An analysis of the descriptive and reflective elements in two eighteenth century poems; William Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" and Thomas Gray's "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College".
Abstract The paper analyzes both William Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" and Thomas Gray's "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College", that examine humanity and man's changing relationship with nature through an expressive overview of a place of emotional significance. The paper shows how both poems place an emphasis on physical, temporal and metaphorical distance in order to examine complex questions relating to the poet's past and future. The paper highlights how the descriptive and reflective elements of the texts interact with each other, enabling the poets to poignantly communicate ideas of memory, loss, and, ultimately, the restorative power of nature.
From the Paper "The first stanza of Tintern Abbey imitates the process of recollection by conveying the narrator's experience of the landscape before him in intricate detail. Wordsworth delights in depicting the tranquil serenity of his surroundings, appearing to savour such particulars as the "soft inland murmur" of the waters "rolling from their mountain springs". His gentle use of assonance enhances the sensuous nature of the piece, suggesting that the narrator's thirst is being quenched - albeit from a distance - after the aesthetic drought of "five long winters" in the city. This interplay between sense and recollection exposes an important aspect of much prospect poetry - the power of reflection and memory. Indeed, it is significant that Wordsworth writes of "Thoughts of more deep seclusion" , thus reminding the reader that the poem is not simply an objective description of the landscape."
Abstract This paper shows how Ridings examines many different aspects of Mexican society, including the economy, the political system and culture. The author explains that the writer examines the nation's urgent problems and attempts to explain the historical basis for how Mexicans feel and think. The author eports that Ridings' main argument is that Mexico must resist Americanization and apply its own solutions to its own problems.
Abstract This paper explains that many professors dislike teaching distance learning courses because they feel that they can not get to know their students; however, many of these professors also have a fear of using new teaching technologies. The author points out that distant learning technology via the Internet includes a simple web site, an e-mail address plus the use of chat rooms or other on line get-togethers where students can share their thoughts and feelings. The paper concludes that university professors should be taught how to use technology correctly to ensure successful teaching of distance learning courses so that their abilities and wisdom can be utilized and imparted to various students via the Internet and other forms of distance learning.
From the Paper "Asking the students to rate a teacher's web site, response time to e-mail and other issues would give a reasonable assessment using qualitative methods of the effectiveness that a particular instructor has in using technology skills. The impact of these technology skills is a little harder to measure. Whether students feel as though they have gotten something out of the course and how much of that relates to the technology that was employed during the course and being required to do things on the Internet is one way that this can be measured."
Presents a personal admission essay, applying to the Bachelor's program of Political Sciences and International Relations at the London School of Economics External Studies.
960 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 0 sources, 2009, $ 34.95
Abstract This paper describes the author's successful experiences working for NGOs in Iran as well as problems with her studies at the University of Toronto. Both of these situations taught her that no matter what, life goes on. The author feels that she is motivated, is a hard worker and is an independent individual, which are the right qualifications to succeed at the distant learning program for a Bachelor's program of Political Sciences and International Relations offered by the London School of Economics External Studies.
From the Paper "In May of 2006, I returned home to Iran with one goal in mind--I wanted to make this summer more memorable than any other. Thinking of working in my own field of study seemed like a great idea because the United Nations was the first institution that came into my mind, due to the fact that since I first learned about this international organization, I fantasized about working there. Entering such a place to work, especially at such a young age, was difficult, but thanks to my determination, I managed to secure a volunteer job at the UN World Food Program."
Abstract The paper looks at the points in the globe that are most surrounded by water and land. The paper compares the land and water areas in the northern and southern hemisphere and discusses flying and sailing between the two most distant points. The paper discusses convergent plate boundaries and the correlation between ocean depths and plate tectonic processes. The paper examines major ocean surface current patterns, swells, breaking surf, tsunamis and tides. The paper also looks at depositional coasts versus erosional coasts.
Outline:
Identifying the Current Location
The Point Most Surrounded by Water
The Point Most Surrounded by Land
Comparison Between the Land and Water Areas in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere
Flying Between the Two Most Distant Points
Sailing Between the Two Most Distant Points
Convergent Plate Boundaries
The Correlation Between Ocean Depths and Plate Tectonic Processes
Major Ocean Surface Current Patterns
Swells, Breaking surf, Tsunami
How do Tides in a Bay Depend on its Location in the Ocean?
Depositional Coasts versus Erosional Coasts
Marine Organisms in Pelagic and Benthic zones
From the Paper "New York belongs to the state bearing the same name and is situated on the north-eastern coast of the U.S.A, at the point where the Hudson River flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The city's geographical coordinates are latitude 40047'N and longitude 73058' W. The city is renown for its cultural aura, but also for its financial, business, and trading organizations which play a major role to the national and world economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City)."
Abstract In this article, the writer first discusses the origins of the name of Satan. The writer then explains that one of the most widely debated aspects concerning the origin of Satan revolves around the question as to exactly what extent the power of evil is manifested in Satan. The writer maintains that perhaps the most powerful image of Satan in today's world is linked with the concept of Armageddon, a time in the distant future, or in the distant past, when Satan and his evil minions will gather together to battle God and Christ for the ultimate and supreme control over man and the universe. The writer concludes that Satan remains an elusive yet easily recognizable figure, due to the fact that this personage of evil and destruction has survived untold numbers of revisions for more than three thousand years and continues to pervade the minds and hearts of believers and non-believers alike.
From the Paper "However, other theological scholars and students of ancient religions have devised another path toward associating evil with Satan via non-canonical Hebrew literature which supports the idea that not only is Satan a true adversary of God but is also the leader of the fallen angels, contained in such works as The Book of the Secrets of Enoch and several Islamic texts. Yet also Satan eventually evolves into the ultimate symbol of evil, the ancient Hebrews offered "no suggestion of any dualism, neither temporal, spatial or ethical," meaning that Satan was either pure evil or was not. Additional apocalyptic literature maintains this stance but it was only in later Judaism when Satan was viewed as being a dualistic figure. Tom Radcliffe points out that as the Jewish church became established and grew in prominence, many of its enemies were linked to Satan, such as heretics and the Syrians."
Abstract The paper compares the traditional role of men in Japanese society to the role of men in Japanese society today. The paper explains that the traditional role required that men work and remain distant from their families while maintaining a masculine authority over the household. The paper then explains that these traditional roles have been threatened by social changes since the 1970s. The paper paints a picture of how today's men are no longer able to demand the same authority and respect and cannot be such distant husbands and fathers.
From the Paper "The traditional role of men in Japanese society and in the Japanese family is one of the aloof bread-winner. This role comes directly from the Japanese cultural history, rooted in Confucianism. The expectation under these social roles dictates that men work and remain distant from their families while maintaining a masculine authority over the household. Since the 1970s, these traditional roles have been threatened by social changes including modernity, technological advances, and the feminist movement in Japan."
Abstract This paper discusses the works of John Steinbeck, renowned American author of such classics as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men". The author examines Steinbeck's main themes in his writings-human suffering, indifference for life, and extreme poverty during the Great Depression. The paper looks at how Steinbeck wrote in a distant, unsentimental voice, but attempted to teach morality through his work.
From the Paper "John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas on February 27, 1902 . In his works we see sensitivity to nature and to the natural processes of life within the setting of California . His novels usually focus on the migrant laborers, the exploited men and women, the union organizers, the marine scientists whose affections, concerns and fears the writer had such abundant opportunity to observe. The focus on these theme using characters that are involved and affected in the societal changes that are taking place due to mans need for progress which at times present his actions against nature create the concept of moral values. Steinbeck had a feeling of pity for the poverty and misery that the workers of the depression years faced and yet, he did not present his stories either with sentimentalism or inappropriately objective stylization. Rather, when we read his novels we realize a certain morality inherent in the themes that calls for America 's consciousness to be appraised."
Abstract Though both of these novels center on the theme of men in battle, the authors adopt entirely distinctive approaches to relaying their protagonists' stories. In Crane's novel the reader is introduced to the hero through a third person, in a distant manner while in O'Brien's novel, the hero is presented in a semi-autobiographical manner.
From the Paper "In both The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, the main character is a noble soldier who is disillusioned by the harsh realities of war. While Crane's novel takes place during the Civil War and O'Brien's is set during the Vietnam War, both works capture the agonizing distress involved in fighting a war through two very different approaches. "
Tags: battle, character, comparison, narrative, novels, soldier, style, war
Abstract The following paper discusses the distinction between faith and reason and questions whether it is possible to live with both of them at the same time. The writer contends that the path of reason requires that there be a rational explanation to everything, and any lack of human understanding along this path is a sign of ignorance only, an ignorance that can be erased by further knowledge. The paper contends that the path of faith demands that one believe in forces and entities unseen, and that one believes that human understanding is incomplete not only now but for always. This paper examines how these paths are so far distant from each other that there is no possible way for a person to travel both for the course of an entire life. The philosophies of Aristotle, Kant and Plato are used as references in this paper.
From the Paper "We are not angels domiciled in heaven, and if faith promises us a place after death amongst such exalted creatures, then it does little to explain our experiences in our physical bodies on earth. To understand hunger, pleasure, cold, pain ? all the sensations of our body, we must turn to reason and rational explanations. And having turned to reason to explain the particulars of daily experience, we are necessarily confronted with a contradiction if we then try to rely upon faith in other areas of our lives, for faith ? that belief in things unseen ? asks us to abandon the evidence and witness of our own senses.\"
Abstract This paper uses Chaucer's work, "The Canterbury Tales," and Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" to examine the period in history known as the Middle Ages. The author compares and contrasts the opinions and descriptions of this era presented in both these works. Tuchman's work is historical and was based upon actual events that were detailed, while Chaucer's work is poetry. Tuchman's work is detailed and provides us with an insight as to the actual events that transpired during this era, how Rome's conquest of Europe during the 14th century would affect the continent for many years to come. Chaucer's work while being fiction, concentrates on the role that the Church and Christianity played in the lives of those people living during the Middle Ages. Both authors' works show us how the Middle Ages were the beginning of the rise of modernity in the cities as contrasted to the slower pace of development in the countryside.
From the Paper "We see time and again in Tuchman's narrative how the elaborate and essentially unified culture that Rome had spread across Europe lost ground to local, artistically simpler, politically less complex and technologically less sophisticated societies. The pervasive orderliness that Rome had brought to its colonized lands (often, of course, in very brutal ways) quickly unraveled, in large measure (as again is evident throughout Tuchman's narrative) because the numerous small European states that were born after Rome's fall were so busily engaged in attempting to annihilate each other that they had no time to build the great artistic and cultural achievements that the Romans had with such seemingly easy grace mastered. Politics would have mattered more in a city than on a rural manor, where local alliances would have been both more important and more stable."
Abstract This paper is introduces and discusses features of the Martian terrain suggesting that water, and possibly life, may have been present in the distant past or that water exists today under the planet's surface. Conclusions about this suggestion are made at the end of the paper.
From the Paper "The public's fascination and with the red planet originated with Percival Lowell's book, ?Mars,? published in 1895. Although Schiaparelli and others had discussed the possibility of Canals on Mars, Lowell's drawings and his suggestion of intelligent life on Mars thrilled the public."
Abstract This paper introduces, discusses and compares the novel "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner to the play ?Macbeth,? by William Shakespeare. It specifically looks at how the allusion to "Macbeth" adds to the mood and theme of the novel. This paper examines the many different ways that Faulkner weaves different themes from "Macbeth" into his own novel. The dysfunctional family in the novel and the mother's striking resemblance to Lady Macbeth are two examples of Faulkner's work.
From the Paper "Benjy narrates the first chapter of the book, so it is extremely difficult to follow, and understand. Indeed, this is the section of the book that is ?Told by an idiot,? but it is more than that. This disjointed chapter sets the stage for the rest of the novel. We learn about the family through the simplest of minds, and perhaps know them better after reading this first chapter, than at any other time in the book. While Benjy is the family idiot, he still has memories and feelings, and only sees people for what they are, not how they want others to see them. We already understand that Caddy and Quentin are extremely close, that Benjy looks on his sister as a mother figure, and that Jason is often at the edge of the family, the other siblings push him away."
Abstract This paper discusses the history of inter-racial marriages from the first recorded inter-racial marriage in what was to become the United States of Captain John Smith of Jamestown, Virginia to the Indian princess Pocahontas in 1607, to its almost acceptance today. It examines how inter-marrying began as marrying out of the religion to eventually marriage within different ethnic minorities. It evaluates the different laws over time regarding inter-racial marriages such as a 1922 anti-miscegenation law stated that, if blacks and whites intermarried, punishment was one to five years in prison. Although a raceless society is probably fairly distant, America has been trending towards greater racial integration since the end of the Second World War. 100 years ago, German and Irish immigrants were considered a separate people by people born in America. Whereas people express preferences in appearance in a mate, perhaps a society with fuzzy racial barriers isn?t very far away.
From the Paper "From the 60's until today, inter-racial marriage has gained wider and wider acceptance. According to the US Census Bureau, in 2000 over 1,461,000 people were married to someone not of their own race, and 6.8 million people claimed to be multi-racial. In 1960, only 149 thousand people claim to be married to someone of a different race, and by 1970, 310 thousand such people lived in the United States. Statistically, whites find it easier to marry Asians than blacks. This is probably because Asians share many of the same demographic characteristics with white people. Similarly, Hispanics and blacks find it easier to marry."
Tags: blacks, whites, chinese, miscegenation, law, hispanics, chinese
Abstract This paper provides a compare and contrast analysis of "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen and "Death Of A Salesman" by Arthur Miller. It discusses how both plays are about fallen families and how, in both cases, the fall occurs in proportion to the deception that the family members opt for themselves. It examines how both families try everything to tune up with society's expectations and their own wishes and dreams and how both plays tell us that most of us choose to play roles and deceive, not only those immediately and distantly around us, but also ourselves. Although the two plays end with voluntary self-annihilation, or suicide, they also end in the characters? getting released. It is only their respective deaths that put an end to their inner torments.
From the Paper "There is greater ease in reading "Death of a Salesman" than ?A Doll's House.? In the former, the struggle is towards confronting the reality of failure and compensating for it. Although Willy destroys himself to enable his son to have the money that can insure his own success, his suicide results in the release of everyone in the family, including himself, from the brunt and pain of unfulfilled ambition and financial lack. As Linda, his wife, says at the end of the play: "We"re free...? She feels redeemed from the clutches or Willy's all-consuming desire to be economically comfortable and free of unpaid-bills. His death even comes directly to pay those debts and make possible the wife's and sons? making it better in their own pursuits."
Tags: families, deception, suicide, wishes, dreams, society
