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- 3821: Hemingway
- ... in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literacy world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. This novel also won the Pulitzer Prize award. III. July 21st, 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born. He was born to DR ... Afternoon and The Dangerous Summer. Quickly after Patrick's birth, they moved on to what would remain Hemingway's only true residence in the United States-- Key West, Florida. It was there that a whole new world broke itself open to the sportsman in Ernest. Fishing the deep sea for great fish like the tarpon and the barracuda was his newest love. But even in Key West, a heavenly earth, tragedy ...
- 3822: The Negative Portrayal Of LSD
- ... money, success, and a house with a white picket fence still existed within the pandemonium of the nation and many still relished in the idea of “Americanism.” Television was a base for a magnitude of world news and national information. Television situation comedies created ideal families and contenting distractions from unsettling national realities. Mainstream media, both fact and fiction, influenced the nation’s minds resulting in the effect of political change and further media influence over the government. The new decade, along with the effects of the Vietnam War and the strong influence of television, began to leak from the cracks of the nation a new counterculture of rebellious teenagers, unfamiliar narcotics, and a wave of promiscuity. Among the many issues and events molding our nation into a new decade, came the question of government and mind control. For some ...
- 3823: Huckleberry Finn - Superstitions
- Narrative Voices in Huck Finn- Huckleberry Finn provides the narrative voice of Mark Twain’s novel, and his honest voice combined with his personal vulnerabilities reveal the different levels of the Grangerfords’ world. Huck is without a family: neither the drunken attention of Pap nor the pious ministrations of Widow Douglas were desirable allegiance. He stumbles upon the Grangerfords in darkness, lost from Jim and the raft. The ... guns to family picnics. He sees these as small facets of a family with "a handsome lot of quality" (118). He thinks no more about Jim or the raft, but knows he has found a new home, one where he doesn’t have to go to school, is surrounded by interior and exterior beauty, and most importantly, where he feels safe. Huck "liked that family, dead ones and all, and warn ... a very personable narrator. He tells his story in plain language, whether describing the Grangerford's clock or his hunting expedition with Buck. It is through his precise, trusting eyes that the reader sees the world of the novel. Because Huck is so literal, and does not exaggerate experiences like Jim or see a grand, false version of reality like Tom Sawyer, the reader gains an understanding of the world ...
- 3824: Huckleberry Finn
- Huckleberry Finn provides the narrative voice of Mark Twain's novel, and his honest voice combined with his personal vulnerabilities reveal the different levels of the Grangerfords' world. Huck is without a family: neither the drunken attention of Pap nor the pious ministrations of Widow Douglas were desirable allegiance. He stumbles upon the Grangerfords in darkness, lost from Jim and the raft. The ... guns to family picnics. He sees these as small facets of a family with "a handsome lot of quality"(118). He thinks no more about Jim or the raft, but knows he has found a new home, one where he doesn't have to go to school, is surrounded by interior and exterior beauty, and most importantly, where he feels safe. Huck "liked that family, dead ones and all, and warn ... a very personable narrator. He tells his story in plain language, whether describing the Grangerford's clock or his hunting expedition with Buck. It is through his precise, trusting eyes that the reader sees the world of the novel. Because Huck is so literal, and does not exaggerate experiences like Jim or see a grand, false version of reality like Tom Sawyer, the reader gains an understanding of the world ...
- 3825: Lorraine Hansberry
- ... Americans that often visited Lorraine’s home were Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes. They were her "shining light" so to speak. Especially when it came time for her to find her own place in the New York literary world (Cheney 36). Paul Robeson provided great inspiration for Lorraine’s writings. On the other hand, Langston Hughes gave her a social consciousness of her poetic possibilities of her own race. He also gave her an ... search for the freedom and better life- the majority of its first audience loved the work (Draper 951)." "A Raisin in the Sun" won the award as the Best Play of the Year in the New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award. By winning this award, Lorraine opened the door for generations to come of black writers who were encouraged by her. She was the first black person as well ...
- 3826: Of Mice And Men
- ... Lennie are the perfect example of how opposites attract. The two of them have spent the majority of their adult lives together and know each other better than they know anybody else in the entire world. They share their hard times and the good, their victories and their defeats, but most importantly they share a common dream. That dream is of having "a little house and a couple of acres an ... name "Candy" is an interesting one for this character though. When you think of candy you see children eating it while running around in the yard having a good time without a care in the world. This is the exact opposite of what the character in the novel is. The restless demon of age has caught up with him and he is not able to move as fast as he once ... If you was to take him out and shoot him right in the back of the head... right there, why he'd never know what hit him"(45). Carlson even offers to give him a new dog to replace the one that he is about to destroy. The way that Candy sees it is that he is not hurting anyone and that there is no reason to have to end ...
- 3827: Of Mice And Men
- ... Lennie are the perfect example of how opposites attract. The two of them have spent the majority of their adult lives together and know each other better than they know anybody else in the entire world. They share their hard times and the good, their victories and their defeats, but most importantly they share a common dream. That dream is of having "a little house and a couple of acres an ... name "Candy" is an interesting one for this character though. When you think of candy you see children eating it while running around in the yard having a good time without a care in the world. This is the exact opposite of what the character in the novel is. The restless demon of age has caught up with him and he is not able to move as fast as he once ... If you was to take him out and shoot him right in the back of the head… right there, why he’d never know what hit him"(45). Carlson even offers to give him a new dog to replace the one that he is about to destroy. The way that Candy sees it is that he is not hurting anyone and that there is no reason to have to end ...
- 3828: Internet Censorship
- ... was not until after the government opened it up to public use in the late 1980s that the Internet became a unique communications phenomenon. Nobody could predict the speed by which people all over the world latched on to this new form of technological communication. A wealth of information is readily available to those who possess the technological means to access and to contribute to it. However, this availability has some individuals and governments worried. Enter ... be used for anything from cooking dinner to finding out the latest movie showtimes. 2. Being such a good source of reaching people, the internet can change the way society works. It is an entire new way of communication. A small phone wire or data cable from a network can transmit data that is then interpreted by us, the user, as communication, interaction. By using the internet we are not ...
- 3829: Catch-22 & One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Black Humor; A Satirical View of the Institution
- ... in. Milo Minderbender is another irrational character from Catch-22. Milo is a mess officer whose obsession with capitalism drives him to create a syndicate utilizing the Black Market. Milo’s ventures thrive in the World War II Black Market and the list of items becomes so large and so unusual that it becomes humorous, We’ve got cedars from Lebanon due at the sawmill in Oslo to be turned into ... of failure and...unappeasable anxiety. (Heller 185) This manic nature and the colonel’s irrational need for “feathers in his cap” make him an entertaining figurehead for the institution. Unlike the hypothetically rational setting of World War II in Catch-22 one would expect the insane in the setting of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In the psychiatric ward of Kesey’s novel humor is found in the patients ... the machinery of what Bromden calls the “Combine” (Matuz pg. 56) The daily events of the ward are also so mechanical and so surreal that to chief Bromden they resemble a cartoon, “Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some type of goofy story that might be funny if it weren’t for the cartoon figures are real guys.” (Kesey 31) Although ...
- 3830: Great Expectations
- ... impression. It marks the moment not when he ¡¥found out¡¦, but when he ¡¥found out for certain¡¦, that the marshes were the marshes, the river the river, and so on. Magwitch is not altogether a new thing, but rather a thing peeled away from or toen off a landscape Pip has inhabited since birth. ¡§A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and ... had been to Hoe¡¦ (446). But the terms of that cognitibe revision throw considerable doubt on it efficacy. The task facing Pip is to replace a fairy god mother by an excaped convict; or, the world of desire by the world of guilt. Chapter VIII, which describes Pip¡¦s fist visit to Satis House, brutally emphasises the difference between those worlds. While the encounter with Magwitch repeats a sense of guilt with is as old ...
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