These days‚ we Geeks don’t travel anywhere without our laptops. It’s a given that we need to have them on us! How would we survive?! Thankfully‚ Seth sent in the following tips to help us keep them safe while we are on the road. Pad The Laptop: Make sure the laptop bag or carrying case you transport your laptop in provides adequate padding. As you move about the airport or shove the laptop under the seat in front of you or into the overhead storage compartment‚ the laptop can be jarred and jostled
Premium Windows Vista USB flash drive Floppy disk
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ William Shakespeare brilliantly uses the night as a motif which plays a valuable role in the play. He combines this motif with the related symbols of the play to demonstrate the power of night and its correlation with love and vision. He uses symbolism and imagery to develop the motif and makes extensive use of the night forest which‚ in part‚ helps the situation of the four young lovers‚ one of the main plots of the play. It might seem strange that Shakespeare would
Premium A Midsummer Night's Dream Moon Love
The fall of a King with a Bloody Past In the play Macbeth‚ Shakespeare uses the motif Blood‚ to describe the theme of moral ambiguity. Through a series of prophecies‚ Macbeth kills and lies his way to being King of Scotland. The theme moral ambiguity is shown when Macbeth is being rewarded for his bad deeds. At the same time the people Macbeth is attacking are being punished for doing the right theme. Moral ambiguity supports the phrases fair is foul‚ and foul is fair. In the end Macbeth has done
Free Macbeth KILL
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Shakespeare uses the motif sleep and dreams Is used to convey contrasting moods. In Macbeth the motif sleep and dreams is used to convey a mood of suspicion. “And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers. /Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature/ gives a response” (2.1.8-11). In this scene Banquo laments to himself that something feels wrong‚ Suspicion has encompassed Banquo. While he can keep these negative feelings at bay in the day‚ at night he struggles
Premium Macbeth Macbeth of Scotland Three Witches
“Pride in Control” In the book Gulliver’s Travel‚ the theme pride is presented between Book 1 and Book 2. Pride enables one to credit themselves as being prime to others. Despite how tiny the Lilliputian are they seem to seize control over Gulliver. The Lilliputians are gratified to have Gulliver as abducted‚ what they do not come to mind is their army would not be an army without Gulliver and his backbone for being an immense man compared to them. An example of the Lilliputians not putting their
Premium Gulliver's Travels Yahoo Jonathan Swift
Motifs in Fahrenheit 451 This is the novel Fahrenheit 451 it was written by Ray Bradbury. During the novel‚ Montag works with a mechanical hound. Montag is a fireman and the hound lives in the station. The hound is both dead and alive‚ he moves around like a normal dog although is mechanical. Bradbury uses motifs during Fahrenheit 451 to get the reader to focus on certain ideas. Some of the motifs he uses are fire‚ mirrors‚ and being both dead and alive. Throughout the novel‚
Premium Fahrenheit 451 Dystopia Ray Bradbury
Blood The longest running tradition in medicine‚ bloodletting‚ was a widely accepted practice with a three-thousand year-old history from the ancient Egyptians to the late 19th century. At that time‚ physicians thought that disease was a curse caused by the supernatural. It was a common idea that blood carried the vital force of the body and was the seat of the soul. Anything from body weaknesses to insanity were attributed to a defect in this vital fluid. Bloodletting was a method for balancing
Premium Macbeth Soul Ancient Egypt
Focused Class Discussion The Handmaid’s Tale Melina Taquis Theme & Motif 23-4-12 1) Can ’Sex exclusively for reproduction and not for pleasure’’ be considered one of the main themes of this novel? ‘’Sex exclusively for reproduction and not for pleasure’’ can be easily considered one of the main themes in this dystopian novel. Yet‚ it can be contradicted when the doctor makes sexual reference to our protagonist wanting to have sex with her so she could be pregnant and
Premium Gender Sexual intercourse Human sexuality
and in depth themes. Two motifs in particular are hands and fire. Hands are often seen demonstrated by Montag and they add a view of disconnect in the society. The society is taught to make lifeboat fast enough to avoid thinking therefore causing a disconnect between their thoughts and actions. Fire is also a motif used to represent how stuck the society is. This society runs by preventing outside thoughts and with thought limited the idea of change is avoided. These motifs come together to demonstrate
Premium Dystopia Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Journeys can include those that are physical‚ mental or inner and are often accompanied by challenges that can change the individual mostly for the better. Journeys are taken for many reasons‚ some are taken from choice and others are compulsory. A journey can be lone or be accompanied. The outcomes of journeys may shape the individual as a person. I was not aware of the depth or many aspects of concept of journey till our study of it. After our study I have developed a appreciation not only
Premium Travel Mind