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- 281: Jack London(biography)
- ... the Wild brought him lasting fame, many of his short stories deserve to be called classics, as does his critique of capitalism and poverty in The People of the Abyss, and his stark discussion of alcoholism in John Barleycorn. London's long voyage across the Pacific in a small boat provided material for books and stories about Polynesian and Melanesian cultures. He was instrumental in breaking the taboo over leprosy. London ...
- 282: Frank Lloyd Wright Innovator I
- ... clients turned away. Wright would call on his "Lieber Meister" when Sullivan ran into economic and personal troubles. His international reputation had dwindled by 1920 and Wright found him rejected, ignored, penniless, and dealing with alcoholism. Sullivan died in 1924 without regaining the glory of that the firm held when during Wright's early years in Chicago. WRIGHT IN RELATION TO GARDNER'S MODEL It surprises me that Howard Gardner in ...
- 283: Explaining The Twenties
- ... multi-cultural modernism and mono-cultural traditionalism were separated. Most non-Western European immigrants lived in large cities, and in the eyes of traditionalists, it was these immigrants who responsible for the problems of sin, alcoholism, and radicalism. These large cities were the center of liberal Protestantism while the small towns were the home of the “old-time religion.” No group symbolized the way in which these different strands of cultural ...
- 284: Exxon Valdez
- ... sociologist from the University of South Alabama, has also shown that the people who have been affected by the oil spill have been traumatized and suffer from bouts of depression. There are high rates of alcoholism and social ills that can be directly linked to the Exxon Valdez. Although many have fallen victim to the oil spill, Exxon, the owner of the Exxon Valdez was not held unaccountable. Within the first ...
- 285: A Raisin In The Sun
- ... by Hansberry, wanted to buy a liquor store because he hated being a servant for the white man. In buying a liquor store he would create apathy and hate in the black community by the alcoholism that his store would create. Through Walters own financial success would be the failure of hundreds of others. Propaganda and Hatred towards the Jewish population left some Jews hating themselves. They thought that it was ...
- 286: American Hawaii
- ... Hawaii dropped from 300,000 to 135,000 due to the diseases! Another problem was the introduction of alcohol. Like the native americans, Hawaiians were not immune to alcohol. Hawaiian s were very sensitive to alcoholism. Hawaiians religion was a very complex one with many gods. They worshiped idols and they belived in many feared superstitions. After king Kamehameha I died, the Hawaiians started to doubt their own belifes. Many Hawaiians ...
- 287: The Sun Also Rises 5
- ... with a British Naval officer who returned from war suffering from a rather intense case of shock. Her love life is described by Theodore Bardacke as a . . . casualty of war in itself, has decayed into alcoholism and a series of causal sex relations (12). These events have not only marred Brett, but they have also desexed her. Brett s . . . clothes, her mannish felt hat and bobbed hair, all are indications of ...
- 288: The Client John Grisham
- ... trust between her and Mark, Mark is afraid to trust anyone especially lawyers. Grisham enables Mark and Reggie to slowly build trust and friendship into their relationship which helps them to work as a team. Alcoholism torments both Reggie and Marks families, Mark loosing his father and Reggie loosing her precious children. Mark is very angry about his father and Reggie is upset and distraught that her husband could betray her ...
- 289: The Bean Trees 2
- ... the Cherokee nation, she stops for repairs at a roadside service station. A Cherokee woman looks at Taylor and sees a chance for her dead sister's child to escape a life of abuse and alcoholism. She hands the child over to Taylor and disappears. Taylor's journey of self-discovery suddenly becomes a transition into a relationship where she is not the most important person. Taylor and her adopted child ...
- 290: The Black Cat
- ... of events bad things are going to take place. The cat s name, Pluto also foreshadows what is going to happen in the story. His name foreshadows the narrators decent into the murky regions of alcoholism, self-deception, and violence. A further place foreshadowing is used is when the appearance of a hung cat is left on the remaining wall after the house has been burnt. This hints that he will ...
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