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The Tragic Hero Of Things Fall Apart
918 wordsThe role of a tragic hero within a story line is essential in a dramatic film or written work. The hero has the standards of becoming a great character that can take charge of the story through courageous action and bold dialogue. However, since the character is deemed a tragic hero, his flaws will ultimately be his downfall, usually leading to the characters own demise. Nowhere is this ideal of a tragic hero more relevant that in China Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart. The story is set in late ...
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Cultural Differences One Culture
450 words[/b] Genetically speaking, there are no physical impediments to interracial marriage. Therefore factors that help or hinder the success of mixed marriages as compared to within-group-marriages are not genetic, but are taught and learned by individuals living in a community. Groups and individuals "speak" through implied and usually unwritten statements that become cultural pressures -- "should's" and "should nots" -- that can affect the potential partners' decisions before marriage and the quali...
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Customer Service One Third
901 wordsDepending on the time of day and day of week, the abiding time at checkout varies. In order to maintain and manage the variety of store customers and staff availability during this time, a flexible self-checkout line should be considered. To meet this challenge, these self-checkout lines offer a convertible lane. It can function as a self-checkout lane or as a traditional, fully assisted cashier lane. The transformation is done in just a few simple steps, leaving the time to choose the most usef...
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Dominant Hegemonic Reading Dominant Hegemonic House
696 wordsCultural norms and dominant ideologies determine the manner by which our culture encodes / decodes images. Encoding is the process by which the creator of a work, through conscious or unconscious means, inserts certain meanings into their work. Encoding also takes into the account the context of the work-where it is displayed and by whom it is seen. Decoding are the interpretations that the viewer comes up with, whether they be "intended, unintended, ... (or) even merely suggested meanings." Acc...
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The Scarlet Letter Symbols Displaying Character Emotions
829 wordsNathanial Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter uses many different types of symbols throughout his book to portray the feelings and emotions of the characters. Hester, the main character of the book, is filled with many feelings, including pride and acceptance, surrounding her sin of adultery. Many of the people around Hester also reflect similar emotions and feelings and are reflected by the author through the use of colors. Nathanial Hawthorne employs many symbols throughout his book, as he uses the...
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Double And Multiple Stopping Passages In Double And Multiple Violin
1,079 words... Paganini's artistry in composition and performance were tinted by "rose-colored memories." There is nothing "rose-colored" in the genius of such contemporaries of Paganini as Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, Berlioz and others, whose reports claim his total mastery as a composer and genius as a performer in absolute terms. It is important to understand Paganini's music in the context of his cultural heritage and his enthusiastic adherence to traditional compositional values. H...
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' 'people ' ' Deane Case
1,074 words... ers black, others treated with a rainbow surface like oil on water. But the chrome stars held his gaze. They were mounted 11 WILLIAM GIBSON against scarlet ultra suede with nearly invisible loops of nylon fish line, their centers stamped with dragons or yin yang sym- bol's. They caught the street's neon and twisted it, and it came to Case that these were the stars under which he voyaged, his destiny spelled out in a constellation of cheap chrome. 'Julie, ' he said to his stars. 'Time to see ...
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Virtual Reality Learning Environments
1,354 wordsPotentials and Challenges Computer graphics technology enables us to create a remarkable variety of digital images and displays that, given the right conditions, effectively enrich education [Clark 1983 ]. Real-time computer graphics are an essential component of the multi-sensory environment of Virtual Reality (VR). This article addresses the unique characteristics of emerging VR technology and the potential of virtual worlds as learning environments. I will describe several key attributes of V...
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Virtual Worlds 3 D
1,388 words... , not a product. ) If extensive low-polygon object libraries were included with modelling software, useful worlds would be relatively straightforward to assemble. 3 -D modeling packages with more sophisticated functionality, such as Alias TM and Wavefront TM, are proportionally more difficult to learn. Some of the most powerful features of these modelers (multiple light sources, radiosity, mirror surfaces, shading options, and batch animation capabilities) are presently unusable for real-tim...
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Interesting To Note Cultural Differences
1,064 wordsFor those of us located within the United States, we often take or granted the normal day to day business operations. Though the United States has a mix of several district cultures, most companies operate in the same manner. In fact, Americans often make the mistake of assuming that standard business models are the norm in other countries as well. For the corporate executive charged with creating an overseas operation, lack of local culture understanding and its influence on business methods wi...
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A Tale Of William Burke And Hare
923 wordsWilliam Burke had travel to Scottland to work on the Union Canal, it is there that he met a young lady by the name of Helen McDougal. They left Scottland together to journey to Edinburgh, where they had to work on farms, sell old clothes and mend shoes just to earn enough money to eat on. William Hare had also moved to Scottland to work on the Union Canal, after the Canal was completed Hare moved to Edinburgh and found cheap lodging in a boarding house in a small area called West Prot. The owner...
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George Washington One Point
1,014 words... here the resentment of authority, the restlessness, that is thought to typify the young. What was present was as icy, brutal cynicism that was not only brought to bear on the British, but on mankind as a whole. " (Emery 179 - 80) Hamilton was not immature, through all his childhood hardships he advanced on an intellectual level that preceded him in the colonies. Hamilton wrote: The people of Britain must... be an order of superior beings, not cast in the same mold with the common degenerate ...
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German Version Italian Art Body
565 wordsThe Two Pietas It is doubtful that there could be two sculptures on the exact same subject with the same figures in much the same pose that would be in more contrast to each other. Michelangelo's Pieta in the Florentine style is very realistic and quite beautiful. It is carved in marble and the pale stone lends an air of serenity to the scene. The Rottgen Pieta has no mood of serenity, but, instead, it invokes horror. It is carved in wood and painted in various shades of brown. The color, alone,...
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Romantic Period Visual Arts
1,601 wordsBaroque's Art Sites Art History Resources web This page is an art history page of a large site created by Dr. Christopher Witcomb: web The larger site covers the whole range of art history. I cannot begin to describe what is available on this site, which must have been a huge work of love. The site includes high resolution photos of sculptures, paintings and other visual arts as well as architecture, photography, textiles, icons and even comic book art. Virtually every visual art is represented ...
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Meta Analysis Leadership Style
1,521 wordsLeadership Leadership is one of the core abilities that a good manager should possess. In any group of children or adults, there are those who step forward to organize people and events to achieve a specific result. In organized activities, leaders can be designated and, in informal contexts, such as childrens playgroups, they may emerge naturally. What makes certain people into leaders is open to debate. Thus Luella Cole and Irma Nelson Hall have written that leadership seems to consist of a cl...
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Picture Of Dorian Gray Basil Hallward
1,463 wordsThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is the story of moral corruption by the means of aestheticism. In the novel, the well meaning artist Basil Hallward presets young Dorian Gray with a portrait of himself. After conversing with cynical Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian makes a wish which dreadfully affects his life forever. " If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not giv...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Huck And Jim
542 wordsMany plays and novels use contrasting places to represent opposed forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of the work. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a good example of this. In this novel, the land and the river represent opposed forces. The land is one of the opposing forces in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The land represents hardship. On land Huck has to deal with problems such as his father. Huck has to worry about his father taking his money and beating hi...
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Marry His Mother Kill His Father
1,076 wordsAncient civilizations pass on their contributions to society through oral traditions now written down. They felt the best way to continue their livelihood was to create fabulous stories that encompassed the general ideal of the people. These stories were used as tools for teaching societal standards, displaying consequences, and modeling expectations. Today new look back at these most famous stories and try to derive a consensus of how the people of the past thought and believed. The main charac...
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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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Electric Charge Electric Field
972 wordsElectric Water Heater And Piezoelectric Force Transducer Electric Water Heater And Piezoelectric Force Transducer What is a piezoelectric force transducer (or sensor)? A transducer is a device that transmits power from one system to another. In the case of the piezoelectric, they power comes in the form of electricity from a piezoelectric material acted on. Piezoelectricity may be described as the property of some materials that become electrically charged when subject to mechanical stress. Thes...
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