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- 6621: Death of a Salesman: Summary
- ... He still loves his father and still tries to make him happy, while fighting to find out who he is and what he really wants out of life. Willy's wife is Linda Loman, a short old woman with a lot of fire. She has a lot of love for Willy and stands by him until his dying day. She is the peacemaker of the family and tries to hold it ...
- 6622: Ralph Waldo
- Introduction Ralph Waldo Emerson "
was truly one of our great geniuses" even though he may have a short biography (Hodgins 212). But as Emerson once said himself, "Great geniuses have the shortest biographies." Emerson was also a major leader of "the philosophical movement of Transcendentalism". (Encarta 1) Transcendentalism was belief in a higher ...
- 6623: Raoul Wallenberg
- ... father Gustav Wallenberg, which he called Farfar, was Sweden's ambassador to Turkey. Farfar told Raoul of his plans to open a world bank and that he would like his help. Farfar told Raoul exiting stories of the Wallenergs in the past. Jacob Wallenberg helped open trade routes to China and Japan. His great grand father, Andre Oscar, went to sea at the age of fifteen and became a steam boat ...
- 6624: Good Will Hunting: Review
- ... for him to walk through, and he provided Will with a supportive and accepting type of love. In a sense, Shawn served as the father figure that Will never had while growing up. He shared stories of his life and most importantly, the love he shared with his wife, Nancy. He taught Will that true love consists of remembering the little things about a person like quirks, idiosyncrasies and imperfections. That ...
- 6625: A Scene from Martin Scorcese's "Mean Streets"
- ... from Martin Scorcese's "Mean Streets" Considered to be one of the most consistently inventive American directors in the last thirty years, Martin Scorsese has brought to life some of the most violently thought provoking stories onto the screen. Many of his films deal with life in the Mafia. Some have dealt with psychotics and killers. Others have been complete departures that were period pieces, comedies, and even a feminist drama ...
- 6626: Marigolds by Eugenia Collier
- ... between right and wrong and learned about the feelings of others. Being a child, the only form of release for her emotions that she knew was one of destruction. She grew up in those few short moments of anger and was left with a decision. As childhood faded and womanhood began, she came to find the reality in her neighbor's eyes. Her innocent childish acts caught up with her and ...
- 6627: Othello the "Mad" Moor
- ... what drove Othello insane and this is why he hath killed his wife. Although the stress of battle was not mentioned in the play one could imagine the stresses put on a man with such stories of battle that Othello himself told Brabantio. Her father loved me, oft invited me; /Still questioned me the story of my life/From year to year- the battles sieges, fortunes/That I have passed.(I ...
- 6628: The Crucible: The Puritans
- ... thought anything was wrong with the trials. Then some of the more respected people were called out as witches. After a few of the respected people were hung, the village realized something was wrong. A short time later, the court was thrown out, and there were no more hangings. In less than a year, a total of nineteen men and women we re hung because of the paranoia and fear during ...
- 6629: Irony in Othello
- ... many things because jealousy is the reason Iago is betraying Othell o and ruining everyone else's lives in the first place. Also, jealousy is what causes Othello to eventually kill his wife. Just a short sidenote, the metaphor coined by Shakespear of jealousy being a "green-eyed monster" is very famous and a very well written phrase. Early in the play, Desdemona's father says to Othello, "Look to her ...
- 6630: The Crucible: The Tragedy at Salem
- ... perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom"(Miller 7). Their theocracy allowed for no expression of individuality, lest the individual, in short, ask for public condemnation. The theocracy of the Salem society at the time was an enormous factor to the conditions surrounding the witch hunts. The Salemites exhibited patriarchal snobbery toward each others and those who ...
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