In contrast, Fyodor Dostoevesky's modern novel, Notes from the Underground, portrays the feeling of every man being on his own. ... Tolstoy's character, Illyich, in contrast to the underground man from Dostoevesky's novel, is able to illustrate the importance of a good lifestyle and success, while still showing the idea of every man for himself. ... This is illustrated throughout the works of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich, and Dostoevesky's Notes From the Underground. ... Finally Dostoevesky illustrates modernism through hi...

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How Do the Historical Notes Influence Our Interpretation of "A Handmaid's Tale"? ... He calls the "Underground Femaleroad" the "Underground Frailroad". ... This is similar to Pieixoto's prejudice left from Gilead. ... This is emphasised when he describes the "Mayday underground" and speaks of it respectfully probably because it was run by men, unlike its counterpart the "underground Femaleroad". ... We also get a strong sense of negativity towards the character Offred from Pieixoto at several points throughout the Historical Notes. ...

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American Civil War Notes PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1860 - Democratic party unable to agree on a platform for a candidate; Northern Democrats stood for popular sovereinty (authority rests with the people) and the nominated Stephen Douglas. ... - Conferate states of America- in 1860 South Carolina secedes from the Union followed by 6 other southern states- in 1861 they establisd the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as president. ... - Clearly disitguished North from the South... South was losing battle for western suppor...

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Language has the capacity to flow from person to person, generation to generation and even time to time. ... From this point also, it is understood how authors have to appeal to their audience. ... Similarly as with the politicians in Morrison's lecture, the idea of inclusion versus exclusion is apparent in the novella, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well. ... From this point, the underground man's true lack of social ability and understanding is apparent. ... Not only has the underground man transformed right before the audience's eyes, from a man of exclus...

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These notes are issued to 12 Federal Reserve Banks throughout the country and from there are distributed to member banks and the general public. ... The annex, located directly across the street, is connected by an underground tunnel to provide direct access to both facilities. ... A steel die is made of each feature, and rolls made from these dies are put together into a master die of the complete note. The master die is then used in the first of a series of operations leading to the making of press plates from which the notes are printed. ... That same year, the Federal Reserve withdre...

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In the first section of the autobiography, Douglass notes instances of slave oppression that he experiences and witnesses in his life. ... He was separated from his mother at birth and taken to live on a different plantation. ... Douglass later notes that the first brutality that he witnessed being done to another slave was when his Aunt Hester was beater by her slave master because she was visiting a young boy on another plantation. ... There, he begins to learn how to read from Sophia Auld until Mr. ... However, his plans of teaching others were sabotaged when the slave-owner found out about...

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The two upper arm bones (humeri) at right are from a male of about 45 years of age from Shanidar, in Iraq; the left arm is completely withered from an early injury or disease. ... Note the bent-kneed stance suggesting an imperfect or only partly erect posture, the head set forward on the spine much like that of a chimp or gorilla, and the clumsy, extremely hairy bodies. ... The paintings at Lascoux are hundreds of feet underground and remote from living areas of the cave complex. ... The use or uses and the meanings of the paintings and the reasons for their placement underground in such cav...

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They are attracting listeners from all over the world, hitting them from every angle. ... Other styles of hip hop include underground rap and country grammar rap. Underground rap is everywhere and is part of every style of hip hop. ... Underground rappers are known in their city mainly. For example, an underground rapper from Brooklyn might be real popular in Brooklyn, but people in Los Angeles will never know who that artist is. ...

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Dostoevsky's Revolutionary Hero The fictional author of Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground claims that he has all the traits of the anti-hero. ... This character has retired to his underground, where he avoids reality and fantasizes about a life, all the while unable to do anything productive for himself. ... In writing his notes from underground, he is sharing what he has learned through experiencing suffering in the underworld. ... What insights has he gained by observing himself and others from his underworld? ... Although the demeanor of Dostoevsky's underground characte...

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On a slightly less dramatic note, millions of liters of water are needed every day worldwide for washing, irrigating crops, and cooling industrial processes, not to mention leisure industries such as swimming pools and water sports centers. ... The water we use is taken from lakes and rivers, and from underground and after we have used it and contaminated it, most of it returns to these locations. ... The way we prevent Water Pollution is to keep our used water from spoiling; we have to remove the pollutants before the water gets back into the environment. ...

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Moreover, I learned to love the special way to pronounce the words very far from that sounds out by north American speakers. ... Furthermore, London is so an accessible city that I could go from one place to another without much difficulty. Thanks to London Underground, it is easy to get around the city. London Underground Map can be picked up at any London Tube Station, and some of them illustrate many touristic places. It's not surprising to find it so crowded, visited not only by tourist but also by common people going and coming back from work every day. ...

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Individual acts of defiance ranged from the use of the Underground Railroad - a secret, organized network of people who helped fugitive slaves reach the Northern states and Canada - to the daily resistance or silent sabotage found on the plantations. Stokesbury acknowledges in, A Short History of the Civil War, the existence of the Underground Railroad but disagrees with other historians as to its importance. He notes that it never became as well organized or as successful as the South believed. ... Batty and Parish note that less than 100 ever became officers and none ranked higher than capta...

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Victor has ties to the underground rebellion. He has escaped several times from the Germans making him almost a super hero to the people of Casablanca. ... Rick also kills a German so that Victor and Ilsa can get away to help the underground, for the good of the world. ... All 3 men loved a woman tied to another from a since of duty not love. ... The note Ilsa then sent Rick at the train station could have said "found out my husband is alive." ...

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This book consists of five main characters: The Time Traveler (an intelligent man of science and the producer of the time machine), Hillyer (the narrator and only man at the dinner who believes the Time Traveler about time travel), Eloi (a peaceful and weak race of people who live on the surface of the Earth in the year 802701), The Morlocks (aggressive ape-like "people" who live underground the same year as the Eloi. They are descendents of the 19th century workers and continue to work underground. ... The following Thursday his friends, plus a Journalist and Editor, met up at the Time Trav...

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Years before, a group of biologists proposed to the President that, in case of a unknown biological agent getting out into the country, an underground secret base should be set up to study the organism, and possibly try to find a cure. It would be five levels, each successive level more sterile than the other, from level 1 being non-sterile, to level 5 being as sterile as possible. ... They go through the town, noting that the blood had clotted solid in the arteries and veins of the victims, that death is mostly instantaneous, and that some victims live long enough to kill themselves in...

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In this futuristic time he meets two species descendent from humans. ... The Morlocks, as The Time Traveller notes, have adjusted to life underground. ... Or if not to start underground just slowly adjust to the labours, be it by choice or not. ... The Morlocks are the Have-nots, underground in the filth and disgust engulfed in Labour. ... This is a way that the Haves are again separated from the Have-nots. ...

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In some cases inspection can not be done on regular intervals, e.g. underground pipelines. 4.Causes: There can be many reasons of corrosion. ... This material will promote further attack by absorbing moisture from the air. ... Note: It can be observed that as supply is again started, first few amount of water is red colored. ... In this case, there are also bio-organisms present on the surface of metal, which lead to crevice corrosion of the metal.  In some cases, the underground pipelines corrode very fast and sever. ... - The underground pipes, which are being corroded in t...

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In the article McLune has a whole paragraph consisting of what she as a black woman wants to hear from the hip hop community. ... Especially since McLunes article is a response, the lack of her credibility makes her article no different from a comment that could of easily been posted on blog from an angry black women responding to Powell's article. ... In Powell's article he references people from William Shakesphere to McLyte, a female rapper. ... The title of his article, "Notes of a Hip Hop Head", establishes credibility before the first sentence is read. McLune, who r...

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The "cost of producing non-renewable energy is low since they are naturally available," or abundant, making them cheaper to transform from one form of energy to another (Miller 352). ... To put things in perspective, "about 95% of the commercial energy used in the United States comes from nonrenewable energy sources," with 86% coming from fossil fuels alone (Miller 352). ... "Coal mining may result in underground fires that are virtually impossible to extinguish"(Enzler). These underground fires lead to degradation of habitat to much wildlife living with the area....

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This event gives the godson a hopeful characteristic since he is still waiting for a second chance from the man who treats all man the same regardless of race, status, or gender: "I am Death who makes all men equal" (9). ... Our final destination is the underworld cavern, which I think is the only setting that makes this story fictitious and takes it to the end at the same time. "[ . . . ] He led him onto the underground cavern [ . . . ] the doctor immediately dropped to the ground and fell into the hands of Death" (10). ... I think the setting, the underground, was perfect since now there i...

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Romanticism loved spontaneity, freedom from rules, and devotion from beauty. ... This philosophy is derived from the enlightenment, which spoke of "natural law." ... A brilliant example of the Realistic movement is found in Dostoyevsky's masterpiece, "Notes from the Underground." ... Dostoyevsky's work has attracted attention due to the fact that, the Underground Man was one of the first examples of an anti-hero. ... The Underground man's self-contradictions are not the ravings of a madman, but instead a psychological portrait of the narrator. ...

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He is deemed to die at an age of 30.This is what greatly influences him to go underground and also to assume the identity of Jerome who has been crippled in an accident. ... He has the notion that the erasing of his name from the pole will conceal his identity. ... More support of names and identity is also evident from the argument between Vincent and Jerome. ... (George, 178)The film notes that even if Jerome seems to be let down by his past memories, his genetic identity will still survive since he also goes into space. ... Later on, Vincent is branded the name 'Freeman' to indic...

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Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations or reading "Following the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11th,where the Al-queda acquired bombmaking and terrorist Knowledge over internet,many lawmakers have proposed that an inernational body regulate the internet so that which provide information to terrorists could be eliminated" ,I completely agree with the lawmakers proposal and and shall present an argument favoring the lawmakers. ... Terrorists, for instance, can learn from the Internet a wide variety of details about tar...

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In essence, by defaming Big Brother, who was the physical embodiment of the party, he was declaring that he was independent and free from the party, not only in thought, but in action also. ... On one end, he was attempting at all times to conceal his disgust for Big Brother and the Party from the telescreens, which monitored his every move, and the Thought Police, which would bring about his demise. ... His need for independence from the Party grew tremendously when he received that note from her saying "I love you". ... In an attempt to make a direct strike at the integrity of Big Brother an...

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He was separated from his mother at birth, which caused him to be less dependent on others. ... He realized the fault in the Underground Railroad, that if slave owners heard about it they would be on the lookout. ... After finally "whipping" him, Mr.Covey pretended he had whipped Douglas, and from that moment onward, Douglas was no longer whipped. ... While one of his friends fought, he used the distraction, instead of on fighting, on getting the note he had for himself into the fire so that there would be no proof. ... Though he wasn't a spy or a villain, he still had the attribut...

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