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Stephen Kings Electronic Media
1,414 words
The 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 words
Symbolism 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 words
There 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
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The 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
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In 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
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MY 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
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Stephen 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
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Martin 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
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Websters 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
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Just 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
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... 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
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William 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
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The 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 words
Terrorism 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 words
In 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
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When 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
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The 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 words
Neitzche 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
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In 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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