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- 11611: Grapes Of Wrath 2
- ... and some just didn't care. The businessmen that were lucky enough not to lose everything and the other employees working in the cities who still had jobs during the depression didn't like these new programs. In the movie, The Grapes of Wrath, The town s people didn't like the government-funded version of a "Hooverville". The townspeople, along with the police tired to start a fight during a dance, so the police could come in, arrest some of the people living there, and say that this new development wasn't safe for the town, and it would have to be rid of. Fortunately for them they were able to discover their little plan, and spoiled the plan. But this showed how much the people in the towns hated these new developments like the Hoovervilles. Also, I can't recall what town! It was in, but when the Joad s approached one town border, the men there said there was no work, and that they ...
- 11612: The Rime Of The Christo-marine
- ... between a man and his god? Only death, as the passage illustrates. In the following stanza, "And straight the Sun was flecked with bars," the perspective is that of a prisoner looking to the outside world the sailors are imprisoned, both in life and in the ocean. Death is all that keeps life contained from grace, so the bars across the Sun (god) are fitting symbolism. A biblical allusion referred to ... usage of color to signify life and death. Green is typically regarded as the color of living things, such as when spring comes after the grays of winter, bringing life and color back into the world. "Her beams bemocked the sultry main,/Like April hoar-frost spread;/But where the ship's huge shadow lay,/The charmed water burnt away/A still and awful red." [ln 268] The Mariner was on ... exceptional writer, would not have been dissatisfied, it seems, to have been a man of the cloth. From Rime of the Ancient Mariner alone, he makes an impression of how a great deal of the world mimics Christian belief. Although not intended to be factual, nor construed as such, Rime is a well developed, character-based morality play.
- 11613: Gilgamesh
- ... the Flood Stories In both The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible, a flood takes place. The flood in both stories destroys most of mankind. These floods are a symbol. They represent rebirth and a new beginning for mankind, as well as the gods or God s wrath. In the epic of Gilgamesh the gods decided to destroy mankind by flooding earth for six days and nights. Utnapishtim was chosen to build a boat in order to restart mankind after the flood. In The Bible, God decided that there was too much evil in the world and decided to flood Earth for forty days and nights. God Chose Noah to build an ark to save 2 of each animal and restart mankind after the flood. In both The Epic of Gilgamesh ...
- 11614: George Orwells Satirical Appro
- ... which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose, and artistic purpose into one whole." Animal Farm has masked as a manual's guide for many governments around the world. Orwell wrote Animal Farm as an attempt to make people notice the cruelty of Stalin's way of governing, Russia's new government and his opinions of revolutions. The goal of Animal Farm was to get people to open their eyes to Stalin's way of governing Russia. But some people's eyes remained closed even after ...
- 11615: George Bernard Shaws Mrs. Warr
- ... to support yourself, but to enable yourself to marry someone "worthy", meaning someone who could afford you. Page 1734 we see Mrs. Warren defending her actions. She's "explaining" to Vivie the ways of the world. On one hand, Mrs. Warren is admitting that what she is doing is wrong, but on the other hand she answers Vivie's questions about being ashamed by saying: "It's only good manners to ... right. Sometimes they are rewarded financially and sometimes not. Either way, it is ok by them. The second category is Mrs. Warren and Crofts. They want to be in a better social standing in the world, but they only way they know how is to make more money and show it off. All in all, I think Shaw was showing his contempt for the Mrs. Warren's of the world. I believe Viv, Frank and Pared better represented his thoughts and feelings.
- 11616: Gender Issues In Lysistrata, A
- ... wonderful intellectual break-throughs but we have also done very stupid deeds. Its amazing how a creature of such great intelligence could separate, segregate, discriminate, dehumanize, and enslave members of its own human race. The world as we speak is existing because of gender issues. Going back to days of Adam and Eve. When God asked Adam not to eat from the apple tree, it was Eve, with her feminine lure ... need is a man on their journey. A man basically just for protection. But the two girls decide to dress up Rosalind in drag for their trip. This issue of crossdressing brings out a whole new perspective of the play. The issue of crossdressing is a prominent feature in the plot of AYLI. The reason the issue of crossdressing has such influence on the plot is because most of Orlando s ...
- 11617: The Bogart By Susan Cooper
- ... in Toronto, Canada. The Volink family inherited a castle in Scotland from Mr. McDevon the mother s uncle. The two children in the story are Emily and Jessup. Emily is the oldest. She is smart brave and very sensitive towards the Boggart, once she understood him. Jessup is very smart, loves computers, and was a member of a computer gang called the Gang 5. The parents of Emily and Jessup were ... it on to a computer disk and sent it to their friend Tommy in Scotland. Tommy downloaded the disk and released the Boggart. The Boggart was glad to be home at his castle with his new family the Maconochies. One of the things I can relate to in the book is how difficult it may sometimes be to improve your innocence. For example when Emily and Jessup s mother thought they ...
- 11618: 1984 Big Brother Is Watching Y
- ... bound your actions. The people of Oceania are divided into two classes, the members of the Party and the proletariat. The Party members are like machines that do the jobs of the government. In this world, never has anyone thought any different of his or her place in society. Due to this authority that attempts to control the human train of thought, paranoia among the people became common. Nobody would talk ... trying to see five! But the only way Winston can truly see five fingers is if he believes it. That means Winston would have to change his integration, or his explanation for the way the world operates. A change in integration can be devastating to one s soul. Remarks on the Psychological Appeal of Totalitarianism brings this idea to clarity, One feels like a traitor to one s most cherished ideas ... few that did not continue with the experiment, felt that the experiment made such a deep impression on him that he became convinced that social sciences and psychology, are much more important in today s world. One can only imagine the inner conflicts that were running through his head. After the experiment, he described the mood, I did want to stop at that time. I turned around and looked at [ ...
- 11619: Yours, Jack (about Jack The Ri
- ... from now. There is no question that the police of the times bungled the investigation, in the way they handled witnesses. But was it really their fault? Jack the Ripper was an example of a new kind of criminal, one the likes of which the world had never seen. Not only did the police have to track down the future of killers, but the origins of tabloid journalism managed to complicate the investigation. The police are guilty of attempting to look ...
- 11620: Philosophy - Hume
- ... that inviolable sanction and authority, which always attend perceived opinions. (Hume p.891) In any case many of the miraculous events which happened in past history would not be considered a miracle in todays world, or at any other time in history. The reality most people believed at that period, as a result can be considered lies or exaggerations. Hume discredits the miracle as to the time period in which ... Throughout the rest of the readings Hume states a few events which many believe are miracles. He discredits many these miracles through his critiques. I have chosen to illustrate two so-called miracles from the New American Bible and to show how Hume would view these miracles. The stories are of Noahs Ark and The Burning Bush. The story of Noahs Ark took place when the Lord began to ...
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