Essays Tagged: "Manuscript"

Enochian Scripture

Necronomicon is closest documented translation of the original Enochian scripture, the Necronomicon Manuscript. The Necronomicon was first translated in Damascus in 730 A.D. by Abdul Alhazred.The Necr ... ed. He had a flair for languages, and boasts on many occasions of his ability to read and translate manuscripts which many lesser scholars could not translate.Just as Nostradamus used ritual magic to ...

(4 pages) 46 0 3.0 May/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Charles Foster Kane - Who Was he?

tcher is long dead and who? visits his library and is allowed to inspect the financier's memoirs in manuscript. Through Thatcher's words we see Kane as a boy playing with his sled on a snow-swept Colo ...

(3 pages) 63 0 4.8 Feb/1997

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

Mark Twain and the Lost Manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Jobs2. Literary works3. Financial conditionsD. Personal life1. Life style2. Family lifeII. Original manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnA. General information1. Discovery information2. How ... le for printing rightsC. Difference from the first publishingIII. ConclusionMark Twain and the Lost Manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnOn November 30, 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was b ...

(6 pages) 68 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain

"The Nazi Doctors" by Lifton

on Robert Lifton on what seemed to takeprecedence over all other experiments I believe from his manuscript we can conclude thatsterilization was the most prevalent of them all, overseen by doct ...

(7 pages) 63 0 3.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Meowulf - a creative spoof on the anglo-saxon epic Meowulf. It's written in alternating verses of prose and poetry, and will make your teacher laugh to an A.

apparently the Anglo-Saxons liked their literature as much as we do). However, to our dismay, a new manuscript has been excavated, about Beowulf's brother, and his adventures in a land known to them a ...

(5 pages) 69 1 4.0 Jan/2003

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

this is a reaction essay to a section of the annals of america. It is a reaction to a speech by sammuell davies about fighting for one's country

eligion. This selection can be found on pages 23-28 of The Annals of America volume 2.This powerful manuscript outlines the obligation of a man to his Country and to God, and to himself. This entire s ... ourselves rather than our religion and others that are in need. There are other weaknesses in this manuscript. For example is the lack of physical rewards. Any person who is going to put his life on ...

(4 pages) 32 0 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Billy Budd by Herman Melville Term Paper over the Short Story Billy Budd, his life, why he wrote the book, and religious symbolism.

ould revise throughout the remaining years of his life.At the time of Melville's death in 1891, the manuscript of the novella was sequentially complete, but Melville was still revising its language an ... ally complete, but Melville was still revising its language and thematic emphases. In addition, the manuscript itself was found in a condition of such physical disarray that the presentation of an aut ...

(24 pages) 220 0 3.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Julius Caesar Overview

lio of 1623, probably from the theater company's official promptbook rather than from Shakespeare's manuscriptPublisher - Edward Blount and William Jaggard headed the group of five men who undertook t ...

(9 pages) 48 1 4.0 Feb/2004

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

Illuminated Manuscripts- This was an oral report describing the significance of the illuminated manuscripts.

The word illuminated manuscripts means "written and decorated or embellished works done by hand." These manuscripts were ... ey could use small compositions or designs for the text called miniatures. Usually, the text of the manuscripts was written first and would leave open spaces reserved for the illuminated miniatures an ... g Jeremiah with a scroll, praying to God and the one on the right, showing a prophet reading from a manuscript before King Jechonias and all the people in the city of Babylon. Gold and silver was ofte ...

(2 pages) 34 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

VIKTOR FRANKL

ance of meaningfulness in life.One of the earliest events to drive home the point was the loss of a manuscript -- his life's work -- during his transfer to Auschwitz. He had sewn it into the lining of ... new policies requiring euthanasia of the mentally ill. It was during this period that he began his manuscript, Ärztliche Seelsorge -- in English, The Doctor and the Soul.Frankl married in 1942, ...

(3 pages) 60 0 3.7 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Turn of the Screw -- Book Report

omplex in that the 'action' is several degrees removed from the reader. A man named Douglas reads a manuscript written by his sister's governess. The manuscript forms the basis of the story, which is ... ness's perspective. The narrator, however, belongs to the group of people to whom Douglas reads the manuscript. He transcribes Douglas's tale years after Douglas reads it aloud. The narrator's transcr ...

(5 pages) 54 0 4.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Resaerch paper on Scientology. IN MLA format.

000 writings (Cooper, 1). In 1923, Hubbard began his studies of the mind and spirit, resulting in a manuscript entitled "Excalibur" in 1938. It was in this work that the word "scientology" was first i ... and is defined as "what the soul is doing to the body." (Cooper, 1). Thus, in 1947 Hubbard wrote a manuscript about Dianetics. This work, too, was not published but it was circulated around by friend ...

(7 pages) 118 0 3.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Modernism vs Post-modernism

ws was communicated, was extremely primitive. News was spread by word of mouth, or in some cases by manuscript. This kept communications very localized, as well as the arts. The media was a small scal ...

(6 pages) 195 0 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Discuss Hedda's final choice in the book Hedda Gabler by Ibsen

that if she cannot have Eilert, she doesn't want anyone else to have him either. She destroyed the manuscript because she knew that if it was published, Eilert and Mrs. Elvsted might have fell in lov ... have fell in love. Hedda didn't like how Mrs. Elvsted and Eilert were working together to write the manuscript. She knew the book meant everything to them; it was like child to them and she destroyed ...

(2 pages) 57 1 2.6 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Beowulf Lost this essay is about how we hav lost a bit of our human history due to the alteration of this originally pagan text

n the pure form and view of what was then a polytheist society has been destroyed.There is only one manuscript of Beowulf that has survived to the present day. It's once owner was presumed to be an ea ... rly Anglo-Saxon scholar known as Laurence Nowell, Dean of Lichfield. Afterwards it was put into the manuscript collection of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton and was shelved under the bust of Roman Emperor Aul ...

(4 pages) 21 0 3.0 May/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"We Were the Mulvaneys" by Joyce Carol Oates.

nd the method of foreshadowing, to indirectly characterize Judd Mulvaney who is the narrator of the manuscript as a mature young man, very aware of situations surrounding his life, and a person who si ...

(4 pages) 17 0 5.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The American Patriot: Based on "Patriots" by A.J. Languth.

ies from Britain. Thomas Jefferson, a Virginian lawyer, was the original scribe of the emancipating manuscript. Fed up with the and tariffs the British had been so rapidly placing upon nearly every pr ...

(2 pages) 27 2 1.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Karl Marx and his theory on the "Power of Money".

es the possessor is something that is spoken of and speculated by many, including Karl Marx. In his manuscript, "The Power of Money", Karl Marx expresses his beliefs on the power of money which are ea ...

(1 pages) 37 0 4.3 Dec/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Social and political influences on the theorey of evolution

ame to pass that more scientists began to talk about organic evolution.* Several years went by. His manuscript was almost ready, but he waited - he was afraid that his friends and others would be offe ... oped during twenty years of work.* Thus the abstract forced the hand of Darwin - he handed over his manuscript. Now the word would soon be out - the public would be soon presented with the truth. And ...

(3 pages) 24 1 0.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Printing Press Essay

religion and reformation and education.Before the invention of printing press, multiple copies of a manuscript had to be made by hand. Hand written books took months or years to hand print. This made ...

(2 pages) 52 1 5.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology