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- 4641: Woman on the Edge of Time: Mother To The Tribe
- ... not patriarchal, but matriarchal. Piercy even uses the character's names as a pun to the different societies. Luis and Luciente are obviously both derivatives of the same root name Lue. She uses this subtle writing tactic to convey the idea of the two extremely opposite cultures. Luis the oppressor and brother of Connie is used to represent the oppression by the present culture, for he is the one that commits ...
- 4642: Tribulation and Comedy in Lucky Jim
- ... moment, Jim exhibits further ridiculous behaviour in celebrating the completion of a laborious task that Welch had assigned to him: With a long jabbering belch, Dixon got up from the chair where he'd been writing...and did his ape imitation all round the room. With one arm bent at the elbow so that the fingers brushed the armpit, the other crooked in the air so that the inside of the ...
- 4643: Baldwin's "Fire Next Time"
- ... Blacks and Whites. In his argumentative autobiography, The Fire Next Time, the author brilliantly perceives the idea that love, instead of fear, liberates society. To truly "liberate" society, one must discover his/her individual and personal identity by learning to love. Baldwin describes "fear" to be ignorance, and "love" as knowledge. He joined the congressional church due to fear. He was afraid to become involved with his friends who began to ...
- 4644: Canterbury Tales - A View Of T
- ... a largely peasant society), but the Church and the government needed men who could read and write in English and Latin. The Church trained its own men, and these went to help in the government: writing letters, keeping accounts and so on. The words 'cleric' and 'clerk' have the same origin, and every nobleman would have at least one priest to act as a secretary. The power of the Church is ...
- 4645: John Steinbeck's`"In Dubios Battle": Summary
- ... about the man. It could be felt that he led men as naturally as he breathed." London has a great leadership ability, and thus he was chosen to lead the strikers. Doc Burton is a personal friend of Mac's. He laid out the camp site for the strikers, and he tended to sanitation. His good intentions are paralyzed by his philosophical mind. Doc believes that social change is pointless because ...
- 4646: The Persian Gulf War
- ... actions in terms of increasing the cost of the oil to them or limiting the production of petroleum as had been demonstrated by the OPEC nations in the 1970s. George Herbert Walker Bush also had personal reasons as to why he wanted Iraq to leave Kuwait. As the youngest fighter pilot in the Navy during World War II, he flew in many missions before being shot down. "These missions helped to ...
- 4647: Catcher In The Rye - Character
- ... inability to communicate, is Holden's intention to become a deaf-mute. So repulsed is he by the phoniness around him that he wishes not to communicate with anyone, and in a passage filled with personal insight he contemplates a retreat within himself: "I figured that I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I didn't care what kind of ...
- 4648: An Analysis of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed in Life Due to His Father
- ... son was to have dinner in such company as he was. After dinner, the guys went out to drink and play cards. Although Jimmy was losing and was actually having someone else take care of writing out I-O-U's for him, he continued to play, just so that he could stay in the company that he was in. At the end of the night (actually dawn of the next ...
- 4649: Catcher In The Rye - Holden An
- ... 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. Theyre quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. Theyre nice and all Im not saying that but theyre also touchy as hell" (Salinger 1). Holdens father ...
- 4650: Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, and Pessimism
- ... sat together in the same seat, and each rowed an oar. Then the oiler took both oars; then the correspondent took both oars; then the oiler; then the correspondent. They rowed and they rowed. (pg144) Writing something repeatedly in the manner Crane does in this passage gives the reader a sense of the repetitiveness and frustration the four main characters faced being lost out at sea. Pessimism, in my opinion, is ...
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