Response The central concern is the despair of the modern man who loses the certainty that belief gave him, the inner conflict that this causes and the repercussions on human's stature and dignity after the groundbreaking social changes brought about by Darwin, Freud, Marx and Nietzsche. Man's inquiring mind consigned him to a hell of darkness, anxiety and degradation. The modernist answer to this "hell " has been supplanting the old beliefs with new ones more compatible with the self-knowledge gained. ... Elliot sees the future instability, the backlash and the sadness of human mise...

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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man who from a young age had a love for literature, and later took a position in 1863 at Harvard (legallanguage.com, Paul Revere's Ride). ... Paul Revere arranged to have the signal in the Old North Church, if the British were coming by land he lit one lantern and if they were coming by sea he would light two lanterns (bostonteapartyship.com, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere). ... Longfellow wrote the poem Paul Revere's Ride because he saw the Civil war coming to a start and wanted his poem to be a call for people to be courageous for the upcoming...

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The old vision of the "affluent society" had resulted in an unjust and ardent "consumer society". ... This has eliminated the disunity and contradiction in man's activities which were, at bottom, a conflict between Man and Gaia. ... A further aim is the stable co-evolution of man-made systems and ecosystems. ... * The third principle demands respect of the carrying capacity both of man-made systems and of ecosystems, to prevent the construction of still-born, hypertrophic man-made systems which drag ecosystems down towards their destruction... The system formed by these general prin...

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Evander, for example, is a man whose simple, peaceful existence suggests he is a character who the audience will want to sympathise with. His son, Pallas, is the "only source of joy" for the old man. ... It is clear, then, that Virgil wishes to demonise war without even condoning conflict between opposing nations. ... Aeneas' hatred of war instils "great tides of grief" in his heart; this metaphor is especially fitting in a society which relies upon the sea for transport and food, and expresses the pain felt by Aeneas and his followers when they realise that they must ...

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This would bring them into direct conflict with the Boers, who were predominantly farmers and herders and had previously left Cape Colony en-masse to escape British control and establish a country under their own rule. ... Their devout nationalism would serve to be a highly effective motivator throughout the conflict. ... The numbers of troops they eventually put into service in South Africa reached almost four hundred and fifty thousand by wars end, which was just a few thousand more people than the Boer republic's entire white population of man, woman and child combined. The Boers were ...

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Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ...

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Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ...

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This began when he assumed the name Stalin "man of steel" and it was this vision of him that drove him to lead the revolution that was to change the face of the Soviet Union forever. ... The Kulaks or richer peasants, who had done particularly well under the NEP, came into extreme conflict with the policy of collectivisation. ... The Sea Canal and the Moscow underground were also built during this period of expansion.iii As a result of this massive increase in industry, there was a need for more technical expertise and so another stage of his revolution followed. ... Social activities for you...

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The author Doris Lessing, uses the protagonist's extra sensitivity and perception as a handicap in a society organized as ours is; one that favors conformity, the average, the obedient, however restricting his character, personality and actual self, therefore creating the conflict between achieving the standards and normalities determined by society or maintaining the individuality of one's true self while deviating from the expected; ultimately calling to question personality itself. ... He became a lonely, desperate, determined, naive old man who believed that he too one day woul...

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A few days ago during a meeting with the Romanian Diaspora on the Black Sea coast, the Romanian prime-minister Nastase even referred to the Status-Act" as a model to be used in drafting a corresponding Romanian regulation. ... And it is precisely on this old, apparently never healing wound that US Ambassador Michael Guest and the chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), Obie Moore have placed their finger upon. ...

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An Inconvenient Truth Reaction Paper for "An Inconvenient Truth" The movie was composed of many documented events narrated and discussed by the former U.S Vice President Al Gore. The data gathered and the trends of different climatological graphs were well introduced to the public for better comp...

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1. What factors discouraged an early unification of Italy and how were these overcome? Before the year of 1848, the Italian faced a lot of difficulties to urge the unification movement. Until, 1848, the situation had been changed and directly contributed to the unification movement. After 1815 Italy was once again a mere geographical expression. ...

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