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- 401: Lotery Death Of A Salesman
- The Lottery / Young Goodman Brown The two short essays written by Jackson and Hawthorne are both thought provoking and full of evil. Many symbols are used to help develop the themes of both stories. The authors unveil the stories in such a way that you really don't know what the outcomes are going to be, but you do know that they will involve insights into morality - of both the main characters and ...
- 402: The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
- ... the family name than in hard work. The McQuillan and the Fitzgerald in Scott vied for control throughout his childhood. He was a precocious child, full of energy and imagination, but he liked to take short cuts, substituting flights of fantasy for hard work. On his seventh birthday in 1903 he told a number of the older guests that he was the owner of a yacht (perhaps the seeds of Gatsby ... in New York City, they were married. Within two years they became the most notorious young couple in America, symbolizing what Fitzgerald called The Jazz Age. The Jazz Age began, Fitzgerald tells us in his short story, "May Day," in May of 1918. It ended with the stock market crash of 1929. The Jazz Age brought about one of the most rapid and pervasive changes in manners and morals the world ... well, but just as Gatsby's love for Daisy drove him to tragedy, so Fitzgerald's love for Zelda occupied more and more of his time. To maintain the social style she loved, he wrote stories for the popular magazines of the time, like Cosmopolitan, Smart Set, and the Saturday Evening Post. Maintaining a dizzying social life, Scott, Zelda, and their daughter Scottie moved from New York City to Great ...
- 403: Linux 2
- ... fun interface that allows users to customize it ad infinitum. Neither interface is yet as polished and complete as the Windows or Mac desktops. However, they have developed to their current state in an amazingly short time (See screenshots located at the back of this document). Critics of LINUX must remember that the earliest versions of Windows were eminently forgettable, and it was only with version 3.1, appearing sometime in ... server, programming environments and compilers allowing you to write programs in C, Pascal, PERL, Python, BASIC, Fortran, and probably other programming languages that even I have never heard of. Of course, that is just the short list. System Requirements One of the main issues when installing software is to meet or exceed the minimum hardware requirement. LINUX supports more hardware than some commercial implementations of UNIX. Below is a detailed summary ... in the future at its features and performance clearly outguns that of Windows NT. On the other hand, Windows NT do offer a more user-friendly environment than LINUX. References http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2196115,00.html http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2196106,00.html http://www.microsoft.com/windows/dailynews/042199.htm http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/enterprise/1999/ ...
- 404: John Steinbeck
- ... his talent and he was given unimportant assignments with no value (Morrow 75). Numerous times he failed to show up at work and was soon after fired. Barely scraping by John wrote a collection of short stories. He went to two publishing companies and he was shot down by both. One explained that they would not publish an unknown writer, they other refused to publish short stories. Heart-broken and broke John got a job as a waiter on a California bound freighter and headed back to his old job at Lake Tahoe. To just make things a little harder ...
- 405: The Catcher in the Rye Summary and Analysis
- ... Military Academy became the model for Pency Prep in the Catcher in the Rye (1951). At Valley Forge, Salenger to the role of literary editor of the school yearbook, and began work on his first stories. After graduating from Valley Forge Salinger accompanied his father to Vienna to learn the Polish ham business. After returning to the United States he enrolled in college again, this time at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania, but dropped out after half of a semester there. He then joined a short story course at Columbia University. The story was taught by Whit Burnett. Burnett was the editor of the Story magazine, and he published one of Salingers story’s called “The Young Folks,” in 1940. He ... day. After the war Salinger was hospitalized and mentaly evaulated and treated for psychiatric problems. He moved back to New Yourk in 1947 and signd a contract with The New Yourker (a magazine) to right short storys. In 1950 Salingers story “Fro Esme-with Love and Squalor “ was named one of the distinguished American stories of the year. During this time J.D. became intreasted in Zen Buddhism which influenced ...
- 406: The Birthmark, The Minister’s Black Veil, and Young Goodman Brown: Symbolism
- The Birthmark, The Minister’s Black Veil, and Young Goodman Brown: Symbolism Symbolism is used throughout Hawthorne’s literary works. In the three short stories: The Birthmark, The Minister’s Black Veil, and Young Goodman Brown symbolism is used to show the thoughts of the Puritans in opposition to their beliefs. In the short story, Young Goodman Brown, The main character has an internal struggle. The argument between good and evil going on in his head causes him to look at the townspeople from a whole new perspective. ...
- 407: James Hurst's Use of Symbols to Create a Mood
- James Hurst's Use of Symbols to Create a Mood James Hurst effectively uses symbolism in the first paragraphs of his short stories to create a mood filled with despair, gloominess, life, and death. To create a gloomy feeling, James Hurst used the changing of seasons. In "The Scarlet Ibis," he wrote that summer was now dead, but ... phrases was a slow passage of time that seemed to go on forever. This was revealed by seasons that had ended without the next one coming. When James Hurst wrote the starting paragraphs of his short stories, he added in death. "Graveyard flowers who spoke softly of the names of the dead," written in "The Scarlet Ibis," hinted that there was a nearby graveyard filled with deadly air. In "The ...
- 408: Frankenstein Biography, Settin
- ... she marries Alphonse Frankenstein and finances are no longer a concern, she becomes a guardian angel to the ones less fortunate than her. She is tender, kind and indulgent towards her children. She is, in short, the perfect mother. The description of Caroline can be compared to Elizabeth's; both seem to be the definite image of femininity in eighteenth century middle to upper class ideology. Henry Clerval is Victor's ... of story and atmospheric surrounding. In so doing, it establishes a contrast between darkness and light, which evokes a sinister irony. In such tales, darkness often prevails, and according to literary scholars, elevated these horror stories into "Gothic sublime" (The Gothic Sublime. 333). Specifically, the Gothic sublime symbolizes a "black hole which finally absorbs history into its own emptiness" (The Gothic Sublime. 333). Gothic fiction is, quite simply, man taking a ... her story. As she herself recalled in her introduction to Frankenstein, "The season was cold and rainy, and in the evenings we crowded around a blazing wood fire, and occasionally amused ourselves with some German stories of ghosts, which happened to fall into our hands. These tales excited in us a playful desire of imitation. Two other friends (a tale from the pen of one of whom would be far ...
- 409: Mama Day
- The entire structure of Mama Day is fitting to the telling of multiple love stories entertwined. Like the most heartfelt episode of Seinfeld ever Gloria Naylor doesn t tell a love story, but rather lays out in detail the events of everyday life for all of the central characters. In the process the love stories of the characters are all told at once. The most obvious example is the relationship between George and Cocoa (arguably the main love story). Through the book we see them meet, fall in love, and ... of the major themes in this book. Gloria Naylor steps aside and lets the characters do her work for her. Love has the unfortunate nature of being objective and the best way to tell love stories is from every point of view. How else can one understand from the outside? On page one she starts with Cocoa telling her side of things and on twenty-two; here comes George s ...
- 410: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African-American poet and an author. He was prolific at writing short stories, novels, librettos, plays, songs essays and poetry. His work was popular with black and white readers of his day, and are celebrated today by scholars and schoolchildren alike. He is accredited as being the first ... to write despite persistent health problems. In 1904 he returned to Dayton to stay with his mother. On February 9, 1906, he died in his mother's arms at the age of 33. During this short life, Dunbar produced twelve poetry books, four books of short stories, five novels and one drama.(Gould) An appreciation of Paul Laurence Dunbar's literary contributions can be seen in the city of Dayton ...
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