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Summary Of New-Making And Charles Shultz's Peanuts
Number of Words: 369 / Number of Pages: 2
... to some people. Charles
Shultz uses unique analogies for everyday items that makes them easier to
associate with life. Many of his ideas, such as "The Great Pumpkin", have
become American past-times.
Charlie Brown represents the "little man" figure; a person struggling to
succeed in life. Many other comic strips have portrayed this also, but none
have lasted so long. This figure has been portrayed in musicals, movies, and
toys. Charles Shultz has put together a real artform according to his own
definition. His definition is that something can only be recognized as art if
it makes the same im ...
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2001: A Metaphorical Odyssey
Number of Words: 872 / Number of Pages: 4
... possible. He uses his character
traits of intelligence, persistence, and adroitness to overcome the dilemmas put
in front of him. By using his intelligence, he realizes that HAL has figured
him out, and he must find a way to get back into the discovery in order to
survive. In using persistence, Bowman does not give up when it seems that HAL
has won the battle. Instead he takes the rough way in, and he then disables HAL.
Bowman shows how adroit he is with dilemmas by handling the entire HAL
situation with calm and intelligence.
While on the mission, Bowman is faced with many dilemmas. The first ...
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Crime And Punishment 5
Number of Words: 1136 / Number of Pages: 5
... It was probable that during his studies at the university he was aquatinted with the popular philosophies of two German thinkers of the time.
One of these philosophers is George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who had formulated a conception of an exceptional individual he called a “superman”. Hegel’s superman exists for good purposes. He stands above and beyond the ordinary man and works for the good of all men. The most controversial part of this superman theory that Raskolnikov obviously adopts is the Machiavellian belief that the end justifies the mean. This means that anyt ...
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The Enlightenment Writers
Number of Words: 301 / Number of Pages: 2
... writers were similar in the
way that they tried to convey reason and learning. They differed of the premise
of the techniques of writing. The pre-Enlightenment writers were mostly made up
of the educated class of clergy and the upper class, who would afford to go to
school. The clergy wrote mainly for the purposes of the church, such as
transcribing books or writing works on God or religion. The upper-class writers
would be of the nobility, so they would usually write for aesthetic purposes or
to write essays to impress their peers.
Many great ideas were presented and defended by the Enlightenm ...
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Regeneration
Number of Words: 916 / Number of Pages: 4
... long been inflicted into people's heads by society's morals. In the novel the so-called "insane" patients are sent to an institute called Craiglockhart. It is one of the top schools in the country, at that time, for curing insanity.
Officer Prior is inevitably an outcast in society because he is dubbed insane. Prior suffered from mutism and reoccurring nightmares. At a time when he was at the institute he leaves to go to a bar and pick up women. One needs to understand that when the patients leave the institute they are advised to wear a red ribbon around their arm so that society knows that ...
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Farewell To Arms 6
Number of Words: 564 / Number of Pages: 3
... would dip down to kiss me while I was doing it...inside a tent or behind a falls.” This novel is very graphic when it comes to them having sex or while he is at the whorehouses during his leave time. Many things in this novel are inappropriate for children and adults. In more ways then one, Hemingway didn’t like women very much, one example is in chapter nine where he takes page and a half to describe how a solder dies who is not a main character in the book. But in chapter forty-one, he only uses approximately three lines to tell that Catharine dies, and she is a main character. In ...
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"To Build A Fire"
Number of Words: 670 / Number of Pages: 3
... first area which is affected by the cold is the mans memory. This is shown when the man sits down for lunch, removes his mittens and unzipped his jacket. "The action consumed no more than a quater of a minute, yet in that brief moment the numbness laid hold of the exposed fingers" (p.227). Then the man strikes his fingers against his leg and is immediately met with a sharp pain. He then places his fingers back in the mitten and removes his other hand to finish his lunch. However, when the man tries to take a bite from the biscuit, the ice muzzle stopped him. "He had forgotten to build a fire and thaw ...
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Iaga In Shakespeares Othello
Number of Words: 923 / Number of Pages: 4
... hold of Desdemona's
hand before the arrival of the Moor Othello, Iago says,
"With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly
as Cassio." [Act II, Scene I, Line 163] His cunning and
craftiness make him a truly dastardly villain indeed.
Being as smart as he is, Iago is quick to recognize
the advantages of trust and uses it as a tool to forward his
purposes. Throughout the story he is commonly known as, and
commonly called, "Honest Iago." He even says of himself, "I
am an honest man...." [Act II, Scene III, Line 245] Trust
is a very powerful emotion t ...
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A Separate Peace - A Journey T
Number of Words: 561 / Number of Pages: 3
... a strong bond. Unfortunately a strong bond could not withstand Gene's insecurities, as he faltered in Finny's unknown pressures of conforming.
Another important theme is conformity. Conformity refers to the choices young people make regarding going along with the crowd and pursuing their own paths. They can either give in to peer pressure or be secure with their own individuality. Gene succumbs to peer pressure the first time he jumps off the limb into the Devon River. Even though he would have rather not done it, he went along with the crowd to fit in. Another example of Gene trying to fit in ...
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Hera
Number of Words: 779 / Number of Pages: 3
... his children. Zeus was the only one out of the six of them not swallowed. When Zeus was old enough he fought his father, and forced him to disgorge his other brothers and sisters. was entrusted to Ocaenus and Tethys, by Rhea, to be raised while Zeus struggled with the Titans. later returned after Zeus won the war.
Zeus and got married on the summit of Mount. Ida in Phrygia. Together they were the parents of; Ares the god of war, Hephaetus the god of fire and metal work, Hebe the goddess of youth, and Elithyia the goddess of child birth. Ares was unpopular with both gods and humans. Although he w ...
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