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- 1261: New Women Of The Victorian Era
- ... new avenues of enlightenment. The quest for knowledge and understanding became an acceptable practice throughout much of the scientific community. It was becoming accepted, and in many ways expected, for people to search for knowledge. Philosophy, the search for truth, was becoming a more intricate part of educating ones self; no longer were people holding on to old-fashioned ideas. Central to the story lines of Middlemarch, written by George Eliot ...
- 1262: In Search Of Excellence
- ... run a huge enterprise with a staff of fewer than 100 people. Product divisions are treated as separate companies. They have shown that hands-on management works better with less middle management. A difference in philosophy between Japan and US is shown by the fact that US management tends to believe that no one can control more than 5-7 people. One bank in Japan has several hundred managers reporting to ...
- 1263: Frankenstein
- ... house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump” (Shelley 26). From this event he moved away from his old field of study, natural philosophy, and moved to his new one natural phenomenon. He especially took to the field of, “mathematics and the branch of study appertaining to that science as being built upon strong foundations, and so worthy of ...
- 1264: Death Of A Salesman
- ... him of his lifestyle, and his own sons who stripped him of hope. The most obvious flaw in society is greed. This is the desire to get ahead of the next guy. It is the philosophy of businesses that compromise the dreams of many men. Though sometimes this can drive a man to great things, sometimes it can drive a man to ruin. Willy Loman was a simple man driven to ...
- 1265: A Analysis Of Jack London Nove
- ... the work, thinking it a glorification of the superhuman and individualism, and London later wrote, ". . . I attacked Nietzsche and his super-man idea ... no one discovered that it was an attack upon the super-man philosophy. " Although London failed in reaching his purpose of striking gold in the Klondike during the gold rush of 1897-98, he certainly did strike a vein that not only enriched him during his lifetime but ...
- 1266: The Catcher In The Rye Essay B
- ... as much impact on him as certain members of his immediate family. The ways Holden acts around or reacts to the various members of his family give the reader a direct view of Holden's philosophy surrounding each member and would likely explain his actions in the story. Holden makes reference to the word "phony" forty-four separate times throughout the novel (Corbett, 1997). Each time he seems to be referring ...
- 1267: War And Peace
- Leo Tolstoy’s novel, War and Peace, contains three kinds of material, a historical account of the Napoleonic wars, the biographies of fictional characters, and a set of essays about the philosophy of history. Critics from the 1860s to the present have wondered how these three parts cohere, and many have faulted Tolstoy for including the lengthy essays, but readers continue to respond to them with undiminished ...
- 1268: Candide The Satire Of An Age.
- ... see that he has quickly recovered his optimism. Voltaire is using Candide's blatant optimism to relate to the people of his time that also have the same type of optimism. He also bombasts the philosophy that states all actions are a part of an illustrious, benevolent cosmic plan. It is Pangloss who says “it is impossible to for things to be where they are. For all is well” (30). What ...
- 1269: Essay On Eustacia Vie Return O
- ... acquired a homely zest for doing what we can, shows aGrandeur of temper which cannot be objected to in the abstract, for it Denotes a mind that, though disappointed, forswears compromise.But If congenial to philosophy, it is apt to be dangerous to the Commonwealth."Hardy laments the way the wild past of the heath, is slowly decaying and making way to the modern world of schools, businesses and culture. Eustacia ...
- 1270: With And Without The State In
- ... men and lets them dominate her. This is her way of handling her grief. Because the state has allowed her to this morally distorted superstition and self-destruction, she succumbs to witchcraft and this new philosophy of life as a better source of happiness. The phrase "Christ stopped at Eboli" means that religion, interacted with the government has not communicated with this part of Italy. The mayor of the town did ...
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