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- 11751: Animal Farm
- The oldest pig on the farm, Old Major, gathered all the farm animals into the barn. He told them of a dream he had about one day animals ruling the world. He said there was to be a rebellion in the farm against their cruel farmer, Mr. Jones. Old Major did not know when the rebellion was to take place but he knew it would be ... bank notes. The humans attacked. This time they all had guns. The windmill was blown apart and there were a lot of casualties. Even though the animals were told they won by their leaders, they new they lost. A couple years later, Boxer was coming of age and was going to retire. He was working and he broke his leg. Napoleon called a "vet" but it was a man from the ...
- 11752: The Progressive Era
- The Progressive Era Progressivism in the United States took place in the period between the Spanish-American War and the entry of the United States into the great World War. It was a time for change in America in all walks of life, as well as a time for reform. It was marked by Theodore Roosevelt's 7 and a half years in office ... himself to make the first strides towards reform. These reforms included the cracking down on illegal monopolies and so forth. During this era large cities transformed into large metropolises, small towns into large cities and new towns sprang up nearly everywhere. Reforms also included the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth amendments. The progressive era really had significant impact in America's history. The progressive movement had many origins. One of these was ...
- 11753: The Catcher And The Rye -x
- ... protect his old friend. After the fight with Straddler, Holden attempts to befriend Ackley without success because he does not want to leave Pency friendless. Holden eventually decides to leave Pency early and stay in New York until the day that he is suppose to arrive home comes. On the train to New York Holden meets the mother of student at Pency and lies about him just to be sociable while all the time laughing that he is being a phony while he hates them. Once in New York at his hotel he calls a girl he was given a phone number to but he ends up not doing anything with her and is angry with himself for it. He goes down ...
- 11754: Beloved
- ... lives with her daughter, Denver in a shabby house at 124 Bluestone, that they share with the ghost of a dead baby, which haunts Sethe by reminding her of past tragedies. Paul D, Sethe's new lover and a former Kentucky slave man whom Sethe takes in, helps shed light in Sethe's sad life. Also arriving at the doorstep is a mysterious, ill young woman who calls herself Beloved. Gradually ... duty Denver has assumed since her mother's crime years ago. By allowing the flashback and violent attack to occur the vicious cycle that each character is miserably engulfed by is broken, which allows a new beginning to the individuals lives. This scene contributes to the structure of the work because it allows the novel to narrate itself in the presence tense. After Sethe's violent attack she is able to ... in present tense. Morrison narrates the rest of the novel in present tense in order to illustrate that the past no longer haunts Sethe as it once did years ago. Sethe can now start a new life without reminders of her shameful past experiences. Morrison works this scene into conveying her theme of healing and confronting past memories. After the thirty neighborhood women congregates in front 124 Bluestone singing and ...
- 11755: The Enigma Solved
- ... for the crime. Why had Macbeth decided against committing violence for the kingship? In a soliloquy in the seventh scene of the first act, he tells us that it is not death in the next world that he fears. Rather, he is afraid that his crime for the kingship will teach others to commit similar crimes when he is king. However, despite Macbeth's apparent indifference to religion and morality, he ... does not make an attempt, Macbeth's children will not succeed Macbeth and Banquo's will. In that case Macbeth will have lost not only his soul but the fruit of his labor in this world as well. For a man does not work only for his immediate profit in this world but also for the benefit of his children, who will make his name live on in honor. Macbeth therefore decides to have Banquo and Fleance killed. Although, after the murder of Duncan, Macbeth's ...
- 11756: The Doll House
- This is a review about the story "The doll house" Nora leavs her husband, Torvald, and Nora are attempting to start a new life. However, as time goes on she realizes that it is impossible to live without her children. She also realizes that Torvald is the love of her life. Filled with guilt and loneliness, she humbly ... Nora and Torvald's marriage. At the funeral Torvald breaks down and begins to weep incessantly. Nora for the first time in her life see s Torvald's inner soul, and it brings about a new found love. This time they declare all the changes that need to be made and they follow through. As a result of their son's death a new bond is formed between Nora and Torvald. Torvald actually quits his job at the bank and takes a lower position that does not take up as much of his time at another bank. This ...
- 11757: The Characters Of A Jury Of He
- ... of her life. She grew up with the alleged murderer and had been to the house several times, but not find evidence to convict here friend of murder. This hometown girl is now felling a new sense of loyalty to her friend, as she remembers the way she was twenty years and as little as one year ago. This new loyalty shows her deep ties to the community and her sex. This loyalty to women follows her throughout the story and shows her ability to look past a situation and tell what is really happening ... is Mrs. Peters, the sheriff s wife. This woman also feels a deep loyalty to womanhood and that is why she does not tell her husband about Mrs. Hale s crime. This quiet and relatively new comer to the county has really no ties to anyone except her husband. That makes the entire situation more complex for her. She has loyalty to her husband and is considered, married to the ...
- 11758: The Mortal Sin Of Pride
- ... greedy in the sense of self improvement, will be the type of man that will either died young among people who already have lost themselves or to grow old alone in isolation from the outside world. In this case Fortunato had died young among strangers whom had already lost themselves to the powerful grip of death for some reason or another. It is the person who holds large amounts of pride ... of the typical fool are quite clear, straightforward, and to a certain degree even irreversible. Work Cited Poe, Edgar Allan. The Cask of the Amontillado. Literature for Composition, 4th ed. Eds. Sylvan Barnet et al. New Your: HarperCollins, 1995.
- 11759: The Martian Chronicles
- ... they seem a lot a like. The Shore This was just like the locust story. It just says that all the rockets are from America and none from other countries. It also said that the world was riddled with war. I had no real reaction for this since it just stated facts. Interim This was just about a town and how similar it was to an American town. I expected this ... They agreed upon one. Then his father explained they would live there for the rest of their lives. They also explained that another family was coming behind them and they would have to grown a new civilization from it. The boys excepted it. Their father burned the remains of Earth society to start over fresh. The boys wanted to see what a Martian looked like so he took them over to ...
- 11760: The Jungle 2
- ... end of the book, Upto Sinclair shows the reader how to solve Capitalism's problems: replace it with Socialism. The Socialist party is promoted as an international political party that will solve all of the world's problems. Every member of the party was told about the "Socialist revolution", when the entire planet would become Socialist. Not once does the book mention the possibility of failure. It even claimed Socialists would control the country by 1912. The Socialists despised the concept of competition. They considered the commercial world to be the essence of corruptio. The goal of the Socialist party in The Jungle was to end the corrupt and powerful Beef Trust. The Jungle is more than an advertisement for Socialism. It describes ... to work though, or loose their job. Often, the wounds would become infected, and the butcher would die of blood poisoning. The book discusses all the things that were being shipped out to the civilized world as "meat". Sausages were not really made out of sausage meat. They were mostly composed of "potato flour"; an odorless and tasteless potato extract with almost no food value. There were the cattle that ...
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