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- 15601: "An Inspector Calls": Issues and Priestly's Viewpoint
- ... of Priestly's views he uses the Inspector to try and get the message across to all of mankind about how we should learn how to live equally and if we do not then the world will be a painful place for millions of lower-class people like Eva Smith. He uses the abrupt ending to make the reader think about the situation. I think that J.B. Priestly had very strong views about equal rights and he uses the characters very well to get across his viewpoint all over the world.
- 15602: All Quiet On Westren Front
- ... fresh from school, knowing nothing except the environment of hopeful youth and they come to a premature maturity with the war, their only home. "We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. We are not youth any longer." They have lost their innocents. Everything they are taught, "the world of work, duty, culture, and progress" are not the slightest use to them because the only thing they need to know is how to survive. They need to know how to escape the shells as ...
- 15603: Macbeth: Blood
- ... with several other passages dealing with the symbol. Perhaps the best way to show how the symbol of blood changes throughout the play, is to follow the character changes in Macbeth. First he is a brave honoured soldier, but as the play progresses, he becomes a treacherous person who has become identified with death and bloodshed and shows his guilt in different forms. The first reference of blood is one of honour, and occurs when Duncan sees the injured sergeant and says "What bloody man is that?". This is symbolic of the brave fighter who been injured in a valiant battle for his country. In the next passage, in which the sergeant says "Which smok'd with bloody execution", he is referring to Macbeth's braveness in which ...
- 15604: Frankenstein
- ... forms of life is enough to say that he is human. The only thing that really distinguishes him from other human beings is the way he looks and the way he was brought into the world. I do not think that either of these defines a person. Just because a baby is born by cesarean section or a person has a deformity that makes them look different from other people does ... into the emotions that humans feel when abandoned by the people that are supposed to love them most. Often adopted children feel this same hatred toward parents and question why they were brought into the world at all. Considering these feelings of abandonment and his banishment from society, one can begin to understand why he chose to act the way he did. One may even begin to wonder if he felt ...
- 15605: Animal Farm
- ... the other animals for exposing and removing the traitor, Snowball, from their midst. Slowly, Napoleon gets a stronger and stronger hold over the other animals, dominating their every action. The situation at "Animal Farm", the new name for "Manor Farm", really starts to change now. Napoleon moves into Mr. Jones' house, sleeps in his bed, and even wears his clothes. In order to make his actions appear legal, the law had ... the Bolshevik revolutionaries who led the masses in rebellion against the Czar and the entire royal family. Unfortunately, as with the pigs, power corrupted and the people were then oppressed by their "comrades" under the new communist government. Orwell's message about power, in the hands of a few, is corrupting and does nothing to benefit the masses.
- 15606: Ronald Reagan
- ... unemployed in fall, 1982. This recession reduced inflation significantly, but the interest rates remained high. During the next two years the economic recovery began. The unemployment came down, but thousands of factory jobs disappeared. The new jobs, which were mostly in service industries, paid less, leaving inflation low. Domestic Affairs Economic Policy- Reagans economic policy worked on the claim that investment in industry and spending by consumers would eventually increase ... point of Reagans foreign policy was to reverse the momentum of the Marxist revolution in Central America. After a revolution in Nicaragua had disposed of former leader Anatosio Somoza, the U.S. accused the new Sandinista government of aiding rebels in El Salvador with weapons. So the Reagan cut his aid to Nicaragua and started supporting anti-Sandinista guerilla movements known as the contras. Then Nicaragua signed an aid pact ...
- 15607: Compare Two Biographies Of Wayne Gretzky
- ... frame. The description of this book was very interesting. The writer show the thing through the game. For example the first chapter was talking about the 1984 Stanley Cup final between the Edmonton Oilers and New York Islander. "Wayne," he said, "don't worry about not scoring so far. Just make sure that when you do get a goal for us is a big one. " (Page 15 Gretzky and Taylor ) From ... was the only source of success. In the book "Gretzky with Rick Reilly", Gretzky showed his talent when he was young. He was national knew at six. There was even a wild rumors that the New York Rangers were going to buy the entry Brantford Pee Wee franchise, so that they had the right to take him when he turn the greater. But behind the success, did you know how much ...
- 15608: Beowulf: The Ultimate Hero
- ... Hrothgar's speech to Beowulf. It was the "Almighty" who sent Beowulf and it was "with the Lord's help" that Beowulf was able to defeat Grendel. Hrothgar wants to make it known throughout the world that Beowulf is the strongest man alive and is a proven hero. It is the characteristics of agelessness and dedication that sets him apart from the other warriors, and makes him a truly heroic individual ... even if he is the only one. Beowulf is able to finish off the dragon but in the process looses his own life. The response of the warriors shows how quickly the values of the world are changing. Without the tenacity to keep with it, even though the though times, they will bring upon themselves there own destruction. The definition of a hero is one who places himself or herself at ...
- 15609: Things Fall Apart A Tragedy
- ... eventually killing him to obtain his "first human head" (54). Okonkwo's tragic flaw was his inability to adapt to the changes of his culture, stubbornly seeking to stick to the old ways he once new. When a messenger came to stop one of the tribe's meetings, Okonkwo rose up and killed him, because of his hate, his pride, and his inability to adapt, which proved to be his downfall ... tragedy with his tragic hero, Okonkwo, and by the pity and fear aroused in the reader; therefore, Achebe successfully and accurately fulfills Aristotle's definition of a tragedy. Work Cited Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor Books, 1959. Aristotle. Focusing on Background--Aristotle s View of Tragedy and the Tragic Hero. Elements of Literature: Fourth Course. Austin: Holt, Rinehert, 1993. 796.
- 15610: Hymn To Intellectual Beauty
- ... is made clear by the personal pronoun. He tells how he spent his boyhood searching for the Power; how he went through graveyards and hoped to communicate with the dead to gain knowledge of the world beyond. He cried out to God to reveal himself "I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed [religion]; | I was not heardI saw them [the dead] not". However, he receives no ... he devoted himself to the worship of the ultimate power. He implores the Power to give him assistance so that he may overthrow what he thinks of as government- and religion-induced slavery ("[unlink] This world from its slavery"). His personification of time the "phantoms of a thousand hours" is his statement that he believes in the omnipotence and all-encompassing nature of the Power. He appeals, through the Power, that ...
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