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- 861: Jay Gatsby: A Confused Man
- ... was booming. Cars were becoming a common way of transportation and women were becoming more independent in the face of society. Many of these women were referrec to as flappers, mainly because of their rather short skirts and decorative outfits. Gatsby was a static character in the novel, meaning he showed changed little if any. Gatsby was a dreamer and throughout his entire life this and the fixation on his dream ... For example, he and Daisy had a beautiful romance for a long period earlier in his life. Gatsby repeated this moment over and over again in his head, Gatsby, also, was rumored to have told stories about his past, such as his story about his time spent at Oxford was not quite clear. He was also rumored to have murdered a man. No one was really completely clear about the life that Gatsby live, not even Gatsby himself. Why he made these stories up or lied about certain things was not completely clear. Maybe he was embarrassed about something he had done previously or maybe he was involved with something that he didn't want anyone to ...
- 862: Stones From The River
- ... philosophy. In the novel Jews, Catholics, and Protestants become victims of the Nazis. Religious prejudices are common throughout the novel. However, Hegi portrays Catholicism as the primary faith. The author scatters many fairy tales and stories inscripted about the different types of religion throughout the text. Catholic water rusted Jewish cars. (Hegi 88) However, the priest says, Protestant babies [are] pagan babies and the Jewish babies [are] like Protestant babies, because ... Jurgen and friends including Georg explored her body. Boys tore off her swimsuit and fingered her breasts the worst thing was their curiosity, those hands that explores her difference, the voices that laughed at the short span of her legs as they pulled them apart. (Hegi149) Hegi leads the reader to believe that Trudi is raped. However, she is not. Trudi is not just embarrassed she is humiliated. When the boys ... communion. Hegi brings in the socilocultural problems of today, such as prayer in school into the novel. And the praying, even though we aren t allowed to pray in school, I used to say a short prayer before and after lessons, but now we are not allowed says Ingrid. (Hegi 304) Schools today have banned religion from their studies, unless you go to a religious school. Kids today are out ...
- 863: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... the several girls that I courted. One girl that I was seeing was my cousin Elizabeth Herring, and to her I wrote one of my “To Elizabeth” poems. In 1831 I sent in a few stories to the Saturday Courier for a contest. Although I did not win, they published “Metzengerstein,” “The Duc de L’Omelette,” “A Tale of Jerusalem,” “A Decided Loss,” and “The Bargain Lost” (which I used as ... of the Folio Club. In 1835 I also published “Hans Pfaal,” in The Southern Literary Messenger. On May sixteenth, 1836, Virginia Clemm and I were married. I was twenty-seven, and my bride was just short of fourteen. I adored my laughing, beautiful young wife and our marriage was a happy one. My mother-in-law lives with us and helped keep the home orderly and Virginia happy. Eventually we moved ... at five o’clock in the morning. I had a simple funeral with very few attending. My family and loved ones were not even notified until a couple of days later. After my death the stories of what really happened were changed drastically over the years, so that the thin line between fact and fiction soon disappeared completely. Even after I was dead those who had made my name a ...
- 864: The Bridge Of San Luis Rey. By Thornton Wilder
- ... also dealt with a much broader society than he did in "Our Town," representing the lower classes and the aristocracy with equal ease. But despite these differences, his theme is much the same; life is short, our expectations can be snuffed out with the snap of a finger, and in the end all that remains of us is those we have loved. The novella begins by describing the quest of a Franciscan monk, Brother Juniper, to figure out why some people’s lives are cut short while others, apparently less deserving of life, live well into their eighties and nineties. He has happened to witness a terrible accident (the sudden collapse of a national landmark, the Bridge of San Luis Rey ... meet, any more than we "meet" people with whom we happen to ride an elevator but, each of them knows someone who knows one of the other victims. Wilder goes on to clear up the stories of their lives, devoting a chapter to each of the major characters: The old woman, The Marquesa; The young man, Esteban; and the old man, Uncle Pio. (The other two victims, the young maid ...
- 865: The Power Of One By Ernest Hem
- ... about many sports including, hunting, fishing, bullfighting and boxing. All of these sports were brought to him by the cultures that he was visiting, and by witnessing these events his writing perspective was molded. The short story by Hemingway entitled "Fifty Grand", is about boxing and the practices that go on in the American culture. In the story the over-aged welterweight boxing champion is set to fight a bout in ... New Jersey: Princeton Publishing, 1952. Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. New York: Compton's NewMedia, Inc., 1995. Courtenay, Bryce. The Power of One. New York: Random House, 1989. Hemingway, Ernest. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories. New York: Scribner, 1961. Magill, Frank N. Cyclopedia of World Rouit, Earl. Ernest Hemingway 41. New York: Twain Publishers, Inc., 1963. Young, Philip. Ernest Hemingway a Reconsideration. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Publishing, 1960. 1 Bryce Courtenay ... Compton's NewMedia, Inc., 1995). 4 Courtenay 222. 5 Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. 6 Earl Rouit, Ernest Hemingway 41 (New York: Twain Publishers, Inc., 1963) 61. 7 Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories (New York: Scribner, 1961) 87.
- 866: White Fang
- ... spend reading a book and like outdoor-like books, if you liked Call Of The Wild you probably will like this book. If you're the kind of person who hates reading books and reads short children stories to avoid time consumption, this book is not for you. On my rating scale I gave White Fang an "ok" because I am the kind of person who would rather read children stories to avoid time consumption. White Fang's reading level is probably 9th or 10th grade because of it's descriptive content, it's hidden interpretations and older people have a longer attention span. I ...
- 867: With Malice Toward None
- ... sources agree that Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a backwoods cabin in Hodgeville, Kentucky. In an interview during his campaign for the presidency in 1860 Lincoln described his adolescence as "the short and simple annals of the poor." (p 30). His father Thomas was a farmer who married Nancy Hanks, his mother, in 1806. Lincoln had one sister, Sarah, who was born in 1807. The Lincoln family ... broke up the engagement. Almost immediately thereafter, Lincoln began to feel terrible guilt and unhappiness over what he had done and what he then realized he had lost. He became so depressed that for a short time many of those around him feared that he was going to commit suicide. Until he longed for her so much that a spark wasreignited between the old lovers and they remarried. After receiving the ... great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong." --Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1876 "If one would know the greatness of Lincoln one should listen to the stories which are told about him in other parts of the world. I have been in wild places where one hears the name of America uttered with such mystery as if it were some heaven ...
- 868: The Japanese Economy
- ... execution of Japanese monetary policy, through the years of rapid economic growth, the rise and collapse of the “bubble” economy, to the present economic stagnation with virtual price stability is one of the most interesting stories in modern central banking (Cargill, 1997). What is clear is that Japan, once heralded for its "miracle economy" is in its longest and most serious recession since World War II. Japan is now stuck in ... the Dodge Plan and the stimulus of the Korean War; (2) 1950-70. A high growth period when real GDP grew 10% per year with moderate inflation of 5% per year; (3) 1971-5. A short but turbulent period of “wild inflation,” yen appreciation, and the collapse of fixed exchange rates; (4) 1976-85. A period of impressive macroeconomic performance with 3-5% growth rate per year, price stability, internationalization, and ... Japan has left for reviving its economy. Money supply (currency in circulation, demand/time deposits and certificates of deposit) has increased to 1.2 times nominal GDP, the highest in the post-war era. Key short-term interest rates now stand close to zero percent, which leaves almost no room for any further cuts. Moreover, this extremely low interest rate has caused concern in some other countries who believe that ...
- 869: Biography on Guy de Maupassant
- ... also served as a literary apprentice under Flaubert. At this time, Maupassant realized his weakness as a poet and concentrated on developing his skills as a writer of prose fiction. Maupassant wrote a collection of short stories that were published with a writers such as Bola, and Huysmans. Maupassant work outshone all the others by far. This is Maupassant became recognized as a writer. He became one of the most famous and well paid French authors of his time. In the years 1984 through 1985 he produced a great number of high caliber fiction. Most of these stories dealt with his experiences as a child in Normandy. During 1886-1887 Maupassant began to show signs of mental illness, probably the results of venereal disease. A sea voyage to improve his health enabled ...
- 870: Shiga Naoya - At Kinosaki
- ... fact. Tanizaki Junichiro refers to this as Shiga's 'practicality' (jitsuyo), which Tanizaki writes is quite rare in Japanese prose. One of the features of Shiga's writing the reader notices very quickly is his short sentences, which is an integral part of this 'practicality' The second sentence immediately following this background setting sentence is an equally efficient sentence in introducing the story's theme of death and the attitude of ... now. I felt a certain nearness to that quiet." A clear sign that seeing the dead bee had changed the narrator follows this with the description of how he wanted to change one of his short stories 'Han's Crimes' . In true Naturalist style the narrator admits "I was much disturbed that my way of thinking had become so different from that of the hero of a long novel I was ...
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