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Brave New World 4
<view this essay>.... the cells dividing normally, they "bud". Each bud has the potential of becoming a separate but identical embryo. These buds are then subjected to various chemicals such as alcohol, until they also "bud". This process is repeated many times until an average harvest of 11,000 identical embryos can be created from one egg. These 11,000 identical brothers and sisters become a "Bokanovsky group".
Each embryo is then bottled, labelled and sent down the conveyor belt to the "Social Predestination Room". It is here that they are given a caste designation (Alpha, Beta, Delta, Epsilon), carded into the main card index and stored. It is here that they are "sexed". Thi .....
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Lord Of The Flies -
<view this essay>.... the acceptance of his peers. He had a
fair nature as he was willing to listen to Piggy. He became
increasingly dependent on Piggy's wisdom and became lost in the
confusion around him. Towards the end of the story his rejection from
their society of savage boys forced him to fend for himself. Piggy
was an educated boy who had grown up as an outcast. Due to his
academic childhood, he was more mature than the others and retained
his civilized behaviour. But his experiences on the island gave him a
more realistic understanding of the cruelty possessed by some people.
The ordeals of the three boys on the island made them more aware .....
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Odysseus: Metis Is His Most Important Quality
<view this essay>.... enhance the effectiveness of his oratory: His mundane appearance and his insecure ways of presenting himself to the public did not prepare his listeners for the poignancy of his speech:
But whenever Odysseus of many wiles arose,
He would stand and look down with eyes fixed upon the ground,
And his staff he would move neither backwards or forwards,
But would hold it stiff, just like a man of no understanding;
You would have thought him a nasty man and nothing but a fool.
But when his great voice arose from his chest,
And his words fell like the snowflakes on a winter’s day,
Then could no other mortal man rival Odysseus. (III, ll. 210-220).
In addition .....
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The Perfect World
<view this essay>.... that people would share would be computers.
Everyone would own a computer, a good computer (preferably not a Mac).
Computers would be fast, faster than any computers in existence today.
There would be a minimum on the amount of memory that a computer would be
required to have. Twenty Gigabytes of hard drive space and 100 Megabytes
of Random Access Memory (RAM) ,would be considered a small family computer.
In addition to being faster than today's computers and having more memory,
computers in the perfect world also have many more capabilities. There
would be almost no limits to what a computer would be able to do. In
general, computers in a perfect world be .....
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Shilo
<view this essay>.... the stature of a Drill Sergeant; just the opposite is true: "a short, overweight woman" (666). When Mabel was younger, was thin and good-looking, she would have been a model Sergeant. Now, she is envisioned in a long loose fitting dress. Flower patterns cover the dress from shoulder to ankle. It conceals the bulges overhanging from different parts of her body, as the years have added the extra pounds. The dress is divided in the middle with a white belt and gold buckle. This is the kind of belt and buckle Drill Sergeant Mabel would wear during her inspection of Norma Jean’s house: "she inspects the closets and then the plants, inform .....
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Julius Ceasar - Who Is The Rea
<view this essay>.... traits to the same level, as did Brutus.
Brutus' selfless qualities are but one trait that proves him to be a hero. The killing of Caesar is a truly heroic deed. He kills Caesar because he knows that with Caesar becoming the only ruler of Rome, the latter would become a tyrant and enslave the people of Rome. "It's not that I love Caesar, but that I love Rome more." (3,2,22-3) -Brutus. This love for Rome is known by the people, and that is why the he is so popular and well respected. Cassius states, "O, he sits high in all the people's hearts…"(1,3,157-60) and Antony asserts Brutus is "The noblest man to live in this tide of times." (3,1,256-7). Brutu .....
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H.G. Wells
<view this essay>.... his own personal criticisms of modern life into the experiences of Gulliver. Gulliver, representing a common man, encounters a wide variety of characters along his travels, each representing a subject Swift wishes to criticize. Ranging from relatively simply political criticisms in his experiences in Book I and II, to a socio-political criticism in Book III, to the social, philosophical criticism of man in Book IV. It is to this final book that we turn our attention. If Book IV is read literally, with no knowledge of satire, it appears to be another bizarre journey of Gulliver, no more unusual than his other travels. However, upon further inspection, we see .....
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Parataxis Of Homer
<view this essay>.... “you have with you the man who is wretched beyond all the
other men of all those who fought around the city of Priam for nine years, and in the tenth
they sacked the city and set sail for home, but on the voyage home they offended Athene,
who let loose an evil tempest and tall waves against them. Then all the rest of his
excellent companions perished, but the wind and the current carried him here and here
they drove him.” The original conversation between Hermes and Kalypso had little to do
with Odysseus’s journey. Hermes in lines 97 to 115 tells Kalypso that Odysseus’s fate lie
not on the island, but back home in Ithaka. The parataxis interrupts the .....
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