...Descent Into Hell Who or what is Lilith and what is her role in the book? According to Charles Williams, Lilith is the apparition of all that one desires; she promises to give health, money, life, and even love but gives only false hope. She is the seductress, disguised as an old lady, who guards the grand gate of Gomorrah (Descent Into Hell 204). Williams describes Lilith as such, “Their enchantress sat there, the last illusion still with her, the illusion of love itself; she could not believe her breasts were dry. She desired infinitely to seem give suck; she would be kind and good, she who did not depend, on whom others had depended…” (207). She is not real love, but merely the chimera of love, and does not give true life. Williams further describes her, “She would not see and she would not go to the door because of that unacknowledged crowd, but she sat there, cut off from earth she had in her genius so long universally inhabited, gazing, waiting, longing for some of the living to enter, to ask her for oblivion and the shapes with which she enchanted oblivion” (207). She deceives people and gives them want they think they most desire; she traps people with their fantasies and then pulls them down into Hell (208). Lilith is portrayed as a weak, depressed old woman who guards the gate to Hades and who promises to care, nurture one’s soul, and to give what one desires. However, what she promises is actually void and empty; she really intends to starve and deprive people...
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...“Oedipus the King”( 430 B.C.) is a play written by Sophocles that tells of a tragedy in ancient Greek. After a plague breaks out over the entire kingdom, along with his wife, Jocasta, Oedipus and his kingdom learns that no matter what one cannot escape fate. Oedipus, the king of Thebes, shows great oblivion, loyalty, and determination. We first see Oedipus show oblivion, When he is so oblivious to the fact that he killed his father and married his mother. For example, Teiresias says, “Since you have taunted me with being blind, here is my word for you. You have your eyes but see not where you are in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.” Teiresias is telling Oedipus although he is blind at least he is not like Oedipus who can see...
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...novel “The Fault In Our Stars” meet with the traditions of old to become a classic, a great work of literature? “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London a great piece of American literature is still read today. “The Call of the Wild”, is just one example of a historical classic work of American literature which has stood the test of time because it contained the elements recognized not only by publishers but by the public. Literature went through specific periods that changed the way author’s presented their poetry or novels to the world. A few of these writing...
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...| | Scene | Omoh’s room #1. | Characters | Omoh, Prof Osato. | Whose scene is it? | Omoh. | What does s/he want? | To be surprised with the miracle of a new life. | Forces of Antagonism | Her dad. | What do they want? | To hold onto his life (Omoh). | Backstory | It’s been 9 years since Itohan died and 19 years since Mrs. Osato passed on during child bearing of the twins, the officiating doctor being Prof Osato. | Spines | Film’s spine: To live individual lives.Omoh’s spine: To start a new life.Prof Osato: To hold unto this life. | Dynamic relationships | Omoh – Prof Osato: Her nostalgia.Prof Osato – Omoh: His penultimate treasure. | Activity | | Sound | Twinkle twinkle little star, melancholic theme song #1. | Costume | Night gown, tomboyish attire (colour blocking), suit | Notable props in scene | Rotating fan, window blinds, cosmetics, toys, teddy bear, glasses, medical textbook, notepad, mug, wall clock, steaming cup of tea. | Jobs to highlight in the scene | * Introduction of strong POV for flashback scene. * Entrance of blinds * Entrance of dressing table (with cosmetics & toys). * Familiar image of teddy bear (Entrance) * Omoh’s Entrance. * Entrance of glasses. * Geography of room. * Prof’s pre-entrance. * Entrance of clock. * Exit of Prof Osato | Acting beats: Slow fade in… The room is shadowy. TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR DRIFTS FROM SPACE… (WIDE on fan) Cam JERKS as the observer GETS UP. (TILT to wall. PAN to blind) It pulls...
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...Jheny Haynes Dr. Mary Barnes English 101 9 December 2014 Exploring Life in Death The meaning of facing death is explored in The Fault in Our Stars in the lives of Hazel and Augustus throughout the book; in a way to push them forward to live, and make a meaning out of it. In the book both Hazel and Augusts were trying to find a reason to live. For Hazel, she could have easily just given up and waited to die; instead she let herself live and fall in love with Augusts which was really hard for her. In the book Augustus told Hazel “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.” (Green 153) at that very moment Hazel found a reason to live and a reason to explore life in way that she did not before. Green’s intention was to show the readers that even if you are faced with death you should not just roll over and give up, but instead live to the fullest, and not let something hold you back. In the book Augustus says “If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won’t get either a life or a death that means anything.” (Green...
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...Research and Development of Freeform Gameplay in Computer Games Contextual Report Contents Section 1: Introduction………………………………………………………… | 1 | 1.1 The Project……………………………………………………………... | 1 | 1.1.1 Project Key Words…………………………………………… | 1 | 1.1.2 What is Freeform Gameplay?.............................. | 1 | 1.1.3 Project Goal…………………………………………………….. | 1 | 1.1.4 Project Context……………………………………………….. | 2 | 1.1.5 Project Objectives…………………………………………… | 3 | 1.1.6 Techniques for Realisation………………………………. | 3 | 1.1.7 Structure of This Report………………………………….. | 4 | Section 2: The Contextual Review……………………………………….. | 6 | 2.1 Market Research…………………………………………………….. | 6 | 2.1.1 Categorisation of Gameplay Elements…………….. | 6 | 2.1.2 Game Comparisons…………………………………………. | 8 | 2.1.3 Comparison Analysis………………………………………. | 9 | 2.2 Market Surveys……………………………………………………….. | 11 | 2.2.1 Target Audience……………………………………………… | 11 | 2.2.2 Survey Approach…………………………………………….. | 11 | 2.2.3 Questionnaire…………………………………………………. | 12 | 2.2.4 Survey Results………………………………………………… | 12 | Section 3: Project Planning………………………………………………….. | 17 | 3.1 Design Blueprints……………………………………………………. | 17 | 3.1.1 Design Approach……………………………………………...
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...78) How much has his desire for the beautiful Kamala affect him? He saw his life became everything he attempted to avoid. His only solution was to leave everything that was ieing him to his misery including Kamala. His heart became full of grief and misery to the point where he believed there was only one solution. “He wished passionately for oblivion, to be at rest, to be dead. If only a flash of lightning would strike him! If only a tiger would come and eat him! If there were only some wine, some poison, that would give him oblivion, that would make him forget, that would make him sleep and never awaken!” (pg....
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...Essay on Rand’s Ideas Ayn Rand states in her essay that there is an alternative between being either an altruist, who will sacrifice their lives for complete strangers, and being cold egoist who would not lift a finger to help anyone. Ayn developed a theory which known as Objectivism, which means that those that follow that will only pursue their own happiness and will only sacrifice themselves for those they love or hold interest in. She states that just because one is not willing to sacrifice their life for a complete stranger, it does not mean that they are cold and self centered, only that they hold more respect for their own lives or those of the ones they love. Rand’s ideas on Objectivism may not have fit very well in to the moral world we live in today. For example, take our military service member’s, if they were not altruists, who would defend our country in these times of war. If everyone only fended for themselves and for their own happiness, who would join the military. Our service members risk their lives every day, especially during this war on terrorism, they are sacrificing themselves for perfect strangers. If they were not altruistic individuals, how else would our country stay safe. Ayn Rand and her followers believed that the military draft was not right and went against individual rights. In the “In the lecture, “The Wreckage of the Consensus,” Rand specifically argues against withdrawal from Vietnam, calling it an act of “appeasement”: To continue...
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...birthday. I must be happy. I must shake off my depression and attempt to enjoy and revel in the astronomical splendor of the day; or at the very least, pretend to. And what is it, which I’m being asked to celebrate? What is so exceptional about a birthday? A day I cannot even remember. A day with no memorable significance. A day of ‘what’ and ‘how’, but no ‘why’. A day, stripped of its conventional festivity, holds no sense, and no memory which I can take to my grave. What should I celebrate then? Is it the celebration of the culmination of nine months, and more, of struggle which my parents braved?; the sacrifices they made and the pain my mother endured?; the ‘happiness’ which ‘they’ felt when they heard me cry for the first time?; The only time my tears brought a smile to their face. Then why am ‘I’ being celebrated? My adolescent birthday plans have rarely included them. The wishes, the gifts, the celebrations, the fiesta; it has always been about me. When it never was, and never will be. On the last occasion, I spent the day locking myself up in my room. Distancing myself from all calls and refusing every opportunity of merriment. The next day I had my board examination. When I returned from that chemistry exam, I spent...
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...Li-Young Lee's "This Room and Everything in It" [pic] “it had something to do / with death… it had something / to do with love”: The Eroticism of Memory in “This Room and Everything in It” Li-Young Lee’s “This Room and Everything in It” explores human memory as inherently erotic, in other words, as grounded in the restless vicissitudes of human desire. The act of memory figured in Lee’s poem involves the desire to transcend desire so as to reach a state of perfection in which the fundamental connection between love and death can be remembered. In the end, though, desire slips through memory’s fragile constructions and resumes its pre-rational primacy in the “room” that is human life. The principal trope at work in “This Room and Everything in It” centers upon the ancient art of memory, the practice of utilizing a multifaceted, imaginatively complex topos in which to store various items or facts wished to be remembered. The memorial topos, in addition to featuring a “room” of some sort – an internal dwelling through which the person practicing the art of memory could move in imagination, associating the items to be remembered with the unchanging characteristics of the room – also commonly involved a fully developed cosmology in which various divine figures were utilized as mnemonic objects. This ancient art reveals the inherent bi-directional connection between imagination and memory: humans imagine so as to remember and remember so as to imagine. In Lee’s poem, however, the...
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...Crista Alejandra Rodriguez Piche ENG 120: Dr. Kwa Essay #1 The Fear of Oblivion: Mary Cantwell's mixed feelings against her fear of moving on Mary Cantwell had an incredibly fortunate childhood, full of love and support, but mostly a great family. She describes her home as a place filled with family, love and traditions created by themselves, and besides being her home, it became her fortress but also became her own confinement place, making her a memory dependent women and scared of the outside world. Now, after 77 years in her family, the house is being sold, giving Mary the opportunity to move on. As Mary Cantwell grew older, she could have use all those special memories with her family that remained in her heart, to build a new one, instead of letting them stuck her in the past, making her stumble in life. Growing up as blessed as Mary did, with love and support, can be the most satisfying experience, Cantwell writes "Home was where members of my family, some of whom were long gone, were forever baking apple pies, smoking pipes while patting the dog, reading The Providence Evening Bulletin and crocheting elaborate bedspreads.", since not everyone is so fortunate to have the life, and especially the childhood Mary had, additionally with the family she describes, Mary could take its own definition of 'home', and apply it with her husband and children, and show them that all things are temporary and that the family is forever, as Cantwell writes “after our morning dip our...
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...After finding her sister crying in bed, she instinctively asks, “Did you get a whipping?” ( Morrison 98). When Frieda informs her that she hasn’t, Claudia immediately retorts, “Then why are you crying?” This moment with her sister shows the oblivion Claudia faces to the oppressive upbringing she has come to condone. To Claudia, she has come to believe that crying can only be the result of a beating while all other emotions aren’t-and shouldn’t be- capable of having crying result. This also in tum shows her parents’ emotional and, to an extent, physical, negligance towards her, because she is incapable of understanding that sorrow not only comes from the physical pain of a lashing, bu tas well as other mental and emotional pains that couldn’t be understood from her (oppresssed) mindset. This naive and distorted mindset is further shown when Frieda finally admits to being touched by Mr. Henry, embarrassed and “put-out” (Morrison 99) with her sister’s indifferent attitude. Instead of understanding Frieda’s distress-“I [Claudia] wasn’t asking the right questions” (Morrison 99)- Claudia persisted, asking “But wasn’t it supposed to? Feel good, I mean?” (Morrison 99). Claudia's assumption...
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...Hersheys bars. Cherrios. Coca cola drinks. All deadly delicious; every one of them loaded genetically manipulated ingredients that planted in a monocrop manner and sprayed with carcinogenic pesticides, causing a detrimental effect on the environment, biodiversity and the sustainability of all species--to the oblivion of many Americans. Biologist Rachel Carson reveals the consequences of similar poisons purging on the natural world in her book, Silent Spring, in which she uses a myriad of rhetorical strategies such as diction, syntax, and pathos in order to convey the gravity of Earth’s current situation to her readers. From the opening passage, Carson is quick to jump to the tone of the disgust when she immediately correlates the words...
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...Realistic Love Love is as fundamental an element of life as of literature. Many would expect love to be noble and moral, but it does take less conventional forms in reality because love is involuntary and, like human nature, cannot be controlled. Different types of love may enlighten or consume people, yet it is beyond doubt that the beauty of love lies in its inevitable power of changing people. And the complexity brought by reality does not impact any of it. In “The Lady with The Little Dog” by Anton Chekhov, the extramarital love between Gurov and Anna is exhibited by the transformation of Gurov in terms of his perspective about women and about life. In the very beginning, Anna is described as “nobody knew who she was, and they called her simply ‘the lady with the little dog’”(361). This is, when Gurov is still a chauvinistic man who has been trapped in a loveless marriage for years. It may disgust the reader when it is indicated that he is an experienced seducer. His affairs always end badly, but he cannot resist starting new ones. His doomed adulteries have made him cynical and bitter. Gurov is unfavorablely characterized with manipulation, misogyny, and immorality, and yet Chekhov refuses to simplify his protagonist as a stock villain. Gurov is a creature of contradiction. For example, his way of belittling women, indicated by “almost always spoke ill of women”, “an inferior race”(362), accompanies an inexorable preference for their company. Gurov can...
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...cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. There are a lot of opinions concerning the proper division of man’s life. Someone names three stages, someone names four but according to Shakespeare or to be precise according to Jacques’ speech in As...
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