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- 1491: Long Days Journey Into Night
- ... to herself that her addiction has seized control over her and that she no longer can bear the pain. James Tyrone is faced with many a problem. Through this tough time he is faced with personal, family, and financial conflicts, thus attributing to the plot. Besides having to deal with his wife’s addiction, his sons’ ill health and drinking problems, and his financial decisions, (which have proven to be for the worse), James struggles with a personal conflict throughout the play. He believes that he may be the cause of some of the family problems and that he has dealt with them in an improper manner. "So I’m to blame!…" (39 ... that surrounds the Tyrone house to symbolize the "fog" that Mary is in as she is high on her morphine. "Its such a dismal, foggy evening." (108) Throughout the play, in his reflective style of writing, O’Neill demonstrates how, in the past, all that has been said and done has had a significant influence on all that occurs in the present. The actions and statements which had been done ...
- 1492: Lord Of The Flies
- ... is the eternal struggle between good and evil. The ending of the novel concludes in a gut-wrenching showdown between the two. The only thing I disliked about this book is that sometimes Golding's writing style was a little hard to follow. The main problem was that the boy's British accents made it difficult to understand what they meant. This problem appeared in few spots, however, and for the ... little I disliked about this book. The mood was a little dark and depressing but that just added to the setting. Probably the one thing that could have been improved upon was William Golding's writing style. He tended to skip around sometimes and use difficult dialect and terms that can confuse the reader, but this happened rarely. I think all serious readers would like this book. Probably the people who ... because of the way it portrays the many sides of human nature, values, and morals. I will probably read this book again. It was such a good novel it might possibly end up in my personal library. Lord of the Flies was also made into a great movie that captured the best aspects of the book. The best lesson I learned from Lord of the Flies is that people can ...
- 1493: Oedipus The King - Compared To Things Fall Apart
- ... The characters of "Oedipus the King" and " Things Fall Apart", Oedipus and Okonkwo, they were both experienced difficulty when they achieved their goal. That is really a tragedy for each a matter of their own personal failing and also a tragedy each experiences caused by outside forces over which they have no control. Indeed, they both a short temper. Oedipus is a person who gets angry easily. We can prove by ... of messenger who came to Umuofia to beak up a town meeting in order to show he was not weak. The setting of two stories had differences. In "Things Fall Apart", the setting in the personal tragedy of Okonkwo. "It set in an Ibo village in Nigeria in the late 1800s, this story unfolds like a Greek tragedy as traditional Ibo customs are challenged by new European ways. This classic was ... which, due to the limited resources of the ancient theater, would have been difficult and awkward. Sophocles, like Aeschylus and Euripides, made a virtue of the necessity of this convention of the ancient theater by writing elaborate messenger speeches which provide a vivid word picture of the offstage action. Dramatic irony is much-used literary device in this play. In conclusion, Oedipus the King and Okonkwo should have fought again ...
- 1494: Slave Ownership In The Southern United States
- ... to take on. One can easily see the weaknesses in the way statistics were distorted and can also begin to see the approach Olsen will take in trying to disprove them. Before moving into his personal findings the author looks at a handful of studies that agree with his own theories and attempt to show the opposite of what we have already examined. They are, for the most part, weaker in ... of the spending units (families) in the United States held stock worth $5,000 or more." The author then makes his point by saying, "If one is concerned with estimating the extent of a direct personal interest in the profits of a particular labor system it would then seem appropriate to compare this figure of 2 percent with the 31 percent of the white families in the Confederacy who owned slaves ... been better off finding the percentages of investors at a time when confidence in the stock market was higher. The impact of what were supposed to be Olsen’s strongest arguments is therefore lessened. In writing on this topic, one worthy of debate and further study, Olsen hoped to show that the "the enslavement of black people did provide extensive economic opportunities for whites," and that, "slavery appears a good ...
- 1495: Imagination 2
- ... write their story. In Dreams, by Timothy Findley, the main characters, two married psychiatrists named the doctors Marlo , have a fairly normal marriage. But they are both dealing with professional cases that are invading their personal lives. Mrs. Marlo specializes in autistic children. One case she is working on is that of a little boy who won t talk, eat or sleep. She grows attached to this child and thinks of ... narrator be nameless and to tell his story like it was a confession, he tells the reader in detail about how and why he killed his victim, he thinks about the what if possibilities of writing a madman. Poe put himself in the proverbial shoes of a madman to write this story, therefore he had to imagine what it would be like to be mad. He concocted the narrator s compulsive ... a breakdown of the border between imagination and reality. The borders between reality and imagination have been totally reversed in the Wachowski brothers film the Matrix . The film display the same type of what if writing, but applied to the genre of science fiction and explores both the limits of the human mind and the frightening possibilities of what machines may be capable of. The basis for the whole story ...
- 1496: Educational Policy In Malaysia
- ... the national philosophy as well. Such an effort is designed to produce Malaysian citizens who are knowledgeable and competent, who possess high moral standards, and who are responsible and capable of achieving high level of personal well-being as well as able to contribute to the harmony and betterment of the family, the society and the nation at large. One of the most significant reforms initiated in recent years is the ... school begins at six years of age, and may be completed within five to seven years. Education at this level aims to provide the child with a firm foundation in the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic, as well as emphasizing thinking skills and values across the curriculum. Eventhough education at this level is not compulsory, more than 99 percent of this age group are enrolled in primary schools nationwide ... discipline and leadership qualities of the students. Some of these programs are: School Youth Cadet Corp., School Fire Brigade Corp., and other leadership courses. The Youth is highly encouraged to indulge in various Entrepreneurial Programs, writing, speaking and debating competitions as well as cultural activities to create cultural awareness and literary appreciation among the students. Cultural exchange programs are held to promote closer ties and foster better relationship between students ...
- 1497: On The Road
- ... you know that being mad and not down to earth is alright because what is life if you never know what your living for? He makes you desire to go out and find your own personal America and discover all the little treasures in life that are just waiting. Kerouac uses pentameter in his writing to make On the Road read quickly and smoothly. It is similar to a poem in its flowing and this was an original thing to have done with writing. When he ends the book he ends it on a sad note that does not let you know if that is truly the end or just the beginning. This makes this a extremely interesting ...
- 1498: Pride And Prejudice
- Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, set in Nineteenth century England, is a novel about marriage. Austen's feminine writing and weaved storyline creates a novel which can be interesting to read and which women especially enjoy. The novel has a strong theme of marriage as a mother (Mrs. Bennet) desperately trying to marry her ... into marrying her. Mrs. Bennet's strong desire to marry off her children and her unsatisfactory attempts at matchmaking show that in her society, marriage is held in high regard. It is a person's personal worth and the transfer of family fortunes that occurs during a marriage in this time that is probably the most important factor, not how the couple gets along or likes each other. Austen plays on ... novel would have been a 50 page short story. But, contrary to what the romance novels of the past two hundred years seem to tell us, life is not always like that, and oftentimes our personal prejudices and imperfect selves get in the way of our best will, leaving only our libidious egos to judge. Her treatment of characters helps us to see the shallowness of the peoples of her ...
- 1499: Jane Eyre And Foreshadowing
- ... most distinguished of the children, was a poet and a novelist who wrote Wuthering Heights. Anne Bronte wrote Agnes Grey and Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Their only brother Patrick did not write except for their personal manuscripts. The children lived a hard life which created all four children’s urge to elaborate their imaginary world. Some assumed pen names because it was a risk to write at any social status if ... and the French are only romances now) that I've been able to read for many a day. While Thackeray conceded the book's excitement, what commended it to him was the quality of the writing, the clear, forceful, unartificial writing, so different from the usual productions of the lady contributors to the fashionable journals. The other quality he especially noticed, the book's "upright" character, is of its essence. Rectitude was a basic Bronte ...
- 1500: In Our Time
- ... your course I could not help but think of how much Hemingway's content was influenced by his life. Many of the stories like "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" were based directly on personal experiences of Hemingway's life. Since it is not the focus of your course, I am trying to just accepted the content and concentrate more on writing style and the way Hemingway writes something. I have found it difficult to pay close attention to both the story and the writing at the same time and have had to reread several times. "The Three-Day Blow" offered an interesting irony to the title "In Our Time", but maybe it is just my jaded view of ...
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