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Using Examples to Illustrate Meaning

that type of personality: they love the feeling of danger and speed that comes with riding a bike. They also tend to be individual...

Martin Scorsese's Justification of Violence in Films Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas and Casino

and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....

Meaning in the Visual Arts by Erwin Panofsky

"emotionally evocative qualities of pose, gesture, facial expression, atmosphere and so on" (Kahil). Panofskys second layer of m...

'Perfect Society' Concept and What It Means

a true democracy. The Holy Grail will not be the quest for material possession - nor will this society be based upon a monetary s...

Life's Meaning in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the ears of company officials. Marlow accepts this mission, travels upriver, and confronts the horror that Kurtz has become. In ot...

The Meaning of Voltaire's Graden References

of a garden. Through all his adventures he finds that the most powerful and most rewarding way to live his life is to physically t...

Meaning in Terms of Artist and Art

sometimes knowing what the artist was thinking or saying influences a viewers interpretation and appreciation in a negative way. I...

Ancient Egypt and What it Means to Be Part of an Empire

king of Egypt was unwilling to commit military to defend northern Syria" (The Gathering Storm, 2005). Perhaps because of their res...

Four Insights into the Meaning of Life

responsibility. He feels stifled by his Louisiana environment and longs to leave. He knows that this involvement will strengthen h...

Begging and its Meaning in Elective Affinities by Goethe

seen in a negative light. In the work by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe entitled Elective Affinities there is a sense that begging is...

What Michael Bloomberg's New York City Mayoral Victory Means

been many issues to crop up during 2005, inclusive of the bid for the Olympics. There was heated debated about a stadium to be bui...

Oppression and What It Means

that different groups may be oppressed. For instance, WEB DuBois fought for the oppression of African Americans whereas Marx and E...

Christianity and What it Means

and beliefs. For Christians the creed centers around Jesus Christ, the son of God. Christianity requires belief in Jesus Christ ...

Search for Tomorrow Soap Opera and What is Meant by the Plight of the Heroine Joanne

law. Joanne, the protagonist, had endured a lifetime of woe, beginning with the death of her husband. The widow was seemingly man...

Islamic Jihad and What It Means

possible to see even though war may be inevitable in some circumstances Muslims should not be those to start the war, as seen with...

Faith and its Meaning

Relatively little in terms of documentable fact, however, is known about the early history of Christianity. We look, of course, p...

What Oedipus Rex Means to Greek Culture

events that all resulted in tragedy was when Laius insisted that his healthy infant son should be left to die from exposure. While...

What It Means to Be a Teacher

educational policy, such as high stakes testing, which places more emphasis on meeting a preset criterion than on a teachers profe...

What Writing Means to an Individual

difficult or confusing, perhaps largely because of how writing is taught and how structuring sentences can become almost scientifi...

Abstract Art Meaning

colour, but intended to embody meaning in their works....

Statistics and Mean Starting Salaries

and well assume that the first and second columns are starting salaries of public accountants and financial planners, with the lat...

Religion and its Meaning

that such an individual needs more church. Of course, the person who only is inclined to go to church on holidays may possess any ...

Human and What Humanness Means

is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and its Meaning

working for them--and returns to the homeland: Limerick, Ireland (1774). They live there between 1934 and 1948 but Malachy still ...

The Matrix and Meaning

and rejected, as older paradigms seem to fit closer with an individuals concept of reality. On the other hand, sometimes exploring...

Meaning of 'Social Accents'

was used by the first editor of the English Pronouncing Dictionary and the model of pronunciation that he preferred (Tench 107). T...

Free Will, Concentration Camps, and Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

even immoral to those of us who have never experienced the horrors of the concentration camp. A few pages later, Frankl tells abou...

Defining What is Meant by Species

it is not unusual to find that individualism works as an opposing force rather than one that works for all living beings. Based up...

US Terrorism, Its Causes and What it Means

and many others in between (Hewitt, 2002). This is an important point for Americans to realize, and one of the...

Meaning of Equality of Opportunities

even the lowest rungs of society have access to in the developed nations may be ambitious for those struggling in countries where ...