Essays Tagged: "attempts"

Vincent Van Gogh - a speech in first person.

fell in love with the daughter of the landlady. This was my first in what was to be many disastrous attempts to land a wife and in trying so hard to find a wife I began to slack at my work and was fir ...

(3 pages) 110 0 4.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: Art Essays

Advertising and art

t bring out two factors in any work of art, namely objective facts of the subject which the artists attempts to bring out in his analysis and the synthesis of the results of that analysis. A photograp ...

(10 pages) 365 0 2.8 Sep/1996

Subjects: Art Essays

Pornography - - Sex or Subordination?

s hoping to discover the root of his violent actions and sexual frustrations.Many theories arose in attempts to explain the motivational factors behind his murderousescapades. However, the strongest a ...

(9 pages) 331 2 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Hamlet. Summary of the Play.

e Horatio is astudent, they feel he should be able to communicate with the ghost, andtheir previous attempts to talk with it have failed. Horatio's attemptsalso fail. The scene ends with Horatio stati ...

(18 pages) 305 1 4.8 Oct/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

An Analysis of the Opening of Canto XXVIII

a demon with a sword. Dante poses a question to the reader:Who, even with untrammeled words and manyattempts at telling, ever could recountin full the blood and wounds that I now saw? (Lines 1-3)The r ...

(6 pages) 100 0 4.2 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Growing Pains

nd to ally themselves with the evil predicament in which Hamlet findshimself. Hamlet makes multiple attempts to avenge his father's murder, but each failsbecause his father's murder, but each fails be ... nd to ally themselves with the evil predicament in which Hamlet findshimself. Hamlet makes multiple attempts to avenge his father's murder, but each failsbecause his father's murder, but each fails be ...

(7 pages) 58 0 4.6 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

The Role of Women in the Church

et the Bible more literally have been slow to adopt such changes. Much of the confusion is based on attempts tointerpret scriptures pertaining to women. In this essay, we will use the Bible to underst ...

(7 pages) 121 0 4.1 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Beloved, by Toni Morrison

novel the most extreme case of someone avoiding enslavement comes from the main character when she attempts to kill her children. The main character , Sethe, is not willing to let her children end up ...

(3 pages) 186 0 3.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

The Role of Women in the Church

et the Bible more literally have been slow to adopt such changes. Much of the confusion is based on attempts to interpret scriptures pertaining to women. In this essay, we will use the Bible to unders ...

(8 pages) 121 0 3.9 May/1995

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

A review of "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant

ork which explores the often controversial questions of death. Within his well written lines Bryant attempts to show the relationship between death's eternal questions and the ongoing cycle of nature ...

(2 pages) 7765 0 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Nightclubs and Drugs

ut into the war against drugs, why is there little success?Lack of effort is not a major reason our attempts are failing. It is the lack ofunderstanding that leads to the misdirection and failure of o ...

(6 pages) 92 0 4.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Smoking Cessation....

duals across the three groups who had high levels of self-efficacy was related not to the number of attempts to quit, but the success of the attempts, while 'the role of Health Locus of Control [was f ... on Self-Efficacy Among Smokers was an experiment designed to examine the association of past failed attempts at quitting smoking, with Self- Attribution and Self-efficacy.One hundred and twenty-one ma ...

(11 pages) 213 0 3.3 Jan/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Learning from Data

two groups: Theory driven and data driven. Theory-driven learning, often called hypothesis testing, attempts to substantiate or disprove preconceived ideas. Theory-driven learning tools require the us ... in "The value ranges from 2 to 8."SamplingCreating a subset of data from the whole. Random sampling attempts to represent the whole by choosing the sample through a random mechanism.Sensitivity analys ...

(42 pages) 1282 0 4.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

This essay is about the metaphorical use of mathmatics in "The One Girl at The Boys Party" by Sharon Olds

usingjourney mathematics are used metaphorically to describe the girls new found sexuality.The girl attempts to deny the emergence of her femininity though the impersonal use ofmathematics in order to ...

(2 pages) 149 0 4.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Violence and Pornography, pornography -- Sex or Subordination?

tshoping to discover the root of his violent actions andsexual frustrations. Many theories arose in attempts toexplain the motivational factors behind his murderousescapades. However, the strongest an ...

(15 pages) 291 0 3.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Machiavelli's The Prince,

eader in order to convince them of his argument.Machiavelli prefaces his thesis with commentary thatattempts to place the reader in a subordinate state-of-mind.He confesses to the reader that he fears ...

(2 pages) 148 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Sacks vs. Freud, Different Beliefs, Different Treatments

spect. It is this area of his work, his study, which provides him with the greatest pleasure. Sacks attempts to develop in his studies what Barbara McClintock would refer to as a, 'Feeling for the Org ...

(2 pages) 78 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Can We Stop Teens from Smoking?

onger punishments on merchants who sell to the teens.One community has experienced success in their attempts to stop the sale of tobacco products to minors. Woodridge, Illinois, started a program seve ...

(1 pages) 79 1 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Irony in the Canterbury Tales by

of which he himself is guilty of. He preaches aboutdrunkenness, while he is drunk, blasphemy, as he attempts to sell fakereligious relics, and greed, when he himself is amazingly greedy. Yetthere are ...

(3 pages) 112 1 5.0 Mar/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucher

"Oedipus, the King" and His Fate, by Sophocles

the gods and fate, Oedipus' downfall is primarily the result of King Laius' and his own actions and attempts to defy the gods, consequently Sophocles says that prophecies from the gods of someone's fa ... ackwards from the center of the wagon. I killed the lot of them."(56-57)In King Laius' and Oedipus' attempts to defy the gods, they brought the downfall of Oedipus in Oedipus the King by Sophocles, in ...

(3 pages) 117 0 3.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama