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- 4301: Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
- Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye" The forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct Realistic novels portraying characters which are tested with a plethora of adventures. In this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. The Adventures of Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of a ...
- 4302: To Kill A Mockingbird: Controversial Issues
- ... novel centers around the trial of Tom Robinson. To the people of Maycomb county, Tom Robinson is just a "sorry nigger," who committed an unthinkable crime. In the novel, Tom represents the black race in American society. He is a victim of racism, which was the major controversy in our culture at the time. Like Boo Radley, Tom Robinson is characterized by what the people of Maycomb county say about him ... wrong to assume evil things about Boo Radley. Furthermore, it was unfortunate that the people of Maycomb county did not realize their unfair treatment of Tom Robinson. But most importantly, it is tragic that the American society did not recognize the injustice done to the black race.
- 4303: A Case of Needing: Serious Revisions
- ... actually pregnant turns out to be one of the very few salient clues that science reveals. Of course, without all that medical jargon, this book would have been almost entirely a study of law and American society, with science providing little more than a context in which the story can unfold. Crichton makes the terminology slightly more palatable by making Berry a fairly sarcastic and cynical practitioner of his craft. Still ... Dr. Lee would not have found himself so easily railroaded had he only had the luck to have been born Dr. Smith. Lee's lawyer, George Wilson, is himself not aided any by his African-American heritage. As a recent trial that need not even be named clearly demonstrated, in a criminal matter, science will always take a back seat to racial politics. Crichton was well aware of this twenty-five ...
- 4304: Jeremy Rifkin's "The End of Work"
- ... re-engineering and replacing human labour with labour saving technologies. Rifkin gives us a better understanding of the development of the cause of this problem by examining the three industrial revolutions. In the first industrial revolution, Rifkin identifies steam power as the major tool used by industrial and manufacturing sectors. In the second industrial revolutions the electrical innovation effected the manufacturing, agricultural and transport industries by further reducing the global labour force. Unlike the past, two industrial revolutions where industrial technologies replace the physical power of human labour, the third revolution (The Information Age), at present, is contributing new computer based technology which are involving into thinking machines. These thinking machines will evolve to the extent that eventual the human mind will be replaced in all ...
- 4305: Philip Tompkins' Organizational Communicatin Imperatives
- ... K. Tompkins, we are introduced to a chapter that deals with an organization that is held under high prestige by not only those who are employed by it, but by a country as well. This American organization is NASA, (National Aeronautical Space Administration), and although a very prestigious place to work, it is not free of its share of wrongdoing and counter productive ways. Ten years ago (1986), NASA was faced ... labs. The invisibility of the boss resulted in weaker attitudes as subordinates assumed Von Braun to be uninterested in their work. The last weakness in the organization was the perceived inequality in upper level positions. American born managers felt that they were shut out of higher offices, saved for the German's, Von Braun a native of Germany himself, which established a layer of investment within the organization. After years of ...
- 4306: Bless Me, Ultima: The Cultural Distress of a Young Society
- ... Mexican traditional life style: Antonio's father was a men of the llano, a vaquero; his mother is from a family of free farmers. On the other hand, we find a very strong influence of American individualism. We see this influence in Antonio's three brothers: after they returned from W.W.II, their parents are hoping that they would become part of their family again, but the three brothers decide ... consequences are? Talking about his families Antonio says: "I love them both, and yet I am o f neither (Anaya, 38). At he same time, Antonio is going to school across the bridge, to an American school. This is one of the most important aspects of his cultural development as well as our main point in identifying a border culture. There is a two level explanation for this chapter: first, we ...
- 4307: Sex in Ragtime
- ... are probably of the same wealth, but nevertheless they are of different classes. They represent two different types of class struggle. The first is the class struggle between the recent immigrant and the long standing American. Although they are both American citizens and are in the same monetary class, Thaw feels as if he is superior to Houdini, simply because of their respective cultures. The second conflict that is alluded to in this prison scene is ...
- 4308: Black Elk Speaks
- ... already a published writer, and prior to this particular narrative he was at work publishing a collection of poems titled Cycle of the West. Although he was initially seeking infor-mation about a peculiar Native American religious movement that occurred at the end of the 19th century for the conclusion his poetry collection, Neihardt was instead gifted with the story of Black Elk's life. Black Elk's words would explain ... selecting a suitable husband for his daughter. This is how the wisdom of Black Elk comes through in the narrative, as a simple but relative story possessing many nuggets of observant truths. The period in American history in which Black Elk lived witnessed the massive movement of whites into the Sioux territory seeking land and gold. Much of the narrative in Black Elk Speaks describes the tribesmen's actions and fears ...
- 4309: Lord of The Flies: Human Nature
- ... permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result." Human nature depends upon the environment in which they are immersed. The idea that children, not humans in general, are swayed by the ideas and actions of their parental figures ... permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result." So with this in mind why do people still rely on human nature to remain the same when it has been proven that human nature is constantly changing. That is ...
- 4310: The Jungle: The Appeal of Socialism
- ... Socialism During the late 1800's and early 1900's hundreds of thousands of European immigrants migrated to the United States of America. They had aspirations of success, prosperity and their own conception of the American Dream. The majority of the immigrants believed that their lives would completely change for the better and the new world would bring nothing but happiness. Advertisements that appeared in Europe offered a bright future and ... believer in socialism, and Jurgis was a member of the party. But fortunately for today's working force, the concept and potential threat of socialism was stifled before it could make a permanent mark of American society.
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