Parallel thinking Essays

  • Parallels Between The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway and The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald

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    Parallels Between The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway and The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald During the decade of the 1920's, America was going through many changes, evolving from the Victorian Period to the Jazz Age. Changing with the times, the young adults of the 1920's were considered the "Lost Generation". The Great War was over in 1918. Men who returned from the war had the scars of war imprinted in their minds. The eighteenth amendment was ratified in 1919 which prohibited the manufacture, sale

  • Hesse's Siddhartha as it Parallels Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

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    Hesse's Siddhartha as it Parallels Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Several parallels can be drawn between the psychologist Abraham Maslow's theoretical hierarchy of needs and the spiritual journey of Siddhartha, the eponymous main character in Herman Hesse's novel.  Maslow's hierarchy of needs is somewhat of a pyramid that is divided into eight stages of need through which one progresses throughout one's entire life. During the course of his lifetime, Siddhartha's personality develops in a manner

  • To Kill A Mockingbird Essay: Parallels and Differences

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    To Kill a Mockingbird:  Parallels and Differences Jill McCorkle's Ferris Beach, a contemporary novel, shares numerous characteristics with Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel written in the 1960's. Like To Kill a Mockingbird, McCorkle's novel documents the life of a young girl in a small southern town. The two narrators, Kate Burns and Scout Finch, endure difficult encounters. A study of these main characters reveals the parallels and differences of the two novels. Jill McCorkle duplicates

  • Essay on Camus’ The Stranger (The Outsider): Parallels Within

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    Parallels Within The Stranger (The Outsider) The Stranger by Albert Camus is a story of a sequence of events in one man's life that cause him to question the nature of the universe and his position in it. The book is written in two parts and each part seems to reflect in large degree the actions occurring in the other. There are curious parallels throughout the two parts that seem to indicate the emotional state of Meursault, the protagonist, and his view of the world. Meursault is a fairly average

  • Interpretation Model Of Moses

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    Google and Microsoft. In SMT, Interpretation frameworks are prepared on huge amounts of parallel information. Parallel information is an accumulation of sentences in two separate dialects, which is sentence adjusted, in that each one sentence in one dialect is matched with its relating deciphered sentence in other dialect. It is otherwise called a bitext. The preparation transform in Moses takes in the parallel information and co events of words and sections (known as expression) to construe interpretation

  • Parallels Between The Crucible and McCarthy Era

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    that the nation was facing the same events that Salem went through back in the late 1600's. Arthur Miller wrote "The Crucible" in an attempt to create moral awareness for society. He did so by making a few small changes to the history and creating parallels in the play with racism, human tendencies, and H.U.A.C. Miller completed "The Crucible" in the 1950's. At that time, America was engulfed in the civil rights movement. Racism was a huge issue and people were fighting for equality and respect. African

  • Personal Narrative And Personal Criticism

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    approached me and told me that he will be my driving instructor. When we get into the vehicle, he told me to park, reverse out, drive to the traffic light, come back and parallel park. I was going as slow as molasses with everything because I was so nervous, but he kept reassuring me that I was moving along just fine. During the parallel parking, I was trying to rush through the steps and I notice I am a little too far away from the curb. After readjusting 4 times, he gave me the news that I had passed

  • Free Glass Menagerie Essays: Parallels to Williams' Life and Symbolism

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    The Glass Menagerie:  Parallels to Williams' Life and Use of Symbolism The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a touching play about the lost dreams of a southern family and their struggle to escape reality. The play is a memory play and therefore very poetic in mood, setting, and dialogue. Tom Wingfield serves as the narrator as well as a character in the play. Tom lives with his Southern belle mother, Amanda, and his painfully shy sister, Laura. The action of the play revolves around

  • Foreshadowing, Mood, Mythical Parallels, and Narrative Elements in Dracula

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    Foreshadowing, Mood, Mythical Parallels, and Narrative Elements in Dracula In the novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker, there is much evidence of foreshadowing and parallels to other myths.  Dracula was not the first story featuring a vampire myth, nor was it the last.  Some would even argue that it was not the best.  However, it was the most original, using foreshadowing and mood to create horrific imagery, mythical parallels to draw upon a source of superstition, and original narrative elements that

  • Dunciad: Mock epic and parallels to Rape of the Lock (another satire)

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    The Dunciad: A Mock Epic? Honors English The fourth book of the Dunciad describes the fall and slow death of the English society that once taught him all the things he knew. He lashes out at his critics, accusers, and nay Sayers in his allegorical poem. It symbolizes a mock epic because of the elaborate use of words, calling on inspiration from a higher force, and using his work not so much to tell a story, but to point out the faults of a social order that can’t or chooses not to see what they’re

  • Tender Is the Night Parallels Fitzgerald’s Life

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    Tender Is the Night Parallels Fitzgerald’s Life Away! Away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! Tender is the night… -From “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats Charles Scribner III in his introduction to the work remarks that “the title evokes the transient, bittersweet, and ultimately tragic nature of Fitzgerald’s ‘Romance’ (as he had originally

  • Parallels between The Movie, The Matrix and Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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    Parallels between The Movie, "The Matrix" and Plato's Allegory Of The Cave In Book VII of The Republic, Plato tells a story entitled "The Allegory Of The Cave." He begins the story by describing a dark underground cave where a group of people are sitting in one long row with their backs to the cave's entrance. Chained to their chairs from an early age, all the humans can see is the distant cave wall in from of them. Their view of reality is soley based upon this limited view of the cave which

  • Enders Game: The Parallels and Distinctions of Bean and Ender

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    Bean and Ender have many similarities that set them apart from their peers in times of peril. Their intelligence made them the most promising weapon in the war against the buggers, rating highest among the smartest children in the world. This is surprising on account of the dissimilarities of their lifestyles before they went to battle school. However, before and during battle school Bean and Ender had to cope with being small. Ender and Bean were both prodigies in their time, but ironically they

  • Parallels Between The Truman Show and Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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    Parallels Between The Truman Show and Plato's Allegory of the Cave The movie, 'The Truman Show' is about a reality television show that has been created to document the life of a man who, adopted at birth by a television network, is tricked into believing that his life, his reality, is normal and the environment that he lives is real. It is set in a town called Seahaven, which is essentially a simulation of the real world similar enough to the outside world that the viewing audience can relate

  • Lateral Thinking and Six Thinking Hats

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    If training and application of Edward de Bono’s Lateral Thinking and Six Thinking Hats strategy were to be adopted by American corporations, countless hours of “paralysis by analysis” could be eliminated. The groans are palpable when yet another meeting request arrives in the Outlook Inboxes of mid-level managers on a daily basis. And, while the participants are perpetually extolled to “think outside the box”, it is done so without really giving them the cerebral tools to do so. Even just providing

  • Mandragora by David McRobbie

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    Mandragora by David McRobbie "Mandragora" by David Mc Robbie is the story of parallel lives and how they connect through four cursed mandrake dolls. These dolls in particular have been around since 1886. According to "Mandragora", a ship called the Dunarling was not only carrying 85 passengers wanting to shift from Scotland to South Australia, but also the four dolls. Each named and cursed. 'Swith' was cursed with fire (bleeze), 'Agley' with mischance, 'Snell' with foulness and 'Sneddum'

  • Decision Making Tools And Techniques: The Six Hat's Approach

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    tool used for this purpose. The tool that will be discussed is called the "Six Thinking Hats" method (Mind Tools.com). Introduction to the "Six Thinking Hats" Method The "Six Thinking Hats", created by Edward de Bono, is used to "look at decisions from a number of important perspectives." (Mind Tools.com). The method forces you to think "outside the box", to move away from your naturally engrained "habitual thinking style" while considering possibilities that may have never exited for you previously

  • In a Parallel Universe

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    normal life. George and Benjamin get out of the time travel machine and normal Dan comes in, they hug him and tell him about the parallel universe, and he starts trying to go there. Benjamin and George then go to the lobby and hug Mr. Gordon and Nancy. Their mom comes in and they hug her too, they tell everybody the whole story about how they time traveled to a parallel universe using Dan's machine, the whole hotel was skeptical about their story and didn't worry about it. Later that evening, In George

  • Differences in Geometry

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    are parallel to another. In Euclidean Geometry it is stated that there is one unique parallel line to a point not on that line. Euclidean Geometry has been around for over thousands of years, and is studied the most in high school as well as college courses. In it's simplest form, Euclidean geometry, is concerned with problems such as determining the areas and diameters of two-dimensional figures and the surface areas and volumes of solids. Euclidean Geometry is based off of the parallel postulate

  • Essay on Language and Mores in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

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    Language and Mores in winesburg, ohio Language and literature lead parallel lives. What changes most often and most dramatically is the language we use to describe events and feelings that are common to all times. Language shifts, stretches, adopts, and absorbs -- it drops antiquated terms and picks up a few new ones, and you don't have to look far to find novels and short stories grown stale from shaky, outdated prose, from too many neo-tropisms, catch-phrases, and slang with a short shelf-life