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- 10971: Eucalyptus Trees
- The eucalypt is one of the tallest trees in the world. There are more then 600 species of eucalypts in Australia. Blackbutt, jarrah, karri, stringybark, ironbark are common names of eucalypts that grow in various parts of Australia. More than ninety per cent of Australia's ... the edge of sandy dunes in the full force of sea gales, and bent and twisted at the edge of the snow line in the Alps. They are also found in other parts of the world from Ethiopia to Ecuador, from California to Israel. Where eucalypts grow is determined by many environmental factors such as soil type, amount of water, wind direction, the direction the tree is facing and whether there ...
- 10972: Shaw's Saint Joan and Shakespeare's Henry IV: Honor and Valor
- ... promiseth but he means to pay.” Shakespeare installs key attributes a hero such as Prince Hal needs. Prince Hal gains courage, responsibility, honor, and valor that he receives from his father’s speech before the war begins. With these qualities Prince Hal and now has and with the victory in the war Prince Hal becomes a respected man and later a respected King. In both of the plays, Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan and in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1,show both the hazards and prizes ...
- 10973: Revenge in Hamlet
- ... these families are all slaughtered within the play. Fortinbras, King of Norway, was killed by King Hamlet; slaughtered by sword during a man to man battle. "…our valiant Hamlet-for so this side ofour known world esteem'd him-did slay this Fortinbras." This entitled King Hamlet to the land that was possessed by Fortinbras because it was written in a seal'd compact. Polonius was an advisor to the King ... dies. Hamlet had many chances to kill his uncle, but his rage outweighed his intelligence; and he chose to wait until God could see no good in Claudius, and then strike him down into a world of eternal punishment. "Now might I do it pat, now he is praying…A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven." Hamlet waits until ...
- 10974: White Fang Thematic Analysis
- ... It is extremely difficult for him, but he eventually makes the transition from a wild animal to a tame pet. Had he not made this alteration, then he would never have survived in the human world. Jack London once again made a masterful illustration of every detail about Alaska and the wolves that inhabit it. As always, his superb choice word allowed every moment in the story to be captured with ... he allowed the story to end with White Fang finding happiness with a loving master to teach everyone an important lesson. This is that sometimes we can become so distracted by surviving in the business world or elsewhere, that we forget that experiencing happiness should be most important.
- 10975: Alcohol An Issue Within Colleg
- ... is a time where tough decisions are to be made and these choices can change the direction of your life. It is a time where in most cases students get a taste of the real world by being away from home for the first time with a new found freedom to live as they please. College life is a new experience and the pressures that come along with it have an ... problem that exists among men and women of all ages. Alcohol addiction has no barriers to race, religion or sex; anyone can have this addiction. Is alcoholism a disease? The American Medical Association and the World Health Organization officially acknowledged alcoholism as a disease in the 1950’s. It is very apparent that alcohol abuse has major effects on major organs of the body. Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, causes severe damage ...
- 10976: Psychoanalytic Approaches To P
- ... and wrong, and is almost a direct paradox to the id. The ego, which can be seen as the mediator between the id and the super-ego, takes into account the activities of the external world, and attempts to invoke some balance among all three parts of the mind, with failure resulting in neurosis of some kind. Freud’s “Lecture III” provides, what I believe to be another important theory in ... external motives. Jung also went on to describe four separate conscious orientations which sub-type introversion and extroversion, categorized as: sensation types, thinking types, feeling types, and intuitive types. Sensation types focus on experiencing the world via the senses, while thinking types are more rational and use a cognitive approach to things. While feeling types tend to focus on emotion, the intuitive type concerns himself (generic) about possibilities in life, stemming ...
- 10977: Cry The Beloved Country - Corruption
- Corruption is one of the most prevailing themes in Cry The Beloved Country, as well as in today’s world. In this story the author pictures many different characters in order to represent this wide spread illness of society, John Kumalo, Gertrude, Abasalom, just to name a few. Johannesburg itself is the summary of all ... crime, prostitution, racism, segregation. Johannesburg isn’t only corrupt in itself; it corrupts all most all that it touches. This city is very much a downscaled version of anyone of numerous major cities in the world today. It is a sad day when a man of the cloth cannot go unmolested through the streets. The city is overcrowded and everyone is so poor that they must stoop to rob priests just ...
- 10978: Young Goodman Brown: The Downfall of Young Goodman Brown
- ... of the forest, as if his calls to Faith were falling on deaf ears. A pink ribbon flies through the air and Goodman grabs it. At this moment, he has lost all faith in the world and declares that there is "no good on earth." Young Goodman Brown in this scene is easily manipulated simply by the power of suggestion. The suggestion that the woman in question is his Faith, and ... like a "bewildered man." He cannot believe that he is in the same place that he just the night before; because to him, Salem was no longer home. He felt like an outsider in a world of Devil worshippers and because his "basic means of order, his religious system, is absent, the society he was familiar with becomes nightmarish." (Shear 545) He comes back to the town "projecting his guilt onto ...
- 10979: Tragic Knowledge, Comedic Idiocy
- ... Bagot, and Green. These three were just lowly workers; they held no lands or titles; they were never involved in policy-changing decisions. These three servants knew everything that was going on in the aristocratic world. The three often surprised the royalty with the information they knew. This knowledge did not lead to their salvation. Bushy and Green end up being killed along with the Earl of Wiltshire. Bagot is left ... or ministers. They were lackeys of the King. Their job was to bring him a glass of water or whatever the King wished. These underlings however provided the King and his confidants information of the world. Bushy, Bagot, and Green knew that they had no power to change anything. Bushy remarks, "For us to levy power / Proportionable to the enemy / is all unpossible." (II, ii, 124-126) Green knows that their ...
- 10980: Sir Gawain And The Green Night
- ... a True Hero Is a hero the one who decides to stand up when everyone else is only thinking about it? Is a hero the one who retains integrity rather than give in to the world s everyday temptations? Is a hero the picture of courage, or an example of morals? These are the questions that arise after reading the epic story of Beowulf by an anonymous author, and the romantic tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, also written by an anonymous author. The stories describe two very different heroes. Beowulf was undoubtedly a hero, but as time advanced and the world became more complicated, what constituted a hero became more shady; therefore, while he is not anything like Beowulf, Sir Gawain is also in fact a true hero. Beowulf is a hero. That is an undeniable ...
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