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- 4151: German World Of Disappointment
- ... theme of disappointment comes up frequently in many others of Boll’s stories. In “The Balek Scales”, the entire town is thrown into the realization that placing their trust in the Balek’s was a big mistake. Everyone is disappointed that the Balek’s weren’t trading honestly. It is a further disappointment that no one ever thought to question their authority over the possession and use of weights and measures ...
- 4152: Fahrenheit 451
- ... his wife whether or not to turn it in to the Fire Captain. He knows that the book is rare because of the closing of book production companies, and he wants to keep it. Another big problem with the novels society is that many people are angry, bored, and depressed because they have nothing to do. Many people, including Mildred, have caught on to taking sleeping pills and doing other things ...
- 4153: Chrsanthemums
- ... way of life, he has found it necessary to be able to charm potential customers into giving him work, and is very skillful at calculating a person’s emotional needs. The stranger is described as big, bearded, and graying man, who knows something about life and people. A man with a captivating presence whose eyes are dark and “full of brooding.” Elisa is fascinated by his spontaneous way of life. When ...
- 4154: Carvers Cathedral
- ... his mouth, and then go all out for the scalloped potatoes, the beans next, and then he’d tear off a hunk of buttered bread and eat that. He’d follow this up with a big drink of milk. It didn’t seem to bother him to use his fingers once in a while, either’. (Page 102). Curiously, the final insight for the husband comes when he closes his eyes in ...
- 4155: Agenda Setting
- ... that she also had an affair with Hillary. So, as you see, it is fairly easy to receive false information. The way to combat this is to, like any other media, check your sources. The big positive of the Internet is its ability to provide immediate information. The Dallas Morning News posted an interview with Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh on the web prior to publishing it in print nearly ...
- 4156: Beauty And The Beast
- ... in love with that man and not the Beast on the out side. This something that children need to learn. I my opinion isn’t taught enough in today’s world. One of the other big points was that material items will not make you as happy as love. In the story the evil princess wanted the dress given to Beauty by the sun, and the golden chickens, given to beauty ...
- 4157: Oedipus The King
- ... by many. People believed his prophecies and respected him. And like Zeus, who was father of the gods, was called upon Oedipus. In addition to those two themes, the third one is economic development. One big economic deveoplemt was when Creon became king. When Creon became king the plague had vanished since the city had found the murderer of Lauis. This allowed crops and livestock to prosper along with jobs. Hopefully ...
- 4158: Another Antigone
- ... comical, rhyming poem about what happened. This may cause it to lose the impact it had. Sargoff reduces important and pivotal points in the story to a sentence such as, "Creon wilts, and tries to bang a U-ee." This sentence does not tell of Creon's attempt to repent for what he! has done by burrying Polynices and then going to free Antigone. Even if Sargoff gets all of the ...
- 4159: The Positronic Man
- ... a terrifying choice: to make his dream a reality, he must pay the ultimate price. I must say that I didn't have very high expectations for this book because I am not a very big science fiction fan, but this book changed my mind. There are many reasons why this particular book changed my view on science fiction. One of the major reasons for my enjoyment of this book is ...
- 4160: Brave New World
- ... controlled, even the future profession of the individual is determined before birth. It's a society in which the human being only serves a sociological and scientifical purpose, the individual thought is overruled by one big totalitarian state, likewise emotion and initiative are ruled out. Giving birth is forbidden, sex is the most normal thing on earth, and even drugs is taken with the routine and amount of normal meals. Only ...
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