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- 3111: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... the father character may be searching for. Les has rejected his fathers pleas both literally and figuratively. Thus, the opportunity for communication and communion is lost. The story ends, in my opinion, not with a bang but with a whimper, a hasty retreat, a failure to connect. The disjunction can be interpreted to play a major role in Carver's meaning within such a story. The contribution he gives to the ...
- 3112: "Schlesinger's Canon Vs. My High School's Canon"
- ... Even though we did read authors of different ethnicity, there was a lack of viewing other types of religions from the world, and their authors. This lack of not reading from different religions is a big hole in what is culture. Because of this, we did not receive a complete multicultural education. Bibliography 1. "culture." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Third Edition. 1992. 2. Drabble, Margaret. The Oxford ...
- 3113: The Writings of Plato and Dantes
- ... mind. Take for example chapter IX of the Odyssey: Odysseus is trapped in a cave with one of the Cyclopsians who is slowly eating all of the crew of Odysseus' ship. He then makes a big spear from wood left in the cavern, tells his captor that his name is Noman and pokes out the eye of the cyclops. When the neighbors come running to help they ask if any man ...
- 3114: The Masque of Red Death: The Masque of Poe
- The Masque of Red Death: The Masque of Poe People don't really have that much in common, but they do have one big thing in common, that is death. Death is the one thing that no one can stop. The short story "The Masque of Red Death," by Edger Allen Poe shows how that statement is true. Poe ...
- 3115: The Picture
- ... the subject of interest. A grunt of satisfaction escaped him and he said, "My! Feel what you have done to me. Aren't you ashamed of yourself? I didn't know he would get that big. Maybe we will have a problem . . . No, where there is a will, there is a way, and I sure have a will now." Fumbling together, you both succeeded in guiding the magnificent rod of steel ...
- 3116: Citizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal of William Randolph Hearst?
- ... the same beliefs. He was in constant conflict with himself. For instance, he supported the coal strikers while being backed by Tammany Hall, the very head of the Democratic party machine with close ties to big business (Swanberg 238-245). This trait is the one which Kane played out to full effect in his movie. Once the audience was sure that they were seeing Hearst up there, Welle s could explain ...
- 3117: Regret or Apology?
- ... she said. The first part of the quote clearly indicates that the fault was not with her actions... but rather with the way they were received and distorted by others. But because she said the big bad 'S' word, all hell broke loose. One newspaper article quoted a political scientist as saying, 'To apologize for substantive things you've done raises the white flag.'" (107-108). This political scientist obviously took ...
- 3118: A Town Like Alice: Discussion
- ... are no sharp limit between them. An example from the book is the Australians, whose culture is rather close to the English, but there are few Englishmen who would have liked the loneliness in the big country Australia, and even fewer Australians, (I think), would feel comfortable in the crowded England. Another example in the book that is more about religion and culture is the Japanese soldier who walked with the ...
- 3119: Kazin's "Summer: The Way to Highland Park"
- ... part of America. I found myself genuinely loving this work. Kazin is an amazing writer. He put on paper things I can only think. He is a true artist. I never thought I was a big fan of history, but the way Kazin explains history I think I possibly have always loved history, but have not known it. History, in school, is taught to be boring and factual when in reality ...
- 3120: Paper on Irony
- ... my pillow hoping to scare the sound away, but I soon realized my heart beating alone in the silence wasn=t afraid of my gun, just the emptiness. I never got used to having that big house to myself but it got more tolerable. I counted the days until my sixteenth birthday, I would no longer be a prisoner to my home, I would be free. My freedom finally came in ...
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