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- 1821: Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, and Pessimism
- ... moral agents. The little boat, lifted by each towering sea and splashed viciously by the crests, made progress that in the absence of seaweed was not apparent to those in her. The characters had no control over their boat, rather nature was totally in control. She seemed just a wee thing wallowing, miraculously top up, at the mercy of the five oceans. Occasionally a great spread of water, like white flames, swarmed into her. (pg.145) There is also a ... also expressing the anger the characters feel toward the ever present fate of nature. The entire story in itself is a portrayal not of the conflict between man and nature, but rather the effect and control nature has on human fate, strengthening the naturalistic ideas and views through this tale of four stranded men. The fact that the waves, the tides, the freezing water and all the other characteristics of ...
- 1822: Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk: A Review
- ... This book is targeted at adults specifically with younger children, but from my view these methods can be used in the job place or when talking to someone else. The book talks a lot about control. People control the conversation too much. We do this without knowing it. Sometimes people control the conversation by talking Sarcastically: is that what you're wearing -- polka dots and plaid? Ooh, you ought to get a lot of compliments today.' Blaming or Accusing: Your finger prints are on the ...
- 1823: Stephen Coonts' "Flight of the Intruder": Summary
- ... for a days and tries to convince his squadron leader that the targets are worthless, that thousand of Americans have died en route and returning from these. The leader replies that he is not in control of the targets, the Pentagon and Air Force is. Jake gathers information from maps and a friend in the navigation department to learn about a target he wants to go after: The Vietnam Communist Party ... a EA-6B for SAM (surface-to-air missiles) suppression. This plane only carried antiradiation missiles to destroy the SAMs and their radar. But, as they were approximating (approaching, advancing on) the first SAM surface gun destroyed most of the plane. The crew ejected within the midst of the night; Grafton landing safely, but Cole's back broke. Eventually, they were rescued by a helicopter, but an A-1 Skyraider pilot ...
- 1824: Evaluation of The Lord of the Flies
- ... 11 or 12 crashes near an uninhabited tropical island. As soon as they land, one of the eldest assumes leadership of the others, but not before befriending an overweight, asthmatic boy nicknamed Piggy. Ralph takes control of the boys and organizes a small expedition up the mountain. He meets Jack Merridew, the chief antagonist. Jack is then a leader of choir boys, but will soon turn into a leader of savages ... Flies in the novel. Jack holds another pig-feast. Ralph and Piggy at first do not attend but are eventually drawn to it mostly by hunger, but also in a fleeting attempt to regain some control over the boys. Almost all of the boys have join Jack's tribe by this point. Simon has an extremely symbolic hallucinatory experience in the jungle as he starts to believe that the head is ... fire goes out. His glasses not only provide the literal fire for the island, but also a symbolic fire that drives the rationality in Ralph and the other boys. Unfortunately, he gradually loses that rational control, and eventually not he but Jack becomes the possessor of the fire, albeit a sadistic and tyrannical possessor. The character whom I admire the least is not Jack as might be expected, but Roger. ...
- 1825: Critical Review of 1984 By George Orwell
- ... on today, several things are not going to happen for some time to come. I believe that Orwell's purpose for writing 1984 was to express his feelings of how the governments would come to control everything and anything it wished to do. It is also possible that he wanted t tell of how mind control and torture techniques could be used to make an individual or an entire nation do what the government wanted. In his novel Orwell used the image of a man who stood in a shadow that ... attempt to repeat. He used the prospective of several different people through Winston's interaction of them, and their disscusions. He also used his imagination extreemly well to describe the technology that is used to control the people of the world. Even today we are making things that Orwell described like the telescreens. He also used comparisons of the real world to the world of his story. The image of ...
- 1826: The Sword in the Stone
- ... a small amount of reasoning would have solved the problem quickly. The ants are of a collective mind, so that what one thinks, they all think. They go about their daily lives oblivious to the control the leader has over them. Wart's fourth transformation places him in a flock of geese. These geese are a peace loving race that never kill. There is one leader to a group who is ... While Wart is visiting him, he explains a story he has written on the creation of the animal kingdom's hierarchy. In his commentary he explains how man answered God's riddle and is awarded control over the animal kingdom. He lives a life of solitude because many other animals do not think at his level. They listen because he is old and experienced, and with this comes respect. Through each ... and fear, as does the fisk-king. Unlike the falcon, a ruler should not retain power only because of age, and should rule with the subjects well-being in mind. One should not exert total control over one's subjects, because they lose creativity and individualism as shown by the ants. A democratically elected leader, whom subjects have faith in his or her ability to get a job done, and ...
- 1827: What Makes Up A Work Of Literature
- ... up to the authorities. H owever, McMurphy was much shorter than the Chief and had a much smaller build. As the book progressed, McMurphy tried to convince the patients that he could lift a huge control panel and throw it out a window to escape. He tried, and failed. He al so tried to convince the Chief to try to lift it; McMurphy knew that the Chief could, but because the ... of the novel, the Chief realized that he was growing "bigger" again - he was regain ing his previous size from the courage that McMurphy had given him. However, McMurphy had been "shrinking," falling under the control of the Combine. The final blow was when Nurse Ratched ordered a lobotomy on McMurphy. From then on he was as smal l as ever to the Chief. The Chief, however, now realized that he himself was bigger than ever; he put McMurphy out of his misery by smothering him, and lifted the huge control panel that he was previously convinced he could not. He threw it throug h the window and escaped. Ken Kesey may have realized that people sometimes seem different because of the power or freedom ...
- 1828: Native Sun: Themes of Racism, Violence, And Social Injustice
- ... accuse them of many more crimes. Luckily for Bigger, though, the Relief Agency did find him a job with the Daltons. When Bigger went to the Daltons house for the first time, he brought his gun, because it made him feel equal to the white people. When Bigger got to the Daltons house, he didn't know whether to enter the house by the front or back door. He looks for ... talks to other people about him while he is standing next to her, like he was the third person. Richard Wright also shows how Bigger is caught up by forces he could neither understand, or control. Bigger found a sense of freedom and identity in acts of violence. Bigger mainly disliked his family because he feels sorry for them. And when Bigger picks on his friend, Gus, it is mainly out ...
- 1829: Malcolm Little
- ... an Islamic temple in New York. There he met and married Betty X. they had a total of six children together, all of which were daughters. He started out teaching independence from whites trying to control blacks. "Our enemy is the white man, oh yes that devil is our enemy." Malcolm said. (Myer pg. 106) By this time the F.B.I. was paying people to attend Malcolm's speeches and ... also burnt to the ground in the middle of the night in February of 1965. Malcolm began to carry a loaded automatic rifle in his apartment. During a speech in his hometown of Harlem a gun fight broke out, Malcolm was assassinated. Some believed the F.B.I. feared what was to happen and had arranged for his death, others thought it was the Nation of Islam. Either way he was ...
- 1830: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... salaries, spurred passage of a bill to outlaw racial discrimination in public schools, and took important steps to preserve the wildlife, forests, and national beauty of his state. In September 1901, Leon Czolosz, with a gun hidden in his bandaged fist, shot President McKinley and put Theodore in the White House. Although President by accident, few men have been as prepared to be chief executive. His greatest achievement was making reform ... accusations of improprieties on his part, Roosevelt threw his hat into the political ring against Taft in the 1912 Republican presidential nomination. Although Roosevelt outpolled Taft over-whelmingly in the primary states, the presidents control of the party machinery enabled his supporters to seat a crucial number of contested delegates at the convention in Chicago. Roosevelts delegates, after loosing the contest over the election of a temporary chairman and ...
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