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. ... Arnold was a man on the brink between the old world and the new, right on the edge of the modern era, so he sees the inevitable downfall of the Victorian discourse: He places the poem on the shoreline and his character on a window "both thresholds "to signal his vision of the brink between two eras and his doubt, his loss of belief without yet being able to f...

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Sophocles expresses this savagery with the opening image of "sea girt Lemnos1". Island of Lemnos which the sea cuts of Philoctetes off from the rest world forces him into savagery. ... The rocks, the savage sea, storms and rough winds encircle Philoctetes in his solitude struggling for survival. ... The rough sea and Lemnos is thus an image which can be representative of someone who is located in between savagery and civilization. ... Philoctetes metaphorical death to his old heroic past and his literal death by him surviving on this harsh island are brought together through th...

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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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The search for the truth has driven many men to the ends of the earth, possessed by this powerful and fascinating story: "It is almost as if, realizing that there now exist improved methods of archeological investigation, modern man expects to receive confirmation of his own lost past and is waiting for modern science to fill him in on the gaps in the common family history . . . with it's implied reaching back for knowledge of our past and the golden age of humanity." ... In doing so, it will prove that Atlantis existed as the islands of Santorini and Thera in the Aegean Sea. ... Ther...

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Southern Italy is warmer, surrounded by sea water and has several Islands, the largest being Sicily, belonging to it. ... When doing business, it may be best to entrust face-to-face negotiations to a man rather than a woman. ... Italian grooms are usually several years older than their brides, sometimes almost a generation older. An older man feels less threatened by the experience of a younger woman than he might by the experiences that a woman his own age is likely to have had with other men. For example, a twenty-five year old man who courts an eighteen year old girl and they become en...

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It was the brief, understated style of a newspaper man. ... Bernard Bereson summarized brilliantly what it is about Hemingway's prose that makes it so powerful when he provided a blurb for The Old Man and the Sea at Hemingway's prompting. (The Old Man and the Sea is) communicated in prose as calm and compelling as Homer's verse. ... (Fishkin 140-141) It was not just an attention to detail and a talent for brevity that Hemingway learned from his time as a newspaper man, it was an entire theory of literature. ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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Leon Trotsky claimed, "Man will make it his purpose to master his own feelings, to raise his instincts to the height of consciousto create a higher social biologic type a superman.... Dumb, with bursting brain she saw only blood which boiled and bubbled like the moving sea"(Gladkov 165). ... Slow and traumatic, this transition from the old Soviet citizen to the New Soviet citizen is not merely a choice; it is a journey, and this journey requires tremendous sacrifice, as Gladkov points out. ... The old Dasha, Gleb describes, was bountiful with motherly love. ...

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The dismissal of this great man, wrote Voltaire, crushes me. . . . ... On July 14, a Parisian mob attacked the old fortress known as the Bastille, liberating, as one pundit put it, two fools, four forgers and a debaucher." ... On October 5, the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, a good document all right, but only if it were followed. ... The only thing that ended the carnage, inside France, at least, was a man on horseback, Napoleon Bonaparte. ... One Patriot even returned the next day to replace a lock on a sea chest that had been accidentally broken. ...

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At first, Crusoe can be characterized as a man who is in large part a product of his environment and the ideals of current society. ... In just this comment, Crusoe is shown to be an economical man with a moral impulse. ... However, upon realizing the need for God in his life and the importance of practicing religious values, he revises his schedule to include his new way of living along with the old. ... The man who wrote this list proves to have a significantly different perspective on life than the man who created the one early in the novel, where God was not even mentioned, let alone place...

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The fundamental tension in the novel is between those, like the inquisitor Bernardo Gui, Jorge de Burgos, Ubertino of Casale, or Adso in old age and that rare medieval-postmodern William who has abandoned his role of inquisitor, refusing to discriminate between martyr and heretic, for example. ...

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The history of the internet is much older and more involved than most of today's society can fathom. ... A classic example has been the use of Morse code for those traveling on the high seas to use as a form of communication. ...

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Arms control is arguably one of the most prominent issues every nation of the world has to deal with, this is because every man woman and child on the planet may potentially be affected by the arms another country posses. ...

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At the time, I did not know who Konishiki was, yet Aya's reaction indicated to me that sumo wrestlers must really enjoy popularity in Japan (why, otherwise, would a 19-year old Japanese girl so readily recognize the obese man on the back of a CD?). ... However, because sumo nowadays is performed so often and so consistently as a ritual embodying symbols that represent "old Japan," it is easily seen as a truly remarkable living legacy of the past. ... In identifying with such symbols, the Japanese are reaffirming their cultural identity, implicitly or explicitly assuming a unilinear inh...

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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 only able to muster one fifth that number of soldiers and the age group ranged from teenage boys to old men with more and more women joining the commandos as the British began their final phase of scorched earth and concentration camps for Boer civilians. ... In a communiqué from General Piet Cronje to Colonel Baden...

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He became a lonely, desperate, determined, naive old man who believed that he too one day would be picked up by the crystal ship. ... He becomes paranoid and irrational hopping overboard onto a small raft into a vast sea, "when I was on the raft there was nobody there but me." (32) Now knowledgeable of the hurt, this pain is suffered many times through out the story. ... (Genesis 3:7) Sinbad says, "I didn't know what I was afraid of, but the fact that I was afraid at all marked such a difference now I could feel the difference." (62) Adam and Eve experienced that fear too, "Then the...

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The company was founded by a young man by the name of Saul Remond, who is currently seeking a marketing degree at Hudson Valley community College to help him understand not just the basic of marketing, but the tools needed to help spread the brand and the gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world. ... Jesus Wear offers clothing for both men and women, in the most popular colors with the best names in the market such as, sun rising light red, sundown red, evening violet, sea blue, mountaintop white, stream rock greyish just to name a few. ... THE TARGET MARKET The potential audience for Jesus W...

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He worked in Tiflis, and then in the Black Sea port of Batumi, organizing worker protests, which led to his arrest in 1902. ... The following year, another group of old Bolsheviks were subjected to the same treatment. ...

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The word "democracy," as well as the concept it represents, can be traced back to the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. ... Instead, they ruled themselves directly; each man was a life long member of the decision making body. ... The people of France overthrew the king, then set forth the "Declaration of the Rights of Man," which changed Locke's right to life, liberty and property to the right to "liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression." ...

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Here there are no borders to divide fresh water from salt, river from sea, even land from water. For hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers, snakes and the crocodiles who rule these fragmented islands. ... It was at this stage of his life, in the late 1970s, he accidentally came across Kusum, now a widow with a five year old son named Fokir. ...

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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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Introduction Modern psychology has the following industry practice: Psychotherapy, psychological correction, psychoanalysis, psychological training, personal, family Production counseling hotline, vocational guidance centers, personnel service companies, psycho-diagnostic public services, forensics,...

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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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He expected him to be a superhuman hero, unlike the ordinary and normal-seeming man that he really was. ... Stalin used the name "Koba" until about 1913, when he regularly began signing articles and letters with the name "Stalin" (meaning "man of steel" or "steel one"). ...

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