The Future Of The Race
.... egotists who turned their training toward personal advancement. Meanwhile, Du Bois had been learning to respect the masses from reading Marx. Nonetheless, he still cherished a hope that a new, self-sacrificing Talented Tenth of internationally minded men—still men—would ally African Americans to the peoples of the Third World and uplift the colored masses universally.
Gates and West, who teach at Du Bois’s own Harvard University, accept his challenge with all its Victorian mission of .....
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The Genre Of Science Fiction
.... bomb and landing on the moon” (Gunn and Boucher 5). Think about it, seeing a little space ship go millions of miles into space and landing on a moon. People would thinks to themselves wow. Or seeing a huge mushroom cloud fling into the air and destroy everything it touches. That the only purpose of science fiction is to “…deals with events that did not happen, may have happened, or have not yet happened” (Gunn and Boucher 1). People often have a hard time understanding that Science .....
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The Gift Of The Magi And The N
.... than before. The plots of these stories are good to contrast and compare, because they have so many similarities, but at the same time they are so different.
There aren't many similarities in the theme of these stories at all. They teach totally different lessons. For example: "the Necklace" teaches you to tell the truth about things when they're your responsibility, and don't try to cover them up. "The gift of the Magi" teaches you not to give up your most valued items for someone, because its .....
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The Glass Menagerie
.... glory" (Williams 84). When Jim reminisces about his lead in the operetta, Laura asks him to sign her program and he signs it "with a flourish" (Williams 116). Only by entering into the Wingfield's world of illusions can Jim become this high school hero again. As the scene progresses, Jim regresses to his high school days of wooing women as he woos the innocent Laura by dancing with her and kissing her. However, this might as well be an illusion, because the reality of the situation is that Jim is engag .....
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The Glass Menagerie -x
.... to waste time. Frightened of interacting with people, she looks to her collection of glass animals as a place of secure acceptance. Laura clings to the fear that she is strange and crippled though she herself exagerates the reality of that. Magnifying her illness, denying her inner beauty to come forth, is the way Laura hides from a world lit by 'lightning."
Tom, on the other hand, relies on self-denial to justify his concerns and feelings of insecurity. By making himself believe that he is a good m .....
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The Glass Menagerie 2
.... was around twenty-four years old and should be able to take care of herself and Amanda, the mother, having only herself to look after should be fine as well. In the play Tom compares himself with his father who walked out on his family. This however, is not a fair analogy. Someone who is in their early twenties without a wife or kids should not have the same amount of responsibility as that of an older man who decided to have a family. It is completely unfair to expect Tom to give up all of his desire .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath
.... on
rampage. The novel shows the men and women that are unbroken by
nature. The theme is one of man verses a hostile environment. His
body destroyed but his spirit is not broken. The method used to
develop the theme of the novel is through the use of symbolism. There
are several uses of symbols in the novel from the turtle at the
beginning to the rain at the end. As each symbol is presented
through the novel they show examples of the good and the bad things
that exist w .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath 2
.... been there, in the corollary chap Along the way to California the
Joad's encountered other people that had already been to California
and were now returning. These people, like the ragged man with the
sunburned face from the road-side camp described on page 242. He had
had children that died because wages were too low and work was too
scarce to afford food for his children and wife. His story was one of
pain and despair, also his story showed the cruelty and inhumane
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The Grapes Of Wrath 3
.... the novel, the Joads. Setting the tone of the novel
in the readers mind is another function of Steinbeck's intercalary
chapters.
In chapter three, Steinbeck emaculatly describes the long tedious
journey of a land turtle across a desolate highway. From the onset of
his journey, the turtle encounters many set backs. All along the way
he is hindered by ants, hills, and oak seeds under his shell. The
turtles determination to reach his destination is most apparent when a
tr .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath 4
.... they drive to a place to sell their junk. When they arrive, they buyer pretends that he has no interest in their junk. The Joad family ends up receiving only eighteen dollars for "every movable thing from the farm: the horses, the wagon, the implements, and all the furniture from the house"(125). Chapter Nine foreshadows how the Joad family will have to sell all of their junk for a very small amount of money.
In Chapter twelve, another inner chapter, many people start to leave for California on High .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath 5
.... John’s farm.
Tom and Casy arrive at Uncle John’s farm to find the Joads preparing to move again, this time to California. This is where Tom’s family is introduced to us. There is Ma, Pa, Grampa and Granma, and Noah, the oldest son. The daughter, Rose of Sharon is pregnant and dreams of finding a nice place in California. Connie, Rose of Sharon’s husband who deserts her when they reach California, Al, the sixteen-year old son, and Ruthie and Windfield, the two youngest childr .....
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The Great Gatsby
.... people did not all together stop at one point, they had to contemplate whether to or not to in their heads. Most everyone showed signs of nervousness, trembling in the fingers and strain on their very mental and moral selves. Then regret afterwards. There were though a couple of people who had stayed quite calm during this experiment and showed very little signs of regret and strain. In the end we can see that every man has his breaking point, and those points can be controlled to a certain element. Maki .....
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The Great Gatsby
.... murder, Daisy went to
somewhere else with her husband, and did not go to Gatsby's
funeral.
I called up Daisy half and hour after we found him,
called her instinctively and without hersitation. But
she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and
taken baggage with them.
Therefore, Nike Carroway's analysis was right by these
clear observation.
However, Nike Carroway is a good narrator, he sees
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The Great Gatsby - The America
.... all he lived for was Daisy and he couldn’t have her. And so that was the end of that tale.
Tom is the one who is closest to living the American dream. He might be the antagonist of the story, but he was happy and that’s what’s important. He had money, looks, a wife and then some, and whatever he wanted, he would get. He always stood by what he believed in. He may have been a little snobby at times, but that’s his character. He was proud of everything that he had. One example of .....
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The Great Gatsby - The Charact
.... One of the most interesting components of Jordan’s character is her carelessness, in driving, as well as in life. She states, “It takes two to make an accident,” implying that she can be careless herself. The way she says this statement makes it seem as if she were saying, “I can do whatever I want -- other people have to watch out for me.” She has quite a sense of self-confidence, as well as pride in herself and in her actions. She is not afraid to speak her mind, and a .....
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