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- 6041: J.D. Salinger
- ... controversy and debate" (Lomazoff, 1). The way that Salinger portrayed Holden Caulfield has been a factor in the controversial nature of this book. Holden is a strong-minded person with strong-minded opinions of the world and the people. His uncanny personality makes the reader want to question his sanity. Holden has reached a point in his life where he doesn’t care anymore. He has flunked out of three Pennsylvania prep schools. This symbolizes that Holden is not truly ready for the adult world even though he believes that he is. He refuses to work to his full potential. Holden is a little boy playing grown-up. He is self-centered and very arrogant: Then I tried to get ... me to sit down at their table—mostly because they were ignorant—but I sat down anyway." This shows Holden’s impatient nature. Another odd quality of Holden’s is that he believes that the world we live in and the people that we live with are phony. An early example of this in the novel is when Old Spencer is telling Holden about how great his parents are and ...
- 6042: Merry-Go-Round: Critical Analysis
- Merry-Go-Round: Critical Analysis McAvley's purpose in "Merry-Go-Round" is to show the innocent beliefs of children viewed by a cynical adult. It portrays children caught up in the magical, surreal world of childhood before thrown into reality and the discordant life of adulthood. He employs specific stylistic devices such as imagery and diction, structure and tone to reveal this theme by discussing the appearance of the ... caught up in the enchantment as the children are. McAvley's clever use of diction and imagery add to the enchantment of the merry-go-round as the children see it as a magical fantasy world. It is continually likened to another world. For example, the first stanza deals with the excitement and attraction of the merry-go-round with adjectives such as "bright-coloured" and "mirror-plated" to describe it. The use of personification, "prancing wooden ...
- 6043: Black Panther Party
- ... frustrations of social injustices towards the Oakland Black community. Together, they initiated a drive to organize the African American students on campus by creating the Soul Students Advisory Council (SSAC)(Burroughs and Vassell 1). This new organization soon fell apart when they wouldn't agree on a common agenda. Some favored lobbying and protesting to bring Black Studies into the college curriculum while others (including Huey and Bobby) proposed the SSAC ... Oakland Police cars, either on foot or in cars, while dressed in black pants, black leather jackets, starched blue shirts and black berets, carrying loaded shot guns. The Oakland Black community's response to the new Panther Party was intense. The BPP's uniform and operations served as a testament that Blacks could stand up to the police. Sundiata Acoli, an ex-panther said that one of the Panthers' greatest accomplishments ... your face' action has shaped the way police officers act in neighborhoods today. The party's message spread across the country like wildfire, engaging young Blacks in Northern Black communities. Branches of the Party in New York, Chicago and Oakland worked with gangs, trying to turn them away from violence and into community organizing ( Acoli 2). Vincent Harding historian of the civil rights movement said: "The Panthers offered the young ...
- 6044: Abortion
- ... year (Willke vii). Many countries have followed our decision on the abortion issue and some of these include Canada, England, and France. Other countries still believe abortion should be illegal, they include Germany, Ireland, and New Zealand. Abortion poses a moral, social and medical dilemma that faces many individuals to create a emotional and violent atmosphere. Allowing abortion to be legal is immoral. A pre-born child is given the status ... touch and sound (Willke 64). The fetus responds to light, heat, cold, and taste. Observations of the fetal movements in saline abortions indicates that the fetus experiences discomfort as it dies. One doctor who, the New York Times, wrote "conscientiously performs" saline abortions stated, "when he injected the saline, he often saw an increase in fetal movements" (Willke 64). In another case, a film using mew sonographic techniques, shows the outline ... growing, developing, maturing, and replacing its own dying cell It's alive(Shettles 76). The single-celled fertilized ovum cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered part of a women's body. This new living being has a genetic set up unlike anyone else's, totally different from the cells of the mother's body(Shettles 254). It makes no difference to assume that human life is more ...
- 6045: Life and Sacrifice
- ... can never witness and experience such accomplishments once we have died. The majority of human beings have never thought of sacrificing their lives, because they do not want to give up the luxuries in the world, which is commonly understood as one of the human natures. Surprisingly, in The Crucible, the main character, John Proctor, has sacrificed his life to maintain his good reputation in Salem. Such a decision demonstrates his ... God's most precious gift, no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it." (Miller, P. 132), indeed is an enlightenment for readers to re-consider the value of their lives. Nothing in the world has the privilege to take away our precious lives. People living in a fantasy world are often obsessed with unrealistic love stories. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an excellent example of a fantasized love story, which demonstrates a contrast between the reality. Romeo and Juliet shared their ...
- 6046: Separation And Survival In
- ... 1841, Solomon Northup accepted an offer of short-term employment as a musician, accompanying a pair of white men, circus performers working their way back to their troupe. A free African-American and resident of New York state, Northup expected the job to take him from Saratoga Springs to New York City, entailing only a brief absence from home — so brief, in fact, that he did not leave word for his wife, also employed away from home for a number of weeks, since he expected to return before her. When they reached New York City, however, his employers urged him to continue with them to Washington, D.C., where they were to meet the circus, promising employment at high wages for the season about to start. Northup ...
- 6047: Explication On Fire And Ice
- If you had a choice on how the world would end, what would you choose? Would your choice to be go painfully but fast? Perhaps you would rather it be so slow and painless you do not even realize it is happening? That s ... believe Robert Frost s poem Fire and Ice is meant to express. Although the poem is short, it holds a very interesting question to think about. The question is which way would you rather the world come to an end. There are two choices. The first two lines in Fire and Ice express the choices, Some say the world will end in fire, / Some say in ice. I feel that he uses the term fire not to hold the direct meaning of a burning flame, but to represent the punishment something can inflict ...
- 6048: Discourse Analysis
- ... purposes, there is a lot of irregularity of the style of these texts. Throughout this essay, I will explore the dissimilarities of the IT expert text versus a typical amateur discourse. For this example a New York Times article will be the focus of which I will evaluate. The dissimilarities of these texts are dramatic; therefore they are of a great deal of worth for those who are a part of the workplace. The decisive factor of all the characteristics of a piece of text is its purpose for its readers. Every text has a purpose. Texts such as the New York Times article, as well as periodicals, exist to amuse as well as educate. However, if the article's appeal is low, it will be disliked regardless of the quality of its academic matter. Therefore ... for the average reader. Newspaper articles, many periodicals, and most books fall under this category. There is a certain style for this kind of document. Because this is an analytical paper, an article from the New York Times is used to represent the non-expert document. The audience of this article is relatively educated people who are reading for enjoyment, as well as to gain knowledge. The audience is reading ...
- 6049: Creative Writing: Bob's World
- Creative Writing: Bob's World "Bobby," yelled his mother in a shrill voice. "Bobby, you have to get up and go to school today!" "But mom, I have to work at school and I can't watch TV there," Bob ...
- 6050: Creative Writing: A World Without Engineers
- Creative Writing: A World Without Engineers Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, on the planet Zovirax, there was an evil king, King Syphilis, who was mighty pleased with himself, for he had just banished all ...
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