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- 4561: Hesiod's "Works and Days" and Virgil's "The Georgics": Working the Land
- ... s god and to holy Demeter, for her sacred grain..."(pg.73 ll. 65-66) Finally, at the end of the passage, Hesiod describes the end result that is what motivates to begin with by writing, "If you proceed as I've described...You'll sweep the cobwebs from your storage jars...Till pale spring arrives...other men will come to you in need."(pg.74 ll. 73-81) This final ...
- 4562: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... final battles where all of his friends were killed. The death of Kat was particularly hard for Paul because they were very close. One month before the Armistice, Paul was killed. Ramarque's purpose in writing this book was to display the hidden costs of war. The physical aspects of death and wounds did not begin to portray the mental anguish that the soldiers experienced during and after the war. He ...
- 4563: Everyone in A Man For All Seasons is Pursuing Their Own Ends. What Makes More Different?
- ... selfishness in one way or another. Of course there are some whose selfishness is more noticeable than others, however at some point they are all deficient in their consideration of others and live chiefly for personal profit. All, except for one. Sir Thomas More is a man who subconsciously is a slave to his conscience. He executes selfless acts in order to do what he knows is legal, and what he ...
- 4564: Homesteading by Percy Wollaston
- ... to the "land of promise." This memoir as said in the foreword, written by Jonathan Raban is "unforced, unsentimental, often dryly funny, it has the ring of experience itself insisting of making itself manifest in writing. It tells the story of what now must seem a tragic episode in American history, but it tells it with artful reticence, withholding the tragedy, yet letting it impinge, by suggestion, on the narrative." This ...
- 4565: Elie Wiesel
- ... that they would be deported and the ghetto was to be destroyed. They did not know where they were going , only that they would be leaving in the morning and could only take a few personal belongings. Fortunately for the Wiesel family their journey was postponed for a couple of days. When they heard the words All Jews outside!( Wiesel 16) they knew it was time to leave everything behind. The ...
- 4566: Dandelion Wine
- ... did what other little brothers like to do, tag along with his older brother. He was never in the way of his older brother, in fact they liked being together. Tom took every day slowly, writing most everything down, the first day of summer, the first this, his first that. Dandelion wine took place in a small town called Green Town, Illinois. In Green Town the Spauldings owned a patch of ...
- 4567: Contrasting Marlow and Kurtz and the Theme of Evil In "Heart of Darkness"
- ... environment. The darkness, however, can emerge and ultimately destroy the person if not checked by reason. If one's inner darkness does surface, the victim then is given the opportunity to reach a point in personal growth, and to gain a sense of self-knowledge from it. That is, when one's darkness appears, one must learn from this experience how he or she can prevent similar results from occurring in ...
- 4568: Animal Farm - Compared To The
- ... important pig, Squealer. Squealer did not make the decisions in the government but acted more like the controlled media as in the Russian government. His job was to influence the people by exaggerating and re-writing history and sometimes telling plain lies all together. The people would listen to him, and he would always listen to Napoleon. Other animals were the worker class type citizens. The types of citizens range from ...
- 4569: Chaucer's "The House of Fame": The Cultural Nature of Fame
- ... her book, The House of Fame: The Poetics of Skeptical Fidelism and believes that The House of Fame is indeed "a sceptical poem". However, Russell is rather extreme in his view, believing that Chaucer is "writing to deconstruct the tyranny of the written word". It is difficult to agree with this view, and although there are elements to suggest this may be the case, one would tend to agree with Delany ...
- 4570: Fahrenheit 451: Change
- ... right way. Montag felt that he should consult Faber, for he "talked the meaning of things." He wanted to know what was in the books. He wanted to see the meaning in the words and writing. Faber's comment on books gave way to a new stream of questions in Montag. Montag began wondering about books. He asked himself, "Are books really that bad? Why are books bad if Faber feels ...
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