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- 1251: Jarassic Park: The Dinosaurs Were Not To Blame For The Destruction of Jurassic Park
- ... benefit of wealthy tourists. Moreover, they are altered so that they are completely dependent upon their owners, the island's literal ruling class: they have been deprived of the ability to manufacture a particular amino acid and must receive it regularly in their food. 'These animals are genetically engineered to be unable to survive in the real world,' the dinosaurs' designer tells the visitors. 'They can only live here in Jurassic ...
- 1252: The Story of Sweetheart of the Song of Tra Bong: The Use of Setting
- ... at this level, the only one that matters) is the setting. Just as Vietnam had it's oddities and tendencies, Rat's mind had it's own pockmarked landscape with it's own jungles and rain forests. Now that one has identified the skew of the stained glass window the story is viewed the through, one can begin to fully appreciate what happened to Mary Anne, and the conflict she encounters ...
- 1253: The Good Earth: Summary
- ... En. Wang Lung's third child was a disaster. Not only was it a girl, but she was born retarded. That summer, a drought hit the area where Wang Lung lived, and it did not rain for months. There was little harvest, and soon all of the wheat was gone. Starving, Wang Lung had his ox killed for food, but could not bear to watch because the beast had been so ...
- 1254: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- ... felt. Last year, on a trip through Mexico, I found myself peering into mud huts, through village streets, and across impassible mountain ranges, half-believing that I would glimpse a dim figure stumbling in the rain on his way to the border. There is no greater tribute possible to your creation of this character - he lives. An excerpt from the letter of Californian Catholic teacher to Graham Greene, 1960 In a ...
- 1255: Released From the Grip of What He Carried: Freedom Birds
- ... frees" himself of what has holding him down from working to his full potential. He has nothing to stop and look at or read, but he does have his thoughts of Martha. "Briefly in the rain, Lieutenant Cross saw Martha's gray eyes gazing back at him. It was very sad
The things men carried inside
he almost nodded at her, but he didn't" (287). This is the turning point ...
- 1256: Irony of The Setting in "The Lottery"
- ... together and breaking into "boisterous play"(196). Also, the children are described as gathering rocks, which is an action of many normal children. She described the men as gathering together and talking about "planting and rain, tractors and taxes"(196). Finally, she describes the women of this community as "exchanging bits of gossip"(196) which is a common stereotype of women. She creates a mood for the reader of the town ...
- 1257: The Heart of Darkness: The Horror!
- ... horror of Kurtz's words: the chain gangs, the grove of death, the payment in brass rods, the cannibalism and the human skulls on the fence posts. Africans bound with thongs that contracted in the rain and cut to the bone, had their swollen hands beaten with rifle butts until they fell off. Chained slaves were forced to drink the white man's defecation, hands and feet were chopped off for ...
- 1258: Heart of Darkness: Cruelty
- ... 105.) The supposed purpose of the Europeans traveling into Africa was to civilize the natives. Instead they colonized on the native's land and corrupted the natives. "Africans bound with thongs that contracted in the rain and cut to the bone, had their swollen hands beaten with rifle butts until they fell off. Chained slaves were forced to drink the white man's defecation, hands and feet were chopped off for ...
- 1259: Living, Loving, and Learning: Buscaglia Reflection
- ... those around us see us as being extremely odd or as just a part of the crowd. We need to be ourselves. If being yourself means you feel like going out and dancing in the rain once in a while, you should do it! And if being yourself means you feel like singing a song at the top of our lungs as you walk down the street, you should do that ...
- 1260: Zane Grey
- ... landscape. The setting is so beautiful that it grips the reader and keeps them wanting more. Nature is used as a "purifying force" in an only the strong survive theme. He portrays nature as an acid test of those elemental traits of characters which he admires. In many of his works the conflict of man vs. nature is present (Twentieth Century Literary Criticism 183). The Vanishing American is no exception. Nophie ...
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