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- 11761: Nelson Manndela
- ... life. He is still leading the fight against apartheid after spending nearly three decades of his life behind bars. He has sacrificed his private life and his youth for his people, and remains South Africa's best known and loved hero. Nelson Mandela was born in a village near Umtata in the Transkei on July 18, 1918. His father was the principal councilor to the Acting Paramount Chief of Thembuland. After his fathers death, the young Rolihlahla became the Paramount Chiefs ward to be groomed to assume high office. However, influenced by the cases that came before the Chief s court, he was determined to become a lawyer. Hearing the elders stories of his ancestors struggles during the wars of resistance gave him dreams of making his own contribution to the freedom struggle of his ... mission school, Nelson Mandela was sent to Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary school. He then enrolled at the University College of Fort Hare for the Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was elected onto the Student's Representative Council. He was suspended from college for joining in a protest boycott. He went to Johannesburg where he entered politics by joining the African National Congress in 1942 (Woods). At the height of ...
- 11762: Business Leadership
- ... employees. This treatment has evolved from days of traditional, autocratic relationships– in which employees were told exactly what tasks to do, without regard to their feelings or what intelligent input could be made– to today’s spectrum of treatment defined by two terms, human relations and human resources. Managers’ approaches today, now consider, not only the employees feelings, but the potential added benefits they might be able to bring to the firm. The difference between human relations and human resources lies in the goals and expectations of the manager. With human relations, the manager’s primary concern is reducing employee resistance to authority with the satisfaction of the employee’s basic needs to feel accomplishment and belonging in the company; secondary is the performance and added benefits the employee may be able to contribute once morale is increased. On the other hand, managers who ...
- 11763: A Farewell To Arms
- A Farewell to Arms Critics usually describe Hemingway's style as simple, spare, and journalistic. These are all good words; they all apply. Perhaps because of his training as a newspaperman, Hemingway is a master of the declarative, subject-verb-object sentence. His writing has been likened to a boxer's punches--combinations of lefts and rights coming at us without pause. Take the following passage: We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war. We had another drink. Was I on somebody's staff? No. He was. It was all balls. The style gains power because it is so full of sensory detail. There was an inn in the trees at the Bains de l'Allaiz where ...
- 11764: The Good Earth: Wang Lung's Character
- The Good Earth: Wang Lung's Character In the critically acclaimed novel The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck depicts a humble farmer and his obedient wife O-lan. The Nobel Prize winning classic, set in late eighteenth century China, begins with Wang Lung going to the "Great House of Hwang"(49) to ... for Poor Fool was genuine and he was comforted when she was happy; "Well, and that poor fool of mine brings me more comfort then all the others put together" . Another example of Wang Lung's caring is the time and love he put into his land. When his life was in shambles and nothing else made sense, he found innerpeace, tranquillity and understanding about the events in his life ...
- 11765: A Critical Approach To "Barn Burning" (by William Faulkner)
- ... him and his family. The economic status of the main characters is poor, without hope of improving their condition, and at the mercy of a quasi-feudal system in North America during the late 1800's. Being a sharecropper, Ab and his family had to share half or two-thirds of the harvest with the landowner and out of their share pay for the necessities of life. As a result of ... for the next eight months” (PARA 40). Like nomads they were forced to move constantly. Due to seasons and crop rotation, in order to secure work they had to reserve land with different landowners. Ab's emotional instability is a predominant factor contributing to his erratic behavior throughout the story. The family has moved a dozen times from farm to farm, and at times forced to forfeit their agreement with the landlord due to Ab's unacceptable behavior. A behavior which throughout the story is transformed into a rebellion, by Ab smearing the landowner's carpet with horse manure and then suing him for charging him too much for the ...
- 11766: A Critical Approach To "Barn Burning" (by William Faulkner)
- ... him and his family. The economic status of the main characters is poor, without hope of improving their condition, and at the mercy of a quasi-feudal system in North America during the late 1800's. Being a sharecropper, Ab and his family had to share half or two-thirds of the harvest with the landowner and out of their share pay for the necessities of life. As a result of ... for the next eight months” (PARA 40). Like nomads they were forced to move constantly. Due to seasons and crop rotation, in order to secure work they had to reserve land with different landowners. Ab's emotional instability is a predominant factor contributing to his erratic behavior throughout the story. The family has moved a dozen times from farm to farm, and at times forced to forfeit their agreement with the landlord due to Ab's unacceptable behavior. A behavior which throughout the story is transformed into a rebellion, by Ab smearing the landowner's carpet with horse manure and then suing him for charging him too much for the ...
- 11767: A Farewell To Arms 2
- A Farewell to Arms Critics usually describe Hemingway's style as simple, spare, and journalistic. These are all good words; they all apply. Perhaps because of his training as a newspaperman, Hemingway is a master of the declarative, subject-verb-object sentence. His writing has been likened to a boxer's punches--combinations of lefts and rights coming at us without pause. Take the following passage: We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war. We had another drink. Was I on somebody's staff? No. He was. It was all balls. The style gains power because it is so full of sensory detail. There was an inn in the trees at the Bains de l'Allaiz where ...
- 11768: Comparison Essay of A Tale of Two Cities and Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- ... Tess of the D'Urbervilles There were two great writers who both expresses their talent as they wrote their books. Charles Dickens who wrote A Tale of Two Cities is similarly compared to Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. One can compare their novels by society's pressure of aristocracy the novels describe and the irony each author uses as the stories go on. Each novel has characters that experience life in many different ways, because each novel describes these social pressures ... will because their placement on the social scale is low because of their family which they are born out of. This is also the same for the characters in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. "Tess's tragedy: she moves in a world where insensitivity, coarseness and greed make it impossible for her to live as she should" (Great Writers). During this time, the family name is important. The insensitivity and ...
- 11769: Jonathan Edwards
- ... grandfather Solomon Stoddard. He was the pastor of the congregational Church in Northampton, Massachusetts. Stoddard was so powerful a figure in religious affairs that he was known as the "Pope of the Connecticut Valley." Jonathan's abilities as a speaker were recognized in his early teens. He entered Yale when he was thirteen. A few years later he was made senior tutor of the college. In 1726, At the age of twenty-three, he became his grandfather's co-pastor. When Stoddard died three years later, his grandson took his position. At the age of twenty-four, he married Sarah Pierrepont who was seventeen. He found her when she was thirteen and decided ... decline in the enthusiasm for the old Puritan religion. Churches began accepting "unsaved" Christians. These were people that accepted the church doctrine and lived appropriately but had not confessed to being "born again" in God's grace. In Edwards's sermons, his goal was to make these "sinners" understand the dangerousness of their situation. He did this by helping them feel the horror of their sinful state. In 1741, Edwards ...
- 11770: Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Review
- Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Review James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is considered to be one of the finest works of literature of all time. Herbert Gorman, an author from the early twentieth century, stated that "so ... dynamic youth, and one who undergoes vast changes during the course of his life. The main influences on him are family and religion. As his life passes, Stephens' feelings towards these influences change drastically. Stephen's family is very important to him. His father, Simon, plays a major role in his early life, and Stephen has great respect for him. However, there are instances when Stephen is angered by his ...
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