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- 531: An Analysis of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
- ... of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Maya Angelou's I Know Why Caged Bird Sings illustrates how an innocent and naive girl growing up in the midst of the Great Depression overcomes life's many obstacles and becomes the powerful and influential woman she is today. Maya is a world renowned author, teacher, speaker, actress, and mother. Through this autobiographical piece, Maya's use of figurative ... a fortress of protection, yet she is able to express herself freely. With this hard, outer covering, it protects her from insults and segregation. This also demonstrates her incredible lack of self- esteem. During the Depression, food was hard to come by, most would consume food even if appeared to be inedible. She compares herself to a needed, yet unwanted, source, making her very insecure and unable to express her feelings ...
- 532: The Grapes of Wrath: Symbolic Characters
- The Grapes of Wrath: Symbolic Characters Struggling through such things as the depression, the Dust Bowl summers, and trying to provide for their own families, which included finding somewhere to travel to where life would be safe. Such is the story of the Joads. The Joads were the ... desertion of Noah, the leaving behind of the Wilsons followed by Connie's departure, the murder of Casy, Tom becoming a fugitive, Rose of Sharon's baby being stillborn, and being surrounded by starvation and depression. She uses al of her strength and willpower to help deal with these tragedies. One of the biggest examples of her undying strength and love is the way she help Rose of Sharon deal with ...
- 533: Brave New World: The Perfect World?
- ... Perfect World? Aldous Huxley's Brave New World presents a portrait of a society which is superficially a perfect world. At first inspection, it seems perfect in many ways: it is carefree, problem free and depression free. All aspects of the population are controlled: number, social class, and intellectual ability are all carefully regulated. Even history is controlled and rewritten to meet the needs of the party. Stability must be maintained at all costs. In the new world which Huxley creates, if there is even a hint of anger, the wonder drug Soma is prescribed to remedy the problem. A colleague, noticing your depression, would chime in with the chant, "one cubic centimetre of soma cures ten gloomy." This slogan is taught to everyone, from the youngest to the oldest. Unhappiness, intellectual curiosity, disagreement, suffering - none of these feelings ...
- 534: An Analysis of The Glass Menagerie
- ... a play that is very important to modern literature. Tennessee Williams describes four separate characters, their dreams, and the harsh realities they faced in the modern world. His setting is in St. Louis during the Depression-Era. The story is about a loving family that is constantly in conflict. To convey his central theme, Williams uses symbols. He also expresses his theme through the characters' incapability of living in the present ... can not handle Laura's world. He eventually stumbles and breaks the glass unicorn. Neither of them are comfortable. In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams wrote about the struggles of an American family during the Depression-Era. He presented the problems of being constrained to monotonous work and how one's dreams may not always come true. He also stressed that not everyone is comfortable with living in the present day ...
- 535: An Analysis of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
- ... of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Maya Angelou's I Know Why Caged Bird Sings illustrates how an innocent and naive girl growing up in the midst of the Great Depression overcomes life's many obstacles and becomes the powerful and influential woman she is today. Maya is a world renowned author, teacher, speaker, actress, and mother. Through this autobiographical piece, Maya's use of figurative ... a fortress of protection, yet she is able to express herself freely. With this hard, outer covering, it protects her from insults and segregation. This also demonstrates her incredible lack of self-esteem. During the Depression, food was hard to come by, most would consume food even if appeared to be inedible. She compares herself to a needed, yet unwanted, source, making her very insecure and unable to express her feelings ...
- 536: Harper Lee: Introduction to Harper Lee
- ... developed, many people in Southern rural areas became extremely poor. Some moved to the city; others stayed on the land to try to get whatever was possible out of it. Then, in 1929, the Great Depression hit the United States. The farmers seemed to suffer most because they depended entirely upon their land for a living. Their crops rotted, and they had little or no money for seed. But, in 1932 ... him a quarter, the boy would not take it. Scout made the mistake of trying to explain the reason to Miss Caroline. The Cunninghams were poor country folks who had been hit hard by the Depression and were too proud to accept charity. For her trouble, Scout got her fingers cracked. Thinking that Walter Cunningham was the cause of her difficulty, Scout tried to beat him up. Jem would not let ...
- 537: Marilyn Monroe
- Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe was the world’s sex symbol of the twentieth century. Although she was hugely successful in movies and loved by all, she lived a dissipated life of drugs and depression. Marilyn Monroe was born June first, 1926 as Norma Jean Mortenson. Her mother was mentally ill and her father was dead so she was sent to an orphanage where she spent her childhood years. She ... take many sedatives to relax her and relieve the pressures of being a star. Many blame the drug over-usage on her psychiatrist who often prescribe to take many pills to overcome Marilyn’s constant depression and illness. There was and still is a great controversy over whether Marilyn died of suicide, by accident, or was murdered. Many believe she was murdered by the government because of her supposed affair with ...
- 538: The Life and Times of Edgar ALlan Poe
- ... and Waverly Place and later moved to 113 1/2 Carmine Street. How Poe managed to support Muddy and Virginia is unknown. His literary work did not help his financial situation much, and an economic depression started in New York on May 10th 1837. Poe published only two tales during his stay in New York, "Von Jung, the Mystific" and "Siope. A Fable. (In the manner of the Psychological Autobiographists)." In ... Poe's first book of fiction. A 200 page volume entitled "The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket". The publishing had been delayed for about a year, to July 1838, because of the economic depression, and a pirated version appeared in London a few months later. Pym was a classic adventure story, bringing the hero into trouble frequently and leading the reader into a world of illusions where nothing is ...
- 539: Robert Schumann
- ... Stanley 147). He had “auditory hallucinations which caused insomnia” and he also “suffered” from acrophobia and melancholy. He even talked of suicide (Slonimsky 903). In 1852, Schumann had a “rheumatic attack” accompanied by sleeplessness and depression (Sadie 847-848). This affected his speech and ability to move. He soon became apathetic (Sadie 848). He became sick with depression and was affected by this most of his life (Stanley 147). In 1833 he became “deeply melancholic” as a result of the death of Rosalie, his sister-in-law. He even attempted suicide by trying ...
- 540: Henry Ford
- ... beat the competition which were General Motors and Chrysler. He was the president of the Ford Motor Company. He made a lot of money doing this. He lost a lot of business during the Great Depression. Before Ford could be wealthy, he needed a way to get wealthy. Ford’s experience with machinery led him to creating a car and a car company. This made him wealthy. Being wealthy during the Great Depression was a very good thing. In conclusion, Henry Ford was a person who made cars and was very rich. Making cars is what made Henry so rich.
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