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The paper summarizes Part III, "A Land of Contrasts: The Boisterous Sea of Liberty" and explores concepts represented in the literature. One concept the paper explores is that, although America's diversity is often conceptualized as a recent development, the relatively decentralized control of the Americas early in colonial history made the land, in its own way, perhaps even more pluralistic than our own extant union. Another notion represented in the paper is that, based on the literature, settlements emerged in different areas, all of which possessed very different demographics and manifested various different ways of life. There was no centralized government or national authority paving the way for the creation of a loose confederation of states of America rather than a single union; furthermore, at its conception, America was marked by regional, ethnic, religious and national diversity.

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"America, as soon as European colonists began to penetrate its borders, became a mosaic. Almost all of the nations of Europe wished to enrich themselves with the New World's abundant natural resources and by trading with its native inhabitants. All of Europe was well aware of the great power that would be gained by the nation that eventually dominated the colonies. Colonists also sought to settle in the region for a variety of reasons, some seeking freedom from the state religion in the case of the Puritans and Quakers, or freedom from the European class system and economic limits on wealth and property in the case of the early settlers in Jamestown, Virginia. The Native American population itself was just as diverse, and included both warlike and pacific tribes, hunter-gatherers and farmers and fishers."

Tags:colonists, freedom, religion, dominated, power

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This paper discusses the themes of contrasts, of honor and deceit, spinsterhood or bachelorhood and marriage and honor and betrayal that are found in William Shakespeare's plays "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Much Ado About Nothing." The paper focuses on the main contrast of character type in both texts which is achieved by pairing two contrasting sets of lovers against one another. It discusses the articulate love of the couples of Petruchio and Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew" and Beatrice and Benedict in "Much Ado About Nothing."

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"Shakespeare suggests that all relationships are to some extent dependant upon mendacity. However, the question is how harmless these lies might be. The greater lie is in fact Claudio's perception of Hero as perfect, not the fact that Beatrice has not been dying of love for Benedict. In fact, as the audience is well aware if not the lovers themselves, Beatrice and Benedict are ideally suited for one another. They alone speak the same language of all the characters in the play, a dialogue of witty repartee. When engaged in dialogue with other characters, quite often the other characters are overcome by their wit, like Don Pedro when he attempts to woo Beatrice, and Claudio when Benedict expresses his dim view of love at the beginning of the play. In "The Taming of the Shrew," until she meets Petruchio, Kate is utterly dominant over her father and her sister. Only by finding a man who can match her barb for barb is she re-integrated into the society, just as Benedict is not reintegrated into peacetime society after war, until he finds a match in Beatrice."

Tags:deception, relationship, juxtaposed

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This research paper contrasts and compares Microsoft and Apple/Macintosh computers, and discusses company histories, financial statistics on company growth and success, CEO's, organizational culture, management ideology and philosophy and business strategies.

Tags:microsoft, apple, contrast

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The paper compares Bruce Catton's work, "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" and Russel Baker's essay, "A Nice Place to Visit" and asserts that both follow the comparison and contrast format of writing exceptionally well. The paper explains that where Catton seeks to impart his clearly defined passion and excitement for his subject, Baker wants us to share in his sarcastic assessment of Toronto as being clean and polite and thus boring. The paper posits that both works succeed in engaging the reader, although Baker's assessment has a problem that it requires the reader to take his side.

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"Comparison and contrast essays serve a very distinct point - to show the differences and similiarities between individuals, groups, places, songs, etc. Within the structure of these essays, we find that there are two major methods of comparison: the subject-by-subject and the point-by-point. Within these two methods are also several different styles that authors employ. Bruce Catton's work, "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" takes a very serious and well balanced look at the two primary military generals of the U.S. Civil war."

Tags:humor, sarcasm, subject-by-subject, point-by-point

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In this comparative review, the author looks at two prominent books written about the Holocaust, "Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity" by Primo Levi and "A Scrap of Time and Other Stories" by Ida Fink. The paper starts with a brief but poignant history of the Holocaust and the attitudes to it. The author then proceeds to look at the two books which in his opinion offer opportunities for interesting contrasts. He highlights how Levi has written a factual account of his personal experiences towards the end of the war whereas Fink is considered to have written a fiction story which covers the whole period of the war even though she was also subjected to the horrors of the war. The author concludes that even though both books are categorized differently they both tell the same horrific story of man's inhumanity to man and neither book will let you shrug.

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"Though both books describe events that revile even the most stoic among us, the two authors seem to emphasize different aspects of the experiences described. Levi's work is essentially a success story. Will and grit, and a little luck, lead to his survival. As the author remarks, "Man's capacity to dig himself in, to secrete a shell, to build around himself a tenuous barrier of defence [sic], even in apparently desperate circumstances, is astonishing and merits a serious study" (56). Fink's book reports few successes. Parents sacrifice children, friends turn on friends, individuals are forced to face and embrace their darkest selves. Though both authors tell chilling tales, Levi
seems to offer more hope, while Fink leaves the reader with feelings of deep despair."

Tags:horror, fact, truth, fictional, survival, crimes, german, atrocities, memory

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In this paper, the loyal heroism of Odysseus in The Iliad directly contrasts the far more hedonistic infidelity that is part of the long journey home in The Odyssey. Homer reveals the varying levels of heroism that Odysseus imparts, as he is a different man off the battlefield, as when he is on the battlefield. Homer depicts Odysseus as a man loyal at any cost to the greater good, but when he is not obliged to adhere to this higher authority.

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Tags:iliad, odyssey, war

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This paper compares two books concerning South America. The writer discusses that South America is a region of great contrasts, with modern cities in some areas and Indian villages in another, with wilderness areas that are vast and with many people still living much as they did in the nineteenth century and before. The writer discusses that two authors who offer visions of different portions of this vast continent are Peter Matthiessen in 'The Cloud Forest' and Wade Davis in 'One River'.

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"South America is a region of great contrasts, with modern cities in some areas and Indian villages in another, with wilderness areas that are vast and with many people still living much as they did in the nineteenth century and before. Two authors who offer visions of different portions of this vast continent are Peter Matthiessen in 'The Cloud Forest' and Wade Davis in 'One River'. Peter Matthiessen is a naturalist and has written a number of historical and non-historical books, much of it fiction. His book The Cloud Forest is not fiction, however, and is instead a naturalist's vision of part of the wilderness of South America. The author walked and flew across much of the ..."

Tags:books

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The paper explores Maurice Pialat's use of sudden breaks, shifts, clashes and contrasts to emphasise the emotive value of a scene or dramatic sequence. The paper bases the analysis on an in-depth study of three of Pialat's films; "Nous Ne Vieillirons Pas Ensemble" "L'enfance Nue" and "A Nos Amours".

Outline:
Introduction
Nous Ne Vieillirons Pas Ensemble
L'enfance Nue
A Nos Amours
Conclusion

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"Maurice Pialat made his first feature length film, L'Enfance nue (1968), at forty-three years old, and proceeded to make only ten films in thirty years, a significant number of which he wished he had not made. He was also known for the difficulties surrounding the production of his films and compared to the amount of films produced by his contemporaries, he was an outsider. His relationship to the Nouvelle Vague movement is what Rene Predal (2005:7) called a 'rendez-vous manque'. This could be a metaphor for his work. Through filming the banal and the repetitions, shifts, breaks in seemingly insignificant events in everyday life, Pialat missed a certain element that made the narratives of the films of the Nouvelle Vague so elaborate. His blunt and anti-romantic narration however, somehow succeeds in reaching the emotional core of the stories he seeks to tell, leaving out the artifice of transitions, which he does not even take the time to film, and framing the characters in a very intimate way."

Tags:emotion, realism, discontinuity, characters, sequences, rhythm

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The paper analyzes the different contrasts found in the play. The paper focuses on the way the men in the play view a murder scene compared to how the women view the same scene. An analysis of the different behavior of the men and women is given. The paper shows how the real motive to the murder is discovered through the women's sensitivities. The play is compared to the old Greek myth of the "Three Fates".

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"The one-act play "Trifles," written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, is a play of contrasts. The early and later life of one woman, Minnie Foster Wright, husband of the dead man John Wright, are compared. The lives of the women visiting the crime scene with the sheriff and attorney are contrasted with the life of the woman jailed for her husband's murder. Even Minnie's quilting pieces are contrasted, with some stitched more competently than the last one. The most obvious comparison, though, looks at how the men view the scene versus what the women see."

Tags:murder, man, woman, perception

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This paper compares and contrasts the positions of the Mexican PRI, or Institutional Revolutionary Party, with the PAN, or National Action Party. It discusses their political differences, and explains why the world is so excited about the recent victory of the PAN candidate, Vicente Fox.