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- 1801: The Missouri Compromise
- ... a compromise to resolve this conflict. California would indeed be admitted as free while the rest of the Southwest territories would decide the slavery issue by popular sovereignty. It would also abolish slavery altogether in Washington DC and initiate a stronger fugitive slave law to appease the South. This last concession angered people in the North however. Free blacks were concerned as now a Southerner could accuse any black person as ...
- 1802: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... NY: Whitson Publishing Company, 1993), p. 109. 9 Hunter, "Steinbeck's Wine of Affirmation." p. 42. 10 Hunter, "Steinbeck's Wine of Affirmation." p. 41. 11 Hunter, "Steinbeck's Wine of Affirmation." p. 41. 12 George Ehrenhaft. Barron's Book Notes on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. (Woodbury, NY: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1984), p. 19-20. 13 Keith Ferrell. John Steinbeck: The Voice of the Land. (New ...
- 1803: Flaws in Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- ... that Twain seems to ramble on and on and on an..... To me it seems as if the story that he was writing became faint shortly after the time when Huck says, It's me. George Jackson, sir(pg. 95). I do have to give him that the feud was interesting filler, but you can only take so much filler. Then when John Wayne (The Duke) and Elvis (The King) come ...
- 1804: Animal Farm: Utopia
- ... A Utopia is an ideal society in which the social, political, and economic evils afflicting human kind have been wiped out. This is an idea displayed in communist governments. In the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell Old Major's ideas of a Utopia are changed because of Napoleon's bad leadership. Old Major explains his dreams and ideas to all the animals before he dies. At his speech all the ...
- 1805: Animal Farm
- ... was born in Bengal in 1903, educated at Eton, and after working for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, returned to Europe and started writing novels and essays for a living under his pen name "George Orwell." He was a political writer of his time, and usually wrote from his intense feelings and fierce hates. He hated government having complete control, and served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil ...
- 1806: The Battle Of Little Big Horn
- ... trying to prove this, they found that the Indians were actually claiming less (Ambrose 359). In 1876, the agencies were taken from the churches and given to the army to control. This was petitioned to Washington with statements that soldiers were obnoxious and their dislike for Indians was very obvious. Also the army was corrupting the Indians by introducing and encouraging alcohol and gambling. The petition also stated that all the ...
- 1807: A Comparison of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Anthem"
- ... story takes place sometime in the near future after some kind environmental catastrophe that makes it impossible for most women to have children. To solve this problem some radicals set off a nuclear bomb in Washington during a full session of congress and then declare marshal law. They then systematically took all rights away from women and forced the ones that could have children into camps where they would be contracted ...
- 1808: Universial Themes in "The Return of the Native" and "Great Expectations"
- ... that are fully realized throughout the novel. Furthermore, as an explanation of why Great Expectations is Dicken's finest work, it becomes necessary study to study the thematic elements that are prevalent within the storyline. [George Bernard Shaw] The theme is developed through a character Pirrip Philip, a poor orphaned boy living with his sister and her husband, Joe. He is a father figure for the boy and is a hard ...
- 1809: A Case of Needing: Serious Revisions
- ... in the course of a medical examination are cleverly explored. Dr. Lee would not have found himself so easily railroaded had he only had the luck to have been born Dr. Smith. Lee's lawyer, George Wilson, is himself not aided any by his African-American heritage. As a recent trial that need not even be named clearly demonstrated, in a criminal matter, science will always take a back seat to ...
- 1810: Comparison of 1984 and Animal Farm
- Comparison of 1984 and Animal Farm In George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, reality is defined by what the leaders tell the commoners it is, and the idea of individuality and free thought are abolished in order to preserve that reality. 1984 ...
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