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    Everything In Moderation‚ Dear. In the play Macbeth by Shakespeare‚ on page 147‚ the important truth of the play leaks out through Macbeth’s lines. In this one lucid moment‚ Macbeth realizes that life isn’t worth living without his wife‚ and he realizes he has gone through a metamorphosis into a power-hungry monster‚ both caused by his lust for power. The speech illustrates that power will always lead a man astray. In his hunt for power‚ Macbeth has indefinitely ended the lives of at least

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    Frankenstein

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    Frankenstein: The Creature If the creature were placed in modern times‚ then people would treat him exactly as characters in the book treated him. If a family raises the creature like any normal human being would be raised‚ then the creature would have turned out different. When he enters a school‚ people would treat him wrong and like if he was a terrible person. Society today would not have treated him any better than society during Victor Frankenstein’ s time period; if anything today’s society

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    fiction novel‚ Frankenstein‚ is a Gothic horror story that captures reader’s attention leaving them with questions of their own morals and of the main characters. The novel arouses questions like‚ who should be allowed to create life? Is it right to kill for a greater good? Are some secrets best untold? These are all questions of morality and individuals will come up with their own opinions and answers based on their upbringing. In Frankenstein‚ main characters Victor Frankenstein and ‘The Monster’

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    Themes in Frankenstein

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    Frankenstein deals with two main social concerns‚ the level of moral responsibility that a creator possesses in relation to his creation‚ as well as the issue of the moral boundaries that exists in one’s quest for knowledge‚ including the fine line between good and bad knowledge‚ The novel also deals with two main human concerns‚ which include a person’s goals or aspirations as well as the issue of pride and its affect on a person. Mary Shelley highlights the issue of moral responsibility by

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    Faust and Frankenstein

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    Shelley of Frankenstein depict the inevitable downfalls of the seemingly omnipotent protagonists who in the end‚ only reach an undying thirst for more than they can handle. However‚ with each going to the extent of isolating himself to challenge and seek the universal unknowns through his studies‚ both Faust and Frankenstein face lonesome defeat in their desperation for answers. Faust seeks to attain the supernatural in a natural world but ends up allowing the very gift of abundant knowledge to destroy

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    The Fearful Frankenstein

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    Fearful Frankenstein People naturally fear the capabilities of science. Nuclear war‚ flying in airplanes‚ and even cloning are all examples of twenty-first century fears. We fear these because of science. Nuclear war would devastate the world‚ flying in airplanes is risky because of the unnatural ability of human flying‚ and cloning because it seems to play God. Well‚ according to Peter Hutchings in his book The Horror Film movie monsters are “expressions of or metaphors for socially specific fears

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    Knowledge

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    Feature article Knowledge management‚ librarians and information managers: fad or future? Brendan Loughridge Introduction This article considers some of the principles and practices commonly associated with ``knowledge management ’ ’ (KM) in so far as they seem to be of potential importance or relevance to library and information professionals. Competing claims and counterclaims about KM as expressed in a selection of recent professional and academic publications are reviewed‚ though a truly

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    Limits In Frankenstein

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    Mankind should tolerate limits on what they should know‚ Gothic literature shows this in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Using horror‚ Mary Shelley exposes the fear that emerges from overstepping boundaries. She also uses violence to show how knowing too much consequently causes mayhem in one’s life‚ ruin their dreams and goals. Mary Shelley also uses the supernatural as an example of something we should not know too much about. Using man as his own worst enemy Mrs. Shelley shows that everything

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    In William Davies’ article “Don’t Make Personal Growth a Utilitarian Goal‚” he states that today there is a great deal of emphasis on how happiness can shape global economies or successful business practices. William Davies seems to be against the pursuit of happiness as a societal goal‚ yet he admits that happy workers are more productive in the workplace because work becomes more pleasant. Individuals who are happy at work will be more productive‚ because if you love what you do you will work harder

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    Frankenstein

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    Frankenstein Essay Prompts Due date: March 4‚ 2011 Directions: Answer one of the following prompts in a well-crafted five paragraph essay. Ensure that you provide a thesis statement which gives a clear focus and direction for the paper and that your topic sentences do the same for each paragraph. Your thesis statement must discuss what Shelley is saying about the theme on which you are writing. Once you have a thoughtful and clearly stated thesis‚ the quality of your paper will be

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