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- 7161: Essay: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... that they live in and starve, if they did not have the privilege to hunt and eat the food that they kill. The Cunninghams were a family of truthfulness, loyalty and able to carry on great responsibilities. They did not want to hurt anyone, they were grateful for the people that had helped them on their journey of life. When the Cunninghams were wrong they admitted it, when they were right they didn't show it. They had great respect for anyone who walked on the face of the earth. But as usual the Ewells were just the opposite, they did not tell the truth on a consistent basis, and it wasted a human ...
- 7162: Holding the Dream
- ... this unexpectedly, Kate didn’t know why or how come she was being told this now so late in her life and why she was never told when she was younger. Kate went into a depression and shut everyone out in her life, she couldn’t believe that something like this was hidden behind her parents terrible death. She didn’t know why her father was such a cheat and a selfish man to kill himself and her mother, but yet have the guts to leave her orphaned. Her depression lasted a long time of month after month, she shut everyone out, she felt cheated out of a life she could have had. Her sister like sisters were always there for her and in time ...
- 7163: Shielded Consequences
- ... being a witch in order to get his land: “If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property-that’s law! And there is none but Putnam with the coin to buy so great a piece. This man is killing his neighbors for their land!”(96). Although Putnam doesn’t get Corey, he does get to George Jacobs. Instead of legally and morally acquiring land, Putnam’ ceases his own ... his error, as he sees the innocent people that are imprisoned: “Judge Hathorne-it were a different kind that hanged till now….I would to God it were not so, Excellency, but these people have great weight yet in the town…Excellency, I would postpone these hangin’s for a time”(127). Parris finally understands that his actions hurt so many people. He knows that these people individually did not commit ...
- 7164: The Crucible: Deteriorated Rational and Emotional Stability of Salem
- ... rigid stipulations on deviation, fear of the unknown, and mass confusion. These conditions left Salem susceptible to an apparent epidemic such as witchcraft. The susceptibility that Salem fell victim to, was the cause of a great tragedy which saw twenty townspeople hung at the hands of the state. The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a story of a great catastrophe which highlights a “free man’s courageous and never-ending fight against mass pressures to make him bow down in conformity”(intro.-x) and shows how hysteria can be used for evil purposes in ...
- 7165: Coming of Age in Mississippi
- ... for sound justice in America. Anne Moody’s autobiography is one of the 500 Greatest Books by Women. Erica Bauermeister calls it blunt, powerful and angry. The story of Anne Moody is a story of great courage. A women who decided to challenge the norm of a small Mississippi town and survived with her pride intact. While fighting for justice she makes great sacrifices, like her family, friends and home. She comes out of the storm understanding her people a little bit more as well as herself.
- 7166: Machiavelli's The Prince: Views of A Leader
- ... to use his power ruthlessly, and not to concern himself too much with questions of good faith and conscience. In this case he would advise the President to act like the fox and be a great falsifier. Machiavelli calls upon the ruler to use his power mercilessly, and not to concern himself too much with questions of good faith and conscience. Men are bad, and would not keep their word to ... keep their words were quite sucessful. Machiavelli’s advice for President Clinton lying under oath is based upon the way our society and mankind behaves. We need a president with a combination of Machiavelli’s great image of the courage of the lion with the cunning of the fox.
- 7167: The Lottery: Setting, Atmosphere, and Mood
- ... a calm mood in the reader, and work to create an unexpected surprise in the final paragraphs. Similarly, Lord Dunsany creates mood and atmosphere in his story The Ghosts with the use of setting. “His great lonely house, in the midst of a dark gathering of old whispering cedars.” This description creates a mood of darkness and loneliness, which is appropriate for a story about ghosts. Dunsany gives great detail to the cedar trees, which seem to encase the reader with an eerie feeling. This development of setting plays an important role in the story. Keeping the reader in a scared frame of mind ...
- 7168: Saint Augustine: Confessions
- ... as an object. The human mind has the tendency to make everything objective. We have even made objects of God and his holy son, despite the commandment in Exodus, which forbids it. This is all great, but the question remains; What is time? In this paper, I hope to achieve some understanding of this question by refering to Chapter 11 of Saint Augustine: Confessions. In this chapter, Augustine attempts to find ... it the past. When things are to happen, we call it the future. Last, but not least, when things are happening, we call it the present. At this point, Augustine brings up on of many great points. He asks, “ Of these three divisions of time, then, how can two, the past and the future, be, when the past no longer is and the future is not yet?” (Coffin 264). This statement ...
- 7169: The Grapes of Wrath: Rose of Sharon and The Starving Man
- ... also reported that the conditions were much worse than Steinbeck had reported. Freeman Champney remarked that the novel "looked as if nothing could avert an all-out battle between revolution and fascism in California's great valleys." The social injustice depicted in the novel was depicted so sharply that Steinbeck was even accused of being a revolutionary. An Oklahoma congressman disliked the novel saying that the book is a "black, infernal ... family. At the end of the novel, he has shifted to trying to do what is best for all the migrant people by trying to organize them even though he knows this involves him in great personal danger. That shift in thinking is also accompanied with the replacement of the individual family by the world family. The thing that started the breakup of the individual family was the loss of their ...
- 7170: Voltaire and Machiavelli
- ... to be ridiculous. The following passage from page two will suffice to prove this point. Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh passed near the screen and beholding this cause-and-effect chased Candide from the castle with great kicks on the backside; Cunegonde fainted away; she was boxed on the ears by the Baroness, as soon as she came to herself; and all was consternation in this most magnificent and most agreeable of ... that Pangloss is wrong. This is a powerful theme throughout the novel and can be expressed by a chapter in which Candide visits an Italian statesman who is unimpressed with the work of men considered great writers, artists, and thinkers. He states: "Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself. I like only that which serves my purpose" (72). Hardly a more ...
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