Throughout this section‚ Tolstoy investigates the origins of patriotism and national identity. Although many of the characters vigorously support the Russian cause‚ their reasoning for doing so are diverse. Prince Andrei hopes to achieve a gratifying career and get away from his wife; dreamy Nikolai glamorizes battle; Ippolit Kuragin wants opportunities to pick up women. None of these characters seem to be moved by nationalist feelings - all of them volunteered for the war due to self-interest or
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for talking when the stakes are high Patterson‚ Grenny‚ McMillan and Switzler The first version of this book was actually published in 2002‚ the Authors traveled the world and addressed hundreds of thousands of people‚ after a period of 25 years and more research‚ the authors revised their book with their new findings and published the second edition. They studied successful communicators and then concluded that what typically set those communicators apart from the
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When we were younger reading was easy‚ the morals were spelled out clearly and extra thought was rarely required. However once we out grew Aesop’s Fables and moved on to more advanced reads‚ where deep thinking‚ and interpretation is necessary to understand the meaning the author intended us to receive. In Kavitha and Mustafa by Shabha Rao‚ Rao uses observational descriptions of Kavitha’s use of vision and hearing to help portray her theme. Rao shows how observational Kathiva becomes due to her
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One of the main philosophes of the Bhagavad-Gita is the spiritual battle that people have to tend within themselves. Arjuna hard has time accepting the fact that he has to fight against his family. That is main dilemma in chapter one how can he kill his own family? That is when spirituality comes into play. He does want to go against his religion‚ but at the same time he finds himself momentarily questioning it. Lord Krishna tells Arjuna that Contacts with matter make us feel heat and cold‚ pleasure
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In the fourth book of Confessions by Augustine he begins to question his faith so he joins a group known as the Manichees but he is disappointed and deceived by their teachings; he also learns a lot about his friendships and grief. Shortly after his friends Baptism Augustine mourns his death and he gains a new perspective on friendship. He discovers that friendship is the binding of one soul to another and he did not want his friend to die because the memory of him will be lost. A friendship is when
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The fieldwork of Annette Weiner in 1988 was different than that of Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski 60 years earlier. During that sixty year gap‚ there were a lot of changes and advances in anthropology. Malinowski was raised in a male dominant culture in Poland which influenced his view of the culture and the Trobriand Islands. Annette Weiner’s initial expectation of the tribes in the Trobriand Islands was to see a male dominated society‚ but she quickly found that the women of the islands would be
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In White Fang‚ the novel starts out with two men‚ Bill and Henry‚ crossing Alaska to head south with sled dogs. They where on this journey because they find themselves needing to burry the body of Lord Albert. During this journey‚ they crossed paths with a famished pack of wolves whose only objective was to eat. Day-by-day‚ one of Bill and Henry’s sled dogs was killed by being attracted by the she-wolf. The she-wolf would catch eyes with one of the sled dogs and as the dog would run out of camp to
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summary — Preface In the preface written to accompany the first single-volume publication ofDavid Copperfield‚ Dickens tells us that the completion of the novel is‚ for him‚ both a regret and a pleasure. He rejoices in the completion of the novel because the novel was a long time in coming‚ and he is satisfied that it is finished after two years of hard work. He mourns its completion‚ however‚ because it marks the end of his association with a cast of characters to whom he has become intensely attached
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1. What is in the “Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale?” The Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale is part of a transcript from the Twelfth Symposium on Gileadean Studies. This occurs in the year of 2195 and two people speak. The people who speak are Professor Moon and Professor Pieixoto. Professor Moon speaks about the events of the symposium she also talks about the historical moments that would have occurred after the Handmaid’s story. She introduces Professor Pieixoto who speaks about
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The movie Robin Hood is about a highly skilled archer‚ named Robin Longstride‚ who fought alongside King Richard the Lionheart during the Crusade. Unforunately‚ King Richard died in the battle outside of France’s Chalus Castle and his younger brother‚ Prince John was forced upon the throne. King John quickly took charge‚ dealt with the Magna Carta‚ and ordered harsh new taxes among the nearby towns and these taxes are to be collected by Sir Godfrey. Secretly have been working with the French army
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