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- 4631: Movie Analysis - Sand Pebbles
- ... imperialism. During the 1800's and early 1900's there was a severe foreign influence in China. During this time period the European nations wanted to trade with the Chinese, but the Chinese had no interest in the European products for at the time China was self sufficient. The European nations in order to keep from losing all of the money to the Chinese decide that they would start an Opium ...
- 4632: Led Zeppelin
- ... hour. All of their albums have gone platinum. They were the first group to heavily tour the United States and sporadically tour the rest of the world. This occurred because there was a lack of interest in them Britain. Their success was due to their manager Peter Grant. Peter was able to keep the group moving from place to place and kept the people interested in them. Peter thought that they ...
- 4633: Alfred Stieglitz
- ... chin (Peterson 34). In 1871 the Stieglitz family lived at 14 East 60th street in Manhattan. No buildings stood between Central Park and the Stieglitz family home. As Stieglitz got older he started to show interest in photography, posting every photo he could find on his bedroom wall. It wasn't until he got older that his photography curiosity begin to take charge of his life. Stieglitz formally started photography at ...
- 4634: Reverence
- ... for whom "the soul of the Christian religion is reverence." From this story I learned that reverence allows us to escape the dreary preoccupation of being a truncated self inhabiting the cramped world of self-interest. I also learned that there are two kinds of irreverence. The first involves pride and the second springs from lust or selfish desire, what the Scholastics referred to as "concupiscence".
- 4635: The Thief's Journal: The Prince of Thieves - Genet
- ... above passage that Genet establishes the difference between himself and the readers with which he communicates. His statement, "They depart from your rules" (84) makes this clear. It is the word "your" that is of interest here. That word makes it apparent that Genet targeted a certain group of readers for his journal. He targeted those of the inside culture. The "you" that he refers to throughout the text are not ...
- 4636: The Battle For Your Mind: Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public
- ... cannot be detected; and if those who legislate are using these techniques, there is little hope of affecting laws to govern usage. I do know that the first step to initiate change is to generate interest. In this case, that will probably only result from an underground effort. In talking about this subject, I am talking about my own business. I know it, and I know how effective it can be ...
- 4637: To Kill A Mockingbird: A Summary
- ... that there was only one person in town who has not already at work fighting the fire and that was Boo. Now that Jem and Scout realize that Boo is basically a kind person, their interest in the Radley family begins to fade. In the meantime, they learn that their father has become the defense lawyer for Tom Robinson, who is charged with raping Mayella Ewell. As the trial of Tom ...
- 4638: The Old Man and the Sea
- ... marlin. The Old Man and the Sea was an average story in my opinion. I have heard so many things about Ernest Hemingway being such a great author. The book did not really catch my interest. Hemingway goes into too much detail in certain items. Take away the detail and the 125-page story would be a lot shorter. I do not plan on reading any more stories by Ernest Hemingway ...
- 4639: Joy Luck Club: Conflicts Faced By June and Her Mother
- ... we need to make our own choices in life and find our own life's importance. When June was a child, her mother was constantly pushing her to try different things that she had no interest in. Because she did not care about any of these things, she did not really try to be successful, and therefore, would never ac complish anything great. We build our own importance in life by ...
- 4640: The Ambivalent Relationship of Nick and Gatsby
- ... aside his offended sense of propriety and sticks it out with Gatsby (Donaldson 137), ...it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interestedinterested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which everyone has some vague right at the end. (172) In the end Nick makes a commitment himself and for the only time in his life (Donaldson 137). Carraway does not convert into a ...
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