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- 1651: The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
- ... were all westerners and and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to eastern life. In other words, after finding out what the east was really like, Nick lost his interest in being in the east and returned to the west. Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when they were ...
- 1652: Attitudes Toward Marriage in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- ... For example, the Miller's Tale is a story of adultery in which a lecherous clerk, a vain clerk and an old husband, whose outcome shows the consequences of their abuses of marriage, including Nicholas' interest in astrology and Absalon's refusal to accept offerings from the ladies, as well as the behaviors of both with regards to Alison. Still, Alison does what she wants, she takes Nicholas because she wants ...
- 1653: A Deeper Look into Sexuality of Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and its Literary Criticisms
- ... the same emotion (if it can be called that) that I experienced when first reading it. Steinbeck planned for that. In a letter to George Albee in 1933, Steinbeck comments on this story and his interest in Albee's opinion of it. “...It is entirely different and is designed to strike without the reader's knowledge. I mean he reads it casually and after it is finished feels that something profound ...
- 1654: The Irony in "The Lottery"
- ... the irony and without them the story would not have been as interesting as it was. If these were not included then the story would not be the same and would not keep the readers' interest. Work Cited Jackson, Shirley. "The lottery" Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. Ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. Third Ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1997. 309-16.
- 1655: Comparison of Margaret Mead's "Coming in Age" to Russian Youth
- ... Often this psychology backfires and many teenagers start sex without their parents knowledge. Their inexperience often leads to pregnancies which are terminated by abortions. In fact, the Soviet Union has one of the highest abortion rates. Although abortions have been legal since 1955, the State clinics are intimidating. No one talks to the patient, she is one of a faceless stream and often she gets no anaesthetic. There is a lack ...
- 1656: Heart Of Darkness: Themes in Garden of Evil and Heart of Darkness
- ... told by Kurtz or the Swedish Captain. 2. Kurtz is introduced as a super human being who everyone looks up to because of his supirior math skills and he is very articulate. He excites our interest because everybody talks so high of him we want to explore our image of him. 3. Marlow said Kurtz was "Hollow to the Core" because he did not have anytime for people who were into ...
- 1657: Enduring, Endearing Nonsense of Fairy Tales
- ... an adult or, forbid the thought, maybe you haven't discovered them at all! Those who have journeyed Through the Looking Glass generally love (or shun) the tales for their unparalleled sense of nonsense. Public interest in the books--from the time they were published more than a century ago--has almost been matched by curiosity about their author. Many readers are surprised to learn that the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire ...
- 1658: A Modest Proposal: A Different Version
- ... I have worked out the details entailing the added cost of these daily dancing ladies. A well-known friend of mine, who owns a nightclub off of Harry Hines, was kind enough to divulge the rates per hour that dancers, he could find for Jesuit Prep, would accept. The amount I was told is $5.00 per hour, ensured that this was a very generous deal by my friend. This meager ...
- 1659: Dante's "The Hermaphroditic Joyce"
- ... have spoken, and they must be obeyed (Joyce, 274). Linguist, Jennifer Coates states that woman- speak is revolved around power, and, as Dante illustrates in this quote, that women's conversational style, and topics of interest will usually be subconcious admittances to the idea that women must obey men, and remain socially submissive (Coates, 203). Joyce's realistic portrayal of Dante does not end there, however. In studying the findings of ...
- 1660: The Great Gatsby: A Full Spectrum of Character
- ... cheating and is tends to bend the rules when it suits her, such as during a game, or during her relationship with Nick. Jordan seems to be a standard of semi-corruption, of naked self-interest, that the other characters on the extremes of the scale of moral and social considerations can be measured. Thus, The Great Gatsby presents an extremely interesting set of moral imagery. It can be said, then ...
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