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- 2691: Samuel de Champlain
- ... Blackrobe, "I thought you wanted to become a priest?" Daniel, "I did once, but not anymore. These people are the true Christians. They live for each other, they forgive each other for things that the French cannot." Blackrobe, "I am afraid of this country." Daniel, " They believe that the souls of men hunt the souls of animals. Is it harder to believe that we sit on clouds and look at God ...
- 2692: The Genre of Science Fiction
- ... the future. In Fahrenheit 451 the author Ray Bradbury makes an argument for societies need to consider that the outcomes of science fiction might become realities. The origin of science fiction
evolved from the industrial revolution that spawned notions of the rockets, robots, time machines, computers, satellites, matter-transports, and the like (Johnson 6). Science Fiction has dramatically changed over the years form total destruction of the earth, to more of ...
- 2693: William Faulkner
- ... Faulkner became a heavy drinker which caused some problems in his personal life. He had finished all of his novels except one at this point in 1944. During the war he was discovered in the French Literary world and in the postwar period his reputation rebounded and brought him newfound attention in America. Soon after he was held as a high literary figure throughout the entire world. Faulkner wrote seventeen books ...
- 2694: The Theme of Diversity in Novels
- ... can relate to a reader of any age. There were several different types characters and they were expressed throughout the novel as animals. The Jews were mice, Germans were cats, Polish were pigs, and the French were frogs. The comic book style shows the reader in many ways, how the characters react, feel and also sets the scenes extrodinaraly well. The sketches depict the exactness of the bunkers and chambers that ...
- 2695: Comparing Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville's Writings
- ... factitious cares and superfluously coarse labor of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them "(p. 790). Thoreau points out the weakening of man's original calling by the results of the industrial revolution, division of labor, the robotics of factory life and materialistic vision of life. The end result is self-destruction and depression of ones independence, spirit and development of mental and spiritual heights as described here ...
- 2696: How Identities, Aspirations, and Achievements Of Two Females Were Affected By The Aspects of Family, Class, Gender, and Race
- ... of two upper class females were affected by the aspects of family, class, gender, and particularly race. Race will be particularly scrutinized because the individual interviewed, Alesha (or Lee), is a female of Italian/Irish-French-German descent, whereas I am an individual of Mexican/Chinese descent. There are certainly discernible differences in the growth of an upper-class White female and the growth of a minority female, and it is ...
- 2697: Literature: Tool For The Masses to Grasp and Form Opinions on A Subject
- ... an English-born man who seemed to stir controversy wherever he traveled. Paine's forceful yet eloquent prose made him a hero for the three great causes to which he devoted his life; the American Revolution, religious reform, and the natural rights of man. At the age of 37, Paine strove for the fabled shores of America, determined to forget his past. He made the acquaintance of Benjamin Franklin, and settled ...
- 2698: Locke Government Theory
- ... James II. Shaftesbury had tried to prevent James's right of succession, so he fled to Holland, and Locke followed. Locke returned to England with Queen Mary when she overthrew James II in the Glorious Revolution. The support which Locke showed for Mary demonstrates his mindset of politics, and shows his opposition towards despotic rulers and divine right. Locke saw many important men while in England, including Sir Isaac Newton, of ...
- 2699: The Alien And Sedition Acts
- ... session of Congress, Adams implied that people from foreign countries were enemies of the nation as their leaders had taught them impressed upon then undemocratic principles. Said Adams, "The speech of the President [ of the French Directory]...evinces a disposition to separate the people of the United States from the government...whom they themselves have chosen to manage their common concerns." Such distrust of immigrants led to the passing of the ...
- 2700: Gary Soto's Like Mexicans: Personal Experiences
- ... was at least what my mother was taught by her mother and can you blame her for inheriting su ch an ideology. For her, everyone who wasn't Mexican, black, or Asian were Okies. The French were Okies, the Italians in suits were Okies. When I asked about the Jews, whom I had read about she asked for a picture. I rode home on my bicycle and returned with a calendar ...
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