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- 8771: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... 658) Carver's life, or biography, bares a little insight into his phases, or different stages in which he wrote his different types of stories and poems. Carver lived most of his life in a world which could not provide the luxury of spiritual affirmation. He grew up in Clatskanie, Oregon to working class- parents in a alcoholic home where reading material was limited to Zane Gray novels, and the newspaper ... verbal and nonverbal. Touch is important because it presents concrete evidence of a spiritual and emotional connection. It is within this scope, and demand in writing that Carvers stories really draw the reader within the world of the story. A much deeper emotional feeling is felt when a connection amongst the characters is reached. The story, " The Bridle" uses touch to instigate verbal communication. The story unveils as a woman and ... to deeds…They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness" (No Heroics, Please 223). In the essay, Carver wonders about the words " soul " and " tenderness " and their marked absence in the world today. He speculates that one re-evaluates one's life after reading about the tenderness of others, fictional characters as well as factual ones. This tenderness is a direct result of what characters experience ...
- 8772: The Use Of The Internet In Mar
- Computing (IT)- essay by matthew foote Will the internet keep the U.K competitive in a world market, in terms of industry? Recently there has been emphasis for electronic business. Judging by IBM s recent advertising campaign you would be forgiven for thinking that launching a company website leads to instant profits ... Fraudwatch) had not received one sing complaint from a customer having their credit card number stolen. CONCLUSION: After accessing different aspects of the internet being able to keep the UK s industry competitive in a world market I sceptically believe that it has been unnecessarily over hyped and that in a few years the supply of internet based companies will liquidise. I believe that large companies may have good reasons for ... big risk - but on the other hand profit is the reward for risks being taken. Smaller business s would be left behind as they wouldn t have the capacity to effectively transport good to a world market and maybe not even in our own national market. The intrusion of the internet I believe would have an effect on society as a whole, it would mean big business s would become ...
- 8773: Critical Summary of Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics
- ... instantiated as well as the results they attained from conducting the survey. Apter explains to us that anorexia nervosa is a severe eating disorder that affects mostly upper & middle class teenage girls in the western world. This disease is both physically and psychologically damaging to these girls. For these girls, thinness and self-appearance is what they revolve their lives around. Studies conclude that people in professions where physical appearance is of extreme importance are more likely to develop an eating disorder. In the Western world, over the past two decades eating disorders have increased substantially. People believe that this increase in eating disorders is due to the fashion industry. The fashionable female figure of today has become thinner and more tubular (Szmulker, McCance, McCrone, & Hunter, 1986). In the world today, Apter believes that thinness is more and more a symbol of the feminine ideal. He finds that the Western role of a woman is now beginning to include success in the work force, ...
- 8774: The Life of Anne Frank
- ... life with the seven other people in hiding--her parents, her sister, the van Pels family (called the van Daan family by Anne), and Fritz Pfeffer (called Alfred Dussel by Anne), as well as the war going on around her, and her hopes for the future. When she filled up her original diary, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, two of the family's helpers,brought her ledgers and loose sheets of ... for most of the occupation,broadcast a request over the radio for people to save their wartime diaries. Anne Frank then began to rewrite her diary with the intention of having it published after the war. On August 4,1944, the Nazis raided the Secret Annex and arrested the residents. They emptied Otto Frank's briefcase onto the floor, including Anne's diary, in order to carry the family's valuables ... took away for safe- keeping. Miep put Anne's diary in her desk drawer, to await Anne's return. Anne Frank did not survive the Holocaust. Her father, Otto Frank, returned to Amsterdam after the war ended, the sole survivor among those who had hid in the Secret Annex. When he found out that Anne had died in Bergen-Belsen, Miep Gies gave him Anne's diary, which she had ...
- 8775: Shawshank Redemption
- ... characters with many similar traits and had gone through many of the same circumstances, but one main difference allows on man to survive outside of Shawshank and the other unable to cope with the outside world. That one main difference was a man named Andy Dufresne. Both Brooks and Red entered the confines of the Shawshank Correctional Facility as youths, but left its walls as old men. They both had seen ... prisoners come and go as well as the tenures of three wardens. They spent decades behind a small walled enclosure and got used to it. Prison life, although similar in many aspects to the outside world, is its own society. Prison is a microcosm of outside society. There are fewer people and the roles they play are more defined. Life for the prisoners is much more controlled. In the beginning, the ... was a man who could get things and Brooks was the prison’s librarian. Their roles in Shawshank gave them a sense of who they were and a feeling of self worth. To the outside world, Brooks and Red were old ex-prisoners who lacked any useful skills. They were too old to be of any use, and even if they were, couldn’t be trusted. Both men understood what ...
- 8776: Louis Pasteur
- Louis Pasteur was an example of a truly gifted person who made many wildly diverse discoveries in many different areas of science. He was a world-renowned French chemist and biologist whose work paved the way for branches of science and medicine such as stereochemistry, microbiology, virology, immunology, and molecular biology. He also proved the germ theory of disease, invented the ... pressure before bottling. This process kills disease-causing bacteria and viruses and became known as pasteurization. After his studies on fermentation and pasteurization, Louis was convinced the microbes were useful for many tasks in the world, but also at the heart of a thousand dangerous things, too. Many scientists at the time believed humans, animals, and insects were not produced by parents of their own kind, but that they were spontaneously ... the treatment of the disease. It became known as the Institute Pasteur, and was directed by Pasteur himself until his death. The institute still flourishes and is one of the most important centers in the world for the study of infectious diseases and other subjects related to microorganisms, including molecular genetics. By the time of his death in Saint-Cloud on September 28, 1895, Pasteur had long since become a ...
- 8777: Shawshank Redemption
- ... characters with many similar traits and had gone through many of the same circumstances, but one main difference allows on man to survive outside of Shawshank and the other unable to cope with the outside world. That one main difference was a man named Andy Dufresne. Both Brooks and Red entered the confines of the Shawshank Correctional Facility as youths, but left its walls as old men. They both had seen ... prisoners come and go as well as the tenures of three wardens. They spent decades behind a small walled enclosure and got used to it. Prison life, although similar in many aspects to the outside world, is its own society. Prison is a microcosm of outside society. There are fewer people and the roles they play are more defined. Life for the prisoners is much more controlled. In the beginning, the ... was a man who could get things and Brooks was the prison’s librarian. Their roles in Shawshank gave them a sense of who they were and a feeling of self worth. To the outside world, Brooks and Red were old ex-prisoners who lacked any useful skills. They were too old to be of any use, and even if they were, couldn’t be trusted. Both men understood what ...
- 8778: Alfred Tennyson and His Work
- ... the Duke of Wellington" are two poems of this type that show the emotion of the nation. Tennyson's work is appreciated perhaps for the sheer beauty of his writing, his descriptions of the natural world and of the landscape-most often the Lincolnshire countryside which he grew up in: Calm and deep peace on this high wold, And on these dews that drench the furze, And all the silvery gossamers ... That twinkle into green and gold (Culler, A. Dwight, pg. 39) The ‘public' side of Tennyson's work is now valued less than his more personal poetry. He writes about how reality destroys the ideal world as in "The Lady of Shalott". Frequently, Tennyson's personal worries were the same as those of the time. For example, the way he describes Sir Bedivere's reaction to the death of King Arthur in "Morte D'Arthur". Tennyson expresses Sir Bedivere's problem, caught in a changing world and with stable traditions disappearing fast. "For now I see the true old times are dead..."(Culler, A. Dwight, pg. 47): And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken round me, ...
- 8779: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and His Life
- ... army. He was rejected due to a defective left eye. He then turned to the Red Cross in which he became a second lieutenant. The Red Cross brought him to the front lines of the war in Italy. It was here where he saw many disturbing sights which probably had a hand in shaping his character. After extensive injuries from the war, Hemingway returned unhappily to Oak Park. The impression left on him by his participation in the war had greatly changed him. He began living at home again but refused to get a job, even when his mother ordered him to. Soon she kicked him out and he moved to Chicago. Here ...
- 8780: Beowulf: Link Between Traditions - Pagan and Christian
- Beowulf: Link Between Traditions - Pagan and Christian "Beowulf" is a link between two traditions, Pagan and the Christian. The virtues of courage in war and the acceptance of feuds between men and countries as a fact of life stem from the older Pagan tradition. On the other hand Christianity's moralities are based meekness and poverty. "Beowulf" brings this ... that run through the poem contrast with the pagan system of values that underlies the actions of the kings and the warriors. The influence of Christianity was just beginning to make its mark in this world, and most of the characters are torn between their newly discovered religious feelings and their old, heathen way of perceiving things. The idea that there's a higher being that controls one's actions revolutionized ...
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