Essays Tagged: "extremes"

Macbeth : Tragic Hero

n aiding his decision, Macbeth would have never had the strength to lie, scheme, anddestroy to such extremes. The last, and most devastating to Macbeth, was his cripled consciouswhich made him act out ...

(3 pages) 85 0 5.0 Nov/1996

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

Buddha

hat physical hardships were not the means to freedom. From then on, he encouraged people not to use extremes in their life. He called this The Middle Way. That night Siddhartha sat under the bodhi tre ...

(4 pages) 76 0 3.9 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Buddhism

Ty Cobb

ecame one of baseball's most stubborn and hated men.The Georgia Peach, so-called, was a creature of extremes. Ty Cobb is, by bald statistics, measurably the greatest hitter ever; he was, by the reckon ...

(7 pages) 48 0 5.0 May/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

AIDS and You

nough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from it without resorting to such extremes as mandatory testing, enforced quarantine or total celibacy. But too few people are heeding ...

(4 pages) 81 0 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Progression of music in america since the 1940's

The progression of music from the 1940's to the present has seen extremes, it has been controversial at times, traditional at times and inspirational at times, but n ...

(4 pages) 123 0 4.3 Dec/1995

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Civilized By Tony Kellerhuis

ly, or does it also apply to morals?Obviously, society has developed learning and technology to the extremes. Today, inventions such as the computer and nuclear power plants have come into play. Thing ...

(1 pages) 59 0 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

compares evils in Silence of the Lambs by Harris

The Battle Between Two EvilsIn the novel, Silence of the Lambs, we see two different extremes ofevil. Dr. Chilton is evil in one respect, while Dr. Hannibal Lecter is evil inhis own uni ...

(3 pages) 73 0 3.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Unintentional Findings. Speaks of James Joyce's novel "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man"

r place in society much the same way as Stephen did. Unintentionally he went back and forth between extremes until he found his own preference. Figuring out what one wants to do with their life can be ... not to subject himself to either extreme; being in the middle lets him experience a little of both extremes.Different people might say that his oblique search for his place in society was brought on ...

(2 pages) 57 1 2.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Absolutism. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era in which absolutism dominated the political systems of Europe.

nd Charles I, but never quite took hold. In France, on the other hand, Louis XIV took absolutism to extremes, claiming to be a servant of God (the "divine right of Kings") and dissolving France's only ...

(3 pages) 140 0 4.0 May/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Essay about Jacksonians Presidency and what A Jacksonian Democracy is (timed essay)

hifted down to the lower and middle class white males. The visual gap in appearance between the two extremes was also becoming less visible. These ideas of equality, however, were not spread universal ...

(1 pages) 61 1 3.2 Aug/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

"Lean, Mean, Extreme-Machine" -- This essay is on how Cyrano de Bergerac is able to exceed every man in the realms of art, battle, and love by the extremes.

rant swordsmanship, proves to surpass mankind by taking his actions in art, battle, and love to the extremes.A brilliant poet, Cyrano appreciates the beauty of the art that surrounds him. However, to ... or losing Roxane, Cyrano not only writes against dishonesty but people who act on such, reaching to extremes to "attack... in short, everyone" (Rostand 195, 177). Going out of his way in the name of b ...

(3 pages) 51 0 4.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The effect of Hip Hop on Modern Culture

records on a DJ's turntable turn round and round, so does the cycle of modern trends. It moves from extremes, from one pole to another. On one side is realism, the ideas of reason and science, represe ...

(8 pages) 358 1 4.5 Feb/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Why did Stalin take power and not Trotsky? The power struggle between the Bolshevik after Lenin's death.

elves exiled out of Russia or Killed by a man largely underestimated and never thought to go to the extremes he did.Lenin had been ill for some time and it was obvious he was not going to live for muc ... own coming.From then on Stalin had total rule over Russia because nobody thought he would go to the extremes he would. This was also true for Hitler as his rise to power was largely overshadowed by th ...

(5 pages) 69 1 5.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

Legal Drugs In Sport - study note format.

rink and food ingestion. These drugs have an effect upon performance.Addiction results in two basic extremes of metabolism, one in the presence of the drug, the other in its absence. When the dependen ...

(1 pages) 40 0 3.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Jamaica

annual temperature in this region 27 C (81 F), but northeastern trade winds frequently moderate the extremes of heat and humidity. Mean annual temperatures the plateau and mountain areas average about ...

(1 pages) 39 0 2.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Poverty and a Lack of Education are Fueling Juvenile Crime A 6 page essay arguing that juvenile crime is directly related to poverty and poor education.

hould be on those which contribute the most.The two factors which come most readily to mind are the extremes of poverty and poor education. Juveniles from poor communities are not even interested in b ...

(7 pages) 662 3 3.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Julius Caesar - the speeches of Antony and Brutus

th their cause. Both of their speeches brought passion and true conviction. Taking the crowd to all extremes, the favor was with Brutus, until Antony came to the podium. Antony's speech swayed the cro ...

(2 pages) 35 0 0.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

The Failure of the American Dream in "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller.

e goal: to reach their fullest ability, or achieve their American Dream. The above examples are the extremes of an American system in which wealth and status decide your friends, future, and well-bein ...

(5 pages) 115 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Michelangelo Buonartti.

th animated and restrained, and seem to possess great spiritual energy. His work presses toward the extremes of heroism and tragedy but is never false or artificial.Early life. Michelangelo was born o ...

(3 pages) 64 0 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

How does the Juvenile Justice system define the 'norm' for mainstream youth?

areas whereby another angle could be taken. The paper aspires to portray how youth are perceived in extremes of affection and fear by society.Moira Rayner wrote that 'there is an attitude problem in A ... ly able to rise to the occasion of unlawful activities, yet not as exact and not publicized to such extremes.The Juvenile Justice System was most definitely a positive step forward so as to give child ...

(6 pages) 246 1 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community