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- 7321: The Hidden Life of Dogs: Book Review
- ... Dogs: Book Review The Hidden Life Of Dogs was written by Elizabeth Thomas who is currently well know and highly re-spected for her books. Elizabeth Thomas was born in America and currently lives in New Hampshire. This is a book that is unlike any book ever written as it takes the perspective from a different angle. It was first published in the United States in 1993 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Elizabeth has written five books, all bestsellers. It is evident that her success is due to her intense research as she has travelled the world while writing her books. With international success, Elizabeth plans to continue her career that currently seems to be skyrocketing. "The Hidden Life Of Dogs" was not just any book. Clearly there was much more effort ... to her dogs, how a dog feels when her best mate dies and the relationship her dogs had with the wolves and coyotes and their interactions. Each single chapter of this book brings up a new issue and investigates it. The interest is maintained throughout the book purely because of the fascinating information given about this species, information that had not been studied before. The author also wrote in a ...
- 7322: Hughes' "Black Voices oby the Tales of Simple": Jessie Semple
- ... sometimes as the old blues says... Simple might be laughing to keep from crying" ( 98, 99 ). Jessie B. Semple, also known as Simple, has just the right combination of qualities to be Black America's new spokesman and unsung hero. Semple seems to possess just enough urban humor and cynicism, down- home simplicity, naivete, and "boy-next-door innocence" that Semple easily becomes a character that hard-working, average, everyday people ... down by society but who in Census also says that, in spite of all the hardships he has experienced, he is still here. Hughes, by using Semple, shows his discontent of the black man's world, yet in showing these feelings Hughes never portrays himself to be angry, overcome by fear, or overwhelmed by racial paranoia. During these desperate and hard years (post-war years), Semple who is from the urban ... simple answers. For this reason the Simple stories were written for his own people because until this time most of Hughes' work had been written for the white readers of the time. However, with his new character Jessie B. Semple, Hughes returned to his own people rather than reaching out to the white readers as he had been doing before. In conclusion, his character held the manners, talk, and dreams ...
- 7323: An Analysis of William Styron's "The Long March"
- ... set at a marine base in the Carolinas. The climate in the novel is fair and mild. The year is most likely in the 50's or 60's. The time is between large wars. World War II has ended a while back, and the Korean War is about to start. The reserves fought in World War II and one of the officers in command threatens to send a person to Korea. The time and setting lend to the plot and theme in the way that it shows that the march ... the novel. The main character in the novel is a man by the name of Jack Culver. The character is revealed through his own eyes and his own thoughts. Culver has his own family in New York city. He has a wife, a daughter, and a law degree. He stayed on reserve, as a lieutenant, so he could be called back to service, for the first year or two after ...
- 7324: Materialism and Happiness in America: The Gatsby Era and Today
- ... the great spiritual teachers of humanity have all taught otherwise." (17) What happened to Gatsby's generation? The 20's was an age of a consumption ethic that was needed to provide markets for the new commodities that streamed from the production lines (Cowley, 53). The same problem exists today ... our materialistic attitudes are a result of the freemarket economy in this country. Consumers are taught that they need to have ... the Jazz Age, it is more fundamentally a sad story -- the portrayal of a young man and his tragic search for happiness. Works Cited Bewley, Marius. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Modern Critical Views. ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. Cowley, Malcolm. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Modern Critical Views. ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. Denton, Tommy. "Century's Already Ended, Welcome to the New." Houston Chronicle 1 Jan. 1993, 2 star ed.: A35. Easterlin, Richard A. "Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot?". ...
- 7325: Pride and Prejudice and The Edible Woman: Negative Effects of the Society's Influence
- ... necessarily the same as what society imposes on them; they rebel against this very society in order to gain the independence necessary to discover what they want from life. Society in the early 19th century world of Pride and Prejudice is represented through Mrs. Bennet and those like her, who are “of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper” (Austen 53). From the beginning of the novel, society prominently displays its ... sacrifices love for worldly advantage. Mr. Darcy also assumes everyone marries for wealth. He feels the Bennet's lack of money “must very materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any consideration of the world” (Austen 82). Darcy “is mindful of his relationship to society, proud of his social place, and aware of the restrictions that inevitably limit the free spirit” (Litz 104). Darcy's admiration of Elizabeth grows when ... pays a visit to Elizabeth and informs her that Elizabeth and Darcy are completely unsuitable for one another. She tells Elizabeth that to marry “a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world” (364) would “ disgrace him in the eyes of everybody” (367). Lady Catherine does not care about her nephew, instead she is only concerned with what “ everybody” will think. Elizabeth, however, will not let herself ...
- 7326: Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
- Turgenev's Fathers and Sons Fathers and Sons is a story about differences and conflicts, differences in how people think, new vs. old and the conflict that having different views can cause. The story begins with Nikolai Kirsanov and his servant Piotr who are awaiting the arrival of Arkady, Nikolai's son, who has just graduated ... how the farm has changed since he's been gone, and also warns him of the fact that he is living with a servant, which is usually considered inappropriate. We then begin to see Arkadys new way of thinking first show because he shows himself as being unimpressed and not caring and assures his father that their quest Bazarov doesn't care either. At the arrival to Marino they are met ... my philosophy of life, and I would hardly want to interfere with your life or your happiness"(ch5). Nikolai can tell that his son has changed and he does not know how to accept these new ideas and is thrown in to confusion by them. This is the start of a conflict between the two. In the mean time while Bazarov is out catching frogs and Pavel ask Arkady about ...
- 7327: A Separate Peace: Social Sterotypes
- ... an exaggerated prep, just like Phineas is an exaggerated jock. He is obsessed with learning just for the sake of learning. No real hardcore prep thinks that way! Chet Douglas lives in his own educational world. He's so absorbed in this alternate reality in which Calculus has a justified existence that he forgets what the school is trying to teach him, and actually goes out and seeks more academia than ... the sake of being accepted by others. Real individualists are not those people with blue and green hair you see on talk shows. Those people conform to a subculture, something that was less common during World War II. The real individualists of the world are quickly disappearing, as conformity becomes more popular. I haven't met any real individualists, so I can't say whether or not Knowles exaggerates Lepillier's lack of stereotype. In modern society, there ...
- 7328: Wire Pirates
- Wire Pirates Someday the Internet may become an information superhighway, but right now it is more like a 19th-century railroad that passes through the badlands of the Old West. As waves of new settlers flock to cyberspace in search for free information or commercial opportunity, they make easy marks for sharpers who play a keyboard as deftly as Billy the Kid ever drew a six-gun. It is ... As long as such an idyllic little pocket of cyberspace remains isolated, carefree security systems may be defensible. System administrators can even set up their network file system to export widely used file directories to "world" - allowing everyone to read them - because after all, the world ends at their corporate boundaries. It does not take much imagination to see what can happen when such a trusting environment opens its digital doors to Internet. Suddenly, "world" really means the entire globe, ...
- 7329: The Nation Takes Shape: A Review
- ... entire novel. That point of view concerns the first half-century of life under the newly formed government, under the constitution. He talks about the ways America began to achieve its own identity in the world in those years. He shows us how colonials began to become Americans, how a new nation found itself. He also shows an American character emerging as the new nation expanded across the continent. The author highlights many big events in that time period that back his point of view. The government had many achievements during this time period. “ A respectable Army and ...
- 7330: 1984: Dystopian Visions
- ... and indulge in the fruits of life. Is this the type of future that Orwell intends to happen? Orwell's view on the future may have been influenced by the activities going on in the world around him. The allies had just defeated the Nazis in the Second World War and people were starting to know all the details of what the Germans had done during the war. There are many similarities between the book and the war. For instance, the Germans tried to ... they taught young people principals of the Nazi party and how to be good citizens, just like the government did in 1984. If in fact the Nazis had won the war and taken over the world, today might have resembled George Orwell's world in 1984. The people's attitude of Nazi Germany reflects the attitudes of the people of 1984, both were so pumped full of the governments ideas ...
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