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"Globalization: Wonder land or Waste Land?", 2008.
An analysis of Murray Weidenbaum's arguments regarding globalization in his T.S. Eliot Lecture, delivered at the University of London in January of 2002, entitled "Globalization: Wonder land or Waste Land?"
815 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper critiques Murray Weidenbaum's T.S. Eliot Lecture, delivered at the University of London in January of 2002, entitled "Globalization: Wonder land or Waste Land?" The paper discusses Weidenbaum's arguments in favor of globalization and the benefits that can be achieved for the world as a whole, by utilizing it to its full potential.
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"Given Weidenbaum's professional background and admitted bias, it is admirable that he manages to do precisely this - look at both the bright side and the dark side. His approach and suggestions are so realistic and pragmatic, and so unbiased, that it is hard to imagine that any but the most rabid fanatic on either side of the debate would not admit that he makes a valuable contribution with this speech. The strength of the speech derives from two aspects - the fact that he does manage to look at both sides, and that his suggestions have the refreshing ring of being attainable in the real world."
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T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", 2006.
Examines the opposing concepts of the meaning of 'waste' conveyed in T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Waste Land".
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 1 source, £ 63.95
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'Waste' can mean both a dry, infertile, inhospitable place, or the failure to make productive use of one's resources. This paper examines how T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Waste Land", embodies both of each seemingly diametrically opposed concepts to describe the social, cultural and spiritual dislocation in Europe following the First World War. Although modern life and culture may be seen to suffer from exile in a land of waste, such eras may be cyclical, and his brilliant use of fragmentary allusions suggests that the best of the past may foreshadow a brighter future.
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"By setting 'Waste' off as a separate word from 'Land', Eliot suggests to the reader that the various meanings of the term are key to an understanding of his message. Rather than referring to a wasteland (in the conventional sense of "desert"), the poem instead centers on the concept of a land both of desolation and of conspicuous, indiscriminate consumption, a land whose resources are not utilized but rather discarded on a purulent cultural garbage dump. The rich allusions within the poem both contrast and relate these seemingly opposed concepts. The first segment, 'Burial of the Dead', introduces the theme of the turning of the seasons, and more importantly, the theme of cyclical regeneration. In nature, waste is irrelevant. Although death occurs in all forms of life, the bodies of the dead furnish the hope of renewal to other living creatures. "
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T.S. Elliot's "The Waste Land", 2001.
This paper analyzes T.S. Elliot's poem "The Waste Land".
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, £ 30.95
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This paper shows how fixated Eliot was on the topic of death and the period of passing between life and death as seen in his poem "The Waste Land".
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"Much of the power of T.S. Eliot?s 1922 poem The Waste Land, lies in the poet?s focus on the middle ground between life and death. As a man who had experienced no small success in life, he could look at the period of living as a time of at least some pleasures. And as a Christian, he could assume that after death he had a good chance at entering paradise. But even the Christian must fear the process of death, that time between when the pleasures and certainties of life have been relinquished and that time when one?s soul actually is welcomed into heaven."
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T. S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land?, 2004.
This paper discusses, extensively, the theme of water in the T. S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land?.
3,785 words (approx. 15.1 pages), 14 sources, MLA, £ 74.95
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This paper explains that the lack of water, which is referred to continuously throughout T. S. Eliot?s ?The Waste Land?, is a sign of spiritual drought and symbolically indicative of infertility and philosophical and existential stasis. The author points out that water is the primary symbol of the release and awakening from the nightmare of "The Waste Land", and its interpretation offers an alternative to the loss of meaning, which in Eliot?s view, characterizes the modern world. The paper relates that water links to the ancient myth of the vegetation god and to the Christian myths because water can be seen to regenerate through suffering and death.
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"The sense of ennui and existential angst is related to Eliot?s personal situation as well, and to the situation of his entire generation after the ?Great War?. Any understanding of the poem necessitates a perception that the symbol of water as an image of salvation from the ?modern predicament? and its various constraints, was not a random image selected for its obvious connotations, but refers to an entire tradition of mythical and philosophical thought. Drawing from these ancient roots, the modern usage of the symbol of water is reflected in the intense search for relevance and meaning that was central to the work and the art of the modernist period."
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T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land - An Analysis of 'The Fire Sermon', 2003.
A literary analysis of a short passage (20-50 lines) from T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land".
2,129 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 47.95
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This paper analyzes 'The Fire Sermon' - a short passage from the poem "The Waste Land", by T. S. Eliot. This paper looks at the story of Oedipus from which the character of Tiresias is drawn, and discusses the definite links between Sophocles' imagery of a barren and plague-stricken Thebes and the wasteland depicted by Eliot. The writer discusses the idea of human behaviour as an empty mechanism in relation to this passage of "The Waste Land". The writer suggests that this particular passage can be seen as a portrait of the human condition as Eliot saw it in pre-war England.
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"T.S. Eliot's poem, The Waste Land is described as '[...]a study of a civilisation doomed by its own sterility'. Throughout The Waste Land, Eliot can be seen to suggest this through his fragmentation of the narrative and using a series of different voices, each of them serving to juxtapose the relative richness of the past to the sterile wasteland of the present. It is not, though, until we reach the mid-point of the poem that we are introduced to the character of Tiresias as a narrator, both man and woman, that all of these voices are unified, and one can begin to metaphorically put the pieces together and find the root cause of this wasteland. It is not until this is considered that one can consider whether this civilisation is truly doomed."
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"The Waste Land", 2005.
An analysis of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 28.95
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This analysis of T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" focuses on the poet's use of imagery as a way of reinforcing his theme of the search for meaning and redemption in an existential world of decay and sterility. It also examines the poem's use of outside criticism to prove its main points.
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"Numerous critics have tried to define meaning in T S Eliot's The Waste Land ,a poem that break with conventional modes of expressing by condensing language. The poem uses as its framework or vehicle five stages of a soul in despair ..."
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?The Waste Land?, 2002.
An examination of the use of imagery in T.S. Elliot's poem, "The Waste Land".
676 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, £ 17.95
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The paper examines how the poem, "Waste Land" by T.S. Elliot is structured on a series of images along with references to history and art. It describes the poem as having a strong intellectual flavor because of these references and the density of its imagery, but everything is shaped toward the ultimate idea of the decay of the modern world and the values on which it was based.
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"The images become more and more of a landscape that has lost its power, that is old, that is dying, and that is no longer effective, and the values have become impotent: "Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit/ Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit" (338-339).
Normal functioning has gone, and what is left is desolate, dead, racked by wind, with no trees to stop the wind. The landscape is an image of the modern world, and it is an image of death and loss."
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?The Waste Land? and "The Fisher King", 2006.
A comparison of the themes in the Thomas Stearns Eliot poem "The Waste Land" and that of the film "The Fisher King".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 22.95
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This paper reviews, compares and contrasts the poem "The Waste Land" by Thomas Stearns Eliot and the movie "The Fisher King". The author of the paper argues that both the poem and the movie deal with similar themes. While the poem is about the fall of Western civilization into a world of madness and chaos without meaning, the movie can be interpreted as a modern day parable of the cynicism that pervades our society and how we can reclaim our lives from the ruins of society. The paper discusses other similar themes as well, including the loss of innocence and the rediscovery of lost youth. The paper also cites evidence that both the play and the film have characteristics of Homeric similes.
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"Eliot's poem touches upon the decline of civilization and the inability of individuals to bring about change. This same theme is touched upon in The Fisher King where the trappings of modern society destroy individuals and individual lives. Jack in the beginning saw the young urban professionals, "yuppies", as enemies of society, yet he did not realize that the true enemy was the structure of society which created a populace of mostly uncaring and dispassionate individuals. By denouncing them, he becomes an instrument of the forces that corrupt society which he had fought against. It is this realization that makes him fall from grace through the discovery that his comments on the radio to a listener had caused the death of those in the bar."
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"The Waste Land"- An Analysis, 2002.
An exploration of T.S. Elliot's "The Waste Land".
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 0 sources, £ 43.95
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This paper examines the masterpiece by T.S. Elliot called "The Waste Land." It looks at the work line for line and analyzes the way in which Elliot explores the topic of death and disillusionment. It explains why this poem epitomises the post war era of poetry.
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"T.S. Eliot?s masterpiece, ?The Waste Land,? can only be characterized by its timelessness and perplexity, elements that have both intrigued and inspired generations alike. Eliot grasps his readers before guiding them through a stream of consciousness that never lucidly focuses on any one image, character, or figure. What remains is ?a heap of broken images? (line 22) from which to deduce meaning. Ratiocination proves in vain. Rumination clarifies. While introducing a plethora of people, ?The Waste Land? never reveals their faces. It does, however, release a ubiquitous aura of nostalgic anxiety stemming from the disillusionment of the postwar generation he and his contemporaries identified with. This element, unifying the five separate sections, transpires from the vagueness of surreal imagery to express Eliot?s sentiment that contemporary civilization is more or less devoid of values. "
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"The Waste Land", 2003.
A critical analysis of symbolism and meaning in T. S. Elliot's "The Waste Land"
1,043 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 25.95
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This paper provides a comprehensive and scholarly critique of T. S. Eliot?s "The Waste Land" to identify its symbols. An analysis of what the critics have to say about the work is followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion. Several peer-reviewed sources used.
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"According to Roger Casey, a dominant symbol in The Waste Land is the fisher-king, the ?impotent lord of a land cursed by a blight of sterility which can be cured only by the quest of a knight for the meaning of various symbols presented to him? (Casey 1991:192). Following the 1922 publication of his poem, The Waste Land, Eliot won an international reputation. The Waste Land expresses with great power the disenchantment, disillusionment, and disgust of the period after World War I. In a series of vignettes, loosely linked by the legend of the search for the Grail, it portrays a sterile world of panicky fears and barren lusts, and of human beings waiting for some sign or promise of redemption? (Casey 1991:192)."
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Elliot: "Waste Land" - Boredom, 1993.
Analyzes the theme of boredom in Eliot's poem "The Waste Land", discussing spiritual dryness and the inability of individuals and nations to hold on to beliefs that provide meaning, vitality and creativity in the post WWI era.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, £ 45.95
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"The Waste Land
Introduction
As the old Norton Anthology of English Literature stated, The Waste Land appears to be about spiritual dryness, about the inability of individuals and nations to hold on to beliefs that provide meaning for their lives and vitality for growth and creativity. It seems to reflect the ultimate boredom of meaninglessness. This analysis explores the theme of boredom in The Waste Land.
The Context
This poem was written during the post.World War I period and before the preparations for World War II began in earnest. It represents the reactive mode of people who participated in a war ..."
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"The Waste Land", 2002.
The following paper discusses the relation of Eliot's fragmentation in "The Waste Land" and the lack of inter-connectivity in London society.
2,082 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 46.95
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This paper discusses how Eliot's incorporation of fragmented pieces within the poem's form and content, parallel the lack of inter-connectivity within the working-class of London society.
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"T. S. Eliot builds his poem, ?The Waste Land,? on a foundation of fragmented pieces, through which he constructs a horrifying image of the lack of connectivity between individuals in London society. He mixes incomplete allusions, citations, speeches, languages, and phrases to produce a complete poem, but creates no connection between each literary scrap. The poem?s content resembles this same system of fragmentation. He describes humans in terms of parts, specifically the body parts they use to work in an industrialized society. As a result, he portrays functioning members of society as fragments that find completion within the laws of society. Like the poem?s unconnected form, however, the fragmented human beings lose their ability to connect with each other, thus illustrating what Eliot fears has happened to London society. The rules set forth by London society force working-class citizens to take on a machine-like persona, abandoning their individualism and their ability to form relationships within the human population. Thus, Eliot incorporates fragmented pieces within the poem?s form and content in order to parallel the lack of interconnectivity within London society, as well as to pose a solution to this problem, demonstrating the necessity of a revolutionary reorganization of societal fragments."
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Land of Dreams, Land of Troubles, 2004.
Traces the history of Japanese immigration to America, focusing on those who settled in California.
2,308 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 7 sources, APA, £ 50.95
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This paper explores the end of the Meiji period in Japan and the beginning of the country's modern period (1867-1912), which ultimately led to Japanese seeking their fortunes in the West, especially the United States. It traces the history of these immigrants, their impact on the economy, and the pitfalls they encountered in the form of racism and discriminatory laws. This anti-Japanese feeling reached its peak in 1941 with the Japanese invasion on Pearl Harbour and the internment of all Japanese-Americans on the West Coast of the United States. The paper also looks at how the American government has since awarded reparations to those interned and how descendants of Japanese immigrants fare today in American society.
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"While many Japanese back in Japan initially waxed enthusiastic about the United States and its culture, the feeling in America was hardly mutual. As was typical of majority White America?s relations with Non-Whites, Japanese immigrants were scorned, and their culture denigrated. First, the United States had passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. This was followed by restrictive measures against the Japanese. As Californians and other West Coast White Americans clamored to stop the flow of Japanese to their region, the American Government relied on a rather ingenious and disingenuous clause in its commercial treaty with Japan to staunch the flow of Japanese Labor by refusing to issue permits for their travel to the Mainland. The Japanese, along with the Chinese, were called the ?Yellow Peril,? their competition for American jobs and resources keeping these jobs and resources from ?real? Americans."
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Sustainability, Waste Management and Incineration, 2008.
This paper discusses the issue of waste management and waste incineration as a way to manage waste.
2,573 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 55.95
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In this article, the writer points out that waste is a non-avoidable result of high-technology industrialized economies, as more things are produced and more waste is generated. Environmental, economic and social factors involved are examined and waste incineration is compared and contrasted with land filling and the 3Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle. The writer discusses that the growing concern for the environment, a constant increase in the amounts of waste produced, economic, land and social costs involved in developing new landfill sites and public opinion have brought about the need to approach waste management in a new way. The writer maintains that the use of waste incinerators does provide certain advantages to landfill, particularly in terms of waste reductions as well as through waste-to-energy schemes. The writer concludes that the 3Rs method of waste management has the greatest potential for growth and improvement and is a sustainable way of approaching waste management.
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"A waste incinerator involves burning waste at high temperatures inside a specially engineered and purpose-built incinerator facility. Some of the positive impacts include the reduction of the volume of waste, less fossil fuel use and less land required for disposal of leftover solid residue as well as the potential of energy-from-waste incinerators. For example, by incinerating waste, its weight and volume are greatly reduced, often by as much as 90% . Pitchtel also stated that a third, albeit unintended benefit of incineration is detoxification - the destruction of microbial and other pathogenic organisms - of the waste . Waste-to-energy incinerators boil water to make steam for heating spaces or for production of electricity."
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