Henrik Ibsen's play, Hedda Gabler is primarily concerned with representing and critiquing bourgeois Norwegian society in the nineteenth century. In order to achieve this, the play employs symbolism to represent the psychological states of the central characters, a symbol being an object which stands for something else, and often has cultural meanings attached to it. Hedda Gabler being a play these objects are visible to the audience and the symbols give power to the delivery of the themes. ... (Act I, p295) Here the pistols are a symbol of Hedda's attempt to delay the inevitabili...

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The Oseberg ship is a Viking Age ship excavated from the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Norway. ... In this sense it can be said therefore that the ship is the perfect symbol of the energetic society of the time. Ships could be a symbol of wealth as ship burials can attest to, and pictures of ships can be found on Scandinavian coins, memorial stones, and even Viking graffiti3. ... Many people believe the body of the older woman to belong to Norway's Queen Ãsa10, grandmother of Haraldr Hárfagri who would later become recognized as the first king of Norway. ... Quite interestingl...

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Many physical and chemical changes that we encounter are reversible. ... When the conditions are such that forward (represented by ) and backward (represented by ) reactions can both occur to a noticeable extent, the process is described as a reversible reaction. ... Equilibrium constant expression: In the hypothetical balanced equation, aA + bB cC + dD, coefficients are represented by small letters and chemical symbols are represented by capital letters. ... The Equilibrium Constant In 1864, Peter Waage and Cato Maxmilian Guldberg (both of Norway) published the modern meaning of ...

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In 1929 the American Stock Market crashed, a powerful symbol of the growing depression. ... The party now needed a symbol, which Hitler created. He rejected the colors of the Weimar Republic and chose a red field to represent blood with a white circle for the Nationalist idea and a black hooked cross the swastika to suggest the struggle towards victory of the Aryan Man (Forman 43). ... In April 1940 Germany launched its attack in the west with a surprise invasion of Norway and Denmark, which were neutral states. Hitler took Norway because that guaranteed that vital iron ore supplies f...

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These immigrants consist of the Bohemian Shimerdas, the Russians Peter and Pavel, and the Norwegian Lena(Scholes 5). ... Each ingredient represents a different race, and in a salad bowl, they become one. ... One can see from the following quote that Jim Burden, along with everyone else, knew that this is how the world was going to be. ... Jim, as well as most people, understand that education is something that everyone needs. ... This prefix informs the reader that the novel is not just about Antonia, but also about Antonia's life and as a symbol. ...

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While the "hurly-burly" is referring to the battle between Scotland and Ireland/ Norway taking place behind them, it is also referring to the thunderstorm that is taking place. ... This is effective because it hints at the fact that the king is going to be murdered that night, a doing most certainly evil. ... Second, plants are used in such a way that assists readers in understanding what is happening in the play. ... After so much death in this play, the trees represent a new beginning that will come with the defeat of Macbeth. ... This is used because flowers are often associated w...

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Also, religion is present in the novels in the form of many symbols and carefully worded descriptions. ... Ahab is obsessed with the white whale and tells his crew that " I "ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up" (Melville (1),156 ). ... The idea of good and evil is broached more often than any other aspect of religion, through the clever use of symbols and carefully worded descriptions. The white whale, otherwise known as Moby Dick , is meant to represent the evil of the world. ... Claggart on...

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Some conceptions of communist societies assume that, ultimately, coercive government would be unnecessary and therefore that such a society would be without rulers. ... Engels and Marx believed that the capitalist system, too, was flawed and therefore bound to destroy itself. ... The harsh discipline and economic austerity that were necessary could be imposed only by an unrelenting dictatorship that could control all citizens' activities and suppress any hint of dissent or autonomy. ... Party ideology, meanwhile, stressed that socialism had been attained and genuine communism was near (Pi...

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The gates swing open and inside lay mounds of emaciated corpses, haggard and diseased victims and remnants of skeletons within ovens so vast that they defy belief. ... This was the first time that the world in general was witness to the dispensation of justice against men who initiated and efficiently carried out acts "so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated," (Jackson). It is a shame, however, that the model for dispensing world justice was as imperfect as the Nuremberg Trials were. ... He state...

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There are a number of proven ways to encourage consumers that the product that is being advertised is just what they need, and instead of concentrating on the product they concentrate instead on the benefits that the consumer will gain. ... There are two reasons why their tactics work, one is that they ether imply that their product will bring about the achievement of good or they! ... One of these is that advertisers force people to buy things that they don't really want or need, often by projecting negative emotions such as fear, anxiety or guilt upon the consumer. ... Another basic p...

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Language Definition: "a system of conventional spoken or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, communicate."" ... Trager formulated the following definition: "A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates."" ... Yet, clearly, no one would say that they speak different languages. ... The biblical account, representing ancient Jewish beliefs, of Adam's naming the creatures of the Earth under God's guidance is well known: So out of the ground the Lord God form...

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Korea became a symbol against communist aggression. The United Nations gave unanimous support for South Korea and eventually 21 nations sent supplies, medical personnel (Denmark, India, Italy, Norway, and Sweden), or combat units to help. ... Originally there were supposed to be 38 soldiers on patrol that would represent the 38th parallel where the war began (and most of the fighting occurred), but that was too many figures. ... The ponchos that each soldier is wearing represents the horrible weather conditions they had to face. All together, the soldiers represent a unit on patrol, with t...

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Some conceptions of communist societies assume that, ultimately, coercive government would be unnecessary and therefore that such a society would be without rulers. ... Engels and Marx believed that the capitalist system, too, was flawed and therefore bound to destroy itself. ... The harsh discipline and economic austerity that were necessary could be imposed only by an unrelenting dictatorship that could control all citizens' activities and suppress any hint of dissent or autonomy. ... Party ideology, meanwhile, stressed that socialism had been attained and genuine communism was near (Pi...

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Celibacy was another issue that had some debate at the time. ... It was Pope Gregory VII that initiated the topic of lay investiture. ... He incorporates the lives of people that Martin 4 are not necessarily monarchs or popes, yet that still influenced the shape of Christianity. His first example is that of Peter Abelard, who represents the educational class from Brittany. ... He was declared a Saint and years later Henry VIII destroyed the shrine as a symbol of who held the power. ...

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Celibacy was another issue that had some debate at the time. ... It was Pope Gregory VII that initiated the topic of lay investiture. ... He incorporates the lives of people that Martin 4 are not necessarily monarchs or popes, yet that still influenced the shape of Christianity. His first example is that of Peter Abelard, who represents the educational class from Brittany. ... He was declared a Saint and years later Henry VIII destroyed the shrine as a symbol of who held the power. ...

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The ancient people known as the Norse or Icelandic people resided at that point in time in the high northern countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden in the continent now known as Europe. ... Note that these myths were the Norse people's religion. ... In both there is a flood that wreaks destruction, and as well, they both have a character and a symbol that represents a new hope for them. ... Thor, the most popular god and the most prominent character in our society's modern day comic books and movies, represents strength, stability, and order. ... In doing that, Thor is now steppi...

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Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. ... Against Modernism it was said that it produced chaotic and difficult writing, that it moved beyond the capacity of many readers and became elitist. ... What is significant is that both kinds of writing could flourish at the same time. ... The language mix reflects a sense that there is no longer a fixed language of poetry just as there is no longer one English. ... In 1898 he published his Wessex Poems, verse that he had written over the previous thirty years. ...

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At this stage, most families decide that one parent stay home to care for the child. ... Because the average family shops for groceries two times a week, it appears that the trend is toward smaller purchases, and not buying in quantity (Successful Marketing of Small Fruit Crops, 2003). ... The diagram shows here represent the decision making processes which influencing by two aspects: children and parents. ... Such that family expectation was based on the perceived advantages of students obtaining an overseas academic qualification, fluently using a foreign language and life experi...

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However reprehensible that experience may be, it would be absolutely incorrect to assume that any strong, organisationally sound political party will necessarily go the Nazi way. ... The definition of a political party by Chambers is as follows, "A relatively durable social formation, which seeks offices or power in govt. exhibits a structure or organization, which links leaders at the centres of govt. to a significant popular following in the political arena and its local enclaves and generates in-group perspectives or at least symbols of identification or loyalty (1975:5)" This volum...

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In our studies we found that sociocultural acceptance will not be a problem do to the fact that the quality of water throughout Mexico is so bad and because bottled water in that country already exists. ... Economists consider that the Mexican peso is overvalued. ... By the end of 1995 there were 1868 water bottlers in Mexico, with the top 11 representing only 24% of the entire water category. ... Mexico is also pursuing various trade agreements with countries such as with Panama, and the European Free Trade Association (Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, and Liechtenstein) that would add on to...

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Ford later said, "That showed me that I was by instinct an engineer." The seed was planted that there could be a self-propelled vehicle and that thought would haunt his imagination for years. ... By 1899 Ford had produced an operable car that was written up in the Detroit Journal. ... The team on Piquette Avenue ascertained that the French steel was a vanadium alloy, but that no one in America knew how to make it. ... Ford realized that he not only had to build a new factory, but a new system within that factory. ...

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It was probably the sincerity of his personality that prevented him from being dull. ... He was possessed of a devil, but you could not say that it was a devil of evil, for it was a primitive force that existed before good and ill. (109) A man so entirely indifferent to his surroundings. (110) That was in his character. ... It was an obsession so complete that there was no room in his soul for prudence or gratitude. (151) 'I don't want love. ... They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. ... That's normal and healthy. ...

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