Essays Tagged: "Phrase"
Antigone
Literature is meant to provide a perspective on life. Phrases or quotes found inworks of literature may be used to help express one's own thoughts, to des ... s for this purpose, yet not every reader will interpret a given quote thesame way. One example of a phrase which can have many different meanings is the biblicalquote 'The sins of the father visit upo ... elp understand and clarify the actions and events in another.Literature does imitate real life, and phrases found in literary works can successfullydescribe life experiences. The phrase 'The sins of t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Speeding, the need for speed, and speeding tickets.
Cause and EffectThe popular movie 'Top Gun' coined a phrase that reads 'I feel the need, the needfor speed.' Many drivers today would agree with that phr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
A little rundown on Brew
ciety in almost all civilizations. The old cliche "accident is the mother of invention" is a phrase that definitely holds true in the world of beer. The discovery was made way back when the Med ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Expanded Definition: Quality Control. It can be used in Idustrial Enineering related classes or for entry level English Classes for small assignments.
ues and activities used to fulfill requirements for quality (ASQ-FAQ). According to Webster.com the phrase 'Quality Control' is dated back to 1935. Separately the two words themselves have a much olde ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Manufacturing Engineering
Censorship in America
ate because censorship by definition infringes on peoples First Amendment rights. Usually when that phrase is used, controversy follows quite closely. Pornography is another hotly debated issue. Paren ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Anti-Affirmative Action
'That student was accepted because of affirmative action policies.' With my first intake of the phrase, I realized that the student, whom I knew and worked with so many times, the one with such a ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
Commas
commas should not be used:* After and, but, and or, unless the comma sets off a dependent clause (a phrasewhich can't stand alone as a sentence).Examples:Wrong- But, she did get it done on time.Right- ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Grammar
Life is Art
philosophy expert' of our department, I noticed a quote posted by his desk. 'Life is Art ' read the phrase. It seemed to fit in next to his Monet calendar and the latest Dilbert strip, which were care ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
"What is Poverty"? A look at Jo Goodwin Parker's article
of making the reader feel guilty for the possessions that he or she has. For example, she uses the phrase 'You say in your clean clothes coming from your clean house, ...'(Parker 237). This causes th ... away at something until it no longer exists. By this reasoning poverty is destroying her life. This phrase forces the reader to consider poverty as something worse than they had ever thought before. S ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Direct democracy -vs- representitive democracy. Contains the ideas of Rousseau
which means rule by the people. Aristotle, and other ancient Greek political philosophers, used the phrase, `the governors are to be the governed', or as we have come to know it, `rule and be ruled in ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
"The affects of birth order on the rate of mental and physical development of a child" This essay outlines how birth order can effect the development of a child.
d or children together that aid one another is social, emotional, and physical development. The key phrase in this definition is "aid one another is social, emotional and physical development". The fa ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
VR, What it is and How it Works
ing to simulate reality and thatthey would be doing it so effectively. Jaron Lanier firstcoined the phrase 'virtual reality' around 1989, and it hasstuck ever since. Unfortunately, this catchy name ha ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Lasers
m is produced by a process known as stimulated emission, and the word 'laser' is an acronym for the phrase 'light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.'Light is just like radio waves in t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
The Communications Decency Act
actually was acomputer-generated construct representing abstract data.' (1) When Gibson coined thatphrase he had no idea that it would become the household word that it is today. 'Cyberspacenow repre ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
'The Pasture' by Robert Frost
and relays them to his reader. Frost's love of the outdoors is highlighted by the repetition of the phrase, 'I'm going out?' which begins each stanza, here the emphasis is on the word 'out', echoing h ... za, here the emphasis is on the word 'out', echoing his love of the outdoors. The repetition of the phrase 'you come too' is also an important feature within the poem. It is an invitation to the reade ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Shakespeare's Hamlet, indeed a very sane man
eing, never shall,/With arms encumbered thus, or this headshake ,/Or by pronouncing of some doutful phrase,/As 'Well,well,we know,' or 'We could an if we/would,'/Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
The expansionist spirit of America in the 1840's, "The Manifest Destiny"
y observed the expansionist spirit of America in the 1840's, and called it 'Manifest Destiny.' This phrase has been adopted by historians to characterize both the mood and the process of expansion. Th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Essay analyzing Anne Bradstreet's The Author to Her Book; focuses on the complex attitude of the author towards her work.
street begins by using words that allude to the idea of birth. Within line one, Bradstreet uses the phrase "offspring of my feeble brain" to show the closeness that she ties between the work of an aut ... ds her works is one where she perceives that same bond. The second line of the poem consists of the phrase "who after birth did'st by my side remain," showing another connection to the controlling met ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Charles Darwin
ts place inthe world.We tend to speak simply of the theory of evolution, leavingoff the explanatory phrase, 'through natural selection.' At most,perhaps, the general public has heard of 'survival of t ... atural selection.' At most,perhaps, the general public has heard of 'survival of thefittest' a poor phrase as far as I'm concerned, since fitness ineveryday usage is associated with physical condition ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin
Holocaust
action against a religion, and to memory the worst to anyone. And from this comes the most notable phrase from the Jews, 'never again.' Meaning that they will never let themselves as a religion be to ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II