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- 4191: Animal Farm
- ... that Stalin used on the Russians. Napoleon carried a whip in his trotter. Stalin used his power to starve the Russian people and to have Lenin arrested. Stalins main goal was to maximize his personal power. (Stalin, Britannia 576). Stalin whipped his people into shape by collectivizing agriculture, by police terror, and by destroying remnants of individual prosperity. He also led the Soviet Union into the nuclear age (Clarkson 442 ...
- 4192: Cheap Amusements
- ... the late nineteenth century. The amusements were blamed for debasing womanly virtues, segregating youth from family and fostering a dangerously expressive culture. Out of these cheap amusements came a New Woman . A woman who relished personal autonomy and activity in the public arena and challenged the boundaries of domesticity and female self-sacrifice.
- 4193: Charlotte Temple Essay
- ... was about twenty three years old, and Charlotte was only fifteen. He was much older than Charlotte. Montraville influenced her in evil ways; he impressed her with his knowledge of love and the world by writing her a letter and giving it to her personally . Montraville knew this was forbidden but gave it to her anyway. Tis a romantic attempt, said he, and should I even succeed in seeing and conversing ...
- 4194: Catcher In The Rye
- ... Holden begins to refer to his parents as distant and generalizes both his father and mother frequently throughout his chronicle. One example is: " my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything personal about them. They re quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They re nice and all I m not saying that but they re also touchy as hell" (Salinger 1). Holden s father ...
- 4195: Beloved 2
- ... protected from the cruelty and the "dirtiness" of slavery(Morrison 251). In this respect, her act is that of love for her children. The selfishness of Sethe's act lies in her refusal to accept personal responsibility for her baby's death. Sethe's motivation is dichotomous in that she displays her love by mercifully sparing her daughter from a horrific life, yet Sethe refuses to acknowledge that her show of ...
- 4196: The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time for the US
- ... Abraham Lincoln was born. At the age of six Abraham and his sister walked "up the road a piece"(2 miles each way) to go to school. He learned the three R's, he liked writing and said that practiced "anywhere and everywhere that lines could be drawn". In 1816 the Lincolns moved to backwoods Indiana. In 1818 Abe's mother died. It only took one year for Abe's father ...
- 4197: Johnny Tremain
- ... talents that help keep him going strong. Before Johnny burned his hand working on a sugar basin, he was a skilled silversmith. Imagine burning your right hand and losing many of your talents, such as writing or using an ax. After practicing, he painfully learned to use his left hand to use an ax. He also learned to legibly write, but it used to be better before his accident. Now Johnny ...
- 4198: Beloved 2
- ... of the most murderous times for blacks in American history. She was raised in a household which was heavily influenced by slavery and white supremacist' fears, as well as the need for education. Morrison's writing style stems from having fallen in love with words. From that love she inspires young writers, and also people like Muhammad Ali and Angela Davis. What the Critics Said "Beloved" is a wonderful story about ...
- 4199: The Hobbit
- ... it. If you want to read a fantasy book, you should skip this one and read a book of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman that are better authors. If this writer (died?) wants to continue writing, let it be, but he should not expect me to read it.
- 4200: An Exploration Of Femininity I
- ... the temptation of Eve; the serpent (an extremely phallic image) symbolising how the Ghost feels he has been penetrated in the garden. When the Ghost actually names the crime, however, he turns it from a personal insult into a political insult, in other words an insult against Denmark: Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest (1.5.82-3) The King and the ...
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