Essays Tagged: "incomprehensible"

Serial Killers

merous multiple murders, often without consequence and justice, have shocked civilized society with incomprehensible acts of inhumanity. Horrific amounts of body counts and volumes of spilt blood acco ... me high-and may be fueling their deadly deeds' (Toufexis 64-65). Serial killings graphic details in incomprehensible madness almost seem fictional, but the statistics reveal an alarming rise in these ...

(6 pages) 414 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

"Courtship Through The Ages"by James Thurber , Female Dominance or Male Failure?

roughout his essay. The extremities males endure to obtain female attention become overwhelming and incomprehensible to Thurber, consequently conflicting with the myth and construction of the ideal of ...

(5 pages) 57 0 4.3 Sep/1996

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

Seeing is believing, UFO's

st and curiosity about space and the bodies that exist in it. Early astronomers trying to grasp the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe would study the patterns of the stars and planets to try ...

(3 pages) 77 0 4.6 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Perception

st and curiosity about space and the bodies that exist in it. Early astronomers trying to grasp the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe would study the patterns of the stars and planets to try ...

(3 pages) 82 0 4.1 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Paranormality & Spirituality

Waiting for Godot

ttern and fabricated purposes to distract themselves from the fact that our situation is hopelessly incomprehensible. The play shows the feelings and views of life through Estragon and Vladimir, who h ...

(4 pages) 68 0 5.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

2001 space oddysey

on a much greater scale. In these few minutes, we are presented with the dawn of a new era: a near incomprehensible evolution of humanity. Through many complex design devices, the set design successf ... humanity itself. The problem faced by Kubrik, and indeed the set designer was how to portray a near incomprehensible, purely conceptual journey on film. One theory sits with the idea of a metaphorical ...

(7 pages) 74 0 4.1 Jan/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

Assuming control at Altex aviation.

e system in place was one accountant (Sarah Arthur) who kept everything in her head. The system was incomprehensible and complicated for the employees. Even the department managers knew nothing about ...

(7 pages) 79 1 3.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

2001: A Space Odyssey.

uson a much greater scale. In these few minutes, we are presented withthe dawn of a new era: a near incomprehensible evolution of humanity.Through many complex design devices, the set design successfu ... f humanity itself.The problem faced by Kubrik, and indeed the set designer was how toportray a near incomprehensible, purely conceptual journey on film. Onetheory sits with the idea of a metaphorical ...

(6 pages) 59 1 4.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

"Animal Lover".

all inside smelled of something dead, and he heard her neighbors abusing each other in a variety of incomprehensible tongues. It was a far cry from his doorman building on the Upper West Side.The seco ...

(17 pages) 75 1 4.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Medical Malpractice Problems in Florida.

e least knowledgeable group of people available to act as jurors, overwhelm them with confusing and incomprehensible medical evidence, inflame them with accounts of the plaintiff's suffering and then ...

(5 pages) 121 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

"Digging deeper into frankenstein" rediscovering teh true work of literature.

and return to the original. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein challenges our ideas to the extent of being incomprehensible to a public that does not want to think and an industry that is afraid of forcing t ...

(3 pages) 47 0 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Torture" by: Michael Levin and Cesare Bonesana Comparison of two opposing perceptions of torture in society.

dictions in his statements, of discovering his accomplices, of purging him in some metaphysical and incomprehensible way from infamy, or finally of finding out other crimes of which he may possibly be ...

(2 pages) 98 0 2.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Broadway musical "Camelot"

ing Arthur. Vanessa Redgrave had shouldered aside Julie Andrews as Guenevere. And, as Lancelot, the incomprehensible choice was made to supplant Robert Goulet with Franco Nero. Two years later, Camelo ...

(5 pages) 27 0 0.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Euthanasia: The controversy over assisted suicide.

me people condemn while others embrace. While the idea of injecting a patient with a lethal drug is incomprehensible to many individuals, others feel this is a great idea for scores of suffering peopl ...

(4 pages) 169 3 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

David Hume: Against the Design and Cosmological Arguments for God's Existence

come to any conclusions about God's nature. Philo, the philosophical skeptic, believes that God is incomprehensible and Cleanthes argues the position that we can come to know about God by reasoning f ...

(3 pages) 124 0 2.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Emily Dickinson: The Gothic perspective

as she states that "Centuries" in eternity are "shorter than the day" (20 - 21). Understanding the incomprehensible often depends on an appreciation of the progression of the stages of existence. By ... rogression of these stages life, to death, to eternity-as a continuum invests these isolated, often incomprehensible events with meaning. From her perspective, the speaker comprehends that life, like ...

(5 pages) 99 0 3.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Commentary on "Death of a Naturalist"

st", Seamus Heaney seems to suggest that humanisation and simplification of essentially foreign and incomprehensible phenomena often occurs through education and authority. Through the dramatic contra ... he great slime kings," that were "gathered there for vengeance," which underlines the feeling of an incomprehensible hierarchy in nature that is far from the humanised explanations of Miss Walls. The ...

(4 pages) 52 1 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

The similarities and differences between the sciences and the arts as intellectual discipline

develop a theory for everything, thereby replacing religion through removing the ambiguous and the incomprehensible parts of life with which religion dealt. In many ways science has replaced religion ...

(9 pages) 97 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Music History

ure is music. Music has a biological basis as well as a cultural basis. Einstein stated, " The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." In other words, without the co ...

(5 pages) 92 1 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Breaking Free From Society in The Awakening

and if she had submitted to his command (Chopin 41)." Edna considered her past and found it almost incomprehensible that she dealt with his demands for so long. When she realized her fault, Edna dete ...

(3 pages) 70 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American