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- 17301: Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
- ... is a dual irony in this story. Referring back to the example of the first paragraph, a melancholy object can work two ways. Again the question arises; who is it sad for? Even in todays world, there are some people that give money to the homeless, because the homeless are in a sad situation, and there are people that vehemently refuse to give money to panhandlers and they get sad because ...
- 17302: A Review of Lessing's "Flight"
- ... from the cage and let it fly away. This symbolised that he had learned to let go of his beloved grand daughter and is letting the young to take its first flight into the real world.
- 17303: Pesticides Are Affecting Our F
- ... Scientific Criteria for Environmental Quality, “Epidemiologic Evidence of the Effects of Pesticides on Human Health in Canada”, 1985. United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Drinkning Water Health Advisories, “Drinking Water Health Advisory : Pesticides”, 1989. World Health Organization, “Public Health Impact of Pesticides used in Agriculture”, 1990.
- 17304: Lee De Forest
- ... transistor in 1947. (Kraeuter, 79). Forest passed away on June 30, 1961 in Hollywood, CA. De Forest wrote an autobiography entitled Father of Radio, but did not get that recognition from the rest of the world. He is remembered as one contributor to an industry that was, truth, the work of many people. (Kraeuter, 79). Kraeuter, David W. (1992). Radio and Television Pioneers. New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. A Science ...
- 17305: Similarities and Variations in the Writings of Dickinson and Lawrence
- Similarities and Variations in the Writings of Dickinson and Lawrence Although Emily Elizabeth Dickinson and David Herbert Lawrence lived and wrote during two different times, and in different parts of the world, their poetry contains many similarities. At the time Dickinson was being laid to rest in Massachusetts, Lawrence was born in Nottingham, England. Also, along with the likenesses, they both have many differences. These affinities and ...
- 17306: Lillian Hellman
- ... career. The Children's Hour was written in 1934 and The Little Foxes would come just five years after that. Much later, things would get rather sticky. The United States would go through a cold war and the McCarthy era was upon the nation where creative industries were targets. Hellman and Hammett stood by one another through the infamous Communist witch-hunts ("Dashiell," 1996). Hammett had actually been a Communist Party ...
- 17307: The Meaning of Suffering in Job and The Aeneid
- ... his side. They help him on his journey. They are all fighting for the same cause. This fact alone makes Job's misfortune more taxing. Their mental anguish is not limited to matters of this world. Each man is faced with dillemas concerning their spiritual beliefs. Though he begs and calls to God for an explanation, Job receives nothing. This causes alone causes more mental anguish than anything else that happens ...
- 17308: Comparing Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville's Writings
- ... the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up". Henry David Thoreau when writing about his experiences at Walden Pond indicated that mankind cannot be persuaded by the materialism of the world and must aspire to the highest goals of truth, virtue and independence for his existence. Thoreau would find this transcendental experience through the finest qualities existing in nature. He states that, "most men, even in ...
- 17309: Compare and Contrast: "Dune" by Herbert and "Star Wars" by Lucas
- ... In Dune the story takes place on a dry desert planet called Arrakis, where water is very scarce, and only the rich own it. Similarly, in Star Wars the story starts out on a desert world called Tatooine, where water is very scarce and expensive. In Star Wars there is a mysterious power called the force that only a few people posses. It allows you to move objects, see in to ...
- 17310: Characteristics of the Beowulf Poem
- ... about whether the Christian elements are intrinsic or are interpolations by a tenth century monastic scribe. In any case, the Christianity does not much resemble that of the High Middle Ages or of the modern world. Frequently the poem seems a reflection of the traditional pagan value system from the moral point of view of the new, incompletely assimilated Christianity."(Foster 502) In Britannica it says that critics have seen the ...
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