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- 4561: Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle": The Power Struggle Between Owners and Workers
- ... come over to the side of the strikers. The strikers used the threat of violence, actual violence and caused the death of a couple scab workers to emphasis their willingness to use this force. Throughout John Steinbecks novel In Dubious Battle there was a power struggle between the mighty owners and the weaker workers. The owners were much more prestigious and feared, but when the workers were pushed to their limits ...
- 4562: Voltaire
- ... Voltaire insulted a powerful young nobleman and was given two options: imprisonment or exile. He chose exile and from 1726 to 1729 lived in England. While in England Voltaire was attracted to the philosophy of John Locke and ideas of the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton. After his return to Paris he wrote a book praising English customs and institutions. The book was thought to criticize the French government and Voltaire ...
- 4563: An Analysis of "The Grapes of Wrath"
- An Analysis of "The Grapes of Wrath" The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's live under. The novel tells of one families migration west to California through the great economic depression ...
- 4564: Evolution of Ford Motor Company
- ... workers for a ten-hour day in 1908. The average salary for production workers increased to around $2.50 by 1913 with a minimum of just $2.34. In October of 1913 a man named John R. Lee, recruited from the Kiem Mills to reform the companys wage structure, developed an ingenious job-ladder system. This innovative system allowed increased wages for the upper crust portion of the working core ...
- 4565: 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 ...
- 4566: 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 ...
- 4567: A Separate Peace: Three Symbols
- A Separate Peace: Three Symbols The three dichotomous symbols in A Separate Peace by John Knowles reinforce the innocence and evil of the main characters, Finny and Gene. Beside the Devon School flow two rivers on opposite sides of the school, the Naguamsett and the Devon. The Devon provides entertainment ...
- 4568: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and His Life
- ... and innocent Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. Soon the young couple were married and they moved to Paris. It was here where Hemingway encountered many of the greats, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos and Ford Madox Ford. It was Stein who took him under her wing. She was first to point him in the direction of the simple declarative sentence, which was another great influence on ...
- 4569: David Copperfield: A Novel of Hypocrisy, Sexual Degradation, Selfish Exploitation, and Fraud
- ... development as a man. Although after having read several biography's done on the author Charles Dickens, I was led to believe that this book is very near Dickens own life, for example his father, John Dickens does seem to have been a warm and pleasant father, but his lack of responsibility, especially with money, later led his family into serious difficulties. This is very much like Mr.Micawber. Infact his ...
- 4570: Grapes of Wrath: Ma Joad The Leader
- Grapes of Wrath: Ma Joad The Leader In a crisis, a person's true colors emerge. The weak are separated from the strong and the leaders are separated from the followers. In John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family, forced from their home in Oklahoma, head to California in search of work and prosperity only to find poverty and despair. As a result of ...
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