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- 561: Oscar Wilde
- ... his being chosen as an advance publicity man for a new Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Patience, that spoofed aesthetes like himself. In 1881, Wilde's first book of poems, called Poems, was published. In 1882, short of money, he accepted an invitation to embark on a lecture tour of America. He produced his first play in New York City, called Vera, about nihilism in Russia. According to some, it was canceled ... raised a storm of protest to thinly veiled allusions to the protagonist's homosexuality. In 1891 he published Intentions, a collection of dialogues about the aesthetic philosophy; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, a collection of short stories; and A House Of Pomegranates, a collection of children's' stories. He also produced The Duchess Of Padua. In that same year he met and befriended Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquess ...
- 562: Racial Segregation
- ... to be the native Africans when the real threat has always been the white male. Even after she has relied and trusted a "native," Jack, she still believes they are dangerous. In both of these short stories, Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants, and You Can't Get Lost In Cape Town, the main characters' lives are shaped and defined by the racial segregation in South African society. In You Can't Get Lost ... contrasted by her support from a black man. Her racist views are ludicrous in her position but she never questions them, just as many white South Africans never thought about their unfounded biases. Both these short stories were written to show the injustice and inequity in South African society.
- 563: Hostile Takeover Of The New Wo
- ... their people obey these treaties, the U.S. government could not make their own countrymen respect the treaties. "It must certainly appear evident that something must be done to keep those Indians quiet and nothing short of an efficient military force stationed in their country will do this," warned Fitzpatrick. (Utley and Washburn, 195) The U.S. government began forcing the Indians onto reservations. Sometimes they would simply kill them with ... Sioux would not give into reservation life without a fight. And fight they did. They killed 224 of General Custer's men in The Battle of Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876. But, their victory was short lived. The betrayal that resulted was sickening. Crazy Horse, and Ogala Sioux, was assassinated. The Nez Perces were wiped out and Chief Joseph was said to have died of a broken heart shortly after.(Brown ... still opposed by organizations like the Interstate Congress for Equal Rights and Responsibilities. This Anti-Indian Movement romanticizes Indians as noble savages resisting big government. (Thurman, 2) Many Indians sold and continue to sell their stories to book-writers and moviemakers. Their main goal is to make people aware that they exist and continue to survive, despite the apathy and lack of concern they continue to face from the United ...
- 564: Frederick Douglass
- ... that the master, Aaron Anthony was his father. Frederick's mother was required to work long hours in the fields, so he lived with his grandmother, Betsey Baily. Betsy Baily lived in a cabin a short distance from Holmes Hill Farm. Her job was to look after Harriet's children until they were old enough to work. "Frederick's mother visited him when she could, but he had only a hazy ... to omit details that would identify him as the fugitive slave Frederick Baily. Douglass did very well and had success on the lecture circuit. Douglass's early speeches dealt with his own experiences. He told stories about the brutal beatings given by slaveowners to women, children, and elderly people. He loved to imitate clergymen who warned slaves that they would be offending God if they disobeyed their masters. The stories that Douglass told were just what the people wanted to hear. After Douglass's first trial period as a lecturer was over he was asked to continue with his work, and he agreed. During ...
- 565: White Fang
- ... turner. Such a fine example of this is Jack Londons White Fang. A very wonderful tool to an author is the use of symbols within a story. One of the more common symbols throughout short stories and novels ultimately refers to the bible and religious history. In most, if not all stories have the relationship between good and evil heaven and hell. Whether implied or not by Jack London, White Fang is full of many interesting biblical symbols. The character Beauty Smith, for instance very simply ...
- 566: Brave New World
- - Brave New World - By: Aldous Huxley then to Oxford. He was a brilliant man, and became a succesful writer of short stories in the twenties and thirties. He also wrote essays and novels, like 'Brave New World'. The first novels he wrote were comments on the young generation, with no goal whatsoever, that lived after WW I ... as a journalist and a critic of drama. In his books, especially the later ones, he sometimes presents himself as a teacher or a philosopher, to literate us as readers. Next to novels, essays and short stories he also wrote poems, biographies, plays, political/sci-fi books, travel books and even a record of his experiments with drugs. 'Brave New World' was first published in 1932, and has been reprinted ...
- 567: Walden Two
- ... fun to know. In fact, nothing about Marito interested me more than the demons that he possesses, or should I say seem to posses him and manifest themselves in his life as well as his stories. One of the many demons Marito possesses is his writing itself. he seems to constantly be in the middle of writing another short story to send to some newspaper or magazine. The thing is, none of these stories actually ever seem to be very good or successful. Throughout the novel, not one of them is ever actually publisher. Not even MaritoΥs friends really like his writing. In Chapter thirteen he reads the ...
- 568: Streetcar Desire
- ... the place go. I let the place go! Where were you? In there with your Pollack! When Blanche first meets Stanley, he has just returned home from bowling. They stare at each other for a short while and then she introduces herself: "You must be Stanley. I'm Blanche." He offers her a drink, but she declines, explaining she rarely touches it. He comments: Well, there are some people that rarely ... has nothing to hide. Suspicious of her, Stanley explains the Louisiana Napoleonic Code to her: "...what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband also and vice versa." He clashes with her, not believing her stories: Blanche: My, but you have an impressive, judicial air. Stanley: You know, if I didn't know that you was my wife's sister, I would get ideas about you...Don't play so dumb ... it be you and me, Blanche? He thinks about proposing to her and kisses her forehead. They huddle together and embrace, feeling a mutual need for each other - they kiss on the lips. In a short scene in the machine shop where both Mitch and Stanley work, Mitch expresses shock and anger that Stanley has "wised" him up and revealed the truth about Blanche: Stanley: You're gonna kill who, ...
- 569: Hostile Takeover of the New World
- ... their people obey these treaties, the U.S. government could not make their own countrymen respect the treaties. "It must certainly appear evident that something must be done to keep those Indians quiet and nothing short of an efficient military force stationed in their country will do this," warned Fitzpatrick. (Utley and Washburn, 195) The U.S. government began forcing the Indians onto reservations. Sometimes they would simply kill them with ... Sioux would not give into reservation life without a fight. And fight they did. They killed 224 of General Custer's men in The Battle of Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876. But, their victory was short lived. The betrayal that resulted was sickening. Crazy Horse, and Ogala Sioux, was assassinated. The Nez Perces were wiped out and Chief Joseph was said to have died of a broken heart shortly after.(Brown ... still opposed by organizations like the Interstate Congress for Equal Rights and Responsibilities. This Anti-Indian Movement romanticizes Indians as noble savages resisting big government. (Thurman, 2) Many Indians sold and continue to sell their stories to book-writers and moviemakers. Their main goal is to make people aware that they exist and continue to survive, despite the apathy and lack of concern they continue to face from the United ...
- 570: The Blue Hotel
- Stephen Crane is a well-known author of variety of short stories. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a Methodist minister. After schooling at Lafayette College and Syracuse University, he worked in New York as a freelance journalist. His short stories and experimental poetry, also, anticipate the ironic realism of the decades ahead. In his brief and energetic life, he published fourteen books while acting out, in his personal adventures, the legend of the ...
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