Essays Tagged: "Drift"

Er lyset for de lærte blot? Om Grundtvig og sprogets betydning.

stå dem. Om nødvendigheden af det sigerGrundtvig: ' ... at vi alle har en vældig Drift til at følgehver sit egetHoved, saa Misforstand har aldrig gjort saamegen Fortræd ...

(4 pages) 34 0 4.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Mänsklig missär i det moderna sammhället. En analys av Lars Noréns "Ett sorts Hades"

v uppsatsens analys är slutsatsen att de alla ger uttryck åt en gemensam understimulerad drift; begäret till närhet. Detta på grund av det moderna samhällets brist p&ar ... orer som möjliggjör kontakt och närhet. Istället tar sig denna understimulerade drift uttryck i en abnormal kanalisering av frustrationer som skapar de absurda situationer, dialoge ...

(15 pages) 29 0 3.0 Jul/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Just Say No, But Say it Loudly!

lotus flowers and sleep again. Eventually they lost their strengthand willpower and wanted only to drift in and out of sleep.1 The story of thelotus-eaters and similar tales from ancient times show u ...

(3 pages) 54 0 3.7 Dec/1995

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The Poet of Nature, William Wordsworth. Includes parts of some of his poems

istocrat, and Anne Wordsworth, but with his mother's death in 1778, William and his family began to drift apart. William was sent to boarding school in Hawkeshead, and his sister, Dorothy, was sent to ...

(10 pages) 339 0 3.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Cocaine

lotus flowers and sleep again. Eventually they lost their strength and willpower and wanted only to drift in and out of sleep.[1] The story of the lotus-eaters and similar tales from ancient times sho ...

(3 pages) 109 3 4.2 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Why does Gladstone decide to join the Liberal party (England) in 1859 and what does he have to contribute to Liberalism?

adstone's transition from Tory to Liberal was certainly not an erratic decision made overnight. His drift from the high Toryism of his youth began in the 1840s and found final confirmation in 1859 whe ...

(3 pages) 40 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The dissapearing daily

the steady and alarming decrease in the number of dailies. Consolidation, suppression, and a strong drift toward monopoly are taking their toll. With an increase in population to more than 130,000,000 ... is naturally to think and act as do the members of the economic group to which they belong, and to drift steadily away from the plain people and especially from the workers. Just as the profession of ...

(25 pages) 117 1 5.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.

el the boys symbolize a community, united as one, but as the novel progresses Ralph and Jack slowly drift apart, ripping the community into two different groups, the civilized and the savages.Ralph sy ...

(4 pages) 28 0 3.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Theme of Alienation in The Count of Monte Cristo, Invisible Man, Steppenwolf, Not Like Other Boys, and The Outsiders.

tly dependent upon the existence of that individual in that society. Complications resulting in the drift of an individual's ability to function with society impact the individual in many ways. A cent ...

(6 pages) 38 1 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

This essay talks about wartime propaganda in world war I.

Wartime Propaganda: World War IThe Drift Towards War"Lead this people into war, and they'll forget there was ever such athing as tolera ... ant questions about the viability of democracy as a governing principle.Like an undertow, America's drift toward war was subtle and forceful. Accordingto the outspoken pacifist Randolph Bourne, war se ...

(14 pages) 178 0 4.2 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - "Examine the ways in which the writer (Atwood) uses memory in the novel"

herself while she is in the presence of others.However, once Offred is alone, she allows herself to drift, before Offred remembers some key memories, she asks herself "where should I go?" As if, for a ...

(1 pages) 29 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Trace the development of the temple from an individual building to one of many in a sanctuary complex

de to deities was placed outside of a temple so that many people could see and that the smoke would drift up to the home of the Gods, Mount Olympus. Therefore the focus of religious worship was in the ...

(5 pages) 38 0 4.4 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Is Muller's Ratchet A Useful Tool In Explaining The Evolution Of Sexual Reproduction?

of Muller's ratchet, completed experiments, and its limitations must be accomplished. Mutation and drift create problems in an asexual society and the drift theory of sex declares that a sexual socie ... ual society will solve that problem (Freeman, 2001).Muller's ratchet is one of the most renowned drift models (Freeman, 2001). It claims that "asexual populations are doomed to accumulate deleteri ...

(4 pages) 38 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

The Voices Within : A Descriptive essay written for an Eng 101 course.

Dreams can be a frightening place to be. Do you ever feel fear as you drift off to sleep? Have you ever worried that you might not wake up? I may not fear staying asleep, ... elt the panic induced by nightmares of my own creation. It amazes me just how real it can feel.As I drifted to sleep one not, not so long ago, I thought to myself, it could be a very bad night. My dre ...

(3 pages) 131 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Cell Phones and Driving

usage of cell phones while driving. How many cases have there been of a reported driver starting to drift into another lane because that person is talking on their cell phone? They are more interested ...

(2 pages) 138 2 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

My Pilgrimige

has a beginning- my first conscious breath each morning- and an end- as soon as I close my eyes and drift to sleep. Sometimes my pilgrimage is longer than others but mostly the same everyday- filled ... l onto my bed. Will I be upset if the world is upside down tomorrow? And as my journey ends and I drift to sleep, I smile because I know that one day I will fight my dragon.

(2 pages) 20 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Pocahontas and how it isn't accurate!

ayed out. He was indeed saved from execution by Pocahontas. Along with these specifics, the general drift of the colonial times is captured and portrayed nicely. However, although historically accurat ...

(1 pages) 43 1 3.8 Apr/2004

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

Since She Died...

an no longer fight the feeling and I lose the battle. Then somehow through either joy or sadness, I drift and find myself asleep. Then the dreams begin and keep me company until my new day arrives. Wh ...

(2 pages) 38 1 4.2 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The battle oa isandlwana the british army fighting the zulu impi

a little house." The spur sits on a gradually rising plain approximately 10 mi (16 km) from Rorke's Drift. Because of poor roads and the unwieldy wagons, it took Lord Chelmsford 10 days to make the pa ... oor roads and the unwieldy wagons, it took Lord Chelmsford 10 days to make the passage from Rorke's Drift to the foot of Isandlwana, where he arrived on 20 January 1879. Since Chelmsford's plan was fo ...

(2 pages) 25 0 4.3 Jul/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Democratic leadership is the best leadership style for today's workers. Discuss.

can foster dependency and subvert democracy. Yet absence of any leadership will lead to confusion, drift, and tension. As many progressive activists have remarked, there can be a "tyranny of structur ...

(7 pages) 396 0 3.4 Aug/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication