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- 11001: Greek Mythology
- ... are all things to all people a rollicking good yarn, expressions of deep psychological insights, words of spine-tingling poetic beauty and food for the imagination. They serve a timeless universal need, and have inspired great literature, art and music, providing archetypes through which we can learn much about the deeper motives of human behavior. No-one has the definitive answer as to why or how the myths came into being ...
- 11002: Greek Gods
- ... affected every aspect the poem in some way, shape or form. Yet, from the immortal perspective of the Greek god, the Trojan war, and everything related to it, was only a passing adventure in the great expanse of time.
- 11003: Grapes Of Wrath 2
- ... ma is reluctant to let her past go. On their journey they lose their first family member, Grampa Joad. This shows that there is a strong connection between a man and his home. Grampa s great longing for his homeland ultimately resulted in his death. The shift from individual thinking to wide spread thinking is most directly seen in the actions of Tom Joad. In the beginning of the play Tom ...
- 11004: Grapes Of Wrath 4
- ... them on their journey to California. His style in The Grapes of Wrath is to have a chapter with dialogue and the story, and to then give a picture of the times. He describes the depression of the 1930 s and gives the reader a full view of what the migrants were going through. There is a dialogue and story chapter, which is followed or preceded by an intercalary (between) chapter ...
- 11005: Mythology: Dionysus And Semele
- ... doors unbarred themselves. Pentheus was furious. He ordered his soldiers to imprison Dionysus but the prison could not hold him. Dionysis tried to show that the wonders of this new worship of a new and great god was divine but when Pentheus only heaped insults and threats upon him, Dionysus left him to his doom.(Hamilton 71) When Pentheus went to pursue the maidens that had escaped his prison, many Theban ...
- 11006: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- ... blacks. When Maya was a young girl growing up, her brother Baily brought her to see a Kay Francis movie where she was relegated to the colored balcony. In her early adolescence Maya had a great concern for equality and self- determination for the black race, which took precedence over forging friendships, receiving love notes, exchanging valentines, sizing up a male admirer, and completing the eight grade. Even from early on ...
- 11007: Gullivers Travels 2
- ... misanthropy. In his letter to Pope, Swift wrote: I have got Materials towards a Treatise, proving the falsity of that Definition, animal rationale and to show that it should be only rationis capax. Upon this great foundation of Misanthropy . . . . . . the whole building of my travels is erected; and I will never have Peace of Mind until all honest Men are of my Opinion. To Swift, men were not like the Houyhnhnms ...
- 11008: Mythology: Important Part of History
- ... I all tried to claim the title. Each of us tried to persaude the judge, Paris, in our favor. Hera told him he would be a powerful ruler, Athene promised him that he would receive great military fame, and I guaranteed him Helen of Troy's hand in marriage. He then declared me the fairest of all, and abducted Helen of Troy thus beginning the Trojan War. I have also inspired ...
- 11009: The Paradox of Community
- ... and unmaking communities. Furthermore, this study illustrates how such manifestations, reflections of the insider's ideology, fail to live up to the promises for law in our society. In the 1970s, Sander County was undergoing great social and economic changes. Agriculture, a central part of life for most residents, became more mechanized and a few large manufacturing plants opened, bringing in quite a number of a certain element Sander County had ...
- 11010: The Bluest Eye: Quest for Personal Identity
- ... to societies norm her story does. Cholly was a misunderstood Blackmale adult. He was a part of the generation that started the Black community in the north. For Cholly, the responsibilities of that were too great and he therefore needed to withdraw from society. Pauline was representative of the part of the Black --- that tried too hard to conform to the White culture. She found what she was looking for and ...
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