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- 3871: Winter In The Blood An Analysi
- ... of endearment when he says, You re too nervous, grandfather . . . . (66-67). This behavior may be uncharacteristic; however, it is understandable because Yellow Calf is the first person, after his father s and brother s death, to give the narrator lessons in life. Such, as when Yellow Calf indicates, Possessions can be sorrowful (66). Afterwards, the narrator thinks about his gun and electric razor that were stolen from him by his ... the missing pieces, of his grandmother s stories, that he longed for: that Yellow Calf is his grandfather and that he was the only one that treated his grandmother with respect after Standing Bear s death. Once the narrator realized this they, shared this secret in the presence of ghosts, in wind that called forth the muttering of tepees, the blowing snow, the white air of the horses nostril . . . but there ...
- 3872: Igor Stravinsky
- ... This was a brief symphonic "poem" that Stravinsky wrote as a wedding present for Rimsky’s daughter. Sadly however, Rimsky died in the summer of 1908 before he could hear it performed. After Rimsky’s death, Stravinsky composed a funeral march in memory of his teacher and friend. When Fireworks and an earlier orchestral piece, Scherzo Fantastique (1907-08), were performed in St. Petersburg on Feb. 6, 1909, they were heard ... Diaghilev were reunited. He started writing for ballets again, but in 1929, Diaghilev died, and his ballet company folded. However, Stravinsky's composition of ballet scores did not come to an end with Diaghilev's death. In the late 1920s, a Russian dancer Ida Rubinstein started a company of her own and commissioned two ballet scores from Stravinsky, The Fairy's Kiss (1928) and Persephone (1934). In the fall of 1938 ...
- 3873: The Bell Jar
- ... more obsessed about how she would kill herself and planed it out carefully. When the time came she just couldn't do it. So she began to preoccupied herself by thinking of other ways of death. She couldn't sleep or read this bothered her because she loved to read. Finally she went to see a doctor who gave her shock treatments. This made Esther even worse an so she slipped ... to prevent the suffocation of her own life. She knew there was something very wrong and neither her family or herself had no idea how to help prevent this and it made her wish for death. Finally she did it, she plotted a scheme to end the torture of her insanity. "The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life." This way she ...
- 3874: Excessive Alcohol Consumption--its Effects And Social Accept
- ... of this tossed in with the truth leads to confusion where most of society is torn between tradition and personal beliefs. Alcohol is a destructive drug that can lead to addiction, arrest, illness, and even death; all of these consequences, however, have not caused much of a dramatic change in alcohol s social acceptance or usage. Most people know what alcohol is, but not everyone knows its history, where it comes ... which are the next two hardest hit organs. Heart disease, heart failure, stroke, high blood pressure, and neuropsychological disorders are among the worst consequences (Wolfgan 5). Also, taking depressants or tranquilizers while drinking can cause death (Fettner 276). Alcohol does not only affect its immediate users, either; it may also affect the offspring of chronic users. Exposure in prenatal and early postnatal development shows an increased risk of disrupt in development ...
- 3875: To Kill A Mockingbird 3
- ... Tom Robinson was shot while trying to escape. The sad thing about this was that everyone knew Tom was innocent. In the Maycomb Tribune on the following Thursday Mr. B. B. Underwood likened Tom's death to: "senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children". After a classroom discussion of Adolf Hitler, Jem asks Atticus. "But is it okay to hate Hitler"? Atticus answers: "It is not. It is not okay ... the "mockingbird" in this story is Tom Robinson a harmless man who becomes a victim of racial prejudice. Like the mockingbird, Tom has never done wrong to anyone. Even the jurors who sentence him to death have nothing personal against him. They find him guilty mostly because they feel that to take the word of a black man over two whites would threaten the system they live under, the system of ...
- 3876: To Kill A Mockingbird: Prejudice
- ... person by saving Scout and Jem's lives. In this instance Scout may have found that to negatively prejudge someone is wrong. She also learned compassion. Scout also learnt about the ugliness of life. About death and pain. This lesson occurred while her brother had to read to a sick and dieing old lady. This lady's name was Mrs. Dubose. She had been a morphine addict and had decided to go clean till her death. To die as a free women, to die knowing she had won. Scout describes her as a ugly lady and during their reading sessions she would have some kind of spasm-fits. Her head moved ...
- 3877: The Things They Carried: Necessities
- ... nothing more than give the men a false sense of security, which was probably necessary to cope with their surroundings. Last but certainly not least they carried with them love, guilt, memories, and fear of death. Lieutenant cross, for example carried love, guilt, and even though he tried never to show it, fear. Tim O'Brien shows us this in the passage shortly after the death of Ted Lavender, "He pictured Martha's smooth young face, thinking he loved her more than anything, more than his men, and now Ted Lavender was dead because he loved her so much and could ...
- 3878: The Influence of Reading on Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary
- ... mind takes. These adventures are feed by the novels that she reads. They were filled with love affairs, lovers, mistresses, persecuted ladies fainting in lonely country houses, postriders killed at every relay, horses ridden to death on every page, dark forests, palpitating hearts, vows, sobs, tears and kisses, skiffs in the moonlight, nightingales in thickets, and gentlemen brave as lions gentle as lambs, virtuous as none really is, and always ready ... to escape from our troubles," says Anna Karenina. But both Anna and Emma's reason is so distorted by the fantasy in which they live that they see littl e escape from life but through death. Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary live out their dreams and fantasies through reading novels which serve as palliatives for their painful lives. Reading novels is not the primary theme in their lives nor is it ...
- 3879: The Picture of Dorian Gray: Corruption Through Aestheticism
- ... becomes so disgusted with the horrible portrait that he slashes the canvas, and the knife pierces his own heart. Because Lord Henry is responsible for influencing Dorian Gray, he is partly the cause of the death of Dorian (5810). While Lord Henry is indirectly the cause of Dorian's death, he too causes his own downfall. Lord Henry changes Dorian with the belief that morals have no legitimate place in life. He gives Dorian a book about a man who seeks beauty in evil sensations ...
- 3880: Zinn's A People's History of the United States: The Oppressed
- ... government against Indian attacks. Berkeley and his cronies were so concerned with their own financial and political gain that they ignored Bacon's Rebellion and continued their policies. In the end, Bacon died a natural death (he caught a nasty virus) and his friends were hanged, but for the first time ever, the government was forced to listen to the grievances of the underclass that had been for the most part ... his own view on teaching history. “Thus began the history, five hundred years ago, of the European invasion of Indian settlements in America. That beginning, when you read [Bartolomé de] Las Casas... is conquest, slavery, death. When we read history books given to the children in the United States, it all starts with heroic adventure -- there is no bloodshed -- and Columbus Day is a celebration” (7). He goes on to vituperate ...
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