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- 4491: Faulkner's "The Unvanquished"
- ... the time. The Southern Code was entirely idealistic. Throughout the book, idealism seems dominant over pragmatism. For example, all of the Sartoris women were idealists; almost everyone in Yoknapatawpha was an idealist. The fact that John Sartoris was able to get away with murder and be elected into public office soon after is a strong example of this. There were not many pragmatists in the novel. By definition, a pragmatist is ...
- 4492: Stoker and Rice's Books About Vampires
- ... native soil loaded into crates along with his coffin loaded onto a ship. After they arrive he has them taken to another castle he has chosen. The vampire hunters, Proffesor Abraham Van Helsing and Doctor John Seward find where the crates were delivered to. after plotting their course they proceed to find the castle and destroy Dracula while he was sleeping in his coffin. Rice's vampires seem to be more ...
- 4493: Dandelion Wine
- ... big family. In this story many problems confronted Douglas. There were many deaths, Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh and Elizabeth Ramsal, which were friends and neighbors of Douglas. A good friend of Douglas, named John Huff, moved away to Milwaukee because of a job opportunity for his father. Also, Douglas got extremely sick and was dieing and there was no information on what kind of illness he had. Douglas took ...
- 4494: Native American Genocide
- Native American Genocide The dominant image of Indians in the media used to be of savages, of John Wayne leading the U.S. Cavalry against the Indians. Today the stereotype has shifted to noble savage, which portrays Indians as part of a once-great but now-dying culture; a culture that could talk ...
- 4495: A Separate Peace: Contrasting Gene and Phineas and the Struggle for Power
- A Separate Peace: Contrasting Gene and Phineas and the Struggle for Power John Knowles' A Separate Peace depicts many examples of how power is used. In A Separate Peace, two opposing characters struggle for their own separate might. Gene Forrester, the reserved narrator, is weakened by his struggle ...
- 4496: Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
- ... with God. Her secrets: humility and love. Like her father, Sonya recognizes her unworthiness before God. Her knowlege that God alone gives her worth allows her to love others unconditionally, including Raskalnikov. To paraphrase I John 4:19, Sonya loves because God first loved Sonya. Against Sonya's meekness and love, Raskalnikov begins to break. At first, he is argumentative, mocking Sonya's childlike faith. She's a holy fool! (Dostoyevsky ...
- 4497: Langston Hughes
- By: Travis Benjamin E-mail: Travis88888@aol.com Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri into an abolitionist family. He was the grandson of Charles Henry Langston. His brother was John Mercer Langston, who was the the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was ...
- 4498: Summary of The Canterbury Tales
- ... called Scottish Chaucerians. For the Renaissance, he was the English Homer. Edmund Spenser paid tribute to him as his master; many of the plays of William Shakespeare show thorough assimilation of Chaucer's comic spirit. John Dryden, who modernized several of the Canterbury tales, called Chaucer the father of English poetry. Since the founding of the Chaucer Society in England in 1868, which led to the first reliable editions of his ...
- 4499: Of Mice and Men: Burdens of Responsibility
- ... probably never will get retrenched, but no body likes him not even his wife. In my opinion the burdens outweigh the rewards of responsibility in this novel. In some ways it is rather macabre that John Steinbeck builds his characters up to their most probable height of achieving their utopia and then kills them or part of them off. But in another perspective this style of writing is quite ingenuitive because ...
- 4500: Billy Budd
- ... had previously been among those minor ship's companies of the merchant marine"(14). It is here, on the Indomitable that Billy says good-bye to his rights. It is here, also, that Billy meets John Claggart, the master-at- arms. A man "in whom was the mania of an evil nature, not engendered by vicious training or corrupting books or licentious living but born with him and innate, in short ...
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