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- 1221: William Carlos Williams
- ... books 1946-1958) which few would think could serve as the location for such a dramatic piece. Other works by Williams include First Act (1937), a novel which captures the unique "americanness" of America, the short stories collected in Make Light Of It (1950), The collected Later Poems (1950), The Collected Earlier Poems (1951), Desert Music (1954), Selected Essays (1954) and Selected Letters (1957). Williams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1962 ...
- 1222: Jonathan Swifts A Modest Propo
- Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal In his lengthy literary career, Jonathan Swift wrote many stories that used a broad range of voices that were used to make some compelling personal statements. For example, Swifts, A Modest Proposal, is often heralded as his best use of both sarcasm and irony. Yet ... for ladies summer boots for fine gentlemen. Also, when he makes his calculations as to how many children would be available for sale, he never takes into account the children from the rich families. In short, Swift s message is that rich children serve a purpose, the advancement of Ireland, while poor children are nothing but a burden to the republic. One other clear indication that Swift was motivated by his ...
- 1223: Upton Sinclair, Jr. And The Ju
- ... s cruelty to other men. Upton Junior began his writing career as a college student. Before he was graduated from the City College of New York in 1897, he had already sold many jokes and stories to newspapers and magazines. By the time he left graduate study at Columbia University in 1900, he had published ninety stories for magazines like Army and Navy Weekly. What turned Sinclair to more serious literature was an traumatic religious experience. From his friendship with a young minister, Sinclair got a devotion to moral and social justice ... Hotel. For seven weeks he observed the life of the "wage slaves of the Beef Trust," as he called them: "I sat at night in the homes of the workers . . . and they told me their stories . . . and I made notes. In the daytime I would wander about the yards, and my friends would risk their jobs to show me what I wanted to see. I . . . found that by the simple ...
- 1224: Tragic Differences
- Tragedy has always been a popular theme in stories and plays. For centuries, people have been captivated by morbidly emotional finales, rather than by happy endings. Stories with a sad outcome fascinate us much more than those, ending on a happy note. Many of the best works of literature are considered to be tragedies. Shakespeare would be a perfect example of a ... in variant forms. Tragedy is worth studying not only because of its popularity and intensity but also because it did and will always exist in the lives of ordinary people like ourselves. While reading tragic stories and analyzing different forms of tragedy, we should always parallel them with the events that take place in our lives and learn from them as much as we can. And maybe, it will make ...
- 1225: Biblical Analysis On Genesis A
- After Adam and Eve the Hebrew ancestry grew on the shoulders of Abraham. From there we learn of the many books that comprise and make up the collection of stories that is The Bible. Depending on who you ask, The Bible according to the first full English translation (, King James Version,) construes the Old Testament and the New Testament, and in the process offers information ... earth," so the story goes into distinct and simple details of how earth was formed. "God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about," with an air of nonchalance, stories told and retold were written and convinces the reader that this is exactly how it occurred. No room for questioning, Genesis continues in explaining the ancestry of Adam and Eve and Abraham. God's contract ... of his stature in common society add fire to the embers of the purpose and convert ability of this book. The Bible, in ancient Hebrew, simply translates to a collection of books. These collections of "stories" go far beyond in asserting the faith and well-being of a volatile and unconventional society- a melting pot of cultures changing through the generations. One can perceive how a group of people can ...
- 1226: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... of the problems with this one was with supplying the troops. In the air, Castro had easily won superiority over the invading force. His fast moving T-33s, although unimpressive by today's standards, made short work of the slow moving B-26s of the invading force. On Tuesday, two were shot out of the sky and by Wednesday the invaders had lost 10 of their 12 aircraft. With air power ... the newspapers and they'd know that something was going to happen, that those planes that had bombed them were not their own but American. In The New York Times of the 21st of April, stories about the origins of the operation in the Eisenhower administration appeared along with headlines of "C.I.A. Had a Role In Exiles' Plans" revealing the CIA's involvement. By the 22nd, the story is ...
- 1227: Macbeth And Lord Jim
- ... similarity between the two works emphasizes the effect of lies on the way an individual lives, and further stresses the internal struggle that Jim faced after he had jumped from the Patna. In their respective stories, Jim and Macbeth face the lies that dictated their lives and, consequentially, die with some of the dignity and honor that they had once experienced in their lives. This process is described as each man ... Marlow expresses this by saying: Not in the wildest days of his boyish visions could he have seen the alluring shape of such an extraordinary success! For it may very well be that in the short moment of his last proud and unflinching glance, he had beheld the face of that opportunity which, like an Eastern bride, had come veiled to his side. (Conrad 307). Marlow is proud of Jim for ...
- 1228: Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place": The Concept of Nada
- Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place": The Concept of Nada In Ernest Hemingway's short story, A Clean Well-Lighted Place, the concept of nada is the central and most important theme. As described by Carlos Baker, Nada is a Something called Nothing which is so huge, terrible, overbearing, inevitable ... he has to fight this void. Hemingway believed that an ordered personal style is one of the few sources of value in an otherwise meaningless universe (181). Also, Anthony Burgess once said, Life is too short for anything but the one thing that can outface death - human dignity (Burgess 61). Even though the young waiter says that an old man is a nasty thing (Hemingway 257), the old man is personalized ... Place. Literature: Reading, Writing, Reacting. Ed. Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers., 1997. 256-259. Hoffman, Steven K. 'Nada' and the Clean Well-Lighted Place: The Unity of Hemingway's Short Fiction. Ernest Hemingway. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1985. 173-192.
- 1229: Of Mice And Men 3
- ... novel, but at the same time it left me with a kind of unpleasant feeling in the back of my mind. I can t see how an author could write a book with such a short and sudden ending. The last images he leaves the reader with is George and Slim walking off as Curly says Now what in the hell is eating them? thus the book ends on a harsh ... bit when he walked, much like a bear. George has taken Lennie under his wing and thus Lennie depends solely on George for everything. Ever since Lennie has been with George, he has told Lennie stories of a great place, with a cabin all to their selves, and rabbits for Lennie to care for. This leads me to his next obsession for feeling and caressing soft things such as fur, velvet ...
- 1230: Of Mice And Men 5
- ... seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try" (Gray 50). Steinbeck tries to tell people that man owes something to man. "Many of his novels, plays, short stories show efforts to pay his debt back. Steinbeck shows a consistent effort to establish the dignity of human life" (Gray 50). Steinbeck then went to New York and did some construction work. While there, he ...
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