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- 12511: A Study Of Catholicism
- ... distinguishes Catholicism from other religions, Christian and non. The notion is that Catholicism is a religion that is based on open-mindedness. McBrien alludes to flags to clearly define his thesis. Many flags of the world share the same three colors. He uses the colors red, white, and blue. The flags for Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Cuba, and France all share the same three colors, yet they are not configured the same way. The flag of the United States has fifty stars and the French flag has three thick bars of color. It is in this way that McBrien relates the flags of the world to Catholicism. The Catholic Church is distinguished from other Christian religions by the configuration of its practices and characteristics. One instance that I read about in the news recently was about a young girl in ...
- 12512: The Hype: Television
- ... of happiness that was once openly available to generations before us. How did we become such a consumer-happy society? One obvious reason is television. With the introduction of television, the public entered a fanatical world that made our own lives seem unreal. Americans began to yearn for lives of intrigue and notoriety. With a touch of a button, the television takes viewers "out of the 'real' world in which [they] reside and can place [them] at a basketball game, the back alleys of Maine, the streets of Bucharest, or the cartooning living rooms of Sitcom land (Hamill, 375). In these places, life ...
- 12513: Krapp's Last Tape: Imagery in Color
- ... the 20th century. The playwrights indiscreetly utilize metaphoric and symbolic details to support their message. In "Krapp's Last Tape," Samuel Beckett exploits such techniques in expressing his own bleak and pessimistic view of the world. In his middle years of his life, Krapp retained this rigid and anal retentive nature. He kept these tapes in which he would constantly reevaluate his own life and try to always improve it, using ... Samuel Beckett does not yield any kind of complex profound plot, he provide an intriguing and outstanding job of exploiting the details of imagery and dialogue to express his despairing and cynical interpretation of the world. Because of his emphasis upon the "trifles" of the play, he is able to reemphasize and convincingly convey Krapp's disenchantment with his own life. Works Cited: Beckett, Samuel. "Krapp's Last Tape," The Bedford ...
- 12514: Critisism On Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- ... His character ws not simply that of a peasant exalted into notice by uncommon literary attainments, but bore a stamp which must have distinguished him in the highest as in the lowest situation in life."(World pg.963) Burns entered into the idea of collecting Scottish song fragments with all the zeal of an enthusiast; and few, whether serious or humerous, pass through his hands without receiving some of those magic ... compositions, must necessarily have had no little effect im deterring him from undertaking any grave or important task. Works Cited Literature Criticism From 1400 to 1800. Ed. James E. Person Vol.3. Detroit: Gale, 1986. World Literature Criticism: 1500 to the Present. Ed. James Draper. 5 vols. Detroit: Gale, 1992.
- 12515: Ending Of Apartheid In South A
- ... of the appauling conditions in black township schools. Classes were over-crowded, there were no facilities and most importantly the pupils were being taught in Afrikaan. The language was not spoken anywhere else in the world, and they felt that they were simply being prepared as slaves for the whites. The horrifying incident caused uproar in many other townships which lasted for months. Although the government claimed the riots were unpolitical ... to give political rights to blacks. Putting sanctions on South Africa would mean banning goods which were vital to their needs. However, many people argued that economic sanctions would only hurt blacks, not whites. This world-wide debate put a great deal of stress on the country, and it basically seemed as though the only solution would be to end apartheid. By combining all these factors, along with things such as ...
- 12516: Analytical Essay On The Grass
- ... a hard charger. The filmaker also uses clothes and mannerisms to highlight Dolly's character. She wears loose, flowing pink dresses and acceseries and a veil, which she uses as a barrier to the outside world, or when she has to talk to someone, as she has no confidence. She also has a breezy walk. Dolly's kitchen, pink with lots of open space, contrasts with the rest of Verena's ... own descisions. Dolly's modest rebellion unwittingly throws her into a process of self-discovery. " For the first time in my life, I'm doing exactly what I want to do. It makes the whole world look bright and beautiful." Dolly has broken free of verena, and the space that is now between then allows Dolly to change. Dooly to Verena when Verena orders Dolly home " You wanted me to lift ...
- 12517: Death of a Salesman: Willy's Life Is An Illusion
- ... have an impact on Willy's family. His two sons Biff and Happy pick up this behavior from their father. He is idealistic, stubborn, and he has a false sense of his importance in the world. Willy is like an impetuous youngster with high ideals and high hopes. Children always have high hopes for their future. They all want to be astronauts or millionaires. Willy always believes he can achieve that ... Few attend his funeral. When one is a child, they believe that they are more important than they really are. As people grow older they realize that they are just one of many in the world. Willy Loman never does realize this fact. Biff and Happy never realize it either. They continue to believe that the Lomans are an extraordinary family above all others. After Willy dies, Happy proclaims that he ...
- 12518: David Williamson's "The Club" and "The Removalists"
- ... but there are some which are more or less universal throughout the play. In The Club, tradition is mainly presented as the opposite to progress and success; that is, to achieve success in today's world, tradition must be abandoned. For example, Laurie (the coach) blames an old Club tradition for his failure to win a premiership, "You and your cronies wouldn't let me buy players." Jock (the vice-president ... individual is a luxury you can't afford in a business with a multi-million dollar turnover." Gerry's pragmatic attitude is perhaps typical of the attitudes which are becoming commonplace in the cutthroat business world of the 1990s. The role of women is not explored all that extensively in The Club, but Williamson does explore some of the attitudes relating to this issue in his play. For example, all of ...
- 12519: Frankenstein: What Makes it a Gothic Novel?
- ... The pitiful creature lives in places where man cannot go for reason that the temperatures and dangers of these settings are too extreme. But near the end, Frankenstein's rage takes him all over the world in an obsessed search for his doppelganger enduring terrible hardships, which the monster, too, has endured. Frankenstein pursues his creation to the Artic wastes, revenge being the only thing keeping him alive. This “serves only ... to thicken the strange darkness that surrounds and engulfs them” (Nitchie 274). Here it seems as if Frankenstein may finally capture his adversary, but nature thinks otherwise. The monster tempts his enraged creator through a world of ice and the setting becomes a hindrance as the “wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earthquake; it split and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound. the ...
- 12520: Genetic Cloning and Frankenstein
- ... curse to mankind (Whitemore 200). The monster created by Frankenstein is also an illustration of the embodied consequences of our actions (Horne 407). Mary Shelley uses the monster as statement: everything born pure in this world is susceptible to corruption and evil. The gigantic stature of this creature can also be viewed as a symbol of the enormous perils found in creating life outside of natural bounds. Although the creature received ... chosen. The completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion” (Shelley 153). This hideous monstrosity goes on to claim his murderous ways are justified because of his inability to find happiness in this human world. “Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend” (Shelley 66). The monster’s acts of revenge for his miserable existence displays a ...
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