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- 7291: The 1960's
- ... But for most blacks, the results were minimal. Only a small percentage of black children actually attended integrated schools, and in the south, "Jim Crow" practices barred blacks from jobs and public places (Ascher 21). New groups formed, new tactics devised, to push forward for full equality. White resistance, however, often resulted in violence. This violence spilled across TV screens nationwide. The average, neutral American, after seeing his/her TV screen, turned into a ... The university suddenly became a political arena (Frank 57). The students wanted to address the national problems of war, race, and poverty. As a result, the university lost some of its neutrality. Students created a new U.S. institution: the political university. However, another element among youths was also emerging. They were called hippies. This movement marked another response to the decade as the young experimented with music, clothes, drugs, ...
- 7292: The Fall of the House of Usher: Poe's Writing Technique
- ... a concentration of vitality so introverted that it utterly destroys itself. He is physically isolated.(Buranelli,63) Madeline Usher, Roderick's twin sister is given to trances and sleepwalking and is completely unaware of the world surrounding her, even the visitor's presence in the family home. Madeline's cataleptic condition affects Roderick deeply. He sees her wandering about the house, her physical being, as well as her psychological being decaying ... unified structureaccording to the prescription of an exacting and skillful art, that is Edgar Allan Poe.(Neilson, 100) Works Cited Buranelli, Vincent Edgar Allan Poe Boston, Twayne Publishing, 1977 Knapp, L. Bettina Edgar Allan Poe New York, Fredrick Ungar Publishing company, 1984 Levin, Harry The Power of Blackness New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1967 Levine, Stuart Edgar Allan Poe: Seer and craftsman, Deland, Everett / Edwards, inc. 1972 MacAndrew, Elizabeth The Gothic Tradition in Fiction, New York, Columbia University Press, 1979 Neilson, Keith Master ...
- 7293: The Martian Chronicles
- ... work by Bradbury is a collection of short stories relating to Mars or Martians. Bradbury had a clear vision of the Mars in which these stories are set. His vision was one of a fantasy world from the Martians point of view. In this work, the humans from Earth are the aliens from outer space. Bradbury has won many awards including the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Aviation-Space Writers Association Award, the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Bradbury supported his awards with The Martian Chronicles, keeping with the theme of giving his readers something to ... many rockets that are landing on Mars to be just like locusts, swarming over a concentrated area and destroying it. And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands to beat the strange world into a shape that was familiar to the eye, to bludgeon away all the strangeness, their mouths fringed with nails so they resembled steel-toothed carnivores, spitting them into their swift hands as they ...
- 7294: Supertitions
- ... managed to find peoples views and ideas on some : FRIDAY THE 13TH The Bible is often considered a book of numbers. In the Bible the numbers 7, 12 and 40 appear throughout the Old and New Testaments. The number 12 is considered a lucky number. As a result, the number which follows 12 was thought to be evil. Known scientifically as "Tridecaphobia," fear of the number 13 is probably the most ... up our soul. The salt would blind the devil until good fortune returned SNEEZ AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU During Roman times it was believed that a sneeze might release one's soul to the world. It was a sign that you were having an internal struggle to hold onto your soul and offering you a blessing was a means of assistance. "God Bless you" was the manifestation of that assistance ... it brings health and happiness. If it is yellow, it predicts illness. If you find a penny with the face up, pick it up. Face down, leave it on the ground. Plant flowers during the new moon and they will bloom. It is unlucky to look at the new moon over your left shoulder. Look at it over the right shoulder for luck. A knife dropped on the floor indicates ...
- 7295: American Colonies
- ... colonies, however, were mainly Puritans. When Sir Edmond Andros took over a Puritan church in Boston for Anglican worship, the Puritans believed this was done to break their power and authority. The Puritan church in New England was almost entirely separated from the state, except that they taxed the residents for the churchs support. The churches in New England had no temporal power, unlike the church of England. Many seaport towns like Marble head and Gloucester, became more religious as time pasted. This show of religious freedom was a way in which the ... toleration and differed from the Christian church in England. Unlike the well-defined social classes of England, the colonies had a streamline class structure, which gave individuals the chance to rise on the social latter. New settlers living on the coast could become rich by fishing and selling what they caught. If fishing was not a settlers strong point, then they could try their hand at farming. Getting the ...
- 7296: Their Eyes Were Watching God 5
- ... property who can "protect" her. The marriage is not happy for Janie. Her grandmother dies, and after a short time, Janie escapes from Logan. She marries Joe Starks, and they go to live at a new black settlement called Eatonville. Joe is an ambitious man. He becomes mayor of the new town, opens a store, builds a big white house, and runs the post office. He wants Janie to act like the wife of an important man, just as he directs. He also wants her to ... a good time. Trouble arrives when one of Janie's questionable friends wants to hook her up with her brother. Though Janie has no intention of doing so, Tea Cake beats her to show the world who is boss. Janie is hurt, but remains silent about the beating. When a hurricane threatens "the muck", Tea Cake refuses to leave. Then the dam of a nearby lake collapses, and the couple ...
- 7297: Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Epic Search
- ... and when she saw that Janie was old enough for love she had her married. This guaranteed that Janie would not continue a loss of identity. Even as a young girl, living in the materialistic world of her Nanny and her first husband, Logan Killicks, Janie chooses to listen to "the words of the trees and the wind" (23-24). This is the first evidence of her searching beyond her boring ... gets more worked up into leaving Logan, and searching for love. When she leaves Logan to run off with Joe, she thinks to herself, "Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them" (31). Joe aims to be a big voice and that is why he comes to Eatonville, Florida. He feels that he will have a ... approximates the white man's almost total institutional control of America" (27-28). This relationship was just another setback in Janie's epic search. Nevertheless, when her marriage to Joe collapses, she again decides, "So new thoughts had to be thought and new words said" (77). After a long stretch of pointless and endless days in her search, Joe dies. This is one of the greatest days in her search. ...
- 7298: American Republican Ideology
- ... an open book with no writing on the pages. It was the foundation of a building that had not yet been built. Many felt that it was up to them to shape the way this new land would function, as opposed to the way Parliament or the King felt it should. The memories of these early pioneering settlers were a common theme for American revolutionaries before the Revolutionary War. These early ... in which they knew their sacrifices would be acknowledged and appreciated by future generations of Americans. There was also the knowledge that America would serve as an example to God and the rest of the world of what the advantages of a free society could be. Religion also played an important role in the establishment of this ideology. God, in the eyes of the earliest revolutionaries, was on the side of ... personal freedom. The suffering of Americans under the tyrannical hand of English government was much the same as the suffering undertaken by Jesus at the cross. He suffered for all the sinful people of the world. He died for our sins. The revolutionaries felt much the same way about any suffering that may be incurred throughout the war. They felt that it would be looked back upon as a sacrifice ...
- 7299: An Analysis of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
- ... Sings illustrates how an innocent and naive girl growing up in the midst of the Great Depression overcomes life's many obstacles and becomes the powerful and influential woman she is today. Maya is a world renowned author, teacher, speaker, actress, and mother. Through this autobiographical piece, Maya's use of figurative language and allusion compounds her thoughts, as she depicts how one can supersede the expected barriers and soar to new heights.. In chapters 14 and 15 of the book, Maya's usage of figurative language conveys her struggle to speak. Through a tragic rape by her mother's boyfriend, Maya is scared for life and ... Stamps, Maya entered her six year "cocoon." This haven extricated her metamorphic spurt into reality and womanhood. As with every cocoon, there is always a time when one must leave and bravely enter the unknown world behind the shell. Mrs. Flowers encouraged Maya to emerge and assisted her in finding her strongest defense and force, her love of literature, to open this barrier and allow Maya to end the silence. ...
- 7300: All Quiet on the Western Front: Alienation
- All Quiet on the Western Front: Alienation According to the Webster's New World College Dictionary, alienation is 1. Separation, aversion, aberration. 2. Estrangement or detachment. 3. Mental derangement; insanity. The theme of All Quiet on the Western Front is about how World War I destroyed a generation of young men. It has taken from them the last of their childhood years, it has destroyed their faith in their elders, it has taught them an individual life ...
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