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- 6001: Literary Paper of The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
- Literary Paper of The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck Steinbeck wrote many wonderful books but a great classic is one titled The Grapes of Wrath. This is a story of a family called the Joads, and a tale of a courageous family who sought security and family unity. In my paper I ... self fulfilling pleasure of helping someone else and realized that sometimes helping someone else can be more rewarding. It is said that this story is fiction, an invention of the human mind, but to a great degree it is true. The lives of so many people were tractored off the land. Survival forced them to accept their fate and to battle for the survival of the family unit. James N. Vaughan ...
- 6002: Living, Loving, and Learning: Buscaglia Reflection
- ... Science teachers. This allowed our school to make full use of the limited teachers and resources that it had. There was a lot of talented people that taught at Juab and some of them made great teachers and coaches, but some of them didn't. Sometimes it ended up that the football coach/algebra teacher cared a little more about tomorrow's football game than he did about ensuring his algebra ... I worked with there seemed like your average everyday Joe... UNTIL one day I saw him when he wasn't at work. He had rings in several parts of his body, and was wearing a great deal of hardware over his leather clothes. I barely recognized him! I said "Mac! Is that you?" He started laughing at me and said, "You should have seen me before I got my job. I ...
- 6003: Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Insight About Life and The World Around Him
- ... group and do things similar to what others do in order to gain acceptance by them. I smoked a cigar once with two friends of mine because they kept going on and on about how great cigars were, but that was only once. Holden and I both place people on levels other than our own for amount of knowledge and likeness to ourselves. Holden used the term 'phonies' to describe more ... people similar ways. We both dislike people who act phony because of insecurity. We also both lack motivation because of previous childhood experiences which have shaped our lives. Holden Caulfield and I have began our great journey through life with similar ideas to each other.
- 6004: Call of the Wild
- ... minutes later, the rest of the family that left Thornton behind fell through some cracked ice and drowned. That left Buck and Thornton to fend for themselves. The time of this book is in the great gold rush era in the Yukon and Alaska. The rest of the book concludes what happens to Buck and John Thornton and some of the great and strange times they have together. I enjoyed this book because it tells about the goods and bads of wilderness life. It doesn't just lean to one side.
- 6005: Brave New World: The Perfect World?
- ... Perfect World? Aldous Huxley's Brave New World presents a portrait of a society which is superficially a perfect world. At first inspection, it seems perfect in many ways: it is carefree, problem free and depression free. All aspects of the population are controlled: number, social class, and intellectual ability are all carefully regulated. Even history is controlled and rewritten to meet the needs of the party. Stability must be maintained at all costs. In the new world which Huxley creates, if there is even a hint of anger, the wonder drug Soma is prescribed to remedy the problem. A colleague, noticing your depression, would chime in with the chant, "one cubic centimetre of soma cures ten gloomy." This slogan is taught to everyone, from the youngest to the oldest. Unhappiness, intellectual curiosity, disagreement, suffering - none of these feelings ...
- 6006: Summary of The Heart of Darkness
- ... horror! The pilgrims bury Kurtz. Marlow himself becomes very ill and, still physically and spiritually shaky, he goes back to Brussels with Kurtz's papers and the knowledge of his reputation. He finds out a great deal more about the man Kurtz had been a Company employee and from Kurtz's cousin. He goes to see Kurtz's Intended, and finds her devoted to the illusion that Kurtz was a great and good man. When she questions Marlow about Kurtz's final words, he cannot bring himself to tell her the truth, telling her instead that Kurtz died uttering her name. The setting returns to the ...
- 6007: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... you'd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than you do now? No, says I, I'd feel bad
" (p.127). Only a few weeks with Jim and still feeling great ambivalence, Huck returns to the river to think. Twain tries here to tell the reader how strong the "mob" really is, and only when totally alone is Huck able to make the morally correct decision ... s character is his relationship with Jim. The friendship and assistance which he gives to Jim go completely against all that "sivilization" has taught him; at first this concept troubles Huck and causes him a great deal of pain, but over time, through his life experiences and shared times with Jim, Huck crosses the line upheld by the racist South and comes to know Jim as a human being. Huck is ...
- 6008: Analysis of Chris Marker's "La Jetee", and Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida"
- ... and giving us conclusions. Instead, he is playing off of these fundamental ideas, both on a theoretical level and upon that of the average person's paradigms. His film requires interpretation, and has gotten a great deal of it. I found Barthes's book to be a perfect vehicle for this task. Barthes writes that, the photograph is violent. It is violent because on each occasion it fills the sight by ... have a different punctum for a each different person viewing it, but when the punctum is there the picture suddenly becomes alive for the viewer. For Barthes, the punctum is a necessary quality for any great photograph, it is the only thing that can make a photograph come alive. My first photography teacher often talked about the punctum, pointing it out in whatever photographs he found it in, and it is ...
- 6009: The Last of the Mohicans: Summary
- ... and much respected man. The British officer named Duncan is also very much in love with Cora Munro. He fights under command of her father, and despite her fathers initial dislike for Hawkeye, and his great liking for Duncan, Cora does not feel the same love for Duncan that he feels for her. Magua is a member of the Huron tribe and has a great hatred for Colonel Munro, and has made it is life's mission to kill Munro as well as his children to wipe out the Colonel's seed forever. Magua is a very seditious man, and ...
- 6010: The Old Man and the Sea: Isolation
- ... isolation Hemingway uses DiMaggio who is Santiago's hero in baseball as a symbol of Santiago. The old man supports this idea through : " But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel. " ( P 68 ) Although DiMaggio had an illness in his heel that prevented him from running properly, he managed to become a great baseball player. Santiago symbolize himself as DiMaggio because they are similar. Santiago is injured now with pain and blood all over his body without anyone to heal his wounds. He did not want to give ...
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