"Deep Play: Notes On The Balinese Cockfight"
.... take
place. Cockfights are illegal in Bali. They continue to watch the fight
and he describes the cockfight like any "layman" might see it. This way of
not interacting and seeing things from a spectators point of view, is in a
way using ethnocentrism. This means he isn't really seeing the culture as
it is. From this view point the things which take place may even look
stupid. So, things like the cockfights can be seen only as wrong. At best,
their belief toward the cockfight is a distorted belief; at worst, it is an
outright falsehood. This is something a "common reader" may exp erience.
Initially, he is looking at the big p .....
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Revolutions
.... new scientific
discoveries possible. The printing press was a very important discovery
that made it possible to spread ideas far and wide.
Astronomy, mechanics and medicine were the areas that were affected
the most during the scientific revolution. It was proven that the planets
and the moons revolved around the sun in circular orbits. These discoveries
were made possible due to new mathematical theories of Copernicus and
Kepler. Newton's universal law of gravity was essential to the historic
changes in mechanics and the way the motion of the uniberse was now
observed.
Medicine was another area that changed significantl .....
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Romanticism
.... and confidence to strike out on own. They were critical of
government, laws, social institutions, debasing commercialism and whatever
kept humans from reaching their highest potential. They took a PollyAnna
attitude that everything will turn out. Emerson taught "Trust thyself.
Every heart vibrates to that iron string." Listeners who attended
Emerson's lectures were inspired with a spirit of optimism. Utopian
communities were established where the members shared a belief in
perfectionism and the millenia. One group headed by George Ripley was
Brook Farm, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. This was a Transcendentalist
inspired com .....
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The Jătaka: "The Cheating Merchant", "The Monkey's Heroic Self-Sacrifice",
.... day. (p. 952) He tells them to sacrifice
their food to beggars, and the one who honors this will be rewarded.
On fast day, the otter steals seven fish that a fisherman had
buried while he was fishing. The otter pretends asks three times if anyone
owns the fish. No one comes forward, so the otter takes the fish home.
Meanwhile, the jackal is out looking for food and finds some in the house
of a field watcher: two spits, a lizard and a pot of milk curd. He asks
three times if anyone owns this food. No one comes forward, so he takes
the food home and thinks of how virtuous he has been. At the same time, the
monkey finds a bunch .....
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Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
.... discovered a series of social vices and injustices
that perpetuated the painful poverty of the Irish peasantry, and due to his
resulting anger felt that it was his God-given job to do something about
them. "'What I do is owing to perfect rage and resentment, and the
mortifying sight of slavery, folly, and baseness around me, among which I
am forced t o live'" (Keach et al 372). Thus, Jonathan Swift's career as a
political satirist and social reformer truly began. Throughout his career,
Swift wrote political pamphlet after political pamphlet, discussing the
issues and methods of improving the lives of the Irish and the Anglo-Iri .....
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Rumpelstiltskin
.... all exploit the girl (Esmeralda) in different ways for
personal gain. She too uses them, as well as others around her to gain what
she wants.
The miller, in both versions tells people that his daughter has a
wonderful ability to make gold from straw so that he can become a rich man.
"It happened one day that that he came to speak with the king, and, to give
himself consequence, he told him that he had a daughter who could spin gold
out of straw" (Grimm). " ‘If only I could get my daughter to marry a rich
man,' he mused . . . ‘she'll be fulfilled and I'll never have to work
another day in my life' " (Garner). .....
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What Is A Luxury?
.... stupor or
addiction to a possession of mine.
I met Denny Hippchen and Aaron Steinmetz during my first year at
Shasta High School and these two young men awakened my interest in
computers. A computer has been around me ever since. You could call it a
luxury but now I am so used to using the computer that it is now a
necessity. All of my homework is done on my computer, and it is one of my
many ways of communicating. It provides entertainment, music, school needs,
and many other things upon which I depend. In a sense, the computer has
become indispensable to me. I am now to the point where I cannot live
without a computer. M .....
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Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"
.... Fairy
Queen ordered him to locate and destroy Acrasia's seductive Bower of Bliss.
With his companion and guide, the Palmer, Sir Guyon completes his mission
successfully, and after his encounters along the way, he becomes the virtue
of Temperance.
II. Body Section
In order for the reader to recognize the maturation of Sir Guyon,
Spenser leads him on a path of temptation. Thus, after conquering all of
his encounters, Sir Guyon will be a symbol of Temperance. The first test
Sir Guyon faces involves characters from the First Book of The Faerie
Queene. Sir Guyon and the wise Palmer meet Archimago, who has just escaped
from prison. .....
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Comparison Of "The Devil And Tom Walker" And "The Devil And Daniel Webster"
.... looking.
No man traveling ever stops at their house. His wife hides things, is mean,
and a loud-mouth. The story describes how Tom walked through the murky
swamp and how he met “Old Scratch” unlike “The Devil and Daniel Webster”
when all the story talks about is how his plow broke, how angry he was, and
by being angry called the Devil. “The Devil and Tom Walker” has a much
stronger development and really tries to place the reader in the story.
The appearance of the Devil's are different as well. In “The Devil and Tom
Walker” the Devil is ugly, has hooved feet, and looks like a dark-skinned
woodsman, while in “The Devil and Daniel .....
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A Picture Of Dorian Gray: Basil's Life Changes As Related To Wilde's Opinion
.... Dorian. He sees him in
a different way than he sees other men. Dorian is not only beautiful to
Basil, but he is also gentle and kind. This is when Basil falls in love
with him and begins to paint the picture.
Basil begins painting the picture, but does not tell anyone about
it, including Dorian, because he knows that there is too much of himself in
it. Lord Henry discovers the painting and asks Basil why he will not
display it. Lord Henry thinks that it is so beautiful it should be
displayed in a museum. Basil argues that the reason he will not display
the painting is because he is "afraid that [he] has shown in .....
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The Idea Of Freedom
.... cause one's life to be lost by sun-up the next day.
This is the rationalization of First Amendment tree-huggers who advocate
any bend in the rules which would be otherwise a fair idea.
As far as fair ideas go, until several years ago in Russia,
luxurious living was a thing of dreams and stories for the average John
Doestovky, and then society got tired of the pigs at the top having all the
riches. Here, Americans enjoy luxury throughout all class levels in their
own individual ways. Americans have lifestyle individuality which have
risen to new levels in the recent 10 years with such acts as homosexual
marriages and open homo .....
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What I Can Do To Promote Liberty
.... group has Uzi's, and tanks and all Deputy Bob has is
a hangover from last nights eight hour long Happy hour at the Hoo
Doo, and when he finally comes to and searches my house because he's still
a little groggy and is confusing me with the “Rebels of The State of Idaho
Brigand” and he finds my guns and I get arrested while the people I was
guarding my liberty from goes off and has a clan meeting in my backyard,
that something is seriously messed up with the way the system works. What's
the solution to this? Well to go back to my main point, you should just
make wise decisions. Think before you act.
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