Essays Tagged: "sounding"

Machiavelli's The Prince,

ttempts to place the reader in a subordinate state-of-mind.He confesses to the reader that he fears soundingpresumptuous for writing about a subject covered manytimes before by others and differing fr ...

(2 pages) 148 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Inconvenience of Convenience

g from your incredibleabundance of drive-through restaurants and ten-minute oil changes to your odd-sounding, but time saving drive-through markets. The automobile itself hasbecome one of, if not the ...

(4 pages) 43 0 3.7 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

How Bob Dole Could Have Won The Election Of 1996

revolutionaries on the right and liberal democratic barons on the left. Clinton's speeches started sounding like a Republican was giving them. Bob Dole had followed the Nixon ideology of going 'starb ...

(5 pages) 35 0 5.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

American English

he English language. Most often, these were place names like Mississippi, Roanoke, and Iowa. Indian-sounding names like Idaho were sometimes created that had no native-American roots. But, names for o ...

(1 pages) 90 1 4.1 Feb/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

"Homo Suburbiensis" by Bruce Dawe.

man as an example of a whole (invented) species, as "Homo Suburbiensis". The invention of the Latin sounding word "Suburbiensis" is a reference to those of us who live in the suburbs and the suburbian ...

(3 pages) 84 3 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry

Commedia Del'Arte.

shed peculiarities. The Doctor (Dottore), for example, always dressed in black and talked in a high-sounding manner. The actors all knew long speeches off by heart, which was related to their characte ...

(2 pages) 31 0 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

This essay is all obout whether or not American should be forced to join the military for a certain amount of years, and why or why it is not right.

terests as you old friends. When you finally get to reunite with your family, you may be so used to sounding off, that you don't realize that you are yelling at those closest to you.Then there are tho ...

(1 pages) 62 2 3.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

"The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights is a wish list drawn up by a group of "bleeding heart liberals" who are completely out of touch with the real world"

acefulness and liberation than a document of childish requests. They spell out a deep and desperate-sounding "final plea" for justice and equality among the races. Simply by listing these basic human ... en racial prejudice was the source of most laws and expectations, The Declaration lists many simple-sounding, obvious human rights, and it is often hard to believe that such points as "Everyone has th ...

(2 pages) 93 2 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

This is a description of Plato's Theory of Forms: his view on the being and god. It was for a non-philosophy major class, but is quite formal. I would just look over the grammar a bit.

e are all kinds of breeds of dogs in the world, each of varying size and have drastically different sounding barks - but the concept of dog will always remain constant and that when I think of the ide ...

(5 pages) 112 0 3.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

Italy: Coming to a new world.

nd poverty in many cases. People were literally starving to death. To top off the already wonderful sounding America, there was word of gold in the heartland of the U.S.A. Fertile farmland was everywh ...

(4 pages) 55 0 3.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Not Your Typical Love Sonnet

ns that are characteristic of any classic Shakespearian sonnet. It is a lyric poem with very formal sounding poetic diction, arranged in a single stanza, and composed of fourteen lines patterned in th ...

(3 pages) 62 1 5.0 Mar/2004

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

Hemingway's Use of Code Hero in The Old Man and the Sea. By Nicole Robichaud

Hemingway's Use of Code Hero in The Old Man and the SeaHero is a simple-sounding two-syllable word, which many people freely use to name and describe others. But, how many ...

(3 pages) 41 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Mahler Symphony 2 - Movement V

like sound with the drums, cymbals and basses. Around 50 seconds, the piece gets softer and lighter sounding - almost like fairies flying around. Then, the piece gets smoother and more lullaby soundin ... rts off the piece with a soft, slow mellow duet with the trumpets. It is very soft and fanfare-like sounding. Then, the conductor raises the base, which creates a dark forest image. At two minutes, th ...

(3 pages) 31 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Discussion of the Sanctity of Life Principle in reference to why it should be abandoned - use of medical examples used to support contention

tional Sanctity of Life principle (SofLP) is unable to adequately answer any such questions without sounding arbitrary. By defining the doctrine, then applying it to the situation of brain dead patien ... luded from this principle. A supporter of the SofLP is hard pressed to answer this question without sounding arbitrary. To begin, we shall explore the notion of removing the restriction of "human" lif ...

(6 pages) 43 0 3.8 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Technological, political economical influence on the music of the 20th century

public opinion. As a result he has created first works with using polytonality, (two keys or tones sounding simultaneously) and creating high dissonance. Because he followed his believes about compos ...

(3 pages) 56 0 3.5 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

This is essay is entitled "Soda Ban". The assignment asked for a speech and thus the essay is in speech form. It is against the soda ban.

had been waiting for this moment for 3 long hours. When I finally made impact with the deliciously sounding button, a voice was heard down the hall. It was my history teacher, Mr. Rose. He blurted ou ...

(4 pages) 22 0 0.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

WHICH ONE IS PINK? Essay on Pink Floyd and their music

ics and make up most of the music. He would become a cult figure early in his career with his weird sounding guitar and simple but at the same time complex lyrics. He only worked with Pink Floyd in tw ...

(10 pages) 26 0 4.0 May/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

David Bowie

irst two albums Space Oddity and The Man Who Sold The World. Space Oddity was very much an acoustic sounding album, which spawned his first hit single of the same name. His second album the Man Who So ...

(5 pages) 45 0 4.8 Jul/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Plagarisim, the wrongs of plagarisim, copyrights, trademarks.

product. This product is similar to what is new with today's public. It also is filled with lyrics sounding similar to a popular song. So similar there is a conflict on whether the song is really his ...

(4 pages) 75 0 5.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

WB's Friends: Joey and the Flu

eakfast)Monica: Ross, do you want some more bacon?Ross: Yes, pleaseMonica; How about you, JoeyJoey (sounding stopped up): SureMonica: Chandler?Chandler: Sounds yummy!Monica: How about you, Rach?Rachel ...

(2 pages) 45 1 4.3 Aug/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Actors