Essays Tagged: "rebel"

Antigone

us. When her brothers Eteocles and Polynices killed one another, Creon, king of Thebes, forbade the rebel Polynices' burial. Antigone disobeyed him, performed the rites, and was condemned to death for ...

(5 pages) 112 0 3.9 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Hotspur and Harry

HOTSPUR Vs HARRYAt the beginning of the play it seems that the chief rebel, Hotspur, is in dispute with the King but as the play progresses we find that the main contest ... canker Bolingbroke' (1.3.174).This anger of Hotspur's gives Worcester the opportunity to suggest a rebellion against the King. Hotspur jumps at the chance of adventure and this gives him the opportun ... ound at the point of death, Hal praises him and even lets Falstaff take credit for the victory. The rebels have lost the battle and are defeated.

(4 pages) 42 0 4.6 Sep/1995

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

Night: Rejoice or Rebel?

Night: Rejoice or Rebel?Night can be seen in two contrasting ways. The first can be summarized as a time forcelebratio ...

(3 pages) 68 0 4.0 Jan/1996

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

Franz Liszt vs. Kurt Cobain

as the great recognition they deserved. Many people thought that Liszt was "a mover and a shaker, a rebel, chased women, and had much talent and personality.' He had invented the solo recital. When Li ...

(2 pages) 57 1 4.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Movie review of Yentl

e's place in society is an experience that every young adult faces but deals with differently. Some rebel while others comply with whatever has been set out for them by society or their parents, or bo ...

(4 pages) 47 0 5.0 Dec/1996

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

An essay explaining how blood is a dramatic symbol in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

in the play Macbeth.At the beginning of the play, after Macbeth and the Scottish army defeated the rebel Macdonwald's army, a bleeding sergeant comes on stage. The sergeant then proceeds to describe ...

(2 pages) 37 0 4.1 Apr/2002

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

An essay explaining how blood is a dramatic symbol in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

in the play Macbeth.At the beginning of the play, after Macbeth and the Scottish army defeated the rebel Macdonwald's army, a bleeding sergeant comes on stage. The sergeant then proceeds to describe ...

(2 pages) 43 0 3.8 Apr/2002

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

George Orwell

lifetime. But Mr. Orwell also presented that wemust not let Big Brother control us and that we must rebel and fight back or else BigBrother would win. In this novel I believe that hating Big Brother i ... not himself when he said he loved Big Brother. Winston, the Party's opposition, had theonly hope to rebel. Winston wrote in his diary 'if there is hope, it lies in the proles.'Winston was sane and act ...

(3 pages) 56 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Teen smoking

other place kidscongregate. Kids smoke because they want to feel like they 'fit in' and they want torebel at the same time. "U.S. News discussed the smoking issue with twentyteenagers from suburban Ba ... y want to be part of a peer group, while rejecting societyand its norms. They want to reach out and rebel at the same time."(Roberts 38)Tobacco companies spend four billion dollars each year in advert ...

(2 pages) 116 1 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

USS Maine, Sinking of

a seems to have become an empire, taking control of those who are weaker, and threatening those who rebel against us. Claiming it to be our "Manifest Destiny," we have stretched our boundaries and cha ... d challenged the rightful owners to take back what was theirs. It is no mystery to me, why Cuba has rebelled so vigorously. It is my opinion that we are violating the rights of Cuban's, and should imm ...

(3 pages) 69 0 3.7 May/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Robotics, excellent report on the history and applications of robots

stands for 'Rossum's Universal Robots'), in which mechanical beings made to be slaves for humanity rebel and kill their creators. From this, the fictional image of robots is sometimes troubling, expr ...

(5 pages) 146 0 4.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Strong Women, Strong Values. Refers to Elisabeth in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and Marian in Margaret Atwood's "The Edible Woman "

ative effects of society's influence. Both Elizabeth Bennet and Marian McAlpin are strong women who rebel against society's influences in their lives. They refuse to accept the pre-set roles and ident ... lize that the individual's needs are not necessarily the same as what society imposes on them; they rebel against this very society in order to gain the independence necessary to discover what they wa ...

(6 pages) 126 0 5.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Zhu Xiao Di This essay is about the life of Zhu Xiao Di and how he lived in communist china.

l discuss the question, "Why and when did people like Zhu, lose faith in the communist party?" From rebel organizations to beatings, there are many reasons why people would have lost faith in the comm ... e initially organized in only schools and universities. Now the organizations called "revolutionary rebels" were almost everywhere. "Factories, hospitals, government departments, and nearly every work ...

(4 pages) 30 0 4.5 Sep/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers

Story of how our group of friends does petty crimes to strenghten the bond between us. This story is about a toilet flying out of the back of the truck, yes I said TOILET.

Immature PricksMany kids as teenagers try to rebel against parents and authority figures, by either talking back to them or by doing something th ... my friends and me were the same. We did a lot of stupid petty crimes that made us feel like we were rebels. Everything from throwing milkshakes at people, stealing candy from kids on Halloween, to thr ...

(2 pages) 56 0 2.3 Oct/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Catcher in the Rye: Holden Caulfield

Holden is introduced as a rebel that refuses to complete his homework assignments and has even got expelled for his poor grade ...

(1 pages) 40 0 4.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

This essay is about the slang used in the past and how it realtes to the slang children use in the present.

in my belief is a way a generation of children can communicate with one another as well as in a way rebel against what parents call acceptable language. In the late seventies one of the most common sl ... f the two generations are where the main differences lie in the seventies it was said that only the rebelled youth used slang phrases or only the hippies used such terms, it was seen as being bad. Tod ...

(2 pages) 56 0 4.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Obey

large price to pay in exchange for personal freedom. But some refuse to make that exchange, so they rebel, and occasionally the beliefs of these rebellious individuals are recognized as right and beco ... ol over all when it is right, but when it is wrong it usually has to resort to brute force to quell rebellion. Etheridge Knight exemplifies this in his poem "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospi ...

(4 pages) 68 1 5.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Montezuma II: Was it the right decision? An essay on Montezuma and the decision he made concerning him allowing Cortez to come into his sovereignty.

c Empire. Montezuma had to make one of two choices, allow the "gods" to come in to their land or to rebel against them. Unfortunately he did not make the right decision, many of his people died. If no ...

(3 pages) 63 0 4.9 Dec/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

Review of the movie the breakfast club. Talks about main message and filmography. Contains specific examples

, each major "group" was represented by a student. There was the princess, the jock, the brain, the rebel, and the outcast.The main message in the movie is that despite all our outer differences, we a ...

(4 pages) 127 0 4.7 Dec/2002

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

The work of photographer Lauren Greenfield and her project "girl Culture"

ct of cultural attitudes towards girl's bodies and the way they are constantly trying to mold to or rebel against ideals. By capturing the confidence of numerous girls and women varying in occupation ...

(1 pages) 42 0 4.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art