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- 1201: How To Create A Culture Of Pea
- ... here to fight but to help people in need. Since war and fighting are direct resultants of politics, it is important how we treat our political life. We are the world, and we have a big voice and a big say in what should be done, so we must have a representative who shows and considers our views well. Everyone should be able to have a fair say, and we must tell our governments what ...
- 1202: How To Get Along With Your Col
- ... you come in. If your roommate is sleeping or studying you do not want to disturb them. You need to respect your roommate and the fact that you both are sharing the same not so big space. Fourth, you should do fun things together every once and awhile. This will help to relieve some tension that may be in the room. You could simply go out to eat or maybe take ... work on the problem together. Getting along with your roommate may take some time but eventually everything will fall into place. Remember these couple of steps and you should be just fine. College is a big transition and your roommate should not have to be one of the many problems you may have. Your roommate should be someone to help you. Remember you are both going through the same transitions. Even ...
- 1203: The Grapes of Wrath: Symbolic Characters
- ... events. The main example in the novel is when the waitress in the cafι lets the poor migrant have a free loaf of bread just to continue his journey. She is then rewarded with two big tips from the next customers, who are truckers that come through to eat. This is a shining example of the old adage "kindness breeds kindness" (Carlson, 97). Then, when Rose of Sharon took care of ... would like done to you. The third and final major aspect of symbolism shown in The Grapes of Wrath is the role that nature plays in the story. It is unquestioned that nature plays a big part in the lives of the Joads simply because their journey takes place in the middle of the plains where weather, such as rain, can easily become a harsh hazard since there is really no ...
- 1204: The Pearl Book Report
- ... price. The most important persons: Kino: a young fisherman and pearl diver, very poor, wanted to give his wife and child new clothes, good food, a new house etc. So he had to find a big pearl, a giant pearl. He had to find it soon. He was strong and his black hair hung over his brown forehead. His eyes were warm and fierce and bright and his moustache was thin ... there is no in-between anywhere. Being a pearl fisher in former days, was a hard and dangerous trade. Day after day, Kino went out in his boat, weighted himself around the waist with a big rock, and went down to the bottom of the sea, where the pearls were hidden. It was a trade which allowed a man only a few short years.
- 1205: David Korten's "When Corporations Rule The World"
- ... environmental devastation and social disintegration, they are also weakening our capacity for constructive social and cultural innovation at a time when such innovation is needed as never before" (269). Corporations have not always been as big and powerful as the are today. Through economic globalization they have become very powerful. "Corporations have emerged as the dominant governance institutions on the planet, with the largest among them reaching into virtually every country ... If this had occurred at a local neighborhood coffee shop, think of the consequences. How many customers would get burned until a customer talked to the owner and demand that the temperature get turned down. Big corporations require a legal system that allows the average citizen to force them to pay for their mistakes and mend their ways. Local business are able to more easily hear the voice of their customers ...
- 1206: The Natural
- ... jealous and begins to do things to try to get her attention. At a stop in the route, the passengers get off for a break and go to a local carnival where Roy and the big leaguer clash in a contest of talent, a David-and-Goliath-type confrontation (Solotaroff 9). Roy strikes out the batter with three blistering pitches, each of which make Harriet pay more and more attention to ... had to take care of a child, Roy makes his choice and decides not to continue having relations with Iris. A second example of symbolism is Major League Baseball history and how it plays a big part in the development of both the characters and the story line. Baseball is America‘¦s pastime and Malamud created this book to be a part of the true American grain (Abramson 22). The path ...
- 1207: The Shelter Of Each Other, A B
- ... yet time saving technology has a huge market. There are more books and fewer readers. All of the things that would have made life easier for our ancestors are meaningless to us. Chapter 5: One Big Town In past years, communities knew each other and their families. Today our neighbors are strangers. We have become one big town. Our society is no longer composed of small communities. We ve moved from primary relationships to secondary relationships. In primary relationships everybody knows everyone and their families. In secondary relationships, we don t know ...
- 1208: Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Use of Clothing
- ... Joe Starks. Joe is a "citified, stylish man with a hat set at an angle that didn't belong in those parts," and he wants to take Janie away. Joe's dream is to become "big man" and pleads Janie to take part in his dreams of the future. He proposes marriage to her, and arranges a rendezvous at the bottom of the road at sunup the next morning. Janie is ... Cake have a house which is a "magnet, the unauthorized center of the "job."" There, many gather to have fun and gamble. "Sometimes Janie would think of the old days in the store and the big white house and laugh to herself. What if Eatonville could see her now in her blue denim overalls and heavy shoes?" (pg. 127) This passage is a slice of Janie's new life on the ...
- 1209: To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme of Prejudice
- ... small towns. Prejudice is born when people form an idea that someone with a different color skin, sexual orientation, background, accent, style, actually anything that makes them different, makes them less equal or inferior. In big cities prejudice is still a problem, but doesn't compare to what's in a small town. In a big city people are in contact with other people that are different than themselves, and they begin to realize that they are no better or no worse than anyone else. I think Harper Lee showed how ...
- 1210: The Rez Sisters
- ... view of what it like on the reserve by a pictorous description, from here I can see half of Manitoulin Island I can see the chimneys, the tops of apple trees, the garbage heap behind Big Joey s dumpy little house (P. 2 The Rez Sisters) The reserve has a bit of everything, a good side and a bad side. During the play we learn that the Rez Sisters make life ... very hard and raise the money to get all seven of them to Toronto to join in the biggest bingo in the world. They load up a van they borrowed and head off to the big city. Nanabush, a North American Indian mythology creature follows them on their travels. Nanabush is a trickster and he can go by many faces. The myth behind Nanabush is that he left this world when ...
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