The Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus lists brave person‚ lionheart‚ and knight as synonyms to the word hero. Joseph Campbell‚ an American mythological author‚ defined a hero as “someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” However‚ what about those whose motives behind their heroism are a little less benevolent‚ and are instead of a
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Ironically he was quite the transformer himself. Originally a Polish man known as Josef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski‚ he did not learn English until his twenties when he transformed himself into Joseph Conrad. Recognized by a distinctive style‚ Conrad’s novels combine realism and drama. Their settings include oceanic backgrounds as well as themes of high society‚ and international politics. Conrad was a skilled creator of atmosphere‚ character and
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The title of this article is Revising is by Joseph Harris‚ a professor who also teaches some type of academic writing related class. This particular chapter in “Inventing Argument” was taken from his book called “Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts”. This book was published on July 15‚ 2006. In this chapter Harris takes a strong stance in regard to revising. He believes that skill of revising academic pieces is over looked and that it is not simply a means of cleaning up or correcting grammar
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Heart of Darkness By: Joseph Conrad According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary‚ a lie is an untrue or inaccurate statement that may or may not be believed true by the speaker or it is something that misleads or deceives. In other words‚ a lie is an untruth. In life lies are told for many different reasons. In fiction they give a little more body to the plot. In Conrad’s Heart of Darkness‚ Marlow dislikes lies and therefore only tells them in extraordinary circumstances. The lie show that Marlow
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William Crookes was an English chemistry who was born on June 17‚ 1834 in London He was the oldest of 16 children of a wealthy tailor and real estate investor. His father Joseph Crookes was a tailor of north-country origin‚ living with his second wife‚ Mary Scott Lewis Rutherford Johnson. At age 16 he entered the Royal College of Chemistry. He wanted to study organic chemistry and while there‚ he became the assistant to August Wilhelm von Hofmann‚ a position which allowed him to attend meetings
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In Joseph Campbell’s Myths to Live By: Chapter One‚ he first describes a situation in which a young boy writes a scientific paper about the evolution of man. However‚ both the boy’s teacher and mother discredited the paper and claimed that man’s first parents were Adam and Eve. Campbell thought this was absurd--especially for a “twentieth century child!” (3). He then compares the very different beliefs of the shape of the earth in the Middle Ages with the ancient Greek ideas. Although the ancient
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these days is Republic Act 7080 otherwise known as the law on plunder. Seen as a deterrent to prevent public officials from stealing money from the government‚ the plunder law was passed in 1991 with the most significant signatory being one Senator Joseph Estrada. In this edition of the Law Professor‚ we shall now examine the intricacies of the Plunder Law. What is plunder and how is it committed? According to Section 2 of RA 7080‚ plunder is committed when a public officer who‚ by himself or in
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In the book “The Last Apprentice: Night of the Soulstealer” by Joseph Delaney we meet an apprentice of a spook‚ Tom Ward. Tom has been living with his master for some time. This is the third book in the series and Tom has gained his trust from taking down a multitude of monsters in the first two books. The story starts off with Tom having a predicament‚ every winter‚ his master goes to a house in Anglezark and the spook does not want to have Alice‚ a witch friend of Tom’s‚ to be there with them.
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Imagine if you just saw your best friend being taken in front of your eyes‚ and never being able to see her again? How would you react? In the book‚ “Rage Of The Fallen” by Joseph Delaney‚ a boy by the name of Tom Ward goes through that exact situation. This is a fantasy book in which there are things like worlds‚ magic‚ and other things‚ which is why it’s important to understand it. In order to do so you need to know about the setting‚ the characters‚ the conflict‚ etc. There are a lot of interesting
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Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness is essentially the story of Charles Marlow’s journey into the center of Africa. The first person narration‚ however‚ is not provided by Marlow; an unidentified fourth person traveling on the cruising yawl Nellie provides background information and infrequent commentary as the group of friends waits for the tides to turn so they may embark on a journey down the Thames to the sea. Marlow tells his story in the first person‚ describing the events that he witnessed
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