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- 4251: Candide - All Is Not For The B
- ... hope of finding her and achieving total happiness. On his journey, he faces a number of misfortunes, among them being tortured during army training, yet he continues to believe that there is a "cause and effect" for everything. Candide is reunited with Cunegonde, and regains a life of prosperity, but soon all is taken away, including his beloved Cunegonde. He travels on, and years later he finds her again, but she ...
- 4252: Candide
- ... hope of finding her and achieving total happiness. On his journey, he faces a number of misfortunes, among them being tortured during army training, yet he continues to believe that there is a "cause and effect" for everything. Candide is reunited with Cunegonde, and regains a life of prosperity, but soon all is taken away, including his beloved Cunegonde. He travels on, and years later he finds her again, but she ...
- 4253: Big Two-Hearted River - Part I
- ... he writes, "I go to fast." Like Hemingway would do years later, Anderson was forcing the reader to become a part of the story. The entire book is a dialogue between narrator and reader. The effect is that the reader becomes even more involved in the stories. Both of these works are unlike others from the same time period which are told completely using first person narration. Gertrude Stein's The ...
- 4254: A Domestic Dilemma By Carson M
- ... and his wife intoxicated after the baby had been dropped on her “frail skull”(100). Martin then hired a maid in order to watch the children and look after Emily(100). Significantly, the setting’s effect on the family’s relationship demolishes their closeness. Martin’s surroundings “seemed vast and somehow desolate” because he is aware of his wife’s’ displeasure living up north (97). Being away from her family and ...
- 4255: Lord Of The Flies
- ... is called at the familiar place and Ralph reprimands them about their irresponsibility. Then the subject of the so called “beast” comes up. Ralph and Piggy try to give an explanation but it has no effect. Eventually chaos spreads though the crowd and the run off led by Jack, and Ralph is thoroughly agitated. That night, an air battle is going on and a dead pilot, with a parachute, lands next ...
- 4256: The Chosen By Chaim Potok
- ... The Dickinson quote relates to almost everything in the novel, and is very easy to use while explaining certain details. The novel, The Chosen, shows us how important friends really are, and what kind of effect your family has on the decisions you make. The bond brought between Danny and Rueven is remarkable, a quest to absorb as much knowledge as possible like they did, is incredible. The strange way of ...
- 4257: The Beauty Myth
- ... It is forgotten that “beauty pornography”, as Wolf says, focuses on underweight models that are usually 15 to 20 years old. Flaws, wrinkles and other problems are airbrushed out of the picture. Wolf discusses the effect that these standards are having on women in the workplace. A woman’s beauty, or lack of it, can be used against her. In 1986, Mechelle Vinson lost a sexual harassment case. “Vinson was young ...
- 4258: Passing By Nella Larsen
- ... pass themselves off as white in order to enjoy the privileges that were afforded to white people during this period in American history. The Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling of "separate, but equal" was still in effect at this time in history. Therefore, one could understand why it could be advantageous for African-Americans who had light enough skin to pass themselves off as white. Passing is narrated by the character, Irene ...
- 4259: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... fear of technology. Initially, the intention of the story is for the narrator to write about what the scientists who invented the atomic bomb were doing the day it was dropped on Hiroshima. To this effect, one of the scientists in the story said, "Science has now known sin," to which another replied, "What is sin?" (Vonnegut, Cradle, 21). The focus on technology quickly changes to a material called ice-nine ...
- 4260: Eagle Eyes
- ... work on ways of keeping himself under control and that shows the role parents need to play with children with ADD. By using this book in my classroom, I would explain the ways ADD can effect a child. Probably some of my students will have ADD and those who do not understand. The book I think would help them understand the troubles and triumphs students who have ADD go through. Gehret ...
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