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- 8121: More's Utopia and Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies
- ... in their views of love, religion, and the way to eliminate social classes. It can be said that some of the differences stem from the different time periods. More wrote his book before the Scientific Revolution, before industrialization, Huxley's comes after. In the 16th century, England was still a predominantly agricultural nation, which is reflected in More's ideal society, where all people work on the land for at least ...
- 8122: Loneliness 2
- ... They lost someone precious to them, and they did not recognize what they had until it disappeared. Works Cited Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984. Kassanoff, Jennie A. "Edith Wharton." American Writers. Sup. 1. New York: Scribner's, 1998. Louise, Heidi, and North, Milou. "Erdrich, Louise." Contemporary Wharton, Edith. The Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton. New York: Scribner's, 1991.
- 8123: Lord of the Flies: Book and Movie Comparison
- ... alive. It changes the whole symbol the adult stands for in the book. Another important difference was that the boys all knew each other. They were in some sort of junior army. Also, they were American instead of British and they were rescued by helicopters and ships instead of a singular naval vessel. Also they show us how they got onto the island while in the book they made you guess ...
- 8124: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Slavery
- ... universally recognized practice in Huckleberry Finns world, the supposed inferiority of women has been an accepted idea in more recent times. Into the twentieth century a woman was not considered an equal member of American society. The traditional role of a woman as a wife, a mother and a housekeeper remained unquestioned until World War I. Those few women and men who strove for equality between the genders were deemed ...
- 8125: The Battle For Your Mind: Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public
- ... successfully formulate brainwashing, but we have to look to Pavlov, the Russian scientist, for a technical explanation. In the early 1900s, his work with animals opened the door to further investigations with humans. After the revolution in Russia, Lenin was quick to see the potential of applying Pavlov's research to his own ends. Three distinct and progressive states of transmarginal inhibition were identified by Pavlov. The first is the EQUIVALENT ...
- 8126: To Kill A Mockingbird: A Summary
- ... the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American Literature. There are so many characters in this book that I can't name all of them. Here are most of the characters. The Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt ...
- 8127: Agatha Christie
- ... born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller of Torquay, Devon, England. Researchers debate on the year in which she was born, but it was September 15 in either 1890 or 1891. Her father was an American who lived with his British wife in Torquay. At the time, her parents did not realize that their daughter would one day become a famous English author, writing an insatiable amount of novels and plays ...
- 8128: The House on Mango Street
- ... the immigrant cultures that your students may have encountered in books like My Αntonia, The Jungle, and Call It Sleep. But unlike Americans of Slavic or Jewish ancestry, Chicanos have been systematically excluded from the American mainstream in ways that suggest the disenfranchisement of African-Americans. Although Cisneros uses language as a recurring metaphor for the gulf between Mexican-Americans and the majority culture, what keeps Esperanza Cordero and her family ...
- 8129: Creative Writing: X-Men
- ... all-new, all-different X-Men. This boasted in a new team of mutants. The new team of X-Men was multi-racial and multi-national, whereas the original team was a bunch of white American kids. It was also a very radical team, considering the time period (the late seventies). Since the book was scheduled to be canceled, the creators decided to be a little bit radical in their approach ...
- 8130: Albert Einstein
- ... was demanded as a speaker and wrote extensively on many topics, especially on peace. The growing fascism and anti-semiticism of Hitler's regime convinced Einstein to sign his name to a letter written by American physicist Leo Szilard informing President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the possibility of an atomic bomb. This letter led the formation of the Manhattan Project for the worlds first nuclear weapons. Einstein himself did not participate ...
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