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- 5521: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... in England, and found in America, a place to perform (Stinson 98). A Clockwork Orange is a novel that deals with the violence of youth in the future. The Narrator is a fifteen-year-old child of the streets that enjoys beating the helpless, raping the defenseless, and robbing the penniless. About half-way through the novel, Alex is caught by the authorities. They attempt to reform him from his life ...
- 5522: Anna Karenina: Characters and the Life Novel
- ... occurs when Vronsky must leave on business and Anna doubts his true motive for leaving. As she ponders the fight that has occurred, Anna realizes that she has now lost everything, her lover and her child, because of her distorted view that physical love could provide her with a sense of personal fulfillment. With this realization she ponders how her personal fulfillment will never be obtained and is for that reason ...
- 5523: An Analysis of The Lord of the Flies
- ... on the island. As leader of the group, Ralph has a great deal of responsibility and must learn how to work with this responsibility. Through the course of the story, Ralph changes from an adolescent child to a mature person, but ends up breaking down at the end of the novel. This aspect of Ralph's character is a way that Golding depicts human behavior in society, which is the main ...
- 5524: A Christmas Memory: Truman Capote
- ... somewhat bothered them. Since they have never experienced it before, they began tasting. Prancing around the kitchen, giddy and happy, two angry relatives enter. They began to scold Sook and blamed her for corrupting a child of seven. As Sook looks down and blows her nose on her flowered skirt, she runs to her room to cry. Buddy follows her and tries to comfort her. He reminds her of tomorrow's ...
- 5525: Jeremy Rifkin's "The End of Work"
- ... for more people to be employed, while giving those employed a larger amount of free time. Part of what Rifkin says is that this free time should be spent volunteering for different causes such as child care institutions, hospitals, churches and neighbourhood group activities. Rifkin suggests that the government should encourage this advancement of the third sector (eg. volunteers, non-profit organizations) by offering a "shadow wage, in the form of ...
- 5526: The Indian Awakening in Latin America
- ... by the European settlers. This motivation has been driven by greed. Many of the Indians are very skeptical now when the white man says that they want to assist the people. Over many years of abuse the Indians are now banning together and trying to stop these types of problems from getting worse. What has the assistance of the white man led to in Latin America in the past? They have ...
- 5527: Kozol's Amazing Grace: Trials and Tribulations of Everyday Life
- ... not something that many think of as an issue that children talk about or even think about. For the children of the South Bronx though, it is a major issue. With one-fourth of the child-bearing women in the neighborhoods where these children live testing positive for HIV, (Amazing Grace, inside cover) pediatric AIDS takes a high toll. The numbers of children who have had one or both parents die ...
- 5528: Lord of the Flies: Summary
- ... all thw work while Ralph hung back and did all the work. He puts it to a vote, should he be impeached as chief and Jack take his place or should he stay. Not one child voted for impeachment. This gave Jack a mixed feeling of embarassment and rage and he stormed off, saying he didn't want to be any part of Ralph's lot. Chapter 9- In this chapter ...
- 5529: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- ... and she was rewarded. Celie was able to survive physically and spiritually, and is able to mature into a full, modern twentieth century woman. In The Color Purple, Alice Walker is able to illustrate the abuse, neglect, and oppression a black woman had to go through in the early twentieth century, but she also illustrate how a woman must fight back to regain the self esteem and confidence lost way back ...
- 5530: Stanley Renshons' High Hopes: Clinton's Actions
- ... of this quote, Renshon was able to prove that from the start, "analytic theory stated that the others are always central to an individual's psychological development and functioning" (46). Every since Clinton was a child, he was always involved in many activities. He had to always come out on top and be the best of the best, he was always full of ambition. Throughout his presidency, Clinton has also shown ...
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