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- 4741: Oliver Twist: Summary
- ... makes Dodger look more appealing by describing his outrageous clothes and uninhibited manners. Fagin - A master criminal, whose specialty is fenang (selling stolen property). He employs a gang of thieves and is always looking for new recruits. He is a man of considerable intelligence, though corrupted by his self-interest. His conscience bothers him after he is condemned to hang. He does have a wry sense of humor and an uncanny ... On the surface, Rose is very different from Nancy. Both were orphans, but Rose grew up secure and protected. She is compassionate to Oliver, but unlike Nancy, rose is innocent of the evils of the world. Dickens makes clear that she is a pure flower. Agnes Flemings younger sister, thus Oliver's aunt. Accepted as Mrs. Maylie's niece: later becomes her daughter-in-law. Sally Thingummy - A pauper, nurses Oliver ... a clergyman. II Content - Setting The major action of Oliver Twist moves back and forth between two worlds: The filthy slums of London and the clean, comfortable house of Brownlow and the Maylies. The first world is real and frightening. While the other is idealized, almost dreamlike, in its safety and beauty. The world of London is a world of crime. Things happen there at night, in dark alleys and ...
- 4742: Evolution Of Society In The Mi
- The New Way of Thinking The height of the Middle Ages signified a revolutionary way of thinking among the people. The people of the day were breaking out of the old, controlled lifestyle, to which they were accustomed, and they began expressing themselves in many different ways. The people began breaking out of the normal, monotonous lifestyle and they began becoming individuals. The women began taking on new roles. They became independent and lived on their own. The soldiers began losing their prestige, and their life drastically changed. The clergymen took on more of a secular role, which prompted a new way of thinking toward the church. During the Middle Ages, peoples’ ideas began changing, which prompted a whole new outlook on society. The role of women drastically changed in the Middle Ages. Women became ...
- 4743: Michel Foucault And The Cultiv
- ... of living. The art of living in this sense means one whose main purpose is to be like no one else. As such, he felt he was directly useful to the public because he created new possibilities for life. His care for his own self allowed for the possibility that he could aid others in doing the same. He was trying to develop a way for one to work on himself ... power. Though power comes through individuals, most often it is not under their control. Power creates subjects; it is not exercised by them. Efforts to rationalize or humanize power only result in an exercise of new forms of it by creating new ways of knowing what subjects are. New forms of both power (control) and knowledge go together. However, the subject or individual does not disappear, but his “determined unity” is called into question. Foucault never ...
- 4744: Hitler 2
- Njpa t,rAdolf Hitler, (1889-1945), Was a German political and government leader and one of the 20th century's most powerful dictators, who converted Germany into a fully militarized society and launched World War II in 1939. Making anti-Semitism a keystone of his propaganda and policies, he built the Nazi party into a mass movement. For a time he dominated most of Europe and North Africa. He ... for lack of talent. Staying in Vienna until 1913, he lived first on an orphan's pension, later on small earnings from pictures he drew. He read voraciously, developing anti-Jewish and antidemocratic convictions. In World War I (1914-1918), Hitler, by then in Munich, volunteered for service in the Bavarian army. He proved a dedicated, courageous soldier, but was never promoted beyond private first class because his superiors thought him ... in Bavarian politics, aided by high officials and businessmen. In November 1923, a time of political and economic chaos, he led an uprising in Munich against the postwar Weimar Republic, proclaiming himself chancellor of a new authoritarian regime. Without military support, however, the uprising collapsed. As leader of the plot, Hitler was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and served nine months, which he spent dictating his autobiography Mein Kampf (My ...
- 4745: Compare And Contrast Depression And Schizophrenia
- ... depressions; for example, mourning is usually accompanied by a depressed mood, but this is not considered to be anything other than an expected response to loss. Major depression occur in 10% to 20% of the world's population in the course of a lifetime. Women are more often affected than men, by a two to one ratio, and they seem to be a particular risk in the period prior to menstruation ... include a general lowering of intellectual efficiency, a free-associative rambling from one topic to another, a loss of the distinction between figurative and literal usages of words, reduced ability to think abstractly, invention of new words and idiosyncratic misuse of common words Schizophrenia occurs in all industrialized countries, and apparently in all other societies as well. It occurs in all social classes, but in large cities first admissions to hospitals ... other traumatic event. Confirmed cases of multiple-personality disorder number only in the hundreds. Recent research has suggested, however, that multiple-personality disorder may occur more often than previously thought. Bibliography Archart-Treichel, Joan. Biotypes. New York:Time Books, 1980. Bluemel,C.S.,M.D. Psychiatry and Common Sense. New York:The Macmillan Company,1954. Hazelton,Lesley. The Right to Feel Bad. New York:The Dial Press Doubleday and Co., ...
- 4746: Cacade Foods- Marketing Analys
- This is the case of the Cascade Foods company and the analysis of the decision they were trying to come to about introducing a new product using new technology. Before beginning to get into the meat of the case, it should be noted that since the data and all relevant information was presented during the middle 1980's, this analysis shall continue on ... 1.) The SWOT analysis and 2.) the financial analysis. Problem Statement The main problem and concern of this case are whether or not Cascade Foods should, given the current conditions, go ahead and launch a new fruit drink line into the market using a relatively new packaging technique. SWOT Strengths One of the main deciding factors of a company and/or its products are their strengths. One of the main ...
- 4747: Charles Dickens Great Expectat
- ... of Pip's character begins during his childhood years under the loving care and companionship of his brother-in-law Joe Gargery, and the strict rule of his sister Mrs. Joe. Dickens completely disassociates the world of Joe from the world of Mrs Joe, each having an adverse effect on the young child, Pip. The home is the world of Mrs. Joe, where Pip is 'raised by hand'. Home life was not a pleasant environment with Mrs. Joe constantly 'on the rampage' chasing after Pip with a stick of cane nicknamed 'Tickler'. For ...
- 4748: Paradise Found And Lost - Critique
- ... paint a different view of Columbus. Boorstin writes favorable of Columbus and depicts him as a heroic and determined figure who helped shape history, but he neglects to include Columbus’ unethical acts committed in the world that was not supposed to exist, the Americas. When Columbus first discovered the New World, he took care that the royal standard had been brought ashore and he claimed the land for Spain in front of all, including the indigenous population who had been sighted even before Columbus made ...
- 4749: Great Expectations: Pip's Life in the Upper Class Society
- ... Pirrip, known as Pip, lives his life and find out the many attributes life has to it. He finds how the society treats the different classes and how money makes all the difference in the world of a High class/Low class society. Pip grows up in a low class village and soon learns about the high class lifestyle as he visits a wealthy woman, Miss Havisham. From this, he is ... Havisham of the richer and "better" society/class. Pip gains wealth from a secret benefactor and gets moved to London, where all have money and are high class. He lives and grows up in this new and different society, learning how to fit in and use money not as a precious commodity ( like he was accustomed to in his previous, low class lifestyle) but as it were a regular, common thing that if not used quickly, would soon be out-dated. He goes through his teens like this and finds great differences in his new lifestyle and his old. Pip gains much with his new found wealth. He gets new clothes; which help him fit into his new lifestyle. Also, he makes new friends and interacts with the higher ...
- 4750: The Transcontinental Railroad and Westward Expansion
- ... a sparse population in a huge country, large stretches between cities, and only the smallest amounts of money." ("Railroad" 85) The first American railroads started in the 1830's from the Atlantic ports of Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Charleston, and Savannah (Douglas 23). Within twenty years, four rail lines had crossed the Alleghenies to reach their goal on `Western Waters' of the Great Lakes or the tributaries of the ... started West of the Appalachian mountains, and by the mid-1850's Chicago, St. Louis, and Memphis were connected to the East. Still other lines were stretching Westward, beyond the Mississippi. An international route connected New England and Montreal and another one crossed Southern Ontario between Niagara, New York, and the Detroit River. During the 1850's, North and South routes were developed both East and West of the Alleghenies. It was not until after the Civil War, however, that a permanent ...
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