Dissipation

crazy fantasy of the excitement that “dashing, brightly-coloured uniforms [bring] to a sleepy market town.” Women flocked to their camps for flirtatious fun. These facilities meant to protect the homeland were “captivating bait for lewdness and dissipation”. John Keats wrote a letter in 1817 in which he described a particular base as a “Nest of Debauchery” that made him sick. Lydia fantasized about the militia presence in Brighton as "the streets of that gay bathing place covered with officers ……

‘Valentine’ and ‘Words, Wide Night’ by Carol Ann Duffy talk about the difficulties of a boisterous relationship between the poet and her significant other. Neither of the poems follow a definitive rhyme scheme or a rhythmic pattern, and are lyrics written in first person. However, ‘Valentine’ falls into the ‘conceit poetry’ category and WWN represents a ‘tezra rima’, composed of three stanzas with three lines each in iambic pentameter. ‘Valentine’ on the other hand follows a symmetrical…

3.4. Friction Characteristics of the NCD, MCD and boron doped NCD Coatings against Alumina Balls The friction coefficient curves of NCD, MCD and boron-doped diamond films sliding with Al2O3 balls are shown in figure 4, figure 5 and figure 6, respectively, for a sliding speed of 8 m/s and a load of 1N, 5N and 10N, respectively. Figure 4 (a), figure 5 (a) and figure 6 (a) show the friction coefficient of NCD, MCD and BDNCD at 1 N, respectively. Figure 4 (b), figure 5 (b) and figure 6 (b) show…

I. INTRODUCTION The performance of present computing systems has increased at the cost of considerably enlarged power consumption. The increased power consumption either reduces the operation time for battery powered systems, such as hand-held mobile systems, or generates extreme amount of heat and requires expensive sophisticated packaging and cooling technologies, especially for complex systems that consist of several processing units. The generated heat, if not efficiently removed, can also…

Edgar Allan Poe is the most established Gothic writer of his time, he had the ability to bring the dark and gloomy environment of his tales to life like no other writer. “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Masque of Red Death,” the author has design an unknown world for a reader to enter. Poe had use the color, weather, nature, and the human emotion to bring structure to the dark tone to the setting of these stories. “The Masque of Red Death,” the setting has a figure known a “Red Death”…

One of the outcomes of the workings of desire is lack of fulfilment and building tension which can lead to the destruction of the subject. In “The Rich Boy” Anson hunter does not marry Paula, but keeps her in his mind as his ideal. By doing so he prolongs the duration of his desire. He is able to function as a successful businessman. When she dies he is broken, all his buoyancy and vitality is transformed “into the fussy pessimism of a man of forty” (RB: 164). The belief that the object of…

For most people the first thing you look at when you meet someone for the first time is their face. When Ms. Breedlove first saw Cholly that’s exactly what she looked at according to the book on page 114;“He came big, he came strong, he came with yellow eyes, flaring nostrils, and he came with his own music”. When the author said Cholly had came with his own music she meant that he seemed confident and free. It was unusual to see a young black man who was confident and free especially if they…

In light of this, the dissipation of the fear of death is portrayed by Dickinson within “I had been hungry all these years”,whereby the speaker expresses the importance of natural connections by demonstrating the innate ability to have genuine affiliations through spiritual enlightenment…

Consider how the theme of loss and/or suffering is presented in texts you have studied. ‘Wuthering Heights’ presents the theme of loss and suffering as a blend of psychological, spiritual, and physical experiences, with a similar range of causes. The presentation of loss and suffering in various texts is symptomatic of the societies reflected within texts. ‘Wuthering Heights’ largely presents loss and suffering through the loss of innocence and childhood suffering faced by Cathy and Heathcliff.…

It is evident that Augustine and Dante are much like many authors as they too explore spirituality in their writings. Augustine’s book Confessions and Dante’s Purgatorio both see humans as pilgrims on a journey that either brings them to God or away from God. These books have challenged readers, like myself, as they draw insight from them to apply to their own spiritual journey. In these books there are many themes that apply to Augustine and Dante’s spiritual journey. The theme that I am…