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- 1811: The Wind In The Willows By Ken
- Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows is a satirical reflection of the English social structure of the late nineteenth century, during a time of rapid industrialization throughout Europe. Also considered a children’s story, this novel conveys Grahame’s belief in the ability of one to live an unrestrained and leisurely life, free of the obligations of the working class, and entitled to this life through high social status and wealth. The River ...
- 1812: Emily Dickinson
- ... the General Court of Massachusetts, Massachusetts State Senate, and United States House Representatives. Edward was also a lawyer and the treasurer for the college. [ 9. http://www.kutztown.edu/faculty/reagan/*censored*inson.html ] Emily's mother, Emily Dickinson, was a simple woman. She was dedicated to her home and family. Emily's mother suffered a long term of illness so she took care of her. Dickinson had an older brother, Austin, who also served as the treasurer for the college and other civic positions. Austin married Emily's best friend, Susan Gilbert. Lavinia was Emily's younger sister. She didn't marry anyone so she stayed in the family house. The three siblings shared a very close relationship. Their parents didn't ...
- 1813: An Observation Of Sacred Hoops
- ... unit. Many of us lose site of what it is we are truly thinking of. Phil Jackson describes this in his book as oneness with the moment . That is focusing your full attention on what's happening right this moment. This sparked my interest greatly. I mean we can all benefit from a little focus, right? So, I began reading the book. To my astonishment, I found the book to be ... said "if you can not state something better then the originator, it is best not to change it at all". This quote stands true of this book. Phil Jackson states "winning at any cost doesn't interest me". This statement says something very deep about Jackson's concept of basketball and life in general. I believe that he views competition as a necessary evil. He states that victory is sweet but it does not make the next game any easier. He ...
- 1814: Masters of Deception (MoD)
- Masters of Deception (MoD) SUMMARY Paul lived in New York City. He had his first encounter with a computer when he was about nine of ten. He was at his dad's office Christmas party. One of his father's colleagues turned one on for him and he became emideatly obsessed. From then on he read every kind of books, magazine, or pamphets he could find. He mastered the skill of the computer language "BASIC." Then he learned machine language, which is communicating with the computer with zeros and one's.By the time he was fifteen he could talk to a computer better than to a human. On his sixteenth birthday he got his first computer. It was a commodore 64. It was the " ...
- 1815: The Necklace: Madame Loisel
- ... lessons from her experience or not. I believe that Madame Loisel learned at least one lesson: be thankful for what you have. She may have also learned other lessons such as: “all that glitters isn’t gold” and “honesty is the best policy.” To see what effect the experience had on her, we must look at her life before she lost the necklace and her life after she lost it. The ... to with a sphinxlike smile, while you are eating the pink flesh of a trout or the wings of a quail.” I believe these quotes from the book tell us a lot about Madame Loisel’s personality. She didn’t simply wish that she had more money, or a better house, like many of us may. She became obsessed with being rich. Her constant dreaming of riches and fame support this fact. Madame Loisel’ ...
- 1816: Of Mice and Men and The Pearl: Characterization
- ... someone is using in order to describe a character. John Ernst Steinbeck, in The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath describes many of his main characters in great depth. In Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, a story of two traveling laborers who are on their way to a job loading barley at a California ranch. The two most important characters in the novel are George Milton ... and Lennie Small. They are ordinary workmen, moving from town to town and job to job, but they symbolize much more than that. Their names give us our first hints about them. One of Steinbeck's favorite books when he was growing up was Paradise Lost by John Milton. In this long poem, Milton describes the beginnings of evil in the world. He tells of Lucifer's fall from heaven and the creation of hell. He also describes Adam and Eve's fall from grace in the Garden of Eden. By giving George the last name of Milton, Steinbeck seems to ...
- 1817: Economics
- ... some part eviidently from Lycurgus, of the ancient Greek State of Sparta. Marx has succeeded to date (though himself dead and buried in England) in extending his philosophy over perhaps two-thirds of the world's population and upsettiing the remainder most thoroughly. Capitalism, under attack, surviving only in the West in a faint form, has borrowed so heavily from Marx in it's modern "Socialism" that it cannot long survive. Capitalism had little to recommend it to the worker. He had no hope of ever getting enough cash together to loan it at interest and so retire. By ... their revolt takes the form of inaction and inefficiency. Russia and Cuba, for two, are going on the rocks of individual inefficiency and inaction. They do not see it as a revolt as it hasn't any peaks. The grain and cain just don't come up, the trains somehow don't run and the bread doesn't get baked. America and England driven still by some faint remaining spark ...
- 1818: Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eye
- ... but most of us find it in love. To find true love is a difficult task especially now in the times of cell phones and Jaguars. Money and power play a big role in today’s society, and some people would rather have those things than a love of another human being. In some rare cases it is not even a person’s decision who she (almost every time it’s a woman who is being given away) will marry. Although it does not happen very often, there are still cases where a woman is being married off to a man by an arrangement made ...
- 1819: Eight Men Out
- ... became legends and young fans could actually afford to pay to attend the games, an incident that would scar baseball for life was committed in the World Series of 1919. Based on the Elliot Asinof's 1963 best-seller of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, Eight Men Out is an attempt to tell the story of how the White Sox were hired by gamblers to throw World Series. Film maker John ... and accepted bribes, this poses a difficult problem in asking the audience to share the feelings of the conspirators. That is the problem throughout the movie that Sayles fails to resolve. Where do the audience's sympathies lie? It is hard to maintain sympathy for the players with the likes of Swede Risberg and Chic Gandil behind the fix. Players like Buck Weaver and "Shoeless Joe Jackson", who are portrayed as ... on a technicality, is not given the $10,000 bonus he was to receive for winning 30 games. Cicotte in fact only won 29 games, and implies that Comiskey purposely benched him so he couldn't win 30. Sayles's sympathy for Cicotte is clear in the movie when Ring Lardner (played by Sayles himself) responds to Comiskey's praise of his players by stating, "If he is such a ...
- 1820: Foreshadowing Destiny(great Ga
- ... shawls beyond the wildest dreams of Castille. . . The air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and the enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names. . . The party has begun." The beauty and splendor of Gatsby's parties masked the innate corruption within the heart of the Roaring Twenties. Jazz-Age society was a bankrupt world, devoid of morality, and plagued by a crisis of character. Jay Gatsby is a misfit in ... closet with fashion, his lawns with gaiety, his mannerisms with affectation. However, he would never be one of "them". Ironically, his loss seems to Nick Caraway to be his greatest asset. Nick reflects that Gatsby's drive, lofty goals, and, most importantly, dreams set him apart from this empty society. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to contrast a real American dreamer against what had become of American society during the ...
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