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- 13891: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Country or Society
- ... even greater injustices. Sharing many of the same principles Robin Hood embodies is Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers. The famous trio of noblemen battle against the villainy of the Court of King Louis XIII. D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis fight to preserve the honor of their Queen, Anne of Austria, against the Cardinal Richelieu. Their famous motto " All for one and one for all!" illustrates the value they place ...
- 13892: Gullivers Travels
- ... court, so this is actually not a form of "entertainment" at all; it¡¯s a form of political selection. And, Swift implies, it makes as much sense as the way many political appointments in his day were made¡ªwhich is to say it makes no sense at all. The exercise in which the Emperor raises and lowers the stick for performers to jump over or crawl under is actually not a ...
- 13893: Gullivers Travels 2
- ... The trouble with this idea is that when taking a closer look at Gulliver, he isn't worth emulating. The final picture of him talking with the horses in the stable for four hours a day, unable to stand the company of his own family, makes him look foolish Another theory is that Gulliver made a mistake in regarding the Houyhnhnms as models to be emulated: so far from being admirable ...
- 13894: Subject: Giovanni & Lusanna-by Gene Brucker
- ... of the women in this story were aganist Lusanna because of her actions. There is no question that women in today¦s world act in a very similar manner. A difference about women in this day in age is that they have ea great deal more freedom. It was said in the book that a woman was not supposed to look a man in the eye while in public. They were ...
- 13895: The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft
- ... www.vcnet.com/bms/page3d.html. 1-3. "Netscape’s Complaint against MicroSoft." World Wide Web. http://torrent.sj.ca.us/Commentary/Netscapes_complaint.html. 1-2. Poole, Robert W., Jr. Unnatural Monopolies. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Company, 1985. Rosenoer, Jonathan. "Cyberlaw: Withholding Consent." Cyberlaw. World Wide Web. http://www.cyberlaw.com/cylw0295.html. 1-3. Schmidt, Eric. "The Struggle for Bill Gates’s Soul." US News and World ...
- 13896: The Watergate Scandal
- ... will only believe this if they have proof. Many of these trusting observers finally received the proof they needed to be convinced that politics are corrupt. On June 17, 1972 during the presidential campaign, Washington, D.C. police arrested seven burglars at the Watergate Hotel who were involved in a political scandal which would dramatically influence politics for years to come. The Watergate Scandal has caused a cloud of distrust to ...
- 13897: Feminism in Jane Eyre
- ... and thus will vary from person to person. Though I may see this novel as one full of passages criticizing the gender specific fiber of that time, others may see it as simply an every day experiences of a governess who falls in love with a man who is already married.
- 13898: Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms": Henry - A Man of Action, Self-Dicipline, and One Who Maintains Grace Under Pressure
- ... the immediate presence of alcohol. A man of strength and character will not let substance control and influence his actions for only the weak are dependent and rely upon such means to live out each day. Frederick's self-discipline not only shines in his drinking habits, but shows in all instances especially when the challenge to maintain it is at its greatest. After he plunged into the lake escaping the ...
- 13899: Great Gatsby Party Comparison
- ... house. Fruit is sent in every Friday, caterers bring enough lights to "...make a Christmas tree of Gastby's enormous garden"(p. 44), and elegant dinner is served: "On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys..."(p. 44) A full scale orchestra provides music all night for the hundreds of guests, laughing and dancing. A second ...
- 13900: The Great Gatsby: Daisy's Love
- ... to take down any address here's my gold pencil."... She looked around after a moment and told me the girl was "common but pretty," and I knew that except for the half-hour she'd been alone with Gatsby she wasn't having a good time." (Fitzgerald 107) When she is faced with the decision to tell both men whom she is truly in love with, Daisy confesses that she ...
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