all about China. Throughout the book, Mark experiences many differences between the Chinese culture and his own American culture. Chinese people want to save face by doing some weird things. First example, kissing in China over the age of two is embarrassing for both children and parents. Mark finds Teacher Lui telling him a secret. Every night Teacher Lui kisses his older children when they are asleep. In the United Sta...
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