|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 1891 - 1900 of 14167 matching essays
- 1891: Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises
- ... Jake has racist views, the hatred he has for his former friend Chon Chon is strictly based on the jealousy he feels towards Chon for the weekend he spent with Brett. Jake goes in to great detail about Chon's early life. He speaks highly and admiringly of Chon, but in a condescending way. A reader get her first hint on page one that Jake has some racist feelings toward Chon ... point to rub it in Jake¹s face. Jake says ³...it was giving him pleasure to be able to talk with the understanding that I knew there was something between them² (106). Jake has a great deal of trouble dealing with this. It has nothing to do with the fact that Chon is Jewish, Jake is merely jealous of him. It would not be manly for Jake to openly admit his ... Jake does. In this story Jake allows the woman that he to loves run his life and occupy his thoughts. Jake is a bitter person, and he is living in a time of unhappiness and depression that resulted from the war. The hate he feels for his former friend Chon Chon is not one of racism; before the incident with Brett they were close friends. This is just another case ...
- 1892: Tradition and World War 1
- ... vastly upheld during the times of European colonialism. These years allowed the French to act together, accompanied by tradition, in order to remain a European power, conscious that outside the European continent her rival was Great Britain, within Europe the main intimidation to her security and force was Germany. The rule of General de Gaulle was a time of tradition and a time of variation. He first came to power in ... generation lived and experienced times of war, leaving life-long marks on all concerned. Tradition, in this sense, would be one of the only means of keeping a country together. France also experienced an economic depression in the 1930’s. This was caused mainly because of the Wall Street Crash in November of 1929. At first, the impact on France was minimal, as the very archaism of most of the sectors of the French economy meant that France was virtually insulated from the world economic slump. However, the arrival of the depression in France was only delayed: and then came in 1931 and lasted until 1938, even after the recuperation of the world economy in 1935. Production dropped sensationally, bringing about sharp falls in prices and ...
- 1893: Hamlets Problem
- ... told Hamlet. His plan is to study Claudius s reaction to the play to determine his guilt. Even after Hamlet decides his uncle is guilty, he doesn t do anything. This would have been a great time to confront Claudius, but Hamlet seems more interested in taking credit for what he did instead of seeking revenge. Throughout the play Hamlet is deeply hurt by his mother s decision to remarry his uncle. As Hamlet says, Frailty thy name is woman , her actions cause Hamlet to curse women all together (Act 1, Scene 2, Line 146). In the first Act, Claudius and Gertrude question Hamlet s depression. They push Hamlet to accept his father s death and move on with his life. While Hamlet should admit his hatred of their marriage, he hides his feeling. While Hamlet is holding back his feelings ... his mother, he insists on her to tell him the truth. If Hamlet wouldn t have taken so long, her confession could have taken place earlier in the play. This could save him from a great deal of pain and leave his thoughts for other problems. Hamlet s biggest obstacle in getting even with his father s murder is Claudius being crowned king. With Claudius being in such a powerful ...
- 1894: John Coltrane
- ... Gillespie and Charlie Parker. As a result of Coltrane's impressive performance, he landed his first big gig with the Dizzy Gillespie band. Despite his first big gig, Coltrane lived his next few years in depression, drugs, and alcohol; however, he gathered the strength to seek rehabilitation. He later converted to Islam and got his life together. In 1950-1951, he continued to work with Dizzy in Dizzys sextet. Life was ... Tyner's brilliant piano solo, which is filled with passionate harmonic invention and breathtaking right-hand flurries. Drummer Elvin Jones supplies the fuel for the excursion: His fiery and urgent polyrhythms inspire the leader to great heights. Following Tyner, Coltrane returns with angular, jagged statements featuring short bursts, squeals, and moans that bristle with energy. "Pursuance" opens with a Jones solo before Tyner borrows from Coltrane's frenzied attack. Tyner's ... the closing "Psalm," he seems to have found what he's been searching for. "Psalm" is the uneasy calm after the storm, a tenuous peace, but peace nonetheless. The album appeared in early 1965 to great popular and critical acclaim and remains generally acknowledged as Coltrane's masterpiece. In a sense, though, it is stylistically as much a summation as a new direction, for its modalism and incantatory style recall " ...
- 1895: Teenage Pregnancy
- ... Calhoun 309) In some cases, teen mothers may also receive help like Medicaid, Food Stamps, and "Aid to Families with Dependent Children" (AFDC). (Newman 679) Besides educational and financial problems, teenage mothers may face a great deal of emotional strain and may become very stressed. Teen mothers may have limited social contacts and friendships because they do not have time for anything other than their baby. Lack of a social life and time for herself may cause the teenage mother to become depressed or have severe mental anxiety. (Johnson 5) Depression may become worse for a teenage mother because she usually does not know much about child development or about how to care for their children. Children who are born to teenage mothers usually suffer from ... mother continues to live with her parents so that they can help to raise the child. Young, teen mothers need health care for themselves as well as their children. An adolescent mother also needs a great deal of encouragement to get her to remain in school. Single teenage mothers also need job training so that they can get a good job to support themselves and their children. Teen mothers need ...
- 1896: The Condition Of Postmodernity
- ... as the dynamic becoming, the "creative destruction" as he calls it, of modern capitalist mode of social reproduction. While Harvey does argue that the differences between the cultures of modernism and postmodernism are not as great as the defenders of the latter would have us believe, insofar as both are ultimately grounded in capital's restless transformation of the modern world, he also attempts to establish the specificity of postmodern culture ... modernism of Le Corbusier and Mies Van der Rohe. He shows, in particular, how the industrial methods of Fordism, which established their primacy in the realm of production in response to the crises of the Great Depression and the Second World War, were applied in the architectural realm to solve urgent problems of postwar urban renewal. Similarly, Harvey shows that when the decline in the rate of profit forced the rigid ...
- 1897: African Colonialism
- ... present stage and what must be done to undo what is wrong and hopefully correct this situation. Africa first played a role in Europe s and the America s history when the U.S. and Great Britain needed labor. They needed a lot of it and they needed it cheap. There was nothing cheaper than free labor. It would require an initial investment to African leaders but it paid off almost ... take over Africa politically. When Europe came into power they took their English speaking, Christian modernizers and put them in charge of the newly colonized countries. Africa was colonized by Europe by countries such as Great Britain and France, which one can still see evidence of today. This was done at the Berlin Conference. The only two countries not directly colonized where Ethiopia for somewhat religious and Biblical reasons and Liberia ... way where the international economy could help them out but where Africa did not have to totally rely on it. This is because they don t want to all of a sudden go into deep depression because the countries they depend on fall into a recession. Africa cannot jump into a world market economy as quickly as it wants. It has to establish itself, industrialize and be certain it can ...
- 1898: Ritalin and Its Uses
- ... the levels of dopamine in the frontal lobe where attention and impulsive actions are regulated. When taken in its intended form under a doctor's prescritption, it has moderate stimulant properties. There has been a great deal of concern about it's addictive qualities and adverse affects. ADHD is a relatively new disorder. It was introduced in 1980, where it was labeled ADD(attention deficit disorder). In the 1950's, children ... referrals and a lack of school psychologists (1:2100 students). Many times, it has been shown, that psychiatrists who often diagnose for ADHD in children, are disdiagnosing disorders similar to ADHD such as learning disabilities, depression or anxiety disorders; disorders that do not neccessitate Ritalin as a therapy. Some doctors who are reluctant to prescribe Ritalin find that the childeren's parents just switch doctors and find doctors who will. Unfortunately ... dosage such as: nervousness, insomnia, decreased appetite, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, heart palpitations, headaches, rise in heart rate and blood pressure, skin rashes, itching, abdominal pain, weight loss, digestive problems, toxic psychosis, psychotic episodes, and severe depression upon withdrawal. Many question if such a drug should be so freely handed out to children because of it's possible dangerous effects. Parents are even trying to lessen the restrictions on Ritalin so ...
- 1899: John Coltrane
- ... Gillespie and Charlie Parker. As a result of Coltrane's impressive performance, he landed his first big gig with the Dizzy Gillespie band. Despite his first big gig, Coltrane lived his next few years in depression, drugs, and alcohol; however, he gathered the strength to seek rehabilitation. He later converted to Islam and got his life together. In 1950-1951, he continued to work with Dizzy in Dizzys sextet. Life was ... Tyner's brilliant piano solo, which is filled with passionate harmonic invention and breathtaking right-hand flurries. Drummer Elvin Jones supplies the fuel for the excursion: His fiery and urgent polyrhythms inspire the leader to great heights. Following Tyner, Coltrane returns with angular, jagged statements featuring short bursts, squeals, and moans that bristle with energy. "Pursuance" opens with a Jones solo before Tyner borrows from Coltrane's frenzied attack. Tyner's ... the closing "Psalm," he seems to have found what he's been searching for. "Psalm" is the uneasy calm after the storm, a tenuous peace, but peace nonetheless. The album appeared in early 1965 to great popular and critical acclaim and remains generally acknowledged as Coltrane's masterpiece. In a sense, though, it is stylistically as much a summation as a new direction, for its modalism and incantatory style recall " ...
- 1900: Flooding
- ... permission.) He described the years from 1870 to 1920 as a time of “insouciance” when no storms struck, and pavilions were built up and down the coast. Ferocious storms followed the 50-year lull: a Great Nor’easter tore off one end of the Haddock House hotel in 1920, a severe hurricane washed out all the timber jetties in 1944, another large storm struck in March ‘62. But there was not ... house that would be underwater during a storm if sea level rises as projected. “But my grandfather built this house with all of the money he didn’t lose during the bank failures of the Great Depression and even if the sea rises a few feet, I am not selling my house. Is anybody in this room going to sell their house because of the rising sea?” he asked. After hearing ...
Search results 1891 - 1900 of 14167 matching essays
|
