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- 1951: Summary of The Heart of Darkness
- ... Kurtz's “unsound methods” and, almost in spite of himself, Marlow finds himself on Kurtz's side. The harlequin informs Marlow that it was Kurtz who ordered attack on the riverboat, and worries about the effect of this on Kurtz's reputation. The harlequin then disappears into the jungle after borrowing some shoes and English tobacco. Marlow awakens at midnight to discover that Kurtz has disappeared. He experiences a deep “moral ...
- 1952: You Just Don't Understand: The Differences In Men and Women
- ... salesperson was not successful in opening the screw, so he showed her how she can take pictures without the light meter (64). In this case, Tannen's source is herself. This could have a great effect on the interpretation and create a bias. One can not know what was going on in the salesperson's mind. By providing her own evidence in an example, Tannen limits some of her open-mindedness ...
- 1953: Morrison's Jazz: Characters' Actions
- ... Morrison is an extremely well written account of black life during the mid 1850's to the late 1920's. Morrison manipulates the three main character's personas while analyzing their lives to show the effect that a person's history has on their present day life. The most interesting thing I found concerning this novel has the way in which Toni Morrison was able to present you with a first ...
- 1954: Analysis of Chris Marker's "La Jetee", and Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida"
- ... comes alive for me, and also for the character in the film. She is suddenly living and breathing, real to both the viewer and the character, and photography had to be negated to achieve this effect. As I began to explore this idea, and as I began to reexamine Barthes's idea of the punctum, I began to rethink this original conclusion. This is because Barthes wrote that the punctum of ...
- 1955: Animal Farm: The Corruption in Humans and The Character Napoleon
- ... manipulative nature, and personal drive all lead to the disintegration of society in Animal Farm. From the start Napoleon was thought to be a very devious character. He is a cold hearted individual and the effect he had on others didn't have much impact on his moral character. His tactics for deception were his cunning ways. An example of this is when the pigs milked the cows and someone asked ...
- 1956: The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Isolation and Alienation
- ... go unnoticed. Her “ornament,- -the scarlet letter,--which was her doom to wear” (79) shown out quite obviously to everyone throughout the town. Assuming the encounters with the scarlet letter would have some kind of effect of immunity was quite the opposite of what truly happened. “From first to last, in short, Hester Prynne had always this dreadful agony in feeling a human eye upon the token; the spot never grew ...
- 1957: International Economic Policy: Book Review
- ... included agriculture and textiles. He remarked that developed countries agreed to liberalize the second category as to encourage developing countries to liberalize the first category (68). Another topic, that he was to view, was the effect on the relation between global trade and its effects on the environment. He was optimistic about the future of environment with further trade growth. He saw that economic growth may be linked to more pollution ...
- 1958: The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath
- ... men to realize that the power is truly hers, once they realize it, she will return the power to them. Another explanation could be is that while attempting to assert female dominance over him the effect the Wife of Bath really wants is to bring men and women to a more balanced level of power. Wife of Bath is a woman who falls out the normal way that a woman in ...
- 1959: Ignorance and Racism in Heart Of Darkness
- ... B. Singh, author of The Colonialistic Bias of Heart of Darkness said "The African natives, victims of Belgian exploitation, are described as 'shapes,' 'shadows,' and 'bundles of acute angles,' so as to show the dehumanizing effect of colonialist rule on the ruled" (269-270). Another similar incident of "double speak" appeared on the death of Marlow's sailors, a native. Marlow respected the sailor, yet when the native's blood poured ...
- 1960: Modern Relevancy of A Christmas Carol
- ... would make an impression on many people's ideas of Christmas even if it were written in the past decade. Although the characters and the setting are based in the mid-1800's, the overall effect can be associated with Christmas of any year. Maybe even people celebrating Christmas in the future can relate to the morals displayed in A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens' did an incredible job of writing a ...
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