...In Mary Lawson’s novel Crow Lake the ponds become an important part of the plot. The pond symbolizes Kate’s childhood, the bond between Kate and Matt, and Kate’s future choice in her career. Kate’s memories of her time at the pond connect her to various events and important moments in her life. While talking about the pond, Kate mentioned “There is no image of my childhood that I carry with me more clearly than” Matt and her younger self lying on their stomachs at the edge of a pond (4). Kate stated how important their trips became to her. At the end of the novel, when Kate and Matt take Daniel to the pond, Kate had a realization. She said “The other ponds, our pond included, are just as they have always been.” (291). After many years of thinking that her brother was a failure, that Marie Pye getting pregnant ruined his chances of going to school and becoming someone with an education. Kate comes to the conclusion that she was the one who grew apart and chose to deny that everything was there just as they have always been. It is not the ponds that changed, it was Kate herself. The pond also became the bond that linked both Kate and Matt. Kate reminisced that when Matt first began to take her to the pond she was so small she had to be carried on Matt’s shoulders. Kate loved spending time with her brother; she liked that she came to known the creatures above and below the water. They spent endless hours there as...
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...In ancient Greece an educational system was based off homoeroticism. Homoeroticism was practiced between men and youth, it was a rite of passage into manhood as seen through the practices of pederasty. With this concept in mind the questions that scholars have often asked regarding whether or not Alexander the Great was homosexual have been in circulation since the idea of this modern construct has been established and it has faced its share of historical revisionism by scholars. Scholars such as Tarn and Ogden have provided their own interpretation regarding the relationship between Alexander and Hephaistion. While Reames asserts that Alexander and Hephaistion’s relationship was not fitting of the Dover model but labeling the two as homosexual is derived from a modern social construct. Carney contends that Alexander’s lack of marriage alliances-that some scholars may find telling of his disinterest in women- as evidence to form their own conclusions on whether or not Alexander was homosexual. Disagreement on marriage alliances and historical revisionism has been prevalent on this topic from the 19th century to the present...
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...different cultures and different countries to come together and execute, under his rule, the most impressive military conquests the world has ever seen. Many modern historians, including those in the ETEP module, have differing views of Alexander the Great. Some claim that he was a deranged, bloodthirsty general who only sought personal triumph, while others thought that he was a military hero who sought unity among all men. W.W. Tarn was a proponent of the latter statement, who wrote about Alexander’s lasting impact of blending culture in the East. Tarn notices that there are many conflicting sources with regards to Alexander’s triumph, and focus’s more on the positive impact that Alexander left on the Eastern world. I agree with Tarn in that Alexander’s conquers led to cultures coming together and advancing at a rate that otherwise would have been unattainable. Tarn argues that Alexander “greatly enlarged the bounds of human knowledge” and “gave to Greek science and civilization a scope and an opportunity which they had never yet possessed” (Tarn). Evidence of these opportunities is shown in the writings of Pliny, in which he tells of Alexander gathering thousands of professionals to study wildlife across new territories that led to nearly 50 volumes...
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...together in the end and explain it amongst others with the help of Poe's 'theory of totality' and symbolism. The Outside: Description of the House of Usher The description of the House of Usher can be divided into two parts. In the first one it is said that the mansion in which Roderick Usher is living together with his sister Lady Madeline lays in a grim and plain neighborhood. The narrator, who is an old childhood friend of Roderick Usher and sees and describes the scenery, tells the reader of a strong dark feeling which overcomes him, when he sees the House of Usher for the first time after a long ride during a dark autumn day. The mansion has dreary walls, vacant eye-like windows, only a few withered plants around it and a dark tarn in front of it, in which the narrator can see the mirror image of the mansion. This second look causes a stronger shudder to the narrator than the first did. The whole place is surrounded with...
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...Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire, and he is also known as one of the greatest warrior in History. Tarn explain “Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind” (pg 348). During the ancient Greek, leader were consider king and queen and Alexander was oring connect to Philip, Demetrist and other descent before he. Alexander in light of what he believed were his philosophical belief. Alexander pray for peace harmony and unity between the Persian and the Greeks at Opis. According to Raleigh lecture “Alexander the Great and the Unity of mankind” (Raleigh, 1933). Alexander philosophy is that “kinship or brotherhood of mankind are men, brothers and sons of God” however he is more convinced that God made him has one of the best one. He also belief that “all men were sons of one father and his prayer was the expression of his recorded belief that he had a mission from God to be the Reconciler of the world”.Alexander multiple believe have shaped his actions because he think like a warrior, and a reconciler of the world. Tarn...
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...also ill。The narrator try every possible method to cheer his friend, and Roderick sings "The Haunted Palace", then tells the narrator that he believes the house he lives in to be sentient有感情的.Roderick later informs the narrator that his sister has died and insists that she be entombed for two weeks in a family tomb in the house before being permanently buried. The narrator helps Roderick put the body in the tomb, and he notice something strange. Then the writer use a storm to introduce the climax of the story. Both the narrator and Roderick notices that the tarn surrounding the house seems to glow in the dark although there is no lightning. The bedroom door is then blown open to reveal Madeline standing there. The narrator then flees the house and roderick is scared to death. At the end, a flash of light cause the narrator to look back upon the House of Usher, in time to watch it break in two, the fragments sinking into the tarn. "The Fall of the House of Usher" was published widely in the September 1839 issue of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. "The Fall of the House of Usher" is considered the best example of Poe's "totality", where every element and detail is related and relevant.[1] "The Fall of the House of Usher" shows Poe's ability to create an emotional tone in his work, specifically feelings of fear, doom, and guilt.[2] These...
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...DIE MEUTEREI VON OPIS (ARRIAN VII, 8; ii, M. LEWIS I-7) Alexander versammelte - so berichtet Arrian (8, i) - nach der Ankunft in Opis die Makedonen und gab bekannt, daB er die wegen ihres Alters oder k6rperlicher Schaden kriegsuntauglichen Soldaten entlasse und nach Hause T?'c wo'epou5 schicke. Dann heiBt es weiter: &e'=UacL 8i tLvouatv 6am m'Uro6r k4 TrO hiLV r&v ,nOLtaeL tOLg OLXOLxat T0u5 &Xtouq Maxe86v%q 4op.L'= u,rv xLv8u'vv re xot' i6v&v 'eTrXEv.Da Arrian spater (I2, i) berichtet, daB die abziehenden Veteranen zusaitzlichein Talent bekamen, wird man wohl aus das Wort pLvouaLv dem Text streichen mussen2. Im nachsten Satz wird Alexanders Verhalten erlautert: er sagte dies, um den Soldaten einen Gefallen zu tun. Dann wird auf die Reaktion der Soldaten ' The good manuscript S has Ockov for N&xov in Plut. Them. 25. 2, a passage which foUows Thucydides I I37 very closely. It is tempting (see Gomme I p. 398) to suggest that Plutarch had a manuscript reading ()&cov in this passage, and there is some reason to believe that Plutarch's library contained manuscripts differing from the vulgate of his day. (See G. Pasquali, Storia della tradizione e critica del testo, Florence, 1934, p. 214 n. 3. The evidence for P.'s text of T. is scanty, but there are one or two passages which deserve more consideration than they have received.) A journey from Macedonia to Ephesus is more likely to touch at Thasos than at Naxos, and we are spared the hypothesis that Themistocles...
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...BRIEFLY EXPLAIN ITS CONSTITUENT PARTS; NAMELY MONEY MARKET, THE INVESTMENT DEMAND CARVE, AND FINALLY THE 45 DEGREE LINE PRODUCT MARKET MODEL. THEY WOALD BE EXPECTED TO BRIEFLY DESCRIBE THE EFFECT OF AN INCREASE IN MONEY SAPPLY WHEN THE ASSET DEMAND CURVE FOR MONEY IS RELATIVLY FLAT AND THE INVESTMENT DEMAND CT]RVE IS RELATIVELY STEEP. BETTER ANSWERS WOALD EXPLAIN WHAT THE LATTER 2 SLOPES INDCATE ABOUT THE PARTICULAR MARKETS. ANSWERING THIS QAESTION STUDENTS SHOALD IDENTIFY THE 2 PARTICULAR WEAKNESSES THAT CHARACTERISE THE TRADITIONAL TRANSMISSION MECHANISM. THE ARTE THE 2 PROBLEMS OF TryHEN INTERDEPENDENT VARIABLES AND IN TARN UNCERTAIN OR ANPREDICTABLE OR INDETERMINATE OUTCOMES OR RESALTS. OK. AS PART OF THEIR ANSWERS STADENTS SHOULD CERTAINLY MENTION THE FEEDBACK EFFECT OR THE RELATION BETWEEN CHANGES IN GDP OR Y, AND IN TARN CHANGES IN THE LEVEL OF TRANSACTIONS DEMAND FOR MONEY. FINALLY STUDENTS SHOALD EXPLAIN THE IS.LM MODEL BRIEFLY AND SHOW THE EFFECTS...
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...skuffelse. | |533,3 m høj fra bund til top | |CN Tower - CN står for Canadian National - knejser stolt på Torontos skyline og tårnet kan ses stort set fra alle vinkler af byen. De 533,3 | |meters højde på CN Tower gør, at du altid kan bruge tårnet som pejlemærke, næsten uanset hvor du befinder dig i Toronto. | |Det er arkitekten John Andrews, der står bag CN Tower. Tårnet kom til verden i begyndelsen af 1970'erne,| |da Canada nationale jernbaneselskab, Canadian National, ville bygge et radio- og tv-tårn. Et højt tårn har som | |bekendt altid været en hurtig genvej til omtale og berømmelse, og det gjaldt også i Torontos tilfælde. Desværre løb budgettet løbsk, så CN | |Tower endte med at blive adskillige millioner kroner dyrere end først antaget. Det gav selvsagt masser af omtale. | |...
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...UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA Last Time Glaciers and Glacial Mechanics • • Types of glaciers (alpine) Formation of glacial ice • Movement of ice GY 301: Geomorphology Lecture 22: Glacial Geomorphology 1: Alpine Glaciers http://www.roberts-1.com/t/s07 Glaciers Glaciers are thick masses of ice that originate on land through the accumulation of snow. Glaciers Glaciers are thick masses of ice that originate on land through the accumulation of snow. Glaciers form through a 3 step process Snow Firn Glacial Ice All that is required is for more snow to fall in the cold winter months than melts in the warm summer months. http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/25/4a/ee/in-the-mountains-above.jpg http://www.ig.utexas.edu Alpine Glaciers Alpine or Valley Glaciers (Zone of Accumulation; Zone of Wasting/Ablation, Calving,) Ice Movement Ice moves down slope from the zone of accumulation to the zone of ablation due to a combination of plastic flow and basal slip. http://www.scienceclarified.com/images/uesc_05_img0282.jpg http://stloe.most.go.th/html/lo_index/LOcanada3/305/images/5_2.jpg http://nevis.k12.mn.us/academics/science/glacier_hor_profile1.jpg 1 Ice Movement Ice moves down slope from the zone of accumulation to the zone of ablation due to a combination of plastic flow and basal slip. Slip Geological Effects of Glaciers Ice exerts tremendous erosive force on bedrock forming unique geomorphologic features and transporting...
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...Katie Valdesuso November 30, 2010 ENGL 439 Prof. Allan R. Life The Evocation of Terror in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher In his Philosophy of Composition, Edgar Allan Poe informs us that he begins writing with “the consideration of an effect” (430). Most of Poe’s poetry and fiction exemplifies his assertion that a preconceived effect upon a reader is undoubtedly fundamental to his creative work. Poe’s tales of terror in particular epitomize the supremacy of his craft in that each component of his narrative strategy functions to achieve the final effect of generating unmitigated terror in his readers. Focusing primarily on The Fall of the House of Usher, I argue that Poe employs a preconceived narrative strategy that ultimately functions to evoke terror; I assert that Poe elicits fear to challenge us to reexamine out perceptions of ostensibly impossible circumstances and recognize the limits of our intellect. I will first examine the aspects of Poe’s narrative style that culminate to achieve his desired effect of the evocation of terror. I will then analyze the narrator’s response to this evocation of terror and how this emergent response elicits fear in the reader. Last, I will illustrate how the narrator’s evolving response is emulated in the style through which the tale is narrated. In The Fall of the House of Usher, Poe tactically exploits a first person narrator, setting, imagery, and tone to achieve a “unity of effect,” the aforethought effect...
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...Briana Eng 201 Final Paper 20 April 2015 Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher: Literary Elements Exemplify Gothic Style As the Romantic Movement swept through nineteenth century American literature, Edgar Allan Poe emerged as one of the central literary figures of the Romantic era. Along with other authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Poe’s Romantic style of writings often introduced his readers to the dark side of literature present during the time. As Poe sets out to explore and expose different elements of darkness within humanity, he familiarizes his readers with the experience of fear and horror that are so commonly present throughout his works. As a result of the recurrent themes of fear, horror and mystery that he elicits through his writings, Poe is often credited as one of the most important writers of Gothic fiction, an extension of the romantic style of writing. While most of his works of fiction are told from the perspective of a first person narrator, in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher he implores the use of the peripheral narrator to introduce his readers to the many elements in the story that exemplify his distinctly gothic style. By allowing readers into the mind of the narrator, Poe gives his audience the opportunity to discover, analyze and interpret different key literary devices used to highlight important characteristics that classify the gothic style of writing. Utilizing the peripheral narrators experience with mystery and suspense allows...
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...By burying her, he splits himself off from actual life. Physical life is not so easily suppressed, and Madeline returns from her underground tomb to unite her dying body with Roderick’s idealized spirit. The story nears its horrifying climax, art and reality become even more intertwined. As the narrator reads to Roderick from a gothic romance, sounds referred to in the story are echoed in actuality as the entombed Madeline breaks out of her vault and stalks up the steps to confront her twin brother. Madeline, Roderick, and the house all fall into the dark tarn, the abyss of nothingness, and become as if they had never been. In Poe’s aesthetic universe, the price the artist must pay for cutting himself off from the external world is annihilation ” (F.Quinn...
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...og i ruiner efter krigen. Soldaterne beordrede to, for at fylde nogle dokumenter med deres oplysninger om deres alder, navn og nationalitet. Den gamle mand ikke ved, hvor gammel den lille dreng var, som drengen fik af sin mor, der aldrig vendte tilbage til ham. Derfor besluttede de at fejre drengens fødselsdag næste dag, og den gamle mand ønsker at tage ham til skoven udenfor byen. Den gamle mand skaber en vogn til at spille med, for den dreng, der ser det som en tank. På vej til skoven, ser den lille dreng en gammel tank, som han kan lide. Den gamle mand bliver irriteret, fordi drengen er fascineret af soldater og ting forbundet med krig. De to tager en lur, og da den gamle mand vågner op, drengen er væk, men finder ham gemmer sig i et tårn. Antal ord: 173 2. Karakteriser drengen og den gamle mand. Drengen blev født efter Anden Verdenskrig, så han er omkring 7 år gammel. Hans alder, navn og nationalitet er ukendt. Drengens mor var sandsynligvis en flygtning, der har leveret sit barn til den gamle mand, fordi hun frygtede for sit liv. Drengen har levet hele sit liv i en ødelagt by i en kælder. Derfor han ikke har den samme opfattelse af soldater, tanks og krig som den gamle mand, som tager sig af ham. Drengen er fascineret af soldater, som mange børn er i deres...
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...the House of Usher In the beginning I thought this story would be very difficult for me, so I read the Chinese translation version first. Actually at that time I couldn’t understand it and the impression that it left with me was vague. I still dwelled on the end part of the story and I found this kind of fiction is much to my appetite, so I read the original edition of it. Now I would like to write down my reflections of this story in three aspects. Firstly, I find the symbolism is adopted in this fiction. The title is the fall of the House of Usher. I think the fall not only refer to the house’s collapse, but also the fall of the Usher family. The house also refers to both the house and the family. Besides, the bridge over the tarn symbolizes “I” who is the narrator in this fiction. It also means the bridge like the narrator is the only connection for Usher family to outside world. The ghastly images inside is a hint of the madness of Roderick and Madeline. Secondly, the description of atmosphere in the fall of the House of Usher is very carefully. Many words are repeated in the description like ghastly, fancy, agitation etc. I think these descriptions and repetitions emphasis the Gothic horror. They help readers to draw a picture of the house in their mind — typical Gothic architecture, ghastly gallery… When I read these description, I connected them with supernatural power. It is plausible that Roderick's sickness is a result of the atmosphere surrounding the...
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