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- 6101: Herman Melville
- ... Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel. In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among ...
- 6102: Hedda Gabler
- ... been friends with Thea in order to solicit her confidence: Thea - "But that's the last thing in the world I wanted to talk about!" Hedda - "Not to me, dear? After all, we were at school together." Thea - "Yes, but you were a class above me. How dreadfully frightened of you I was in those days!" Once Hedda learns of Thea's misgivings about Lovborg's newfound resolve, she uses it ...
- 6103: Hedda Gabler
- ... been friends with Thea in order to solicit her confidence: Thea - "But that's the last thing in the world I wanted to talk about!" Hedda - "Not to me, dear? After all, we were at school together." Thea - "Yes, but you were a class above me. How dreadfully frightened of you I was in those days!" Once Hedda learns of Thea's misgivings about Lovborg's newfound resolve, she uses it ...
- 6104: Heart Of Darkness
- ... name and count. Then she will learn to sew" (Emecheta 9). In Ibo culture, girls were valued for their domestic abilities. Adah refused to be measured by this, instead she was determined to go to school and get an education. She worked had to overcome the sexist attitude that her culture held. This sexist attitude continued after she got married to Francis. Francis is a typical Ibo male. He held the ...
- 6105: Heart Of Darkness
- ... lies in the heart of our souls. Bibliography Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York, N.Y., Ballantine Books, 1959. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. New York, N.Y., St. Martins Press, Inc., 1989. School, Beacon. Http:/www.beaconschool.org/ ebernabe/Darkness.html.
- 6106: Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on May 27, 1794. He was an American Steamship and Railroad builder as well as a financier and promoter. He was born to a poor family and he quit school at eleven. He owned his first business at age sixteen as a transport and freight service. By the war of 1812, the government was contracting him to supply forts around New York and the profits ...
- 6107: Hard Times
- ... view on the evil of the educational system. Among the "little pitchers" are Bitzter and Sissy Jupe. They exemplify two entirely different ideas, serving Dickens for allegorical purposes. Bitzer, the model student of Gradgrind's school of "facts, facts, facts" becomes the very symbol of evil in the educational system that Dickens is trying to portray, as he learns to take care for number one, himself. Reflection of this and Bitzer ...
- 6108: Wuthering Heights: A Novel of Revenge
- ... of their deeply meaningful relationship, as consequence, Catherine succumbs to illness because she is mentally distraught. Finally, Heathcliff seeks revenge on Catherine even after her death. In his anguish, he cries, And I pray one prayer- I repeat it till my tongue stiffeens-Catherine Earnshaw,maynot rest , as long I am living! (Ch. 16, P 197). This shows that Heathcliff is angry with her, he is frustrated, hurt, because his soul ...
- 6109: Hard Times
- ... rounded students, but denying children their childhood. The significance of the ending being in the circus is that is the complete opposite of everything that was being taught at the beginning. The institution of the school of fact is totally gone. A new way of looking at life has arisen. Facts can no longer the only thing in life. The necessity of compassion, love, and understanding are now shown to be ...
- 6110: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... exiled from Gilead, and left for dead. Also, God plays virtually no part in this soulless, sterile theocracy. The Commander locks away the family bible and the only other worship takes place through a computerized prayer service which people order through the phone. The society of Gilead also attempts to weed out all non-whites, even though it is ultimately unsuccessful, while at the same time, it successfully prevents women from ...
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