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- 3011: Leonard Peltier Essay
- ... treatment of sacred sites to which Native Americans have been denied access, and discrimination against Native American prisoners. The walkers also intended to present petitions representing five hundred thousand names to liaisons from the White House. Only two Senators showed up, each for half an hour, and no White House representative ever appeared. The speakers decided to continue their five-hour presentation to the press and Senate staffers. The pain in the voices of the speakers was apparent, but the absence of an audience seemed ...
- 3012: Emily Dickinson 6
- ... Her grandfather, Samuel Dickinson, was one of the founders of the Amherst College. Edward Dickinson, her father, held several political positions. He was on the General Court of Massachusetts, Massachusetts State Senate, and United States House Representatives. Edward was also a lawyer and the treasurer for the college. Emily's mother, Emily Dickinson, was a simple woman. She was dedicated to her home and family. Emily's mother suffered a long ... as the treasurer for the college and other civic positions. Austin married Emily's best friend, Susan Gilbert. Lavinia was Emily's younger sister. She didn't marry anyone so she stayed in the family house. The three siblings shared a very close relationship. Their parents didn't have a close relationship with them, but they did love and care for them. Emily's parents made sure she had a good ...
- 3013: Gatsby's Pursuit of the American Dream
- ... not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to amass wealth to reach her economic standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he moves near to Daisy,"Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them ... he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Soon he meets Nick Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over (83)."Gatsby's personal dream symboli! zes the larger American Dream where all have the oppurtunity to get what they want. Later, as we see in the ...
- 3014: Global Warming And The Greenhouse Effect
- ... stand and wants to cut back on emissions to ten percent below the levels of 1990 and this would require a 20% cut in the fossil fuel usage. Al Gore even called for a White House conference with weather forecasters saying that the U.S. should fund more abortions in order to cut down on the number of people populating our world. Gore believes that Americans will be thankful in the ... warming trend. Steve Forbes is also speaking out on the global warming issue. Forbes believes that practically all of the global warming that has occurred in the past one hundred years took place before green house gas emissions took off. During the 1990 s, many people thought that there was a connection between economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions because emissions have risen and fallen with the nation s economic output ...
- 3015: The Apathy Of Generation X
- ... under 30 vote (Bush received 30%, Perot 20%). Clintons 20% margin of victory in the young people vote was his largest in any age group and may have very well put him in the White House. Since John Andersons independent run at the White House in 1980, young people have been the strongest supporters for those outside the two party system. Now in 1996, even though Ross Perot has a dismal 5% overall, his support amongst the younger voters is ...
- 3016: A Rose for Emily
- ... The hidden watch at the end of Emily's chain symbolizes how time has been hidden from her all of these years. This hidden time results in her stubborn unchanging ways. "Only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps," (40). This house represents the Old South, like Miss Emily it is the only one of its kind left to face a modern generation. This could be a reason why she remained isolated for such a long span ...
- 3017: A Rose For Emily By William Faulkner
- ... named Homer Barron and began to go out a little. The town people were happy for her because they now seen her a little more and it was better than to be in a old house all the time. Emily began to think that some day she and Homer would marry, and when things went wrong she poisoned him. As time passed people began to wonder, and a smell began developing. Although the smell was hitting everyone in the town, no one said anything, instead they sprinkled lime all over her house. Emily died a time later. After the town people heard the new they went to see her to begin the funeral arrangements. Tobby her faithful servant ran off and the town people discover the smell ...
- 3018: The World They Made Together
- ... For example, lower class Virginians took on a more spiritual outlook on religion as demonstrated in the many powerfully and spiritually arousing sermons where "such power descended that hundreds fell to the ground, and the house seemed to shake with the presence of God" (Sobel 205) Methodists began the practice of singing together hymns filled with emotion, or "’blackening’ it, or making it more emotional and improvisational" (Sobel 205-6). Also ... achieved in the church would not have been possible had they not originally shared similar visions of time and space. As a result they lived together, worked together and ultimately worshipped together in the same house, under the same God, with essentially the same values.
- 3019: Araby and A Rose For Emily: Comparison
- ... was not seen for long periods at a time, only her servant would be seen going for groceries, and the mayor did not want to disturb her when the horrible smell was coming from her house. She liked to keep things that were close to her like her father’s body. She was respected because the whole town showed up to her funeral and the mayor didn’t confront her about ... likes to keep things that are close to her. My view changed of her, I now picture a sick, crazy, troubled old lady that likes sleeping with dead people, or keeping dead people in their house, and a servant that is also crazy and maybe and gay. In conclusion, these two stories: “Araby” and “A Rose for Emily”; had endings that either change or reinforce the way I viewed the characters ...
- 3020: Love in the Time of Cholera
- ... good for her. But by this time it was already to late. Fermina knew that she had to start living her life based on her own decisions, and consequently she threw Ofelia out of the house and told her never to return. Social critism also occurs in Mario Vargas Llosa's "Sunday, Sunday". Unlike Love in the Time of Cholera, Miguel had to deal with social critism in a narrow sense ... town began to talk about him as if he was insane. Further critism occured after he got caught cheating on his wife. Society began looking down on him, and as a result he set his house on fire, and was never seen again. What makes this example of social critism different for the previous examples is that the character couldn't handle being looked down upon, and thus took aggressive actions ...
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