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- 2871: Why Animal Farm Is A Great Pie
- ... What s so great about the story is that it s actually based on real people and events. The story of Animal Farm is told in a straightforward and simple style. Orwell s style of writing is superb. The ending of the story is practically the best part. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was ... animals point of view. Second of all the book teaches us lessons about life, not everyone can be trusted, power corrupts and knowledge is power. Third of all it s just a great piece of writing to read; and many people have read it.
- 2872: An Analysis of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife of Bath's Tale
- ... weaver, the prevailing standards of idealistic chivalry and religious misogyny of the Middle Ages kept the Wife of Bath from being heralded by most people of that same period -- including her creator. Looking past my personal views which lead me to judge her by current standards, it can be said that despite her personal flaws, Alison's tale is the most original of all the pilgrims' accounts (Howard 141). Within the context of the Middle Ages, it was surely a journey beyond the realms of normalcy, possibly planting the ...
- 2873: Galileo 2
- ... these findings in March 1610 in The Starry Messenger (trans. 1880). His new fame gained him appointment as court mathematician at Florence; he was thereby freed from teaching duties and had time for research and writing. By December 1610 he had observed the phases of Venus, which contradicted Ptolemaic astronomy and confirmed his preference for the Copernican system. Professors of philosophy scorned Galileo's discoveries because Aristotle had held that only ... Rome by the Inquisition to stand trial for grave suspicion of heresy. This charge was grounded on a report that Galileo had been personally ordered in 1616 not to discuss Copernicanism either orally or in writing. Cardinal Bellarmine had died, but Galileo produced a certificate signed by the cardinal, stating that Galileo had been subjected to no further restriction than applied to any Roman Catholic under the 1616 edict. No signed ...
- 2874: Themes Of The Color Purple By
- ... She once said "You ought to bash Mr. _____ head (Albert, Celie's husband) open. Think about heaven later," in response to hearing about Albert pushing Celie around. Through these women, we see both universal and personal themes of independence, personal growth and self-respect. Walker is clearly stating the need for women to have their freedom. The gender issues in this book are very prevalent, in both America and Africa. Many of these issues deal ...
- 2875: The Khent
- ... political independence in 1393 A.D. The editor of "Mishag" saw in the work of this bright young man the possibilities of a great writer and he encouraged him in his first faltering attempts at writing. Raffi, on his part, scrupulously attended the literary soirees given by the editor of "Mishag", and gradually attained refinement in his crude Iiterary endeavors. He published in "Mishag" several short stories based upon his observation ... rights of the individual for the pursuit of happiness has been realized and people live at last in peace side by side. The excellent qualities of the novelist lie chiefly in his superior style of writing, which is lucid as the limpid waters of a mountain spring, colored with fascinating metaphors; a style pulsating with life, imagination, poetic rhythm, vividness, and warmth. If R. Apovian was the founder of the novel ...
- 2876: Acronyms, Idioms and Slang: the Evolution of the English Language.
- ... than just Generation X. What's interesting, however, is that even the nature of current everyday prose has begun to shorten: it is more direct and to the point. As an example of older- -style writing, Stephen Jay Gould, in his essay "Counters and Cable Cars," writes: Consequently, in San Francisco this morning, I awoke before sunrise in order to get my breakfast of Sears's famous eighteen pancakes (marvel not ... held responsible for developing a reasonable vocabulary. Nevertheless, when a writer uses more words than are necessary to convey accurately his/her message, he/she has is doing their message an injustice. Thus, in the writing of today there can generally be seen a more direct, seemingly less ambiguous tone and direction (save for the uneducated). The days when it was looked upon favorably to write in great length and use ...
- 2877: Bless Me Ultima - Character Analysis
- ... of the letters and numbers" (64) and works hard, "eager to learn the secret of the magic." (76) At school, while others "cry…and wet [their] pants" (58), Antonio spends his time in the corner "writing [his] name over and over." (58) Even Ultima praises Tony’s willingness to study, saying, "[he] learns as much in one day as most do in a year." (81) However, Tony’s drive for knowledge ... of children walking into schools shooting their peers gradually become a mainstream occurrence, it is becoming more and more difficult to believe that there are any Tonys at all. Maybe Rudolfo Anaya’s incentive for writing Bless Me, Ultima is to reopen the eyes of the people in today’s evil studded world and let them rediscover goodness and beauty of human nature.
- 2878: Sherwood Anderson Life And Inf
- LaBrie 1 Sherwood Anderson's life experiences And the way they influenced how he wrote Sherwood Anderson often wrote of other people's misery in his short stories and used it in ironic ways when writing his endings. After reading several of his these stories and reading several biographies of his life, I have come to the conclusion that Anderson's life experiences greatly influence the method in which he wrote ... Anderson and Elizabeth separated in late 1928 and in 1933 Anderson married Eleanor Copenhaver. With her he traveled throughout the South, touring factories and studying labor conditions. Because of his tours with her, he began writing about labor conditions in the 1930’s. The four short stories I read by Sherwood Anderson were “Hands”, “The Triumph of the Egg”(1921), “The Door of the Trap”, and “The Rabbit Pen”. I chose ...
- 2879: Utopia 2
- ... Age" of literature, the idea was a yearning for a kind of life which the ancients imagined was free from the stresses of their more competitive, more commercial civilization. We see many writers today even writing about the subliminal, or the imaginary life describing that as their own utopia. Likewise, poetic creations of things like imaginary gardens and earthly paradises described by writers often reflect yearnings growing out of frustration with ... utopia is the pastoral. This is the idea that has to do with nature and an idealized representation of simple, happy shepherds. Tasso and Edmund Spencer are two Renaissance writers that represented this kind of writing. Shakespeare also talked of the idea in his comedies as certain characters wanted to escape from the real life of the city and the court into the "green world" as it is described. In Shakespeare ...
- 2880: Brave New World
- ... it is obvious that, overall, the Savages have more practical abilities, have more, complicated, ideals, and are much more advanced emotionally, which all help the individual to grow. The Savage Reservation provides more opportunities for personal growth than does the Fordian society. Throughout the story, it is shown how the Fordian society is much more advanced technologically than the Savage Reservation. Because the Reservation is not fully equipped with well-developed ... Savage society teaches us that pre-industrial values may have as much to offer us as modern technological society does, and possibly more. The so-called Savage society is far more realistic, and shows stronger personal values than the more superficial Fordian society. Above all, the 'Savages' can express their inner soul far more effectively than their industrial counterparts.
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