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- 1601: Breaking Down Racial Barriers
- ... of us would never be able to imagine experiencing. The author was raised in Texas a prejudice state. So it made his task even harder. The book, Black Like Me, is a great piece of literature. It shows us how far we have come nut how far we need to go before the race barriers can be broken. It shows people how harshly blacks were treated in the South, all because ...
- 1602: A Lesson Well Taught
- ... learn the value of money and feel intimidation. The are taught with an hands on experience, you have to work hard for the things you want in life. Works Cited Bambara, Toni Cade. The Lesson. Literature and the Writing Process. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X Day, and Robert funk. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 1999. 457-461.
- 1603: Social Commentary In Animal Farm
- Social Commentary In Animal Farm Social commentary is sometimes found at the heart of good art, whether that art form is literature or popular music. The novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and the rock album, Animals written and performed by Pink Floyd share the same characteristic of scathing social commentary. The artworks also share an animal ...
- 1604: Dickens and "The Jew"
- ... mind. Dickens' is not a Jew hater. He is a realist and his brilliant work in Oliver Twist not only makes for good reading, but also makes one think. After all, isn't that what literature is all about?
- 1605: As I Lie Dying
- ... his family with the duck-shaped woman who happens to own a phonograph and introduces her by saying, "Meet Mrs. Bundren." The novel AILD was more about William Faulkner the author and not great American literature. While discussing this book the whole class decided the man was a nut. He once wrote I'm old fashioned and probably a little mad too; I don't like having my private life and ...
- 1606: The Yellow Wall-Paper: Effect of Oppression of Women in Society
- The Yellow Wall-Paper: Effect of Oppression of Women in Society Reflecting their role in society, women in literature are often portrayed in a position that is dominated by men. Especially in the nineteenth century, women were controlled by their husbands as well as other male influences. In "The Yellow Wall-Paper," by Charlotte ...
- 1607: Famous Mathematicians: A Book Review
- ... known for not only his work on cybernetics but also his findings on both mathematical theory and applied mathematics. Wiener was a brilliant mathematician, scientist, and philosopher, with a thorough understanding of the arts and literature. This book, Famous Mathematicians, discusses significant discoveries throughout the entire history of mathematics. From mathematicians like Euclid to Wiener, the works of these great men contributed to the evolution within many fields. Documented within is ...
- 1608: The World as Will and Idea and Young Goodman Brown: Symbols
- ... token or sign'. A symbol is an object animate or inanimate, which represents or stands for something else. A literary symbol combines an image with a concept, words themselves are a kind of symbol. In literature an example of a public or universal symbol is a journey into the underworld and a return from it. Such a journey may be an interpretation of a spiritual experience, a dark night of the ...
- 1609: The Great Gatsby: America's Era of Disdain
- The Great Gatsby: America's Era of Disdain Characters in literature reflect thoughts conceived from personaters endeavoring the portrayal of an actual human existence. Though these have their individual assets they also depict the portrait of an era. Jay Gatz, the character in which The Great ...
- 1610: George Orwell Wrote 1984 As A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it" ("George Orwell"). George Orwell has been a major contributor to anti-communist literature around the World War II period. Orwell lived in England during World War II, a time when the totalitarianism state, Nazi Germany, was at war with England and destroyed the city of London. "'I know ...
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