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- 13051: H.G. Wells
- ... in Book IV is Swift's choice of the rational creature and irrational animal. Crane is able to explain where this comparison is derived - the writer Neoplatonist Porphyry's Isagoge of the third century A.D (405). This work of logic was commonly studied in Swift's time, and the comparison would be obvious to an educated reader. The Isagoge contains the juxtaposition of a rational animal, man, and an example ...
- 13052: Great Gatsby - Morals
- ... Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp and circumstance then Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars." (Fitzgerald, 80) Right from the beginning Daisy had already had second thoughts about the marriage, getting completely ...
- 13053: Discovery
- ... history. In “My Place”, Sally grows up feeling that there is a lot about her past that she doesn’t know. “the feeling that a very vital part of me was missing and that I’d never belong anywhere.” When she was a child, her best friend was Winnie the Pooh. She felt that she had a lot in common because they both felt like misfits. Both her mother and grandmother ...
- 13054: Great Gatsby
- ... responded by telling him things will clear up. This is the storm. The clouds will part and you will see that all of this is happening for a greater good Session: 4 Time: The next day. I was awakened by a freighted call. Carraway sounded torn and all out of faith. I told him to come down and once. He came down and informed me that Gatsby is dead. Wilson, Myrtle ...
- 13055: Beam Me Up Scotty: Teleportation
- ... a human "fax" or teleportation would take 10 Gigabytes (100,000,000,000 bytes) for just one millimeter of human (A Fun Talk On Teleportation). But with a few technical breakthroughs, you might imagine, you'd be able to teleport over to a friend's house for dinner simply by stepping into a scanner that would record all the information about the atoms making you up, With all the data collected ...
- 13056: Crime And Punishment
- ... desire rationally yet. Marmeladov’s room is “suffocatingly hot, but [Katerina] [has] not opened the windows” and in Alyona’s apartment “all the windows … [are] closed, in spite of the stifling heat” (pg 114) the day he commits the crime. In the former place he leaves money on the windowsill, while in the latter he takes money away. In both cases, however, the rooms are hot, and a feeling of an ...
- 13057: Great Expectations - Mrs. Joe
- ... to act in the presence of Pip when he is a gentleman. Joe's speech and use of words illustrate his plainess and accent Pip's aristocracy. Decisions never came easily for Joe and he'd much rather someone else make them for him rather than have to choose on his own. Being uneducated, Joe never felt sure of himself that he could make an appropriate decision, anyway. When asking for ...
- 13058: Great Expectations - Estella
- ... to him Estella has been educated to be loved and that night Pip dreams with marrying Estella. That night it was established that Pip had to look for Estella when she went to London. The day of the encounter he arrives his appointment five hours early. When he was waiting for her he sees Wemmick who asks him to go to the prison with him. Again we have the contrast between ...
- 13059: Holden Caufield
- ... relaxed novel, Catcher in the Rye catches the spirit of the reader with its moral reconcilliation, defining the book's meaning as a whole. Holden Caufield serves as the protagonist in the novel by J.D.Salinger, Catcher in the Rye. Holden trudges through the book lonely, making assumptions of everyone's characters. Every character in this novel according to Holden is a "phony." However, this poses the questions, "what defines ...
- 13060: Great Expectations
- ... reader with scathing insight into the social standard of this time/era. How successful is Dickens in portraying the injustices of social class? " In England the social fences, if left alone, grow like wild hedges." -D.W. Brogan The class system in England began with the introduction of feudalism which followed the Norman Conquest of 1066 and has been the social guideline for hundreds of years. The class system consists of ...
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