Significant Aspect Essays

  • Understanding Catullus’s Poems

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    their love to one another.  Although in no place in the text does it say if they were in a relationship or even married, you could infer that they were very intimate with each other. The second poem, number seventy-two, discussed some a very significant aspect that exists in today’s society, which is cheating.  Catullus accuses Lesbia of cheating in he couldn’t believe that she is doing this to him.  “ ‘How,’ you may ask, ‘can this be?’ Such actions as yours excite increased violence of love.”  He

  • Humbert's Description of Lolita in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

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    obsession, moreover, is tinged with a lyric and romantic sensibility ("a splash of jaded lamplight brought out the golden down on her warm brown limbs") that characterizes Humbert's descriptions of Lolita throughout the novel. But the most significant aspect of Humbert's description of Lolita in this passage, the controlling idea guiding it, is Lolita's loss of innocence. There is a ... ... middle of paper ... ...e base lust and lechery of Quilty to become something almost sacred. This, too

  • Mughal Emperor Akbar

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    policies of integration and organization. His reforms included a liberal policy toward the non-Muslims, religious innovations, the land revenue system and the famous Mansabdari system. His policy of religious toleration became the most significant aspect during his reign. Akbar established a new religion, the Din-i-Ilahi. But Akbar’s attempt to create a national identity and a social equilibrium through his religious and political innovations was met with many obstacles and much

  • The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver

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    to the nature of the final destination of information." Shannon's ideas were based on the fundamental problem in communication, which he described as the "difficulty of reproducing at one point the message selected at another point." The most significant aspect is that the actual message sent is one "selected from a set" of possible messages. A system had to be formed to work for each possible selection. Shannon also constructed the Linear Model of Communication. It is rare to see a communication text

  • Threatening Relationships in Carver’s Cathedral

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    Threatening Relationships in Carver’s Cathedral Although many critics have written numerous accounts of Richard Carver’s "Cathedral" as being about revelation and overcoming prejudice, they have overlooked a very significant aspect: the unfolding of marital drama. The story tells of how a close outside friendship can threaten marriage by provoking insecurities, creating feelings of invasion of privacy, and aggravating communication barriers. The close outside friendship between the narrator’s

  • The Dialectic of Metafiction and Neorealism in Calvino's Baron in the Trees.

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    ambiguity of his work. Indeed, the bulk of the attention focused on Calvino's work is derived mainly from its elusiveness, and its inability to be placed into any particular category. Critics have long been divided over the polemics of his work, one significant aspect of which lies in whether or not Calvino's fiction can be considered as a fairytale or as a realist story. "realismo a carica fiabiasca" and fiaba a carica realistica" (realism infused with fairytale and fairytale infused with realism). (Cavino

  • The Existence of The New Man and Gender Roles Within Families

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    INTRODUCTION In this research study I am going to look at the topic 'Family.' This is an important issue in sociology because every person has or had a family in society. Family plays a big role in everyone's everyday life. The family is very significant aspect of society as the family is the first form of socialisation, it's the first environment a person is born into through this you learn morals, values and roles as

  • Essay on Food as a Control Mechanism in Handmaid's Tale

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    not have any writing on them at all, only basic pictures. Here it is important to recognize that handmaids, and all respectable women, in Gilead are not allowed to read. Gilead has biblical mandate for this rule, without doubt, yet the most significant aspect of the rule is its use as a control mechanism. Women are denied the power of knowledge, and hopefully, from the government's perspective, women will eventually lose all ability to gain any knowledge that is not fed to them. We see this same

  • The Baby Can Sing and Other Stories by Judith Slater

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    The Baby Can Sing and Other Stories by Judith Slater When a group of short stories is put together, in most cases there is a significant aspect in why the writer chooses certain stories and in a certain order, much like books of poetry. There is a reason to the writer's madness. If a writer has enough stories to fill a book that is so good it deserves to be printed and stay in print, they've probably written enough stories to fill two or more books and those that made it were what the author

  • Analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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    Conrad said, “ my task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel- it is, before all, to make you see.” (Crankshaw 34) In Heart of Darkness Conrad makes the reader “see” by absorbing into every aspect possible of the book images of lightness and darkness. The light and dark images of the novel contrast not only each other but them selves allowing the reader to envision the struggle one encounters once they have met with the darkness in their heart

  • Meet me in St, Louis and the Aspect of Sound

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    The Aspect of Sound in Meet Me In St. Louis In 1904 Eugene Lauste successfully recorded sound onto a piece of photographic film. This invention was known as a “Sound Grate” the results where still far to crude to be used to public display. The cameras used to film “The Talkies” as they where known, had to be kept in enormous soundproof casing. This immediately hindered directors creativity and made movies such as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) much more rigid. Because of the fascination with the lip-syncing

  • The Moral Aspect of Cloning

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    The Moral Aspect of Cloning Cloning is not new; experiments with frogs and toads go back to the 1970’ with the experiments concerning animal and plant embryos have been preformed for many years. But experiments relating to humans have never been tried or considered possible, until “Dolly” (the first fully grown mammal to be cloned). A “human clone” is an identical twin of another human being but only at a younger age. Scientist use cloning techniques in their laboratory to make copies of

  • The Artistic Aspect of Architecture

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    The Artistic Aspect of Architecture Architecture is undeniably one of the most powerful forms of art. Buildings have the ability to loom in the distance when seen from afar. As you approach it more and more details can be seen. Minute intricacies such as stone quality, texture, and perhaps some ornate detailing become apparent. Even standing at a doorway can provide some involved feelings. Does the building seem to invite the viewer inside with elaborate carvings and an open view to the

  • The Four Phases of the Human SexualResponseCycle

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    One aspect of human sexuality that sometimes goes unknown or misunderstood is the sexual response cycle of men and women. You may be wondering what exactly is a sexual response cycle. In very general terms, the sexual response cycle is the sequence of events that happens physiologically when we become sexually aroused and participate in sexually stimulating activities, including intercourse, heavy petting, masturbation, etc. Two researchers in the area of human sexuality are William Masters and

  • Human Perception

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    Human Perception: An Intimate Look Into The Most Intriguing Aspect of Modern Psychology. It determines what we see, what we do, what we feel. It controls our emotions, our thoughts, and our conscience. What is this remarkable element of the human mind? It is called perception. Perception as defined in the Merrian- Webster Dictionary as the following- 1 a : awareness of the elements of environment through physical sensation b: Physical sensation interpreted in the light of experience

  • Ethnography

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    Ethnography One of the most complex and interesting aspects of cultural anthropology is the ethnography. The idea of being able to read stories about groups of individuals is something that is intriguing to many people. With the ethnography, the authors many times feel that they have control and understanding over the individuals that they are writing about. Furthermore, many of these authors assume that the individuals among whom they are living and studying exemplify the entire society as

  • Marketing Case Study

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    Variable: This aspect of the marketing mix deals with researching consumers’ product wants and designing a product with the desired characteristics. This is a very important element of the marketing mix because it directly involves creating products and services that satisfy consumers’ needs and wants. The Place Variable: To satisfy consumers (i.e their needs and wants), products must be available at the right time and in a convenient location. In dealing with the place aspect, a marketing manager

  • comparing knowledge and thinking

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    different opportunities, different purposes, and different ways of thinking. And of course, one person cannot have the same thought train as another. As individuals, we base our thinking on what we know, or our knowledge. Our knowledge is another aspect of thought, which we have chosen to accept. Individual thinking is an essential quality that every person performs. I believe that everyone is unique and no two people can possibly be the same, that no two people can ever think the same exact thoughts

  • Community

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    distinguished by certain characteristics of mannerisms. Some of these groups could be considered cults, certain ethnic groups, religious groups or even the “class” that one belongs to. A college could even be considered as a form of community from a certain aspect. These are the things that separate us as humans from each other. An ethnic group is probably one of the easiest to distinguish from other community groups because of their derived mannerisms within that culture. One example is the Arabic community

  • Language and Woman's Place

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    Physically, men and women are obviously different; that is, men have a larger head and longer vocal cords than women do. From this point, women are stereotyped as being weak, subordinate, and minority in society. Moreover, in Lakoff’s study Language and Woman’s Place, she claims it does not matter whether women talk the way they are supposed and expected to do or not. “If they talk like a lady, they are ridiculed and thought that they are unable to think clearly and participate in a serious discussion