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. ... Then the sea becomes violent, in a pendular and unstable ebb-flow: there's "pebbles which the waves draw back and fling and bring the eternal note of sadness in " (10, 14). Elliot sees the future instability, the backlash and the sadness of human misery that the withdrawing sea will bring. ... Finally, the Sea of Faith retreats, withdraws in a melancholy roar. ...

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It was the brief, understated style of a newspaper man. ... (Bloom 209) However, Trodd notes that "Long before this, Hemingway's limited vocabulary, few adjectives, and concrete descriptions of specific objects all countered with minimalism the problem of "used up words." ... 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 n...

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He feels that since man, as individuals, strives for happiness, then man, as a collective group, should strive for the happiness of the state. ... The main city of the state should be positioned so that it is easily accessible from both sea and land. ... Aristotle explained that the Ideal State should be able to establish itself as a formidable power, or be able to render aid on both land and sea. ... As the citizen grows older and wiser, he will begin to take on more of a role in the civil duty of the state, or choose to serve the gods and be appointed to priestly offices. ... Aristotle belie...

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Very close and friendly relations between the goldsmiths and the painters existed in that time, so that Sandro, who was a creative young man and devoted to drawing, became attracted to painting, and resolved to take it up. ... He remained adamant in his determination to stop working and due to this he became so poor in his old age that if he had not been helped by friends and many wealthy men who admired his genius, he would practically have died of hunger. ... Either he himself, or one of his learned friends, probably explained to the painter what was known of the way the ancients had represe...

• Word Count: 1718
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Christopher Columbus was not a man of great integrity as the history books have alluded him to be. ... He entreated the King and Queen to grant him the title "Don" and "Grand Admiral of the Ocean Sea and Viceroy and Perpetual Governor of all the islands," (Halsall). ... The old adage, "money is the root of all evil," applies to the conquest of Columbus in the Caribbean. ... He speaks of it in awe, making note of its wildlife population, the vast pastures ready for cultivation, and the incredibly stunning geography that was a beauty to behold. ... Christopher Colum...

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He notes that he is lonesome on the island, separated from all of humanity; however, he has figured out ways to survive completely on his own. ... 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. ... Crusoe notes as a result of being in isolation, he no longer feels influenced by the evils of society or surrounded by the temptations of sin. ... Defoe notes this constant challen...

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An example of one of Basser's arguments concerns the three separate yet similar stories when Jesus cured a man, or woman depending on the Gospel writer, who had a "withered hand" on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:10-13, Luke 13:14-17, Luke 14:3-5). ... To Jesus, the man or woman's withered hand was worth over-riding scribal law for, however, it may still be possible to assume, like some Pharisees did, that the charge against Jesus for healing on the Sabbath was one of breaking divine Torah Law, as it says in Exodus 31:15, "When it is possible to do a commandment on another day, the Sabbath...

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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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Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. ... 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. ... Of note in 1969 are the ARPA and its "network " to go on line. ... 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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Renowned men from Socrates to Aquinas contemplated the world over in a question/answer dialogue deliberating ideas of man, gods or God, and the relationships to the seen and unseen. ... Moreover, Genesis 1:21 states: "God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good" (NASB, 1995). ... From this premise, arise such concepts of an "Old Earth Theory" and the "Big Bang Theory". ...

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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. (It is important to note that Stalin stood directly behind these trials--he delegated respon...

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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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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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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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He expected him to be a superhuman hero, unlike the ordinary and normal-seeming man that he really was. ... Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms). 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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