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- 2461: Harrison Bergeron
- ... Jr. s Too Equal Society The society that the story Harrison Bergeron portrays, is one with no passion, no spirit, merely one with no individuality. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. does a great job in satirizing the American political system. Stanley Schatt notices this in his biography of Vonnegut, where he states that Vonnegut writes political fables that satirize the American political and this country s relationship with both China and the Soviet Union (133). The people of this society take the notion equality to a level that could not even be feasible in any person ... Besides, there is no possible way to make everyone equal in everyday life. Without individuality, there would not be any free thinkers and no dreams to accomplish anything special. Vonnegut uses satire to mock the American political system. The idea of the American political system being compared to that of the China s and Soviet Union s is meaning how the system is much like that of a dictatorship. This ...
- 2462: The Failures Of Affirmative Ac
- ... years of persecution that the African Americans were submitted to? The answer to the question is yes and no. It is true that the white man is partly responsible for the suppression of the African- American race. However, the individual white male is not. It is just as unfair and suppressive to hold many white males responsible for past persecution now as it was to discriminate against many African-Americans in ... be turned away. A perfect example of this can be found at the University of California at Berkeley. A 1995 report released by the university said that 9.7% of all accepted applicants were African American. Only 0.8% of these African American students were accepted by academic criteria alone. 36.8% of the accepted applicants were white. Of these accepted white students, 47.9% were accepted on academic criteria alone. That means that approximately sixty times ...
- 2463: Joy Luck Club
- ... because of their own struggles. They all want their daughters to grow up successful and without any of the hardships they went through. One mother, Suyuan, imparts her knowledge on her daughter through stories. The American culture influences her daughter, Jing Mei, to such a degree that it is hard for Jing Mei to understand her mother's culture and life lessons. Yet it is not until Jing Mei realizes that the key to understanding who her mother was and who she is lies in understanding her mother's life. Jing Mei spends her American life trying to pull away from her Chinese heritage, and therefore also ends up pulling away from her mother. Jing Mei does not understand the culture and does not feel it is necessary to her ... something from her past, asking her daughter "Why do you think you are missing something you never had?" (13) Instead of viewing the situation from her mother's Chinese-influenced side, Jing Mei takes the American materialistic viewpoint and "sulks in silence for an hour" (13). By ignoring her mom and her mom's advice, Jing Mei is also ignoring some of the similarities between her and her mother. Suyuan ...
- 2464: Langston Hughes
- Langston Hughes is considered by many readers to be the most significant black poet of the twentieth century. He is described as ³...the beloved author of poems steeped in the richness of African American culture, poems that exude Hughes¹s affection for black Americans across all divisions of region, class, and gender.² (Rampersad 3) His writing was both depressing and uplifting at times. His poetry, spanning five decades from ... Renaissance to the turbulent sixties. At the beginning of his career, he was surrounded by the Harlem Renaissance. New York City in the 1920¹s was a place of immense growth and richness in African-American culture and art. For Hughes, this was the perfect opportunity to establish his poems. His early work reflects the happy times of the era. However, as time progressed he became increasingly bitter and upset over ... had peaked, Hughes is left feeling worthless. The bitterness he faced during his lifetime built up to a dull apathy that appears in this piece. Despite the fact that Hughes is ³...among the most eloquent American poets to have sung about the wounds caused by injustice² (Rampersad 3), he thought his poems made no impact on society. On the contrary, Hughes¹s poems had a tremendous influence on African-American ...
- 2465: Societies Clenching Paws
- ... adaptation of the stories Daisy Miller and The Age of Innocence into movies are a seamless one. Henry James and Edith Wharton, the writers of the two works, both focused on the issue of wealthy American society and its discontents. The two stories were written in relatively the same time period (the late 19th, early 20th century). These two movies share many qualities, but they also share a small number of ... characters in the story feel very much at home, but are not in a sense. Except for the fish out of water, Ellen Olenska. Her uniquely European take on the world shocks and offends the American aristocratic sensibility. Strangely, the American sensibility seems to be more deeply ingrained in her than any other character in the movie. The freedom and the innocence that she displays is foreign to the New Yorkers that she talks to, ...
- 2466: Gay Marriages-Acceptable to God and America?
- ... church that viewed homosexuality as a sin, but my personal feelings would always conflict. I believe the argument can be derived from the nature vs. nurture perspectives. Groups such as the Christian Coalition and the American Family Association (AFA) state that gays are perverted pedophiliacs that lure young, unsuspecting boys to become gay as themselves and one becomes gay by cavorting with other gays. After reading science journals and medical research ... Hawaii allowed legal marriages of same-sex couples, it seems that hate crimes against homosexuals are on the rise. Along with the number of offenses on the rise, groups such as the Christian Coalition and American Family Association are bent upon taking away the rights of homosexuals. I remember being appalled at President Clinton signing a bill called the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. This was designed to retaliate the ... I think this poor woman was tied up and brain washed by her local church. And I am sure that this ministry isn’t having much success in reforming gays of their inherent lifestyles. The American Psychiatric Association warns of the great risks involved with ‘conversion therapy’ since it based on the assumption that homosexuality is a mental disorder, or that the person being forced to change his/her sexual ...
- 2467: FDR
- ... demonstrated inspiration and hope to a country that had appeared to have spun out of economic control, a country in desperation. On October 24th, 1929, the stock market crashed, causing a domino effect on the American public during the first years of the 1930’s. The standard of living dropped dramatically, millions, more than one-fourth, of people were put out of work, banks were closed, international trade was stagnant, homeless ... He was in great opposition to Hoover’s “rugged individualism” approach and believed that only mass government intervention could revive, or even lift the economy out of its debt. His ease with public speaking, all-American appearance, and optimistic approach were not his only presidential campaign platforms, however. Years before this presidential election, F.D.R. had been active in politics, serving as Vice President at the young age of 38 ... such as the Social Security Act, The Works Progress Administrations Act (WPA), the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), the Emergency Banking Relief Act, the Civilian Conservation Corps Act (CCC), the Tennessee Valley Because he raced toward American, social and economic equality, ignoring inherited rank, many upper-class citizens developed a deep hatred for F.D.R, claiming the New Deal was like a stab in the back of the well to ...
- 2468: A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2
- ... He probably didn't have any,' the grandmother explained. 'Little niggers in the country don't have things like we do. If I could paint that picture,' she said." (139) Anthony Di Renzo, author of American Gargoyles, suggests that the "grotesqueness of the passage above is also pleasing as a whole, in the delightful interaction of its mismatched parts. O'Connor's real achievement here is one of composition, or rather ... chinaberry trees and chattering monkeys form a single image and are perfect for one another. This helps the reader become more aware to O'Connor's complex cartoon martyrs. Di Renzo says in his book American Gargoyles that many critics have objections to "A good man is hard to find" because of O'Connor's elaborate comic depiction of the grandmother and her family. He goes on to say that because ... much a cartoon as the grandmother. Di Renzo says that many critics complain that the grandmother and her family do not behave nobly enough during their execution. (155) He quotes Martha Stephens in his book American Gargoyles expressing the opinion that "The family is shown in death to be as ordinary and ridiculous as before," (155).Nothing changes aboutthe characters, even in death, they are seen to be "flat," never ...
- 2469: The Great Gatsby 2
- The Great Gatsby Capturing the American Dream is central topic for many novels. Like other stories, 'The Great Gatsby' is also about American Dream with a slightly different meaning. For common people it means wealth or fame, but it has different meaning for Jay Gatsby; he is the main character of the story. For him it is about ... he can make through this with the money. Nick tries to tell Gatsby to give it up, but Jay denies it. Gatsby still thinks that Daisy is the only thing that can fill up his American dream. Jay never stops until he reaches his goal. Gatsby ends up being killed because of his desire to be with Daisy. Wilson, a husband of Myrtle kills Jay for her death because it ...
- 2470: One Big Happy Family
- The story that I chose to write about was "One Big Happy Family," by Anndee Hochman. The story is about a young woman whose family life seemed to be the American dream, for those of us looking in from the outside. Her family owned a house in the city like most of us and a house on the beach. The house on the beach was unique ... I hope that her family would eventually come around and they would all again be able to enjoy the summer home together. A large percentage of society today has different ideas of what the "All American Family" is. Quite a few people base their family views on what they see on television shows. Many families tend to forget that the shows they see are not real life and we should not base our lives on them. I feel that if more families communicated more with each other, than maybe we’ll be able to grasp a little part of the "All American Family". Unfortunately we teach our children to keep their feelings and emotions inside and we hide things that are embarrassing. This does not solve the problems that families face today. There are several ways ...
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