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- 1021: More's Utopia and Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies
- ... their country or government. Love is also distracting, and would disrupt the carefully structured balance of the society. Unlike Brave New World, Utopians aim at trying to preserve love between the partners in a marriage. Slavery is sentenced upon those that have disgraced their marriage, the guilty are made infamous, and never allowed to marry again. In Utopia, love is by far one of the societies most profound feelings. The society ...
- 1022: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... can be safe and free. Huck doing this was very risky. Jim, being a slave, and Huck helping him could have gotten Huck in a lot of trouble because in that time they still had slavery in many parts of the U.S., and helping a slave was illegal. Meanwhile on the raft, Huck and Jim are having the time of their lives. They have all the time in the world ...
- 1023: Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
- ... Power is found within the Zone Unknown but is a place which has mystical and mysterious powers, such as the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz. Huck is faced with the moral predicament of slavery throughout the entire novel. This test or question continues to arise many times throughout the novel. Huck is torn between right and wrong, in fact he almost turns Jim, the runaway slave, in during his ...
- 1024: Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
- ... the moment had come . . . (Dostoyevsky 527). At last Raskalnikov looks beyond himself and begins to see that he is in error and that there is something more than his guilt. He is freed from the slavery of guilt. In short, in this brief encounter with Sonya, the seed of faith is planted. Whether or not the seed will be brought to fruition remains to be seen. However, given Sonya's love ...
- 1025: Flaws in Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- ... free states and Jim is officially free. After waiting around a while the two begin to get money in any way they can. When it is enough Jim buys his wife and children out of slavery, and Huck takes a cut (not too much, just enough to get home). Once home Huck starts all over with his ever interesting plots (not without the help of Tom Sawyer). Time passes and over ...
- 1026: Mark Anthony's "Crypt of the Shadowking": A Fantasy
- ... home town Ireaebor and finds it has been taken over by a tyrant known as Cutter. In Caledan's absence, Cutter has passed many ridiculous laws and anyone violating any of these is forced into slavery under the Tor which the city is set upon, where Cutter is mining to find the crypt of the Shadowking, where the nightstone, an ancient artifact of great and evil power, believed to be. Caledan ...
- 1027: Huckleberry Finn: A Good Role Model
- ... on whether Huck Finn is a good role model for today's young people, I will explain why I think he is. Huck is a good role model for several reasons. First, he believes that slavery is wrong. He believes in treating people equally regardless of color. When Huck sees the widow's runaway slave Jim on Jackson's Island, he has mixed emotions about what he should say and do ...
- 1028: Marranos: A Lost People
- ... mouths in order to fool the Christians. The Jewish holiday of Passover was also observed in an abnormal way. Normally the holiday consists of two seders (meals) during which the story of the Jews escaping slavery and leaving Egypt is told. The Marranos could strongly relate to this story as they felt that they were being enslaved by the Inquisitors. The Seders are followed by a week of observance during which ...
- 1029: The Indian Awakening in Latin America
- ... in Latin America have struggled for survival throughout the centuries from the problems that the whites have caused. Latin American Indians have struggled through hardships created by the whites that include a loss of lands, slavery, discrimination, a complete rearrangement of their beliefs and cultures, ethnocide, and genocide. The Latin American Indians have struggled for centuries since the invasions of their lands to reclaim their lands, and way of life. The ...
- 1030: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Symbolism
- ... his word that he will not tell on Jim. When Huck hears that Jim is jubilant at the thought of escape, and also that Jim plans to steal is necessary, his own children out of slavery, he is horrified at this and shocked at his own part in such an immoral undertaking. Not only a plot device, Jim is also the person who brings Huck to a series of important moral ...
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