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- 5781: The Brothers K
- ... and the future to come. Throughout mankind’s occupation of earth, we have been plagued by war and the sufferings caused by it. Nearly every generation of people to walk this earth have experienced a great war once in their lifetimes. For instance, Vietnam for my father’s generation, World War 2 for my grandfather’s, and World War 1 for my great-grandfather’s. War has become an unavoidable factor of life. Looking through history and toward the future, I grow concerned over the war that will plague my generation, for it might be the last war ...
- 5782: The Bridge Of San Luis Rey. By Thornton Wilder
- ... actress (considered a somewhat disreputable occupation in the eighteenth century); now she has made her money in the theater and come under the patronage of a Viceroy and she wants to be known as a great lady. She rejects Uncle Pio as being below her station, and unnecessary to her new life; worse, he is a reminder of the old life she now wants to forget. He goes to see her ... deaths bear this out. The Marquesa had just made the decision to reform her life as well as Pepita’s. They never got the chance. Uncle Pio was old, but he could have been a great influence upon Jaime, who like Pepita had his whole life ahead of him. Only Esteban was ready to give up at twenty-two. Suddenly, however, all five lives are snuffed out, regardless of whether they ...
- 5783: The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky
- ... Comes to Yellow Sky" is a parable of the East's invasion of the West through role changes in a small western town. This invasion is perfectly illustrated in the first setting. Crane writes, "The great Pullman was whirling onward with such dignity of motion that a glance from the window seemed simply to prove that the plains of Texas were pouring eastward" (401). This, the first sentence of the story ... Sky to marry his bride in secret. Potter is very self-conscious of "his change from his formal role as the lone marshal, ever ready for a fight" (Solomon 252). Potter is embarrassed in the great eastern train car. He is not accustomed to the fancy Victorian environment, and neither is his wife. Potter is also worried about the act of his marriage itself. He felt "the shadow of a deed ...
- 5784: The Book Of Matthew
- ... Jesus. He also keeps His promises, goes before us, and has all authority. He will prepare a way for us if we trust in Him for he has promised to be with us always. The great message of the Gospels, then, is that God is not up yonder on some throne; He is not waiting in some distant judgment hall to pass judgment upon us. He is ready and waiting to ... all for us. When the King is enthroned in life, the kingdom of God is present. That is the message of Matthew -- "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matt 4:17). The great question to which Matthew demands an answer is, "Is Jesus Christ King of your life?" Have you received him only as Savior of the body or Savior of the soul? The question that Matthew brings ...
- 5785: The Bluest Eye
- ... home environment is linked to how Pecola comes to live with them and what affect the two had on each other. Pecola’s presence slightly foreshadows her future longing for blue eyes by showing the great interest she had in Shirley Temple, who was known for being a pretty white girl. Claudia then goes into a series of stories and descriptions of what type of environment Pecola must live in at ... figure in his life and so he never learned to become a father, which became a proponent of Pecola’s psychological downfall. Polly as a child always played the role of a housewife. She had great aspirations of one day meeting her prince and living a wonderful life. She thought she found him in Cholly when he came along and cared for her lame foot, but as she and Cholly began ...
- 5786: The Bell Jar
- ... all the flowers that were dead.' This also shows that Esther can be pedantic, even obsessive. A further example from earlier in the novel, which also shows some of the first signs of Esther`s depression, validates this: `Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep... I slump down so far and then say: "I`ll go take a hot bath."' she goes ... failed. However, I believe that all her problems stem from her father's death and her mother's way of dealing with his death. I believe these are the main factors which caused her severe depression, which lead to her suicide attempts.
- 5787: The Bell Jar
- ... for love, support and to act as a model for her life. Esther grew up with only the one influence of a parent, her mother. Often times the loss of a friendship can be a great loss of support and confidence within our lives because we can lose them forever. This is demonstrated when Buddy Willard Esther's boyfriend break up. "He told me that his annual fall chest x-ray ... when Doreen had opened new doors to her. Esther was coming through a very difficult time in life, when Doreen started drifting away from Esther. Once again, Esther experienced the loss and support of a great friend and advocate. Ones' life is made up by framework. You gather friends and folks together and in this framework it clarifies your identity. You articulate and express opinions. You articulate and express opinions. In ...
- 5788: The Beak Of The Finch
- ... doing the research reported by The Beak) were certainly careful to keep their little island as closed as possible. They washed themselves carefully, watched for any alien seeds they might bring, and so on. The great irony is that after twenty five years of observing, the net result is no change: Individual variation from year to year, surely, but nothing even remotely approaching one species turning into something else. The Problem ... Bad Science, Bad Education." Scientific American, Nov. 1997: 114-118. See also http://www.sciam.com/1197issue/1197review1.html. Newton, Sir Isaac. 1687. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Trans. Andrew Motte and Florian Cajori, 1939. Great Books of the Western World. Ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952. Quammen, Peter. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. New York: Scribner, 1996. "The 1995 Pulitzer Prizes ...
- 5789: The Awakening
- Edna Pontellier The Awakening, which was written by Kate Chopin, received a great deal of criticism when it was first published in 1899. Much of the controversy over the novel arose because of the character of Edna Pontellier. Edna was very much unlike the women of her time ... she will return to it in her memory as she paints. Another form of art in which Stone refers to is structured art, which is supplied by Mme. Reisz. Mme. Reisz plays her music with great feeling and art, which evokes pictures in Eden's mind and her passions of her body, arise once again. These pictures and passions once again contribute greatly to the continuing development of Edna's artistic ...
- 5790: The Artificial Nigger: Truths Behind Racism
- In O'Connor's "The Artificial Nigger" the essences of prejudice and degradation are captured to a great extent. Reality shows us with needless consistency people in a need to feel better about themselves only achieve it by being better than someone else. Therefore every opportunity at hand, including racism, is taken advantage ... back again". (270) Nelson finally concedes to have experienced the city once, not twice as he adamantly claimed. For Mr. Head choosing to do nothing is a choice in itself. "The Artificial Nigger" is a great story, which can be used to help better understand what sorts of underlining factors come into play when people have deep hatreds of distinct cultures. Not commonly can a racist attribute all his hate to ...
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