How Will Our Future Be?
.... is calling our net-computer. He wishes to inform us about all the
activities in Copenhagen today but of course only the ones he knows we might be
interested in. The agents are a very handy invention which was created in the
late nineties, by a small company called Micro-help. Nowadays everybody has on
or more. The net-agents work 24 hours a day at the global, fibre-optical network.
The network is so fast you never experience the bottleneck when transferring
data like in the old days. This is a major advantage for the large number of
people working from their own homes. They use a technology called net-meeting if
they have to di .....
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The Tell Tale Heart: The Total Effect Of The Story
.... of town
for a while. He finally sat down in the exact spot where the old man had
been buried under the floorboards. What eventually made the man confess to
what he had done when he imagined that he heard the old man's heart beating
from under the floorboards. It got louder and louder until finally he
thought they(the officers)were just driving him insane and they heard the
heart to and they must have heard it until he just jumped up, ripped off
the floorboards and said "I did it, I killed him," pointing at the pieces
of the man.
Characterization is the biggest part of the total effect of horror.
The man seemed normal e .....
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The Only Truth Existing
.... reason and logic, our idea of reality, and our
perceptions, that may likely to be very wrong. Subjectiveness, or personal
belief, is almost always, liable for self-contradiction. Besides the
established truth that we exist, there are no other truths that are certain,
for the fact that subjective truth may be easily refuted. Every person
possesses his or her own truth that may be contradicting to another
person's belief. A truth, or one that is true for all, cannot by achieved
because of the constant motion of circumstances of who said it, to whom,
when, where, why, and how it was said.
What one person may believe a dog is a man' .....
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A Modern Day Odysseus
.... greater civil liberty, specifically,
"Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)," which enabled the unbreakable encryption of e-
mail. In other words, he extended to people the right to free speech that
no one, not even the government, can listen to. Before PGP, the United
States government had spied on people through simply steaming open
envelopes and recording phone conversations. Not only that, but e-mail was,
and still is to this day, notoriously simple to intercept. With a set of
good intentions, Phil Zimmermann changed all this by coding powerful
software and giving it away for free.
In order to achieve their goals, heroes generally hav .....
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The Masque Of Red Death: The Masque Of Poe
.... comes over everyone in the story.
In Poe's life it stands for the diseases that has killed everyone important
to him, tuberculoses. Blue is the color of the first room, in Poe's life
it is supposed to be him. The second room in the story is the color purple,
this color is for Poe's mother. Then there is a green room, this room is
for his brother. There was also an orange room for Poe's foster mother,
Mrs. Allan. The white room was for his wife Virginia, and the violet room
for her death. Last there was the black room, which was for Poe's death.
What is time? Is time something that people just made up ? Poe
seems .....
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Comparison And Contrast Of Two Sermons, "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry
.... terror in hell
and want to spread the word of Jesus Christ to ensure that those unsaved
can escape this trepidation of hell. Trying to inform the audience of the
same message, these two authors use different means of persuasion. While
Andrews expresses God's love and want for those to repent, Edwards uses
grisly details and preaches that God is angry and wants to castigate the
heinous sinners. Edwards intimidates the congregation and shows the harsh
side of God, while Andrews consoles the lost telling the audience of God's
desire to see everyone in Heaven with him. Although the two pastors use
different methods of conveying t .....
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Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat
.... when I was growing up; although I never
completely grew out of it, I don't have quite the passion I used to.
Poe takes his characters from one extreme to the other. For
example, his narrator in “The Black Cat” grew up a softhearted pansy, so
much so that he was made fun of and mocked. Then in his adulthood he
drastically changed for the worse, to the point where he hated and was
annoyed by his most favored pet, Pluto and Pluto's successor. With these
extremes Poe creates a character, out of the ordinary, which causes second-
guessing and suspense. This sets the reader up for the climax. Poe fills
his character with the con .....
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A Look At The First Works Of The World
.... the
subject. In the epic, many gods are mentioned and worshiped, such as
Ninsun and Shamash. These gods can give birth to mortals, and can
communicate with these mortals, usually through dreams. In Genesis, there
is mention of only one God, a being that created the earth and skies, as
well as humans and wildlife. This god can also communicate with mortals,
either through dream or direct conversation. In both cases, the mortals
worshiped the god(s), but in the epic it seemed that the gods were more
likely to be persuaded by their servants. In Genesis, God remains a fairly
strong, static being who, although unwavering, is .....
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Kurt Vonnegut's "The Lie": Portrayal Of A Moral Society
.... enough can get in, and is curious about the
integration. Her character is truthful about money and privilege. She
stands out as the other characters act as though society follows idealistic
rules. Vonnegut conveys a false sense of moral values in a private
organization. He shows how an establishment should behave under these
circumstances. Therefore, the title The Lie not only refers to young Eli's
lie to his parents, but also a lie told by the author as he mocks the
corruption in private schools.
The first place Sylvia speaks the truth is when the Remenzels are
riding in the car with their black chauffeur and she brings u .....
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Prejudice Of A Bigot
.... class citizens if they just wore comfortable clothing such as jeans
and a T-shirt.
Everyone knows the problem with prejudgment because everyone has
been a receiver of such. One such occurrence may be if a couple would be
repainting their house when they realized they had an appointment with a
loan officer at their bank. They arrived with just minutes to spare only by
not changing clothes but by going as they were, paint-splattered and in
work clothes. The appointment lasted ten minutes, and the loan officer
didn't even take down their written history. As they were ushered out the
office, the loan officer thought that there .....
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Vronsky And Anna's Struggle With Love
.... meet Vronsky you get the feeling that he is someone
who does not take love very seriously, girls were more that less an object
of amusement. When he meets Anna this changes over time. She softens his
heart and he grows to understand and appreciate love and what goes along
with it.
When Anna doubts Vronsky's love in a sense she is right to. I think up
until Anna says something he really does not understand love. I feel that
up until he met Anna Vronsky had no idea what “real love” is. It was
something he struggled with. Vronsky seems to have never really known “
true love” so when Anna expects him to give back as much lo .....
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The Writings Of Plato And Dantes
.... form. That ideal place
is where all ideas that we have and that appear in material form originate.
Thus the paper you read this essay off of is an imitation of the idea of
paper, that idea of paper is paper in its quintessential paper perfection.
This sets up two layers of import, the first, or perfect, layer; and the
second, or imperfect, layer where we all live and construct things. But now
where does literature fit into all of this? According to Plato it is yet
further from the truth. For literature is an imitation of the world. It was
Plato who originated the idea that the poet is but an imitator of something
already imit .....
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