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- 2091: Candide
- ... know nothing of it, said the good man, and I have never cared to know the name of a single mufti [advisor] or vizier [sultan]... I presume that in general those who meddle in public business sometimes perish miserably, and that they deserve their fate; but I am satisfied with sending the fruits of my garden there." (Voltaire 76)Upon learning that this man did not own "an enormous and splendid ...
- 2092: Carl Gustav Jung
- ... well. Otherwise, just like the waterfall, your instincts are completely fruitless. For example, if you think that to get a beautiful wife, you have to be rich, so you direct your sexual drive into a business persona, which will bring you money.There are two principles of psychic dynamics. What happens to all that energy?1. Principle of Equivalence. Energy is not created nor destroyed. If it leaves something, it has ...
- 2093: Brighton Rock
- ... influence of two horrible parents, a poverty-stricken neighborhood, and as a kid who is willing to do anything for a better life. Another horrible influence on Pinkie is Mr. Colleoni; a man with a business empire, control of his own powerful mob as well as the police and other governmental authorities, and shops in Brighton. This man has all that Pinkie wants, and this brings Pinkie to a life of ...
- 2094: Bread Givers
- ... to make herself a better and successful person. He strives for religious perfection while Sara strives for personal perfection. Sara follows the orders of her father until she reaches her breaking point in the unsuccessful business he buys. Sara walks out on her mother and father, leaving behind all connections to her old life. This is her chance to start out in the world to attain her goal. This is a ...
- 2095: Brave New World Compared To 1984
- ... population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is defined a s a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; cultural death is a clear possibility.(Kruk) Huxley seems to feel that society is progressing toward a materialistic and superficial end, in which all things ...
- 2096: Bouldering
- ... stepfather, whom they had only seen a few times before. When they arrived in Malden, Washington was no more then nine years old. However, he went to work with his stepfather in the salt mine business feeding the furnaces. His education started with a Webster's old "Blue-Black" spelling book that his mother had provided him. She hoped it would help him to learn to read. When Washington started working ...
- 2097: A Tale Of Two Cities - Foreshadowing
- ... around the puddle on the ground trying to scoop it up and drink as much as they can. Dickens describes the rush to the spilled wine by saying "The people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness to run to the spot and drink the wine... some men kneeled down, made scoops with their two hands joined and sipped."(Dickens 27). This goes to show how desperate the people ...
- 2098: A Tale Of Two Cities - Best Or Worst Of Times?
- ... and dark, hope and doom, is reflected in foreshadowing and symbolism. The spilling of red wine is a premonition of blood to be shed in the Revolution. "All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink he wine." (24) There will be people in the Revolution who will, figuratively, drink the blood like the wine. Another foreboding of the long and ...
- 2099: Sir Rich Arkwright
- ... of both of these machines, however he could now market his product due to lack of funding and ill communication skills. This is where Richard Arkwright comes in. Arkwright was highly skilled in dealing with business and other social aspects. Arkwright sought to obtain the water frame by less than friendly means. He contacted John Kay, a former employee of Highs', to "turn brass" for him. This was all part of ...
- 2100: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... times in the persons of Dr. and Lucie Mannette, both gentle and peaceful. He also characterizes the evil side of the revolution in the apathetic and depraved Misuser and Mademoiselle Defarge, who go about their business while death carts roll-- as do heads-- through the streets of Paris. He does though, depict a ray of light amongst all this evil; the heroic Carton, who gave his life for his friend and ...
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