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- 7381: Song Of Solomon By Toni Morris
- ... past. He visits Danville and Shalimar, both places of spiritual heritage. Here he learns from various characters, the events that shaped his parents past, and subsequently their parents before them. He is drawn to these stories as they feed him with information about his missing identity. He is especially drawn to Circe, the mysterious sorceress that saved his father and Pilate from ruthless white landowners. Morrison writes, "so when he saw ...
- 7382: Muckrakers
- ... status-wise. This "story of the poor" became the basic outline for muckraking (Hofstadter 185-188). This new concern of the public demanded more from reporters. Reporters had to dig up exposés and human-interest stories. However, reporters received more and more notice from the public eye. A reporter's job was becoming more and more glamorous and held the aspirations of a growing number of young. As this occurred, those ...
- 7383: The Telescope
- ... first extension of man’s senses and demonstrated that ordinary observers could see things that Aristotle had not dreamed of. It therefore helped shift authority in the observation of nature from men to instruments. In short, it was the prototype of modern scientific instruments. But the telescope was not the invention of scientists; rather, it was the product of craftsmen. For that reason, much of it’s origin is inaccessible to ...
- 7384: Vietnam
- ... on the experiences of Vietnam War veterans. There is a lot of controversy as to whether or not the Vietnam War veterans are given enough recognition for what they went through. I have heard horrible stories of US soldiers dying from US bombs, shell shock, and soldiers returning to America and not being able to function as active members of society due to the horrors of the war. All I really ...
- 7385: Theology - An Examination Of T
- ... as an example. Temptation implies the possibility of sin .” Sahl states this as “if a person has no susceptibility to sin or if sin has no appeal for him, the temptation is a farce .” In short, this means that if Jesus was not capable of being tempted by sin and capable of sinning and then He was not truly human. For temptability and the ability to sin are part of being ...
- 7386: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... spent in “civilization” with the Widow has taught him something after all. Another experience that helps Huck to mature is when he stays with the Grangerfords. Even though Huck’s stay with the Grangerfords is short he experiences a large amount of moral growth. The Grangerfords were involved in a feud with an another family, the Sheperdsons. The feud between the families came as a horrible shock to Huck. Through this ...
- 7387: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... was born in 1835 with the passing of Haley’s comet, and died in 1910 with the passing of Haley’s comet. Clemens often used prejudice as a building block for the plots of his stories. Clemens even said,” The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” There are many other instances in which Clemens uses prejudice as a foundation for the entertainment of his writings such ...
- 7388: The Awakening By Kate Chopin
- ... for her children, showing that she loves them but cannot define herself based on creating their happiness. Her awakening evolves into a selfish agenda, concerned only with her own happiness and disregarding all others. "In short, Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman." This quote states the simple truth that Edna, by nature, is not a "mother" in the classic sense of the word. She loves her children, though she cannot ...
- 7389: Federal Express
- ... point, sorted by destination city, reloaded on planes and then flown in reverse. From early on Smith has been quite the visionary. In 1972 Smith offered the following on Federal Express, “This company is nothing short of being the logistics arm of a whole new society that is building up in our economy – a society that isn’t built around automobile and steel production, but is built up instead around service ...
- 7390: The Bluest Eye By Toni Morriso
- ... grotesquely futile effort to fly. Beating the air, a winged but grounded bird intent on the blue void it could not reach-could not even see- but which filled the valleys of the mind. In short, after the rape, Pecola went insane. Pecola's search for identity was defined by her everlasting desire to be loved. Her purpose in life was to be beautiful and as a result of that to ...
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