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This paper discusses and analyzes Carl O. Sauer's book "Northern Mists" in which he advances and argues the theory that the Norse country of "Vinland" was in reality part of Southern New England. Carl Sauer was a respected geographer and historian and "Northern Mists" is a well-known and cited commentary discussing the geographic history of "Vinland" and how the Northern Europeans discovered North America. The paper looks at the overall message the author is trying to convey, and how he manages to communicate it to his readers.

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"Why did the Norse look for new lands? Sauer seems to answer this himself when he compares their country to the lovely country of New England. "The bleak and windswept Strait of Belle Isle (through which I once passed in early July) bears no resemblance to the gracious country of deciduous woodlands and grapevines of Vinland, bordered by wide tidal flats" (Sauer). He also attributes their exploration to changes in climate in Northern Europe, which drove them to look for a climate that was warmer and less hospitable as time went on. "There is evidence, discovered in Scandinavia and northern Britain, that the climate of northern Europe was milder in the tenth and eleventh centuries, became more extreme in the thirteenth, and ameliorated in or after the fifteenth" (Sauer)."

Tags:Vikings, greenlanders, fissel, topography, mapmaking, explorers

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This paper summarizes and analyzes the film "Gorillas in the Mist" (1988), a classic movie about Diane Fossey and her passionate struggle to save mountain gorillas from extinction. The paper relates that the film's main theme is wildlife conservation, and it raises questions about issues such as protection of wildlife vs. human needs, current and historical gorilla conservation, and the difficulties associated with field of wildlife biology. The paper discusses if her efforts make a difference as well as the scientific validity of the movie.

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"This paper will summarize and analyze the film "Gorillas in the Mist" (1988), a classic movie about Diane Fossey and her passionate struggle to save mountain gorillas from extinction. The film's main theme is wildlife conservation, and it raises questions about issues such as protection of wildlife vs. human needs, current and historical gorilla conservation, and the difficulties associated with field of wildlife biology. The paper will discuss if her efforts make a difference as well as the scientific validity of the movie. The film "Gorillas in the Mist", directed by Michael Apted is based on the..."

Tags:conservation, gorillas in the mist, film

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This paper discusses the concept of epiphanies, that everything old is made new again and that the world has been changed forever by some new insight and how it is a creed of most world religions including Christianity. It examines how the descriptions of life in a gorilla family given by Dian Fossey in her book "Gorillas in the Mist" provide the kind of moments that are best described as epiphanous because they help us connect in a very detailed and precise way our own lives with those individuals of another species. It evaluates the moments that make it such an epiphanous tale such as the detail that Bonne Annee was attracted on her walks with her human companions to the graveyard where the gorilla victims of poachers were buried.

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"One of the most affecting scenes in this chapter is the description of Bonne Annee, who was captured in the wild and then confiscated from the poachers who had taken her from her family. After rehabilitation, she was reintroduced the wild, only to be rejected by the first group she was introduced to (Group 5) because the kinship and social relationship ties in that group were too close to permit a stranger to be introduced. After recovering from the wounds inflicted on her by members of Group 5, she was introduced into a more heterogeneous group and so finally began to live life among her own kind."

Tags:bonne, annee, species, humans

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This research paper analyzes two books by author Stephen King, "The Mist" and "The Stand". These books differ from King's usual style of drawing his themes from the supernatural. The paper shows how these particular books demonstrate King's view of technology and religion as a source of horror in these modern times.

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""The Mist" and "The Stand" provide excellent examples of the fears that can be generated by technology. In both stories, military technology is responsible for the destruction of nature and human life (Egan 53). In "The Mist," the Arrowhead Project is a secret military project that creates destruction. In this story, a strange mist with carnivorous creatures unknown to man takes over a small town in Maine. The story suggests that the Arrowhead Project is responsible for the mist. One of the characters, Ollie Weeks, suggests that the military was experimenting with high-intensity lasers and masers. Ollie stated, "That storm. Maybe it knocked something loose up there [. . . ] suppose they ripped a hole straight through into another dimension" (King 102; ch. 8)".

Tags:Arrowhead, Project, horror, Ollie, Weeks, Captain, Tripps, David, Drayton

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One of the most important and prevalent aspects throughout Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" is the imagery of fog and mist. The idea has manifestations throughout the novel and is a key factor in the development of its theme. This paper examines some of the major aspects of this idea and notes their relevance to the novel.

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"The image invoked of Satis House and of Jaggers is similar in nature to the descriptions of the marshes and the London noted earlier. Their dismal dark and sinister appearance could easily be likened to a fog or mist that enshrouds one, blocking out everything else. This form of prison serves to restrain one's actions physically and/or mentally; much in the same manner as a heavy fog constrains one's actions, movements and perceptions through the inability to ascertain exactly what surrounds one. This is exactly related to this idea of Pip's life as a journey permanently enshrouded in fog."

Tags:Pip, Kentish, village, Satis, House, Jaggers

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This paper looks at the origins of religion and how they may have evolved from a basic human need to believe in something that was meta-physical, divine, and omnipotent. The paper also focuses on the indebtedness - if any - of some of today's prominent religions to other sects which have been lost to the mists of time. Furthermore, this paper explores what purposes myths served in the ancient world and how they benefited ancient societies in ways that other forms of socialization perhaps could not. In the final analysis, the paper suggests that religion may have evolved from more primitive forms of morals and maintains that religion is beneficial to the human species.

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"Returning once more to the work of Paul Kurtz, the need for religion is something that all ancient human societies required insofar as it was an ideal (or at least tolerably effective) coping mechanism for dealing with all of the many things early man could not control. For instance, it assuaged the fear of death, gave human beings the comfort of believing that the injustices of this world would be rectified in the next one, was a means by which the tribulations brought about famine, pestilence, terrible weather or warfare could be endured in the hopes of better days to come, and - finally - religion was a palliative that restored hope in instance wherein hope might not be easily revived otherwise. Finally, religion gave early man the faith that the unseen factors shaping the world (for better or for ill) could be propitiated and even brought to serve the needs of the local community (Kurtz, 23)."

Tags:religion, belief, moral, faith

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In this article, the writer discusses that in all his paintings during his lifetime, Nicolas Tournier displayed a grace and style that makes him one of the most notable painters during his time and in the Caravaggesque tradition. The writer notes that not much is known about Tournier's life, apart from what his paintings depict about him. The writer also points out that even Tourneir's birth and death dates have been obscured by the mists of time and that some of his paintings are only recently rightfully attributed to him. The writer concludes that Tournier is most remembered for the unusual atmosphere and depiction of character in his paintings.

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"According to the Musee des Augustins, Tournier came from a family of Besancon artists in Montbeliard. This was a Lutheran enclave, where Tournier received his first instruction from his father, Andre. The senior Tournier was a painter in the Northern Mannerist style. From here, Tournier left to complete his training, as is commonly believed, in Rome and Languedoc. The first years, from 1610 to 1618, were spent in Languedoc, while Tournier resided in Rome from 1619 to 1626. This is a fairly obscure time in Tournier's career, as little is left of this period."
"Tournier's work during his time in Rome is said to revolve mostly around copying assignments of compositions by Bartolomeo Manfredi. Manfredi is an important influence on Tournier's work, as he, like Tournier later, was a main artist in the Caravaggesque tradition."

Tags:Manfredi, atmosphere, banquet, musical, scenes

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The paper discusses " The Farming of Bones" and examines how Edwidge Danticat produces a powerful and lyrical work that explores the suffering and mass murder of Haitians unfortunate enough to live and work in the Dominican Republic during the heyday of Dictator Rafael Trujillo in the late 1930s. Among the many powerful evocations in the work is Danticat's haunting use of the concept of remembrance. In her case she uses the idea of memory and loss to evoke an aching reminder of all those whose lives were taken, but who have now been lost to the mists of time.

Tags:death, violence, remembrance

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This paper discusses how Eastern and Western Europe have always been different from each other, both politically and socially. Clear distinctions have always been drawn between the two areas. It shows how from their ancient beginnings, shrouded in the mists of history to modern times, Eastern and Western Europe have followed different paths in their development. Even today, the political and social climate in these two areas is distinctly different, and it is obvious to a traveler that they are in one or the other without being told. This paper explores the divergent developments of Eastern and Western Europe and looks for the various factors that contributed to the different paths each region has taken.

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"Eastern Europe is a region that traditionally encompasses all of the land from the Balkans to Czechoslovakia to Poland. Eastern Europe today is just beginning to recover from decades under Communist rule, and capitalism is beginning to re-emerge. There is a highly concentrated number of working class people in Easter Europe, one of the highest concentrations of any area in the world. However, despite this high concentration of working people, there is still a large amount of collectivized state property, a remnant of communism. Any strike or disruption in the workforce in Eastern Europe is automatically a political situation, because the employer is the state. There is also a high degree of pollution in Eastern Europe, caused by the rapid push toward industrialization forced on it by the communists. This pollution has lead to environmental degradation and a high number of people operating at less than optimal health in the region. Eastern Europe today is struggling; it is not thriving, but it has not yet bowed down its head in defeat."

Tags:poland, france, romania, italy, communism

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An analysis of the character of Bosola in Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" contending that the character, like the play, is shrouded in uncertain mists of evil, ugliness, and depravity. The author looks at the experiences of the character and how the character changes throughout the play.

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"The Duchess of Malfi takes place in what Northrup Frye called a "sick and melancholy society" (Rabkin 119). Rupert Brook described Webster's characters as "writhing grubs in an immense night" (Rabkin 112). Evil, ugliness, and depravity rule. Beauty and goodness are doomed. In the beginning the character Bosola appears to fit right in, to be an unprincipled man with no conscience. Whether this is his real self, or whether he is an actor playing a part in order to survive in a polluted and perverted world, or whether he changes during the course of the action are some of the questions Webster enshrouds in the mist of this play. Finding clarity is the responsibility of each individual reader or viewer, as it was, in the end, up to Bosola to find his own way through the mist."

Tags:john, personality, evil, ugliness, depravity, responsibility, personality