Victor wants to cure disease and raise the dead: perhaps, he wants to reunite Elizabeth with her parents and regain his own mother's love. ... Victor spends time alone with the dead, seeing himself dead at some unconscious level. ... He is isolated continually, very similar to being a pre-verbal child, there is not language being used either by him or the dead. Victor has an insane fondness for the dead; he surrounds himself with death, projecting the love for his mother onto all of the bodies and bones that are his constant companions day and night. ...

• Word Count: 2532
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Michele constantly berates the characters for their deliberate moral blindness to the implications of war, a blindness, which results in their being "dead- (Moravia 163-4). ... Cesira, in accepting the capitalist way of life, is spiritually dead, as regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social justice, since "there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the market- (CA 34). ... When Cesira and Rosetta encounter French officers after leaving the church, Cesira screams, "Do you know what they've done . . . in a church, under the eyes of the...

• Word Count: 2867
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This poem is employed as a monologue in which a soldier struggles with the memory of his now dead friend, who he will never see again. The letter is sent to a dead soldier's girlfriend and describes the horrific remains of the soldier, depicting resentment towards participating in the war. ... Additionally, his description of the dead soldier symbolizes a mind that's becoming less stable and sane, "You would not know him now" "Cover him, cover him soon!... The poems dominating idea is memory and how the dead are remembered. ... The dead soldier represents Will Harvey, ...

• Word Count: 2929
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Over the past decade, the notion of zombies - dead humans who've died and come back to life as drooling, growling, flesh-eating monsters - has risen to new heights in popular culture. ... George Romero's, "The Night of the Living Dead" and its' sequels, spinoffs, satires and remakes are a seemingly endless bank of inspiration and lucrative investment1. ... The television show, "The Walking Dead," which has been nominated for Golden Globe and Emmy awards. ... Once bitten and transformed the human is dead, and only the zombie virus continues to animate the corpse. ... He prepares...

• Word Count: 3106
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the 1970's, bands such as "Dead Boys," the "Voidoids," and "The Ramones," were right at the core of punk, and poets and authors like Patti Smith and Jim Carroll composed prose and verse that critiqued society and the so-called "American Dream"." ... The name CBGB's stands for "Country Blue Grass and Blues,"" but it was punk rock that emanated from bands such as "Suicide," "The Ramones," "The Dictators," "The Patti Smith Group," "The Misfits," "The Dead Boys," "The Talking Heads," "Blondie," and countless others who were launched into stardom and immortality from the stage of the i...

• Word Count: 3241
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However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." ... The description of the actual bodies of the dead birds is extremely poignant as the "snow-white plumage flecked with crimson drops" is noted. ... Her bleak and definitive statements such as "When I am dead" show her resignation to the fact that she will one day die, and the way she copes with this is by persuading her lover not to be saddened by it when it does happen. ...

• Word Count: 2526
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Recent studies have begun to see the Homeric epics in the light of other epic traditions, notably epics from Mesopotamia, and have begun to look at striking similarities. There is a supposed lineage that can be seen connecting the Homeric epics most directly with the world of Akkadian epics (Gresseth 2). The connections run from similarities in methods of transmission, namely the oral traditions, to themes, characters and formal structural components. The epic of Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, and the Iliad, with its focus on the menis of Achilles, provide a look at heroic life and its relations...

• Word Count: 4256
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Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settle...

• Word Count: 4862
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The other aspect of the Imagination, which Coleridge uniquely emphasizes, is that "it is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead" (750). ... Thus, just as objects are "fixed and dead" until someone conveys meanings on them, the Imagination is always to be valued highly, whether or not it is being applied properly. ...

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In addition to the narrative doubling involved in the shift from Lockwood's detached yet nave narrative to Nelly Dean's informed yet opinionated one, the reader has also to negotiate contributory narratives by the long-dead Catherine Earnshaw, in her diaries, by Heathcliff (both in his childhood and shortly before his death), by Isabella in a letter, by Cathy Linton in conversation with her nurse, and by the stout servant Zillah. ...

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Not long after, Marlow and his companions arrive at Kurtz's Inner Station, expecting to find him dead, but a half-crazed Russian trader, who meets them as they come ashore, assures them that everything is fine and informs them that he is the one who left the wood. ... The Russian reveals to Marlow, after swearing him to secrecy, that Kurtz had ordered the attack on the steamer to make them believe he was dead in order that they might turn back and leave him to his plans. ...

• Word Count: 3088
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"The old mysteries have given way to a new style,"" This quote alone illustrates the changing nature of gothic literature through the centuries. Indeed, the styles of texts presenting vampirism have greatly altered with the times, reflecting a large proportion of societal values. In the novel Dra...

• Word Count: 2816
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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefac...

• Word Count: 7291
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Gojira remains as a film that is a worldly illustrative of the 1950's, and the danger of atomic fighting. With the memories of Hiroshima Nagasaki still crisp in executive Ishiro Honda's mind, the story of a monster made from the works of war decimate the very society that created its disfigurement. This unleashed monster is an agreeable illustration for the atomic gadgets that fell upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, wreaking destruction that would keep going for quite a long time to come. The Japanese opening of the film was a first after war film to gather additional global success. Gojir...

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Medical Ethics Medical Ethics " Bioethics comprise every possible aspect of health care, medical, moral, social, political, religious, legal and financial" (Weiss 3). This includes the questions raised by new research. It takes a look at the results of that research that is used on patients. It takes into consideration contemporary ideas of personal freedom and human dignity. It deals with growth in medical services available in the United States and the sky rocketing cost. ...

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Gojira remains as a film that is a worldly illustrative of the 1950's, and the danger of atomic fighting. With the memories of Hiroshima Nagasaki still crisp in executive Ishiro Honda's mind, the story of a monster made from the works of war decimate the very society that created its disfigurement. This unleashed monster is an agreeable illustration for the atomic gadgets that fell upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, wreaking destruction that would keep going for quite a long time to come. Japanese opening of the film was a first after war film to gather addition a global success. Gojira i...

• Word Count: 2808
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The wavefunction for the entire system would express this by having in it the living and the dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.? ... We know that the cat in the box is dead, alive or dying and not in a smeared out state between the alternatives. ...

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One of these is the law mandating that the brother in law of a widow with no children have sex so that the dead man's line can continue, which is necessary in a nomadic group with such a small population. ...

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She was released without ongoing mental care and soon reported smelling dead bodies and hearing voices, leading her back to the hospital for paranoia and talks about "spiritual warfare," but was released the following day (Blanco). ... " "She didn't believe her children were dead," Said Villela. ...

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The decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan was a poor one considering the damage, the devastation, and the amount of people left dead, injured, or suffering the loss of a family member or a friend, all for the sake of quickly ending the ongoing War. ...

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Abstract This article applies some concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait". It also in a specific manner tries to make parallels between Poe's own character and his projections onto his tales and poems, in here "The Oval Portrait". The main focus will...

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"1 Up to two thousand people gathered in the park that day and bands such as the Grateful Dead, the Holding Company, and Wildflower played. ... This new type of music was known was "psychedelic rock" and some popular musicians of the era were the Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, and The Rolling Stones. ...

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The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. Throughout her writing, Morrison continuously focuses on her readers being emotionally connected to the story, as she believes that it reminds the reader about their heritage and most importantly, place in society. She does an excellent job of pairing the challenges her family has faced being African Americans growing up during the Great Depression with essential...

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The simple disregard for the dead engineer by the soldiers continues the satire, which is created through the use of flippant humour. ... Yossarian's dead man in tent scenario torments him perpetually as to him it seems that nothing can be done, until "Yo-Yo's roomies" arrive, and remove the deceased Mudd's belongings, which then gives reason for Yossarian to dislike the new air crew. ...

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Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus What myths are to the race, dreams are to the individual, for in dreams, as in myths, there also appear those primitive emotions and feelings in the form of giants, heroes, dragons, serpents, and blood sucking vampires; representations of guilt, retribution, and ...

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