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- 521: The 1960s: Happenings, Causes, and Effects
- ... respect for authority and the law. The decade began under the shadow of the cold war with the soviet union, which was aggravated by the u-2 incident, the berlin wall, and the cuban missile crisis, along with the space race with the ussr. The decade ended under the shadow of the viet nam war, which deeply divided americans and their allies and damaged the country's self- confidence and sense ... johnson, drawing on the kennedy legacy and on the press coverage of civil rights marches and protests, succeeded where kennedy had failed. However, by the summer of 1964, the black revolution had created its own crisis of disappointed expectations. rioting by urban blacks was to be a feature of every "long, hot, summer" of the mid-1960s. In 1965, King and other black leaders wanted to push beyond social integration, now ...
- 522: Overview of the 60`s
- ... respect for authority and the law. The decade began under the shadow of the cold war with the soviet union, which was aggravated by the u-2 incident, the berlin wall, and the cuban missile crisis, along with the space race with the ussr. The decade ended under the shadow of the viet nam war, which deeply divided americans and their allies and damaged the country's self- confidence and sense ... Johnson, drawing on the Kennedy legacy and on the press coverage of civil rights marches and protests, succeeded where Kennedy had failed. However, by the summer of 1964, the black revolution had created its own crisis of disappointed expectations. rioting by urban blacks was to be a feature of every "long, hot, summer" of the mid-1960s. In 1965, King and other black leaders wanted to push beyond social integration, now ...
- 523: Voices Of Women Writers Lesson
- ... identity with a talk story from her mother in the first chapter, No Name Woman. Unlike Kincaid s portrayal of a generalized mother-daughter relationship, Hong Kingston specifically addresses the mother s influence upon her Asian-American daughter. In this novel, Hong Kingston describes the puzzling pursuit to understanding not only her identity as a woman, but also as an Asian-American woman. Hong Kingston displays the Chinese dissenting view of women by using anecdotes and talk-stories, specifically her mother s story about her aunt s suicide and adulterous pregnancy. This specific talk-story is ...
- 524: Cather In The Ryes Vs. Generation X
- ... lived. In a quote sounding a lot like Holden, Andy said, " I became nonsexual. I started to find humanity repulsive, reducing it to flanks, mounds, and secretions..." Andy also goes through a similar sexual identity crisis when he laments that, "I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body." An ironic sexuality, much like that of Holden's. Andy also abuses the sexual vocabulary to a large extent, when he ...
- 525: Blade Runner And Jurassic Park
- ... previously single-sexed (female!) dinosaurs spontaneously change sexes and begin breeding. Since these cyborgs are ultimately coded as feminine objects, this critique of technology entails a disruption and denaturalization of traditional gender codes. The new crisis is met and overcome by the (human) protagonists ability to work together as a team, a team which is only effective after the couples become romantically involved. In order to imagine an effective individual agency ...
- 526: Cyril Falls, "The Great War"
- ... new Regime now made peace with Germany what meant that all troops that were at the Eastern Front could now get to the Western front facing the France, Britain and now USA. Chapter IV, The Crisis Of The Submarine War: The Event that pushed the USA into the war was the unrestricted submarine war made by Germany and it first seemed to work, Britain had to introduce food stamps. But this ...
- 527: Maggie A Girl of the Streets and Puddnhead Wilson
- ... everything she needed at home and there was nothing wrong with the family when there obviously was. Many times in the book the family was fighting and broke furniture. The TCLC also notes that each crisis in the Johnson family is viewed by neighbors who make up an audience that encourages the characters to adopt moral poses. In the same scene when Maggie leaves the home it is the audience that ...
- 528: Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney
- ... decides that he lacks the will to make his declaration. "I am not Prince Hamlet," he says; he will not, like Shakespeare's character, attempt to shake off his doubts and "force the moment to crisis." He feels more like an aging Fool. He is able only to dream of romance. He is depressed "I grow old" and will have to "wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled" into cuffs. He ...
- 529: Edgar Allen Poe's Symbolism of Death in "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- ... could live. And it was this atmosphere which had molded the destinies of his family" (Lawrence, 378). Roderick invites a friend (the narrator) to the "House of Usher" to visit and support him during this crisis. The narrator is involved in all of Roderick's emotions and problems during the course of the story. He sees Roderick's compassion for his sister during her illness. After Madeline dies he assists Roderick ...
- 530: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Conflicting Desires within a Doctrine
- ... on Stephen's life is the Church. Women and sexuality conflict with the Church and its beliefs, and that is one of Stephen's major problems thus far. Stephen is having a very big identity crisis, from being a God fearing Catholic to a very hormonal teenager. As Stephen sits at the "adults" dinner table for the first time, his father, Mr. Casey and Dante are fighting about religion and politics ...
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