Amine Werther's attitudes to nature. Is any development discernible? You may also wish to refer to Goethe's poetry of the same period.

Examine Werther's attitudes to nature. Is any development discernible? You may also wish to refer to Goethe's poetry of the same period. Goethe wrote his novel "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" in the spring of 1774 and a revised edition was published in 1787. The period in which the novel was written is one in of high sensitivity or "Empfindsamkeit" and there was an emphasis on the self, or the ego. The form of the novel, not just its content, illustrates these trends in 18th Century thinking as we get a close insight into Werther's emotions and attitudes through his letters to Wilhelm. Werther, the protagonist, is a highly sensitive young man who is led by his heart rather than rational judgement. He is a slave to his moods and we can see that nature is one element that greatly affects how he feels. Werther's changing attitudes towards nature reflect his emotional state - sometimes we see nature as a source of joy, peace and relaxation, at other times one of torment and hatred. There exists, therefore, strong connections between Werther's emotional state, his attitude to nature and his beliefs, specifically his perception and worshipping of God. Werther's takes a pantheist outlook on religion. This belief, which was also held to some extent by the author, is the theory that God is manifested in all living things, making a close link between God and His creation. It is a

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'Explore how personal and universal loneliness are portrayed in three of Thomas Hardy's poems'

'Explore how personal and universal loneliness are portrayed in three of Thomas Hardy's poems' Thomas Hardy was a person that wrote literature with deep meaning, and understanding of the society in which he liked expressing his views and opinions of the injustice in his world and his time. The industrialization of Britain had a huge impact on Hardy's writing. Although industrialization was supposed to bring improvement, and development he questioned mans real progress in the universe. His poetry was often based around problems that occurred across his society but also around nature in the 70's. The poem 'During Wing and Rain' is a very strong expression through a poem. It is an experience of happiness juxtaposed against darkness and the harshness of nature. The poem introduces a family, and their life until death, and how they live, using seasons as representations of their stages of life. The first stanza begins with a family in the sun, amongst the greenness of nature. The beginning of the stanza seems to be very open. "They sing their dearest songs, he she, all of them- yea". It gives us images of friendliness and warmth within their family and their happiness. "He, say, all of them- yea" creates a more settled feeling, and the word "they" suggest a more close and warm feeling within a family or amongst one another. Hardy goes on as "With candles mooning each

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Compare and contrast the poem “Pylons” by Stanley Smith with the poem “The Pylons” by Stephen Spender.

Compare and contrast the poem "Pylons" by Stanley Smith with the poem "The Pylons" by Stephen Spender. As one can see from the titles of these poems the subject matter is the same; namely electricity pylons and the spread of them across the countryside. Both poems are nostalgic about the loss of the countryside's innocence and seclusion, The pylons opening up tracts of land long hidden from the urban world, but now being forced into industrial age and being changed by this forever. In both poems the subject matter pylons are personalised. In Stephen Spender's poem in the second stanza ; "Pylons , those pillars Bare like nude, giant girls that have no secret." This simile likens the pylons to shameless girls, the pylons are not demure or disguised in any way, and they stand out from the natural forms of landscape. Snaith also personalises the pylons when in his opening line he writes the metaphor; "Over the tree'd upland evenly striding, One after one they lift their serious shapes, That ring with light." The words "evenly striding" give the reader an impression of an army on the move, marching in perhaps a menacing way. Certainly both poems are written with a sense of regret and foreboding about the future, the installation of pylons is not being celebrated as a technological improvement but seen in a negative light, that will lead loss of a traditional way of

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William Wordsworth 'Tintern Abbey'

Compose a written commentary on William Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' where you focus on the ways of Romanticism explored and the power of memory. William Wordsworth's 19th century poem 'Tintern Abbey' explores the pleasures to be found in nature. As mature narrator, William Wordsworth, uses the power of memory and literary devices to view the Wyre Valley's natural beauty. Techniques such as sibilance and metaphors aid in contrasting Wordsworth's newfound perspective on nature with his attitudes to nature in his youth. Wordsworth also uses memory to compare this natural scene with the 'din' of the city where we can assume he also spent time, Wordsworth finally examines the deep pleasures of nature and it's spiritual element - that is god, and his connection with nature and humanity. This is an element of the poem not aided by memory but instead reflects the social and historical context of the Romantic Era. To conclude Wordsworth shares his thoughts with his sister in an attempt to spiritually educate her. The poem opens with a reference to time. The way the word 'five' is repeated emphasises that a period of time has passed but has not passed quickly, and suggests weariness in the narrator. The repetition also gives the opening a rolling rhythm, which is echoed in the 'rolling' waters and their 'soft inland murmur'. This section concentrates on images of restfulness and

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Poets Throughout History Have Examined Man's Relationship With Nature. Briefly Discuss How Some 20th Century Poets Have Dealt With This Theme and Examine In More Detail How Seamus Heaney Treats It In His Collection 'Death Of A Naturalist'

Poets Throughout History Have Examined Man's Relationship With Nature. Briefly Discuss How Some 20th Century Poets Have Dealt With This Theme and Examine In More Detail How Seamus Heaney Treats It In His Collection 'Death Of A Naturalist' Simon Hearne Throughout the years, many poets have tried to write about Man's relationship with nature, I will study how three such poets deal with this subject. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) are two pre-twentieth century poets, they were in a very religious era and not much was known about nature and why it did the things it did. Wordsworth dealt with nature as a separate entity, he wrote about nature like it was a living thing that could be hurt. Hopkins dealt in his poems mainly with God's role in nature and the beauty, sometimes hidden, that nature always has. Seamus Heaney (1939-) is a modern poet and is still alive today, he lives in a non-religious era and we now know much about nature and how it works thanks to technology and scientists. Heaney was born the eldest member of a family which would eventually consist of nine children. His father owned a small farm in Northern Ireland, Heaney had 12 years to learn about nature in its wildest form before he went to boarding school. While he was growing up, he had a rare chance to experience nature untouched by humans in and around the sparsely

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Haemoglobin involvment in the NO mediated regulation of blood flow in Ascaris lumbricoides.

Haemoglobin involvment in the NO mediated regulation of blood flow in Ascaris lumbricoides. (intro) Haemoglobin is an allosteric enzyme made up of many quaternary structures joined together. Heme, which is an iron-containing porphyrin capable of reversibly binding diatomic oxygen gives the haemoglobin its red colour. Haemoglobin is present in the red blood cells, which occur in the vascular system of animals. It is responsible for the transportation of carbon dioxide into the lungs4 or gills from where it diffuses into atmosphere while oxygen is absorbed in its plane from the atmosphere. It also regulates the pH of the blood by controlling the concentration of hydrogen ions in the red blood cells and bicarbonate in the plasma fluid of the vessels. This is achived when the HbCO2 reacts with water to produce H2CO3 under carbonic anhydrase control. The H2CO3 then dissociates to form bicarbonate which leaves the red blood cell through ion channel and proton which remain1. Another function of the haemoglobin which wasn't relised until recently is that it is an enzyme which acts as NO-activated deoxygenase. It uses internelly produced NO as substrate to remove oxygen from surrounding atmosphere.2 One of the main examples of such mechanism is a parasitic worm present in about one billion humans humans around the world. It mainly infests intestines but is also present in

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Both the movie Whale Rider, and Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" are examples of the Romantic Journey. Whale Rider is a timeless story that involves spiritual death and mystical awakenings. It features not only the proof

Whale Rider, Wordsworth and the Romantic Journey The romantic journey deals with the understanding of the static world, the spiritual world, death, rebirth and the return to the world with affirmations. Both the movie Whale Rider, and Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" are examples of the Romantic Journey. Whale Rider is a timeless story that involves spiritual death and mystical awakenings. It features not only the proof that children have a stronger view of heaven than do adults, but also illustrates the painful fall from innocence into experience. Similarly, Tintern Abbey is an illustration of nature viewed from the eyes of innocence. Each revolves around a spiritual death and secular conversion. Each journey features a person that moves from trust in the universe to a period of doubt and despair, then to a reaffirmation of faith in cosmic goodness, or understanding. The Romantic Journey is a journey that is eternal and transcends eras both before and after the Romantic Age. The movie Whale Rider begins in a static world. While there is movement, it is an absolute mundane movement, in that nothing cosmically spectacular or out of the ordinary occurs. It is in this stale mundane movement of life that tragedy and death occur. A woman giving birth to twins dies in childbirth along with the male twin. Pai, the surviving twin, is a Maori girl living in a village on the coast of New

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Hobbes and Locke both supposed that a political society was essential to provide security of propert

Hobbes and Locke both supposed that a political society was essential to provide security of propert Writing in the 17th century, both Hobbes and Locke used the concept of a state of nature to show the nature of man's existence before the establishment of society and a sovereign. Both writers then proceeded from this abstract base point to construct a theory of how civil society came into being, what form it took and the consequences of it. The notion of property plays a crucial role in both works. Locke concentrates more than Hobbes on explaining the origins of property, mostly due to his desire to refute the arguments of Filmer and the natural rights theorists and show that all men are born free and equal regardless of what generation they're born into and that private property does not arise from consent to divide up original common property. He does this through the labour theory of property which argues that God gave the world to all men in common to use to preserve life and liberty, that naturally found objects have to be made useful by labour, that man has property in his own person and therefore owns his labour and thus man appropriates for his own, exclusive use any object in its natural state with which he mixes his own labour (Plamenatz, 1992, p342). By contrast, Hobbes has less to say about the origins of property and concentrates rather on the effect of

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Order to carry out a comprehensive investigation of a tourist destination, www.roughguides.com and www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake-District were chosen to find out all information about the Lake District in north-west of England

Researching a Tourist Destination Zhangdao Wang 20/05/05 Researching a Tourist Destination Zhangdao Wang 20/05/2005 BIRMINGHAM COLLEGE OF FOOD, TOURISM AND CREATIVE STUDIES International Foundation Diploma Writing For the attention of Mark Blakemore Table of Contents Page . Terms of Reference 5 2. Procedure 5 3. Findings 5 3.1 Transport links in the Lake District 5 3.1.1 Advantages of transport in the Lake District 5 3.1.2 Disadvantages of transport in the Lake District 6 3.1.3 Conclusion of transport links in the Lake District 7 3.2 Things to do in the Lake District 7 3.2.1 Advantages of things to do in the Lake District 7 3.2.2 Disadvantages of things to do in the Lake District 8 3.2.3 Conclusion of things to do in the Lake District 8 3.3 Accommodation in the Lake District 8 3.3.1 Advantages of accommodation in the Lake District 8 3.3.2 Disadvantages of accommodation in the Lake District 8 3.3.3 Conclusion of accommodation in the Lake District 9 3.4 Climate in the Lake District 9 3.4.1 Advantages of climate in the Lake District 9 3.4.2 Disadvantages of climate

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The Aesthetic Attitude

Sarah Woodard Philosophy 310 Dr. Michelman 2 / 18 / 2003 The Aesthetic Attitude Kant's Critique of Judgment attempts to answer how feeling can be both aesthetic and universal. The article uses the beautiful to define these feelings. Claiming that something is beautiful is making a universal judgment, a statement which aims to win the agreement of all rational beings. Yet the basis for this judgment appears to be nothing more than a single person's pleasure in contemplating a particular serious object. We say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, yet we continue to argue about our aesthetic judgments. Kant argues that aesthetic judgments must have four distinguishing characteristics which include: disinterest, universal, necessary, and purposive without purpose. Stolnitz defines the aesthetic attitude as, "disinterested and sympathetic attention to and contemplation of any object of awareness whatever, for its own sake alone" (Alperson 10). Kant also states that aesthetic judgments are disinterested. He speaks of two types of interests of which aesthetic judgments are free: the agreeable, which comes by way of sensations and the good, which comes by way of concepts. Kant also uses universality, purposiveness, and necessity in defining the aesthetic attitude. The terms which are used to defining the aesthetic attitude are further defined due to their

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