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Rhythm, meter, and overarching sound effects also known as prosody bring the words of a poem to life and offer readers a deeper understanding of the piece overall. To best grasp a poems prosody, the reader must first analyze and interpret the poem through the process of scansion. Analysis of scansion allows the reader to understand why a poet might establish particular patterns of rhythm and meter, perhaps uncovering the true tone of a piece or newfound significance in the verse. In Seamus Heaneys poem, Scaffolding, the benefits of scansion become clearly visible. A conscious reader notices that the poems prosody actually supports and compliments the semantics of the poem in ways invisible prior to proper analysis. On the poems surface, Heaney uses metaphor to establish a connection between a well-built bridge and a well-built relationship. After analysis of the piece, an attentive reader will notice that Seamus Heaneys use of rhyme and iambic pentameter bring consistency and structu...

Story Of An Hour The protagonist character Louise Mallard in Kate Chopin's "The Story of AnHour" portrays a wife's unexpected response to her husband's death. Thenarrator divulges to the reader modest but convincing hints of Mrs. Mallardsnewly discovered freedom. This newly discovered freedom would be short lived forMrs. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard, who suffers from heart disease, was portrayed as anaverage wife who breaks down into a fit of distress from the fateful news of herhusband's death. She retreats to her room to come to grips with the tragedybut finds instead something unexpected in herself. The tears and emotions soonturned to confusion as Mrs. Mallard came to realize the reality that she was notnecessarily crying over the loss of her husband but of his death. Mrs. Mallardadmits that Mr. Mallard is a good husband but that she detests the bondage ofbeing husband and wife and she no longer wants the will of another forced uponher. The time of her new foun...

After analysing the poems The Pylons, The Express, Slough and The Wiper written by Stephen Spender, John Betjeman and Louis MacNeice (respectively), a clear picture of poetry in the 1930s was formed in my mind. All four poems speak of new inventions in the industrial sector, each in their own, way, but all referring back to the general industrialization of the 30s. Even though they all discuss roughly the same theme, they do not all discuss it in the same way, some welcome the change, some are ambiguous about it and some merely use the new technology as a metaphor for bigger things. Among the poems that do not clearly state if they agree with the new industrialization, is The Pylons by Stephen Spender. In his poem, Spender describes how the world is being changed, how nature and the country-side are being destroyed but he does not put it in a completely negative sense, in some parts of the poem he mentions that the electricity pylons and skyscrapers have a beauty of their own. Spende...

In life we come to many conflicts. Some are easy some are hard. The quote, "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph" by Thomas Paine, relates to everyday life. This even happened the other day to me. I agree with this quote because when you work very hard for something it becomes special. It means that the harder the task the more you will appreicate it. If the task was not hard but you still acomplished it, you will not appreicate it as much as if you worked twice as hard. The other day I was studing for a huge test in global history, which is my worst subject. I also had a math test that day, which is my best subject. I studied for both but I studied extra hard for global. I then took the tests. I got a 95 on my math test and a 95 on global. Even though I got the same grades on my test it the global that meant so much more than the math. I worked so hard to get that grade and I succeeded it what I was trying to accomplish. Because the global was such a hard t...

It is not typical that hip hop music is viewed to be a form of art. It has received a great deal of negative publicity since becoming mainstream in the early to mid 1980s. It is believed, by many, that the lyrical content of this type of music deals with only guns, alcohol, sex, violence, and crime. It is understandable for them to have these beliefs, because there was a period of time when that was true. Though there are still the artists whose lyrics say very little recently, hip hop has become a form of expression with deeper meaning. It is my opinion that this type of rap has a large amount of artistic value. A song which blends rhythmically, significant lyrics and a beat that sets the mood, should certainly be considered a work of art. The group that I believe is most successful in accomplishing this feat is Outkast. Outkast is the duo of Andre Benjamin and Antwan Patton, more commonly know as Andre 3000 and Big Boi. The work I have chosen to critique is titled Aquemini. It is the...

Megan's Law is named after seven- year old Megan Kanka, a New Jersey girl who was raped and killed by a known child molester in 1994. The felon moved in across the street from the Kankas, without their knowledge. Megan's parents embarked on a national crusade to change federal and state laws to allow for community notification of released sex offenders (Johnson11). After this event, few could argue that communities should be notified when a sex offender moves in. However, present sentencing laws need to be stiffened and accuracy problems within Megan s law need to be fixed, for the law to be completely acceptable.Should communities be notified when a convicted sex offender relocates in their neighborhood? Some say that this law is a direct violation of the constitution. The constitution talks about our unalienable rights, which include, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But sometimes people do things that make us question whether they deserve these rights that us hon...

You cant play with He-man, hes not for girls! This phrase still echoes in my mind as I reminisce about my childhood playtime. As I reached for a He-man action figure from the toy box, I was handed a Barbie doll or a My Little Pony figurine. At that time, I was too young to realize the great chasm that gender had created for such a simple task as playing with toys. However, looking back, it becomes clear that gender, itself, plays a key role in the everyday lives of boys and girls. In Barrie Thornes book, Gender Play, this role is depicted in various ways through participant observation, or ethnography. By researching the ways that children play an active role in doing gender, analyzing the neutralization of this socialized role, and displaying the effects that education, primarily those with a classroom setting, has on gender, Thorne provides ample support of the notion that gender is a social construction.From my experiences with the He-man doll, one can deduce a certain boundary line...

2. The six Ms of modern industrial organizations are money, manufacturing, machinery, manpower, market, management. These are all related in a way because in order to be successful in a business you must focus on all six of these equally. Mass production x efficiency success.3. Demings 14 points method 1) Create a statement of aims and purposes of the company to give to the employees. 2) Learn the new philosophy. 3) Understand the purpose of inspection, for improvement. 4) End the awarding based on price tag alone. 5) Improve the constantly the system of production and service. 6) training 7) Teach leadership 8) Drive out fear, create trust. 9) Optimize towards the aims and purposes of the company. 10) Eliminate exhortions for the workforce. 11) Eliminate numerical quotas, Eliminate M..B.O. 12) Remove barriers for pride of workmanship. 13) Encourage education and self-improvement. 14) Take action to accomplish the transformation.4. A system is A network of functions within an organiza...

The subjectivity of Michael during The Reader cuts him off from reality and the rest of the world. Early influences in Michaels journey affect the way he acts and reacts to any given situation. His perception of the world in later life is altered by the relationships that he has with his family and Hanna. Through the actions of constantly asking questions of himself and the world, feeling guilt for and from his relationship with Hanna and suppressing what happened to him as a teenager from others, he imprisons himself from the world. Michaels relationship with Hanna changes his subjectivity towards other relationships with other women. In the relationship with Hanna there was always a sense of needing to possess each other (The Reader pg 31). There was a sense of power in being the dominant person in the relationship. So when his later relationships were different, he had trouble adjusting. He says in page 171 that he could not stop comparing the way it was with Gertrud to the way tha...

"The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart." -Kipling, The RecessionalMr. Kipling was wrong. War does not always end with the last cry on the battlefield. World War I certainly did not. After the war formally ended on November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war still going on in the US. An ideological war which prompted mass paranoia and caused, among many other things, what would be known as the Red Scare, which began in 1919 and ended in 1921. Red Scare was the label given to the actions of legislation, the race riots, and the hatred and persecution of "subversives" and conscientious objectors during that period of time. It is this hysteria which would find itself repeated several decades later in history when Senator Joeseph R. Macarthy accused high government officials and high standing military officers of being communist. Undoubtedly the most important topic of an investigation into a historical occurrence is itsinception. What ca...

Many people think that Heathcliff was an extremely violent and cold-hearted man, but they did not see his true personality. Heathcliff is a loving and caring person, but hides this from everyone but Catherine. Catherine is the only person he truly cared about, and shares his true personality with. When he is around other people he hides his feelings behind a mask of no emotion, but when his love is betrayed his mask breaks, and he can no longer hide his emotions. When Heathcliff first comes to Wuthering Heights, he creates a mask to hide his feelings from everyone, and protect himself from any pain. Heathcliff is hated by everyone because of what he is, a gipsy, and things that happened because of him, such as Hindley's fiddle being crushed, and Catherine's whip being lost. Mr. Earnshaw is the only person that treats him as part of the family, this creates a bond between them. Unfortunately, Hindley felt that he was being replace by Heathcliff and tries his best to make Heathc...

Joy Luck Club Essay - Chow Zhi MingThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tang is about relationship between mother and daughter living in San Francisco and in this essay I will focus on Waverly Jong and Lindo Jong. Lindo Jong as a mother wanted to teach her daughter Waverly Jong a lesson when she was young in a American way in Chinese principle but unfortunately she didn't understand what her mom is coming from and ignored her mom. When Waverly Jong grew up, she finally knew what her mom is doing was right. Amy Tang was interested in these kinds of relationships because of memory of the past when she was young and how she treated her mom. In these stories, Amy Tang showed us the relationship of their relationship by using different point of views of different sides, fables also symbols and metaphors.Lindo and Waverly were brought up in different cultures. Lindo was a Chinese culture thinking woman, where Waverly was a mixture of both Chinese and Western culture. These cultural differences cause...

Nussip Forest and Jenny Forest Gump is the story of a man's journey through life and innocent reflections on what living is all about. It tells the story of a man that's entangled in life but survives the hardships through his simplicity. Forest who is seen by others to be stupid, but he has achieved more than any ordinary person. Because Forest is classed as stupid and has braces put on his legs to fix his spine, the kids he attends school with think of him as a freak, except one, Forests love, Jenny. Jenny is never far from Forest's thoughts, no matter what he is doing or where he is. Although Forest and Jenny are close friends from childhood, they have far more differences than similarities. The first obvious difference between them is their character. Forest is very simple person. He remains a child in heart and spirit, even as his body grows to maturity. Whereas Jenny is more vain. For example, she wants to become a star in future. There are a few minor similarities b...

In a well-written essay, analyze why Pip is vulnerable to Miss Havisham and how she works to achieve her objective on him. In the novel Great Expectations, Pip is the main character in the story. He is a young boy who lives with his sister and her husband. They all work very hard to live in suitable conditions. Therefore, when Miss Havisham, a queer old woman, asks for Pip to come to her house and play, Pip is sent immediately. Mrs. Joe, Pips sister and mr. Pumblechook see this as a perfect opportunity for Pip to earn more money for the family.Miss Havisham is very wealthy and with her lives a young girl, named Estella. Estella is very pretty and intentionally rude to Pip. Pips purpose of being sent to Miss Havisham is not exactly to play but rather to see how much stronger Estella is in comparison to Pip and also to hurt Pip the way she was hurt by her loved one many years ago. Estella behaves this way because she learned it from her mother figure Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham used Est...

Charlotte Bronts Jane Eyre can be viewed in many different ways, but most of all, it is a romantic novel Some, however, dont see it this way. The beginning stages of the love relationship between Jane and Mr. Rochesters are a bit unusual. Some may say Mr. Rochester treats Jane unfairly. Its not until later on in the story when Jane meets another man, that she realizes her true love for Mr. Rochester. This is what makes a romantic novel.There are two stages or parts to the relationship between Jane and Mr. Rochester. The first stage begins when they first meet in chapter 10 and continues until Janes departure in Chapter 27. This stage of their relationship is best described as dishonest and somewhat peculiar. When Jane and Rochester first meet, (p.129), she is unaware that the rider, who has just fallen off of his horse, is Mr. Rochester, her trip to the post office is interrupted when a horse slips on some ice and throws the rider off. Jane goes to offer help to this stranger. After re...

Plato's Ring Of GygesThe Ring of GygesThe story of the Ring of Gyges is an excerpt from book two of Plato's The Republic, in which Glaucon disagrees with Socrates and insists that people act moral because they lack the power to behave otherwise. In an effort to support his claim, Glaucon recites the tale of Gyges. In this paper, I will include a brief history of Plato, a description of the Ring of Gyges, and discuss how the story may affect our present lives.Plato was born in 429 B.C. in Athens, Greece, to Ariston and Perictione. Plato's real name was Aristocles, and 'Plato' (meaning 'the broad') was a nickname given either from the width of his shoulders, or from the size of his forehead. When Plato was a young man he became a disciple of Socrates, learning the value of reason and philosophy. Plato was in military service from 409 B.C. to 404 B.C., but at this time he wanted to pursue politics rather than a military career. At the end of the war he joined t...

An analysis of the rivalry of Phineas and Gene. From the novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Phineas world was a very beautiful thing to him. A world where war was a work of art, painted so perfectly in his mind. He was full of views and ideas that were perfect in subject, but realistically unachievable. Gene was a Smart, intelligent boy. Every thing was completely real to him. School was very important. When he played sports, someone always lost, nobody always won in his mind. Gene, in his realism was somewhat drawn to Finny though, almost like he envied his idealistic theories. In the early pages of A Separate Peace, Finny confesses that Gene is his best friend. It is considered a courageous act for the students at Devon to expose emotion. And rather than Gene venturing back with similar affection, he holds back and says nothing. Gene cant handle the fact that Finny is so compassionate, so perfect. In order to protect himself from accepting Finnys compassion and risking emo...

Tracy Stevens 26 February 2001 The Rokeby Venus I choose to look at the painting The Toilet of Venus or more commonly referred to as The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velalazquez. The Rokeby part came into effect, because the painting was originally displayed in the Morritt Collection at Rokeby Hall in Yorkshire, before being moved to its current home in the National Gallery. Diego Velazquez was born in Seville in 1599, and went on to become one of the most brilliant and influential painters ever to come from Spain. He lived in Madrid for most of his adult life, and was employed as a court painter. Throughout his career, he tackled a wide variety of subjects, such as landscapes, scenes from real life, and mythologicalreligious figures. He was a master realist who excelled at capturing essential features upon the canvas. He painted The Rokeby Venus between 1647 and 1651, and was his only nude portrait, as well as the first one in Spain, at that time. Initially the painting met with some disapp...

Sport Obermeyer Sport Obermeyer is a high-end fashion skiwear design and merchandising company headquartered in Aspen, Colorado. Over the years, Sports Obermeyer has developed into a dominant competitor. Sports Obermeyer's estimated sales in 1992 were 32.8 million. The company holds 45 share of children's skiwear and 11 of adult Skiwear market. Sport Obermeyer produces merchandise ranging from parkas, vests, ski suits, shells, ski pants, turtlenecks, and accessories. These products are sold throughout U.S. department stores in urban areas and ski shops. With increasing demands and rising competition, Sport Obermeyer needs to have and edge on the market. Starting in 1985 with a joint venture in Hong Kong called Obersport, the company began to increase productivity to meet their new demands. Recently, a number of contractual ventures were added and a new complex in Lo Village Guangdong China have enhance production but increase the level of difficulty on the planning and producti...

Aaron ChatmanMr. Huddleston103126th HourThe RunnerSamuel "Bullet" Tillermen. Young. Quiet. Quick learner. Dead. The first time I read the ending of The Runner, was during the middle of the third chapter. Being very curious I skipped to the very end of the book and read that Bullet had died. Me, hating Bullet at that time, was almost relieved when I learned of his demise. He was a know it all, prejudice, annoying kid in my eyes and I thought he had gotten what he deserved. As the story progressed though, I started to admire bullet and by the end of the book even like him. When I read the ending for the second time I understood the ending and was saddened by it. I had also felt that the part where his mom threw the telephone through the window of the company was kind of weird. I felt that it was very odd that no one tried to stop her or chase her down when she walked away to the boat. I felt that as a character bullet had grown exponentially and was a lot more likeable at that ...

Monty Python and the Holy GrailMonty Python and the Holy Grail is a hilarious satire of the Crusades. The moviepokes fun at everything from the woman of the age to monsters to the Knights of theRound Table. It is a perfect example of satire, because it makes use of almost everysatirical weapon, although humor is the most commonly used one. I will prove FX Feeny,a professional movie reviewer wrong when he said, In theory, Hail Grail is a spoof of thelegend of King Arthur, but John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, and Co. use thepremise mainly as a springboard for their idiosyncratic (and oft-repeated) skits(httpwww.mrshowbiz.comreviewsmoviereviewsmovies504534.html).The movie starts gets going right from the get go with the satirical aspects. KingArthur is seen through a heavy fog riding a horse towards a castle, or so it seems. Whenhe gets closer you realize that he is actually just hopping up and down, while his fellowtraveler bangs to coconuts together. When he arrives at the ca...

AIGs Scandal and Fall From GraceAt the end of 2004, insurance giant AIG, or the American International Group, had a net worth of 83 billion. The year did not pass by without some controversy however. AIG was found guilty by the SEC of helping PNC Financial Services hide their losses by moving them to an off-balance-sheet entity. While AIG never admitted to this, they were required to pay 126 million in fines and subjected to a rigorous examination of transactions going back to the beginning of 2000. Considering the fact that AIG was found guilty of a similar offence in 1998, we can see that measures have not been taken to reduce fraud. The investigation the SEC conducted would go on to find that these two incidents were not isolated, but rather, AIGs way of doing business.AIG was founded in 1919 in Shanghai, China and ever from the start has been an international company. According to their website, they provide insurance customers in over 130 countries. In 1960, Hank Greenberg was hir...

The book Blood Canticle written by Anne Rice has several secretive characters. Lestat de Lioncourt, the main character is very knowledgeable, quite the philosopher, over protective and very enigmatic handsome strong vampire. His mind is clouded with a certain woman called Rowan Mayfair. Caring for two vampire apprentices, Mona Mayfair and Quinn Blackwood who he has performed the Dark Trick on them. He must resolve how to deal with the Mayfair ghosts and unravel the secrets of the Mayfairs, while archiving his dream to becoming a saint. Over protectiveness can be a weakness but not to Lestat. To him, protecting something he deeply cares about would give him strength. Being haunted by his past he tries to atone for his sins by making sure no vampire or unholy being disturbs New Orelens. Lestat had turned Mona into a newly vampire and she was experiencing thirst. Along the way to New Orelens, Lestat had sensed something. Quinn too also sensed someone had trespassed but Mona did not. Lesta...

In The Shallows, Nicholas Carr shows us how the internet has been integrated in to our daily lives and is changing the way we use our brain, think, read and remember. Carr's purpose is to help readers understand the magnitude of the change the Internet has on a user's psyche.Carr focuses on the damage the Internet is doing to our brains. He draws from historical and cutting edge scientific research to show us that Internet is rewiring our brains and actually creating more superficial understanding. Citing the latest brain research that shows the plasticity of the brain, he argues that we should remain cautious in fully adopting Net technologies.He wants us to value wisdom over knowledge, and to use new technology intelligently.What I see as most significant is the ideas about Google in Chapter 8, The Church of Google. Carr gives us not only the idea of efficiency and productivity of Google to make information more available to the world and to make that information easily searc...

In this short essay, G.K. Chesterton is able to display his absolute understanding of human nature. He explains this nature through humor and wit in this particular essay, On Lying in Bed. According to this essay, Chesterton has developed three parts to human nature. The first part is that items that are desired by humans can often be found in unusually normal places. The second part is that humans have begun to aggrandize trivial morals and to debase major morals. The final part to his outlook on human nature is that the lives of humans have become exceedingly mechanical. These are the topics explained by G.K. Chesterton in this essay.Chesterton begins his essay by discussing his idea that items longed for by humans can be found in normal places. He does this in the essay by describing his pursuit of a perfect space to paint. He states that he looks on walls, paper, and several other places. His search, however, comes to end in the most normal of places, the ceiling above his bed. In ...

The short story, "The Darling" by Anton Chekhov, centers on the life of a woman name Olenka. Olenka is a gentle and compassionate girl who needs to be always fond of someone. Her first husband Kukin is a manager for an outside theater. They are good together, and Olenka not only helps her husband in his business, but also imitates his opinions about everything. Unfortunately, Kukin dies on a business trip to Moscow. After receiving the telegram about his death, Olenka is devastated. For a time, she is very heart-broken and lonely, until she grows affection for Pustovalov. Pustovalov is a timber merchant who helps Olenka through the loss of Kukin. Once again Olenka marries, and is seen adopting someone else s beliefs and opinions as she does in Pustovalov s case. For the second time, she finds happiness, but again disaster transpires as Pustovalov is stricken with illness, from which he doesn't recover. After Pustovalov dies, Olenka then begins an affair with Smirnin, vete...

Cynthia Ozicks short story The Shawl is a masterful work recounting an almost unspeakably horrible time in world history. The story takes place in the middle of World War II in Nazi Germany. The lead character, Rosa, is a Jewish woman trying to flee from a terrible fate in a concentration camp with her two daughters, the infant, Magda and the teenager, Stella. Rosa, tired and weary from the endless flight, and her daughters, malnourished and weak, all continue on until they reach a place to sleep for the night. Magda, whose shawl is a source of comfort for her, loses the shawl one night in her sleep to her sister Stella. The baby, who has not said a word for days, howls and goes outside the barrack in search of her shawl. Rosa immediately wakes to find her daughter howling outside near a concentration camp looking for her shawl. She runs outside and runs back into the barrack to get the shawl in an attempt to lure Magda back into the relative safety of the barrack. The attempt fails t...

Short Story Fact Sheet The Veldt The Veldt is the name of the short story and it's author is Ray Bradbury. The Veldt is a room in the Hadley's house where the children spend most of there time. It's a very futuristic home. Lydia never has to do any house workor even cook , everything is taken care of. There house is also sound proof and George is very proud of it. Lydia's idea of taking a vacation is shutting down the house and doing house work and cooking. That would be the opposite of anyone else with a regular house. The house clothed , fed and rocked them to sleep even played and sang songs with them. In the nursery the walls purred, and an African veldt appeared. The ceiling became a deep sky with a hot yellow sun and was a very expensive George Hadley is the father , he thinks that nothing is too good for his children. George felt that every home should have a nursery. He disagree's with Lydia when she persist's on giving the house a vacation because that...

Villa, Vendidos, y Vatos Actos are reflections of a Chicans experience. Just like most Chicans are different from each other, but at the core share the same value system, so it is with actos. Huerta uncovers the meaning of three actos, The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa, Los vendidos, La victima, that share the theme of Chican identity in the late twentieth century. More importantly each play tries to demonstrate what a Chican should not be and provides alternatives that are positive. The acto that is most explicit with the Chican identity is The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa. The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa like other actos by Luis Valdez are political and deal with survival in El Notre. Unlike the television show, Survivor, Valdezs characters are struggling for cultural survival while progressing economically. The play is of Mexican parents trying to keep their family together. Like most mythology, there are two opposing siblings who transform throughout the acto. Joaquin becomes ...

Henry Ford was a genius in many aspects of our everyday life. He changed industry, production, and everybody's lifestyle. Many people know about him inventing some of the first automobiles, but what came out of it for America was a new encouragement for technology and an easier lifestyle for the average American.Also Henry Ford has changed the perspective of industries around the world. His invention of the assembly line and his five-dollar a day wage for the average worker brought about a total new change in factories. Ford's style and ingenuity helped America to be more prosperous and created a large amount of opulence for America in the early 1900's, all because of one man's creativity and determination to achieve a dream that would help out the common man and the entire world. Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863, on a farm a few miles from Detroit. As a boy Henry was very creative and liked to work with tools. However, he hated doing chores and he always wanted to ...

Barbiturate. Now where would you think of a name like that? Legend has it that this drug was derived when a 29 year old research assistant, Adolph von Baeyer, was working in his Belgian laboratory in 1863 when he took the condensation of malonic acid and combined it with Urea. Von Baeyer went downtown to a local pub to celebrate where some army officers where celebrating Feast Day of Saint Barbara. So he took the name Barbara and combined it with the chemical that mostly made up this new acid and came out with barbituric acid. In 1912, two German scientists used von Baeyers acid to synthesize a new drug, barbitol. What they were looking for was a drug that would combat the effects of anxiety and nervousness. They were successful but the side effects were too great.Barbiturates are drugs that cause depression of the central nervous system and are generally used to induce europhia. D.C. Heaths Perspectives on HEALTH defines europhia as a feeling of intense happiness and well being. Most ...

I chose to write my Significant Woman paper on Egypts last pharaoh, Cleopatra. When I began my report, I knew very little about Cleopatra, except that she was the mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony of Rome. I wondered what impacts on history Cleopatra made on her own.I feel that Cleopatra was a very significant woman in history because she was very aggressive and assertive, characteristics that have always been considered unfeminine. At the same time, however, Cleopatra has been remembered by some as somewhat of a sex object, which is and always has been a common judgement of attractive females. Cleopatra did use her sex appeal to her advantage. It was one of the few manipulations that nobody could take away from her, and it was a very convincing form of persuasion.Cleopatras family had been ruling Egypt since 305 BC, when Ptolemy I declared himself King of Egypt sometime after Alexander the Greats death. The Ptolemy family was of Macedonian decent, not Egyptian.Cleopatra, ...

Ree Dolly shares the most similarities with her Uncle Teardrop as opposed to her father or mother. The first way in which Ree is similar to Teardrop is their strong adherence to the rules of the community. Her father appears to have snitched breaking the paramount rule of the community and her mother doesnt make many comments on the rules within the area. In the truck while Teardrop is taking her home from her beating, he tells Ree, Jessup wentn turned snitch, and thats the only biggest ancient no-no of all, aint it? (Woodrell 140). The details of Jessups snitching are unknown but Teardrop knows that Jessup did do it and he is dead because of it. He also calls it the only biggest ancient no-no of all. He strongly believes that one shouldnt snitch and there will be serious consequences because he considers it the most important rule in the community by calling it the biggest of all. Teardrop also believes in the general principle in not getting into other peoples business which encompa...

Comparative Essay on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Monty Python and the Holy Grail It is impossible for a human being to fulfill all the ideals of the Chivalric Code and the seven Cardinal Virtues. Christian knights lived by the Chivalric Code to gain honor, but it was not possible even for the best and purest knights to always stick to these conventions of courtesy, generosity, loyalty, consistency, chastity, poverty, valor and skill. In addition to these components of the Chivalric Code, a knight was to follow the seven Cardinal Virtues, which were justice, prudence, temperance, fortitude, faith, hope and charity. Monty Python and the Holy Grail as well as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight demonstrates the problematic nature of chastity. As Sir Galahad (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) is on his quest to find the Holy Grail, he arrives at the Castle Anthrax where he imagined seeing his object of desire. In this castle, however, is no grail but many women "all between 16 and...

A persons life revolves around the little thingsa moment of silence, a time filled with laughter, a period of hope. It is this theme that is conveyed in Jhumpa Lahiris short story, A Temporary Matter. Through the selected passage, the reader connects with the theme Life is too short life is a temporary matter. This theme is supported through three elements in the passage the title, the baby and the concept of leaving. Each of these facets is seen through the use of the literary elements of metaphor, irony and foreshadow. A Temporary Matter follows the deterioration of a marriage. This journey happens over a period of one week where Shukumar hopes that he and his wife, Shoba, will rekindle their love. The passage that is to be analyzed is reflective of a time in their marriage that is distilled and almost frozen to the reader. However, this passage emphasizes the importance of the theme in this short story, through the inclusiveness of the three key aforementioned literary elements.The ...

Critical Analysis "The Social Responsibility of BusineCritical Analysis of "The Social Responsibility of Business" from Milton FriedmanIn this essay I evaluate Milton Friedmans essay The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits in 1970, on the Social Responsibility of a business and his theory, which is called the Efficiency Perspective. In every article and book that I have read about social responsibility, Friedmans Efficiency Perspective is placed centrally. During my research I found that Friedman is often criticised for being too classical. Friedman believes that managers foremost objective or even moral obligation to the firm should be to maximise profits always. There is however one condition that makes his perspective more complicated, not only for me, but also for several well-known authors. According to Friedman, the managers obligations should be carried out while conforming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied in law and ...

Since the history of mankind, humans have always created things that simplify life. These include basic things taken for granted such as tools, the wheel, and even shelter. Recently, however, the development of technology has exponentially accelerated. Many may think this is a good thing that can only make life easier but this is merely masking the dangers that also arise. Today, people are so dependent on technological advances including cell phones, e-mail, and methods of transportation that it is hard to think of what things were like without them. Nevertheless, people are directly communicating with each other less and relying on technology to perform all manual labor. These rapid and somewhat inevitable changes in technology leave the future of mankind unpredictable and possibly disasterous. One who foresaw this dark image years ago is author Ray Bradbury. With that, in 1951 he wrote a fictitious story about a possible, dark future called The Veldt. The Veldt is about a family of ...

Storyteller AssignmentThe song I Shot the Sheriff is a song written by Bob Marley. This song was first released in April 1973, and talks about a person killing a sheriff while being accused of killing the deputy sheriff instead. The person fights back by admitting that he killed the sheriff instead of the deputy. The deputy is the head sheriff, so it would have been a bigger deal if he killed the deputy instead. The people against the person want to try to bring that person in guilty for shooting the deputy. The person later brings up a story about how Sheriff John Brown hated him, and every time the person planted a seed, John Brown would kill it because it grows. It means that when the person started tried to do something wrong, John Brown would try to prevent the problem from starting. Then, the person admits that he shot the sheriff in self-defense, and asks where the deputy was. This is trying to prove the accusation false due to the fact that the person couldn't have killed t...

Tank!Tank! is a groovy, rather intense song that is the opening to the Japanese animated series, Cowboy Bebop. Its also been used occasionally in international commercials. You can find it on youtube under Tank! Cowboy bebop if you so desire. Im assuming its considered a jazz song as sometimes the instruments do their own thing and theres a virtuosic alto saxophone solo. It also does a bit of layering, adding instruments and getting more intense as it goes along. It keeps the same basic melody the majority of the time. Ive always enjoyed it very much and still consider it the best opening theme to a television show.Tank! was composed in 1998 by Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts, a band Kanno formed specifically to create the soundtrack for the Cowboy Bebop series. His principal focus was on jazz and the recordings he produced were an international effort. According to Wikipedia, Tank! has an extensive alto saxophone solo played by Masato Honda, as well as a fill part at the end. The song is...

Songs that typically come on the radio are recognized immediately because of the melodic appeal they hold. They are recognized for 4 or 5 notes they scale along in the hook of the song, and never for the actual lyrics in the verses. This was true for me personally when listening to the song Waterfalls by TLC. Most people know the chorus dont go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that youre used to. What they do not see is the meaning behind these words, which are that you should not go out and follow your dreams, but instead stick to the path you already know because you might not be able to handle it. The song seems to take place in the slums of a bigger city of some kind, but it doesnt specify what city.In the first verse, lead singer Tionne Watkins sings from the perspective of a mother repeatedly being lied to by her son about where he is during the night or what he does in the streets to make his money (another body laying cold in the gutter) She prays fo...

Starting a Business on the Internet By IcePick icepick74hotmail.com email me if you use this. The number one question to ask when starting a business, whether on the Web or in a traditional setting, is why would people want to buy the product or service. Somewhere in the world, one can find people selling anything so why would people come to you? Are you selling something unique, do you make or market something that no one can find anywhere else or would find it almost impossible to find elsewhere? Do you sell your product at a lower price then anyone else? Maybe your prices are competitive with other businesses but you offer superior service. Perhaps you have the ability to offer unique services that no one else can or will duplicate. Do you have some other advantage over other companies? The next thing to consider once you have settled on a product or service to market is a name. Names are very important especially when starting a business on the Internet. The Web address or URL (Uni...

Justifying the PhilippinesWilliam McKinley in 1899 gave a speech regarding why the United States decided to keep the Philippines, when they were dropped into our laps. Before giving the speech McKinley was burdened by what would be in the best interest of both countries. He gave four very strong points, with reasoning on why keeping the Philippines is the best plan of action for the United States to take. McKinleys first reason on why it was necessary to keep the Philippines was that giving them back to Spain would make us look cowardly and dishonorable. At a time when the Unites States was trying to establish itself as a world power and trying to get other countries to imitate the good example of American democracy. Doing anything to make ourselves look cowardly or dishonorable was out of the question. We were trying also to show that we see ourselves as protectors of the less fortunate and not a bully who was going to leave the less fortunate helpless. Our second option and McKinleys...

In Aristophanes speech the status of the Gods is intertwined with that of the myth. I will discuss the status of the Gods. In Aristophanes' speech the Gods can be viewed as creators, watchmen, and saviors. As creators According to Aristophanes, the humans present form was created as a result of Zeus' design and Apollo's craftsmanship. As watchmen The humans believe that they must do no wrong so as not to displease the Gods and be further punished for their insolence. Finally, the humans also believe that through proper worship and reverence the Gods will restore them to their "original nature." In his speech Aristophanes suggests that Hephaestus might come down to ask the humans if they would like to be made into one. At the end of page 28 Hephaestus tells them to, "Look at your love, and see if this is what you desire." It is here that the Gods can be seen as saviors. To fully discuss the status of the Gods we must discuss the relationship between the h...

In the short story A Visit to Grandmother by William Melvin Kelley a heros Journey unfinished by the author, bring us into the world of a man who felt self pitying and blame his mother for the lack of love in his adolescence to a self confident and secure person at the end. In this world more care about money than people and more worry about small things than the family unit, brings people into family discussions and frustrations everyday. In the story A Visit to Grandmother Doctor Charles Dunford a gentle and warm man who overcomes the frustration of his painful past, start his heros journey when he decided to separate from his family at the age of fifteen. I wanted to go to school. They didnt have a Negro school at home, so I went up to Knoxville and lived with a cousin and went to school, this was the answer of Doctor Charles Dunford when he is asked why he left home, but the truth hide something more painful and difficult to overcome. 30 years later Charles decided to go attend h...

Helena RandolphProfessor GarciaEnglish Composition 2January 30, 2012Memento Mori Central IdeaE.M. Forster says that plot is a "mystery is essential to a plot, and cannot be appreciated without intelligence. To the curious it is just another "and then" -To appreciate a mystery, part of the mind must be left behind, brooding, while the other part goes marching on." In that excerpt Forster defines plot and explains that in order to make a plot effective the readers must use their intelligence seeing the story from two sides of the overall picture, and is able to relate the information from the previous pages to the present page. In Jonathan Nolan's story "Memento Mori" the main character Earl suffers from amnesia, due to an incident that involved his wife being killed and him suffering his injury. Earl is unable to remember after a certain amount of time, so he constantly reminds himself, leaving around notes. But, the memory of his wife's killer stay...

In the story of Goldilocks and the three bears, Goldilocks would be considered a criminal if caught by law enforcement. Goldilocks and the three bears is not completely told from the bears point of view. Goldilocks side of the story is most common and well known. In every story there is often an innocent by standard that does not get there story told. Fairy tales are not often told from all points of view. The point of view from the bears is much different than Goldilocks's. The bears story was that, they had just woken up and made their beds. They went downstairs to start breakfast. Mama bear started the stove in order to cook the porridge they had all been craving. After the porridge was made they decided to go for a walk and let their porridge cool down. When they returned, they found that there house had been broke into. They searched to make sure nothing was stolen. They were horrified that someone had deceived them in the way that they did. They noticed someone had tampered w...

The Nightingale by Hans Christian AndersenThe Nightingale is a story about an emperor who hears of a nightingale bird in his empire that he has never seen or heard and everyone is talking about how beautiful this bird is. He is intrigued to find this bird and so he sends his chamberlain out to search the corridors and find the famous nightingale. The chamberlain approached the kitchen maid who has heard of the nightingale before. She leads him into the forest to find the bird and request that it sing for the emperor. Once the emperor hears the nightingale, he orders a cage and keeps him in his empire but the bird is unhappy to be stuck inside so waits for the perfect moment to escape the empire leaving the mechanical bird in the cage. The emperor is angry that the bird escaped and banished the bird from his empire. The emperor falls ill enough to soon die, and has death sitting on his chest. The nightingale flies back to the empire and sings for the emperor who soon finds himself heale...

The Straight Edge philosophy is one that promotes a drug, alcohol, caffeine and smoke-free lifestyle in addition to no casual sex. Although most parents and teachers are thrilled when youth espouse these beliefs, there is a violent subculture within this broad philosophy that is reason for concern. Unfortunately, a sect of youth are violently enforcing the positive philosophy on fellow students who do not choose the Straight Edge lifestyle. Not all Straight Edgers should be labeled as a threat, but understanding the roots of this philosophy and of the violent tendencies that could occur may help fellow youth, parents and school officials recognize potential danger before a beating takes place or worse a death. Most gang experts agree that the philosophy emerged from the punk rock music scene in the mid-1980s when the phrase Straight Edge was coined from a song of the same name by the band Minor Threat. The straight edge symbol is the letter X, a symbol that is commonly placed on youths...

Critique Freud - Strengths and Weaknesses.The study of the human mind will always have its complexities and its doubts on certain subjects. Like all psychoanalytical theories, it is impossible to prove beyond a doubt, and much easier to uncover its strengths rather than its weaknesses. Freud, like many psychologists that explored new theories, had much more room for criticism However, there are strengths that are very agreeable, since to many people he exhibited brilliance, and was a founder of many psychological theories. The low point of Freud which seems to stand out is that he only studied upper middle class women in the early 20th century. Many would argue that his conclusions were taken from a narrow point of view. All of his theories could never be proven, because there is no way to form any sort of concrete experiment. All of his terms were inferred as apposed to proven. There is also the thought that, since he is studying so much of the unconscious, isn't it true that he m...

Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata in Cm, Movement No. 1I chose to analyze the first movement of Beethovens Moonlight Sonata in Cm. Like earlier classical pieces, the Moonlight Sonata is structured simply, following clean chord progressions. Works by early classical composers usually contained a clear melody, played over accompanying subordinate chords. In Beethovens Moonlight Sonata, he uses the notes that make up each chord to construct the melody, while the left hand plays the octaves of one note (typically the root) of the chord. Similar to Mozarts Piano Concerto in C, K. 467, the melody consists of arpeggios. The piano part in Mozarts Piano Concerto in C also plays a lot of rising and falling scales, which isnt present in Beethovens Moonlight Sonata, however the movement of the melody in Beethovens piece rises and falls as the arpeggios played in the melody follow the chord progression of the piece. Beethovens piece is also much darker in sound. This would make sense since Beethov...

John Masefields poem Sea Fever is taking about the speaker want to go back to the seas again. The theme in Sea Fever is longing for freedom and an adventurous ocean is developed. There use of rhythm, imagery, metaphor and personification. John Masfield use all those things to make reader close to the sea and more understand why the speak must return to the sea. Sea Fever has three stanza and rhythm, which give it like a song. For example, line three and line ten contain the repeated consonant sound of the letter w and it is go like (). Each stanza star from the same stance I must go down to the seas again. John use this for shows the theme more clearly. A theme of longing for freedom and an adventurous ocean is developed. We can see this hope easily in the poem I must go down to the seas again. And the title Sea Fever shows the speaker really looking for adventurous and free life. It cans references to the freedom of a sea gull and a whale ((line 10). The speaker use imagery to comp...

Each of the three types of relationships implies a general class of product offering. The transaction-based relationship implies a single product the technical advisory relationship accompanies product and service bundles and partnership involves a theme-based array of products and services that change according to the customers stage of life. By this yardstick, the Insurance business is a typical case of the partnership-based approach. Any good agent would keep track of his clients evolving needs by considering his age, income, life events etc. However, a major limitation of the partnership role has been the number of people that each agent can handleit is simply a matter of scale. With the help of technology, insurance firms can find ways to expand the number of people that can be reached, deepen specific targeted relationships, and lower the cost of working with additional constituencies. The appropriate strategy for a business like insurance is therefore personalization catering t...

Sarafina!Sarafina! is the story of the struggle for freedom of non-European school children in Soweto, South Africa. The story takes place during the time of the Apartheid just before Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 and the Apartheid ended. The Apartheid was a policy of strict racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-whites in the Republic of South Africa (WWWebster Dictionary). Segregation and discrimination against non-whites was imposed in housing, employment, education, and public services. It was enforced with a cruelly oppressive regime that used intimidation, torture, and murder to maintain order. Sarafina! was thus an open window to what went on during the Apartheid tied into the story of one rebellious young girl who tried her best to gain freedom for all non-white South Africans.Sarafina! was helpful in presenting and illustrating the struggle for freedom in South Africa during the Apartheid and also in understanding the brutality of the re...