A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Silence, exile, and cunning."- these are weapons Stephen Dedalus chooses in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. And these, too, were weapons that its author, James Joyce, used against a hostile world.
Like his fictional hero, Stephen, the young Joyce felt stifled by the narrow interests, religious pressures, and political squabbles of turn-of-the-century Ireland. In 1904, when he was twenty-two, he left his family, the Roman Catholic Church, and the "dull torpor" of Dublin for the European continent to become a writer. With brief exceptions, he was to remain away from Ireland for the rest of his life.
It was a bold move for several reasons. In spite of his need to break away from constrictions on his development as a writer, Joyce had always been close to his family. He still admired the intellectual and artistic aspects of the Roman Catholic tradition that had nurtured him. And the city of Dublin was in his soul.
(Asked later how long he had been away from Dublin, he answered: "Have I ever left it?") But Joyce did achieve his literary goal in exile. The artistic climate of continental Europe encouraged experiment. With cunning (skillfulness) and hard work, Joyce developed his own literary voice. He labored for ten years on Portrait of the Artist, the fictionalized account of his youth. When it appeared in book form in 1916, twelve years after Joyce's flight from Ireland, it created a sensation.
Joyce was hailed as an important new force in literature.
Portrait of the Artist is usually read as an autobiography, and many of the incidents in it come from Joyce's youth. But don't assume that he was exactly like his sober hero, Stephen Dedalus. Joyce's younger brother Stanislaus, with whom he was very close, called Portrait of the Artist "a lying autobiography and a raking satire." The book should be read as a work of art, not a documentary record. Joyce transformed autobiography into fiction by selecting, sifting, and reconstructing scenes from his own life to create a portrait of Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and serious young boy who gradually defines himself as an artist.
Still, Joyce and Stephen have much in common. Both were indelibly marked by their upbringing in drab, proud, Catholic Dublin, a city that harbored dreams of being the capital of an independent nation but which in reality was a backwater ruled by England.
Wesley Branch Rickey, known as Branch Rickey was born in Stockdale, Ohio in 1881. He grew up in a strict religious family. At the age of 19 Branch Rickey enrolled at Ohio Wesleyan University. Branch Rickey paid for his college education by playing both semi-professional baseball and football. After graduating in 1904, he joined a baseball team in the Texas League. Later that season Rickey was picked up by the Cincinnati Reds of the National League. His time with the team was brief. The Reds wanted to play on Sundays, but Rickey refused because his religion was more important to him. A few years later in 1906, Rickey was signed by the St. Louis Browns. Branch Rickey was the St. Louis Browns catcher for only a year before he was replaced behind the plate. (Biography.com)
history. The treaty was between the United States and the government of Spain and signed on February 22, 1819 by secretary of state John Quincy Adams, and Spanish minister Luis de Onís. Upon the signing of the treaty, our Senate ratified it quickly and unanimously. Spain though was stalling, as they wanted to buy time for themselves in propping up their colonies in the rest of the New World in hopes of getting the U.S. to give them more than they were receiving in the treaty. A new ratification was necessary, this time there were objections on the U.S. side. Henry Clay and other Western spokesmen demanded that Spain also give up Texas in the second signing. Their proposal was defeated by the Senate, which ratified the treaty for the second time on February 19, 1821 and the two nations exchanged ratification papers three days later with the treaty proclaimed on February 22, 1821, two years to the day after the original signing.
The brutality of the World War II and the anguish of the Cold War enforced nations in Europe to establish the European Union for peace and unity in the region. With ratification of the Maastricht Treaty by members of the European Community in 1993, an economic and political union; the European Union is formed. In December 2012, the European Union awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its “historical accomplishments”. Nevertheless, the member states of the European Union are still facing the crisis that started in the Eurozone since 2009. One of the major causes of the crisis is the common currency – the euro which has weak structural formation. The creation of a currency, the euro, is one of the major parts of the European Union. The German Chancellor Gerhard SchrÖder said in a speech in 1999 that “The introduction of the euro is probably the most important integrating step since the beginning of the unification process.”(Yeager, 30) Therefore, in this essay I would like to study the history of creation of the euro, lessons that the European Union draws from the euro crisis and analyze the future predictions of specialists about the euro. I will use the publication “Economic and monetary union and the euro” by the European Commission as the main source and other credible sources about the euro in my paper.
The mothers really struggle to transform their daughters, but the daughters finally realize that they want to be Chinese, not because it is cool, but because they come to understand who they really are. All four daughters are able to learn something from their mother that can be used to further their relationship and bond. Despite the differences first presented, the girls each find ways to bond with their mothers and make a happy connection between their American lifestyles, and their Chinese backgrounds.
Could you imagine living in a world where you had no personal identity? You would be just the same as the person next to you, no better or no worse. This is the situation that Equality 7-2521, the protagonist in the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand, experienced daily. He had no sense of his “ego.” In his city, no one in the “brotherhood” could use the word “I.” They referred to themselves as “we” because they believed (according to the Great Truth) that people are not individuals, but instead, they make up parts of a whole. It is not until later on in the book, when Equality discovers a house from the Unmentionable Times, that the word “I” is use and the theme is revealed. For this reason, Ayn Rand claims that the theme of the book is “the meaning of man's ego.” Her book shows and describes what she thinks the meaning of a person's ego is, and she presents this in a creative way.
...s team, will be hit by centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. This means that Santa would be glued to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. His internal organs, not expecting to be pounded with that amount of force, would explode Santa inside to out. As harrowing as it might seem, if Santa Claus ever distributed presents on Christmas Eve, the aftermath consists of a his jolly-old tombstone in the North Pole.
George discovers Lennie in the spot that he told Lennie to run to when trouble comes about on the farm. George and Lennie talk and Lennie tells George to not be anger at him for he meant no trouble. George says he understands and Lennie asks if he could still care for the rabbits on the new farm. George agrees and begins to describe the dream farm to Lennie. While talking, George shots Lennie in the head. The lynch party hears the shot and finds George with Lennie’s dead body. When the other men arrive, George lets them think that he was forced to kill Lennie because Lennie attack him. Slim consoles George, understanding that Lennie’s attack on George never happened, knowing that George killed his friend out of mercy. Slim and George leave while the other man stand looking at Lennie’s body.
Peterson, G. M. Lessons from familial cancers. Mid-Atlantic Cancer Genetics Network Newsletter. Fall 1999. http://www.macgn.org/nl13e.html.
Once in the kitchen, Willy begins to have loud conversations with himself stating how he feels Biff has failed him. Willy then loses himself in a daydream from the past. In the daydream, Willy has just arrived home from work and sees his boys outsides along with the neighbor boy, Bernard. Willy takes his young sons asides and tells them that someday they will find much success and wealth unlike Bernard because Bernard is a nerd and not as “well-liked” as the two Loman boy. Willy’s chatter awakes Biff and the other Loman son, Happy.
In order for a woman to consider her case of breast cancer to be hereditary, she must contain either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation in her genetic make up. Hundreds of mutations have been found in both genes and almost all of the mutations identified are primitive mutations found in only a single family. Most of the mutations result in a miss-formed protein product; thus the nature of these mutations is easily interpreted. Two successive acquired mutations occurring in a single cell are necessary for the development of cancer. Mutations anywhere along either gene are associated with an increased risk for breast cancer. (Transmed Network-Breast Cancer-Characteristics of Hereditary Breast Cancer, 1997).
The American Cancer Society publishes current advances made in cancer research on their website. Many of the exciting discoveries about how best to treat the disease focus on the genetic aspects associated with certain types of cancer. In addition, treatments aimed at genetic solutions to cancer may be more effective and may cause fewer adverse side effects than traditional cancer treatments (American Can...
Elk, Ronit and Monica Morrow. “Causing the Mutation: Genetics or Environment?” 2003. Breast Cancer for Dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2003. 45-46. Print.
Fairhall, James. James Joyce and the Question of History. Cambridge University Press. New York, New York: 1993.
Women weren’t given the same rights as men. No one ever considered their opinions, or heard their desires and feelings. However, in “Story of an Hour” one of the major themes is freedom. Once Mrs. Mallard receives the bad news of her husbands death she is upset, but that doesn't last. She becomes a woman free from male dominance. In the end she discovered that Mr. Mallard isn’t dead, and she dies of what the doctor says was her heart disease and joy. I see this story as a female struggle.Women were never superior to men back then, and Mrs. Mallard shows us that when she dies because even her short fantasies of freedom weren’t real.
Emotional intelligence is basically the capability to distinguish, control and judge the emotions. According to the research, emotional intelligence can be learned and it can be enhanced but on other side it is claimed that emotional intelligence is inborn feature (Cherry, 2014).