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- 1011: Eveline
- ... years were profoundly affected by the pressures of his mother’s recurring mental illness and drug addiction and by his tempestuous relationship with his father, a discordant family situation that he later drew upon when writing Long Day’s Journey into Night" (Poupard 156). In the play, the mother was a morphine addict, just as his mother was in real life. In life, her addiction was because of the birth of ... brother Edmund was sick since a young child and died of malaria. This entire play can almost be considered an autobiography (146-147). Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night is intensely personal and directly autobiographical. Written in an agonizing attempt to understand himself, and no doubt primarily for his own sake, it is not only about himself, but about his father and his mother as well. Because ... in New London. This is where he started to write a few of his best plays (160). Having grown up with The Count of Monte Cristo, O’Neill had little choice but to began by writing melodramas. In the early twentieth century, theatrical experiments in Europe were not easily transplanted to America. The unavoidable model, then was the melodrama, in which plot was more important that the characterization. O’Neill ...
- 1012: In Cold Blood
- ... in the way that it has been set-up. Capote looks at the murderers preparation for the murders. Then he goes back to the Clutter family in their happy household. Capote has a technique of writing that he feels stemmed from his childhood. In many of his books, In Cold Blood included, Capote makes usage of a character's detrimental childhood. He feels that this has stemmed from his childhood because ... accomplishment. At the age of 18, Capote took an I.Q. test. His score of 215 was well above genius level (Gale 1). He then began to write short stories, and he eventually got into writing novels, which led up to the strenuous training for the writing of In Cold Blood. Before Capote arrived in Kansas, he had already assessed over 6,000 pages of notes (Gale 20). After writing In Cold Blood, Capote became dependent on tranquilizers (Garson 29). While ...
- 1013: Sacred Hoops
- Introduction Does religion, spirituality, business, and personal lives have areas of overlap in the way one develops their social and inner personality? Do people have more then one mask or are they all the same mask expressing themselves in different ways? These ... of playing basketball and focus on a non-threatening safe environment in order to prepare themselves for the next short-term goal. "We generally agree that goals in business and in government and in our personal lives should be bounded by moral standards and legal constraints" . This author continues to explain that individual and the group will continue to make moral progress if the leader establishes goals and sets standards prior ... began to develop his leadership skills early on in life. He began institutionalizing his thoughts and theories that he had learned from various religious leaders with smaller, foreign basketball teams and incorporating them with his personal life. Eventually he would could to discover that he could develop an entire team strategy based on his strong and deep rooted religious beliefs . He would soon develop these skills into a finely tuned ...
- 1014: Gender
- ... the socialist government is brief, it shows signs of the progress that women made during the middle to late 1900s. Helen Zlatkin, born in 1962, had no work experience in the former USSR, but her personal account demonstrates the types of choices that women made in order to have both family and work. Mela Krul was the only one who had extensive work experience in the USSR, but she was able ... For the first time in the lives of the three women, benefits, other than maternity leave, became important. Alla earned paid vacation time, which increased as her years at the factory increased, sick leave, and personal days off -- all of which were paid for by the company. Alla no longer needed maternity leave since she only had one child. What did become important to her was insurance. Alla's husband was ... s Beauty Salon. It is here that job segregation is completely obvious. A majority of the beauty salon is female, with the exception of a few male hairdressers. Alla still receives the same vacation and personal benefits, but the insurance plan has become costlier. The family can now afford this since their income has risen. With her daughter in college, Alla no longer has the need to be home at ...
- 1015: Sweetness And Power
- ... it seems that he is not the first person to find the role that sugar plays in modern society important. By analyzing who Mintz’s audience is meant to be, what goals he has in writing this book, what structure his book incorporates, what type, or types, of history he represents within the book, what kind of sources he uses, and what important information and conclusions he presents, we can come ... this book is not just for anthropologists: "Sweetness and Power is a fine book. It not only tells a fascinating story, it is also something of an antidote to the static quality of much anthropological writing." Yet another review of Mintz’s book from J. H. Elliott of The New York Review of Books states: "This measured, intelligent, ambitious book has something for everybody….Mintz opens a whole series of doors ... and Power is targeted at anyone between from the semi-educated (i.e. student) to the highly specialized professional (i.e. others within the same field of study). It’s now apparent whom Mintz is writing this book for, but what are his goals for the book as a whole. Well, he has one collective goal for the entire work, and separate smaller goals for each one of the chapters. ...
- 1016: The Albanian Virgin
- ... the small fictional Ontario town of Carstairs, although the setting in The Albanian Virgin is in British Columbia. The story, The Albanian Virgin, found in Open Secrets, exemplifies Munro’s characteristic approach to short story writing as it explores central character’s lives that are revealed from a combination of first person narrative and third person narrative. By using both narratives, Munro adds realism, some autobiographical information about her own life ... work has addressed the problems of middle age, of women alone, and of the elderly. The characteristic of her style is the search for some revelatory gesture by which an event is illuminated and given personal significance. (The Canadian Encyclopedia Plus 1995) Munro’s later work can probably be seen as that of her later or more recent memories, as she ages so does the characters of her short stories. The ... woman "Lottar" took place. Munro’s use of jumping in and out of present and past views can be seen in many of her other stories as well. In Vandals for example, Bea Doud, is writing Liza, once a little girl neighbour, a letter, thanking her for checking on the house while she was in the hospital with her recent husband who had just died. The story then goes from ...
- 1017: The Albanian Virgin
- ... the small fictional Ontario town of Carstairs, although the setting in The Albanian Virgin is in British Columbia. The story, The Albanian Virgin, found in Open Secrets, exemplifies Munro’s characteristic approach to short story writing as it explores central character’s lives that are revealed from a combination of first person narrative and third person narrative. By using both narratives, Munro adds realism, some autobiographical information about her own life ... work has addressed the problems of middle age, of women alone, and of the elderly. The characteristic of her style is the search for some revelatory gesture by which an event is illuminated and given personal significance. (The Canadian Encyclopedia Plus 1995) Munro’s later work can probably be seen as that of her later or more recent memories, as she ages so does the characters of her short stories. The ... woman "Lottar" took place. Munro’s use of jumping in and out of present and past views can be seen in many of her other stories as well. In Vandals for example, Bea Doud, is writing Liza, once a little girl neighbour, a letter, thanking her for checking on the house while she was in the hospital with her recent husband who had just died. The story then goes from ...
- 1018: 1984 4
- 1984 is about life in a world where no personal freedoms exist. Winston the main character is a man of 39 whom is not extraordinary in either intelligence or character, but is disgusted with the world he lives in. He works in the Ministry of ... where Big Brother, a larger than life figure, controls the people. His dissatisfaction increases to a point where he rebels against the government in small ways. Winston's first act of rebellion is buying and writing in a diary. This act is known as a thought crime and is punishable by death. A thought crime is any bad thought against the government of Oceania. Winston commits many thought crimes and becomes ... moment he has his first heretical thought. The tensions of the novel concerns how long he can stay alive and whether it is possible for Winston to die without mentally betraying his rebellion. Winston starts writing in a diary for two reasons. The first is that he wants to be able to remember the daily occurrences in the world. In 1984, the memory of individuals, is effectively manipulated, programmed, and ...
- 1019: Walden Two
- ... more than the demons that he possesses, or should I say seem to posses him and manifest themselves in his life as well as his stories. One of the many demons Marito possesses is his writing itself. he seems to constantly be in the middle of writing another short story to send to some newspaper or magazine. The thing is, none of these stories actually ever seem to be very good or successful. Throughout the novel, not one of them is ever actually publisher. Not even MaritoŐs friends really like his writing. In Chapter thirteen he reads the one about Aunt Eliana to Javier, Aunt Julia, and even to Pascual and Big Pablito. After they hear it, not one of them really has anything nice to ...
- 1020: Johnny Tremain 2
- ... It was also good when John Adams has him blow a whistle to send the Sons of Liberty to come out, with the Boston Massacre. Now I will talk about the authors factual and emotional writing. I feel as it is factually because of the Revolutionary War, as they went through it talking about the Redcoats some very important people during that time. Also one direct sample is when the Sons ... Indians and cut open all the tea bags and dump them all over the ship. Another factual is the Sons of Liberty themselves, there were the actual people in the organization like Adams. Some emotional writing was when Johnny has becoming a outcast as he walked the streets looking for job after job. He barged into shop after shop along the Corn Hill and orange, Ann, and the ship streets, Dock square. King and Queen streets - Did the master water another boy? -Keeping his hand hidden in his pocket. More emotional writing came when he had no money and when the towns people looked at him and thought he was a scavenger, or thief. First he tormented his hunger by going to one tavern after another ...
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