Paradoxes

The purpose of the Porter’s scene is to provide comic relief because the play is at such a high level of intensity after King Duncan is killed that the this scene is placed to lower the level of intensity so that when Duncan’s body is discovered it will raise levels of intensity again. The Porter gives rise to a metaphor in the act, relating Macbeth’s castle to the gates of hell. He refers to satanic images and Beelzebub, which is the Devil, and the porter refers to himself as the gatekeeper.…

George Orwell uses this novel to recall the totalitarian societies that had caused suffering and conflict among people which he embodies in 1984. This novel portrays Stalin and Hitler who had higher authority over everyone, the greed for power, belief of cleansing the world of wrong doings and total control. The Big Brother depicted in the novel was mostly the same as Stalin. Even in the portrayal of the character Big Brother, he is described as “man of forty-five, with a heavy black moustache,…

In the foreword of the English translation of The Urban Revolution, Neil Smith speaks about one of the most disputable thesis submitted by Lefebvre to ‘‘urban process’’. The thesis is this: ‘‘the problematic of industrialization, which has dominated capitalist societies for more than two centuries, is increasingly superseded by the urban’’. That is to say: ‘‘the urban problematic becomes predominant’’. As Kanishka explains this argument, progressed through the wake of ‘‘the political crisis of…

This statement is ironic, as it contrasts Baba’s lifestyle in Kabul, compared to America. Amir asserts that “Baba, had built the most beautiful house in [...] a new and affluent neighborhood in [...] Kabul” (4). However, Amir later thinks that the “homes” in America, make Baba’s “beautiful house” seem like a “servant’s hut” (135). These contrasted statements clearly show the differences in lifestyle and social statuses between the two countries that Baba lives in. During his life in Afghanistan,…

Full of Emptiness In today’s society there is the looming thought of absence in many things. For some it might be the absence of a parent or an education. However, in the poem “The Morning is Full,” Pablo Neruda expresses the heartbreak of the absence of a particular season, which points to the absence of complete love in his life. Pablo Neruda is a poet from Chile who constantly expresses his feelings by describing nature, ultimately pointing at the feeling of love. "Twenty love poems and the…

In communicating their beliefs about nature and man’s connection with the natural world, transcendental writers employ rhetoric full of personified natural elements and extended metaphors connecting the natural world to man’s own personal experiences. One of the most clear demonstrations of this technique occurs in Thoreau's “Brute Neighbors” as the author personifies the ants and the loon to equate their value to that humans. In observation of the loon, Thoreau writes, “This was his…

According to Jeansonne, the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 helped mark the bridge into the twentieth century. The Exposition was filled with new inventions, and new surprises for the people of America. The frontier was shown to be settled on census records, so the people needed new and exciting things to conquer, and that is what the Exposition offered. All of the new inventions and contraptions gave people something to look forward to. The white city that was revealed during…

over using conventional p-n junctions in a typical desktop computer. Quantum computers, through superposition entanglement, can simultaneously calculate all possible solutions in a D-wave processor, rendering them indispensable for solving computer paradoxes, such as P=NP, developed by physicist Kurt Godel to solve the NP-complete in quadratic and linear time. However, quantum computer’s cryptographic systems in their D-wave processers are completely incompatible with binary code, effectively…

The internet, is it changing the way we think? An article written by John Naughton strives to challenge the reader to think on the social, political and cultural effect the internet has on humans. The target audience of his piece is the mature reader, familiar with psychology, or philosophy or technology. The piece would appeal to a person interested in just one of those fields, as the article touches on each subject. John Naughton provides his answer to is the internet changing the way we think…

America is one of the most advanced countries, and stands as an example for the rest of the world. America is a place where the “. . . American is a new man. . .” incorporated into one system (“What Is an American?”). People come from all over the world to America and they all are under the same government. America is a place where “The world is here”, people from every country around the world live here (“America: The Multinational Society”). America is a very diverse place, since people are…