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This ten-page undergraduate paper discusses the free market system and the socialist system with reference to F.A. Hayek's book "The Fatal Conceit: Errors of Socialism". The book focuses on the reasons why socialist system failed and why capitalism is a better system for the rapidly changing world today.

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This paper discusses how the metaphysical conceit is an element of poetry that uses unusual symbolism to demonstrate the depth of the poet's or speaker's feeling or drive within the context of the poem. In particular, the paper looks at how good examples of the metaphysical deceit occur in many of Donne's poems, including "Bait" and "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning." The paper further examines how both these poems, while considering love from two very different stages, connect with each other by means of the shock value of the conceit used. While death is openly mentioned in "Valediction," "Bait" only hints at it by the activity of fishing.

Outline:
Introduction
Bait
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Like "Bait," this poem also makes use of strong and unusual metaphysical conceit. The poet for example begins by comparing the parting to death. In the comparison, the speaker encourages his love to quietly accept his departure, like the dying would accept death. She is to remain quiet and calm, trusting the necessity and inevitability of the speaker's leaving.
"The second and third strong images in the poem concern the love connection between the couple. The poet uses gold as a metaphor for the pliability and expanding properties of the couple's love. When gold is beaten, it bends and expands; it does not break. In the same way, the love between the man and the woman will only grow stronger and more expansive through the trial of their separation."

Tags:love, death, fisherwoman

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This paper examines how the poet, Thomas Carew, is a classic Cavalier and how his poetry is a synthesis of both Ben Jonson's classical, elegant poetry and John Donne's metaphysical influence. In particular, it analyzes how in his poem, "Upon a Ribbon," Carew presents the ribbon in the title of his poem and immediately begins to load physical, mental, and spiritual meanings onto his metaphor until it becomes over-saturated and unmanageable. The consequence is the ribbon becomes a twisted, convoluted image that bears a plethora of meanings that do not cohere in a logical whole. It attempts to show how an examination of "Upon a Ribbon" demonstrates Carew's failure at creating a sustained, logical conceit.

From the Paper
"Carew suddenly switches from bondage to religion in the poem's next section. The ribbon becomes a holy relic and takes on religious and heretical connotations in lines 9-22. The narrator changes from the classical Jonson-like tone used in lines 1-8 to a metaphysical tone, using religious references and the startling metaphor of a blasphemous icon. The narrator states that the ribbon is not only a "holy relic" that preserves his wrist, but it provides the power to sustain his entire body (lines 9-10)."

Tags:metaphor, conceit

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This paper discusses the way the poet describes and treats love in the poem "The Canonization" by John Donne, noting how Donne develops a statement about love through the use of a metaphysical conceit, meaning an extended metaphor that served to develop the idea fully. Donne follows a method here that he used in many of his poems, by mixing the religious and the secular. This was the method used in Donne's metaphysical poetry in which religious devotion and sexual love are combined in complicated conceits, such as is seen in "The Canonization."

Tags:canonization, poem, donne

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This paper discusses and compares two sonnets from "Holy Sonnets" by John Donne. Sonnet 1, "As due by many titles I resign", and Sonnet 10, "Batter my heart, three-personned God", are two particular sonnets from the Holy Sonnets, which employ the use of metaphysical conceit. Both sonnets reveal the speakers struggles in maintaining a relationship with God. The paper examines Donne's style, which separates him from others because of his rebellion against the highly conventional imagery of the Elizabethan lyric of his time.

From the Paper
"The imagery of violence in both sonnets clearly depicts the speakers' great effort in reaching a righteous relationship with God. The speakers in both sonnets are asking God to restore their faith even if it requires the use of force and violence. Although this imagery is more dominant in sonnet 10, it is still a similarity that is worth noting. Sonnet 1 major imagery of violence is apparent when the speaker asks, "Why doth the devil then usurp on me? / Why doth he steal, nay ravish that's thy right? (9-10). The speaker distresses why God is not willing to "steal" back nor "ravish" (which literally means rape) him from the devil's hold. The violent image of rape is what the speaker calls upon himself in order to become righteous. Likewise, Sonnet 10 claims, "Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me" (14). The request to be "ravish" seen in the two sonnets is a metaphysical conceit meant to compare the sexual violence of being raped to that of God's taken charge over one's life and exercising his power and control. Additionally, the imagery of violence is taken to a physical level when the speaker in sonnet 10 solicits God to "knock", "break", and "burn" in order to be made new. The Christian idea of being borned again "make new" is associated with physical endurance, which is viewed as a way to be redeemed by both speakers. Thus the imagery of violence in the two sonnets shows the desire of the speakers to become acquainted with God."

Tags:religion, faith, violence

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This paper discusses how "Monster's Inc."(2001) is a children's film that uses the common childhood fear of monsters lurking in the closet and turns this conceit right on its head. The film depicts monsters as terrified of children and how they wait for children at night, but not to eat them--but to collect the screams of these small humans. The screams power the monster's society of Monstropolis with Scream Heat. The paper concludes that, because of their need to stimulate fear in the hearts of children, the monster's world more and more resembles in its images and structure, the society beyond the closet door.

Outline:
Introduction
Definition of a Principle or Cultural Theory That Is Present In the Film
Identify the Cultural Climate within the Film
Explain How You Would React If You Had To Exist In That Culture
Provide Analysis of What Could Be Done To Improve the Culture


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From the Paper
"The fact that people who are 'different' are often called monsters in real life creates an immediate resonance between Monstropolis and our own society. The cultural theory is the theory stressed by the film is of the dangerous potential fear of the 'other'--an entire society can be powered by a fear of difference and culturally structured around a fear of difference. But fearing something only makes what you fear all the more a part of your own culture. Because children look different from the monsters, and because the children's screams power Monstropolis, the monster's entire society must be devoted keeping the children 'out' as well as keeping children in a state of fear to generate screams. Without fear, the monster's culture and the society cannot exist. "

Tags:Monstropolis, children, power, Scream, Heat

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Jonathan Swift is a satirist who aims at all but oneself. His novel, Gulliver's Travels, illustrates the ridiculous nature of human pride.The author shows how the character of Gulliver serves as Swift's satirical mouthpiece, conveying his ideals and criticisms of English society in the 18th century. The author explains how Swift observes human conceit in all its pettiness, ugliness, and absurdity, and makes his perspective clear through Gulliver's transformation from a naive patriotic citizen to a wiser, cynical character. The author finds that as Swift wields his way through the chapters, he chisels away at human pretensions exposing reality and exhorting a change; for mankind needs saving, but salvation lies within.

From the Paper
""You say I'm small" I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you stand too low," (Franz Grillparzer: Poems). Gulliver learns this lesson of perspective through his voyages to Lilliput, where he looks down upon the citizens, and Brobdingnag, where the citizens stare down upon him. Dimension depends upon the standpoint of the beholder. Gulliver in comparison to the Lilliputians was a giant; however, in comparison to the Brobdingnagians, his size is diminutive. It is in visiting the Brobdingnagians that Gulliver's perspective is more complete; it is in seeing life through each of these perspectives that the reader is able to see Swift's satirical view of the English man. Swift uses satire to humble human pride, enabling a more honest self-assessment of the injustice caused by conceit."

Tags:politics, satire

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This paper looks at the way King Lear only attains humility when he has lost everything. It starts by describing his pompous manner, followed by his first awareness of his lack of importance when he visits his so-called loyal daughters and is later rescued by Cornelia.

From the paper;

"In many historical works of literature we are given a glimpse at what living a royal life was like in days of medieval history. Kings are often presented as pompous and full of self-assurance that borders on conceit. We come to understand that it is the position that they are born into that causes this overblown ego display, but we shake our heads at how fully the self-importance impacts their lives. A classic example of this phenomenon is the story of King Lear by William Shakespeare. King Lear is a pompous and self-absorbed man until he loses everything and everyone. He learns the lesson of self-awareness and humility and the essence of what is truly important in life only after losing everything that he believed to be vital."

Tags:pompousness, ego, self-absorbed, self-sacrifice, compassion

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This paper describes Pearl Jam's song "Do the Evolution" as a modern take on the evolution of mankind. The author describes that the song is written from a social perspective and critiques the conceit that humans are somehow "superior," because they are the most highly evolved complex organism on Earth. The paper includes the complete lyrics of the song.

From the Paper
"Pearl Jam's frontman, Eddie Venter, has quickly become the musical voice of Generation X. His lyrics are almost always insightful and provocative, and often address important social issues. Do the Evolution is no exception to the rule, as Venter delivers a topical and pointed commentary on current status of what is arguably the most highly evolved animal on the planet: human beings."

Tags:rock, music, song, perspective, humans, superior, eddie, venter, generation, x, social, issues

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Accordion Crimes examines the immigrant experience in the United States by using the conceit of an accordion made by a Sicilian immigrant that passes from one family to another, one generation to the next, one ethnic group to another.

From the Paper
"E. Annie Proulx's novel Accordion Crimes examines the immigrant experience in the United States by using the conceit of an accordion made by a Sicilian immigrant that passes from one family to another, one generation to the next, one ethnic group to another.

Each section of the book relates variations on the theme of the American immigrant experience. In each case people that somehow do not fit into the mainstream of American society must learn either to live on the margins or to make compromises with their sense of self-identity so that they may fit in. Such compromises involve the same decisions in each generation: changing one's name, one's religion, one's sense of loyalty, one's profession, the scope of one's dreams. Failure to make such changes often subjects the characters in the short term to the .."