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- 551: The Grapes of Wrath: Rose of Sharon and The Starving Man
- ... selfish, immature girl, grows into a woman like her mother and cares for others first, no matter the cost. In fact, at the novel's end, each of the major characters has changed. As Warren French puts it, each has received an "education of the heart," resulting "in a change from the family's jealously regarding itself as an isolated and self-important clan to its envisioning itself as part of ... The publication of The Grapes of Wrath caused a nationwide uproar. This account of the migrant workers was taken more of a social document than as fiction. Some saw it as "a distorted call to revolution." As stated in Masterpieces of World Literature, "As a social document, the novel presents such a vivid picture of oppression and misery that one tends to doubt its authenticity." Daryl F. Zanuck even hired private ... of the novel, and his agents also reported that the conditions were much worse than Steinbeck had reported. Freeman Champney remarked that the novel "looked as if nothing could avert an all-out battle between revolution and fascism in California's great valleys." The social injustice depicted in the novel was depicted so sharply that Steinbeck was even accused of being a revolutionary. An Oklahoma congressman disliked the novel saying ...
- 552: The Roots of Judaism and Christianity
- ... same time Moses Mendelssohn and a few other Jews were urging their coreligionists to acquire secular education and prepare themselves to participate in the national life of their countries. Such trends were intensified by the French Revolution. The French National Assembly granted (1791) Jews citizenship, and Napoleon I, although not free from prejudice, extended these rights to Jews in the countries he conquered, and the ghettos were abolished. After Napoleon's fall (1814- ...
- 553: The Congress of Vienna
- The Congress of Vienna This essay is about the effects of the French Revolution on Europe, the Congress of Vienna, and its goals. It will tell about the role of Nationalism, Liberalism, and conservatism in this time period. Also it will tell of the European's revolutions between 1830 ... Liberalism and conservatism. Leberalism is a philosophy that supports guarantees for individual freedom, political change, and social reform. At the time of the Congress of Vienna, Liberals supported the ideas of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Conservatism is a philosophy that doesn't want change that would threaten that way of life. It supports the traditional political and social order. Conservatives didn't want nationalism because they thought that ...
- 554: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... Dickens’ A Tale Of Two Cities, that Dickens himself is a supporter of it. This just simply is not true. Dickens uses capitol punishment as a tool to define the evil embodied in both the French ruling class, and the opposing lower class during the French Revolution; as well as comment on the sheep-like nature of humankind. In the beginning of the novel, capital punishment serves as the "cure-all" for France’s social problems. After all, "death is nature’ ...
- 555: Nostradamus's Prophecies
- Nostradamus's Prophecies For four centuries Nostradamus's prophecies have inspired fear and controversy. His followers say he predicted the French Revolution, the birth and rise of Hitler, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He predicted some of history's most monumental events, from the Great Fire of London to the launch disaster of the space ... a different place in the church, and while it was being moved a priest looked inside the coffin to reveal an amulet on his skeleton with the year 1700 on it. In 1791, during the French Revolution, soldiers broke into the church in search for money. While in the church the soldiers found food and alcohol that they ate and drank. Some people claim that a soldier drank wine out ...
- 556: Paul Revere
- ... Paul Revere was a man of many talents, a “Jack Of All Trades” if you will. Patriot, silversmith, engraver, and republican, he was destined to be a hero. Born to parents Apollos De Rivoire, a French Huguenot, and Deborah Hitchbourn, Paul Revere came into the world on January 1, 1735 in Boston Massachusetts. Clark’s Wharf is where the Reveres resided now. The third born of eight children Revere learned early ... the Revolutionary War were be gossiped about around the town. On the Sunday morning in which he was to toll the bell of Christ’s church a young boy heard the first gun of the revolution. Revere didn’t know this yet but his honorable duty lay within that revolution. On the twenty-second day of July, 1754 Reveres father died in his sleep. He was buried in the Old Granary. Paul was very distraught over losing his father. They were close, more like ...
- 557: Romanticism: Grande Odalisque
- ... X form of the composition draws your eye all around the composition. The eye starts at the top right with the Revolutionary figure holding on to a piece of cloth in the colors of the French Revolution and then is drawn down the diagonal. Géricault then depicts the striving, the dying, and the dead as they overlap each other in a fierce struggle to survive. The eye is then drawn up and ... transitional piece which reflects both Realism and Romanticism. In this piece Goya depicts a specific incident in which a number a civilians in Madrid were rounded up in killed in retaliation for the deaths of French soldiers a few days before. Painted during Goya’s “Black Period” the tenebroso conflict of the light fighting away at the dark sky is extremely dramatic and the chromatic effect from this adds to ...
- 558: The History of Linen Manufacturing
- ... was allowed to expand into the most important industry of that time in Scotland. With the advances in agriculture, Scotland was moving away from living at the subsistence level and moving along into the agrarian revolution. This allowed for urbanisation and greater numbers of labourers. Since the farm no longer needed as many workers to survive, people had to find other means of work. This allowed for the availability of cheap ... were encouraged again in 1742 when the Bounty Act was passed. It gave an export subsidy per yard of plain linen to exporters of coarser linen to the British colonies. An additional duty on imported French cambrics paid for the subsidy. This boosted the output and export of linen within a few years. The fine linen industry was also given a boost. In 1745, an Act was passed that prohibited 'the Wearing and Importation of Cambrics and French lawns'. The manufacture of fine linens rose due to this. By the 1770's the fine linen industry was worth one fifth of the total value of the Scottish linen manufacture but was only ...
- 559: Frankenstein Biography, Settin
- ... dramatic and tragic, if not more so, than her famous gothic novel. Mary's parents were themselves well-known in English society and somewhat notorious. Her father, William Godwin, was a radical theorist on the French Revolution. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a pioneer of women's rights and her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman caused considerable reaction at the time. Furthermore, she already had an illegitimate child, Fanny ... means of supporting herself and her son. Further works of hers were published including The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, Lodore and Falkner. She also found work by contributing biographical and critical essays on famous Italian, French, and Spanish writers for a regular publication. Percy secured a place at Harrow and Mary continued working throughout his education which continued at Cambridge. Mary's works became more diverse, writing prefaces and notes ...
- 560: Hitler
- In the fall of 1922, the Germans asked the Allies for a moratorium on the reparations payments that they were required to pay according to the Versailles Treaty (from World War I). The French government refused the request and occupied the Ruhr, the integral industrial area of Germany, when the Germans defaulted on their payments. The French occupation united the German people to act against the occupation by staging a general strike. The German government supported the workers by giving them financial support. Inflation increased exponentially within Germany creating a growing concern ... troops during a parade. The plan was to arrive on the street before the troops arrived, shut off the street by setting up machine guns, and then get the triumvirate to join Hitler in the "revolution." The plan was foiled when it was discovered (the day of the parade) that the parade street was well protected by police. They needed another plan. This time, they were going to march into ...
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