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- 4271: A Pair Of Tickets By Amy Tan
- A Pair of Tickets by Amy Tan Essay written by Anonymous Amy Tan is an author who uses the theme of Chinese-American life, focusing mainly on mother-daughter relationships, where the mother is an immigrant from China and the daughter is a thoroughly Americanized --yellow on the surface and white underneath. In her book, the mother tries ... was not born and raised in China like her mother she now has a grasp on her life and on her mothers life too. The story is told through the eyes of Jandale, a Chinese-American women attempting to learn of her Chinese culture and her mothers past. Women readers may relate to this story more than the men because it is told by a woman character. Men may not connect ...
- 4272: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- Flannery O’Connor "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" A Southern American novelist and short story writer, Miss O’ Connor’s career spanned the 1950s and early ‘60s, a time when the South was dominated by Protestant Christians. O’Connor was born and raised Catholic. She was ... was fifteen (Blythe 49). O’Connor would have to walk with crutches for the rest of her life. By her death at the age of 39, Flannery O’Connor won a prominent place in modern American literature. She was an anomaly among post-World War II writers, a Roman Catholic from the Bible–Belt South, whose stated purpose was to reveal the mystery of God’s grace in everyday life. Aware ...
- 4273: Death Of A Salesman 9
- Loving a person too much can often be deceiving. Failing to act upon the truth in order to protect an individual s pride and emotions can bring about destruction for the American Dream. Lois Gordon s quote about Linda is a good example of the disillusionment that many people experience when loving someone too much, when he says, Linda, as the eternal wife and mother, the fixed ... later on it will be realized hat the truth only helps benefit growth and development. The truth ultimately aids in restoring hopes and dreams. When people are able to grasp this concept of love, the American Dream will be feasible to anyone.
- 4274: Dealers Of Lighting, Michael H
- ... a daring raid to obtain the technology that would end up at the heart of the Macintosh. In the late 1960s, Xerox founded a PARC, California. Eventually, that facility, became ground zero of the computer revolution. the dinosaur era of computing, a typical machine filled a large room and was shared by dozens of researchers. Hiltzik credits Robert W. Taylor, who assembled the PARC team, with changing that. A psychologist, rather ... Alto was the world s first personal computer, seams overstated; his strictly technological, mine involving price and marketing. However, in writing the book Hiltzik drew on the recollections of those who participated in the technological revolution of the 1970 s He interviewed all the obvious suspects and not a few innocent bystanders. Long before IBM launched its PC and laid the foundation for Microsoft s Windows with a prototype graphical user ...
- 4275: Hemingways For Whom The Bell T
- ... elected government. The war divided Spain both geographically and ideologically and it brought to power General Francisco Franco who ruled Spain from the end of the war until his death in 1975. Following the Spanish American War (1898), Spain lost the remainder of its once great empire. This defeat greatly increased dissatisfaction and the demands for change grew. People disagreed on the changes needed, however and Spanish politics became dominated by ... In the end these forces proved too much to handle for the weary Loyalists, and the war was lost to the Second Republic. For Whom the Bell Tolls is the story of Robert Jordan, an American college Spanish professor, fighting for "the cause" with the loyalists as an expert in demolition. It is written in startlingly crisp, concise prose (something which Hemingway was know for), and is meant to show the ...
- 4276: Hawthornes Life Versus Life In
- ... society. But for those who cannot accept their own culture and it s ideas they are left alone and must struggle to find out where they really belong. Works Cited Cantwell, Robert. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Years. New York: Rinehart,1908. Donohue, Agnes McNiell. A Casebook On The Hawthorne Question. Ed. Agnes Donohue. New York: Crowell, 1963. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Portable Hawthorne. Ed. Malcom Cowley. New York: Penguin, 1976. Hawthorne, Nathaniel ... Letter. New York: Washington Square, 1973. James, Henry. Hawthorne, English Men of Letters . New York: Rinehart, 1880. Stewart, Randall. Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Biography. New Haven : UP of Yale, 1948. Waggoner, Hyatt. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pamphlets on American Writers . Minneapolis: Up of Minnesota, 1962.
- 4277: Having Our Say
- ... off the feat. Having Our Say really makes you think and try to somehow reflex on the past as if you were actually there. As a white male I amazed at how these two African American sister were able to live over a hundred years of racism and discrimination and then be able to write about their experience in humorous, yet to me very heart touching way. Having Our Say chronicles the lives of "Sadie" and "Bessie" Delaney, two elderly colored sisters (they prefer the term colored to African-American, black, and negro), who are finally having their say, now that everyone who ever kept them down is long dead. Sadie and "Bessie" tell the stories of their intriguing lives, from their Southern Catholic school ...
- 4278: Herman Melville- Moby Dick
- Herman Melville- Moby Dick I. Biographical Insights A. The culture this great author was a part of was the time in American history where inspiring works of literature began to emerge. It was also a time when American writers had not completely separated its literary heritage from Europe, partly because there were successful literary genius' flourishing there. B. Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819, he was the son of Allan and ...
- 4279: Historical Background To Anima
- ... change their ways. In other words, peaceful progess toward equality and socia justice was impossible. The only way to establish justice, he said, was for t workers to overthrow the capitalists by means of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers. "Workers of the worl unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to lose but your chains." Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the ... neglecting the count badly. Making conditions even more miserable for the people were the hardships the First World War and a particularly cold winter. By 1917, the Russian people were desperate enough to accept a revolution. fact, they got two for the price of one, the first in March when the Tsar was deposed and a provisional government was set up. Then in November a political called the Bolsheviks led a ...
- 4280: Beloved 2
- ... the granddaughter of a former slave. Her grandfather traveled north from Alabama to settle in Ohio, by way of Kentucky. Her father's upbringing was during one of the most murderous times for blacks in American history. She was raised in a household which was heavily influenced by slavery and white supremacist' fears, as well as the need for education. Morrison's writing style stems from having fallen in love with ... between reality and fiction, truth and memory have become inextricably blurred". She goes onto say "This is a dazzling novel." Margaret Atwood said "If there were any doubts about her stature as a pre-eminent American novelist, of her own or any other generation, "Beloved" will put them to rest". She also goes on to say "An epigraph to a book is like a key signature in music, and "Beloved" is ...
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