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- 1931: 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 ...
- 1932: Brave New World - Compared To Modern Society
- ... utopia and expect our world to transform into it. Some of us always look for the easy way out and drugs allow us that. A further similarity of Brave New World to us, si when John is in the hospital after hos mother's death due to soma abuse, and witnesses the workers receiving their soma rations. John begins to throw the soma out if the window, causing hysteria among the workers. For these workers soma is everything. They cannot imagine life without it. People addicted to cocaine, heroine and other drugs go ...
- 1933: Agression In Males
- ... his life Charles became an emotional cripple. To understand the motivation behind Charles' aggressive nature we can look at the theories of five prominent Psychoanalysts: Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, Albert Bandura, B.F Skinner, And John. B. Watson. By analyzing these theories using Charles' case study, hopefully a better understanding of his actions will appear. Freud wrote a book on hysteria that explains the theory that "every hysteria is the result ... that got them into the institution in the first place. Skinner gets criticism because he believes that we can exist beautifully abiding by his operant principals. People believe that this takes away dignity and freedom. John B. Watson, a behaviorist, believed that human behavior could be explained entirely in terms of reflexes, stimulus-response associations, and the effects of reinforcers upon them. Watson was very involved in the laboratory rat. He ...
- 1934: The Use of Characters By Hawthorne and O'Connor to Teach Morality
- ... of the rest of the story, there is an interesting banter between the grandmother and the children. These conversations let is see more and more the extent to which the grandmother’s hubris goes. When John Wesley makes a comment that he does not like Georgia the grandmother says, “If I were a little boy, I would not talk about my native state that way”. Also later in the trip, they ... one was hurt in the accident, but they were far from help. After not waiting, very long a car pulls up with three men in it. One of them turned out to be the Misfit. John Wesley and his father are led to the woods and we are to assume they are shot. Then the mother realizing this decides to be led to the woods with June and the baby. Then ...
- 1935: The Yellow Wallpaper: Exemplifies Women's Position In the 19th Century
- ... activity. This can be proven when the narrator states: "I don't like our room one bit. I wanted to move downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window¡Kbut john would not hear of it"(Gilman, 631). Being diagnosed with temporary depression, the narrator is forbidden to read, write or even think. Having been denied the medium to express herself and her individuality, she is ... in the night. Her husband forces her to rest, and he confines her to the bedroom. During the day her husband goes to work, that is why she sees the woman in the garden. When John is away the narrator is free. The woman will be free when all the wallpaper is stripped and no bars will be confining her: ""I've got out at last", said I, In spite of ...
- 1936: Growth Of A Chrysanthemum
- ... the epiphany more effective by cutting extraneous information and detail from the first part of the story. An example of this is the removal of a very colorful depiction of the children playing, where young John and Annie pretend to eat a hedgehog for dinner: But he insisted, and it had to be baked in clay. In a few seconds it was done: a pair of the father’s stockings, black ... will she make a mess of her own destiny, and a muddle of the others’" (Phoenix 168). But where any other "cocksure" woman would simply view the death as another parable describing the evil of "John Barleycorn," Elizabeth instead suddenly becomes introspective. This sudden change is difficult for the reader to accept, adding to the argument that the ending is too unlikely to believe. This argument is well reasoned, but even ...
- 1937: A Case of Needing: Serious Revisions
- ... accused of performing the D & C that has resulted in her death. Though Lee is known to be an abortionist, he vehemently denies any involvement in the case. Lee calls upon his friend, forensic pathologist John Berry, to clear his name. John Berry careens back and forth from one Boston hospital to another, trying to figure out who actually performed Randall's abortion, and why it killed her. The investigation is complicated by the fact that Randall ...
- 1938: Shakespeare
- ... of great literature and performance, the birth of William Shakespeare, whose creations have affected everyone for generations. |He was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. William was the third child out of eight from John and Mary Shakespeare. The names of the other seven children are Joan, Margaret, Gilbert, Joan, Ann, Richard and Edmund. William’s grandfather, Richard Shakespeare was a whittawer and a dealer in agricultural commodities. Richard died ... James. It also brings him to the influence of The Book of Common Prayer. No one knows exactly how long William remained at the Stratford Grammar School but it is believed that an assistant of John Shakespeare forced him to withdraw William from thence. His later education must be the ways of business he would have learned around his father’s shop. Spectators said they have seen William give speeches to ...
- 1939: J.D. Salinger
- ... total mess but it does gets better. Still another example of foreshadowing a better life is shown in "The Last Day of the Last Furlough." Salinger uses symbolism in this story through the character of John Hendren. Symbolism is used by Salinger for the character to fulfill his pursuit for happiness. John Hendren, a World War II soldier, has always wore a large wooden necklace which was given to him by his mother. It is this same necklace that stops a bullet and saves his life. He ...
- 1940: Gibbons Vs. Ogden, 1824
- ... than the federal government, the country's internal structure would collapse. However, due to the Negro-Seamen Act in South Carolina and the fear of slaves being freed by an all-powerful Congress, Chief Justice John Marshall was faced with his choice to say that Congress was the supreme power over all commercial aspects would split the country and civil war would ensue. Thus, the court was forced into a "middle ... out of control and turn New York totally sovereign and spread the poisonous vices of sectionalism throughout the country, breaking it apart and dissolving any power that it had gained previously through unity. Recognizing this, John Marshall and the other Judges were determined to end the belligerence of New York. Another issue in the case was that the New York Steamboat Act was a limitation to the growth of the National ...
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