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- 20131: Accounts Settled: A Review
- ... is only one major character named Gordon. Gordon is seventeen, six feet tall, and has the beginning of a beard. The main setting is in a forest-filled valley that is a mile from Gordon's home. The story does not give a specific date but the most logical time this story takes place is in the winter during the early 1900s. The inciting incident in the story is when Gordon's dad came down with flu-pneumonia and Gordon must take his place in taking care of the trapline that he had set up in the forest. The conflict of the story is internal and external ... started when Gordon had a sense of fear as he went into the valley. The, the porcupine stole his food and Gordon was going to kill it but remembered an old woodsman tale that it's bad luck to ill a porcupine. Gordon then goes to bed, hungry and it took him awhile to fall asleep. He later wakes up to find a cougar ready to pounce on him. The ...
- 20132: Robinson Crusoe
- ... He does not seem wild, ferocious or barbaric in any way. He uses sign language at first to communicate, which indicates knowledge of some sort of primitive language. He is quick to learn Robinson Crusoe’s language and is eager to learn more while Robinson Crusoe stays clear of learning Friday’s language. It is apparent that Friday has religious or spiritual beliefs right from the beginning. When Robinson Crusoe saves Friday from the savages that brought him to the island to devour him, Friday is extremely ... Defoe 206). After it became evident that Friday was not a threat of any sort, Robinson Crusoe was grateful for his presence. Friday would become a valuable asset for the daily activities of Robinson Crusoe’s habitation. All that Robinson Crusoe had filled his days with before the arrival of Friday had become easier by the hands of two men rather than one. Friday’s ability to work as diligently ...
- 20133: Secret Lion - Symbolism
- ... it, they understand that they cannot have the ball forever, at the same time as they realize that they cannot be children forever. But they want the ball to stay the way it was. That's why, they decide to bury the grinning ball. It appears they wanted to stop time, to keep the ball and to be children forever. It was so perfect so they did not want to lose ... holder," they stop acting "reach"(46). They learn that their heaven is a just a usual golf course. "Something got taken away from us that moment. Heaven. We grew up a little bit, and couldn't go backward. We learned. No one had ever told us about golf. They had told us about heaven. And it went away. We got golf in exchange…. Things get taken away"(47). By the time boys wanted to find the ball they realized that it's not possible as it's not possible to find a way into childhood again. But honestly we can see that they are not really trying to find it because they understand that they are ...
- 20134: Sense And Sensibility
- ... situation has marked Austen as an astute observer of human nature. This is highly evident in her treatment of the complex relationship between sense and sensibility in her novel of the same name. Jane Austen’s Sense and sensibility contrasts two sisters: Marianne, who, with her doctrines of love at first sight and enthusiastic emotions openly expressed, represents "sensibility", and Elinor, who has much more "sense", but is still not immune ... old Marianne is governed by her feelings, not by reason, unlike Elinor. Passionate in her opinions and certain of their morality, Marianne lacks prudence and relies on instinct, typical values of the Romantic Movement. Elinor’s sense, on the other hand, reflects "the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which had advocated a commitment to reason and considered and other source of conviction irrational." Marianne, says of love, "To love is to burn ... lacking: "I saw ... nothing but a series of imprudence towards myself and want of kindness to others. I saw that my own feelings had prepared my sufferings." Acknowledging her errors, Marianne decides to imitate Elinor's reserve and self-discipline. Whereas Marianne is driven by sensibility, Elinor is governed by " sense", by reasoned perception and independence, evident in her tact and attentiveness. Her response to Robert Ferrar's idiotic jabber ...
- 20135: The Awakening: Public Controversy
- ... are self sacrifice and self-effacement." ( ? ) The people of that era were not ready to admit or accept the simple but hidden feelings of intimacy or sexuality and the true nature of womanhood. Kate Chopin's book portrayed a woman of that time in a quite unorthodox way. In fact, [ When she wrote the book in 1899, she ] "achieved what was to prove her literary masterpiece and her ultimate break with ... shunned and looked down upon. Loyalty and commitment to the family was very important during this time. Regardless of their family problems, they were expected to endure and stay faithful. [ In fact, ] " the nineteenth century's message of the supremacy of motherhood was so strong and so intense that it was absorbed into the systems of it's women - even women like Edna [ ,a character in Chopin's book, ] who were not maternally inclined." ( ? ) You could almost say that women were considered symbols of everything that is pure in the society in ...
- 20136: Sonnet 43
- Sonnet 43, A Touching Love Poem If one were to ever receive a love poem, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 43 would be and excellent poem to receive. The sonnet is addressed to the beloved of the speaker. The speaker talks about how the best thing he sees is upon the closing of his ... beloved, that in the darkness of night, the beloved is bright. Both the lines five and six display the repetition of words also. Then thou, whose shadows shadows doth make bright, How would thy shadow’s form form happy show To the clear day with thy much clearer light, When to unseeing eyes they shade shines so! These lines say that the beloved’s shadows of shadows, or maybe just the picture of the beloved makes things bright, line six starts a question of how could the shadow seen during the day be a happy sight during the ...
- 20137: The United States' Rise To A World Power After 1930
- ... anything that might work in helping the economy. Together with Congress, he passed a mass of new laws and acts that provided relief for the poor and unemployed. He also tried to reinstate the public's trust in banks through the Glass-Steagall Act. It insured deposits up to $5000 and xxx. Roosevelt would rather provide jobs than handing out cash. This was a part of his mission to not only ... disabled and unemployed. By now the New Dealers had introduced and stabilized the idea that the government should not only cure social crises, but to actually take action to prevent them. It was the government's responsibility to see to it that its people at least enjoyed minimum living standards, labor conditions and public welfare. Besides protecting businesses, it should also protect workers and consumers. In 1942, the Beveridge report stated ... country was being run. This resulted in both fascist and communistic waves as alternatives to parliamentary democracy, which had not been able to solve the problems of the depression. It did not help that Britain's international importance declined in the thirties. The isolationist values remained in America during the thirties and neutrality laws were instated. Americans wanted to keep out of the war in Europe. Nevertheless, they had greater ...
- 20138: The Queen of Air and Darkness
- ... not at her convenience . But despite this common maltreatment, the boys turn out very differently. Gawaine is the oldest of the boys and in many ways the most normal. He becomes a knight in Arthur's court, fighting for him loyally. The way in which he is affected by his upbringing is his rages. When provoked Gawaine goes into a berserk rage in which he does things he would normally never ... St. Toirdealbhach; the tale where the king gets a head wound and can not be excited, but then he dies while trying to defend his savior. Agravaine does not see any point in putting one's self in danger to protect any one else. He says “It was silly, it did no good,” because he does not understand the principal behind the story. He does not understand that there are things other than yourself worth dying for. Agravaine's sadism is evidenced in the Unicorn episode. After the boys agree to capture and not kill the unicorn, Agravaine runs up behind it and begins stabbing it repeatedly. He could not stand that the ...
- 20139: The Insanity Plea by Winslad and Ross: Summary
- ... 27, 9 days after the news of the death of Congressman Ryan another 2 deaths happened. George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, and Harvey Milk, a city supervisor and the leader of San Francisco's politically active gay community, had been shot and killed at death in the San Francisco City Hall. The Police then sniffed-out and charged Dan White with the murders of the 3 people. In 2 ... Prison, with a possibility of parole after 5. After the verdict there were Riots breaking out in the streets because of the verdict. Before hand he was elected a Supervisor and resigned because he didn't like the way that Politics worked. The point before, that I may not have mentioned, is that the defense argued that he was insane and that "a person with a normal background who was brought ... and sportscasters alike. Then one errie, summer night at 10:30 Lyman Bostock was gunned down at Fifth and Jackson in downtown Gary, Illinois while he was riding in the back seat of his uncle's Buick with a twelve gauge shot gun, that was fired by a Mr Leonard Smith. Leonard Smith was a 33 year old, unemployed Truck Driver, who lived in Illinois. He had never met or ...
- 20140: Sweetness And Power
- ... symbol of power and more of a common item for the common person, that mercantilism begins to die out. As this happens, capitalism begins to play more heavily on the economy. Mintz quotes Fernando Ortiz’s phrase describing sugar as the "favored child of capitalism, and furthermore arguing his point as shown in this statement found on page 46: Mercantilism was finally dealt its quietus in the mid-nineteenth century, and ... for the common person. In chapter two, however, Mintz described this change by relating it to the economy. In the third chapter, Mintz describes the change in a manner relating it to societal values. Sugar’s various purposes are described in great length, among which included preservation, decoration, medicinal use, as well as a spice. Sugar as a sweetener was given much of the credit for the shift of its use ... causing the proletariat to be able to incorporate sugar into their everyday diet. As time went on, sugar became more and more integrated into the diet of the common person until about the mid-1800’s where, as Mintz puts it on page 143, A century later, the place of tea and sugar in the working-class diet, together with treacle, tobacco, and many other imported foods, was completely secure. ...
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