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Frankenstien And Neuromancer
Number of Words: 4773 / Number of Pages: 18
... complexity of the problem of technology, in both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer, is the historical context in which the two were written. Whereas Frankenstein was written in a period of dramatic change - that of the Industrial revolution, in Neuromancer, Gibson echoes the opinion of economists who believe that we are currently experiencing the beginning of a profound economic revolution, due to the breakthroughs in information and communication technology, and which some believe is equal in magnitude to the industrial revolution. The second leitmotif of my research is that ...
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MacBeth-The Transformation Of
Number of Words: 1066 / Number of Pages: 4
... Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' th' adage? (I, vii, 40-46).
"She feels in an instant that everything is at stake, and ignoring the point, overwhelms him with indignant and contemptuous personal reproach." (Bradley, 81.) She seems to welcome the darkness into her when she says, "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts / Unsex me here, and fill me, from crown to toe / Top-full of direst cruelty." (I, v, 44). Lady MacBeth takes control of the situation involvin ...
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Will There Be A World War III?
Number of Words: 1007 / Number of Pages: 4
... brought America into war against both Hitler and Hirohito. It would be the bloodiest conflict ever: 100 million men bore arms, and 30 million civilians, many of them European Jews, would die before Berlin fell in May 1945 and, in August of that year, the United States would drop two atomic bombs on Japan- ending the war and changing the world.” (Hirsh)
What was FDR thinking those 18 minutes he sat still and silent, when he learned Pearl Harbor had been bombed? Was he thinking that maybe he should have gotten involved sooner? That maybe if the United States had gotten involved earlier some of ...
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John Steinbeck - The Author An
Number of Words: 1244 / Number of Pages: 5
... Family came first in the Steinbeck household. While not everyone saw
eye-to-eye all the time, parents and children got along well. His
father saw that John had talent and encouraged him to become a writer.
His mother at first wanted John to be a banker- a real irony when
you consider what Steinbeck says about banks in The Grapes of Wrath-
but she changed her mind when John began spending hours in his room
scrawling stories and writing articles for the school paper. Later
in life, Steinbeck denied that his family served as a model for the
Joads in The Grapes of Wrath. But both families under ...
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Metamorphosis A Movie
Number of Words: 813 / Number of Pages: 3
... my parents sake, I would have quit long ago” (4). From this quote it is obvious that while trying to make his parents happy, Gregor has to live a sad live were he is not happy with what he is and what he does for a living. Even in the company he has been able to move up the position ladder at a fast rate, he is not happy. What Gregor looks forward to in the job is the opportunity that “once [he’s] gotten the money together to pay off [his] parents’ debts” (4) he would quit working at that company for good.
Even if Gregor makes a sacrifice to save his family by paying w ...
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Tools Used In The Writing Of Short Stories
Number of Words: 526 / Number of Pages: 2
... Prosser was like a caged animal that wanted to
lash out at the world, and when pushed to the edge, the symbolic cage
opened, and he was set loose. The use of Man-versus-Society conflict is
also evident in the fact that Prosser lashed out against the whole society
and not at one part in particular.
In the story "Paul's Case," Willa Cather tries to show that not
sharing ones personal feelings can be destructive to a persons subconscious,
and cause him/her to do things to get away from their feelings. The use of
Man-versus-society conflict is evident in that Paul is always getting in
trouble for wh ...
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The Idea Of Freedom
Number of Words: 401 / Number of Pages: 2
... without a blink of an eye by officials? In other countries,
such actions could cause one's life to be lost by sun-up the next day.
This is the rationalization of First Amendment tree-huggers who advocate
any bend in the rules which would be otherwise a fair idea.
As far as fair ideas go, until several years ago in Russia,
luxurious living was a thing of dreams and stories for the average John
Doestovky, and then society got tired of the pigs at the top having all the
riches. Here, Americans enjoy luxury throughout all class levels in their
own individual ways. Americans have lifestyle individualit ...
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Animal Farm 3
Number of Words: 738 / Number of Pages: 3
... which will keep them from starvation while he profits from the rest. The old boar tells them that the source of all their problems is man, and that they must remove man from their midst to abolish tyranny and hunger.
Days later Major dies, but the hope and pride which he gave the other animals does not die. Under the leadership of the pigs, the most intelligent of the animals, they rebel against their human master managing to overthrow him. After the rebellion, under the direction of Napoleon, the most outspoken pig, and Snowball, the most eloquent pig, the animals continue to work the farm successf ...
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Compare And Contrast Once Upon
Number of Words: 902 / Number of Pages: 4
... winning at the horse track in order to please his mother. Fear, in this story, resides in the boy's mind, as he struggles to prove his luck to his mother. His mother equates luck to money, henceforth, driving the child to accumulate money and in his mind become lucky. The mother's assumptions push the boy to the brink and beyond in an effort to determine which horse will win the race.
The two mothers in the stories view their roles in child rearing quite differently, unfortunately yielding the same results. The authors reveal that even the best of intentions can have disastrous results. In " ...
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The Scarlet Letter- Scaffold A
Number of Words: 1014 / Number of Pages: 4
... of one’s sins. Public penitence upon the scaffold was the only way society would acknowledge, and later forgive one for their sins. It is the first step on the long road to acceptance back into the strict, Puritan society. In the first of three scaffold scenes, Hester stands before the community, wearing a scarlet A. For her punishment, she was required to stand for hours upon the scaffold, and the truth pertaining to her sin of adultery and her inner struggle were put on display, “…for, haughty as her demeanor was, she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those t ...
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