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- 11951: The Grapes Of Wrath 2
- ... workers. He stood up for the people because their wages were being cut in half. They were being cut so harshly that you couldn't even eat off the money that you got in a day, much less feed any part of your family. Jim Casy stood up for the integrity of the workers and for that reason, was killed. John Steinbeck shed a dim light on the attitudes that make ...
- 11952: The Glass Menagerie -x
- ... on future success. Believing he will better himself, he takes classes in speaking, hoping to recapture his good old high school days. Laura's admiration fuels his need, and he fails to realize what he'd done to the fragile girl. The Glass menagerie is a play that makes one to think about their current situation and wonder if we too are living in our own sort of "glass menagerie" world ...
- 11953: The Glass Menagerie
- ... satisfied with just sitting home," when, in fact, Laura had preferred that (Williams 85). Amanda cannot distinguish reality from illusion. When Jim arrives, Amanda is dressed in the same girlish frock she wore on the day that she met their father and she regresses to her childish, giddy days of entertaining gentlemen callers. Amanda chooses to live in the past. Tom escapes into his world of poetry writing and movies. He ...
- 11954: The Raven Symbolism
- ... December for the time the story takes place? I figure midnight and December both represent an end to something, and also the anticipation of something new. A new year comes after midnight, also a new day; and December represents the end of a year. Finally when I picture the room the narrator is positioned in, I picture him lonely and sorrowful, and the richly furnished room reminds him of his lost ...
- 11955: The Patented Gate And The Mean
- Catcher in the Rye The Language of Cather in the Rye The passage of adolescence has served as the central theme for many novels, but J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, long a staple in academic lesson plans, has captured the spirit of this stage of life in hyper-sensitive form, dramatizing Holden Caulfield's vulgar language and melodramatic ...
- 11956: The Outsiders 2
- ... image in my mind of a beautiful dawn this was a word picture.The story happens in the 1950s in the US, it lasts a few days. The author usually describes every part of the day using Ponyboy. The mood the setting creates is of the neighborhood, and street life. This really contributes to the judicious plot development it makes it more believable and reasonable. To conclude I can say that ...
- 11957: The Outsider And The Secret Li
- ... moment; he cared for one moment. Remarkably, it was only during the last few hours of his life that he started to live; that was the moment when Meursault felt something. "I realised that I'd been happy, and that I was happy" (pg. 117). Mitty too did do something; he took a drastic action in the daydream and in the real world. It seemed that he was slowly preparing for ...
- 11958: Self Reliance
- Self Reliance "Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.-'AH, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'-Is it so bad then to be misunderstood?"(pg. 129)This concept viewed by Ralph Waldo Emerson makes the point that self reliance creates individuality. As ...
- 11959: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- ... month or so, but if the injection or the splint doesn't work then you might need surgery. The doctor might even give you a regime of exercises to do three or four times a day. But don't try the exercise if there is pain. You also could go to a chiropractor for exercise to help strengthen your wrist. If these treatments do not improve the condition then the doctor ...
- 11960: Sensation And Perception
- ... set of experiences, and those experiences will be interpreted differently by the individual according to such factors as upbringing, intelligence, personality and the values they hold. For example, my dog plays with her biscuits. One day I asked my friend to give her one, and he laughed at her when she growled and pawed at it. He had never seen a dog do that before, however I have seen it many ...
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