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- 541: 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 ...
- 542: Summary of "The Grapes of Wrath"
- ... by the handbills and other propaganda that was circulating in the dust bowl region. The growers in California knew that the people of the dust bowl would have to leave their houses because of the crisis. They also knew the more pickers they had the lower they could make their prices. The number of handbills sent out far out numbered the number of jobs available. Many people in the dust bowl ...
- 543: Anna Karenina: Foreshadowing
- ... may be the conflict in the plot. The day after the great ball Anna announces that she must leave. Dolly expresses her gratitude toward everything Anna has done to help her in her time of crisis. She tells Anna that she does not know of a person with a greater heart. Anna tells her that Kitty was depressed because Vronsky spent the evening with her. She exclaims that it wasn't ...
- 544: The Role of Nick Carraway As Narrator in The Great Gatsby
- ... proving his firm belief in the concept of being morally reserved in judgement. As described by the author, Nick is not blind to the heartlessness of the Buchanan family and it is only through a crisis that Nick sees how far his limits have actually been surpassed. His acceptance of such people through the course of the novel allows the reader to observe a contrast between these characters of society. Their ...
- 545: Tom Clancy: Believable Plots
- ... today. The definitions like ICBMs or nuclear missiles like SS-25 are actual weapons in existence today (pg. 70, US Air Force). The SS-25 were made famous for their role during the Cuban Missile Crisis and many readers would associate their knowledge or simply believe in the description of the missiles Tom Clancy gives. The use of the ground weapons also added to the realism of the setting which made ...
- 546: Pierre Elliot Trudeau's Federalism and the French Canadians
- ... how" and "why" the executive branch of the country should be functioning in the eyes of Pierre Trudeau. Although recognized as nothing more than a political activist at the time of the ongoing political/social crisis in Canada, Trudeau served as an adviser to the Privy Council Office in 1950 and subsequently became a professor of Law at the University of Montreal in 1960. His inauguration into the Federal Liberal Party ...
- 547: An Analysis of "Heart of Darkness"
- ... had taken the lid off something horrible in the very depths of man which he could not explain when he returned to the world where basic instincts had been carefully smoothed over. Faced by a crisis, he even denied what he had seen to Kurtz's Intended, though he was appalled by his lie as bringing with it a betrayal of truth which was essentially a kind of death. In "Heart ...
- 548: Young Goodman Brown's Apocalypse
- ... What is certain is that he lives and dies in pain because his belief in his righteousness isolates him from his community. It is also certain that Hawthorne's interpretation of Brown's "mid-life crisis" has ambiguity and leaves a reader with many different feelings about what and why certain things have happened. Hawthorne's use of symbolism in his allegorical tale Young Goodman Brown causes the main character's ...
- 549: The Tower of Babel
- ... and cultural conflicts to narrate a story about a kidnapped boy, named David, who, through his growing cultural tolerance and open-mindedness, matures from a naive adolescent to a young man capable of dealing with crisis and accepting his role in the culturally divided world. Despite extensive cultural differences, the Highlanders and Lowlanders represent two halves of a society that must intermingle in order to reach their summit of individual and ...
- 550: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... the Land. (New York, NY: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1986), p 110-11. 14 Hunter, "Steinbeck's Wine of Affirmation." p. 46. 15 Maxwell Geismar. "John Steinbeck: Of Wrath or Joy," in Writers in Crisis: The American Novel, 1925-1940. (New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1961), p. 265. 16 Davis, Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Grapes of Wrath. p. 4. 17 Hunter, "Steinbeck's Wine of Affirmation." p. 40 ...
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