EarthBound Essays

  • the legend of hangman's gorge

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    For many years, people thought that the sleepy little town of Windy Hill was a dark and mysterious place. The town sat in a hollow, surrounded by mossy forest of weeping willows and fir trees, where the autumn and winter winds would shriek and howl like the many wild animals that roamed its hills. The legend has it, that deep within the forest is a place called Hangman’s Gorge. It is said that twelve witches met their doom at the gorge one Hallows night many, many years ago. Since then, there had

  • Schru Iwata Research Paper

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    time Iwata’s interest in programming began to take off. III. Iwata joins a company called HAL Laboratory. A. While at HAL Laboratory he helped create some Nintendo’s most popular series such as the Kirby series, Mother (in the U.S. it’s called EarthBound), and Super Smash Bros. B. “When HAL Laboratories verged toward bankruptcy in 1992, Iwata was made the company’s president, and he helped restore it to fiscal soundness.”(Martens) IV. Iwata leaves HAL Laboratory in 2000 to take a position at Nintendo

  • Is Organic Food Better?

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    Most grocery stores now sell food products labeled “organic” due to the increase in demand. Organic food became popular in the 1990’s and has since remained on anupward trend. Although there are more and more supermarkets stocking organic food products on their shelves, non-organic food products seem to outnumber the amount of organic food products. Organic food products are labeled with a green and brown sticker that says USDA ORGANIC. When most Americans see this label they think that what they

  • Macbeth: From Honorable Man To A Cocky Fool

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    In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth changes from a Honorable man to a Cocky fool. Everyone who knew about Macbeth saw him as a great man who fought with pride and skill. A captain who saw Macbeth tells of his amazing actions of how he killed the traitor Macdonwald. He is bloody but is still able to report and says “For brave Macbeth,/Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,/Which smoked with bloody execution, … Till he faced the slave;/Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him”(1

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    Ode to the West Wind Explication Percy Bysse Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind is a dramatization of man’s useless and “dead thoughts” (63) and Shelley’s desire from the Autumn wind to drive these “over the universe” (65) so that not only he but man can start anew. The thoughts are first compared to the leaves of trees but as the poem progresses the thoughts are paralleled with the clouds and finally the “sapless foliage of the ocean” (40). Shelley personifies himself with the seasons of the Earth and

  • Egyptian Mummification Process

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    their Predynastic Period (4650-3050 BC) until after the New Kingdom (1069 BC-395 AD). The Egyptians believed in Polytheism, which the religion of worshiping more than one god. Since they believed in more than one god, they believed in Osiris, the earthbound god of the dead, and Re, the sun god. These two gods were critical to the Egyptians, because they counted on those two gods to lead people into the afterlife. In order to achieve the afterlife, a proper burial had to take place for the dead. The

  • Willy Loman American Dream

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    The death of the American Dream is on the horizon, and for some the reality has set in. The pretense of the dream has become more fiction than fact. Faith in the American Dream has caused many to fall victim to the constant pursuit of happiness and success. Willy Lowman was one of many who fell into the delusion of what the American Dream offered, for it was his false hope which led him to his ultimate demise. Arthur Miller plays on these themes which look at the critiques of the American Dream,

  • Examples Of Apparition In Macbeth

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    of thunder.” (Act 4 sc.1, Line 93-97) Now he does not need to fear Macduff, but he still wants to be sure so he is going to kill Macduff. His response to last apparition is “That will never be. Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earthbound root? Sweet bodements! Good!” (Act 4 sc. 1, Line 109-110) Macbeth is sure that he will never be defeated because Birnam wood will never

  • Treasure In Beowulf

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    afterlife by accruing wealth, prestige, and glory while they live: Owning significant treasure increases the likelihood that one’s name and reputation will live on after death. At the same time, the Geats and Danes realize that treasure remains earthbound, unable to accompany its owner into the hereafter. Both of these notions figure into the Scandinavian funeral ritual of sending a king off to sea in a burning ship filled with treasure. The more rings, swords, and coats of mail piled upon the ship

  • Antigone's Defiance: A Tragic Heroine's Struggle

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    least he should get, because in common ancient Greek belief, it was considered unholy to not properly bury the deceased because then they cannot make it into the Underworld and they shall be then stuck in a limbo or as we know, Purgatory, they're earthbound and then can haunt the living which the Greeks did not want. Creon who did not even want the throne of Thebes in the first place is overcome with power and also believes that he strives with the Gods themselves, which all Greeks know is not possible

  • Macbeth Apparition Analysis

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    In act four scene one of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth sees four apparitions, a scene meant to foreshadow his ultimate demise, ironically, as it is also the scene in which Macbeth becomes convinced of his safety and invincibility. Through the use of metaphor, Shakespeare foreshadows Macbeth’s death at the hands of Macduff, while Macbeth’s use of rhetorical questions conveys his sense of security in his kingship and life. In this scene, Shakespeare uses the apparitions as a metaphor for Macbeth’s

  • Plato's The New Atlantis

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    Only a handful of their citizens survived. Where did they go to? Looking at the accelerated development of other civilizations and considering the lands the Atlantians conquered we can speculate that some were either directed to or chose to stay earthbound but, having the capability of space

  • On Loving God: The Four Degrees Of Love

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    iii) The Four Degrees of Love So in the opening sentences of his treatise, “On Loving God,” Bernard begins: “You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason why he is to be loved. As for how he is to be loved, there is no limit to that love”. Bernard then demonstrates how God deserves our love. Bernard locates himself and his hearers within the teaching of the Fathers, and as such sees no need for polemics on matters of doctrine. For one who

  • Martha Graham

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    electrically raw emotion. The sharp and angular movement included in her technique was an intense parting with the dance style at the time. Martha was constantly expanding her dance vocabulary finding significant and dramatic ways of moving. Her earthbound walk a... ... middle of paper ... ...ach move separate and isolated. She did not merely bow her head or hold her hands to her chest to convey sadness or grief she would allow her whole body to sink downwards. She said “when you are very upset

  • Using the Past to Confronfront Important Issues: Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto

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    consists of three parts, the Worship Hall, the Main Sanctuary, and the Rock Chamber. One takes a journey through the shrine. The massive rock slab is where the local kami would visit. What is known as the “stairway of light” connects the celestial and earthbound realms. Once one reaches the bottom of the stairwell they are in the chamber that represents ancient time. Then walking through a hallway represents a journey to returning to the present. One emerges from the shrine and sees a view of the sea, and

  • The Importance Of Mollusks

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    found on Earth, where they are frequently the most obvious creatures. While most are found in the marine condition, reaching out from the intertidal to the most profound seas, a few noteworthy gastropod clades live transcendently in freshwater or earthbound living spaces. Importance of mollusks: Mollusks have been vital to people for a huge number of years. They have been, and still are, utilized as sustenance, devices, enrichments, cash, melodic instruments and that's only the tip of the iceberg.

  • Terracotta Unification History

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    The Chinese believed at this time that the soul was divided into two parts: one that would stay with the body, earthbound, and one that would ascend to heaven after death. (Emperor Qin in the Afterlife, Online, 2007). For China’s first emperor Qin Shihuangdi entering the afterlife with power and authority was his number one priority. Shihuangdi hired more than 50,000

  • Comparison Between The Ghost And Hamlet

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    by woman born and that he will, “never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him” (Macbeth 4.1.106-7). Polanski has Macbeth’s voice echo as he replies, “Who can impress the forest, bid the tree unfix his earthbound root? Sweet bodements good” (Macbeth

  • Essay On Prophecy In Macbeth

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    In various works of fiction, prophecies often give characters insight into what will happen in their future. Generally, characters who receive prophecies always attempt to take advantage of the information given to them in order to avoid the negative consequences in their future. However, in many of the situations where characters attempt to manipulate prophecies, every attempt to alter their future proves to be futile and the prediction becomes reality. The character has no chance of avoiding what

  • NASA Budget Cuts

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    In July of 1958, President Eisenhower passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as a response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik nine months earlier. That administration, now known worldwide as NASA, has become an icon of space exploration and mankind's accomplishments. Who would have thought that fifty years later, NASA's future would be so uncertain? Congress has recently proposed a bill that would significantly cut funding