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- 5791: Mrs Dalloway
- ... knife, the leaden circles of Big Ben. Below the surface, though, people like Clarissa and Septimus see the frailty of authority. They hear the more organic rhythms of India as an undercurrent flooding into post-war London in spite of Bradshaw and Holmes and Big Ben. Though the novel starts at a certain moment in June, the intricate rhythms of the narrative have long been plunging and pausing, intersecting and diverging ...
- 5792: Mrs Dalloway By Virginia Woolf
- ... that, goodness of humanity under the cold, hard shell that society, portrays. Septimus believes in nature, love and goodness; but these are not the qualities of reality, they are the antithesis. For Septimus knows of war, death and destruction; he knows that society will not change and that he cannot live in a world that can be so constricting. Septimus takes a leap of faith and ends all his suffering in ...
- 5793: Odysseus By Homer
- The Odyssey, written by Homer, tells the story of Odysseus andhow he faced misfortune in his attempts to return home after the Trojan war. Odysseus is not famous for his great strength or bravery, but for his ability to deceive and trick. From his misfortunes he learned to be a better man and became able to regain his place ...
- 5794: Ovid The Poet
- ... two unmarried people. At this point Ovid was just discovering and enjoying this time of freedom. "While Augustus was devoting himself to the reform of a social order that nearly a hundred years of cival war had left in ruins, Ovid devoted himself to the refinement of his craft and of his observations of Roman high society and politics" (Luce 786). The difference between the two's mind set is described ...
- 5795: The Study Of Violence In Ernes
- ... of his own articles were printed, he decided not to go to college. He started a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy, he was later transferred into the Italian infantry and was severely wounded. After the war he served as a correspondent for the Toronto Star and then settled in Paris. While there, he was encouraged in creative work by the American ex-patriot writers. Today is the first time any have ...
- 5796: Romanticism - Washington Irvin
- ... to him more or less aimless. During these years he turned to variety of pursuits. He primed an American edition of Thomas Campbell's poems, edited the Analectic Magazine and acquired a colonelship during the war of 1812.
- 5797: Self-Reliance By Ralph Waldo E
- ... the South. Yet his death was the result of one man's refusal to accept what was once a proud and rich land reduced to tatters- left to ruin because of her failure to accept civil reform. Herman Melville's work in Moby Dick was considered a classic, yet Melville died a figure with lost prestige, poor and unaccepted. When he was laid to rest in 1891, he was remembered only ...
- 5798: The Bluest Eye By Toni Morriso
- Post World War I, many new opportunities were given to the growing and expanding group of African Americans living in the North. Almost 500,00 African Americans moved to the northern states between 1910 and 1920. This was ...
- 5799: The Chosen By Chaim Potok
- ... he is wary of it at first because Danny is a Hasid, and regards regular Orthodox Jews as apikorsim because of the teachings of his father. Reuven goes from not being able to have a civil conversation with Danny to becoming his best friend with whom he spens all of his free time, studies Talmud and goes to college. Reuven truly grows because he leans, as his father says, what it ...
- 5800: The Diary Of Anne Frank - Book
- ... went through. The only problem with the book is that the fact that Anne Frank rewrote her diary about two months before she was captured because she wanted her journal to be published after the war and she wanted to peruse a career in journalism. Therefore it is hard to tell what existed in her original copy and how much did she add afterwards. This tells us that we will never ...
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