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- 9841: A Farewell To Arms 4
- ... his position until he deserts the army. Floating down the river with barely a hold on a piece of wood his life, he abandons everything except Catherine and lets the river take him to a new life that becomes increasing difficult to understand. The escape to Switzerland seemed too perfect for a book that set a tone of ugliness in the world that was only dotted with pure love like Henry's and Cat's and I knew the story couldn't end with bliss in the slopes of Montreux. In a world where the abstracts of glory, honor, and sacrifice meant little to Frederick, his physical association with Catherine was the only thing he had and it was taken away from him long before she died. ...
- 9842: An Analysis of Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- ... bombs his own friends and fellow army men for profit. By the end of the book, Milo has become such a robot, succumbed to greed and profit, that, because Milo has just found out a new way to make money, he walks out on Yossarian at a time when Yossarian desperately needs his help. For Heller, Milo is a symbol of the corporate greed that has taken over America. Heller is ... continually go with the flow, even if it is totally wrong, just to be similar and possibly successful. Heller, through satire, also brings to light some of the other institutions in America and the modern world that have gotten out of control and gone too far. The prime example of this is the medical profession. When Yossarian goes to the hospital, everyone has a different idea of what he has. Doctors ... them (all the bad people) all up and subtracted you might only be left with the children...and an old violinist or sculptor... (p.414). By saying this, Heller blames every one for how are world is except for the children who know no better. To the many Americans who have been brought up on red, white, and blue and Fourth of July celebrations this could be an insult. They ...
- 9843: An Analysis of "Heart of Darkness"
- ... to a larger view of human affairs. Marlow told the story one evening on a yacht in the Thames estuary as darkness fell, reminding his audience that exploitation of one group by another was not new in history. They were anchored in the river, where ships went out to darkest Africa. Yet, as lately as Roman times, London's own river led, like the Congo, into a barbarous hinterland where the ... which did not dare to express themselves completely. Marlow felt that he had taken the lid off something horrible in the very depths of man which he could not explain when he returned to the world where basic instincts had been carefully smoothed over. Faced by a crisis, he even denied what he had seen to Kurtz's Intended, though he was appalled by his lie as bringing with it a ... significance, becoming a kind of totem and treasure. Perhaps consciously aware of this, like the evil he had become, Kurtz gained his power, indeed his identity and being, from the ivory he coveted. In a world of evil, the most greedy collector was often supreme. Cruelty was indistinguishable from the vision of Kurtz, a vision of power and control which the ivory provided for him. Ivory, and thus evil, was ...
- 9844: Brian's Search for the Meaning of Life in W.O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind
- ... father explains how these pigeons were made, Brian understands that birth is the beginning of life. Four years later, a similar conversation comes up when Brian asks his father how rabbits are born. With this new found knowledge, Brian also sees another newborn. But this time it was a two-headed calf, who dies at birth. Because of this, Brian comes to the realization that "God isn't very considerate"(166), for sometimes he lets things like the two headed cow come into this world, only to suffer and then die. The Second instance in which Brian is confronted with the meaning of life, comes to him when he sees death, and asks himself why. When Brian's pigeon died ... is born, as God breathes life into it. Somewhere in the dust there are the bones of a dog, and those of a man. - Somewhere in the vast field of God's infinite imagination, a new being is made. Somewhere in the land there is a boy who is perplexed by life. A boy who tries to understand. -
- 9845: Ben & Jerrys
- ... interested in making money and can careless about social issues, unless it in the long run will help make more money. Ben & Jerry's seem sincere to want to make a noticeable difference in the world. The Ben & Jerry's foundation, established in 1985, receives 7.5 percent of the company's yearly pretax profits, which is donated to charities. Ben & Jerry's has two bottom lines: one is profit and ... Peace" and, donated one percent of the profits for peace efforts. They also used their ice cream shops for voter registration sign-ups, giving every voter registering one free cone. They helped register thousands of new voters in Vermont. Also Farm Aid and Family Farming issues were put on their ice cream pints. Ben & Jerry s prides it's self on the quality of work life. They won the Optimas Award ... making a difference. In my opinion Ben & Jerry's is one heck of a great organization! 1. David, Ellis. 1992. Sundae school. WORKS CITED 1. Dery, Leonard. 1993. Ice Cream Meets Charity in Harlem. The New York Time. 21 Feb. 2. Ellis, David. 1992. Sundae School. People Weeky. 14 Sept. 91-92 3. Hawken, Paul & Parker, Alan. 1993. Ben & Jerry's 1992 Annual Report. 4. Personnel Journal's. Optimas Award ...
- 9846: True Cristian Kindness- Mercha
- ... revenge reveal the true nature of Venetian society as insecure, hypocritical and vengeful. The Christian values are seen as insecure by the way that they are practiced. Mercy is a Christian value associated with the New Testament, thus contrasting with Shylock's Old Testament religion and its image of a more stern and vengeful God. In the first half of the trial mercy and revenge are contrasted. The Duke appeals to Shylock to be merciful as if he shared their Christian values-- Shylock the world thinks, and I think so too, That thou but leadest this fashion of thy malice To the last hour of act, and then 'tis thought Thou'll show thy mercy... (IV.i.18-21) The implication is that demanding Antonio's death for forfeiting a bond is "strange apparent cruelty" (IV.i.22), unnatural and that "the world" (Venetian aristocratic society) agrees with him. Shylock demands his bond with no other justification than "a lodg'd hate, and a certain loathing / I bear Antonio" (IV.i.61-62). He tries to justify ...
- 9847: Young Goodman Brown's Apocalypse
- ... turns from them forever; having lost the absolute, he can not live with ambiguity (MaGill). His second hand faith, given to him from his Puritan teachings, has not prepared him for the sin in the world (Hodara). He becomes a stern, judging, distrustful, dark man who never recovers his faith. Works Cited Bain, Carl E., Jermone Beaty, and J. Paul Hunter. The Norton Introduction to Literature. New York: Norton, 1995. Blackmur, R.P. "Nathaniel Hawthorne." Short Story Criticism. Vol 3. Detriot: Gale, 1989. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Great Short Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ed. Fredrick C. Crews. New York: Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1992. "Hawthorne, Nathaniel," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Microsoft Corporation. Funk & Wagnall's Corporation, 1994. Hodara, Alan. "Some Thoughts On Young Goodman Brown." (26 Oct. 1996). Jones, Madison. "Nathaniel Hawthorne." Short ...
- 9848: Panopticism
- ... is based on amalgamation of forces and bodies all of which act to create the individual. It is principally this surveillance which forms the basis of power that draws the individual to believe that the world he lives in is one that is continually watching over him. This constant friction of mental forces (those who fear or have a certain curiosity) shapes who the individual becomes within the society. According to ... have a social order. Nor could anyone learn anything about the situation, one could not build on the knowledge of others to find out when people are watching. If one cannot communicate, not only is new knowledge difficult to gain, but one cannot feel comfort in the simple knowledge that they are not alone. He is seen, but does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject of ... good way to understand his point of judgement. We live in a society that watches over ones movement to arbiter if their behavior or movement is wrong. We have many secret services in our world today that know more about us than we know ourselves. It is an ultimate fear, anxiety, and affliction that we live-out our lives everyday. Panopticism
- 9849: Jane Eyre: The Preserverance of the Personality
- ... of 'inward' actions over the actual events; the elaboration of the construction by recurring features - major themes varied; or the contrast between two poles, two extremities - both in images and characters. Jane Eyre and the world seen through her eyes are exposed to the tensions of opposing forces and tendencies. How the personality can preserve or regain its integrity and stability in such an environment is the underlying subject of the ... the best institution for that purpose. She is educated by Helen Burns, whose pure self-negation is a transcendent value, whose preference for suffering gives her emotional force ("euphoric separation of the self from the world" ), and Ms Temple, who has an ideal, "well-regulated mind". Although Jane respects both, she cannot identify with their complete self-sacrifice, with their extremity, and when they are gone, she is left in her ... be those places that so delight the naive reader who looks instinctively for definite meanings rather than complicated perceptions." Therefore, to declare that Jane Eyre is only "a love story with a happy ending..." , a new Gothic novel, a sequence of events united by some providential pattern, a romance filled with dogmatic and mythic content, or a fundamental text of feminism would be to overlook its deeper structure. Those are ...
- 9850: Forgotten Kids
- ... son stigmatized but so was I. Not until we located the right doctor and started the proper medications that he needed was he fine. Through the years as the medication began working its wonders a new child began to emerge. He laughs, he plays, but most of all he talks about what he feels. He would say that we cannot conceive his isolation, and the depth of it at times. He ... because of him, I am driven to go further than I would have ever gone on my own, working harder, seeking answers to the many questions that seemed to have no answers. He describes a world that seems to pass him by. How he longs to run and play like other children. How sometimes it is a challenge just to crawl from his bed in the morning. Hearing this it becomes ... re not burdened with the strifes and conflicts of a much more complicated life. I only wish he could enjoy the freedom of just being a child. He cries from the loneliness that tears his world apart wondering if he is bad or evil and why he isn t like everyone else. I can t answer, except to say there is a reason we just don t understand it. His ...
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