|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 4151 - 4160 of 30573 matching essays
- 4151: 1984: Summary
- 1984: Summary Nineteen eighty four is a tale of future society, a society in which independent thinking is a crime punishable by death. This is also a society who's leaders are self serving and don't set their goals for the common good by which all of the society will benefit. The party doesn't need to justify its selfish ways because it holds all of the power. The symbol of the party was Big Brother. The idealism of blind loyalty was embodied in this symbol. It was the ...
- 4152: Death Of A Salesman Log
- Arthur Miller s tragedy is not simply detailing the failure of poor Willy Loman, a broken down salesman, but of middle-class America. Miller uses the Lomans as a vehicle to show precisely what can and does go ... American Dream. Miller uses many characters to contrast the difference between success and failure within the system. Willy is the dreamy salesman whose imagination is much larger than his sales ability, while Linda is Willy's wife who stands by her husband even in his absence of realism. Biff and Happy are the two blind mice that follow in their father's fallacy of life, while Ben is the only member of the Loman family with that special something needed to achieve. Charlie and his son Bernard, on the other hand, enjoy better success in life ...
- 4153: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998) The Women's Rights Movement was and continues to be one of the most incredible and inspirational series of events to occur in United States history. One of the more credible aspects of these events happens to be the bold, intelligent pioneers that paved the way for many other women throughout the United States to follow. An important battle fought for was women's suffrage, and in fighting for this worthy cause, various smaller battles were also fought. This great movement would have never occurred if the few brave women, that felt that women were ultimately being treated ...
- 4154: Nick Carraway’s Role in The Great Gatsby
- Nick Carraway’s Role in The Great Gatsby It is important to keep a few things in mind about the structure of the novel and about Nick himself. It is through his observations that our opinions of the ... of Gatsby, are biased and therefore flawed. He is still a character and is important to the novel in many other respects, as well as being the narrator. Although there are some similarities between Fitzgerald’s world and the fictional one in The Great Gatsby, we should keep in mind that although the basis for the novel could have been founded on aspects of his own life, that there are also ... that consequently he is, “inclined to reserve all judgments,” about other people provides us with the impression that Nick with give us an accurate, level-headed insight to the story. Ironically enough, this really isn’t the case. He makes an exception to that statement when he judges Gatsby, whom he says has an, “extraordinary gift for life, a romantic readiness.” In making the preceding statement, he overlooks Gatsby’s ...
- 4155: Infanticide
- ... this social disease is not enough of a solution. We must be able to decipher which behavioral backgrounds and behaviors will lead certain members of our society to such an atrocity. In the early 1800's Foundling Hospitals were established to provide care for illegitimate or unwanted infants. There was much debate whether the Foundling Hospitals would help to reduce the rate of infanticide. Studies show there was a high rate ... illegitimacy, but by financial desperation. Punitive legislation aimed at the poor -particularly the Poor Law of 1834-was blamed for placing a burden on mothers. The New Poor Law passed Parliament in 1834 proclaiming it's wisdom, foresight, justice, and morality, by adopting the following recommendation of it's Commissioners - " As a further step toward the natural state of things, we recommend that the mother of an illegitimate child, born after the passing of the Act, be required to support it, and that ...
- 4156: The Chocolate War Book Report
- ... that every year at Trinity, there is a chocolate sale run by the assistant head master, Brother Leon. The last major detail in the rising action was when Archie informed Jerry of his assignment, Jerry s assignment was not to sell chocolates for the first ten days of the annual chocolate sale. The climax of the novel was on the eleventh day of the chocolate sale when Jerry was supposed to start selling the chocolates but he didn t. As a result of Jerry not selling any chocolates, the other students sales began to plummet during the falling action of the story. Brother Leon began to feel nervous and had to go to Archie ... Incredibly, the Vigils turned the whole school against Jerry and made selling chocolates the cool thing. Students began to look down upon Jerry for not conforming to the chocolate sale tradition. Someone even vandalized Jerry s locker and cut up his gym sneakers. A group of boys, including Emile Janza, one of the biggest bullies at Trinity, jumped Jerry after football practice and abused Jerry s body with their fists ...
- 4157: Alzheimers Disease
- Alzheimer’s disease is a slowly progressive, degenerative disorder of the brain that eventually results in abnormal brain function and death. The disease was first described in 1907 by a German physician, Dr. Alois Alzheimer(1864-1915 ... unexpected accumulation of cellular debris around the affected nerves, which he termed senile plaques. In a medical journal article published in 1905, Alzheimer speculated that the nerve tangles and plaques were responsible for the women’s dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is a disorder marked by a gradual decline in brain function that gets worse with time. It used to be assumed that this change was a normal part of aging that we called ...
- 4158: Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress": The Essence of Time
- Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress": The Essence of Time The male species has a very creative mind. The creative mind becomes particularly active when the case involves the female species. In Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," the author shows how his creative mind is put to use. Marvell, uses time in an attempt to manipulate his coy mistress. Time is depicted in three different manners. First, Marvell ... he implicates "real time," to persuade her to become accessible to him. In real time, Marvell gives examples of her aging and how she will go to the grave with her pride if she doesn't give in. Finally, the use of "optimum time" plays on her emotions of how sweet the opportunity to make love to her would be. Marvell tells his mistress that the act would be almost ...
- 4159: Catcher In The Rye 4
- ... the most important factors in life. This is evident throughout the book since Holden spends so much of his time thinking about, and striving to be with his brothers and sister. Each one of Holden s siblings plays an important role in helping him cope with his life in school and the many questions that he faces in his everyday life. Aswell as give him a positive thought when he was down. Looking at his relationships with Allie, D.B. and Pheobe give you ample proof of this. Holden s brother D.B. was very important to Holden throughout the book. D.B. was on Holden s mind often. One way that he was on Holden s mind was how much he cared about D.B. and his personality. "He used to be just a regular writer Now he s out ...
- 4160: Black And White Women Of The Old South
- Minrose Gwin‘s book, Black and White Women of the Old South, argues that history has problems with objectiveness. Her book brings to life interesting interpretations on the view of the women of the old south and chattel slavery in historical American fiction and autobiography. Gwin’s main arguments discussed how the white women of the south in no way wanted to display any kind of compassion for a fellow woman of African descent. Gwin described the "sisterhood" between black and white women as a "violent connection"(pg 4). Not only that, Gwin’s book discusses the idea that for most of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, a black woman usually got subjected to displacement of sexual and mental frustration of white women. Gwin discusses how these black ...
Search results 4151 - 4160 of 30573 matching essays
|
