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- 5671: A Separate Peace
- ... pink worn by males suggests that they are gay , this really shows what a strong character Finny has. Gene on the other hand is a definite conformist, he is constantly striving to be seen as great by others. This is why when Finny brakes the school one hundred yards free style record without any training Gene cannot understand why Finny whishes to keep it quiet. Finny loves Gene, and Gene doesn’t seem to understand why a great person like Finny would want to be friends with him, so he begins to think of their friendship as a competition. As the book continues Gene begins to feel very threatened by Finny and starts ...
- 5672: Animal Farm 7
- ... is represented on the outside by their own physical being. One of the first and most obvious of Orwell s stereotypes is exemplified by the pigs. They represent the government officials and political figures. A great number of people would find that a quite suitable representation. Politicians have always been reputable as dirty, dishonest, and simply undesirable individuals. Pigs are among the filthiest animals to roam the earth. Some would say ... about politicians. I, for one feel that this comparison is very fitting. The second main comparison Orwell makes uses Boxer, the work horse, to represent the Russian working class. Laborious individuals and those who possess great physical strength are often said to be as strong as a horse. Boxer is both hardworking and extremely powerful. He was able to do as much work as all the other animals combined. He was ...
- 5673: An Essay In Retrospect To The
- ... readily accept others as their rulers, especially when they did not elect those rulers themselves. Some examples of this date back to the revolutionary war when the 13 colonies rebelled against their mother country of Great Britain. To the 13 colonies Britain probably seemed invincible. But the colonies rebelled anyway despite the great overwhelming power that Britain possessed. And with a little help from some outside supporters a new nation was formed from Britain s former 13 colonies. This is what is unavoidable in the novel Childhood s ...
- 5674: Analysis Of Clockwork Orange
- ... pills people take if they are an alcoholic. If they drink while on this pill, then they are made to feel violently ill. The association between the alcohol and the deathly ill feeling becomes as great as Santa Clause with Christmas. What they did to Alex could be seen as cruel and unusual punishment. I easily understood why it shouldn’t be done to somebody, but we actually do it in ... 90s. If this is true, then the creating minds of the film are telepathic, or extremely intelligent. To predict how our society would be in twenty years is either sad because they were right, or great because we should just ask them how our deviant subculture will be acting in the NEXT twenty years.
- 5675: All Quiet On The Western Front
- All Quiet on the Western Front This movie was a great example of an anti-war film. I have never seen a movie that depicted war scenes as graphic as this movie. At first, I didn’t really enjoy it, because the editing job was so ... one of the boys (the name I don’t remember) goes back to his class to tell the new students about war, he couldn’t contain himself. His teacher had made war sound like a great adventure that everyone should experience. When the boy got up to talk, he told everyone that it was horrible, and his teacher went crazy. War films that are made now are certainly anti-wars films ...
- 5676: After Apple Picking
- ... and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The apples from the Tree of Knowledge were the fruit that Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat, yet they still did and this conveys a feeling of great tension and regret as in the first few lines. The apple tree is the Garden of Eden and the apples left on the tree and the barrel that isn’t full represent the feeling of ... the way they had seen things before they took the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. In lines 27 – 29 also, the speaker says that he has “had too much” and is “overtired of the great harvest” he desired. Once Adam and Eve had eaten and gained all the knowledge they had wanted, they soon wished they hadn’t. In line 33 the apples that “struck the earth” represent Adam and ...
- 5677: African-American Literature, M
- ... want of children. She was completely unprepared for what they would mean to her life. Children shattered Meridian’s mother. Meridian would have loved for her mother to break the bonds of society like her great-grandmother Feather Mae, who “loved walking nude about the yard and worshipped only the sun.” But, her mother fell into the southern rut. This rut included never talking about sex. Meridian, believing the subject taboo ... her own path and be her own woman. Her time in the muck with Tea Cake allowed her to, upon her return to Eatonville after Tea Cake’s death, “pull in her horizon like a great fish-net” and to “call in her soul to come and see” (Both 184) the world and community she had once been so removed from. She had finally, at page 184 in the very final ...
- 5678: Aids- Sleep With The Angels
- ... that anyone who has HIV will not contract AIDS. Mary Fischer was and still is a very special individual. She realized that AIDS is not just an epidemic, but that it is an epidemic of great proportion. Mary Fischer was a very faithful person to her husband. She was not a drug-user, or gay. She was a victim of her husband s promiscuous ways. Because of her husband being unfaithful ... how much courage this woman has. I was in absolute admiration of Mary Fischer. This was just another classic case of the virus not having any regards for who it infects. Mary Fischer was a great lady who did nothing to deserve such a tragic lifestyle. She did not do anything wrong to deserve the virus. With all of this said, it is absolutely remarkable that she could show such strength ...
- 5679: Animal Farm Relating To Russia
- ... the danger of unquestioning acceptance of ideas and actions that are supposed to represent a better way of life. Throughout the book there are many examples of hatred and evil undermining what sounds like a great utopia when introduced, but not when they are lived. The ideas are very familiar because they are based on those that drove the Russian Revolution, and what went wrong with it. The difference between a ... but when he was exiled, Stalin enforced rules that no one else could veto. The dictator then stood unchallenged both in his cruelty and power. The animals of the farm firmly believed Napoleon was a great ruler regardless of the suffering they endured due to their unquestioning acceptance of ideas. For example, no one noticed when Snowball s idea was changed from, All animals are equal, (43) to All animals are ...
- 5680: A Comparison Contrast Of A Bra
- ... the drink was made- a plant whose true identity we don't know." (Astrachan) The drug is used as a form of recreation, like sex, and its use is encouraged at any opportunity, especially when great emotions begin to arise. They are conditioned to accept this to calm and pacify them should they begin to feel anything too intensely. The conditioning also provides them with their place and prevents them from ... entire society is conditioned to shrink away from intense emotion, engage in casual sex, and take their pacifying Soma. In 1984, a first-person book partly narrated by the main character's internal dialogue, the great party leader is "Big Brother," a fictional character who is somewhat more imposing than "Ford," of Huxley's book, named after the industrialist Henry Ford (Astrachan). The main character Winston fears Big Brother and is ...
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