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- 1841: Grapes Of Wrath, Ma Joad
- Ma Joad is one of the main characters in John Steinbeck's novel Grapes of Wrath. Ma is a strong, wife and mother who is the leader of the family. She does anything to keep the family together. In Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck uses two ... She knows how Rose of Sharon is troubled by her pregnancy. She knows Tom has a quiet strength. She knows Al doesn't know how to deal with responsibility, and she doesn't criticize Uncle John's alcohol problem. Ma is the battery of the family in that she keeps it running. Through the use of direct description and portrayal of characters' behavior, Steinbeck creates the character Ma Joad in the ...
- 1842: Good News From Outer Space By
- The key ingredients that make the society in the book Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel seem so full of mordant farce are chaos, technology, belief and faith run amok. The book is set in our present year of 1999, and it seems that all of the conventional thoughts and ... to say that in a couple of years or months, ours will not mirror the one in the book? After all, we are approaching the millenium. This paper intends to relate the world created by John Kessel to the world we now inhabit; this world where science and religion, for most, are the mental constructs that give us some sense of control over this obscure universe. The most significant aspect of ...
- 1843: Gatsby S Sacrifice
- ... in The Great Gatsby, one must first understand Fitzgerald's own ideas on religion. Fitzgerald was a troubled man much of his life, and was a victim of psychological and emotional turmoil. Fitzgerald's friend, John Peale Bishop once remarked he had "the rare faculty of being able to experience romantic and ingenuous emotions and a half hour later regard them with satiric detachment." Fitzgerald had an "almost religious awe that ... God damn God!" he said (Allen, 92). It was three years before he would write The Great Gatsby. In the years preceding this incident, he would often visit with a priest by the name of John Barron to talk about "Fitzgerald's writing as well as other literary and religious matters" (Allen, 91). Barron noticed his "spiritual instability," and "his natural response to Fitzgerald's iconoclasms was a quiet "Scott, quit ...
- 1844: Fraternities
- ... Hazing, as defined by the Fraternity Executive Association is "Any action taken or situation created, intentionally, whether on or off fraternity premises to produce mental, or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment or ridicule."(pg. 48) As John P. Nykolaiszyn puts it, "If anyone is caught hazing, not only can fines be imposed upon the individuals, but conviction and even jail time could result. Organizations which practice hazing also run the risk of ... 1937 Klepper, Irving The portals of Tau Epsilon Phi Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia 1937 Morris, William, ed. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts 1982 Nykolaiszyn, John P. "Hazing: Greeks get a bad rap." The Beacon Feb. 13th 1996: 12.
- 1845: Grapes Of Wrath - Plot Questio
- ... some good in this world for themselves. 2. Who are the members of the Joad family unit that set out for California? Briefly state what happens to each of them. Ma, Pa, Ruth, Winfield, Uncle John, and Rose of Sharron all where in the barn. Rose of Sharron was breast feeding a old man, after her baby died. I think she was doing it for personal pleasures. I don't think ... gas station said he would bury it, I believe that he did. The car that hit the dog, slowed down, looked back, and sped off. Connie left, probably because he was sick of Rose. Uncle John almost died while making the dam, but he was helped by Grandpa. He made it to the barn. Jim Casey got his head smashed in for trying to help his own people. Building up a ...
- 1846: Women In The Fabliaux
- ... gifts of the women and the countess actions. In The Miller s Prologue and Tale the female character Alison is also very interested in sex. She works in cohorts with Nicholas to fool her husband John so she can engage in sexual intimacy with Nicholas: Doun of the ladder stalketh Nicholay, And Alisoun, ful softe adoun she spedde Ther-as the carpenter wont to lye And thus lyth Alison and Nicholas ... The Chevalier Who Made Cunts Talk , the Chevalier later says that they must be nymphs and not really human. Alison in The Miller s Prologue and Tale might have sex with Nicholas because her husband John is old and unable and she needs to replenish her dry body. Whatever the reason behind these women s sexual desires, they are still presented in the three Fabliaux. Women are also represented as being ...
- 1847: 16th And 17th Century English
- ... began with the Genesis story of Adam and Eve. Thus if woman (Eve) were really created from man (Adam), and both of these important documents give precedence to this story, that was how it was. John Dod and Robert Cleaver wrote a treatise on household government, which outlines and contrasts the duties of the husband versus the wife. As well, Gervase Markham wrote a book titled The English Hus-Wife who ... to direct women of higher classes, stressing the idea that a widow should not seek companionship. There are several other books pertaining to the household hierarchy including Thomas Fosset s The Servant s Duty and John Dod s Exposition of the Ten Commandments where he states that it is the woman s duty to nurse her child, and that children should be reprimanded with beatings. Two books I came across did ...
- 1848: To Say This Is Enough
- ... Bible. For him, the Bible is another book written by a fanatical society that preceded his. Sheppard introduces that premise that God should be replaced by science by trying to impress its wonders to Rufus John. He reasons that since there is neither physical nor scientific evidence that god exists. Rufus should stop believing in God and the bible. Because of Sheppard s lack of faith, he gauges his value according to how many people he has helped. Flannery O Conner defies everything that Sheppard stands for by taking everything that Sheppard value at the end of the story. Rufus John, the focal point of Sheppard s obsession on helping others, shows Sheppard the error of his ways by going back to prison. By refusing to be taken by Sheppard s persuasion of looking at the ...
- 1849: The Plague 3
- ... of Othello, The Moor of Venice. New York: Washington Square Press, 1993. Snyder, Susan. Othello: Critical Essays. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988. Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Othello. Harper s Monthly Magazine Oct 1904: 658+. Velz, John W. Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition. Minneapolis, U of Minnesota P, 1968. Endnotes: 1 Brustein, Robert. Terror in the Bedroom. The New Republic (12 Aug. 1891): 29. 2 Elliott, G.R. Flaming Minister. (Durham, NC ... 5 Moulton, Richard G. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist. (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1892): 264. 6 Mikesell, Margaret Lael, and Virginia Mason Vaughan. Othello: An Annotated Bibliography. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990): 185. 7 Velz, John W. Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition. (Minneapolis, U of Minnesota P, 1968): 68. 8 Bloom, Harold. Modern Critical Interpretations: William Shakespeare s Othello. (New York: Chelsea HP, 1987): 148. 9 Brustein 29. 10Bloom 199. 11Mikesell ...
- 1850: The House Of The Seven Gables-
- ... is now thought that he was a mild manic-depressive? Born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. A decendant of a long puritan line of Hathorne's. His ancestry included his great-great grandfather, John Hathorne who was a judge at the Salem witch trials 112 years before Nathanial was born. Judge John Hathorne charged many with the crime of witchcraft,and condemned them to their deaths. Nathanial was embaressed by this and changed the spelling of his last name from Hathorne to Hawthorne. Alot of his family ...
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