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    Sherlock Holmes Influence

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    He imagines that the future world will be filled by robots for doing all sorts of works. He expects that utilization of human resources will be limited by the existence of robots and it may lead to unemployment problems. Asimov, though attempts to present a mystery, never fails in his social concern. He is aware of the fact that the future earth will suffocate with over population and the essentials like water and food will be served in…

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    Death. The end of life. The total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism (dictionary.com). Death is the absolute ending to a living thing. This concept at first is difficult to grasp. As a child, one doesn’t understand the finality of it. How does a more intellectually capable human explain to a young mind about this final event? Lies of a “long sleep” or “happy trip” are told to them to keep the idea simple. In reality though, the idea of death is a very complex…

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    “...A hero means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes are always making a sacrifice.Heroes always take a risk.Heroes always doing something that most people don’t and we want to change.I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero”-Philip Zimbardo.In 2011 Fucson, Arizona, an act of heroism was happening in the parking lot of Safeway.A massive shooting was happening which resulted in 6 dead and 14 injured.The “bystanders” who were watching the…

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    opposites. A singular portrayal of the goddess will in no way representative of who Kali truly is. She must always be properly contextualised to truly understand her power and functionality as a goddess (McDermott 1998, p. 301). So while these traits may at first appear to be different pieces of art in the same Kali themed gallery exhibition, they are in fact just different sections of the same painting. The two sections can be viewed separately; however, it…

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    Mother Teresa once said, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” Everyone at some point goes through or struggles with loneliness. So, if everyone gets lonely are we really alone? In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, loneliness plays a huge role. Lennie, Crooks, and Candy all face loneliness. At times they are put in situations that they would rather not be in which moves the story along. Since they are lonely they get put through a lot for better…

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    Claudia Emerson was a southern girl from Virginia. While in Virginia, she ran a used book store in Danville(Langer).She always had an interest in writing, but didn’t become inspired to write until she read books by Rainer Maria Rilke and May Sarton. The bookstore is where she spent some of her time writing. Later, she perfected her writing by attending the University of Virginia, where she eventually graduated with a bachelor 's degree in English. She later died from colon cancer. In the poem,…

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