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- 8851: East-timor-conflict
- ... be found. But inside the new Nation, just four hours after the official announcement, the defeated militia gangs started to set East Timor on fire. BBC, CNN, and other international TV stations broadcasted to the world images once seen in other war scenarios - fire of automatic weapons, houses set on fire, innocent civilians seeking shelter in the schools, the churches, the neighbouring mountains. International media reports mentioned 145 deaths in Dili only, in the 48 hours following ...
- 8852: James Joyce's "Araby"
- ... the story this is easily shown, especially when it refers to "the hour when the Christian Brothers' school set the boys free."(Joyce 2112) Although they were freed, they were placed into an "equally grim world, where not even play brought pleasure."(Coulthard) Joyce demonstrates this culture by showing a boy's love for a girl throughout the story. This young boy, is completely mystified by this girl, but at the ... his destiny from the first for desiring joy in an environment that forbade it."(Coulthard) "Araby" seems to be reflection on Joyce's own life in a repressive Dublin culture. Works Cited Coulthard, A.R.. World Literature in Review. (Internet) http://www.elibrary.com/id/2525/getdoc.cg...2D000&form= RL&pubname=explicator&puburl=0 (No www.elibrary.com/id/2525/getdoc.cg...ame=twentieth_ century_literature&puburl=0 Joyce, James. Works of James Joyce. (Internet) http://www. Elibrary.com/id/2525/getdoc.cg...13&form=rl&pubname= monarch_notes&puburl=0 Joyce, James. "Araby." The Harper Collins World Reader. Ed. Mary Ann Caws and Christopher Prendergast. New York: Harper Collins, 1994. 2112-2116.
- 8853: Analysis Of Ethan Frome By Edi
- ... rarely leaves the house. She's consumed by her illness. Mattie, on the other hand, seeks refuge from loneliness at the Fromes' farm. A year later she chooses to die rather than return to a world of solitude. Edith Wharton uses characters such as Mattie, to express the theme of loneliness and isolation. Mattie Silver is unlike any of the other characters in Ethan Frome. The town of Starkfield is very ... from this terrible society he lived in. She suggested suicide as a means of escape for the two of them. When the attempt failed, she became paralyzed. She is now stuck in the cold, colorless, world of Starkfield. The setting of Ethan Frome, also expresses the isolation. Around the turn of the century, in Ethan Frome's time, the town of Starkfield was a cold and lifeless place. Life is dreary ... scrape a living off the land. The town Starkfield afflicts Ethan and helps to shape his destiny. Like the town, he is sullen and run-down. Starkfield sits alone in its valley, isolated from the world around it. Ethan is also isolated. He left the lonely valley to go to college, but since returing he has gone scarcely more than few miles from his remote farm. Physically, and therefore, emotionally, ...
- 8854: Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
- ... The focus on the new scientific method is on orderly experimentation. For Bacon, experiments that produce results are important. Bacon pointed out the need for clear and accurate thinking, showing that any mastery of the world in which man lives was dependent upon careful understanding. This understanding is based solely on the facts of this world and not as the ancients held it in ancient philosophy. This new modern science provides the foundation for modern political science. Bacon's political science completely separated religion and philosophy. For Bacon, nothing exists in ... Christian and religious that they place science so high on their list. Science is placed so high that instead of having statues of God and his works, they erect statues of inventors of the western world thereby showing their commonness and baseness to human preservation. They do, however, have "certain hymns and services, which (we) say daily, of laud and praise to God for his marvelous works" (Bacon, 457). But, ...
- 8855: Richard Lederer: His Works
- ... English'. Communication means the transmission of thoughts and emotions to other people using words and/or visual images. It is a means of letting one's inner self' be known and understood by the outside world'. Richard Lederer shows us in a funny way what can happen to the communication between human beings if either one or both of the communicating parties can not express themselves properly. A phenomenon of communication ... insight into the underlying system'. Changes in Language can appear at a high speed and are often hard to trace from our perspective. History teaches us that changes in language are caused not only by war or religion but ultimately for no real reason at all. English as a language evolved through many periods and mutated so much that we need trained translators to comprehend texts written only 500 years ago ...
- 8856: Lsd 3
- On October 27, 1906, a child by the name of Albert Hofmann was born(Albert, 1). This child would grow up to change the world forever. His research would create of subcultures of both the 1970 s and 1990 s. His discoveries would cause both grief and delight. His work in pharmacology brought the world one of the most terrifying discoveries of the 20th century, LSD It was a prosaic day in July, 1938 when Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann, first discovered Lysergic Acid Diethylamide(LSD). He was hoping to discover a new circulatory and respiratory stimulant, when he stumbled upon one of the world s most horrifying man-made substances; however, when this phenomenon was first tested it had no effects on the lab animals, therefore its study was discontinued. LSD s study was revived in 1943, when ...
- 8857: Agamemon. Justifiable Homicide
- ... Troy had fallen. Finally, Agamemnon is in great competition with Aegisthus, Agamemnon's cousin and the sole survivor of Atreus' vengeance on Thyestes. Agamemnon is involved in a losing battle, even though he thinks the war is won. The gods have their own reasons for letting Agamemnon die. Most gods frown upon pride and arrogance, both of which are plentiful in Agamemnon's demeanor. There are certain things that a person ... the head of an entire people. Clearly the only rational decision is to eliminate Agamemnon. Works Cited Aeschylus' Agamemnon, The Choephori & The Eumenides. Cliffs Notes. Lincoln, Neb.: Cliffs Notes, Inc., 1992. Aeschylus. The Norton Anthology World Masterpieces. 6th ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992. Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996.
- 8858: Summary of Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been"
- ... In Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are you Going, Where Have You Been", there is a clear interpretation of evil in Arnold Friend and how he as a demon tries to pull Connie into the dark world of sex and emotion. Oates seems to extract scenarios of real life and add them into her story. The character of Arnold Friend is more or less what really is out there. The harsh reality ... to take her for a ride. The "ride" that Arnold talks of could possibly even have a sexual connotation that Connie does not pick up on because she is so young and blind to the world of sexual pleasures that Arnold lives in. Oates chooses words too carefully to show that Arnold is a devious snake. Connie sees Arnold many times as an evil character and letting the reader know by ... is, "I know everybody." (Oates 1014). The omniscient capabilities that Arnold shows are just more justifications of his being a demon, or the devil himself. Arnold not only knows what is going on in the world around Connie, but also what she is thinking and how she is as a person. Arnold knows that Connie is unhappy with her parents in general and taps into this sensitive spot with Connie ...
- 8859: Visual Perception
- ... This energy is then transduced into electro chemical energy by the cones and rods (receptor cells) in the retina. There are four main stages of sensation. Sensation involves detection of stimuli incoming from the surrounding world, registering of the stimulus by the receptor cells, transduction or changing of the stimulus energy to an electric nerve impulse, and then finally the transmission of that electrical impulse into the brain. Our brain then ... process of organizing, interpreting, and selectively extracting sensory information . Visual perception is left to the individual person to make up their own mind. Perceptual organisation occurs when one groups the basic elements of the sensory world into the coherant objects that one perceives. Perception is therefore a process through which the brain makes sense of incoming stimuli. The process of perception is an interactive yet separate process from sensation, however, it ... perception are what our expectations might be, the psychological state of consciousness that you are in, and also what your past experiences might have been in past perceptions. These factors allow us to perceive the world in a different way. Attention is defined as a cluster of integrated events and processes that determine which stimuli receive further processing. Focusing ones attention on a particular object or even at is fairly ...
- 8860: An Analysis of British Literature
- ... purify" the Church of England, came to America to practice their religion. Scientists like Galileo and Copernicus disputed that the center of the universe was the sun, not the earth, and there may be multiple world. This research was a challenge to the basis of the divine ordered, hierarchical universe which the church stated was truth. This caused some people to start to question many parts of the church, including the ... be would love her "ten years before the flood,/ And you should, if you please, refuse/ Till the conversion of the Jews." However, they were not able to do this because they did not have "world enough, and time." Marvell saw life as a battle against time and death. He also stated, "The grave's a fine and private place,/ But none, I think, do there embrace." In order to defeat ... Ulysses was past his prime yet he still struggled to the most of his life, and did not wait for death to come for him. He felt "'Tis not too late to seek a newer world," and he believed "Death closes on us all; but something ere the end,/ Some work of noble note, may yet be done." Ulysses believed a person should take advantage of the life they are ...
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