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- 10341: Ring Of Time
- ... center ring, keeping the cycle going. The circus will always stay together while its’ performers will age around it. Another theme portrayed in the story is that of the circus being a "microcosm" of the world. White states that, "Out of its wild disorder comes order", and this is how society can be viewed. The rehearsal, to the author, is the most magical and complex part of the circus. Before the ... and development of the upcoming event (before the polished product) is what the circus is all about. Life, as a result, can be seen as a parallel to this. In what appears to be a world of chaos, is actually a society of simplicity and order.
- 10342: King Arthur and Beowulf: A Comparison
- ... and respect was imposed into the weapons of the king. The noble King Arthur utilized the arms of his time, opposed to Beowulf's unarmed way of battle. Described as the strongest man in the world, Beowulf voyages across seas slaying evil demons with nothing but his bare hands. "…Knew at once that nowhere on earth had he met a man whose hands where harder." In the confrontation of Grendel and ... bent back as Beowulf leaned up on one arm." Beowulf was seen as a hero who conquered the evils with his sheer strength. "Strongest of the Geats - Greater and stronger than anyone anywhere in the world." Beowulf was a hero for who he was, a physically superior being. Additionally, he was adored by the Geats for his personality and mentality, along with his accomplishments of bettering society. King Arthur and Beowulf ...
- 10343: Natural History of the Lamprey
- ... to pierce the flesh of fishes. The adult forms of lamprey die soon after spawning and reaching their mature form. Lampreys mostly live in freshwater streams and seas of temperate and subartic regions throughout the world, except for Southern Africa. The sea lamprey is a marine species. They are native to the Atlantic Coast of North America and Europe. In many areas it has adapted to a life cycle spent entirely ... to pierce the flesh of fishes. The adult forms of lamprey die soon after spawning and reaching their mature form. Lampreys mostly live in freshwater streams and seas of temperate and subartic regions throughout the world, except for Southern Africa. The sea lamprey is a marine species. They are native to the Atlantic Coast of North America and Europe. In many areas it has adapted to a life cycle spent entirely ...
- 10344: Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
- In the year of 1772, a blessing to the genre on literature was born into the world. His name was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His warks include such pieces as Kubla Khan: Or, a Vision in a Dream and Christabel. Another creationof his, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, when placed in the ... he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea And thus, the tale begins. The mariner starts his journey with a light heart full of joy and promise; ready to conquer the world. Quite similar to the man who has net yet heard the good news about salvation. Heedless of the destination of his immortal soul, he charges off into the unknown. However, chargin off without being prepared ...
- 10345: The Autobiographical Elements in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Amontillado. In this story, the main character Fortunato, was left to die in a tomb after being tricked by his love's father. Lastly, the poem, "Silence," strongly suggested that he felt alone in the world, and was longing for companionship. Suffering through several periods of fear and irrationality during his life, Poe included those experiences in many of his more famous works. One of these periods involved experiences in joining ... a magazine of his own. "Poe was the first in a long series of American authors who felt a need to drink. Alcohol ruined his life. He had no good jobs. He had no stable world. He had nothing to anchor him to reality, so he induced fantasies and drowned his fears with a bottle" (Poulter 4). Poe's works reflected what he thought about the evil of drinking. Liquor played ...
- 10346: Albert Camus
- ... any sense to go on living once the meaninglessness of human life is fully understood. Camus referred to this meaninglessness as the “absurdity” of life. He believed that this “absurdity” is the “failure of the world to satisfy the human demand that it provide a basis for human values-for our personal ideals and for our judgments of right and wrong.” He maintained that suicide cannot be regarded as an adequate ... essay The Rebel. Camus rejected what he calls “metaphysical revolt,” which he sees as a “radical refusal of the human condition as such,” resulting either in suicide or in a “demonic attempt to remake the world in the image of man.” Although often considered an existentialist, Camus had his own way of thinking and often disagreed with many existentialist thinkers. Camus was a brilliant writer as well as a philosopher and ...
- 10347: "Schlesinger's Canon Vs. My High School's Canon"
- ... their own religious beliefs, by examining points in different religions that could actually be harmful to one's spirituality. There were times, like during the reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses when we touched on different world views- such as monotheism and polytheism, but we always had to compare it to Christianity and what we were taught in our religion classes. The teachers made it clear that these stories were superstitions and ... European influenced literature and studies, but read a lot of authors of different ethnicity. Even though we did read authors of different ethnicity, there was a lack of viewing other types of religions from the world, and their authors. This lack of not reading from different religions is a big hole in what is culture. Because of this, we did not receive a complete multicultural education. Bibliography 1. "culture." The American ...
- 10348: Language Is A Virus
- ... varies with circumstances, such as different cultures, religions, historical times or just personal feelings. Folk tales and legends are stories that have been passed throughout generations and are being told in many parts of the world in different languages. These stories, originally written as local tales, pass the boundaries of their localities and become absorbed into the folklore of other religions and countries through publication in other languages. In many cases ... writings are of a controversial nature and as such they appeal to some but can meet with a violent disapproval by others. Salman Rashdie has been lucky to survive the violent anger of the Muslim world. But at the same time he became popular with many segments of the population, not necessarily due to the greatness of his writing, but primarily because of the controversial subject he touches upon, the fact ...
- 10349: Scarlet Letter- Hester Prynne
- ... David Reynolds, expressed Hester as a heroine composed of many different stereotypes of females from the time period Hawthorne was writing. Hawthorne created some of the most skeptical and politically uncommitted characters in pre-civil war history. Reynolds went on to say, His [Hawthorne's] career illustrates the success of an especially responsive author in gathering together disparate female types and recombining them artistically so that they become crucial elements of ... his identity a secret and Dimsdale was in enough control to keep Hester from telling that he was her partner in sin. These are both examples of common stereotypes of women during the pre-civil war period.
- 10350: Morality; The Pre-existing and Universal Code
- ... anyone justify their actions without the evidence that it was the best action? God, the adjudicator of all our fates, decides what is good and what is bad. Killing in almost all parts of the world is considered an immoral action. If God determines that killing is unacceptable, then regardless of what a certain cultures beliefs are, their morals and those beliefs are wrong, and unpermisable. However if it so happens ... the standard of one’s age is to suggest that man is incapable (or perhaps too indolent) in finding the truth. If we are to accept the vast differences in morals and ethics in the world as a beneficial standard to society we then accept that there is no right and wrong, and thus there is no action that is best, and no action that can be justified. We must realize ...
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