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- 5441: Racism - The Future
- ... up her seat to a white man on a bus. At the time she was tired of the treatment her and fellow African-Americans were getting. She said she was tired and on this fateful day she bgan the turning wheels of the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement took place and gave blacks their future as they have now. It gave them the freedom that they deserved and needed ... if people don't start realizing what is happening? Will we be plunged into a time where racial tension is everywhere? Will we soon start having racial wars? Will racial violence be a normal every day occurrence? I don't know. No one could know. Unless we start taking action and helping people come to grips with the way they are, we can't combat racism. Today we are living in ...
- 5442: 1984: Summary and Reactions
- ... where Parsons is dull enough to escape vapourization. He is the only one who has not been taken over by the propaganda that is always being brodcast. He notices the same girl from the other day starring at him and thinks it is the thought police. Reaction The Golden country that he dreams about is definatly a release or a freedom from the the drabness of London. Also from the party ... the hopelessness of there private rebellion and that it cannot go on forever. He is dissappointed that Julie does not reject propaganda from the partyand her theroy that the party sends bombs on itself. One day at work O'Brien gives Winston his address and asked him to stop by so tha he can lend him an advance copy of the Newspeak dictionary. Winstonthinks this is a conspiracy against the party ...
- 5443: The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
- ... her own experiences. The main characters in the story are Miss Moore, Sylvia and Sugar. The narrator is Sylvia: a young girl who puts up a rough, tough front as protection from her poor, modern day, New York City environment. She deals with the circumstances in her life that she feels she has no control over, with a hard, mean act. Sylvias cousin, Sugar, is smart but lets Sylvia bully ... concludes with Sylvia feeling something weird in her chest and instead of running off with Sugar to spend the four dollars left from the taxi ride, she heads in a different direction to think this day through. Sylvia physically heading in a different direction is symbolic of the change she is feeling due to what she has been exposed to. I believe these are the moments that change the course of ...
- 5444: Watcher
- ... for he age. Charlie s grandmother loved to spend her free time in town playing bridge, canasta or whist. She did not care much for her health and smoked sixty, thin individually rolled cigarettes a day. Grandma Bradley lived on a farm in a two-story house, with two mountainous piles of manure in the abandoned barn out back. She took care of all the families problems. Charlie s cousin Criselda ... out of hand. Stanley was afraid of Charlie. As Charlie approached him, Stanley would start to tug severely on the twine rapped around his leg until he would fall and let Charlie stroke him. One day filled with anxiety Charlie approached Stanley. Calling his name out a numerous amount of times, Here Stanley, Stanley, (22) not knowing how to call a bird. Charlie viciously kills Stanley and buries him the biggest ...
- 5445: The Nomination ofAndrew Jackson to the "Presidents Hall of Fame"
- ... to pay long-overdue spoliation claims and reopening the British West Indian Trade. Even thought he personally agreed with the rebellion of Texas against Mexico. He didn't recognize the Lone Star republic until the day before he left office in 1837, and left the problem of Texas annexation to Martin Van Buren. Even though Jackson switched support form his successor Martin Van Buren to James K. Polk (probably due to ... Government. He even went so far as to call himself the elected representative of all American people. I think that Jackson's strengthening of the powers of the presidency are the biggest influence to this day. He used the power of the veto 12 times (more times than all of his successors combined). And his use of the powers of removal and of executive orders made a standard for a modern ...
- 5446: 1984
- ... between the mob and "Big Brother" is the Mafia's strange way of making someone disappear or "vaporize" (Orwell ). Almost unknowingly a person's identity can be changed, altered, or deleted. activities or possibly every day activities. Too much surveillance liberties are given to police or FBI. By using hi-tech cameras which can actually document a person's life. Unknowingly, there may be a cute little camera installed in the ... conclusion, life in the nineties, is a very resilient time. In this time, there is a substantial amount of restriction of the public, much of which is for law and order. A lot of this day and age may resemble George Orwell's 1984. It is nothing but a facade of government mixing with technology at a dangerous level. There's nothing to fear because 1984 is far-fetched and an ...
- 5447: E.e. Cummings, Poem, Anyone Li
- ... and I thought of love, two people in love. Anyone and noone are in love and that is what matters to them, to be in love with each other and with life. It involves the day, the night, and how the weather changes. The seasons revolve and the children grow up to become adults. As I read the poem I realized there were three sections to it. Which consist of anyone ... to death. In line thirty-three "ding and dong" I think could be anyone and noone. Death is a part of the poem but the turning point lies in line twenty-five, which states: "one day anyone died i guess". The main focal point is the uncapitalized "i", in analyzing poems I have begun to look at punctuation to tell me something about the author and look more deeply into the ...
- 5448: Conflicting Directions Of The
- ... existed to make the male happy. The main character Edna finds that she has nothing to do other than stay in the house bored, since even her children are raised and cared for by servants. Day after day, all Edna is permitted to do is care for her husband and be there whenever he needs help or entertainment. Woman at that time could not vote, could not go out without a male escort ...
- 5449: Frederick Douglass' Speech For Individual Rights
- Frederick Douglass' Speech For Individual Rights Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery in Maryland, became the most famous of all black abolitionists in addition to being one of the greatest American orators of his day. After the Civil War, Douglass prevailed as a passionate spokesman for the rights of blacks and remained a believer that their problems were capable of political solutions. His Fourth of July Oration is an exemplary ... we are men! Douglass (as well as I) believes that after all the black people accomplished you would think that they would at least be recognized for their qualifications and achievements, but not in that day and age. They were still called out to prove that they are men and not just an inferior race, in which the statement all men are created equal need not apply. In conclusion, slavery was ...
- 5450: Compare and Contrast: "Strange Fruit" and "Telephone Conservation": Theme of Racial Prejudice
- ... like a play showing everyday life as a black person who wants to rend a room from a racist landlady. I think that the poem is quite effective as it is a more modern and day to day situation rather than "Strange Fruit". Both the poems are featured on racial prejudice. I think that the telephone conversation would be more effective because it is more modern and likely to happen than walking through ...
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