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- 7831: Ambushed Tradition
- ... attempted something different. She reached into her past, and grabbed onto the roots, in order to save herself. She began to pray in traditional Indian style, using the sweat lodge. She learned to play the war drum and sing native songs for the powwows. Though, the thing that made the most impact was listening to the elders' stories and advice. She "needed someone that she could look up to and respect ...
- 7832: Fahrenheit 451: Criticizing The Modern World
- ... However, the quest for happiness ultimately leads to the downfall. All communication to the disturbing outside world was cut off as to protect the citizens from having to worry. The people were oblivious to the war raging outside, and the bomb that eventually killed them. The society lived in blind happiness. Paralleling this society is The Hound. When it attacks its victim, it injects lethal doses of morphine, causing the person ...
- 7833: 1984: Summary
- ... we are shown how the computer age has taken over peoples minds. The language is easy to understand, it has not really changed much over time. It seems like there is nothing left after nuclear war, just ruins remaining. We are introduced to Tom Parsons which Winston is contrasted with. The city is very drab. The Golden country that he dreams about is definitely a release or a freedom from the ...
- 7834: View of Individual and Society by Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Mark Twain
- ... by secluding himself at Walden Pond for years and, upon returning, refusing to pay his overdue poll tax. After being jailed for this offense, Thoreau even goes as far as to say, I quietly declare war with the State. By reading his works and hearing his quotes, his position becomes blatantly obvious. Thoreau blames society rather than the individual. He blames the government, more specifically, but the government is a supposed ...
- 7835: Lord of the Flies
- ... frees the parachute. Then he wanders to the bottom of the mountain to tell the boys of the news. The other boys decide to join the feast. As night approaches, the hunters do a ferocious war dance, and even Ralph and Piggy jump in. As Simon approaches, he is seen as a mere shadow by the dancers, and they are so barbarian that they viciously attack Simon, not hearing the cry ...
- 7836: Yolen's Briar Rose: Review
- ... how she became interested in the holocaust, she replied, My family--both sides--came over at the beginning of this century and we had no family left in either the Ukraine or Latvia during World War II. I am interested in the Holocaust as a Jew and as a citizen of the world. Briar Rose is the story in which a woman tries to find out the secret of her grandmother ...
- 7837: Silko's Ceremony: Gender Roles
- ... breed. For Tayo, this only added to his feeling of displacement and emptiness. She would give her affection and attention to her real son Rocky, but would let Tayo just sit there alone. After the war Auntie nursed him because he was all she had left after Rocky got killed. He would wake up crying after dreaming about how much Josiah had loved him and always hugged him when he was ...
- 7838: Brave New World
- ... they get rid of the bad apples in society. A person might point out that these precautions are too extreme. If they are extreme look at the advantages. It the perfect world there is no war, diseases, or old age. Thanks to their conditioning no one even considers fighting. If anyone ever gets angry or depressed there is always soma. In our world soma would be seen as a drug and ...
- 7839: Homelessness
- ... of the law, which he has to commit in order to survive. NLCHP. National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. 1 Feb., 2000. http://www.nlchp.org. This Website provided me with many facts on civil rights violations dealing with homeless people as well as basic facts on homelessness and poverty in America. Ott, Jeff. My World. Van Nuys: Sub City. 2000. This is a book written by a former homeless ...
- 7840: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Cynical Point of View
- ... moment by society, is shown in more than one instance, such as when the group was preparing to hang Huck and the King over their plot to defraud the daughters, or, more obvious, in the war between the Shephardsons and the Grangerfords. The aspect of people being basically hypocrites is seen at the beginning when Miss Watson displays a degree of hypocriticality on insisting that Huck follow the Widow and become ...
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