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- 491: Catcher In The Rye
- ... one I almost missed it is a little before the conversation with Faith it is a very important event. When J.D. Salinger had Holden look about of the window I think it was a big simile, of which I think about more in theme number 3, of the theme of the book. I'm sure Holden didn't ride all the way to New York to pick a run down ... of illusion. They both were trying to, I guest, show they are more popular than the other by making it seem like they known all these places and people, when in actuality they were two big phonies. The next Theme of this story that I want to talk about is the significance of the novel's title. First of all I have to say why the book was entitle as it ... Writers like Edgar Allen are obvious that they have a deeper meaning. But with Salinger it's hard to tell if this is a simple story of a boy rebelling or is it a great big metaphor for the world and how we are. Now if you ask him I,m sure he would say "oh that's what meant exactly," and he might as well have meant that; but ...
- 492: Life On The Farm
- ... more intelligent animals a new outlook on life. The pigs, which are considered the most intelligent animals, instruct the others. During the period of preparation two pigs can distinguish themselves, Napoleon and Snowball. Napoleon is big, and although he is not a good speaker, he can assert himself. Snowball is a better speaker; he has a lot of ideas and is very vivid. Together with another pig called Squealer, who is ... been used to suppress them. The same day the animals celebrate their victory with an extra ration of food. The pigs made up the seven commandments, and they wrote them above the door of the big barn. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall ... evil lie of Snowball. Short after this decision the pigs move into the farmhouse. The other animals remember that there has been a commandment that forbids sleeping in beds, and so they go to the big barn to look at the commandments. When they arrive there they cannot believe their eyes; the fourth commandment has been changed to: No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets. The other commandments ...
- 493: Adolf Hitler
- ... was here that his disliking of the Jews most likely began. Germany after the war was in chaos. With no real Government to control the country, many groups tried to take control. One day a big communist group staged a big riot but another group of ex-soldiers including Hitler managed to hold them back. 3. THE NAZI PARTY Since there were not many chances for employment Hitler stayed in the army. Hitler was assigned the ... race from the European continent. It is interesting to look and see how a small time boy from Austria with no education, money or political background could become within a few years the leader of big nation such as Germany. Historians believe that Hitler saw a great opportunity to get his views across to the German people who have lost all hope. Of course people did not start to support ...
- 494: To What Extent Is Canada’s Election System/Process Democratic?
- ... Therefore, it is not fair enough to other people like landed immigrants. For instance, I’m over the requirement age, but I’m not a resident, therefore I cannot vote. · Rules that work for the big parties are made up by the big parties for their own good. · Media also pays an important role in our election, the number of seats the parties get, the number of minutes they get for their commercial. This is not fair to ... Quebecois. · Whenever there is a debate, only 5 of the largest party leaders are invited. This is not fair to some of the candidates who run individually because they don’t have any support from big parties. · Therefore, the fewer parties get invited, the fewer issues the people can get. · Each candidate has to pay a $1000 deposit, if he/she has over 15 per cent of the votes, he/ ...
- 495: In Search of Excellence: Review
- In Search of Excellence: Review In Search of Excellence is a book dealing with many different principles of economics and what makes big business' excellent. The first idea that Peters discusses is his chart of the McKinsey 7-S Framework. The graph is very simple but the ideas are fairly complex. In their research, they found that their ... topic of the novel is the Eight Basic Principles. Their research had shown that the excellent companies had been based on the basics. The companies had to try to keep things simple. Sometimes, to a big business, it might seem logical that business should be run more complex the larger it is. From their research, this is usually not true. The first pricnciple is a bias for action. This is basically ... values in a company. This is keeping the "head honcho" in touch with the assembly line worker and projecting the company's original ideas, instead of an image of some suited businessman lurking in a big, dark office. The sixth and often obvious principle is to stick to the knitting. The basically says that if a company is in the food business, it should not branch off into the wood ...
- 496: Race Relations With Huck Finn
- ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the novel shows these classes really well. In the beginning of the novel, we see a little bit of the black class, and how they were treated. Miss. Watson s big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door, we could see him pretty clear (14). Jim, Miss. Watson s run away slave in the story, is part of the black class. We see the ... and meets Jim, where he really rebels. This will be the start of a stronger friendship between Huck and Jim. Speaking of Jim, he also rebels, but he rebels against the law. Jim made a big decision while there was a great deal of distraction with in the city. When Jim and Huck first met, Jim says Well, I b lieve you, Huck. I-I run off (50). Jim tells Huck ... helped the doctor nurse fix Tom, they made a fuss, and fixed him up prime, and gave him all he wanted to eat, and a good time and nothing to do (278). This is a big push for race relations and rebellion. Slaves are not supposed to eat and dress real nice and have nothing to do. Aunt Polly, Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally realized everything that Jim did, and, ...
- 497: William McKinley
- ... about Democratic victories. As a congressman, he focused his energies on the tariff problem and became known as a protectionist and as a persuasive speaker. He was generally associated with being on the side of big business. But he also worked hard for labor and later, as governor of Ohio, he encouraged employees to join labor unions and criticized employers who refused workers the right to organized. Also as congressman he ... election. In this election, McKinley again faced William Jennings Bryan as his presidential opponent. Bryan attacked McKinley on the issues of American imperialism (in regard to our overseas acquisitions), free silver, and the growth of big business and illegal monopolies, called trusts. But the major campaign issue became prosperity. McKinley asserted that, "We have prosperity at home and prestige abroad." McKinley won the election with a relatively easy victory. In this same year, the Hay Pauncefote Treaty gave to the U.S. the right to build the Panama Canal. By 1901, McKinley no longer supported the growth of big business. Business trusts and monopolies had hurt competition and kept prices high for the consumers. Also by this time, he had modified his views on tariffs. He no longer supported protective tariffs to help ...
- 498: Hinduism
- ... as related; the universal god is present in all things. The Hindu philosophy also emphasizes that everything is transforming - nothing is permanent. Most Hindus believe in an oscillating universe, meaning that there was not one big bang to create this universe, but an infinite number of bangs and an infinite number of universes before this one. This brings us to the belief in Maya, the world of appearances. The idea behind Maya ...
- 499: Eli Whitney
- ... ten thousand muskets at $13.40 each, all to be delivered within two years. Only a man with the status of inventor of the cotton gin could've talked the government into making such a big commitment. Coming from anyone else except Eli Whitney, the proposal would've sounded crazy. Up until this time, every rifle was handmade from stock to barrel. The parts of one gun were not interchangeable with ... a century and a half. Whitney had thirty thousand dollars in bonds from his friends in New Haven, and he personally borrowed ten thousand dollars from the New Haven bank. The sum involved in this big order, $134,000, was the biggest single transaction in the country at that time. By then end of the first year, Whitney was just getting into production, a big accomplishment for those times, but instead of the four thousand muskets he had promised, there were only five hundred produced. When news of this got to Whitney's financial backers, they became doubtful. All ...
- 500: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... KKK drove blacks down to a new economic low. What time would be better than this to write a book about the great American dream, a book about long held American ideals, now squashed by big business and white supremacy? Mark Twain did just that, when he wrote what is considered by many as the “Great American Epic”. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “The great American epic,” may be one of ... of the classic American idealism, consisting of freedom, morality, practicality, and an alliance with nature. Twain manages to show all this while poking fun at the emergence of the “robber barons,” better know as the big business of the late nineteenth century. Twain portrays many different American values in this book by expressing them through one of the many different characters. The character that Twain chose to represent morality and maturation ... as an adventure. “Call me a low down abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum,” is all Huck has to say on the matter, but he keeps quiet just the same. He shows his first big step in his maturation here by being tolerant of Jim and not rejecting him as a subordinate, as he and Tom had done earlier. On the island the reader does still see signs of ...
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