Essays Tagged: "semblance"

A review of "Lord of the Flies"

abited tropical island and two of the elder boys who have leadership qualities compete to achieve a semblance of order so as to survive. Ralph, who has found a conch and blows it to summon all the boy ...

(2 pages) 50 0 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding

Washington Irving, comparing "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and !The Devil and Tom Walker"

ards. Irving's short stories are The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Devil and Tom Walker.The first semblance in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Devil and Tom Walker is that nature proves to be a ...

(3 pages) 91 0 4.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Abortion - Legality, Morality and The Catholic Church. This paper discusses the legal and moral issues surrounding aborion, also the veiw of the catholic church.

The 1973 United States Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decisin, while providing for some semblance of legal structure to the political debate over abortion, has led to further question with ...

(6 pages) 208 3 3.8 Aug/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Media in today's American politics

second point of view. The government or politicians of this great country try to appear to have the semblance of truth or honesty in all of it's endeavors.And sometimes it does. However, on occasion w ...

(7 pages) 234 0 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Imagine that you have just been diagnosed as HIV positive.

it is not necessary to completely shift one's personal routine just because the chance of living a semblance of a normal life depends on how the infected person reacts to the disease. First of all, t ...

(3 pages) 59 1 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Engineering processes in the wake of a catastrophe.

the western world, to rethink their lives and actions as they strive to return to a life with some semblance of normalcy, we must realize that any attempt to regain that normalcy cannot just take pla ...

(6 pages) 76 0 4.2 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering

This essay is about Hera the Greek Goddess. Every thing about her who she was married to and how she was a jeolous Wife.

was born and grew up he killed Cronos, and freed his brothers and sisters.Zeus always liked Hera's semblance appearance and wanted her for himself. Well one day Zeus feigned himself as a cuckoo. It w ... was born and grew up he killed Cronos, and freed his brothers and sisters.Zeus always liked Hera's semblance appearance and wanted her for himself. Well one day Zeus feigned himself as a cuckoo. It w ...

(6 pages) 42 0 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

This essay is about Romeo and Juliet and how they risked each others lifes to be with each other it has scene by scene

iet. The thing is that there is no such thing as love at first sight. You can fall in love with the semblance appearance, but that's not every thing. Looks help but what counts is what's in the inside ...

(1 pages) 13 0 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

What is manhood according to the character in Macbeth?

ers from entity to entity, whether they are maliciousness or compassion; the same goes with fleshly semblance, as each person has their own personal inclinations. Regardless of the way one observes th ...

(4 pages) 45 1 5.0 May/2004

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

Acccount for th failure of democracy in Germany between 1918 and 1933

ope. Despite being hastily established in an attempt to restore a war torn and defeated nation to a semblance of order- the Weimar republic that was established was theoretically a well -organised fed ... man people. The Weimar government was a government hastily conceived in a vein attempt to restore a semblance of order and democracy in a war torn and weary nation heavily burdened by the terms and co ...

(7 pages) 55 0 4.7 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Discuss the aspects of good and evil in shakespear's work

ugh king Lear was acceptable only in adapted form for a century and a half after 1680, at least its semblance was constantly staged; and its fellow masterpieces have been the least affected of all Ren ...

(2 pages) 36 0 3.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Interview on indichina

makes me feel sorry for people who are so narrow-minded. Few people will enjoy a movie without some semblance of romance and even the brilliant sci-fi and fantasy and horror writers often include roma ...

(4 pages) 20 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Reality Tv courtroom

ying Circus. When we take TV judges seriously, even for a moment, then we just simply abandon any resemblance of a true to life proceeding, and go to fantasyland again. In fact, in Reality TV, a multi ... hy of the same time wasted on this nonsense?).Since we are now placing everything in a surrealistic semblance of equal perspective for the purpose of comparison, we have now by default, obligated ours ...

(4 pages) 29 0 3.8 Sep/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

"The Open Window" by Saki

The short story "The Open Window" by Saki gives us a marvelous example of how appearance, semblance and our naivety can distract our attention from reality and even make harm to our health. ...

(4 pages) 17947 1 3.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Return of the King

s force was Fate. Man acceded to Fate often, sometimes even propitiated it, in order to retain some semblance of security. As Man grew intellectually, however, and understood more about himself and ab ...

(4 pages) 24 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

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

is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless?"(Marx) Despite any semblance of intelligence, a rich person can have a good education simply because the funds are read ...

(1 pages) 37 0 4.3 Dec/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

A research paper describing common prison gangs

in the 1970's. Working together, their initial attempts were to identify only gangs which had some semblance of formal structure, a constitution, bylaws, mission statement, or some identifiable tenet ...

(12 pages) 186 2 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Investigate the art movement of 'expressionism'

ld. Forms are often simplified or flattened, and colour is used in a symbolic way that abandons the semblance of realism.Although the term expressionism was not applied to painting until 1911, the qua ...

(14 pages) 133 0 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Time A Harsh Mistress

life. Milton chooses to focus on the ways in which he has escaped time's effects. In the lines, "my semblance might deceive that truth That I to manhood am arriv'd so near" he states that he is ...

(4 pages) 1360 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Magical Realism

stics. These devices, magical realism, masque and symbolism, serve to give the film and the novel a semblance of a mystical world where endless possibilities exist. The Woman Warrior and Crouching Tig ...

(3 pages) 12 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers