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- 8581: The Outsiders 4
- ... The setting of this book is not only believable, but interesting as well. Upon reading it, you probably wouldn't know that it takes place specifically in Oklahoma since the description could relate to any American suburb: the characters go to drive-in movies, Dairy Queen restaurants, and grocery stores. As you may have guessed, The Outsiders is written entirely in the first person (Ponyboy). The character uses descriptive language which ...
- 8582: Tiger Woods
- ... right spot and position, time and time again. Another aspect I admire about Tiger is that he represents the minorities in a sport dominated by rich white Americans and Europeans. Since Tiger is half African-American and half-Asian, his impact on the game of golf has been felt. It is not the color of his skin that gets other people’s attention, but it is his great skill playing the ...
- 8583: Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live”
- ... evaporating seawater. Sixty thousand people were put in prison. Gandhi began fasting when negotiations fell through. The government knew they had to change the constitution. They knew that if Gandhi died, they would have a revolution on their hands. In studying Mohandas Gandhi, I have developed a profound sense of respect and great admiration for this man. It is totally beyond belief how this meek, little man was able to stand ...
- 8584: The Glass Menagerie -x
- ... gentlemen callers from the Mississippi delta of her youth. The future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns to everlasting regret in Williams' transluscent memory play that has become an enduring American classic. For Tennessee Williams' characters, escape is clearly defined by the glow of the "memory play." This is so because everyone of them transposes their difficult situations into shadows of the truth. Laura, our fragile ...
- 8585: John F Kenendy
- ... days as President.He served in the war for 2 years only to die a tragic death at 46 years old. John F Kennedy was rejected by the Army because of his back injury playing American.He immediately started strengthening exercises for his back and was accepted in 1943 to the Navy as a Lieutenent.He then took command of a PT-109 torpedo boat patrolling the Solomen Islands.The boat ...
- 8586: Caravaggio
- ... using the easily understandable terms of the visible world" (Friedlander, ix). His coarse treatment of religious matters has created many interpretations. Some critiques have used a Freudian analysis to link his actions to the sexual revolution of the 1960's and Gay Liberation. Others believe his pictorial realism is a metaphysical - existentialist movement, where visions of death replace that of life (Spear, p.25). His work inspired a number of artists ...
- 8587: The Hundred Secret Senses By A
- ... we would burn folded paper painted with silver to look like the money use in ancient China. In conclusion, I think this is a deep book that deals with many themes, just with a Chinese American twist. Although it is a slow read in the beginning, everything will make sense in the end. Tan wanted to "show me the world is not a place, but the vastness of the soul. And ...
- 8588: The Impact Of Stalinism In 198
- ... Trotsky, a villain in Stalinist Russia (Orwell 13-14). Style of speech is also mimicked again by Orwell by basing Goldstein's fictional novel The Theory and Practice of Oligarchial Collectivism on Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed. One critic said "Emmanuel Goldstein's book . . . imitates Trotsky's style in his fondness of using scientific references in non-scientific contexts.'" (Lee 195). One such example was when Goldstein makes the comparison of ...
- 8589: Virtual Reality
- ... sort of puzzle-like quality, in which even children could learn to form bonds using a trial and error method. Entertainment The entertainment industry stands to gain a lot from VR. With the video game revolution of bigger and better games coming out all the time, this could be the biggest breakthrough ever. It would be fantastic to have swordfights which actually feel real. As well, virtual movies (also called vroomies ...
- 8590: Burton Freund
- ... spoke with his spouse at length about Freund’s career and his life as a political and human rights activist. We also discussed how his beliefs ultimately resulted in his being “Black Balled” by the American art community. During the 40’s and 50’s his stance against U.S. polices and social conditions were not popular ones. Subsequently, Burton was considered by many in the art community to be a ...
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