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- 19031: William Faulkner's Absalom
- ... the Confederate army, and notable business pioneers. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi which he later renamed Jefferson, Mississippi in his novels. Although Faulkner is a contemporary American, he is already considered one of the world's greatest novelists. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. Through his experiences from growing up in the old South, Faulkner has been able to express the values of the South through ...
- 19032: A Modest Essay
- ... line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with ...
- 19033: Modern Relevancy of A Christmas Carol
- Modern Relevancy of A Christmas Carol Christmas is a joyous time that many people around the world celebrate. Although the holiday is celebrated in different ways, gift giving remains as a universal aspect. Charles Dickens wrote a wonderful story about Christmas-time over one hundred and fifty years ago, but many people ...
- 19034: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Is Stephen Dedalus Really James Joyce?
- ... and apparently for his other novels is stream-of-consciousness. Nowhere in the novel does Joyce include his own thoughts. The character of Stephen Dedalus is revealed through only his observations and reactions to the world around him. This novel is enclosed in a sustained symbolic pattern. Stephen Dedalus is symbolized as rich and many-faceted. Critic Elizabeth Drew states that Stephen is a rebel who withdraws from Ireland, family, nationality ...
- 19035: Grapes Of Wrath Stereo Typing
- ... in a calm manner with no fight ever beginning. Cops swarm all over to provoke migrants so that many can be arrested and pulled off the streets. But the migrants resolve their problems so that new problems do not start. To farm owners, provoking migrants is a way to keep more migrants from stealing their land and resources but ends unsuccessfully. Stereotyping, brought on by the existence of a class system ...
- 19036: White Shark: Review
- ... they made a movie. The detail was absolutely amazing that it made you feel sick to your stomach at times. Peter Benchley is beginning to get more of an imagination than a story about the world's largest man -eater that everyone already has an image of. He's at least giving unbelievable details that are almost impossible to imagine anything of the sort but that's the fun of reading ...
- 19037: Analysis of "A Raisin in the Sun"
- ... they are being held down by the white collar workers who are the white business men. The Youngers, specifically Walter believe no matter how hard black folks work they can't get ahead in this world. He also believes it is so much harder for black people to get anywhere that he would lose all of the money Mama had given him, trying to spread it around getting the businesses going ...
- 19038: Catcher in the Rye: Comparison of Holden and Me
- Catcher in the Rye: Comparison of Holden and Me The book Catcher in the Rye tells of Holden Caulfield's insight about life and the world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about people and leads the reader on a 5 day visit into his mind. Holden, throughout the book, made other people feel inferior to his own. I ...
- 19039: The Scarlet Letter: Platform Of Sin
- ... discuss Hester's crime of adultery: This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die (Hawthorne 59). The scaffold allows Hester Prynne's sin to be publicized and marveled at by the New Englanders. It is here that the reader becomes aware of Hester being shunned as an outsider, when she is placed on the scaffold: Knowing well her part, she ascended a flight of wooden steps, and ...
- 19040: The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
- ... to come. This shows us that, Blacks were not wanted in society take part in the American popular culture. With the whites wearing a black face, that whites had the supremacy in the society. In New York, blackfaced whites repeatedly ended the evening by engaging in the traditional white male street activity of beating up free blacks. Blacks use to celebrate many of their popular cultural events in the streets. Most ...
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