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- 19441: Rand's "Anthem"
- ... their restrictive society, they rediscover the knowledge of the Unmentionable times, they discover the self and free will. Ayn Rand's science fiction novella Anthem shows intense emotion. The story takes place in a futuristic world of collectivism where the word "I" has been forgotten. The achievements of the past have been lost until one man feels his emotions and acts upon them. Emotions are the key to the story.
- 19442: Anna Karenina: Characters and the Life Novel
- ... for God. In contrast to the growth that Levin experiences is the stagnation of the life of the title character Anna Karenina. At the beginning of the novel, the married Anna is confronted with a new suitor, Count Alexy Kirillovitch Vronsky. At first Anna rejects Vronsky, but at the site of her husband upon return she begins to notice his whining voice and the size of his ears. This disgust at ...
- 19443: As I Lay Dying: Styles Used By William Faulkner
- ... Faulkner uses Darl's empathy and intuition to subtly bring in this foreshadowing and the feelings between the brothers. NOTE: Received an A-, this class is equal to the American College Course of sophomore English/ World Literature.
- 19444: John L Lewis
- ... comptonsv3.web.aol.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0100/01077248_A.html#P1A1 "John L. Lewis" www.umwa.org/history/lew/.shtml Alinsky, Saul. A Miners Life. Illinois: Dover publications, 1964 Sulzberger, C. L. The Lean Years. New York: Unwell Press, 1960 Word Count: 781
- 19445: The Lord of the Flies: SUmmary
- ... to savages. In the novel, Ralph represents democratic societies while he tries to hold a civil society together where every man is allowed personal freedom of thought and actions and Jack represents dictators in the world who seek to establish a society wherein a person is told that only if he contributes to making his country the most powerful on Earth may be important as an individual. Lord of the Flies ...
- 19446: The Difference Between A Club
- ... Difference Between a Club and a Gang The differences between a club and a gang, are quite distinct, but it is the connotational differences between these two words which distinguishes one from the other. The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language defines a club as; "...an association of people with some common interest who meet periodically..." It defines a gang as "...a number of men or boys banding ...
- 19447: Maggie A Girl of the Streets and Puddnhead Wilson
- ... the central characteristics of Bowery come together in Mrs. Johnson. Her drunken rages symbolize the animal fury of a slum home, and her quickness to judge, condemn and cast out Maggie symbolizes the entire Bowery world. It is appropriate then that it is actually Mrs. Johnson who literally drives Maggie into prostitution and eventual death. She refuses to let Maggie back into the Johnson household after getting dumped by Pete. This ...
- 19448: Bartleby: "I prefer not to,"
- ... reader exactly what he did to Bartleby, very vividly, as shown below. In the novella, the author tells the reader, down to the smallest detail, what he did to Bartleby to isolate him from the world. He tells us in this passage, "I placed his desk close up to a small side window in that part of the room, a window which originally had afforded a lateral view of certain grimy ...
- 19449: Kate Chopin's The Awakening
- ... will not because it will disgrace her to leave her husband. No matter how much Edna exceeds social boundaries, she is held down by the will of others, despite what she wants. In today's world divorce, sadly, is almost commonplace, but in her time she would have been an outcast of her society. By the end of The Awakening, Edna feels like a possession - of her husband, of her children ...
- 19450: Jane Austen: Background of Her Novels
- ... who have never lacked confidence, or been without a date on Friday night!). Mansfield Park has also been used to draw connections between the "genteel" rural English society that Jane Austen describes and the outside world, since Fanny's uncle is a slave-owner (with an estate in Antigua in the Caribbean; slavery was not abolished in the British empire until 1833). Like a number of other topics, Jane Austen only ...
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