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Ralph Waldo Emerson 3
<view this essay>.... gotten to a point where people do not even remember how to rely on themselves. People live through the world around them because they are taught to conform to the names and the customs society practices. It is a "conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members" because it takes away the individuality of its members to create a world of people who think the same and act the same. People need to practice aversion and escape the conformity that society strives on. Of course, it is very had for people to get themselves out of this phase of conformity, but as Emerson says, "whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist." For years only great men h .....
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Katherine Anne Porter
<view this essay>.... Horse, Pale Rider (1939), The Leaning Tower (1944), and Collected Stories (1965), which was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Porter's only novel, Ship of Fools (1962), depicts an ocean voyage from Mexico to Germany on the eve of World War II. Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of also appeared in 1970. Many of Porter's works portray a rejected individual.
The short story "The Circus" tells about a large family's first visit to the circus. The main character, a young girl named Miranda, gets very upset when she sees a clown, with a horrid expression on his face, almost fall off a thin wire high in the air. Dicey, Miranda's older relative .....
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Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)
<view this essay>.... of Kinema Jumpo three times
for I was born(1932), Passing Fancy (1933) and A story of floating
weeds(1934). After 1934 he was sent to Singapore to make propoganda films.
As we said above Ozu's cinematic style is very different from most
of the directors. First of all his camera placement is very importent, in
his films the camera is always close to the ground the height is not
importent as long as the camera stays lower than the object being shot.
Ozu developed his own tranzition system,he was putting framed shots of the
surroundings between the scenes to tell us that the scene and the setting
has changed. usualy these shots are longer than normaly it sh .....
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Siddhartha Gautama
<view this essay>.... a bodhi tree. But he was never fully
satisfied. One day he was offered a bowl of rice from a young girl and he
accepted it. In that moment, he realized that physical hardships were not the
means to freedom. From then on, he encouraged people not to use extremes in
their life. He called this The Middle Way. That night Siddhartha sat under
the bodhi tree, and meditated till dawn. He cleared his mind of all worldly
things and claimed to get enlightenment at the age of thirty-five, thus earning
the title Buddha, or "Enlightened One." For the remainder of his eighty years,
the Buddha preached the dharma in an effort to help other people reach
enlightenm .....
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Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein
<view this essay>.... significant predictions I made about particles that are randomly distributed
in a fluid. My next paper was on the photoelectric effect, which contained a
revolutionary hypothesis on the nature of light. I proposed that under certain
circumstances light can be considered as consisting of particles, and I also
hypothesized that energy carried by any light particle, called a photon, is
proportional to the frequency of the radiation. The formula for this is E=hv,
where E is the radiation, h is a universal constant known as Planck's constant,
and v is the frequency of the radiation. This proposal, that the energy
contained within a light beam is transferred by i .....
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The Work Of John Collier
<view this essay>.... short stories
combine an element of horror as well as love which are focused on the
relationships of the young and old. Collier is notable for lightly carried
erudition, literary allusiveness and quiet wit, according to Anthony
Burgess. Anthony Burgess, a novelist, said though not a writer of the very
first rank, he possessed considerable literary skill and a rare capacity
to entertain (Contemporary Authors 111). Collier's readers are involved in
his writings by trick endings or "take away endings" in which readers are
given all clues but asked to finish, the story on their own (Critical
Survey 1169). His subject manner is often the line between logical o .....
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Jack Kevorkian
<view this essay>.... with the illness, but she wished to die. She wanted to die before the disease robbed her of her competence (Larson 229). Kevorkian later killed Adkins and faced the consequences boldly (Hendin, ŗSuicide in America˛ 247). The background, process, and effects of Dr. Kevorkianšs questionable first patient, Janet Adkins, have a very detailed story in them.
Janet Adkins led a very productive life up to and even after she had been diagnosed with Alzheimeršs, but she couldnšt handle losing control of her brain (Filene 188). She was 54 years old and lived in a wealthy Oregon suburb with her stock broker husband, Ron. She was also the mother of three sons, ta .....
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Charles Dickens 4
<view this essay>.... class, and how they treated the people of lower classes. His ideas and attitudes were typical to the people of the lower-middle class. His audience was people of the same class as him, so they could understand his feelings and beliefs.
He displays his moral beliefs in every book that he has written. Dickens was a very big advocate in the “plea of Poor versus Rich”(Internet Site #1). Dickens gave plenty of aid to this plea by the works that he wrote, which provided progress to the battle for the poor. All of Dickens’ novels show the battle between upper and lower classes. He portrays the lower class in a respectable way, but he po .....
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