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- 2841: Chinese Economic Reform under Communist Rule
- ... trade status with the United States. Indeed, just in the past few days, it took a last-minute lobbying campaign by President Clinton and his Cabinet [to head off a] potentially embarrassing vote by the House of Representatives to restrict trade with China as a way to punish Beijing for reported human rights violations. (Bradsher A7) But China's problems in joining the community of the world market have more to ... politically and economically, one billion Chinese citizens. WORKS CITED "Boeing Planning to Invest $100 Million for China Plant." New York Times: 9 August 1994, D4. Bradsher, Keith. "Bill to Restrict China's Imports Loses in House." New York Times: 10 August 1994, A7. Cheung, Steven N.S. "Privatization vs. Special Interests: The Experience of China's Economic Reforms." Economic Reform in China: Problems and Prospects. Ed. James A. Dorn and Wang ...
- 2842: Oliver Twist
- ... us. Though at first he accuses Oliver of thieving, his concern over Oliver's welfare on the street is a direct hint of his innocence which successfully helps him convince Oliver to board at his house. A generous and trusting man he was, perhaps too good a man to be true; but with all the malicious characters in the story, a heroic and pure persona was needed to ensure a happy ... her own husband : Sikes, a brutal and abusive man. But there is a great need for this secondary character in the story, she serves not only as a tie between the scenes at the different house holds but as well she is the only hope of salvation for Oliver. Without her, Oliver may have never had the chance to grow up in a loving home and learn to be proper in ...
- 2843: Searching Out Success
- ... he is a volunteer basketball coach for his little girls' team. He practices for one hour with his team. Then they all pile back into the car and head home. Home, is an average sized house in a nice neighborhood. They enter the house where he greets his wife with a kiss and picks up his son who is only a toddler. Soon after the family sits down to dinner together where they discuss the events of the day ...
- 2844: Oliver Twist
- ... fortune." (Romano 81) Aside from satire, Dickens uses various other devices in writing this novel. One of the most common is that of coincidence. For example, Oliver just happened to end up, first, at the house of Mr. Brownlow, who at one time was a really good friend of Oliver's father. Then, later on, Oliver ends up at Rose Maylie's house, who, as it turns out is his aunt. Both of these occurances are also even more rare just because of where they happened. In Dickens time, London was not as huge a city as it ...
- 2845: The Gilded Age
- ... dreaming of being poor. The lives they lived were so extravagant that it was often easy to lose oneself in upper class society and neglect the lower class without a thought. If Rockafellers own house was not a palace, it was one of more than seventy-five buildings on his estate; if he himself used one car for fifteen years, the garage on the estate was built to hold a ... to 40 percent. The effects of such a great chop dealt a debilitating blow to the towns economy, however the citizens found themselves with nowhere else to go. We are born in a Pullman house, fed form the Pullman shop, taught in the Pullman school, catechized in the Pullman church, and when we die we shall be buried in the Pullman cemetery and go to the Pullman hell(Meltzer151). For ...
- 2846: Of Mice And Men
- ... Salinas, Lake Tahoe, writing novels and stories that no publisher would buy (Fontenrose 4). On January 14, 1930, Steinbeck married his first wife, Carol Henning (Fontenrose 4). As a gift, his father gave him a house in Pacific Grove, California. Later that year, Steinbeck met Edward Ricketts, owner and operator of a small commercial biological laboratory on the waterfront of Monterey. Steinbeck's association with Ricketts stimulated "the best period of ... he gained and the images he conceived of California in his writings. Works Cited Benson, Jackson J. The Short Novels of John Steinbeck. North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1990. Bloom, Harold. John Steinbeck. Pennsylvania: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999. Davis, Robert Murray. Steinbeck: A Collection of Critical Essays. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972. Fontenrose, Joseph. John Steinbeck: An Introduction and Interpretation. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1964. French, Warren. John Steinbeck's Fiction ...
- 2847: The Great Depression
- ... destroyed everything on the farms which included their homes and barns. This is best por- trayed in Steinbeck's description of how the tractors destroyed everything in its way. "The iron guard bit into the house corner, crumbled the wall, and wrenched the little house from its foundation, crushed like a bug (50). "In the little houses the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their father and of their grandfathers" (Steinbeck 111). This describes how after many ...
- 2848: Government Spending & Budget
- ... include a tax increase, but most cuts would not take effect until he is out of office, in the year 2001. Although Clinton is sometimes criticized for producing a stalemate in budget talks, the White House points out that the debt has gone down since Clinton took office, with unemployment also falling. Republicans are quick to state that Clinton originally increased taxes in 1993 and cut defense programs, but his overall ... how far the Republicans have moved him to compromise since the they took control of Congress. Most important, it does not readily translate into regular accounting principles used for government programming. This year's White House budget was a 2,196 page document that the GOP struck down immediately for not cutting taxes enough and neglecting to downsize the government (Hagar 752). "There is little or no change at all in ...
- 2849: David Lynchs Blue Velvet
- ... s journey is not into reality but into his dreams, which belong to the realm of the subconscious. The latter possibility is also suggested by the way Lynch shows us Jeffrey leaving Dorothy s apartment house after the first unsettling night then cuts straight to him waking up in his bed, his mind filled with random, distorted flashbacks. The night of the joyride ends in a similar fashion. Returning home after ... resist the temptations of the dark side and is ready to face the evil in himself. The final showdown between Jeffrey and Frank takes place, appropriately, in Dorothy s flat in the Deep River apartment house or in the deep, dark waters of Jeffrey s subconscious. Frank is not an enemy who is easy to beat. Just like the id would have access to the mind of the ego Frank also ...
- 2850: George Brenard Shaw
- ... with many job opportunities. However between 1873 and 1883 he wrote five novels, all of which were rejected by every publisher in London. Instead he decided to write plays, the first performance of Widower's House appeared in London in 1892 and Arm's and The Man performed in London & New York, in 1894. While he was not writing, Shaw discovered Karl Marx and read his book Das Kapital, during which ... his music critic. Soon after that Shaw began to write the plays that made him a very, very wealthy man. These plays included Arms and the Man, Candida, Don Juan in Hell, Getting Married, Heartbreak House, The Apple Cart, and his last play Why She Would Not. Shaw continued to live his life writing plays until the day he died. On November 2nd 1950, while pruning an apple tree, George fell ...
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