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- 8101: Candide 2
- ... literary works, Voltaire s Candide and Alexander Popes A Modest Proposal They use satire in a different way. One to entertain the upper class and the other to show us the harsh realities of the world. Swift's "A Modest Proposal" In his lengthy literary career, Jonathan Swift wrote many stories that used a broad range of voices that were used to make some compelling personal statements. For example, Swifts, A ... a terrible plan that involves both the sacrifice of another human as well as cannibalism and expect to be taken seriously? Voltaire presents a story with a distinctive outlook on life. He tells of a world that has gone mad and is laced with evil. Voltaire questions optimism, philosophy, and absolutes. Through his story he exploits absolutes such as: justice, happiness, true love, humanity, brotherhood, and many others. He leaves the reader feeling that the world really is a cruel place and that happiness is hard to come by. By using the main character Candide, a naive and innocent optimist, Voltaire ridicules concepts such as: belief, philosophy, religion, and absolutes ...
- 8102: Shawshank Redemption
- ... characters with many similar traits and had gone through many of the same circumstances, but one main difference allows on man to survive outside of Shawshank and the other unable to cope with the outside world. That one main difference was a man named Andy Dufresne. Both Brooks and Red entered the confines of the Shawshank Correctional Facility as youths, but left its walls as old men. They both had seen ... prisoners come and go as well as the tenures of three wardens. They spent decades behind a small walled enclosure and got used to it. Prison life, although similar in many aspects to the outside world, is its own society. Prison is a microcosm of outside society. There are fewer people and the roles they play are more defined. Life for the prisoners is much more controlled. In the beginning, the ... was a man who could get things and Brooks was the prison’s librarian. Their roles in Shawshank gave them a sense of who they were and a feeling of self worth. To the outside world, Brooks and Red were old ex-prisoners who lacked any useful skills. They were too old to be of any use, and even if they were, couldn’t be trusted. Both men understood what ...
- 8103: Shawshank Redemption
- ... characters with many similar traits and had gone through many of the same circumstances, but one main difference allows on man to survive outside of Shawshank and the other unable to cope with the outside world. That one main difference was a man named Andy Dufresne. Both Brooks and Red entered the confines of the Shawshank Correctional Facility as youths, but left its walls as old men. They both had seen ... prisoners come and go as well as the tenures of three wardens. They spent decades behind a small walled enclosure and got used to it. Prison life, although similar in many aspects to the outside world, is its own society. Prison is a microcosm of outside society. There are fewer people and the roles they play are more defined. Life for the prisoners is much more controlled. In the beginning, the ... was a man who could get things and Brooks was the prison’s librarian. Their roles in Shawshank gave them a sense of who they were and a feeling of self worth. To the outside world, Brooks and Red were old ex-prisoners who lacked any useful skills. They were too old to be of any use, and even if they were, couldn’t be trusted. Both men understood what ...
- 8104: Catch 22
- ... viewpoints that was growing in America at that time. The book soon became championed as another voice in the antiwar movement of the 1960's. However, Heller himself claimed that his novel was less about World War II, or war at all, than it was an allegory for the Cold War and the materialistic "Establishment" attitudes of the Eisenhower era. Thus, Catch-22 represents a rebellion against the standards of the Eisenhower era. Catch-22 follows the experiences of Yossarian, a bombardier stationed near Italy during World War II. Yossarian is clearly representative of Heller; indeed, he could be considered an everyman. Because of a traumatic experience, which is revealed bit by bit throughout the novel, Yossarian is terrified of flying. Yet ... an antihero: the reader sympathizes with him despite, or perhaps because of, his unsavory beliefs and actions. It is easy to sympathize with him: he seems to be the only sane person in a crazy world, which may be why everyone keeps telling him he's crazy. Yossarian does battle with bureaucratic authority as personified by Colonels Cathcart and Korn, General Dreedle, and ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen. He goes ...
- 8105: Women's Rights in Afghanistan, China and Iran
- Women's Rights in Afghanistan, China and Iran Although women in much of the world have gained significant legal rights, many people believe that women still do not have the complete equality with men. The phrase “women’s rights” refers to the basic human rights that are withheld from women ... of living, the right to chose her own partner, the right to vote, the right to control property, and the right to equal treatment before the law along with freedom of speech. Women in Third World countries do not have the rights that American women enjoy. In most of these countries, women do not even have rights equivalent to those of American women in the nineteenth century. For example, the women ... hours as men for one-tenth of the income (Tansey 2). The inequalities vary from country to country but one thing is in common; the inequalities are all being committed against women. Women in Third World countries such as, Afghanistan, China and Iran all have different rights and are treated either equal or less equal to men. In these countries, women are considered to be inferior to men and are ...
- 8106: Dantes Views Of Chivalry And Warfare - Cantos Xii And Xxviii
- ... men are described as a massive army, the coming of which is described as such, "between it and the base of the embankment / raced files of Centaurs who were armed with arrows, / as, in the world above, they used to hunt." [02]Their numbers are in the "thousands" (XII, 73 ), and it seems appropriate that Dante chooses the centaurs, a mixture of both man and horse, to represent a medieval army ... Bertran says that he now carries his "brain dissevered from its source," one can take this statement metaphorically as meaning he can no longer function as the poet he was, being separated from the physical world. In Bertran's speech at the canto's end, not only does his rhyme scheme seem to have no distinct pattern other than three tersets and a quartet, but everything that Bertran de Born says ... thrive This said, Dante is making a statement about the nature of chivalry described by Bertran. Chivalry must not involve deep thinking; otherwise, Bertran's capabilities as a poet would have survived beyond the physical world. Through Bertran's demise as a poet while he is in hell, the ideas of chivalry are seen at their most basic level, and what is left to see is that chivalry and warfare ...
- 8107: Crital Essay Of Jack London
- ... a single rabbit, and the hero of the story has to constantly fight the hunger that he experiences for weeks at a time. Even when he was a young cub, and didn't know the world beyond the walls of the cave he was born in, his siblings died of a long hunger, caused by the death of their father. "The she wolf could not provide for her children at some periods of their childhood, and the young wolf which latter came to be known as White Fang was the only one to survive:" (New York Times, 103). At the times like these the best source of food would have to be the passing through humans, and their dogs, who could be the dinner of a whole pack of wolves ... either kill for food or protection, or be killed out greed, or hunger "The she-wolf turns wolf against wolf untill the weaker ones fall, reddening the snow in the 'sex tragegy of the natural world', which inevitably leads to socialization and the family" (Manfeild, 91). The same thing happens in the White Fang, where this young wolf, used to protection from his mother, is left in the wild on ...
- 8108: The Dreyfus Affair and Its Cause
- ... was charged for writing this, fined 3,000 francs, and put in prison. Emile Zola was a strong believer in the innocence of Alfred Dreyfus but on the other end of the scale was the new War Minister by the name of Godefroy Carvaignac believed that Dreyfus was guilty to the fullest degree. On July 17, 1898, he gave a speech in the Chamber stating that Dreyfus Affair was finally finished ... have seen it in Modern history and ancient history with blacks facing cruel and unfair treatment in South Africa and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela; the persecution of and extermination of Jews in the second World War by Adolf Hitler. These can be paralleled to the Dreyfus case in question. However, one case of Modern time that can be considered the closest on a social level, in my opinion, showing the ... The Dreyfus Affair has tarnished the face of France's history, and has been carried through the ages. I believe that it should be a lesson to mankind on the subject of racism in the world. Thesis Man has been known to develop emotions and feeling toward people of another breed, culture or race. They have proved this through history over and over, and as they say history repeats itself, ...
- 8109: Cortes
- ... hood and little about his young life except that he studied law at the University of Salamanca. His law school years were cut short in 1501 when he decided to try his luck in the New World. He sailed from Santo Domingo in the Spring of 1504. After he had got there in 1511 he joined he Spanish Soldier and Administrator Diego Velasquez in the conquest of Cuba, and there he became ... with the aid of some reinforcements at Vera Cruz. After this Cortes went back to the capital capturing every Aztec outpost along the way. On August 13, 1521 after a siege of three months the new emperor fell and so did Tenochtiltlan. After this battle Cortes had the capital demolished and he built Mexico City on its ruins. After he had built Mexico City many Spaniards came and this city ...
- 8110: Anger & Renewal In Indian Country
- ... fish for food. All of this was done by a collection of knowledge. With these thought patterns, he reached a way of life which was suitable and which created a sense of balance throughout the world's complex ecosystem. But one group of people wanted more. They progressed and educated their minds through time. To some it may be known as plain greed and to others known as common day evolution ... were taken without consent, as natives were being plundered through trade agreements. The rising anger of the natives resulted to the royal proclamation of 1763, whereby King George the third issued a treaty process. This new treaty stated that all colonized land which was untreatied land, would be returned immediately to the native people of Canada. Today, there are still many cases of untreatied land, such as the Yukon, parts of ... effect, a natural resource would be needed for it's survival, and at the present time the reservations do not hold great possibilities. A better location in the reservations could quite possibly open a few new doors to the suffering natives. The current government has constituted the suggestion before, but no actions were ever taken. In conclusion, it is clearly evident that if the natives were ever given more responsibility, ...
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