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Future O Internet
Number of words: 850 | Number of pages: 4.... history of computers shows how difficult it is to predict the future. I just hope my predictions prove to be more accurate.
One of the best ways to predict the future of the internet it to look at its humble begings. It is obvious that the internet has evolved by leeps and bounds since its creation just 30 years ago. The internet has grown from several connected networks to sevral hundred thousand connected networks. All tied together to creat the back bone of the internet. From a few users to millions of users. It grows at speeds wich continues to astonish analyst. Even the most modest of expectations for the growth of the inter .....
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King Lear
Number of words: 793 | Number of pages: 3.... a form of reward to his test of love.
"Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,
Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,
And here are to be answered. Tell me, my daughters
(Since now we will divest us both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state), Which of you shall we say doth love us most?
That we our largest bounty may extend
where nature doth with merit challenge."
(Act I, Sc i, Ln 47-53)
This is the first and most significant of the many sins that he makes in this play. By abdicating his throne to fuel his ego he is disrupts the great chain of being which states that the King must not challenge the p .....
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In Our Time
Number of words: 581 | Number of pages: 3.... memory. He is one of those authors that I always connect with my father and his college years for some reason, although I'm not entirely sure why. I've always wanted to read Hemmingway, but I've always wanted to read all of Shakespeare, Homer, and Eliot, too. The edition I'm reading has the short stories separated by "Chapters" which do and don't tell a story. The "Chapters" strongly remind me of Pink Floyd's The Wall. I was also surprised at how simple it is to read them. They are perfect examples of how Poe defined the short story: quick, (sometimes) powerful, and written to evoke one feeling. After reading The End of Something, .....
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Writers Block
Number of words: 875 | Number of pages: 4.... do throughout the last ten years is to make political writing in to an art. One can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality.” Society dictates what is and is not readable, what is and is not acceptable, what is expected and what are success and or failure. We are all shaped and trapped by the popular opinions of our time. We are not free to indulge in art, literature, or even our daily lives with out the watchful eye of society’s scrutiny. It is necessary to test these opinions in order for society to grow up and accept change.
From a small child we are sculpted by .....
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Tennessee Williams' Characters: Escape
Number of words: 417 | Number of pages: 2.... before his eyes on a screen in a darkened room; yet, in that little apartment he faces only the dimness. Even during his reflections on the “fire escape” he is not really separating himself because that metal frame, however sturdy, is still anchored to the apartment wall.
Amanda, the Wingfield matriarch, utilizes an almost hysterical mechanism of denial. She surrounds her reality with the images of days she saw herself as the southern belle. Whenever she urges her family forward, she inevitably retreats to a time when her chief problem was to choose a beau over all the other beaus. When Jim visits, she emits the image of a per .....
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The Great Gatsby
Number of words: 609 | Number of pages: 3.... an upbringing he is "inclined to reserve all judgements" about other people, but he then goes on to say "tolerance has a limit".
With Gatsby, Nick admits he makes an exception of judging. He is prepared to suspend both the moral code of his upbringing and the limit of his intolerance, because of Gatsby's "extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness". This is an exception that he will make for Gatsby and not anyone else in the novel. Nick overlooks Gatsbys bootlegging, and his association with Meyer Wolfshiem, the man Gatsby said fixed the world series in 1919. Yet he is contemptuous to Jordan Baker for cheating in a game .....
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The Development Of The Warrior
Number of words: 763 | Number of pages: 3.... Achilles is described as a strong-willed, though a bit hot tempered, man.
It is in the following books that Achilles shows some of his not to desirable qualities, yet in these qualities the character of Achilles is ultimately developed. Homer describes the plot of Achilles to avenge his disgrace at the hand of Agamemnon. He has his mother, the goddess Thetis, ask Zeus to punish the Achaeans on behalf of her and Achilles. Zeus reluctantly agrees to this, and Achilles success in having the whole of his people subjected to a brutal and costly war to get his ‘revenge' on Agamemnon. As the Trojan War presses foreword, takin .....
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The Corrruption Of Innocence
Number of words: 870 | Number of pages: 4.... and says how they are sincere and try to save innocent lives, but then he goes on to think about how they are probably phonies and only doing it to be hot-shots and makes lots of money to impress society. (Salinger 172) The outcome of his thoughts was that everybody had conformed and followed each society’s ideas, which upset Holden because no one was free of corruption accept the children of society, like Ally. Holden sees it as a major issue in the book and serves as a major role of Holden’s throughout the book. The issue even leads to the title of the book in the sense that it is named after his supposed job h .....
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King Lear -
Number of words: 1258 | Number of pages: 5.... like “my chance” with “fair France” and “cold’st neglect” to “inflamed respect”. By using these methods, stress is put onto the point that is being made by France and therefore is more explicit to the audience. France also uses loaded verbs to describe Lear’s actions, including “cast” and “thrown”, to suggest that Lear is being harsh and barbaric towards Cordelia, as these verbs sound aggressive.
Lines 237 – 239
When France remarks that “Love’s not love” when it is “mingled with regards” that stand “ .....
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The Stress On Money In The Met
Number of words: 733 | Number of pages: 3.... now; he no longer makes any money. His parents refuse to look at him or even to try to communicate with him. Instead of giving Gregor the respect he deserves out of love for their son, his parents give him respect because he gives them money. Now that he doesn’t earn money, they lose all respect.
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Although in the beginning Gregor receives respect, the daughter, Grete, receives none. Grete doesn’t make any money, so the parents’ attention is focused on Gregor. However, when Gregor loses his job and no longer makes any money, the attention is focused on Grete. Grete starts off as the innocent girl a .....
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