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Epic Poem Word Choice
1,040 wordsThe Iliad: Comparing the Works of Fagless, Lattimore and Pope Regardless of the subject matter, a writers work always reflects something of the writer himself. Although an author may attempt to remain completely objective and invisible to the reader, something of his beliefs, background, education and biases inevitably permeates into the writing. This phenomenon is even true with and especially evident in translations. While the translator would ideally remain faithful to the original author and...
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Tao Te Ching Good And Evil
1,470 wordsAs I read more of Nietzsche and Loa Tzu, there is an increasing similarity between the basic structures of both philosophical hypotheses than there is difference. Though the outcomes differ, and even the rational of both mens thought process are plotted differently, and suggest drastically different ideal lifestyles, both works, the Tao Te Ching and the Will to Power argue for first an acceptance of an immoral world, a world with no true good nor evil, nor up nor down, but rather just man as he ...
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Jewish Values Mothers Story People
673 wordsMulti-Cultural Awareness week kicked off with James McBride, the author of The Color of Water, speaking in front of about 100 people. He seemed like a real person, who wasnt out for the money but to get his mothers story told. I thought he was an extremely reliable source because who better to tell a story then someone who was there. One person who I know thought he wasnt reliable was the Jewish English professor who felt he wasnt responsible in explaining the Jewish aspect well enough. Mr. McBr...
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Dylan Thomas Literary Techniques
1,530 wordsFern Hill: Dylan Thomas walk down Memory Lane Dylan Thomas Fern Hill can be interpreted as mans biggest desire to be a child once again. In Fern Hill, the writer talks about the glorious days of his youth and also his struggles with accepting old age and death. In this poem, the writer takes the reader along on a detailed exploration of his childhood memories. The struggle to accept and respect times rhythms and cycles, turns and limits, can affect everyone, as indicated by this poem. Thomas exp...
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Elizabeth Bishop Literary Devices
880 wordsWith fewer than fifty published poems Elizabeth Bishop is not one of the most prominent poets of our time. She is however well known for her use of imagery and her ability to convey the narrators emotions to the reader. In her vividly visual poem The Fish, the reader is exposed to a story wherein the use of language not only draws the reader into the story but causes the images to transcend the written work. In the poem, Bishop makes use of numerous literary devices such as similes, adjectives, ...
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Oedipus The King City Of Thebes
1,093 wordsOedipus the King and Othello the Moor When you read the works of different authors you always seem to notice different similarities between them. Among those authors are Shakespeare and Sophocles who show many different similarities between their works. We will now use one of Shakespeare's and Sophocles plays, Othello and Oedipus the King, and discuss the similarities or / and differences they have between them. We will also compare, focus, discuss and explain the tragic endings, mood, plot, the...
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Believed That Man Thomas Hobbes
415 wordsJohn Locke and Thomas Hobbes were two English thinkers who contributed their ideas to the Enlightenment. There are a few similarities between these two. They were both English thinkers, and they both lived in the 1600 s. Locke and Hobbes both lived through the upheavals in England early in the 17 th century. That is where the similarities end. They then formed different ideas about the nature of people. Locke stated that people were naturally good, while Hobbes stated that they were naturally ev...
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Affirmative Action Reverse Discrimination
995 wordsThe writer Mary Anne Warren is focusing on describing the current practices in many organizations today in regards to the implementing a goal vs. a quota system for the purposes of affirmative action. She defines a quota as "Those who use the term "quotas" pejoratively tend to assume that the numerical standards will be set so high or enforced so rigidly that strong reverse discrimination-that is, the deliberate hiring of demonstrably less well qualified candidates-will be necessary to implement...
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Special Theory Of Relativity Quantum Mechanics
1,104 wordsPart I: The Edge of Knowledge Chapter 1: Tied Up with Strings This is the introductory section, where the author, Brian Greene, examines the fundamentals of what is currently proven to be true by experimentation in the realm of modern physics. Green goes on to talk more about "The Basic Idea" of string theory. He describes how physicists are aspiring to reach the Theory of Everything, or T. O. E. Some suspect when string theory is completely understood that it might turn out to become the T. O. ...
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Romeo And Juliet Queen Mab
1,407 wordsAt the time Mercutio makes his famous "Queen Mab" speech in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, he and Romeo, together with a group of their friends and kinsmen, are on the way to a party given by their family's arch-enemy, Lord Capulet. Their plan is to crash the party so that Romeo may have the opportunity to see his current love, Rosaline, whom they know has been invited to the Capulet's masque that evening. Romeo, whom his friends seem to consider generally very witty and fun, originally thought...
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Friend Of Mine Equal Rights
942 wordsFEM-I-NIST n. A person who is involved in the movement advocating the granting of the same social, political and economic rights to women as the ones granted to men. When asking the question, "What is a feminist? , " I received some very strange responses. When I posed this question, the people who answered seemed to be confused about their own beliefs. The question was also much more controversial than I had anticipated. The group that I asked was comprised of six females and four males, and wa...
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Third Person Narration First Person Narration
982 wordsA black African is captured and sold into slavery. Its an unfortunate story, but one with approximately eleven million equivalents. Aphra Behn, however, brings this common piece of history to life in her story Oroonoko, the tale of an African prince tricked into slavery in the West Indies. As the storyteller, Behn makes use of two common forms of narration, the third person and the first person. She recounts what she is present for in the first person, while relying on the words of Oroonoko hims...
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W W Norton Norton Anthology Of English Literature
992 wordsWilliam Wordsworth's description of his poetry in Preface to Lyrical Ballads gives the impression that it feel much like a modern newspaper to a reader; basic and with wide appeal. He emphasizes the idea of simplicity and familiarity of both topic and language, arguing the superiority of a poem that appeals to the common person. However, despite the value placed on simplicity, his poems are far above what many readers would perceive to be elementary. This is demonstrated by the fact that his poe...
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James Joyce Bright Light
1,067 wordsThe setting in Araby reinforces the theme and characters by using imagery of light and darkness. The experiences of the boy in James Joyce's Araby illustrate how people often expect more than reality can provide and become disillusioned and disappointed. The author uses dark and obscure references to make the boys reality of living in a gloomy town more vivid. He uses gloomy references to create the mood of the story, and then changes to bright light references when talking about Mangans sister....
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Isnt Necessarily Evil Killed Her Husband Person
747 wordsDoes being a criminal necessarily mean a person is evil? This is an interesting question, in which there are many different opinions. This is not a straight yes or no answer. To have a debate on an issue like this we should first define the word evil. The dictionary defines evil as being: Morally reprehensible, sinful, wicked (Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary). People who say that a criminal isnt necessarily evil might be thinking like this: If a poor person went into a store and stole foo...
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An Introduction To Skills Involving Knowledge Management
1,051 wordsWhat if I were to tell you that I could give you a process or methodology that would allow those that dont know what they dont know to determine what they really needed? If I had a tool that supported a process of gathering required information, providing information to those that need it, when they need it, and in a form they understood, would people really be interested in such a tool? Well if I had such a tool it would be priceless! What Ive described is exactly the feeling I get when trying ...
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Act Five Scene Act Three Scene
1,645 wordsA tragedy is when something awful has happened, in this case, Hamlet's father, Old Hamlet, has died. A 'Revenge Tragedy' is set. Hamlet's mission is to avenge his father's death. A 'Revenge Tragedy' is always a very exciting theme for a story and that is why it was popular in Elizabethan times and still appeals to audiences of stage and film productions nowadays. In the first scene there is a threat of invasion, when the guards are absolutely terrified about the ghost's appearance, it also creat...
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Rocking Chair Victorian England
1,046 wordsMary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton can hardly be referred to as the exceptional literary masterpiece. Nevertheless, from a certain point of view, the value of her novel is higher than the value of other books, written about the same time by different authors. This is because, in her novel, Gaskell creates a very realistic image of Victorian society, often at the expense of over complicating the plot. In order for Mary Barton to be read as rather documentary than a fiction, author ...
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Fourteenth Century Twentieth Century
560 wordsCharacter Sketch of Chaucer's Knight Geoffrey Chaucer s Canterbury Tales, written in approximately 1385, is a collection of twenty-four stories ostensibly told by various people who are going on a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral from London, England. Prior to the actual tales, however, Chaucer offers the reader a glimpse of fourteenth century life by way of what he refers to as a General Prologue. In this prologue, Chaucer introduces all of the characters who are involved in this im...
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Toxic Shock Syndrome Surrogate Motherhood
1,578 wordsThe thesis of this 10 page paper is that there is a medical necessity for the legal use of marijuana. There is significant evidence that supports the benefits of THC, a chemical found in marijuana, is beneficial for sufferers of cancer, AIDS and glaucoma. Though THC is available in tablet form, many seriously ill patients cannot take the oral medication, and many complain that the pill is ineffective. If the use of marijuana can significantly reduce the suffering of severely ill individuals, it ...
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