|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 12711 - 12720 of 30573 matching essays
- 12711: The Grapes of Wrath: Ma Joad - The Leader
- The Grapes of Wrath: Ma Joad - The Leader In a crisis, a person's true colors emerge. The weak are separated from the strong and the leaders are separated from the followers. In John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family, forced from their home in Oklahoma, head to California in search of work and prosperity only to find poverty and despair. As a result of a crisis, Ma Joad emerges as a controlled, forceful, and selfless authority figure for the family. Ma Joad exhibits exelent self-control during the sufferings and frustrations of the Joad's journey. Ma knows that she is the backbone of the family, and that they will survive only if she remains calm. Ma keeps her self-control when Ruthie tells some children about Tom's ...
- 12712: Emily Dickinson
- Emily Dickinson s "Because I could not stop for Death" is a remarkable masterpiece that exercises thought between the known and the unknown. Critics call Emily Dickinson s poem a masterpiece with strange "haunting power." In Dickinson s poem, "Because I could not stop for Death," there is much impression in the tone, in symbols, and in the use of imagery that exudes creativity. One might undoubtedly agree to an eerie, haunting, ...
- 12713: Indonesia Crisis As An Example
- Indonesia s Crisis: The Lesson for China introductionIndonesia, as we have long predicted, is coming apart. This process has a great deal of relevance to China, whose army, like Indonesia s, was accustomed to making lots of money and now resents the fact that the good times are over. In both countries, making money became the basis for military loyalty to the regime, which in turn ... army as guarantor. But in China, as in Indonesia, the military is no longer making money, and China has banned its officers from business. Now Beijing is creating international tension to soak up the military s energy and resentment. But in the end, the guarantor of the regime can bring its death, leaving warlords poised to take power. ANALYSIS We have long argued that the Asian economic meltdown, as its ...
- 12714: Hamlet - The Importance Of Laertes And Fortinbras In Hamlet
- ... Hamlet as they are imperative to the plot of the play and the final resolution. Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras are three young men who are placed in similar circumstances, that is, to avenge their father's deaths. The way the each comes to terms with their grief and how they rise to the call of vengeance is one of main contrasts between the three. Laertes is a mirror to Hamlet. Shakespeare has made them similar in many aspects to provide a greater base for comparison when avenging their respective father's deaths. Hamlet and Laertes love Ophelia. Hamlet wishes Ophelia to be his wife, Laertes loves Ophelia as a sister. Hamlet is a scholar at Wittenberg, and Laertes at France. Both are admired for their swordsmenship. Both men loved and respected their fathers, and display deviousness when plotting to avenge their father's deaths. Hamlet's response to grief is a trait starkly contrasted by Laertes. Laertes response to the death of his father is immediate. He is publicly angry, and he leads the public riot occuring ...
- 12715: Song of Myself: Divinity, Sexuality and the Self
- Song of Myself: Divinity, Sexuality and the Self Through his poetry, Whitman's "Song of Myself" makes the soul sensual and makes divine the flesh. In Whitman's time, the dichotomy between the soul and the body had been clearly defined by centuries of Western philosophy and theology. Today, the goodness of the soul and the badness of the flesh still remain a significant notion in contemporary thought. Even Whitman's literary predecessor, Emerson, chose to distinctly differentiate the soul from all nature. Whitman, however, chooses to reevaluate that relationship. His exploration of human sensuality, particularly human sexuality, is the tool with which he integrates ...
- 12716: Brent Staples' A Brother's Murder
- Brent Staples' A Brother's Murder A belief I feel very strongly about proposes that all problems faced by our society have solutions. If this belief is true, why do problems still face us today? The answer could be a ... other hand, Brent Staples, a well-respected writer, seems to share this idea with me. In his works, he displays a great deal of motivation to solve particular problems faced by society. In "A Brother's Murder," he uses a personal account of murder within the streets caused by social placement to illustrate the problem within the lower class. After reading this article, I questioned the stability of our society, and ... he would probably be alive today. In most other parts of the country, you can have an argument with one of your best friends and not get killed over it. Blake was shot six time s by a good friend over an argument about a former girlfriend. Brent Staples grew up in the same type of atmosphere as his little brother Blake. As Staples explains in paragraph four of "A ...
- 12717: US Intervention In Haiti
- ... in 1991 were to have ushered in a new era of democracy and the rule of law for Haiti and for seven months it appeared like it might actually have a chance despite the island's violent history of coups, rebellions and revolutions. In the past 190 years the tiny island nation has had twenty-one constitutions, forty- one heads of state, seven of whom served longer than ten years and ... the roots of the current crisis in Haiti. In August, 1791, the slaves of the French colony of Saint-Domingue revolted against their enslavers and after twelve bloody years of war they created the world's first black republic. This was the only successful slave insurrection in history.(3) The new Haitian elites, composed primarily of the grown children of mixed marriages between French plantation owners and black slave women, instantly ... a six man junta led by General Henri Namphy. Grassroots and peasant organizations sprang up immediately seeking to eliminate the brutal section-chief structure which had been used to such effect throughout the two Duvalier's regimes. As well students began to fight for the end of the state control of the University. By 1987 tensions between the revolutionary militants and the petite bourgeois merchant reformers began to tear apart ...
- 12718: Chester Wilmot
- Chester Wilmot Though this student looked in Who's Who and Contemporary information on Chester Wilmot could be found. One considered searching the Directory of American Scholars, but that would not be helpful since he is from Australia. In The Struggle for Europe, Wilmot ... and why the western allies crushed the Nazi regime; yet, they allowed the Soviet Union to overtake Eastern Europe and block the Atlantic Charter from taking effect in those nations. Third, the author discusses Hitler's defeat and Stalin's victory. Fourthly, he endeavors on a mission to explain how the Soviet Union replaced Germany as the dominant European power. Beginning with the Battle of Britain, the book takes the reader through the war ...
- 12719: Symbolism In The Scarlet Latte
- Symbolism in "The Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter includes many profound and important symbols. This device of symbolism is portrayed well in the novel, especially through the scarlet letter "A". The "A" is the best example because of the changes ... sermon against sin, until the ignominious letter be engraved upon her tombstone" (p. 59). Society places its blame upon Hester, and it is because of this one letter that her life is changed. The letter's meaning in Puritan society banishes her from her normal life. The Puritans view this letter as a symbol of the devil. The letter also puts Hester through torture: "Of an impulse and passionate nature. She ... quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment and herself the object" (54). This implies that Hester's sin of bearing a child without the presence of a husband will always be remembered. In the middle of the novel there is a transition period where the letter "A" is viewed differently than ...
- 12720: John Wade A Character Study--I
- ... know what happened to his wife. His blackouts and tendency towards spurts of violence highlight the chaos that lies beneath the surface of his life. The image of the mirrors demonstrate this aspects of John's life; the mirrors represent both his attempt to control his world as well as a sanctuary from the reality of his helplessness. The source of John's Wade's complexity can be traced to his childhood. As a child John tries desperately to win his father's affection; Unfortunately, as is evident, John's alcoholic father seems to prefer a different sort of ...
Search results 12711 - 12720 of 30573 matching essays
|
