Essays Tagged: "surroundings"

"Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and Its Legacy" by Richard A. Etlin.

a functional character, however, there exists a deeper, more spiritual connection man has with his surroundings. The emotional role of architecture is one focus of Etlin's work. In his treatment of e ...

(8 pages) 165 0 4.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Variations in High Altitude Populations. The purpose of this paper is to describe the high altitude stresses and the general adaptations made by the Tibetan population in the Himalayas and the Quechua

ust make are firstly physical and secondly cultural. Although most people adapt culturally to their surroundings, in a high altitude environment these cultural changes alone aren't enough. Many physic ...

(8 pages) 128 0 3.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Habitat

ss. Without habitat, life would not exist. Think of this. Humans, put here on earth with the surroundings of trees, water, mountains... and now, picture the earth without these things. Life as ... fish will die. This goes the same on all animals, big or small. Habitat not only relates to surroundings, but for the animals source for food. Habitats for birds, for example, the forest and t ...

(1 pages) 71 0 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Karl Heisenberg was born in Wuerzburg, Germany, on December 5, 1901, and grew up in academic surroundings, in a household devoted to the humanities. His father was a professor at the University ...

(6 pages) 89 0 4.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

African Americans VS Caucasian Americans

mind and take none of this to heart.African American and Caucasians function differently in public surroundings. When you see a young African American you usually see them in groups of four of more. ...

(2 pages) 76 1 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Hamlet and his Tragic Flaw

Question: Does Hamlet have a tragic flaw? If so, what is it and how does it effect his surroundings and how does it effect Hamlet himself? What is the outcome of his flaw?Hamlet has a tra ... concerned with death and tragedy. This flaw or weakness in Hamlet leads him into a world of chaotic surroundings and madness. Hamlet's flaw and his mad personality led to the death of several people, ...

(3 pages) 152 0 3.7 Mar/1997

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

Cyrano de Bergerac

sibilities will not be denied, because he lives life to the hilt, and because he is a victim of his surroundings. If there was ever a figure who would not be denied his sensibilities, it is Cyr ... love this man who takes Carpe Diem to its most extreme form? Also, Cyrano is a victim of his surroundings. This may be the one characteristic that completely wins over the reader. Cyrano's most ...

(2 pages) 53 0 3.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Euthanasia in Today's Society

ars is suddenly diagnosed with a terminal disease. She lies in a bed, motionless and unaware of her surroundings. The medication to ease her pain has been wearing off. She just lies there in pain and ...

(8 pages) 573 2 4.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia

The setting and its impact as seen in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper"

she believes she sees, or understand her maddening by her thoughts if they were not to include her surroundings. Could you imagine The Yellow Wall-Paper without the wallpaper? Or without the room tha ... you how the setting can connect you to a character allowing you to understand how she is living her surroundings.There are many little descriptions of her character's surrounding that complements her ...

(5 pages) 289 0 4.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Uncontrollable Force. On positive thinking.

ve and the lives they affect.One of the major factors of a persons life is his environent. A personssurroundings affects how they live, how they think, and how he sees his own life. SureAmerica is the ...

(1 pages) 89 1 3.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Poe Comparative Essay

"The Fall of the House of Usher" there are many similarities. They both give off incredibly creepy surroundings, and the main characters in both are very odd. In "The Cask of Amontillado," vengeance ...

(6 pages) 188 0 4.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

James Joyce's "Araby"

or Mangan's sister, felt scorned by the merchants, and suddenly found himself in a dark room. These surroundings left him feeling both derided, and with a sense that this eagerly anticipated trip had ... nger overwhelm him. The narrator's experience over the weeks preceding the bazaar, coupled with the surroundings he faces leaves him with a painful empty feeling many adults find in life.

(2 pages) 152 0 4.8 Jun/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Realists/Naturalists in Literature: Cather, Crane, Twain, and James

Emile Zola believed "the realists/naturalists consider that man cannot be separated from his surroundings, that he is completely by his clothes, his house, his city, and his country; and hence ... a single phenomenon of his brain or heart without looking for the causes or the consequences of his surroundings." In many ways, this belief holds true in the writings of many American writers such as ...

(4 pages) 197 0 4.4 Mar/2002

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

Analysis/Evaluation of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”

Savannah, Georgia. In the short period of time he spends in Savannah, he becomes enthralled by his surroundings and ends up spedning the next eight years of his life learning about the secrets of Sav ...

(4 pages) 68 0 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The College Experience

homework, but it was also completely different from my home life. I was living on my own, with new surroundings and new people. Needless to say, this was something like I had never experienced before ...

(3 pages) 206 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Renaisance Man

The Renaissance ManThe people with whom we associate in conjunction with our surroundings affect us in many aspects of our life. One prominent individual has had an everlasting ...

(3 pages) 53 1 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

'Misery' by Antov Chekhov

In the story 'Misery' by Antov Chekhov, I identified despair and misery as a theme. The surroundings amplify the sentiment of the main character, Iona Potapov. Cold and gray surrounds' Ion ... he to the grave instead of his youthful son. 'My son ought to be driving not I'(34).The gray dismal surroundings entrap Iona and make the desolation worse for him. 'Iona Potapov, the sledge-driver, is ... le as the living body can be bent' (30). 'He cannot think about his son when he is alone' (34). The surroundings make him feel separated from his inner feelings. 'But now the shades of evening are fal ...

(3 pages) 71 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

An Analaysis of Tennessee Williams play, "A Streetcar Named Rosie

eir little apartment, with sex as theirstronghold. Although Stella was brought up through different surroundings she's happywith her life with Stanley. She's not ashamed to admit that she and Stanley ... eir little apartment, with sex as theirstronghold. Although Stella was brought up through different surroundings she's happywith her life with Stanley. She's not ashamed to admit that she and Stanley ...

(2 pages) 111 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Chicago, A City of the Senses

culture. In another area of the city, men ate lunch at The Berghoff and seemed separated from their surroundings, concentrating only on the conversation and the condition on the food being served. To ...

(3 pages) 110 0 2.9 Sep/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

Nature vs. Nurture in "Cry ,the beloved Country"

s. Nurture', or the idea that people's character are decided by either genetic inheritance or their surroundings. In Cry, the Beloved Country, two brothers, John and Stephen Kumalo, are shown to have ...

(3 pages) 85 0 4.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature