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- 10221: Gatsby S Sacrifice
- ... strived to obtain the "vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty," and to incarnate these ideals with reality. Like Jesus Christ came here as an incarnation of man and the divine, "the perfect word entering the imperfect world-- and yet remaining perfect" (Christensen, 154-155), Gatsby is referred to as "a son of God" because through his invention of Jay Gatsby, James Gatz tried to incarnate his ideal dream with reality. Daisy becomes ... dream. "I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose ...
- 10222: Taoism
- ... inseparable parts of the great whole, and we are as old, and as young as the heavens and the earth(Creel,1970Pg.2). I think that it means the Tao came before all of the world and heaven that we know of. And the Tao is like the feelings of love we sometimes feel. The love can get so strong but others dont realize it. There is nothing big enough ... into a spirit. They also were not affected by fire, they could change shapes (like turn themselves into a rock if it pleased them) and at any given time they could go anywhere in the world if the wanted to. Being immortal gave them the power to do practically anything. It is also said that there is not an existing person or thing that could tell an immortal what to do ...
- 10223: Todays Hip Hop
- ... like Martin Luther King Jr., who fought for equality would want his decendants fighting over an area of equality, You are MISTAKEN! Hip Hop is large and is growing now lets prove that to the world. Dont fight over to whom it belongs and dont let it become catogorized as just a fad of music. Please dont let them look down on us with prejudgice as "a bunch of bad influence ... will always be music; these two things somehow will always find a way to commingle. The best solution may be that the drug problem is solved and all rap music becomes positive, but a perfect world is impossible. Although this may be negative, it is true; Americans need to realize this and accept the music for what it is. BIBLIOGRAPHY Armoudian, Maria. 1994. "Beating the Bad Rap." Billboard. 106.48: 48 ...
- 10224: The Rime Of The Ancient Marine
- ... itself around the confession of sins done by men or women. Luckily, they have the power to repent and do penance to receive God s forgiveness. God sends people this power and people around the world mimic this cycle of crime, punishment, repentance, and reconciliation in court systems and other penal codes. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" helps implement all this cycle with the murder of the albatross and how he ... a natural thing whether it is self-inflicted or given and must be one so one s heart can be free of guilt. Crime, punishment, repentance, and reconciliation is evident in many things around the world. They are an active part in society, and they decide the fate of many people. Some do not except their penance and are condemned. Others recognize what they have done wrong and do as much ...
- 10225: Self-Reliance
- ... that I can relate with; others were completely out of the ballpark. I was surprised, and a little excited to read many of the philosophies that Emerson held to be the great truths of this world. Emerson had many ideas that can benefit the world today; they can help societies evolve into better places for people to live. They also provide a call for humans to evolve from conforming automatons to individuals who do and say what they feel. These ...
- 10226: There Is No Escape
- ... happen to be in college in the east coast, to listen and keep up with the latest news about their team. It is good knowing that one can be a Dodger fan anywhere in the world. The internet facilitates the distance factor that exists between a Dodger fan in Boston and his team in Los Angeles. Baseball is a lot like filming a movie. It involves pre-production, the making of ... the Dodgers, there will be no postseason this year. Much like a bad movie that was trashed by the producers. The key is not to give up and keep trying. Dodger fans all over the world know that the year 2000 is the year of the championship. There is no escape.
- 10227: The Hundred Secret Senses By A
- ... the people you love never die. Although one cannot see them with our normal sense, Olivia remembers she can use the hundred secret senses to find Kwan anytime she needed to. Tan includes the spiritual world of ghosts and superstitions as she does with many of her other books. This was quite believable to me because in my family we still have a day to honor the dead. My parents would ... deep book that deals with many themes, just with a Chinese American twist. Although it is a slow read in the beginning, everything will make sense in the end. Tan wanted to "show me the world is not a place, but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true.
- 10228: Neuromancer By William Gibson
- ... proliferation of references to Neuromancer: " Meat Puppets" is a rock group, there was a computer virus called " Screaming Fist," the Internet is commonly referred to as "Cyberspace" or--occasionally--"the Matrix," and there are several World Wide Web sites are named "Wintermute."; Gibson produced his vision in a time when many people were becoming haunted by the idea of urban decay, crime rampant, corruption everywhere. Just as readers of the 50s looked obsessively for signs that Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four was coming true, some readers keep an eye out for the emergence of cyberpunk's nightmare world in contemporary reality. The fiction may not be widely read, but through movies and comics it has created one of the defining mythologies of our time. The vision of Neuromancer was too confining for a ...
- 10229: To Kill A Mockingbird 4
- ... fear but fear itself" - p.10 c. awareness difference in social classes "nothing to buy and no money to buy with it" - p.10 d. narrow span of interest and almost no interest in the world outside Maycomb. "nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" - p.10 2. Approximately when does the story negin? Show evidence to support your answer. The setting of the story take place in Maycomb ... equal. 4. What kind of clown does Dill decide to be? Explain his reasoning. He want to be a clown when he grow up, the reason is that "There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh..." Chapter 23 1. How does Atticus react to Bob Ewell against him? Atticus is not unduly upset by Bob Ewell's threat. He knows that Bob is angry ...
- 10230: Genesis As Myth: Different Views
- ... have Noah in chapter eight. A quote from the bible that states I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, saith the Lord. The German Theologian says that God against the world and the world itself for ever dividing into opposites on either side: male and female, living and dead, good and evil, first and last. In a different example Edmund Leach stated that Solomon the wise, the great king ...
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