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- 771: Candide The Satire Of An Age.
- ... is consistently being brainwashed by reason (Pangloss) saying that we live in the best of Yet it quite obviously that he does not. For how can there be, in the best of all worlds, war, slavery and many more abominations. Half-way through the book it would appear that Candide has given up his optimism when he looked at the Negro slave. Oh Pangloss... I ll have to give up your ...
- 772: Candide By Voltaire
- ... story who were presumed to be dead were found to be alive and well. Cunegonde, the object of Candide's affections, was thought dead by Candide but she had really been raped and sold into slavery. Pangloss was also presumed dead but he reappeared in Candide's life. Although it is good that these people did not die, this is not an example of good coming from bad, since bad (their ...
- 773: Burry My Heart At Wounded Knee
- ... the Indian nations, which rival that of the Holocaust during World War Two. The parcels are too strong to ignore. Beginning with the long walk of the Navaho where children were stolen and sold into slavery and many died during the journey. When they arrived at the camp they were counted daily. What a correlation to the relocation to the Jews to the concentration camp, many of whom also dying along ...
- 774: Anne Hutchinson
- ... of salvation. 5. All responsibility for salvation is placed on Christ. 6. Every person has the ear of God if only he or she would ask for it, and listen to the answer. 7. Indian slavery is wrong - people of all skin colors are of one blood. 8. Sunday shouldn't be set aside as the Lord's Day because every day is the Lord's day. 9. Christians will have ...
- 775: Candide
- ... story who were presumed to be dead were found to be alive and well. Cunegonde, the object of Candide's affections, was thought dead by Candide but she had really been raped and sold into slavery. Pangloss was also presumed dead but he reappeared in Candide's life. Although it is good that these people did not die, this is not an example of good coming from bad, since bad (their ...
- 776: Belove Analysis
- ... not a story about good or evil, but rather a story about facing your own past. Beloved is simply a physical manifestation of Sethe's guilty conscience. Sethe's desire to save her children from slavery was stronger than her humanity, and as a result she brutally murdered her baby, and buried it under the headstone "Beloved." Sethe chose to have this engraved on the tomb, because this was the "word ...
- 777: Sweetness And Power
- ... workers on the plantation, but the far removed citizens of England. The plantation workers were not able to profit from the fruit of their land. They were forced to work under harsh conditions. Even after slavery ended, the workers were over-worked and under-appreciated just as factory workers were in the documented and “established” industrial societies Americans have been trained to visualize. Industrial capitalism involves an organization involving ownership, control ...
- 778: King Arthur
- ... common people. King Arthur proves his courage and kindness when he personally helps care for some sick and starving peasants who have been excommunicated by the church. The two travelers are captured and sold into slavery. In London, Hank maneuvers an escape, after picking the lock on his chains. A notable feature of the Grand rescue is the arrival of Sir Lancelot and other knights on bicycles. Finally, the Yankee is ...
- 779: 1984
- ... there was a better world and a world in which the Party never wanted anybody to think about again. “Ignorance is Stregenth”, one of the terms coined along with “War is Peace” and “Freedom is Slavery”, is used by the Party as a way of brainwashing the people of Oceania. One of the main terms used as a way of describing the Party’s position on thought crimes is “Ingsoc”. Ingsoc ...
- 780: Beloved
- Toni Morrison's Beloved is set in rural Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873. The novel is centered on a woman named Sethe, who is the mother of four children, and an escapee from slavery in a Kentucky plantation 18 years ago. She lives with her daughter, Denver in a shabby house at 124 Bluestone, that they share with the ghost of a dead baby, which haunts Sethe by reminding ...
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