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- 3831: A Comparison of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Anthem"
- A Comparison of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Anthem" The two novels, The Handmaid's Tale and Anthem, are both haunting, first person tales of personal hardship in a closed and controlled society. In this essay I will point out many important similarities and differences between the two books, mainly the setting and the similarities between the two societies in which ... seems to be fairly intelligent because she said that she had taken several college courses. Although both characters are both apparently in good health and both are intelligent, but they have very different personalities and personal goals. In Anthem the main character is pro-active, he sees that there are problems with the society that he lives in and he tries to change it. He discovers a secret place where he ...
- 3832: African Americans
- ... not alter the condition of the person as to his bondage or freedom." By 1740 the SLAVERY system in colonial America was fully developed. A Virginia law in that year declared slaves to be "chattel personal in the hands of their owners and possessors . . . for all intents, construction, and purpose whatsoever." In spite of numerous ideological conflicts, however, the slavery system was maintained in the United States until 1865, and widespread ... BLUES and can be traced back to the African call-and-response chant, in which a solo verse line is alternated with a choral response of a short phrase or word. They also reflect the personal experiences of blacks and the difficult adjustments demanded in the American environment. Bessie SMITH and W. C. HANDY stand out as major figures in the development of this form of music. JAZZ, a direct descendant ...
- 3833: 1968
- ... something more than a "realistic" conformity. Others had been aroused by the southern sit-in movement, "The first hint," wore a contemporary, "That there was a world beyond the campus that demanded some kind of personal response. "Not so much ideological as moral, in Jessica Mitford's words, "An Indignant Generation." Although an image of arrogance, even ruthlessness, had followed him from his early days as counsel to a Senate committee ... their own ideas and options about life, love, war, peace, and more. They created something to fit their own culture. A "Counter Culture," that had its own dress, as well as its own attitudes about personal relationships. Not to mention that they were suspicious of every person that had power. They had many groups and get -togethers. One of which, "The Human Be-In," usually consisted of ten to twenty thousand ...
- 3834: Heart Of Darkness
- ... Marlow, along with a few of his comrades, cruising aboard the Nellie, a traditional sailboat. On the boat, Marlow begins to tell of his experiences in the Congo. Conrad uses Marlow to reveal all the personal thoughts and emotions that he wants to portray while Marlow goes on this "voyage of a lifetime". Marlow begins his voyage as an ordinary English sailor who is traveling to the African Congo on a ... He lies to her. He does something he utterly detests. This is the event that convinces the reader of Marlow's uptaking of a middle position. He does look inside himself and use his own personal ability to judge this event. He does what Kurtz had told him. Despite his abhorrence of lies, he judges this situation and decides that it was right to lie. However, he is different from Kurtz ...
- 3835: Walt Whitman
- ... who was severely retarded, one who died at infancy, one who died of alcoholism, one who died of tuberculosis, and one who fought and almost died in the Civil War. These things directly effected the writing of this poem. (Lowen, Nancy- page 6). "Song to Myself" spoke of his childhood and how it directly affected the fact that he was going to reject the norm, how he did not care about ... Review," John L. O’Sullivan, was so impressed with Whitman and his work, he bought at least three more stories from Whitman that very same autumn for the magazine. He also gave Whitman a job writing political speeches for Tammany Hall Democrats. When Whitman turned 19, he took an apprenticeship at a local paper. Later he founded the weekly newspaper, the Long-Islander. He wrote, printed, and delivered his paper himself ...
- 3836: The Character Of Macbeth
- ... be effected by utter extirpation of the precepts of natural law deposited in his nature. And he imagines that the execution of more bloody deeds will serve his purpose. Accordingly, then, in the interest of personal safety and in order to destroy the essential humanity in himself, he instigates the murder of Banquo. But he gains no satisfying peace because hes conscience still obliges him to recognize the negative quality of ... only temporal of nothing more that escape from a present evil. At the end, in spite of shattered nerves and extreme distraction of mind, the individual passes out still adhering admirably to his code of personal courage, and the man's conscience still clearly admonishes that he has done evil. Moreover, he never quite loses completely the liberty of free choice, which is the supreme bonum naturae of mankind. But since ...
- 3837: Theory Of The Firm-are Firms J
- ... the greater the firm's profit, the higher the owners income. Hence the owners goal will be profit maximisation. When managers salary stays unaffected by higher profits they may pursue other goals to raise their personal utility. This behaviour strikes the critical observer regularly when for example reading or watching the financial media. Managers there often rather mention the rises in sales or the growth of their company rather then the ... example could be either justified as a profit maximising response to the high opportunity cost of a top executive or an expensive and costly executive status symbol. Baumol (1967) hypothesised that managers often attach their personal prestige to the company s revenue or sales. A prestige maximising manager therefore would rather attempt to maximise the firms total revenue then their profits. Figure 1 illustrates how the output choices of revenue- and ...
- 3838: Hard Times And The Nineteenth Century
- ... believed in feelings, intuition, and imagination, the realists believed in a movement known as positivism, which applied the scientific method to the study of society. The authors of this period also changed their style of writing by dealing with cultural representation and life. They focused on "the here and now, with everyday events, with his own environment and with the movements (political, social etc.) of his time." Charles Dickens was an ... a serialization in this weekly publication. In Hard Times Dickens writes about the horrors of the industrial revolution and was sparked by what he had seen first hand in Manchester, England fifteen years prior to writing Hard Times and the present goings on of a labor strike in Preston, England while he was conceiving the novel. The novel is almost biblical in nature as it has three books sowing, reaping and ...
- 3839: Doris Lessing's Life and Her Writings
- ... up my job because I ‘m going to write a novel. He very properly laughed, and I indignantly walked home and wrote The Grass Is Singing” (Lessing,1250). “Some writers pay close attention to their writing style; others do not. The style of some writers stands out in sharp relief; others is hardly noticeable. Lessing’s style in ‘A Mild Attack of Locusts’ is plain and precise” (Thompson,1257). The most noticeable feature that is uniquely Lessing’s is her use of inverted sentence structure as in the following sentence: ‘Beautiful it was, with the sky blue’.” Lessing also uses irony in her writing. Margaret’s feelings are paradoxical. Margaret, after a day of feeling revulsion for the locusts is now entranced by them (1256). Though the farm is now bare and desolate, Margaret forgets all of that for ...
- 3840: Microsoft The Company
- ... student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Allen had enrolled at the University of Washington, where he studied computer science. Gates left Harvard after just two years of education, and planed on programming for many personal computers. He and Allen later founded the Microsoft company --a name which Gates had picked -- in 1975 (Cusumano and Selby 24). When Microsoft started out, there were only three employees--Gates and Allen included. The ... its competitors. In 1997, Microsoft spent a hefty three billion dollars on research (monopoly 1). Also, by 1997, Microsoft employed over nineteen thousand employees (Cusumano and Selby 3). It is estimated that 90% of PCs (personal computers) have, or once had, Microsoft Windows installed on it (monopoly 1). There are many alternatives to Microsoft's Windows. Such systems include: Sun's Solaris, Caldera, BSDI, Digital's Unix, BeOS, Apple's Rhapsody ...
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