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- 981: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... in reality. Yet Poe employed in his writing the diction of the moral tome, which causes confusion for readers immersed in this tradition. Daniel Hoffman reiterates Allan Tate's position that, aside from his atavistic employment of moral terminology, Poe writes as though "Christianity had never been invented." (Hoffman 171) Poe did offer to posterity one tale with a moral. Written in 1841 at the dawn of Poe's most creative ...
- 982: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... entitled, Poems. Poe was now in great difficulty. He went to New York, but could find no job there. Eventually he took refuge with his aunt, Mrs. Clemm, in Baltimore. There he decided to seek employment and make his living by writing. Failing to get attention with his poems, he decided to start writing short stories. Poe competed in a contest for the best short story in 1831. The prize was ...
- 983: Bouldering
- ... were unemployed. The rest were working in their trades. According to Michael Cantwell, national director of manufacturing at a management consulting firm, "There is clearly a supply and demand problem for many manufactures" (Maxwell). An employment manager for a large electric company states that it is very frustrating that even C- minus students are going to college, leaving only D students for the blue collar jobs. Currently there are companies with ...
- 984: Bartleby
- ... will to "prefer not to" concluded in his death. Bartleby was imprisoned because of his desire to demonstrate his free will and never leave his office, even after it was no longer his place of employment. "And to you, this should not be so vile a place. Nothing reproachful attaches to you by being here. And see, it is not so sad a place as one might think. Look, there is ...
- 985: Death Of A Salesman 3
- ... next door neighbour. Willy comes to realize that Charley is his only friend and he says "Isn't that remarkable." It is Charley's success that annoys Willy and which prevents him later from accepting employment from Charley when he offers it. Charley continues to lend him money although he feels insulted by Willy's refusal to work for him. "The excessively proud imagine a universe that plates themselves firmly at ...
- 986: Death Of A Salesman 2
- ... next door neighbour. Willy comes to realize that Charley is his only friend and he says "Isn't that remarkable." It is Charley's success that annoys Willy and which prevents him later from accepting employment from Charley when he offers it. Charley continues to lend him money although he feels insulted by Willy's refusal to work for him. "The excessively proud imagine a universe that plates themselves firmly at ...
- 987: Hamlets Insanity 2
- ... due to their bumbling nature they posed no threat to Hamlet. Once again Hamlet treats their deaths as a game or joke in a conversation with Horatio. Why, men, they did make love to this employment, They are not near my conscience; their defeat Does by their insinuation grow: Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of might opposites. (Shakespeare 5.2.61-66 ...
- 988: Huck Finn 3
- ... to contain but very little humor. It was couched in the language of a rough, ignorant dialect, racism runs ramped, and all through its pages there is a systematic use of bad grammar and an employment of inelegant expressions." Another critic goes on to say "The book is flippant and trash of the veriest sort. It deals with a series of experiences that are certainly not elevating, it portrays blacks in ...
- 989: Hawthornes Life Versus Life In
- ... to it, is to exaggerate the weak side of the subject. Hawthorne returns to it constantly, plays with it, and seems charmed by it; until at last the reader feels tempted to declare that his employment of it is puerile (James 43). Hawthorne uses many types of symbolism to explain his culture. Hawthorne struggles to explain the, Importance of understanding mankind in whole, and the need of man s sympathy with ...
- 990: Death Of A Salesman
- ... him an application to fill out. Biff took a seat by a window and started on the application. the first question he encountered was that of experience. Biff began to make up false places of employment for himself. When he noticed this was exactly what his father and happy would be doing he threw out the application and asked for another. If he didn't get the job honestly he didn ...
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