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- 401: Escape Towards Death
- ... her small, midwestern town knew and felt. Hagar's life was completely devoted to Milkman, her cousin and lover. "He is my home in this world." (pg. 137) Her happiness, Milkman, would ultimately be her depression as "Ecclesiasties" finally turned her success into failure, though Hagar exaggerated the loss and apparently was not aware of the Biblical promise that her life would eventually regain confidence and prosperity. After Milkman no longer ... result of a never-ending love. Death was the only resolution to her burdens, because her love for Milkman would have never ended, and she would have simply continued her cycle of stalking, attempting murder, depression, and weak hope had she not died. Pilate, Hagar's grandmother, was the second main character to die; though considered one of the toughest and emotionally strong characters, Pilate was still secretly burdened with her ... but also a new beginning to the future, happy with her father's spirit. Milkman, the most emotionally changeable character, was the final descendant of Solomon to die, with a death most linked to his great-grandfather. Milkman was never truly satisfied with his life until his end. Beat by his father before his birth and ph ysically attractive to his overly nursing mother, Milkman began his life knowing a ...
- 402: Grapes Of Wrath 2
- The people and the Depression In the book The grapes of Wrath, the Joads undergo the hit of the depression, they have to leave their farm. They go to California for jobs, but find there are few jobs, and it Pays little, or at least less then what they were told. The government tried to ... many other places, or the towns folk could have just created a lynch mob, and eventually the people living in the development would leave. I believe that the economic situation of the country has a great effect on the fall, or succession of people like the Joads, but I don't believe government programs will effect them at all. For example, the great depression was a major economical event, and ...
- 403: Restore the Emperor Expel the Barbarians: The Causes of the Showa Restoration
- ... purchasing power of the nations that imported Japanese silk such as America; and the worldwide rise in tariffs, combined to stagnate the Japanese economy.Footnote21 In urban Japan, there were also serious economic problems. A great gap in productivity and profitability had appeared between the new industries that had emerged with the industrialization of Japan and the older traditional industries. The Japanese leadership was not attuned to such obstacles and thus ... to the west by making an unfavorable agreement about the size of the Japanese Navy (the Washington Conference and the Five Powers Treaty) and by reducing the size of the military in 1924. With the depression that struck Japan in 1929; the military increased their attack on the government politicians for the failure of the Meiji Restoration. Throughout the 1920's, they demanded change. As the Japanese economy worsened their advocacy ... restore the grandeur of Japan. Leading right-wing politicians joined the military clamor, calling for a restoration not just of the Emperor but of Japan as a global power.Footnote29 1929 marked the world wide Great Depression. International trade was at a standstill and countries resorted to nationalistic economic policies. 1929 became a Japanese turning point. The Japanese realized that they had governmental control over only a small area compared ...
- 404: Willem De Kooning
- ... to Manhattan, painted signs and worked as a carpenter in New York City. Then in 1935, he landed a job with the Works Progress Administration, a government agency that put artists to work during the Great Depression. By the next decade, he had attained a place in the downtown art scene among his fellow artists. By the late 1940s, de Kooning along with Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman ... who had one foot in Europe and one in America. He combined classical European training in Holland with a love for popular American culture. The restlessness and energy of American life was a source of great inspiration and passion for him. Gary Garrells, the chief curator at the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art said, " He had the wildness of Pollock but mixed with the impeccable craftsmanship of the European ...
- 405: Redemtion And Salvation In A T
- ... health. Characters such as Charles Darnay slip through the fingers of death more than once. Redemption and salvation do not always come in the form of being saved from death. Sydney Carton, a man of great potential, has wasted his life and ends up giving his life, in an act of redemption. Dickens, in A Tale Of Two Cities, shows that no matter how bleak a person's life might seem ... It helps the reader understand Dr. Manettes state of mind before he is saved and nursed back to health. The bench represents how insane Dr. Manette has become. Even though he is a man of great intelligence, he worked day after day for eighteen years on one shoe maker's bench. He has been forced to give up on life and wait in his cell, "on hundred and five north tower ... and not his own. Dr. Manette, a hero among the French revolutionaries, frees Darnay by swaying the crowd in his favour: "His[Dr. Manette] high personal popularity, and the clearness of his answers, made a great impression" (Dickens p 265). This trial really shows how lucky Darnay is that he met the Manettes. For it was only Dr. Manette's imprisonment that saves Darnay. Darnay's freedom is short-lived ...
- 406: The Great Gatsby: Morals and American Idealism
- The Great Gatsby: Morals and American Idealism The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story of morals and American idealism, this being a major theme of the book, which is corrupted by using materials as its means. Nick, the narrator as well as one of the main characters of The Great Gatsby, has moved to the East coast from the West to learn the bond business. He rents a mid-sized bungalow on West Egg, where most of the other residents have adopted their wealth, ...
- 407: The Great Gatsby Is A Tragic H
- A tragic hero can best be defined as a person of significance, who has a tragic flaw and who meets his or her fate with courage and nobility of spirit. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a tragic hero. Jay Gatsby is an enormously rich man, and in the flashy years of the jazz age, wealth defined importance. Gatsby has endless wealth, power and influence but never ... loves and wishes to represent his ideal. Furthermore, Gatsby believes he can win his woman with riches, and that his woman can achieve the ideal she stands for through material influence. Gatsby believes in The Great American Dream, for that is where the basis for his ideal originated. Later, the concept developes into an obsession with money and more so, Daisy. Gatsby's tragic flaw lies within his inability to see ... if he cn only make enough money. To become worthy of Daisy, Gatsby accumulates his wealth, so he can rewrite the past and Daisy will be his. He establishes an immense fortune to impress the great love of his life, Daisy; who can only be won with evidence of material success. Over the five years in which Gatsby formulates this ideal, he envisions Daisy so perfect that he places her ...
- 408: The Native American Attitude Toward the Land
- The Native American Attitude Toward the Land The Native American people were a people of great love towards the land. The way the great people of the past have shown their love is by the way the oral tradition has past on the great ways of the traditional worship of the land and the many gods play roles in their life. The Native American people of the past have shown the way to portray the way to peace ...
- 409: The Causes of World War 1, and the Battles
- ... Battles The First World War had many causes; the historians probably have not yet discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes than what we know now. The spark of the Great War was the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife by a Serbian nationalist on the morning of June 28, 1914, while traveling in a motorcade ... head of Serbian military intelligence. In order to understand the complexity of the causes of the war, it is very helpful to know what was the opinion of the contemporaries about the causes of the Great War. In the reprint of the article "What Started the War", from August 17, 1915 issue of The Clock magazine published on the Internet the author writes: "It is thought that this war that is ... Archduke Francis Ferdinand. However, many other reasons led to this war, some occurring as far back the late 1800's. Nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and the system of alliances were four main factors that pressed the great powers towards this explosive war." According to the article above, the author stresses that the nationalism was one of the primary causes of the war. In the ninetieth and twentieth centuries, especially after the ...
- 410: The Yellow Wallpaper: Oppression of Women In Society
- ... Paper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the protagonist is oppressed and represents the effect of the oppression of women in society: the dominant submissive relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife pushes her from depression into insanity. First of all, flawed human nature seems to play a great role in her breakdown. Her husband, a noted physician, is unwilling to admit that there might really be something wrong with his wife. This same attitude is seen in her brother, who is also a ... it seems to me that there is a rebellious spirit in her. Perhaps unconsciously she seems determined to prove them wrong. As the story begins, the woman -- whose name we never learn -- tells of her depression and how it is dismissed by her husband and brother. "You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one's own ...
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