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- 2951: Gatsby's Pursuit of the American Dream
- ... Jay cannot accept that the past is gone and done with. Jay is sure that he can capture his dream with wealth and influence. He believes that he acted for a good beyond his personal interest and that should guarantee success. Nick attempts to show Jay the folly of his dream, but Jay innocently replies to Nick's assertion that the past cannot be relived by saying, "Yes you can, old ...
- 2952: The Bluest Eye: Quest for Personal Identity
- ... were only a few of the many hardships that the African American people had to face at this time. Families often had to separate, social agencies were overcrowded with people that all needed help, crime rates increased and many other resulting problems ensued. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison takes place during this time period. A main theme in this novel is the "quest for individual identity and the influences of ...
- 2953: Book Review: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars.
- ... genetics which led to a greater understanding of the relationship between heredity and environment. Together with statistical studies of populations, these innovations in biology undermined crude biological determinism and racial taxonomy. Much of the British interest grew out of a concern not with race but with class, and with the political implications of biological determinism for social and education policy (p. 63). Liberals like Julian Huxley, and socialists like J.B ...
- 2954: Like Water for Chocolate: Family Relationships
- ... supposed to replace the father and be responsible for the rest of family members and take care of them. On the contrary, she was very selfish in that she used her daughters for her self-interest. This mother did not let her youngest daughter marry because she wanted her to stay and take care of her. Because of a duty that her mother gave her, the youngest daughter could not marry ...
- 2955: A Rose for Emily
- ... her great aunt who had gone completely mad. These opinions seem to come from female members of the town because they have a nosy approach. "At first we were glad Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, 'Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer.'," (43). The ladies continue to throw sympathy towards Emily, although she never hears of it. She ...
- 2956: A Review of Lawrence E. Walshs Iran/Contra
- ... Review of Lawrence E. Walshs Iran/Contra Lawrence E. Walshs Iran/Contra is written in a simple, yet hard to understand style. This book is an appropriate reference for the professional with an interest in one of the most publicized executive blunders and gross abuse of power since Watergate that has happened in the past 50 years. It provides a detailed glimpse of the organization, sustainment, and downfall of ...
- 2957: Catcher in the Rye: Holden Caulfield
- ... but he never quite knew how to do it while on a date. Holden is much like the average teen in this regard. The media and other primary sources in teens lives have taken an interest in sex, and have made it seem like it is the greatest thing known to mankind. Most teenagers find it slightly embarrassing to admit to being chaste, mainly due to the fact that they think ...
- 2958: The Great Gatsby: Nick Carraway Fulfilling Whitman's Dream Of America
- ... make valuable use of anything he learns. He is always the passenger while others drive. One senses that Nick would have nothing to say or think was it not for the lives around himkeeping his interest. "The poems distilled from other poems will probably pass away. The coward will surely pass away. The expectation of the vital and great can only be satisfied by the demeanor of the vital and great ...
- 2959: The Silence of the Lambs
- ... for dinner. At that same moment Dr.Chilton is deboarding a plane and walking toward Hannibal. The novel The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris is a true psychological thriller. The story captivated my interest from the first page to the last. I look forward to reading the sequel Hannibal.
- 2960: A Rose For Emily: Comparison to The Sound and The Fury
- ... in Homer Barron,a foreman from the North(a yankee). This is symbolized by the construction and the building of the streets in Jefferson. The town people were glad that now Miss Emily had a interest at her late age of 33. After a while though the town ladies thought it was a disgrace, them always being seen together all the time and not being married. In come to Cousins that ...
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