Concerning the Orient which received much of the same abuse as Africa during the time of imperialism, Edward Said argues, "The imaginative examination of things Oriental was based more or less exclusively upon a sovereign Western consciousness according to a detailed logic governed not simply by empirical reality but by a battery of desires, repressions, investments, and projections-(Said 8). "And it is precisely those desires, repressions, investments, and projections' that Heart of Darkness exposes in the discourses of imperialism."" ... To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land w...

• Word Count: 2001
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Eddie and Catherine are two important characters form the play "A View From The Bridge" by Arthur Miller. The play takes place in Brooklyn around 1950's. Catherine is an orphan who grew up with her aunt and her aunt's husband. She sees them as her parents. Eddie who is her aunt's husband is like a real father to Catherine. ...

• Word Count: 1964
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• Grade Level: High School

The journey must include something that triggers a desire to fill a specific gap in ones life or an initiation of a journey and end with a completion of that journey which is usually a fulfillment of that original void. ... That goal becomes diluted along the way by his rooted ties to his homeland, but his original desire to become westernized. ... When the demons are cast out of man, Jesus is merciful in not sending the demons to die, but rather allowing them to enter nearby pigs. ... It was symbolic of how much he was independent in England and it revealed some of his desire to become wes...

• Word Count: 1990
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

James desires to have that chance again but it is out of reach, and this is what disappoints him. ... Mary was to become a nun, a career free of the evils in the world, but that dream was soon demolished when her father set her up with the famous actor James Tyrone, whom she desired. She was love-stricken as soon as she met him, and the desires in her other life were now exiled from her. ... Eugene plays himself through Edmund, who in real life died from the measles. ...

• Word Count: 1904
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• Grade Level: High School

Conformity is a change in behaviour or attitudes brought about by a desire to follow the beliefs or standards of others (Feldman et al. 2004). ... The desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering."" ... The desire to exercise control over living things was evident even in the litl'uns. ...

• Word Count: 1880
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• Grade Level: High School

Towards the end of his life Wagner became concerned with the discrepancies within his work and sought to tidy it up' so that it could be passed on to future generations in the way that he desired it to be. ... Stein gave lectures on Wagner as a thinker and philosopher and wrote the essay Die Darstellung der Natur in den Werken Richard Wagners (The depiction of nature in the work of Richard Wagner). ...

• Word Count: 2346
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The crises, is that with modernism comes greed and the desire for power and possessiveness. ... It is not until he comes across the dying slaves in the bush that he realizes how destructive this process really is. ... When these natives are too week or ill to continue to work, they are simply left to die. ...

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Their principle motivating force was the desire to eliminate those considered inferior elements of society and prevent them from mixing with "German blood." ... The victims of the racism persecution are not only the people who died in the gas chamber, but also the people whose mind are consumed by this hatred. ...

• Word Count: 1319
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Siddhartha's main goal is to discover what is true of the world and to find a life of absolute peace. In other words, he wants to achieve Nirvana. His awakening is not a simply process because it takes him almost his whole life to achieve it. This process of awakening (as his life) is divided into t...

• Word Count: 1350
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• Grade Level: High School

It becomes their duty (dhamma) to become detached from every desire. ... Bhiksus meditate to become more conscious, aware, and mindful, according to the three watches for, "They who are aware do not die; They who are unaware are as dead" (Dhammapada, 2:21). ...

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Tuesday, Mar. 7,1893 Mother died this morning at 2:10(139). ... Despite what Gilman sees of society, she believed that "the same word exists for women as for men, (Hedges 57), including ambition and desire. ...

• Word Count: 1862
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Some suffocated inside the chimneys they were trying to clean; others grew up stunted and deformed, dying at a young age from cancer or lung diseases. ... The children are free to leap and shout and laugh under the responsible care of the nurse, who watches over the children, indulging their desires, and yet taking care of their physical well being. ...

• Word Count: 1564
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Henrik's inner struggle between his sexual desires and his theoligan beliefs are constantly causing conflict in his life. ... People suffering, screaming and dying from the plague is the subject of his painting and when Squire Jons sees it he tries to repress his fear. ...

• Word Count: 2216
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Roosevelt's stance at the Yalta Conference can be explained by what he said to Francis Spellman, archbishop of Boston, in September of 1943, "There is no point to oppose the desires of Stalin, because he has the power to get them anyhow. ... He died not truly knowing the consequences of what he had actually done. ...

• Word Count: 2338
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The relationship between Good and Beauty as well as Life and Art in ThePicture of Dorian Gray In my essay I am going to examine how appears in The Picture of Dorian Gray the question of "Beauty- and, what is strongly related to it especially at Wilde, the question of art. I refer to some of his...

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Over the past ten to twenty years a big issue has been made over a personright to commit suicide or not. The American courts have had to deal with everything from assisted suicides to planned suicides, and whether the constitution gives the American people the right to take their own lives or whether it says they have the power to allow someone else to take their lives. They have had to determine in some cases whether or not homicide charges needed to be brought up and others times whether or not it was done for an underlying reason such as insurance fraud. There are several aspects to suici...

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• Grade Level: High School