For example, in the presentation of the city, Juvenal comments that residents live 'in dread of fires, and buildings collapsing continually' and notes that there are a 'thousand other dangers of savage Rome', but his ultimate grievance, is 'the poets reciting in the month of August' (p. 167). ... Martin Madan notes that 'in the month of August, the hottest season of the year [] most people had retired to the country, so that one might hope to enjoy some little quiet'.7It seems quite reasonable to suggest that by placing the ironic image of the poets ...

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Wells wrote those words in his novel The Time Machine in 1895; he recognized man's ability to alter other organisms; however, at that time it was a gradual, slow, and clumsy process. ... The sheep, pigs, horses, cattle, wheat, barley, oats, and rye we have today are all modified to some extent as a result of human intervention (Ford 64). Although man has been varying the make-up of other organisms through breeding for thousands of years, a forum of distinguished scientists and educators called SCOPE explain that "the terms genetically modified and genetically engineered usually imply mo...

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As the agreement indicates, Mephistopheles returns and Faustus keeps his promise and signs away his soul; he signs the oath with his own blood and writes on his arm the words ˜Homo fuge' meaning ˜Fly, man'. ... Shakespeare's Play, Richard III According to William Shakespeare's presentation, Richard III in the eponymous play is a man driven by vengeance, ambition, and a thirst for power. ... In the opening soliloquy, Richard III is shown as an anti-hero, and he reveals his determination to prove himself as a villain (1.1.30).This is different when compared to...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralp...

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In the "Handbook of Children, Media, and Development", authors Dina Borezekowski and Victor Strasburger note that "numerous ecological and personal factors impact an adolescent's decision to experiment with and use these different substances, including the media. ... In later episodes it is revealed that there were two reasons for Serena's disappearance from home: she had slept with her best friend Blair's boyfriend, Nate Archibald, and she had accidentally killed a man by giving him an overdose of drugs. ... In the first two seasons of Gossip Girl, at least four...

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Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the law, Caine picked up where The Fugitive (1963-67) left off and added a topical resonance with the televised resistance to the war in Vietnam by living like a pacifist, draft-dodger as well as fighting guerilla-style like a Viet Cong, and, in all respects, getting the better of his Anglo-American opponents, while being white himself. ... As Hong Ko...

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