Fictional character - of fictional texts, especially novels and plays. It is, in fact, hard to imagine a novel or play without characters, though such texts have been attempted (James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the most famous examples). In poetry, there is almost always some sort of person present, but often only in the form of a narrator or an imagined listener. In theater and movies (except animations), fictional characters are played by actors. In animations, they are voiced by voice actors. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Names of Characters 2 Some ways of reading characters 2.1 Character as Patient: Psychoanalytic Readings 2.2 Character as Symbol 2.3 Character as Representative 2.4 Characters as Historical or Biographical References 2.5 Character as words 3 Some unusual uses of characters 4 Famous fictional characters 5.
Edward Young - The Universal Passion. They were dedicated to the Duke of Dorset, George Bubb Dodington, Sir Spencer Compton, Lady Elizabeth Germain and Sir Robert Walpole, and were collected in 1728 as Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. This is qualified by Samuel Johnson as a "very great performance," and abounds in striking and pithy couplets. Herbert Croft asserted that Young made £3000 by his satires, which compensated losses he had suffered in the South Sea Bubble. In 1726 he received, through Walpole, a pension of £200 a year. To the end of his life he continued to seek preferment, but the king regarded his pension as an adequate settlement. Young was nearly fifty when he decided to take holy orders. It was reported that the author of Night Thoughts was not, in.
Rally Navigation techniques, tips and tricks - numbers along the north-south axis are called NORTHINGS. When giving a grid refernence, the Eastings are given first, then the Northings. A mnemonic for this is "crawl before you walk", though that may not help some! A six figure standard grid reference provides a resolution to 1/10th of a grid square, which is 100 metres on the ground. The 1:50,000 map can be used down to 25 metres on the ground, which is where the longer references come in. For pinpoint accuracy - always needed for plotting on rallies - a romer is essential. This is a transparent ruler device which matches the scale of the map being used. By aligning the ruler marks accurately over the map, a pencil mark may be made at the exact spot given by the.
Chinese classic texts - Chinese classic texts China has a wealth of classical literature, both poetry and prose, dating from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC) and including the Chinese classics texts, or Chinese canonical texts. Some of them are attributed to Confucius but he's probably only the editor of them. One of the aspects of the culture that allows its continuity is the importance given to those ancient texts, that shape the philosophies of the culture. Sì shū wǔ jīng (四書五經), the Four Books and the Five Classics, were mandated study of those Confucian scholars who wished to become government officials. Any political discussion was full of references to this background and one couldn't be a literati, and even a military officier, without knowing them perfectly. Chinese.
Classic Car Club of America - Classic Car Club of America The Classic Car Club of America (CCCA) is an organisation founded in 1952 to celebrate the grand automobiles of the prewar period. At the time, the vehicles covered by the Club were considered too modern to be of any interest by such organisations as the Antique Automobile Club of America and despite their often stupendous cost when new, were considered practically worthless. Times have changed, of course, and the vehicles eligible for CCCA membership are now some of the most highly valued cars in existence. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Definition of a Classic car 2 Eligible Vehicles 3 Grand Classics 4 CARavans 5 Complete Car List Definition of a Classic car In the words of the CCCA: A CCCA Classic.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a text adventure computer game based on the seminal comic science fiction novel of the same name. It was created by the novel's author, Douglas Adams, and Steve Meretzky of Infocom and was originally released in 1984 for the Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari, and the IBM PC. The game loosely mirrors the plot of the book with the player in the role of the hapless hero, Arthur Dent, through his (mis)adventures through the galaxy. The game quickly became a fan classic and was rereleased by Activision (which bought Infocom in 1988) in classic Infocom collection game bundles, complete with a built-in hint system not included in the original. The game was.
Found poetry - Found poetry Found poetry is the rearrangment of words or phrases taken randomly from other sources (example: clipped newspaper headlines, bits of advertising copy, handwritten cards pulled from a hat) in a manner that gives the rearranged words a completely new meaning. A classic example was found in a physics text: "And yet no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” In order to do this, it requires the poet to draw upon not only mental creativity but his or her own unconscious attitude regarding the nature of language. Structurally, it is similar to the process of creating a visual collage composition. Stylistically, it is similar to the visual art of "appropriation" in which two- and.
Chinese poetry - Chinese poetry Shi (詩 py shi1) is the Chinese term for poem. Chinese poems came in many forms: Ancient poems (古詩) and Modern Chinese poems (新詩 vers libre) usually did not follow any prescribed pattern. Poems written in Tang dynasty prescribed to very strict patterns (see constrained writing.) One common form uses five syllables per line (五言詩). The other form uses seven syllables per line (七言詩). Some poems have four lines (絕詩), some have eight lines (律詩). The last syllable of every other line should rhyme. The last syllable of the second to last line may rhyme with the last syllable too. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early Poetry 2 See also: 3 Chinese poetry in translations: Early Poetry Among the earliest and most influential poetic anthologies.
Crop circle - people want to believe supernatural explanations for phenomena that are not yet explained. Methods to create a hoaxed crop circles have been well-documented on the Internet. A counter argument to hoaxing is that circles often appears in crops mature-enough that they carry seeds, seed-pods are unbroken, whereas trampling causes seed-pod breakage. Crop circle hoaxers counter that it is easy to leave dry seed pods unbroken during stomping and also leave no trace of entrance and egress trampling when the plants and ground are both dry and some care is taken while walking. Several crop circles that were later to have been determined to be hoaxes were at first certified as being genuine by cerealogists due the lack of seed pod breakage. Farmers are not very happy with crop circles, as they.
The Children's Encyclopedia - that it could be used as a conventional reference library, or read from start to finish, developing its various topics as it progressed. It could also be dipped into at random to provide entertainment and reading matter whenever required. As well as factual articles, it contained many classic stories, nursery rhymes, songs, bible stories and poems. The encyclopedia was organised into the following sections: Earth and its neighbours Men and women Stories Animal life History Familiar things Wonder Art Ourselves Plant life Countries Picture atlas Poetry and nursery rhymes Powers Literature Ideas The Bible Things to make and do School lessons The tenth volume contained a traditional index so that the encyclopedia could be used as a standard reference work. The tone of the encyclopedia was thoroughly didactic, written with an.
Richard Claverhouse Jebb - a judge. He was educated at Charterhouse School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He won the Porson and Craven scholarships, was senior classic in 1862, and became fellow and tutor of his college in 1863. From 1869 to 1875 he was public orator of the university; professor of Greek at Glasgow from 1875 to 1889, and at Cambridge from 1889 till his death. In 1891 he was elected member of parliament for Cambridge University; he was knighted in 1900. Jebb was acknowledged to be one of the most brilliant classical scholars of his time, a humanist and an unsurpassed translator from and into the classical languages. A collected volume, Translations into Greek and Latin, appeared in 1873 (ed. 1909). He received many honorary degrees from European and American universities, and in.
Vogon poetry - Vogon poetry Vogon Poetry is poetry written by Vogons, a fictional race in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Asgoths of Crea. During a recitation by their poetmaster Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in my Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the mid-galactic Arts Knobbling Council survived only by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled "My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles" when his.
Goldschmidt classification - Cd, Cu, Ga, Hg, In, Pb, Po, S, Sb, Se, Te, Tl, Zn Lithophile elements Al, At B, Ba, Be, Br, Ca, Cl, Cr, Cs, F, I, Hf, K, Li, Mg, Mn, Na, Nb, O, Rb, Sc, Si,Sr, Ta, Th, Ti, U, V, Y, Zr, W, Lanthanides Siderophile elements Au, C, Co, Fe, Ge, Ir, Mo, Ni, Os, P, Pd, Pt, Re, Rh, Ru, Sn Some elements have affinities to more than one phases. The main affinity is given. Weblinks http://www.geology.fau.edu/course_info/fall02/gly4200/Abundance.htm http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/earth/waton/5a.html http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/earth/waton/gold.html.
Mercedes-Benz S-Class - at 2,700 rpm A supercharged overhead camshaft-V8, generating 699.6031 N-m (Madison, 2003) of torque at 2,750 rpm A turbocharged overhead camshaft-V12, generating 799.9338 N-m (Madison, 2003) of torque at 1,800 rpm (Consumer Guide, 2003) A Mercedes-Benz S-Class (model year 2000 or later) in addition to a manual or automatic transmission, and a rear-wheel or all-wheel drive system (dubbed 4MATIC). A new seven-speed auotmatic transmission was introduced in the 2004 model year (Consumer Guide, 2003). Competitors The S-Class' market competitors might at some time include the Acura RL. Audi A8. BMW 7-Series. Jaguar XJ. Lexus LS 430. Maserati Quattroporte. Volkswagen Phaeton. References Consumer Guide. 2004 Mercedes-Benz S-Class/CL-Class Snapshot. Retrieved December 21, 2003 from http://auto.consumerguide.com/auto/new/reviews/prices/index.cfm/id/37669 Madison, Joshua F. Convert (Version 4.10) [Computer software]. (Torque).
Korean Buddhism - Among these four, it was Gyunyeo who had the greatest impact. He commented prolifically on the works of the Chinese Huayan patriarchs, and lay the ground for the future rapprochement of Hwaeom and Seon by his accommodating attitude stance toward the latter. His works are an important source for modern scholarship in terms of identifying the distinctive nature of Korean Hwaeom. After the mid-Goryeo however, the Hwaeom school would gradually fade from view as a separate institution, and important later Hwaeom-related works tended to be written by Seon authors. Within the Seon of the Goryeo (and arguably, all of Korean Seon), the most important figure was Jinul (1158-1210). Jinul entered the world at a time when the sangha was in a state of crisis, in terms of external appearance as well.
Fleeming Jenkin - steamer; and, meeting with 600 fathoms of water when twenty- five miles from land, the cable ran out so fast that a tangled skein came up out of the hold, and the line had to be severed. Having only 150 miles on board to span the whole distance of 140 miles, he grappled the lost cable near the shore, raised it, and 'under-run' or passed it over the ship, for some twenty miles, then cut it, leaving the seaward end on the bottom. He then spliced the ship's cable to the shoreward end and resumed paying-out; but after seventy miles in all were laid, another rapid rush of cable took place, and Brett was obliged to cut and abandon the line. Another attempt was made the following year, but with no.
A Tale of a Tub - Each of the brothers represents one of the primary branches of Christianity in the west. Peter stands in for the Roman Catholic Church. Jack (who Swift connects to "Jack of Leyden") represents the various dissenting Protestant churches whose modern descendants would include the Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Menonites, and the assorted Charismatic churches. The third brother, middle born and middle standing, is Martin, who Swift uses to represent the 'via media' of the Church of England. The brothers have inherited three wonderfully satisfactory coats (representing religious practice) by their father (representing God), and they have his will (representing the Bible) to guide them. Although the will says that the brothers are forbidden from making any changes to their coats, they do nearly nothing but alter their coats from the start. Inasmuch as.
Petrarch - love. Her presence causes him unspeakable joy, but his unrequited love creates unendurable desires. There is little definite information in Petrarch's work concerning Laura, except that she is lovely to look at, fair-haired, with a modest, dignified bearing. Laura and Petrarch never met. He channeled his feelings into love poems that were exclamatory rather than persuasive, and wrote prose that showed his contempt for men who pursue women. Upon her death in 1348, the poet finds that his grief is as difficult to live with as was his former despair. Later in "Letter to Posterity" Petrarch wrote: "In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for.
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