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- 121: Irony, Humor, And Paradox In K
- ... R.P. McMurphy, and I'm a gambling fool." So said Randle Patrick McMurphy upon his admission to the psychiatric ward in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. McMurphy, along with Chief Bromden and Big Nurse, make major contributions to the central themes in the novel. Irony, humor, and paradox illuminate the central themes in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Ken Kesey's One Flew ... effort committees, and mechanization (Magill, Survey of Literature 1061). Compounded of passion, vitality, and bawdy good humor, this novel has one obvious purpose. That purpose is to protest the repressiveness of society, as personified in Big Nurse, and to show how it can needlessly deaden those energies and enthusiasms which seek individual expression (Magill, Contemporary Literature 5588). According to R.A. Jelliffe, Written on two levels of meaning, composed in two ... is told through the consciousness of the schizophrenic Chief Bromden, the strong Native American. He Feigns deafness and muteness in order to protect himself from the pain of the "shock shop". According to Chief Bromden, "Big Nurse" and her black attendants represent the evil force that attempts to mold men into stamped-out replicas of each-other (Magill, Masterplots II 1204). Nurse Ratched, also known as "Big Nurse", is the ...
- 122: Greasy Lake
- T. Coraghessan Boyle’s "Greasy Lake" and "Big Game" are similarly structured but completely different short stories that explain the transitions of people from fake slaves of their image to genuine and realized individuals. If not portrayed in the stories, the development in ... one of the strongest lines connecting them together by way of foundation, but at the same time it establishes completely different story lines that follow the same beat. Boyle’s evolution from "Greasy Lake" to "Big Game" has also provided for a progression in his style. Evident from the two stories is the contrasted amounts of detail and abstract detail. In some sense, Boyle has mellowed over the two stories by leaving out many of the twists and turns of "Greasy Lake" in "Big Game," but in the same sense has become more exciting with more violence and action. The plots in the two stories are similar in structure and pattern of action. They both include violence and ...
- 123: The Idea Of Utopia In 1984 And
- ... do was open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death (Orwell, 8) Big Brother a god-like figure, who appeared on a telescreen, transmitting both Party propaganda and entertainment, and keeps and eye on Party members, looking for traces of thoughtcrime, such as thinking anything not approved by ... make a move at chess when you were already mated. Whatever way you turned, the telescreen faced you." (Orwell, 115) Anyone apprehended for thoughtcrime would be vapourized. In other words, the person disappears and only Big Brother knew how. In the novel 1984, the people were forced to think and act by The Party, assisted by Big Brother; a fictitious character made up to scare people. "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU", is the capture which ran under Big Brother's picture. Also, both novels contained higher ranked people, who were portrayed ...
- 124: I Know WhyThe Caged Bird Sings
- ... parents sent them presents. The children went outside to cry, wondering why they were sent away. Momma thought they were being ungrateful. Later they destroyed the blond, blue- eye China doll their mother sent her. - Big Bailey, the children's father visited Stamps. Maya was surprised how big he was, how handsome he was, him owning a car, and how he spoke like a white. He drove them to St. Louis to see their mother, Vivian. She seemed depressed. Her beauty surprised Maya ... Maya did exceptional in school and was one of the only three black students in the school. She achieved a scholarship to the California Labor School and studied the arts. - Maya spent their summer with Big Bailey and Dolores whom Maya did not have any connection with, Big Bailey thought it was sort of funny. - Big Bailey took Maya on one of his shopping trips. His jokes and personality made ...
- 125: Hiroshima (book Report)
- ... cut across the sky. They were 2 miles from the center of the explosion. Mr. Matsuo dived in the bedrolls. Mr. Tanimoto took four or five steps into the house and threw himself between two big rocks in the garden. There was no roar. When Mr. Tanimoto looked up, he saw Mr. Matsui s house was in to pieces. Mr. Tanimoto dashed out to the streets and noticed everything around him ... She set her three children- a 10-year-old boy (Toshio), an 8-year-old girl (Yaeko), and a 5-year-old girl (Myeko) to sleep. They woke up at two, when they heard the big roar of the planes going over Hiroshima. They reached home after about 30 minutes later (2:30). She turned on the radio, to her dismay, broadcasted a fresh warning. She did not want to move ... gone. Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge Father Kleinsorge, at the age of thirty-age, the look of a boys growing too fast thin in the face, with a prominent Adam s apple, a hollow chest, dangling hands, big feet. He was sick and had trouble walking straight. This has been going on for two days. He lived with Father Superior La Salle and Father Schiffer. Father Kleinsorge woke up about six the ...
- 126: Dizzy Gelespie
- ... until after the Bebop period was well on its way to extinction. Before the quick pace, explosive sound of Bebop Gillespie had to make a name for him self. In Philadelphia he played with a big band lead by Frankie Fairfax. From Philadelphia he moved to New York in 1937. In New York, one of the focal points for jazz at that time, Gillespie played with the Teddy Hill Band. He ... the position in this band because he sounded like one of his influences, Roy Elridge (Kerfeld, 428). Playing with Hills band Gillespie traveled throughout Europe. Once he returned to New York Gillespie got his first big gig, as a trumpeter in Cab Calloway's band. During 1939, a time still unequal for blacks and whites, Cab Calloway. had the highest paying black band around town (Gleason, 151). Gillespie on several occasions ... a very moderate tempo, probably around 120 - 130 on a metronome. Bebop left a fiery trail across the stage, moving along at tempos of 200 and higher. Gillespie was responsible for establishing the first Bebop big band, which combined the speed and melodic complexity of the small quintet, with the larger sixteen piece instrumentation of a big band, which included, 5 saxophones, 4 trombones, 4 or 5 trumpets, a bass, ...
- 127: Teddy Roosevelt
- ... a mountain lion. As Roosevelt and his guide approached on horseback the cat, more afraid of them then the dogs, leaped from the tree and took off again. Finally the dogs managed to tree the big cat again. This time when the hunters approached and the cat leaped from the tree the dogs caught it and began to fight with the mountain lion. The dogs were taking a beating from the big cat, but were relentlessly going in again and again. Roosevelt not wanting to shoot one of the dogs, but also wanting to keep the cat from inflicting any more damage on them jumped in with a knife and stabbed the big cat behind the shoulder thrusting the blade into the heart and killing it. Roosevelt wrote home to his son Ted, "I have always wished to kill a cougar as I did this one, with ...
- 128: Hiroshima
- ... cut across the sky. They were 2 miles from the center of the explosion. Mr. Matsuo dived in the bedrolls. Mr. Tanimoto took four or five steps into the house and threw himself between two big rocks in the garden. There was no roar. When Mr. Tanimoto looked up, he saw Mr. Matsui’s house was in to pieces. Mr. Tanimoto dashed out to the streets and noticed everything around him ... She set her three children- a 10-year-old boy (Toshio), an 8-year-old girl (Yaeko), and a 5-year-old girl (Myeko) to sleep. They woke up at two, when they heard the big roar of the planes going over Hiroshima. They reached home after about 30 minutes later (2:30). She turned on the radio, to her dismay, broadcasted a fresh warning. She did not want to move ... gone. Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge Father Kleinsorge, at the age of thirty-age, the look of a boys growing too fast—thin in the face, with a prominent Adam’s apple, a hollow chest, dangling hands, big feet. He was sick and had trouble walking straight. This has been going on for two days. He lived with Father Superior La Salle and Father Schiffer. Father Kleinsorge woke up about six the ...
- 129: The Ending of the Post War Boom
- ... had changed the U.S. corporations into a new global economy scale. The war had brought America in return a huge increase in its prosperity. In the U.S. society, most people believed in that big business and government can do just about everything. The period between 1948 to 1973 had been called the ¡§long boom¡¨ or the ¡§postwar boom¡¨. This period consolidated the United States¡¦ position as the richest country ... shock had ended this ¡§long boom¡¨ of economy growth. The new technologies and new scientific management had caused industrialized businesses increased their productivity and more efficiency, in turns of production. After the war, these caused big businesses expanded their markets into other countries. During World War II, the huge savings from businesses and consumers, had opened bigger global markets for big businesses later, after the war. With more money to spend, consumers now can purchase more expansive necessity goods, such as, cars, new homes, and some other new home appliances. Not only the big businesses¡¦ ...
- 130: Mcmurphy Is A Tragic Hero
- ... of the ward causing mayhem by going against policy rules due to his actions. I think that his action is the spark to his incentable downfall. This is a scene of his actions, challenging the Big Nurse, "It's okay, Doc. It was the lady there that started it, made the mistake. I've known some people inclined to do that. I had this uncle whose name was Hallahan and he ... that. I keep Uncle Hallahan's method a strict secret, you see, in case I need it myself someday."(Pg.40-41). In this passage, McMurphy is telling of what he will do to the Big Nurse if she keeps on acting like she does, with what his uncle did to the woman he went out with. In the beginning McMurphy seems to be winning his battles with the Big Nurse but she is simply waiting for the right time, awaiting her opportunity. The Big Nurse has ultimate power over the patients and this is what makes McMurphy lose to the Big Nurse. McMurphy ...
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