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- 531: Forrest Gump
- ... was consequently sent to the hospital where he meets Dan, a man with no legs. While in the hospital, Forrest becomes an excellent ping pong player and eventually plays on the US National team against China as a symbol of goodwill. After Forrest receives his medal, he is taken on a tour in order to rally support for the war. This does not last long because when reporters ask him what ...
- 532: A Rose For Emily: Emily's Life
- ... men. The few flashes of individuality showed her ability to rise to the occasion, to overcome her dependency, when the action was the only solution available. Like buying the poison or getting money by offering china-painting classes. Life is sad and tragic; some of which is made for us and some of which we make ourselves. Emily had a hard life. Everything that she loved left her. Her father probably ...
- 533: Animal Farm: Socialistic and Fascist Governments
- ... interesting and funny in some ways. I would recommend this book for many reasons; one is that it is understandable in todays society with the relations to this systems to countries such as Cuba, China and Russia. Also it depicts how manipulative politicians can be even in a republic and that it is good for High School students because school is often like the book just a lot of work ...
- 534: A Rose for Emily: Victim of Circumstance
- ... men. The few flashes of individuality showed her ability to rise to the occasion, to overcome her dependency, when the action was the only solution available. Like buying the poison or getting money by offering china-painting classes. Life is sad and tragic; some of which is made for us and some of which we make ourselves. Emily had a hard life. Everything that she loved left her. Her father probably ...
- 535: Evaluation of Platos Allegory of the Cave
- ... of the 1960s. What began with wholesome idealism and great expectations ended in alienation and rejection. I think this also applies to the situation in Tibet. A peaceful and independent country taken over by China who thought that the Tibetan ways needed to be changed, and they were going to help them. They did so by torturing and killing a good portion of the population of Tibet, and sending their ...
- 536: A Rose For Emily: Symbolism
- ... s rose is ironically symbolic because her lover was a modern Yankee
(Madden 1896) Emily, also could be seen as a symbol to the dying Southern genteel. She was fast becoming obsolete just as the china-painting lesson did. The new generation became the backbone and the spirit of the town, and the painting pupils grew up and fell away and did not send their children to her with boxes of ...
- 537: Brave New World Summary
- ... a real world problem- overpopulation. You've probably read or heard warnings about this, warnings that the world, or the United States, or a developing country like Kenya, has more people than it can feed. China is trying to reward families that have only one child and penalize those that have more, but no country has yet tried to do what Huxley's brave new world does. The Director talks less ...
- 538: The Good Earth: Wang Lung's Character
- ... Wang Lung's Character In the critically acclaimed novel The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck depicts a humble farmer and his obedient wife O-lan. The Nobel Prize winning classic, set in late eighteenth century China, begins with Wang Lung going to the "Great House of Hwang"(49) to collect the wife that was betrothed to him by his father. Wang Lung lived with his father, wife, and five children, one ...
- 539: The Crucible
- ... in Salem, there were similar events occurring all over Europe. Some of these witch hunts were even more brutal than the ones in America. There were, of course, the McCarthy witch hunts. Also, in Communist China during the 1960s, there was a cultural revolution in which the Young Guard humiliated, tortured, and even killed those who had previously been in authority over them. Those included were parents and teachers. A common ...
- 540: The Time Machine by H.G Wells
- ... that "The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china. The editor called his story a "gaudy story". The narrator comes back to find the time traveler and sees him carrying a camera to his laboratory. He heads to the laboratory as a result of ...
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