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- 16981: The Scarlet Letter - Individua
- ... children in the community would point her out and tell their children not to be like her. They would use her as an example of the consequences of being an individual and going against society's rules. "Children to young to comprehend wherefore this women so be shut out from the sphere of human charities…coming forth along the pathway that lead town ward; and, discerning the scarlet letter on her ... sticks with it and that shows how she willing she is to accept the consequences of her past decisions. When Hester is forced to live apart from the townspeople society begins to learn what Hester's real nature is. Society is able to see her for what and who she is and realizes that she is an asset to the community. The community realizes Hester's honesty in her wrongdoing and her willingness to repent, by the fact that she does not deny anything that she had done. They see her as a good person and someone gifted with the ...
- 16982: Opium Wars
- ... suffered. In European history, it is perhaps the most sordid, base, and vicious event in European history, possibly, just possibly, overshadowed by the excesses of the Third Reich in the twentieth century. By the 1830's, the English had become the major drug-trafficking criminal organization in the world; very few drug cartels of the twentieth century can even touch the England of the early nineteenth century in sheer size of ... countries. Trade, according to Lin, should only be in beneficial objects. To be fair to England, if the only issue on the table were opium, the English probably (just probably) would have acceded to Lin's request. The British, however, had been nursing several grievances against China, and Lin's take-no-prisoners enforcement of Chinese laws combined to outrage the British against his decapitation of the opium trade. The most serious bone of contention involved treaty relations; because the British refused to submit ...
- 16983: The Writings of Pat Conroy
- ... Family life was so bad that his sister once said, "The miscarriages were the lucky ones." Pat says he served in the Marine Corps since the day he was born (Burns 5). His harsh father's job required the family to move constantly. Conroy has moved 23 times in his life (Castro 2). He changed school 11 times in 12 years (bdd 1). They finally settled in Beaufort, South Carolina. Pat ... Locher 114) The Water is Wide won the Ansfield-Wolf Award by the Cleveland Foundation in 1972. It was also made into the movie Conrack in 1974 (Disc. Auth. 3). The Great Santini was Conroy's first true novel. It was published in 1976. It was truly an auto-biography of Conroy's life as the son of a fighter pilot who brought his military training home to his wife and kids. In the story, the eldest son struggles to free himself from his abusive father's ...
- 16984: Equality
- ... women in the work place. Women made there strides into the work force by not only following examples of their courageous pioneers, but also by banding together to show their strength. During the mid 1800's a small number of women begin their assault on, what were at the time considered, male-only jobs. Fields such as teaching, preaching, medicine, and law were all jobs domenated by men. Women had made some progress in the work force before the 1850's. In the mid nineteenth century women were the majority for grade school teachers, up from the ten percent of elementary teachers, that were teachers in the colonial period. This can be largely attributed not to ... convention of 1853 to register a protest. After being hushed once and a half hour of debate she was finally allowed to speak her peace. Although nothing became of her first encounter with the women's movement, she quit teaching and went on to become one of the great leaders of the women's movement. Antoinette Brown was anther women that was not happy with the status quo of women ...
- 16985: How Did Athens Take Over The L
- ... significance to the year 479 BC to be marked as the beginning of the Classical Greek period. At the other side, the year 479 BC does not represent a vital turning-point in politics. Sparta’s control over her allies was still unbroken. After the Greeks’ triumph on Plataea, when the fear of the Persian invasion decreased, the idea of the united Greeks started diminishing. Phthonos (envy) was what characterised the ... be dangerous in case of a new invasion. The possible invaders could use fortified cities as their military bases, as the Persians did during just finished war (I, 90-92). Thucydides was suspicious to Sparta’s reasons for disagreement about fortification of Athens. Themistocoles, Athenian general, went to Sparta to silence their doubts. His plan was to hide the truth about the walls as long as Athenians finished them (I, 90). He even gave orders to the Athenians not to allow Sparta’s delegates to come back until the work of rebuilding the walls was done. When the walls were finally built he step out and confessed what Athenians have done, informing Spartans that Athens was now ...
- 16986: James Madison's Federalist 45
- James Madison's Federalist 45 When James Madison did an about face from his platform of strong, centralized government to write Federalist number 45, his vision was changed from the idea of a supreme national government to one ... taking the power out of the hands of the states and putting them in the hands of the federal government, something that the James Madison of Federalist 45 would have a strong opinion against. Madison’s comparison to the federal government as a type of feudal system is true to an extent in todays government as the local sovereigns can speak more for their smaller population whereas the larger governmental bodies ... rather than the Constitution, which he helped declare the “Supreme law of the land”. Today the constitution is widely accepted as a document of law and state constitutions are pretty much ignored. In conclusion, Madison’s view was flawed in some ways, but still is a valid one 200 years later.
- 16987: A Natural Curiosity By Margare
- Running along the same lines as a daytime soap opera, Margaret Drabble’s A Natural Curiosity provides pertinent information about life in Northam, England, a small, quaint town just outside of London, during the mid to late 1900’s. Drabble narrates the novel in third person omniscient which allows her to venture into the minds of the diverse characters. Although there exists a black and white central conflict, all of the minor conflicts stem from Alix Bowen, the first, and most essential individual. In one way or another, all of the people share some distinct connection with Alix Bowen. Drabble’s description of Alix Bowen’s obsession with a murderer named Paul Whitmore who had held her hostage in the past, allows the reader identify with Alix’s innocence. A good-hearted, well-minded person, ...
- 16988: Battle Royal
- ... everyone else appears to have be born with : That I am nobody but myself . But first I had to discover that I'm an invisible man ! (Ellison 448 ) In this passage we see the boy's lack of identity . Throughout his life , the narrator lets others define who he is, and believes that he is what they tell him to be.. He refuses to ask himself : " who am I and what ... want ? " The invisibility which the narrator refers to is two fold. First, he has come to realize that others do not see him for who he is ; instead he is viewed only through stereotypes. Ellison's hero is never seen as an individual, rather he is defined only as others feel he should be. Therefore he cannot seek a satisfying role in life because he is relegated to the position which ... to impress his abusers and he delivers his oration . During the speech the men ridicule him and only make it more painful to go through with it in the already disturbing circumstances . But he doesn't care . Blinded by his eagerness to succeed he gratefully accepts the briefcase and the scholarship he is given after the speech . "I was so moved that I could hardly express my thanks " (458 ) Ellison ...
- 16989: Light In August By Faulkner
- "...a man's future is inherent in that man..." -Faulkner Faulkner's Light in August is a metaphor. In fact it is many metaphors, almost infinitely many. It is a jumble of allusions, themes, portraits, all of them uniquely important, many of them totally unrelated. In fact ... could spend a lifetime dissecting the book in this manner. Fortunately, in the midst of this menagerie of wonders, there are dominate themes. There are veins of meaning that permeate throughout. Chief among them; Faulkner's study of 20th century man's search for identity, and his compassionate portrait of the origins of evil. I have come from Alabama a fur piece (Faulkner, p.3). The reader begins the book ...
- 16990: Eaters Of The Dead
- ... moral. The juxtaposition of characters emphasizes the cleverness of the Volga Northmen compared to the Venden Northmen. The theme of the story is that applying intelligence and knowledge is essential in order to keep one’s culture alive. A good proof of this is the lack of knowledge of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, the narrator of the story. He is an Arab who "knows nothing of the ways of the world" (p ... 77) because he has never truly experienced the world before that day, since he does not care for adventure. Having no experience with the world and having no knowledge, Ibn Fadlan slowly learns the Northmen’s way of life. In the end, felt he "had been born a Northman" (p. 152), having spent much time in their company and is no longer the coward he was when he started the trip ... was because of their intelligence and knowledge that led them to victory. Crichton, through the the affects the different cultures have on each other, shows that having and applying knowledge preserves the existence of one’s culture. The wendol are a threat to the existence of the Northmen in Venden; hence, Buliwyf and his mighty warriors must battle them in order to preserve the future of their people. This conflict ...
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