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- 681: Grapes Of Wrath - Censorship
- ... tribulations of the Joad family and other migrants is told throughout this novel. In order to gain a perspective into the lives of "Oakies", Steinbeck uses themes and language of the troubling times of the Great Depression. Some of these aspects are critiqued because of their vulgarity and adult nature. In some places, The Grapes of Wrath has been edited or banned. These challenges undermine Steinbeck's attempts to add reality to ... ideas were very common. In fact, Upton Sinclair, a socialist writer, was nearly elected governor of California. Living conditions, the opposition between the Californians and the "Oakies", and the inability to break out of the depression all added to beliefs of the times. Steinbeck was not advocating socialism, he was just reflecting the times. Without these individual beliefs of the "reds" and other people that showed either socialistic or anti- ...
- 682: Technology And The Future Of W
- ... term ‘The Third Industrial Revolution’ which he believes is now beginning to have a significant impact on the way society organises its economic activity. He describes it as the third and final stage of a great shift in economic paradigm, and a transition to a near workless information society, marked by the transition from renewable to non-renewable sources of energy and from biological to mechanical sources of power. In contrast ... and describes views similar to Jenkin’s as "… century old conventional economic wisdom" and " … a logic leading to unprecedented levels of technical unemployment, a precipitous decline in purchasing power, and the spectre of a worldwide depression." It is questioned whether Jenkins’ solution of re-training will be able to replace all displaced workers. Educator Jonathon Kazol (1985) points out that education for all but a few domestic jobs starts at the ... revive the economy. Clearly unions saw the problems resulting from technological change to lie partly, in increased leisure time (Rifkin 1996). . Unemployment is steadily rising, global unemployment has now reached its highest level since the great depression of the 1930s. More than 800 million people are now underemployed or are unemployed in the world, while the rich are becoming richer and the poor getting poorer. Unemployment rates among school leavers ...
- 683: Great Expectations. The Charac
- Great Expectations. The Character of Estella One of our first thoughts, like readers, when we finish the novel is to establish two lists; one of good characters and other of bad characters. Since this paper is ... stars shining and in a ruined house. it's a very clear pathetic fallacy which comes to represent what they have become with the passing of time. They have not fulfiled their own expectations. The great lesson Estella learns is that goodness does not come from a high social rank, it comes from inner nature. As a star is a heavenly body which has its own light Estella is a cold ...
- 684: Charles Dickens
- ... the history of literature. In Dickens many books he combined master storytelling, humor, pathos, and irony with sharp social criticism and a keen observation of people and places both real and imagined. He had a great understanding of people and showed sympathy for the poor and helpless and mocked and criticized the selfish, the greedy and the cruel. His well-known books are A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, and A Tale of Two Cities. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Landport, a division of Portsea. His house can be identified and some ... he sketched his father in light spirits as Micawber and in a sadder more realistic aspect as Dorritt. Many people wondered how there could be a man who was both Micawber and Dorritt, seeing the great difference in personality between the two. People couldn’t possible believe that this was Dickens father so they just said that those characters were part of his imagination. John Dickens moved around quiet a ...
- 685: Marco Polo
- ... one of the most well-known heroic travelers and traders around the world. In my paper I will discuss with you Marco Polo’s life, his travels, and his visit to China to see the great Khan. Marco Polo was born in c.1254 in Venice. He was a Venetian explorer and merchant whose account of his travels in Asia was the primary source for the European image of the Far ... into mongol territory, moving southeast to Bukhara, which was ruled by a third Cowan. While waiting there, they met an emissary traveling farther eastward who invited them to accompany him to the court of the great Cowan, Kublai, in Cathay(modern China). In Cathay, Kublai Khan gave the Polos a friendly reception, appointed them his emissaries to the pope, and ensured their safe travel back to Europe(Steffof 10). They were ... and the two good friars turned back at the first sign of adversity, another local war in the Levant. Aside from the pope’s messages, the only spiritual gift Europe was able to furnish the great Kublai Khan was oil from the lamp burning at Jesus Christ’s supposed tomb in Jerusalem. Yet, in a sense, young Marco, the only new person in the Polos’ party, was himself a fitting ...
- 686: Great Expectations Why Does Pi
- ... the first time introduced to a girl whom he is later to fall madly in love with. It is here that he is referred to only as boy. It is here that he forms his Great Expectations . From these experiences Pip finds out about what he considers polite society, but Satis House is a place where society is anything but polite. This is exemplified by Estella s blatant lack of regard ... Pocket he is permitted to kiss the beautiful young girl, but then she slaps him, knocking him back and shocking him. A heartbroken, man-hating, miserable woman, and an emotional cripple help form pip s Great Expectations . How can this not be one of the major influences on the impressionable young boy? Each encounter that Pip endures with these women contributes to his change; each time Pip visits Miss Havisham and ...
- 687: Led Zeppelin
- ... to an essentially acoustic base. It was all about depth of feeling, he says today. In 1990, it's that same depth of feeling that keeps the many Zeppelin imitators just that. Like with a great comedian, you can retell the jokes but the laughs just aren't the same. The next album, Led Zeppelin IV, was a watershed moment in the band's history. The lp slipped into stores in ... with little fanfare. Here was a more "mature" work that also rocked as hard as any of their previous efforts. It was remarkable music for a band that was still, essentially, a trio with a great singer. Bonham and Jones had begun to feel their confidence. It was Bonham who spontaneously interrupted work on another (never-finished) track by playing the drum-part from Little Richard's "Keep A-Knockin'." And ... not an easy first listen. ("It usually takes people a year to really catch up on our albums," page once said.) The band hit the road again with new material. Their popularity was now so great that they served as a test-case. They were selling out massive stadiums that had never hosted rock and roll before. Records were breaking at every stop, yet in 1973, it was the Rolling ...
- 688: Great Gatsby 7
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about several people's lives in high society, told from the point of view of a rather normal man. The theme of the withering of the American ... considered altogether 'good' or 'happy'. This is shown in many of the characters, including Tom, Gatsby, and George. Through rising by his own actions from the poor state of his youth to a state of great wealth in later years, Gatsby seems to embody the American dream. However, one part of the American dream involves superior morality, which is certainly one thing that Gatsby lacks. Much of his wealth is achieved ...
- 689: John the Baptist
- John the Baptist John the Baptist was a great and mighty prophet. His birth was foretold to his father, Zechariah, by the angel Gabriel. It was a miracle that Elizabeth, John=s mother, was able to give birth, since both of his parents were past the child-bearing years. John entered this world, with his parents knowing that great and powerful things were to come from their son. Although John was a tremendous prophet, he is rarely mentioned in our Christian teachings or in the Bible (Greenhough 71). Gabriel foretold John's birth in ... the two. And so you see my son, the old priest whispered, you were not born to common things. The Lord hath laid his hand upon you from your mother=s womb He will do great things for you as he did for Samuel, the prophet. Only be thou faithful and forget not that whereunto thou art called.= And the lad answered, If He will only speak unto me, I ...
- 690: The Great Gatsby: Tragedy From Lies
- The Great Gatsby: Tragedy From Lies In the world people try to hide things from each other but one way or another they find out what they are hiding. In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the secrecy and deceit practiced by Jay, Daisy, and Myrtle leads to inevitable tragedy when the truths are revealed. Jay failed to realize that if you tell a lie most ...
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