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First Meditation
Number of words: 900 | Number of pages: 4.... illusion and dreaming arguments. However, people such as Descartes who believe in an omnipotent supremely good being, called God, could easily refute these arguments. Therefore, in order for Descartes to start from the very beginning, in terms of knowledge, he needed to find a way to bring doubt upon the very thing that was the basis for all his knowledge, which was God.
In the evil demon argument, Descartes is not denying the existence of God. The way the argument is presented, Descartes makes it seem as if the evil demon coexists with God. Therefore, when his mind is being deceived or being given false information it is .....
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How Will Our Future Be?
Number of words: 840 | Number of pages: 4.... citizen-card plugged into the device. An
agent 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 .....
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Pursuit Of Materail Wealth Doe
Number of words: 565 | Number of pages: 3.... says, " Have I nothing to do than cure insect bites for little Indians?…I alone in the world am supposed to work for nothing-and I am tired of it. See if he has any money!" (P.294)
"He is a client of mine…The doctor looked past his aged patient and saw himself sitting in a restaurant in Paris and a waiter was just opening a bottle of wine." (P.301) Under these conditions, greed in the doctor is definitely shown. With all the riches he already had, he wanted to gain more wealth. He looks past the need of the vulnerable for the sake of money. In any event, the main character of the story, Kino has the greatest impact upon .....
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The Awakening- Edna Pontellier
Number of words: 1621 | Number of pages: 6.... and wet into the bend of her arm and went on crying there, not caring any longer to dry her face, her eyes, her arms. She could not have told you why she was crying." (7-8)
As time goes on we can see that her depression grows ever so slightly, and that it will continue to grow throughout the novel. Such happenings are nothing new to Edna: " Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life. They seemed never before to have weighed much against her husband's kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be tacit and self understood." (8) The author goes on to describe what Edna felt during the episod .....
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Farewell To Arms 6
Number of words: 564 | Number of pages: 3.... a tent or behind a falls.” This novel is very graphic when it comes to them having sex or while he is at the whorehouses during his leave time. Many things in this novel are inappropriate for children and adults. In more ways then one, Hemingway didn’t like women very much, one example is in chapter nine where he takes page and a half to describe how a solder dies who is not a main character in the book. But in chapter forty-one, he only uses approximately three lines to tell that Catharine dies, and she is a main character. In this novel there are a few things wrong.
“The plain was rich with crops; t .....
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William Shakespeare And The Globe Theatre
Number of words: 289 | Number of pages: 2.... voices as the innes cannot” (White 36). The octagonally shaped outer wall of the theatre enclosed a roofless inner pit into which the stage projected. Around the pit were three galleries, one above the other, the topmost of which was roofed thatch. “The seeing´s better” (White 36).
Most of the plays Shakespeare wrote, like A Midsummer Night´s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth or Othello, had their premiere in the Globe Theatre. James Burbage, actor and owner of the theatre helped Shakespeare to bring his plays on stage. Shakespeare´s last completed play for the Globe Theatre was The Tempest in 1611.
In 1599, Willi .....
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As Night And Day And The Heir
Number of words: 637 | Number of pages: 3.... the house the voice of his grandfather stayed in his mind. He remembered his grandfather saying: “Everything in here is yours.” (Kiwon 494) Sogun knew what he did was wrong and what he did wrong led to Sokpae’s death. And for this he left so that he could not cause anymore problems or troubles to his grandfather and his uncle. His guilty conscience had overcame him making him feel like everything would have been better if he hadn’t gone to live with his grandfather.
In the story, “As the Night the Day” Kojo broke the thermometer and other’s were blamed for breaking it. Not admitting to br .....
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Views Of King Lear
Number of words: 1189 | Number of pages: 5.... a chain reaction which affects everything below him. There must also be the element of chance or accident that influences some point in the play.
King Lear meets all of these requirements that has been laid out by Bradley which is the most logical for a definition of a tragedy as compared to the definition of a comedy by G. Wilson Knight.
The main character of the play would be King Lear who in terms of Bradley would be the hero and hold the highest position is the social chain. Lear out of Pride and anger has banished Cordelia and split the kingdom in half to the two older sisters, Goneril and Regan. This is Lear's tragic f .....
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Emily Dickinson
Number of words: 878 | Number of pages: 4.... —the "School,"
"Gazing Grain," "Setting Sun," and the "Ring"—much is gathered to complete the poem’s
central idea. Emily brought to light the mysteriousness of life’s cycle. Ungraspable to
many, the cycle of one’s life, as symbolized by Dickinson, has three stages and then a
final stage of eternity. These three stages are recognized by Mary N. Shaw as follows:
"School, where children strove"(9) may represent childhood; "Fields of Gazing
Grain"(11), maturity; and "Setting Sun" (12) old age" (21). In addition to these three
stages, the final stage of eternity was symbolized in the last two lines o .....
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Macbeth 14
Number of words: 5290 | Number of pages: 20.... of the battle from the bleeding sergeant. The sergeant had saved Malcolm earlier. He says that the battle was doubtful, with the rebel Macdonwald receiving reinforcements and luck. However, Macbeth man aged to fight well, and killed the slave Macdonwald. A second attack by the Norweyan lord angered Macbeth and he met their attacks so the Norwegians got their butts kicked. The sergeant goes to get some medical attention, and then Ross tells the rest of the story. Norway and the rebel Thane of Cawdor were met by Macbeth and were defeated. The Norwegian king Sweno was forced to pay ten thousand dollars. Macbeth is given the rebel .....
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