Similarity Essays

  • Similarity Esaay

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    It's so cute. After redrawing my first monkey by resizing it, the second monkey is smaller but definitely similar. If two figures are similar, they are the same shape but may be different sizes. Shapes can be made smaller or larger through dilation, a transformation using a scale factor to create a similar image. This is what I have done with my monkey (on the graph paper). My original image, Figure 1, has been shrunk to a smaller and similar image by using a scale factor of ½, as shown in Figure

  • Differences And Similarities Of Liberalism

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    Differences and Similarities of Liberalism The purpose of this paper is to treat the similarly and differences of liberalism. I will use John Locke and Adam Smith to represent classical liberals. John Stuart Mill and John Maynard Keynes will be used to show contemporary liberals. John Locke In John Locke's Second Treatise of Government he develops a theory of government as a product of a social contract, which when broken justifies the creation of a new government for the protection of life,

  • Differences and Similarities in Hamlet

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    Differences and Similarities in Hamlet (1) Shakespeare’s play Hamlet [Titles] uses character flaws and strong emotions to highlight strengths and weaknesses in his characters. He also uses differences and similarities between characters to force action along the path he intends the story to travel. This technique is called using foils. The likes or dislikes of one character for another can completely alter the direction of the story. For example, love of a son for his father can be twisted

  • Similarities between Creon and ANtigone

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    Similarities between Creon and Antigone In Sophocles’ play Antigone, Creon was engaged in a conflict with Oedipus’ daughter Antigone. Creon and Antigone did not see eye-to-eye the entire play due to extreme differences. Creon and Antigone had many similarities despite their enormous discrepancies. Having as many differences as they did, it made them uniquely similar in numerous ways. The similarities that Antigone and Creon shared were independence, loyalty toward their views, cruelty and arrogance

  • Differences and Similarities of Short Stories

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    Differences and Similarities of Short Stories In this essay I will be comparing the differences and similarities of four short stories I have read, , 'The Signalman', The Red Room', 'The Man with the Twisted Lip' and 'The Withered Arm' also I will be looking at how the writers have created an atmosphere. The four stories are all of mystery and try to keep the reader gripped until the end, all have areas in which there is suspense. In 'The Signalman' Charles Dickens keeps the reader in

  • Surprising Similarities and Striking Differences

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    Surprising Similarities and Striking Differences Daniel Defoe wrote Moll Flanders in 1722, almost one hundred years before Charlotte Bronte finished Jane Eyre. Despite the difference in the times of writing, they bore apparent similarities. Nevertheless the writers adopted different techniques to portrait two heroines. The two novels were both growth novels, to a certain extent, which depicted the changes of the heroines as they grew up. In order to illustrate the changes, the authors employed

  • Similarities And Differences Between Thanksgiving

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    This is my Thanksgiving and other people’s Thanksgiving. I will be telling you guys the similarities and differences between my Thanksgiving and the people I talked to yesterday. This is just my introduction but I am just saying what the similarities and differences between other people Thanksgivings are. Some of the food similarities and differences. So for me on the food is that I eat the traditional regular food like turkey mashed potatoes and green beans and the dinner rolls. For Bryce he

  • Differences and Similarities: Apollo and Dionysus

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    Differences and Similarities: Apollo and Dionysus In Greek Mythology a rivalry always occurs between certain Gods and Goddesses. In the case of Apollo and Dionysus there is no exception. They are half brothers, both sons of Zues and they compete just as most brothers do. Though the two Greek Gods, Apollo and Dionysus, were actually very similar in some ways, they severely contrasted in others. Dionysus, son of Zues and Semele and Apollo, son of Zues and Leto, both were born under strange

  • Similarities Between Slaves And Convicts

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    Convicts vs Slaves I’ve chosen to study the similarities and differences of the slaves within the slave industry and the convicts, focusing more on the work they did, punishment and also how they would be transported from place to place. It has been shown that there can be quite a few differences between the both of them, yet they can also have the few similarities every so often. For the slaves, it definitely was not an easy life working upon the plantations what so ever, after you had finally made

  • Similarities Between Fahrenheit 451 And Today

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    their guilty pleasures due to what others think. A difference between the societies is that thinking is punished for in Fahrenheit 451 while in the world today you're encouraged to think by elders but discouraged by your peers. An example of similarities is how the society today and the society of Fahrenheit 451 focused on social status. Social status is a “person's standing or importance in relation to other people within a society.”

  • Similarities of hip-hop and the blues

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    Rapping the Blues: The Similarities of hip-hop and the blues Hip-hop is one of the major music genres of today like the blues were in the 1950's. Stanley Crouch views hip-hop as being vulgar and obscene while he sees the blues as being one of the classic music genres. In actuality, these two genres are similar in many ways. A very important part of Stanley Crouch's life is his love for the blues. Many of his essays are related to or have aspects of the blues contained within them. Crouch

  • The Sitcom - Similarities between Ourselves and the Characters

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    The Sitcom - Similarities between Ourselves and the Characters A sitcom, short for situation comedy, is a comic television series made up of episodes involving the same group of characters in a recurring situation. When watching a sitcom one sees characters deal with life in an unmethodical, irrational, but humorous style. The ability to bring laughter out of situations dates back to variety shows, but dedicating a whole program around a group of characters is fairly new considering the long

  • Similarities And Differences Between Billy Elliot And Kes

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    Similarities And Differences Between Billy Elliot And Kes In this essay I am comparing the two films Kes, made in 1969 and set in the 1960's and Billy Elliot, made in 2000 and set in the 1970's. Both of which have the same location, Northern England and both have a strong relation to a working class environment where coal mining was the main source of employment. The films are similar in terms of community, family, and the characterisation of Billy, the central character in both films. The

  • Similarities And Differences Of Characters In The Sound And The Fury

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    The Sound and the Fury is a compelling story that shows different aspects of a family that is slowly deteriorating. William Faulkner made it clear that one of the most important aspects of this novel is the theme of loss. Faulkner gave the views of four different individuals who all had one main obsession, their sister Caddy, who in a way symbolizes the loss that each person endures and the deterioration of the south. Caddy, who did not have a part in the novel to tell her side of the story,

  • Similarities Between Dante's Inferno And A Christmas Carol

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    Dante’s Inferno and A Christmas Carol both have similarities and differences between them. These stories both talk about different things and almost have similar ideas such as three different categories found in the stories. The three categories that have many similarities and differences include the spirit guide, theme and the structural elements throughout the story. The stories both take place in an era that dealt with ghosts and spirits and the supposed underworld or hell. The stories both talk

  • Similarities between the music of Debussy and the painting of Turner

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    Similarities between the music of Debussy and the painting of Turner The music of Claude Debussy and the painting of J.M.W. Turner are, in most people's minds, two entirely different things. However, each man was considered the founder of impressionism in his own artform. Impressionism was a movement in late 19th century European art, which was a reflection of the realizations in physics about the properties of light. Turner's atmospheric paintings and Debussy's tone poems, although different forms

  • Similarities Between the War in Iraq and the Vietnam War

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    Similarities Between the War in Iraq and the Vietnam War As time passes, every society endures situations which stress its' very fabric. Each societies' history is sprinkled with these situations. One such situation which the United States underwent was the Vietnam war. For years this particular event has been hotly debated. Hardly anyone who was present at the time agrees on any point concerning this war, except that they regret it. It has become 'the greatest American foreign policy calamity

  • Similarities And Differences Between The Arab Culture And The Arabic Culture

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    their own unique twists on how they communicate in comparison to other cultures. After the completion of an interview with Nabil Haddad, a retired High School science teacher from Lebanon, and the Arabic culture, it was analyzed that there are many similarities and differences between the communication styles between the Arabic culture throughout the middle east, and ours in the United States. After completing analysis of the interview, it was deduced that these two cultures have some major differences

  • Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And West Side Story

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    differences within the plot, especially the ending. West Side Story is viewed as a copy of Romeo and Juliet, even though it is a musical whereas Romeo and Juliet is a playwright. However these stories do have almost the same basic plot. There are many similarities and differences between West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet. These stories are similar in many ways, so much it is kinda hard to miss some of the iconic scenes stolen from Romeo and Juliet. For example the balcony scene happened after the party

  • Similarities Of Characters In Lord Of The Flies And Farenhite 451

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    some ways. In Fahrenheit 451 the characters are Montag, Faber, Clarisse, and Beatty. In Lord of the Flies the characters are Ralph, Piggy, Simon and Jack. Jack and Beatty, Ralph and Montag, Simon and Clarisse, and Piggy and Faber all have some similarities. Jack and beatty both want to take control over everyone and sells fear. Ralph and Montag want to move on and find a better plan to make everything work. Simon and Clarisse are Christ-figures. Piggy and Faber are very intellectual and are wise