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- 6441: To Kill A Mockingbird: Prejudice
- ... to Scout's perception of the world. Through her experiences she grows more tolerant of others, learning how to " climb into another person's skin and walk around in it." On her first day of school she finds that there are both social and poor classes in society, some are respectable and others not. She also learns that her father is an extra-ordinary man, fighting for a Negro's rights ...
- 6442: Mernissi
- ... of his life, Mernissi gives reason to reject Abu Bakra as a reliable source of Hadith. Mernissi discounts another Hadith made by Abu Hurayra, "The Prophet said that the dog, the ass, and woman interrupt prayer if they pass in front of the believer, interposing themselves between him and quibla." (Mernissi 64) First, Mernissi finds that when `A'isha heard of this Hadith, she rebuked it by saying that she had ...
- 6443: Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- ... The will stated that Jekyll's possessions and position should be handed over to Mr. Hyde, a friend that Utterson had never heard nor met. Utterson went to the house of Dr. Lanyon, an old school and college friend of Utterson's and Jekyll's, and asked him about Hyde, but Lanyon had never heard of him. Lanyon uses several evil references when talking about Jekyll, such as "devilish", and "gone ...
- 6444: Henry T. Ford
- ... Irish man, and his mother who was Dutch, his mother died when he was 12. After his mother death he helped out around the family farm in summer and in winter attended a one-room school. From the young age he was fascinating my moving mechanical things. Form the young age he was fascinated by watches and clocks. He went around the countryside doing repair work without pay, for him all ...
- 6445: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- ... He wanted so much to prove them wrong and he has. We may say he has gained self assurance, restating the fact he was a somebody important. Since his days at Fletcher's Field High School, he ran a gang based on respect, not friendship. Things do not change when he becomes an adult. Virgil is just one of the people Duddy uses to get money for his land. He feels ...
- 6446: "The Doll's House" Essay
- ... The Kelveys are a family that are shunned because of their economic status. Throughout the town, "Many of the children, including the Burnnels, were not allowed even to speak to them." Without a second thought, school children and their families followed in the consuming tradition of looking down upon these unprivileged people. Kezia offers offset to this common path of thinking and questions such a blind following. She asks her mother ...
- 6447: Lord of the Flies: Essay on Jack Merridew
- ... each of the boys to be able to speak their mind. At the beginning of the book the position of Jack and Ralph is more or less equal. They are both well - conditioned boys of school age, who find themselves on a lonely island with some other boys of various age, but not older than themselves. They share similar opinions about their situation and its solution. They both want to be ...
- 6448: Catcher in the Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism
- ... world full of "phonies," and maintaining individuality. With such views in mind, Holden begins alone in the story, and he stays as such throughout the entire story. He establishes concrete individual existence as he abandons school and goes to live in New York by himself. He understands that life must not be lived as a game, although he agrees with Mr. Spencer in order not to sound inferior to him. A ...
- 6449: The Worth of Huckleberry Finn
- ... a view of the world that had a rather loose grasp of reality. An example of this fact would be the incident where they ambushed the "A-rabs" (who turned out to be a Sunday school picnic), and the fact that Huck later quit the group because he was disappointed they hadn't actually killed anybody. At another point in the book, we see Tom's over-active imagination and romantic ...
- 6450: The Genji Monogatari
- ... of the structure. I leave you in the capable hands of Michael Chrichtons' Ian Malcom: "Fractals are a kind of geometry, associated with a man named Mandelbrot. Unlike ordinary Euclidean geometry that everybody learns in school--squares and cubes and spheres--fractal geometry appears to describe real objects in the natural world. Mountains and clouds are fractal shapes. So fractals are probably related to reality. Somehow... "For example," Malcolm said, "a ...
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