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- 3741: American Dream
- ... Toward the later part of the nineteenth century, the picture had changed. America had spread westward and had filled with immigrants from Asia and Europe. While this was going on America was forming the modern day government and started to put proposals together to make this "Land of the Free" cost a little bit. Those fortunate and industrious enough to do so were accumulating vast fortunes. Despite America's great wealth ... to mean freedom to rise to one's greatest potential. Once wealth and safety are assured, anything seems possible. The slave could become a land owner, working his own farm. The immigrant worker could one day own his own company. An unemployable welfare recipient may one day be elected President of the United States. It all begins with hope and the desperation of a hard to reach dream.
- 3742: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... rights. In the 50's crime was on everyone's mind, on television and in the moon. O'Connor's knew taht society was drastically changing for the worse, and she probably knew that one day we'd end with something liek the Internet with all its pornos. O'Connor's displeasure with society at the time could have been attributed to strong belief in God from a Catholic point of view. OConner ...
- 3743: April Morning
- ... to him would of made him more confused and knowing if he loved him or not. That is why that is the most important part in the book. It made him handle the loss better. D) The main idea of this book was that you may not think you can win because you are out numbered, the truth is that you can win if you believed. This was proved in the ... I should be grateful with what I have. 2) This book made me wonder about the lifestyles of people around 1775. And what kind of person I would be if I grew up during that day in age. 3) This book made me believe that some bad things that happen for a reason. Like when before they battled the British his father gave him that speech that proved that he did ...
- 3744: A Modern Macbeth
- ... McGovern. Almost unnoticed during his campaign was the arrest of five men connected with Nixon’s re-election committee. They had broken into the Democrats national head quarters in the Watergate apartment complex, in Washington D.C. They attempted to steal documents and place wire taps on the telephones. By March of 1973, through a federal inquiry, it had been brought to light that the burglars had connections with high government ... best efforts, it was shown that the president had participated in the Watergate cover-up. On August 8, 1974 Nixon announced, without admitting guilt, that he would resign. He left the Oval Office the next day: an obvious fall from grace. So how does this former leader of the free world compare to Macbeth? Before they achieved their positions of power to govern or rule all, both Nixon and Macbeth spent ...
- 3745: A Separate Peace
- ... was going on and the sixteen-year old boys were trying to preserve the peace in their lives, before they would be old enough to be drafted into the war-just one year later. One day Finny, the best athlete in the school, came up with the crazy idea to jump out of a tree into a river. All of the seventeen-year olds had accomplished this task because it was ... Phineas, naturally was the first sixteen-year old to conquer this feat; so Gene was the second. None of the other boys ever tried the jump. After a while the two made it an almost day-to-day activity. The two boys were a lot alike, but Gene had this underlying resentment of Finny and he felt that Finny was deliberately trying to make him do badly in school because he was ...
- 3746: A Critique Of Charlotte Gilman
- ... He feels that having people around would make her condition worse, so she is left to recover all by herself for three months. She does not even have John around for he "is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious." Because of her lack of interaction with people, she begins to find solace in the wall-paper, the only stimulating object left. She states that, "it ... woman in the wall-paper, and the more suppressed, lonely and confined she feels over the course of the story, the more she perceives herself to be the woman in the wall-paper. During the day, when she is temporarily freed from John's control, she says the woman is "subdued, quiet. I fancy it is the pattern that keeps her so still." Here, she is alluding to herself, for she is subdued and quiet, and is puzzled by the paper all day. However, "at night it becomes bars!" It is at night when the woman has bars over her, this of course, is when John is home. The wall-paper represents her marriage to John; moreover, ...
- 3747: American Dream 3
- ... Toward the later part of the nineteenth century, the picture had changed. America had spread westward and had filled with immigrants from Asia and Europe. While this was going on America was forming the modern day government and started to put proposals together to make this "Land of the Free" cost a little bit. Those fortunate and industrious enough to do so were accumulating vast fortunes. Despite America's great wealth ... to mean freedom to rise to one's greatest potential. Once wealth and safety are assured, anything seems possible. The slave could become a land owner, working his own farm. The immigrant worker could one day own his own company. An unemployable welfare recipient may one day be elected President of the United States. It all begins with hope and the desperation of a hard to reach dream.
- 3748: A View From The Bridge
- ... that is, one that has value and mystery as well as death and danger. It has commercial value as well as the population of life in it. It is dark and treacherous though, and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'. This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin, his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that might be good is that he has had bad luck with his goal ... painful experience with his hand, he is in great pain and he cant move. This is useful in the place where Christ loses his physical self and has less to deal with. On the third day, he recovers himself and returns to his home even though his only remaining treasure was a broken skiff, experience, and a torn up marlin. And in the final conclusion, you can see him dragging ...
- 3749: As You Like It
- ... a scene depicting love-lost.Brotherly love ceased to exist and in the case of the brothers, Orlando and Oliver ,it breds evil. Oliver felt that he is “altogther misprized” by his “gentle never school’d and yet learned full of noble devices” brother, Orlando .In Oliver’s jealousy fit, he first tried to kill Orlando through manipulating Charles the wrestler and later, attempted to set fire to Orlando’s lodgings ... categorise their own relationships accordingly. “Love is merely a madness and I tell you, deserves as well as dark House and a whip as Madmen do and the reason why they are not so punish’d and cur’d is that the Lunacy is so ordinary that the Whippers are in love too.” During Ganimed’s exchange with Orlando, she rises this question on Love. The audience ponder with Orlando the truth in ...
- 3750: Analysis Of Brooks And Red (Sh
- ... many of them mutual friends, but each man spent his time with only one. That friend for Brooks was Jake, a crow. Brooks had raised Jake from the time he was a hatchling until the day he released him on the same day he was freed from prison. For Red, his companion was Andy Dufresne – an ex-banker who shaped rocks. In many ways, the friends that Brooks and Red choose are symbolic looks into their futures. Brooks ... so it is not surprising that Brooks later comes to embrace it. Literary references aside, Brooks does not make it on the outside simply because he is alone. He worked bagging groceries and returned each day from work to a strange, empty apartment room. Brooks tried to find purpose in his life by going to the park to feed the birds, wistfully hoping that Jake would come and visit. The ...
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