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- 221: Open Arms
- ... own individuality, unsated and unsubdued, cutting its shape sharply upon the background of the world. What were the loves and sorrows of a snuffy old clergyman, dreaming over his whisky, to the fiery egotism of Jane Eyre? The beauty of those first books, Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, is very great. It is impossible to estimate the merit of the Poysers, the Dodsons, the Gilfils, the ...
- 222: Roe V. Wade
- January 23, 2000 marked the twenty-seventh anniversary of the Roe v. Wade case. It all started out in a small town in Texas where a woman under the alias Jane Roe filed a case in district court for a woman’s right to choose abortion. At this time law in Texas prohibited abortion. Eventually the case moved to Supreme Court. The attorneys for Roe argued ... person has an undeniable right to freedom. They stated that the fetus has a right to freedom guaranteed by this amendment. After hearing both sides of this case the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jane Roe. They stated that women have a fundamental right to abortion. They also stated that the fetus wasn’t a life until the first trimester of pregnancy. Due to this case and the ruling of ... numerous. You here the mention of abortion daily whether it’s in daily conversation, political races, the Catholic Church and many other places. This topic is very much argued. Some people take the side of Jane roe and yet other believed in the side of Wade. This topic is also argued in different religions. The Catholic Church believes that abortion is murder and no person born or unborn should be ...
- 223: Billy Sunday
- ... a series of other deaths would come to have a tremendous impact on Sunday’s life. For the first three years of Billy Sunday’s life he was a very sickly child. His mother, Mary Jane, would carry him around on a tote pillow while helping her parents plant corn, milk cows, chop wood, and wrangle horses. Then a traveling doctor prepared a syrup that Mary Jane fed to Billy every day for three weeks. Miraculously, Billy gained strength and became a normal active child. Luck changed for Billy’s family, but only for a short time. His mother remarried and had two more children. Sadly, the second child, a girl, died in a fire when she was three. Not long after, Mary Jane’s second husband died also. These untimely deaths left a mark on young Billy that stayed with him for the remainder of his life. In a short autobiography written for The Ladies’ Home Journal, ...
- 224: Huckleberry Finn
- ... they decide that they'll kill all four of them Twain 195 "The whole billin' of 'm 's frauds! Le's duck 'em! Le's drown 'em! Le's ride 'em on a rail!". Mary Jane is a good example of one of the few good intelligent Southerners in this book. In Huck Finn Twain uses women throughout the novel. Some of the women like Mary Jane and Mrs. Loftus (when Huck dresses as a girl) are used to help Huck. Mary Jane aids in catching the Duke and King, and Mrs. Loftus gives Huck some valuable information Twain 57 "...but husband's going over to see (if Jim's on Jackson Island)- him and another man". ...
- 225: Catcher In The Rye (Depression
- ... will judge him critically. Holden is also a very immature person. He becomes very jealous and he pretends that recess is everywhere. Holden shows his jealousy when he finds out that his roommate is dating Jane Gallagher. Jane is Holden's next door neighboor. He confessed," I could hardly keep my voice from shaking all over the place. Boy, was I getting nervous" (42). Holden expresses these feelings to the reader while he is talking to Stradlater about Jane. The jealousy and immaturity of Holden leads them into a fight. Holden is also immature in the relationships that he has with females. He explains the cab ride to the theater with Sally, " We ...
- 226: Pride and Prejudice and The Edible Woman: Negative Effects of the Society's Influence
- Pride and Prejudice and The Edible Woman: Negative Effects of the Society's Influence Throughout history, society has played an important role in forming the value and attitudes of the population. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman are two novels which exemplify the negative effects of society's influence. Both Elizabeth Bennet and Marian McAlpin are strong women who rebel ... necessary in both situations in order to fulfill the needs of the characters and restore them to their previously healthy, happy lives. Works Cited Atwood, Margaret. The Edible Woman. Toronto : McClelland-Bantam Inc, 1969. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Toronto : Penguin Books, 1972. Harding, D. W. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. Toronto : The MacMillan Press Ltd, 1976. Keith, W. J. Introducing Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman. Toronto : ECW Press, 1989. Litz, Walton A. Jane Austen a Study of her Artistic Development. New York : Oxford University Press, 1965
- 227: Fate, Mayor Of Casterbridge
- ... in the story is when Farfrae's idea for the fair works better than his own. In a fit of jealous rage, Henchard fires his good friend. This alienates Farfrae from both Henchard and Elizabeth-Jane. It also distances Henchard from Elizabeth-Jane and Farfrae. His temper has now caused a fault in his business and his family. Farfrae sets up a business in competition with him. Henchard also denies Farfrae the right to court his daughter. This of course pushes Elizabeth-Jane farther from her father. In Henchard's anger and other habits there is an element of control. That is lack of control. Henchard, it seems, likes his drink. In the beginning of the story ...
- 228: Fanny Emerges Victorious Simpl
- FANNY EMERGES VICTORIOUS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE OTHERS FALTER (MARY POOVEY) DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS READING OF FANNY S ROLE IN MANSFIELD PARK Mansfield Park has sometimes been considered as atypical of Jane Austen as being solemn and moralistic. Poor Fanny Price is brought up at Mansfield Park with her uncle and aunt. Where only her cousin Edmund helps her with the difficulties she suffers from the rest ... will not budge from her ideals It is true that while reading the novel we develop an impatience with Fanny s more censorious or prim judgements. This may be moderated by the history of displacement Jane Austen has provided for Fanny: the years of intimidation she has endured from Mrs Norris and her dependence on Edmund, whose kindness comes with instructions for her of how she should behave. Fanny has a ... Edmunds coaching, Fanny s moral attitudes in general are over determined, so it is quite easy for us to think of her as modelling a conduct manual . There are several passages within Mansfield Park where Jane Austen smiles kindly on, our heroines, Fanny Price, foibles thus allowing us to be able to. Chapter 10 is the first one [during the visit to Sotherton]: After another pause, he [Mr Rushworth] went ...
- 229: The Masculine Dismissal of a Women's Quest in The Odyssey, A Room Of One's Own, and Northanger Abbey
- ... truth surface. She looks forward to the golden age when women will have what "...so long has been denied to them - leisure and money, and a room to themselves" (27). Moreover, Woolf praises and admires Jane Austen, for her gift of writing and her circumstances match eachother completely. But in particularly, if Jane Austen suffered in any way, Woolf suggests that "...it was the narrowness of life that was imposed upon her. It was impossible for a women to go about alone... What genius, what integrity it mush have required in face of all that criticism, in the midst of that purely patriarchal society, to hold fast to the thing as she saw it without shrinking"(75). Jane did endure and shattered all the criticism that undermined her writing. She looked at her judges and laughed at them, and continued to write. Austen understood that it is only in the novel "...in ...
- 230: Catcher In The Rye
- ... around him as "phonies" and again according to Jones; "Holden’s belief that he has a superior moral standard that few people, only his dead brother, his 10-year-old sister, and a fleeting friend [Jane] can live up to" that make him a snob (7). Presenting Holden as "snobbish" hardly does him justice. Critics such Frederick L. Gwynn, Joseph L. Blotner, and Frederic I. Carpenter view Holden as a character ... his life have created a desire in him to preserve the innocence of those he considers to be innocent. He attempts to physically overpower Stradlater when he realizes that Stradlater may have "screwed around" with Jane Gallagher, whom Holden considers to be innocent simply because she "plays checkers with more regard for the symmetry of the pieces on the board than for the outcome of the game"(Gwynn 13). Along with Jane Gallagher, Holden wishes to protect his sister Phoebe, who is very much like Allie in that she has a mix of youthful innocence and generosity that overwhelms Holden. The best example of this generosity ...
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