|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 301 - 310 of 419 matching essays
- 301: A Clean Well Lighted Place
- ... a loving relationship with a man who was not her husband, she would have certainly been looked down upon. Is her heart condition purely physical or is it also psychological and emotional? We know the stereotypes, as Chopin did, that women are hysterical, timid, weak, and irrational. Could it be that her heart condition is created by those tiptoeing around her in conjunction with her own emotional weaknesses? I find it ...
- 302: Chaucer
- ... services, and their eyes cannot oversee the wealth that is due to them. The Doctor then is the same as a witch doctor now, with their appearances different, but their intentions and thoughts the same. Stereotypes are seen only in the imagination. And it is in the imagination from which a television evangelist is characteristically similar to Geoffrey Chaucers Summoner. The evangelist is a deceiver to many. He quotes scripture ...
- 303: A New England Nun By Mary E WI
- ... of this story. The man's influence is seen as disruptive. Man is seen as a threat to the serenity and security of a spinster's life. Imagery put forth by this story, and by stereotypes of the day is of the new England spinster. Women who were not married yet, lived a life of chores and piousness. They learned their domestic chores and other things that would make them presentable ...
- 304: Alice Walker
- ... family a broken yet compassionate man and attempts to make up for all the hurt he has caused in the past with the help of his granddaughter, Ruth. While some people accused Walker of reviving stereotypes about the dysfunctional black family, others praised her use of intensive, descriptive language in creating believable characters. Walker is also considered an accomplished poet. Walkers first collection, Once: Poems (1968), includes works written during the ...
- 305: Huck Finn-Racism
- ... brings into question the reason for Twains frequent use of the word nigger, not to mention the exceedingly racist views harbored by most characters. It is true that the book is peppered with racist stereotypes, lewd remarks belittling blacks, and the use of the word nigger over 200 times, but it is all part of the irony. Twain wrote this book not only to challenge the system of slavery, but ...
- 306: Brave New World
- ... we want to adapt to a society like utopia? This is a world that one can not help but be happy, a world that replaced not destroyed religion, a world that even eliminated racism and stereotypes. It is a world where you only possess knowledge you need, where everyone has the same values and principals. Finally, here is a world without war, disease and aging. This question seems difficult to answer ...
- 307: To Kill A Mockingbird Notes
- ... will do "anything" to get revenge. Her comments seem typical of her tendency to stereotype "those people" who are different from the Finches, but her analysis is correct. For all her faults, Aunt Alexandra's stereotypes give her a good understanding of Maycomb County's people. Both Jem and Scout are forced to face the adult world in these chapters. Jem and Atticus discuss the judicial system in Maycomb County for ...
- 308: Women And Body Image
- ... stereotype of overweight individuals (Murray, Touyz, & Beumont, 1996). Overweight individuals are also stereotypically thought of as less intelligent, outgoing, or popular than those who are slimmer. Overweight people are often labeled as lonely and dependent. Stereotypes are influential, especially when they are the only information that an observer has about a particular person. The American culture often views excessive weight as evidence of a character flaw associated with self-indulgence and ...
- 309: Uses And Abuses Of Information
- ... of Big Brother, whilst its enemies are symbolised by Goldstein. This rhetoric is well used in propaganda and there are many examples, either official, as with Marianne and Germania, or unofficial, as in the cartoon stereotypes of John Bull. (Hobsbawm 1983). Conclusion I have not really scratched the surface of concepts of information manipulation that Orwell highlights in Nineteen Eighty- Four, Newspeak for instance. A whole book could be written on ...
- 310: Satire In Huck Finn
- ... father, is an excellent example of Twain s stereotyping, superior characterizations, and his irony. Pap comes into the story when Huck feels that something is wrong but it is confirmed by Jim s hairball. Twain stereotypes Pap as the typical drunken and abusive white trash . Pap wants Huck to stop trying to get a better education, stop getting better clothes, and to stop trying to be better than his father. This ...
Search results 301 - 310 of 419 matching essays
|
