The Gothic Novel
.... portrayal of the alluring antagonist, whose evil characteristics appeal to ones sense of awe, or the melodramatic aspects of romance, or more specifically in the Gothic motif of a persecuted maiden forced apart from a true love. The Gothic genre today has remained an elusive minor literary upheaval that has had immense influence on genres today. Literary critics though, have been slow to accept Gothic literature as a valuable genre. The first critics to examine the Gothic, approached it reverently with historical interest. They tried to rescue it, to revive the dead and obscure genre. These critics looked at the presence of the t .....
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Hero Worship
.... normally associated with heroism. For the people who risk or sacrifice their own lives in an acts of selflessness, these words are accurate in describing heroism. Few would dispute that a person who pulls another from a burning flipped-over car ready to explode does show heroism.
The news media is always looking for acts of heroism as they make for captivating news. Just recently, a fourth grade boy grabbed the wheel of a school bus after it was involved in an accident. This boy may have saved the lives of the children loaded on the school bus by preventing the bus from careening out of control. Because of the unusu .....
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Video Poker
.... in tourist revenue in Los Vegas. (1)
Gamblers are growing be leaps and bounds. In this state there are 19,000 compulsive and 31,000 problem gamblers that cost South Carolina 225 million in programs for these type of people. These programs are making South Carolina the “big loser. The average loss per household is $291.
33% have spent their last dime
19% have thought about taking out a loan
28% report feeling guilty after playing
14% report feeling depressed
19% wish they could stop playing
5% have considered suicide
78% have received illegal inducements
All this is all product of video poker. (2)
The next bad p .....
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Odysseus' Journey
.... Thrinakia
On his way from the Isle of Calypso, Odysseus and crew encounter the Sirens, hideous creatures with beautiful voices who will eat you if get to close. Odysseus puts wax in his crewmember’s ears so they can not hear the alluring songs, and then he ties himself to the mast of the ship so he will know when they have passed the Sirens. “ …And they sang in sweet utterance, and the heart within me desired to listen, and I signaled my companions to set me free, nodding with my brows, but they leaned on and rowed hard, past the Sirens,”(192-196) Odysseus speaking of the Sirens to the court of Phaiakians.
Scylla/Charybdis
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The Patriotic Shopping Center
.... in its 4.2 million square feet of floor space. They wander around aimlessly looking for direction but find that the straight way was lost and the YOU ARE HERE landmarks on the map kiosks referred to nothing in particular (Guterson 211). “Getting lost, feeling lost, [and] being lost--these states of mind are intentional features of the malls psychological terrain,” says Guterson (211). They designed an area with no clocks or windows, so the customer stays focused on shopping., however, these are typical of any shopping mall.
Guterson had an interview with the director of tourism, Colleen Hayes, and she explained the reason behind t .....
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Implied Differences Of The Characterization Of Helen With Respect To "The Encomium Of Helen" And The Iliad
.... this essay, the fact that Priam does not blame her shows the reader that there is something likeable about her personality. In Book XXIV, Hektor, although not in his own words for he is dead, also shows us this quality about Helen. In lines 765-772, Helen herself goes on to state how Hektor never insulted her and when another citizen of Troy would insult her, Hektor would defend her and “put them off and restrain them”(Homer,XXIV,771)
From Helen herself the reader also gets the impression that she regrets her decision, in regards to Paris, and is sorry. “I wish better death had been what I wanted”(Homer,III,173). T .....
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Friends
.... they will just be blown off. One fourth of the university’s population is freshmen, this makes the friendship process that much easier. If you think about it, that means a whole bunch of new people, in a new place, just wanting to meet new friends that they can talk with.
When the target person to talk to is chosen, it is all downhill from here. What is the easiest thing about a person that you can learn? The answer is not as hard as it seems. What would the world be like if everyone called each other “hey you?” That is why one of the first questions asked should be what is the person’s name. Usually after asking some .....
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The Mafia
.... far ranging. ""Arlachhi (1986 44-5) concluded in 1983 "there does not exist a centralized criminal organized called the Mafia… The cosca mafiosa is a simple organism but a solid one, without formalism or bureaucracy. Within it are neither statutory ordinances, initiation rites nor courts of judgment"" (Fiorienti and Peltzman 38). This is in contrast as to what others recognize as organized crime. In direct retrospect to his earlier writings, Arlacchi claims that, through interviews with Mafia members, there is a more formal organization within the Mafia and that the Mafia does have initiations.
The United States Mafia defin .....
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Achilles’ Actions Bring His Eventual Doom Closer To Reality
.... The wrath of Achilles begins in Book One of “The Iliad.” Agamemmnon, leader of the Greek army, takes Achilles booty prize, Briseis to replace his own concubine, Chryses, daughter of a priest of Apollo, who was returned to end the plague put on his people by the angry god, Apollo. Achilles feels unappreciated for all that he does for the army when Agamemmnon takes his girl to be his own. He leaves the army because he feels that the king has disrespected him. Thus begins the onset of his doom; by not fighting, and continuing to refuse to do so until after the death of his best friend, Patroklos, he defies his fate.
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The Hypocrisy Of The Media
.... full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of society.” He reasons, therefore, that Bush’s possible confession that he used cocaine when he was young should force him, his supporters and the rest of us to do some hard thinking.
What Mr. Taylor presents for his readers is actually a straw man. Arguments surrounding Bush’s, “unspecified young and irresponsible escapades,” and in light of his later stand on youthful penalties, and thus his supposed hypocrisy, are contrived to shift the public’s view from the more important concerns regarding the exercises of his public responsibilities. Is the a .....
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Escape Through Science Fiction Novels And Movies
.... with work and responsibility. An escape must also take full advantage of one’s leisure time.
Third, an escape must not have any undesirable consequences. This is the condition that justifies the escape itself. Suppose for example that a person became tired of his or her job and simply stopped working. That person would soon be fired, and although he did avoid doing work, his method of escape cannot be justified because of the undesirable consequences that followed. This is perhaps the most important condition an escape must satisfy.
Science fiction literature and films are very good escape mechanisms. While a person is absorbed .....
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Immortal Beloved
.... Giulietta Guicciardi? Or her cousin, the widowed Countess Joshphine Deym? Or could she have been Antonie Brentano, the wife of one of Beethoven's friends, as Maynard Solomon suggested.
Even once candidates are proposed, the question remains: why was this letter in Beethoven's possession? Did he never send it, or was it returned to him? Although the debates continue, the answers to the riddle of the Immortal Beloved may have followed Beethoven to his grave. In the history of music, no "riddle", as Maynard Solomon in Beethoven calls it, has been questioned as much as that of the Beethoven's own "Immortal Beloved". Many books have .....
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