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- 1831: The Awakening and The Scarlet Letter: Struggles of the Heroines
- ... for the family financially. In the eyes of Creole society, Léonce is an ideal husband. He seems to have commanding control over his wife and children, and he provides for his family by his brokerage business. With man’s position in society, the woman of the house is delegated responsibilities, such as looking after the children and hosting parties. One incident in the novel illustrates both the power the man had ... her inattention, her habitual neglect to of the children. If it was not a mother’s place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with his brokerage business. He could not be in two places at once; making a living for his family not the street, and staying at home to see that no harm befell them" (Chopin 13). After being reprimanded, she ...
- 1832: Rebecca by Daphan du Maurier
- ... place in a town in England. One afternoon while walking, a young lady yells out to a man attempting to kill himself by a cliff. Angrily, the man yells for her to mind her own business and tells the young lady to leave admittedly. Later on, Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper, the supervisor of the young lady, meets up with the Max de Winter, a dashing British man from Manderley estate at a business party. Once again the young lady and Mr. De Winter make eye contact and she remembers him from the cliff. Throughout the book, the two strangers become closer. Everyday it seems they go out to ...
- 1833: George Orwell Wrote 1984 As A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometer of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on offical business, and then only by penetrating throu gh a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards ... Tucker, Robert C. "Does Big Brother Really Exist?" 1984 Revisited, Totalitarianism In Your Century. Ed. Irving Howe, New York: Harper and Row, 1983. 89-103. Verity, John W. "Why Big Brother Isn't Watching You." Business Week 9 January, 1995: 15- 16. Weight, Richard. "Return To Albion, Intellectuals in Wartime Britain." History Today. December 1994: 37-43.
- 1834: 1984: Socialism, Fascism, or Communism
- ... dominated by Socialism, Fascism, or Communism. Socialism demands state ownership and control of the basic means of production and distribution of wealth. Both of these are going on in the book. The Inner Party controls business, and I don’t think that anyone can have private profits. They all have apartments, no houses or privately owned residents, and all eat and work in similar environments. All of these are signs of ... classes of people, though, (the proles are different from the others), and this is not a trait of Socialism. Communism also calls for no private property while there is shared ownership of all money and business. Everyone works about the same amount, as in 1984, but a true communist government requires a revolution by the workers, the proletariats. In the book, the proles are the working classes, so that might foreshadow ...
- 1835: The Crucible - Witch Trials
- ... effect of wild accusations soon resulted in the hanging of many innocents. After the wave of accusations began, grudges began to surface in the community. Small slights were made out to be witchcraft, and bad business deals were blamed on witchery. Two characters in The Crucible, Giles Corey and Thomas Putnam, argue early on about a plot of land. Corey claims that he bought it from Goody Nurse but Putnam says ... effect of wild accusations soon resulted in the hanging of many innocents. After the wave of accusations began, grudges began to surface in the community. Small slights were made out to be witchcraft, and bad business deals were blamed on witchery. Two characters in The Crucible, Giles Corey and Thomas Putnam, argue early on about a plot of land. Corey claims that he bought it from Goody Nurse but Putnam says ...
- 1836: The Color Purple: Celie
- ... sister Nettie away from me.. and she was the only person love me in the world.” (207) Celie ends up going with Shug to Memphis, living in her house with her, and starting her own business, finally finding some happiness. She waits for her sister to come back and be reunited with her, and wants to see her children again, too. While she is making a life for herself there, she ... her real father, and after her mother died, her stepfather didn’t say anything and kept it to himself. Now that he was gone, it came back to her and Nettie. She sets up her business there, sewing and selling clothing, and waiting for her sister to come home with her children. Celie has finally gotten her confidence and her independence when Sophia tells her about a change in Mr._____ after ...
- 1837: Death of a Salesmen: Freedom And Willy’s Dream
- ... final attempt at his father’s dream makes him realize his own dream and who Biff Loman really is. Biff and Happy make Willy believe in them again with their idea for a sporting goods business. They think they can make it happen. Biff made a connection when he used to work for a sporting goods store with a man named Oliver. But once again Biff if lying to himself, he goes to Oliver’s office expecting to make a deal He goes there to be what his father wants him to be, a business man and a success. Biff is shot down and not even remembered. In a fit of rage he goes into Oliver’s office and steals his pen. He runs down to the street only to ...
- 1838: The Great Gatsby: Daisy Buchannon
- ... the society of the 1920's. With prohibtiion and the extremely active nightlife of the "Roaring 20's," everyone had something to hide. This is displayed in Gatsby, who is involved in the drug trafficing business -- almost a mobster. Yet he appears to be simply a smart business man. Daisy herself is a good example, and adds greatly to the meaning of most of the meanings. All in all, Daisy contributes and is essential to the story through her personality, conflicts, and themes ...
- 1839: The Goal: Book Review
- ... down and read this book. Even if it does not of characteristics of a particular plant, the basic concepts that The Goal discusses can be of help to nearly every manager of any kind of business. Learning to deal with such things has bottlenecks, excess inventories, and the theory of constraints is something that many managers struggle with. Also, Goldratt teaches that, contrary to the belief of nearly every manager in ... non-bottlenecks has such a huge impact on all aspects of a plant. And just like the plant manager in the book, I was always under the impression that idle workers meant trouble for the business. I never considered its impact on inventories and therefore on productivity. This book really opened my eyes to things such as this and the inner-workings of a manufacturing plant... something that I had little ...
- 1840: The True Devils in Salem
- ... effect of wild accusations soon resulted in the hanging of many innocents. After the wave of accusations began, grudges began to surface in the community. Small slights were made out to be witchcraft, and bad business deals were blamed on witchery. Two characters in The Crucible, Giles Corey and Thomas Putnam, argue early on about a plot of land. Corey claims that he bought it from Goody Nurse but Putnam says ... effect of wild accusations soon resulted in the hanging of many innocents. After the wave of accusations began, grudges began to surface in the community. Small slights were made out to be witchcraft, and bad business deals were blamed on witchery. Two characters in The Crucible, Giles Corey and Thomas Putnam, argue early on about a plot of land. Corey claims that he bought it from Goody Nurse but Putnam says ...
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