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- 941: King And Thoreau
- ... wrote his letter that shared the same views as King about government injustices. Thoreau wrote how disappointed he was with the government by forcing him to pay a poll tax that supported a war and slavery. Thoreau and King shared the same ideas of unjust laws performed by the government. Thoreau didnt have legions of followers like King but he still made a long term impact. Thoreau's ideas had ...
- 942: Kurt Vonnegut--slaughterhouse
- ... Crusade. The Children's Crusade was one of the many Christian "Holy" Wars which aimed on destroying the Muslim people. The Children's Crusade was really a ploy by entrepreneurs to sell Christian children into slavery. Thousands of children were killed on ships en-route to the slave market and many others were sold, never to be seen again. Vonnegut gives the Children's "Crusade" as an example of the atrocities ...
- 943: Animal Farm
- ... book tremendously because it showed the problems with communism very clearly. The government may have been set up to serve the animals, but when a corrupt leader came along he pressed the animals into basically slavery for his own power and glory. The government then served the ruling class not the rest. This book shows the true nature of a totalitarian government.
- 944: Candid Analysis
- ... other aged females in the book, Cunegonde becomes ugly and shrewish in old age. Even in her age, however, she is shrewd enough to hold Candide to his promise of marriage, using him to escape slavery and become economically sound, whereas in her youth and beauty he could offer her nothing by marriage.
- 945: Camus The Outsider Vs. Bolts A
- ... other aged females in the book, Cunegonde becomes ugly and shrewish in old age. Even in her age, however, she is shrewd enough to hold Candide to his promise of marriage, using him to escape slavery and become economically sound, whereas in her youth and beauty he could offer her nothing by marriage.
- 946: In My Fathers House
- ... in a house that is being divided by the civil war. Their stepfather (Will McLean) is from the north and is known as a Yankee in the south. Most southerners disagree with his beliefs on slavery, but nevertheless, he is still a respected town leader on the school board and is head of the volunteer fire department. Maria, fifteen and more a southern belle, tries to get along with people and ...
- 947: Critique Of Joseph Conrads Hea
- ... s constant reminders of morality and restraint. The reader even grows numb as we traverse the river with Marlowe, towards Kurtz and the recognition of the heart of darkness ; the reader becomes accustomed to the slavery, to the senseless murder, and to the greed. Until that last moment, the moment Kurtz recognizes his and the European s fault, and our own. Kurtz lost in the end, and unleashed what lay beneath ...
- 948: Ideas And Reality (thoreau)
- ... individual should express his own ideas (What I lived For pg. 66 paragraph 2), but then he condemns all those who do not share his ideas. There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery
[who] do nothing about it (Civil Disobedience pg. 226, paragraph 1). Did Thoreau realize how when one compared his words with reality or even his words, that it is apparent that even though he thought ...
- 949: Huckleberry Finn
- ... a dupe in a childish game that Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn play with him. "Huck discards the moral code he has always taken for granted and resolves to help Jim in his escape from slavery."(The Greatness of Huckleberry Finn" pg.87) Clemens spends the last three chapters in the novel telling the tale of how Tom Sawyer maliciously lets Jim be kept prisoner in a shack while Tom torments ...
- 950: Huck Finn
- ... s property. He is a human being with feelings, and hopes for a better future. He is not some ignorant,uncaring sub-human, but plainly the opposite. Twain does notnecessarily come out and say that slavery is evil, that is farabove Huck's understanding, but he gives us the ammunition neededto make that decision for ourselves.Huck and Jim's adventures give us a chance to examine the societythey live in ...
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