Conflict: One conflict is the man vs. man conflict in which it is Pip vs. ... Another conflict displayed in this story is the conflict of Pip vs. ... Havesham was an old lady that was always dressed in am old wedding attire which used to be white but was yellowed with age. ... Abel Magwitch: Magwitch was a pretty old man and his face showed the troubles of a rough life. The book shows this when Pip states, "Moving the lamp as the man moved, I made out that he was substantially dressed, but roughly, like a voyager by sea. ...

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In each conflict he sought support for the side he favored. ... He surprised many of the critics when the novel, The Old Man and the Sea, was published.. ... Two years later he received the Nobel Prize for his "powerful, style-making mastery of the art or modern narration- (Griffin 1) for The Old Man and the Sea. ... Santiago from "The Old Man and the Sea- is a hero because he was courageous and was not afraid of death. ... Most of the source material for The Old Man and the Sea comes from Hemingway's own experiences fishing off the coast of Cuba. ...

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Response The central concern is the despair of the modern man who loses the certainty that belief gave him, the inner conflict that this causes and the repercussions on human's stature and dignity after the groundbreaking social changes brought about by Darwin, Freud, Marx and Nietzsche. 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. ... Elliot sees the future instability, the backlash and the sadness of human mise...

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Tom is an imaginative young man. ... He wares a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood, which made him appear positively deformed. ... He is an old and bright doctor. ... He is the most evil, cruel, and heartless pirate to sail the seven seas. ... He was clothed with tatters of old ships' canvas and old sea cloth. ...

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Fear has always been man's most primal instinct since the dawn of time. ... Some of them included Poseidon, the god of the seas, whose fury can cause shattering earthquakes and the most devastating of sea storms. ... Still my hopes ride high- I'll give that man his swamping fill of trouble!... In book ten of The Odyssey, while traveling the vast Mediterranean Sea, Odysseus and his men stumble upon another remote island. ... Never has any other man withstood my potion, never, once it's past his lips and he has drunk it down. ...

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He rejected the colors of the Weimar Republic and chose a red field to represent blood with a white circle for the Nationalist idea and a black hooked cross the swastika to suggest the struggle towards victory of the Aryan Man (Forman 43). At what is known as The Beer Hall Putsch a man by the name of Kahr was giving a speech in front of some 3,000 supporters of the Bavarian government. ... In the election of 1932, Hitler could not beat out the eighty-five year old President Hindenburg. ... Two nights later, the old courthouse, the Reichstag, began burning. ... Hitler knew that invadin...

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In the Victorian era, there was a huge conflict occurred especially because of Darwin's theory between science and religion. ... This conflict between science and religion is wonderfully depicted in the poems of those poets who were extremely worried because of the conflict, Matthew Arnold is one of those. ... But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but faith" and he writes that it is just for knowledge and trust that we believe in things we see "it comes from thee", moreover in line 22 when man has no fear, "we mock thee"...

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The conflict between civilisation and savagery is portrayed throughout the play by its setting, language and imagery. ... 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. ... Philoctetes metaphorical death to his old heroic past and his literal death by him surviving on this harsh island are brought together through the idea of the cave....

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It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. ... We can also read Ralph Ellison's (Invisible Man, 1952) work. There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 called Slaves Throwing Overboard the Death and Dying: Typhoon Coming on, better known as The Slave Ship, or John Ruskin, an art critic who explores the natu...

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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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Gladkov quickly establishes this conflict between the couple in order to emphasize Gleb's emotional capability. ... He feels conflict; he feels loss. ... Ultimately, Cement is a portrayal of the inner conflict that many battled during the revolutionary era. ... Dumb, with bursting brain she saw only blood which boiled and bubbled like the moving sea"(Gladkov 165). ... The old Dasha, Gleb describes, was bountiful with motherly love. ...

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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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Eventually, they are so thriving and successful that Wang purchases The Great House of Hwang and lives in that massive establishment as the most affluent man in town. ... As the stories unfold the main characters encounter conflicts. ... Wang Lung builds more to his house and buys new clothing for his family making himself socially well known throughout the town as a wealthy man. ... Years later, Lung is an old man and has no need to be involved with Lotus, his second wife. ... For Wang Lung it is if he should sell his daughter to the rich man living on the other side of The Great Wall of ...

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This statement is also relevant to ancient world where major conflicts were cultural and religious. ... Rome is situated in the central Mediterranean sea . The villages adjacent to Tiber river became a powerful city, conquering the rest of Italy and the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. ... 'Serpent of old Nile' ,Cleopatra has great impact on Roman rulers because her love is the delicious poison for the Roman's ruler which has no panacea .Cleopatra symbolizes the feminine nature of the East which attracts West towards herself....

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.; and the year when the conflict between two schools of psychiatric treatment, transorbital lobotomy operation and psychoanalysis with pharmacy therapy, gradually turned white-hot. ... Suffocated in the sea of guilt and trauma, Laeddis, unconsciously or deliberately, refuses to accept this reality. ... The truth is too cruel and distressed to confront; in comparison, he prefers to drown in the sea of lies, as a good man. ... Like the old Chinese saying said, "the victor becomes the king whereas the loser becomes a bandit.... When their justice eventually becomes injustice against the m...

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" It was supposed to be the 'war to end all wars' and yet by the proxy of colonial empires, it created war where no one cared for, it dragging 2 million Africans into the conflict (www.washingtonpost.com). ... Revolutionaries after WW2 fighting for independence from colonial power branded the old colonial military forces during WW2 as traitors (africasacountry.com) POLOCIES/LEADERSHIP/INFLUENCE Muslims had the overall influence and political rule due to Mohammed's death in Africa before any European countries' officially settled. ... The only drastic changes insisted ...

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This would bring them into direct conflict with the Boers, who were predominantly farmers and herders and had previously left Cape Colony en-masse to escape British control and establish a country under their own rule. ... Their devout nationalism would serve to be a highly effective motivator throughout the conflict. ... 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 ...

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Throughout the history of England, many conflicts have arisen over the rightful heir to the throne. The most infamous of these conflicts centered on the controversy of a female heir. ... William II was a man after his father's image. ... In 1120, Henry I lost his only legitimate son in an accident on the high seas. ... Henry V died in 1125 leaving the Empress Matilda a twenty-three year old widow without any children. ...

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Buck's abduction and care under the man in the red sweater is anything but care. ... The "man in the sweater's" use of a club changes Buck forever. ... They quickened the old life within him, and the old tricks which they had stamped into the heredity of the breed were his tricks. ... Abraham Rothberg, in his article Land Dogs and Sea Wolves: A Jack London Dilemma (1980), states that London had gone on a retreat before writing The Call of the Wild and experienced a moment of atavism, reversion to type, and fictions of devolution (Rothberg, 575). This would become a conflict in Buck&#...

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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. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ...

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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. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ...

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His plays made the everyday man confront himself and evaluate the society and himself with a different perspective. ... This period saw several masterpieces like Ghosts (1881), Hedda Gabbler (1890), A Doll's House (1879), The Lady from the Sea (1888). ... During this period the conflict was focused towards the realm of the spirit. ... "In his plays Ibsen focused his attention on character rather than situations and created realistic dramas on psychological conflict." He dramatized the conflicts that were hidden in the middle class society behind certa...

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Most of these immigrants were young men, between 16 and 35 years old (Daniels 33). Many of them were married; however, they did not bring their wives across the sea with them. ... I said I was no slave man. ... To which the man replied, "Yes, we drink our mother's milk also, but we do not eat her! ... Much of the conflict between old and new revolves around family life, the roles of women and children, and marriage-areas that in Indian culture are closely governed by tradition. ...

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Throughout the course of human history, there have always been the oppressed, deprived, and subjugated minorities that suffer under the constraints of the majority. The ideologies based upon the Eurocentric and Protestant groups proceed to be key figures of oppression and racism. The mannerisms i...

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One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. The problems that the greater ...

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