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- 691: Anne Hutchinson
- ... motive for her persecution was that she challenged the traditional subordinate role of women in Puritan society by expressing her own religious convictions. Anne Hutchinson was born Anne Marbury in Alford, England, in 1591. Anne's father was a deacon at Christ Church, Cambridge. Francis Marbury spoke out earnestly about his convictions that many of the ordained ministers in the Church of England were unfit to guide people's souls. For this act of defiance, he was put in jail for one year. Undaunted, Francis Marbury continued to voice his radical opinions, including that many ministers were appointed haphazardly by high church officials to preach in any manner they wanted. Eventually, Anne's father did restrain his verbal attacks on the Church of England, choosing conformity with an imperfect church over constant arrests and inquisitions. (D. Crawford, Four Women in a Violent Time, pps. 11-15.) Being ...
- 692: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... and perfect but really they're as Holden put it "phonies." This is shown countless amount of times in his journey through New York and even before he left. The setting is in the 1950's; so I'm pretty sure that he didn't encounter any transvestites, lesbians, or anything that extreme of phoniest. Or on the other hand he could have liked them for being as Elmemson said a "none conformist." But I doubt it, he seemed to ... him look so good was "rusty as hell and full on lather and hair and crap." This proves that he is a slob to "never clean it or anything." If you think about it that's even worst than Old Ackley. At least Ackley knew that he had a problem, that he need to do something about his face; but Stradlater thought that he was a great guy. He actually ...
- 693: Catcher in the Rye: Theme of the World Having An Outward Appearance
- ... and perfect but really they're as Holden put it "phonies." This is shown countless amount of times in his journey through New York and even before he left. The setting is in the 1950's; so I'm pretty sure that he didn't encounter any transvestites, lesbians, or anything that extreme of phoniest. Or on the other hand he could have liked them for being as Elmemson said a "none conformist." But I doubt it, he seemed to ... him look so good was "rusty as hell and full on lather and hair and crap." This proves that he is a slob to "never clean it or anything." If you think about it that's even worst than Old Ackley. At least Ackley knew that he had a problem, that he need to do something about his face; but Stradlater thought that he was a great guy. He actually ...
- 694: Gangs
- ... be from the poorer classes and tended to be from the same race or ethnic background. They banded together for protection, recreation or financial gain. The 20th Century Gangs In the early 1900s the U.S. economy worsened, the population grew at a rapid pace, and the gap between the rich and poor widened. All across the nation gangs appeared where poor, hopeless people lived. The dawning of the 20th century ... cases it worked; in many it did not.The 1960sThe 1960s saw a decline in gang violence, in part because drug use escalated. Where there was more drug use there was less gang violence. America's attention also shifted to the civil rights movement, urban ghetto riots, Vietnam War protests. A new racial consciousness had its effect on local street gang, creating organizations that were more involved in communities. The Black ... gang chooses a minor because his prison sentence will be shorter. Serving a term in jail helps boost his reputation. Gangs Today Since the 1980s, as the ghettos become more and more overcrowded, a gang's territory has become no more than a single corner or a block. Guns decide arguments quickly and gang wars today are usually fought like guerrilla warfare with sniping from rooftops and quick shots from ...
- 695: Catcher In The Rye Symbolism
- ... drivers where all the ducks in the lagoon near the Central Park South go in the winter. This lagoon and the animals in it are constantly are used by J.D. Salinger to show Holden's rejection for adulthood. Holden's curiosity about the ducks in Central Park relates to his own adulthood insecurities. Just as the ducks face the hard times of winter, Holden is at the peak of his teen-aged years, just about ... asks the taxi driver about the ducks: "I mean does someone come around in a truck or something and take them away, or do they fly away by themselves-go south or something"(82). Holden's questions of what the ducks do in the winter foreshadow Holden's own plans. Holden wants to know if they either fly away to the south to escape the coldness and the hardships of ...
- 696: Farewell To Manzanar
- Farewell To Manzanar In the true story "Farewell to Manzanar" we learn of a young girl's life as she grows up during World War II in a Japanese internment camp. Along with her family and ten thousand other Japanese we see how, as a child, these conditions forced to shape and ... boats, and they lived in a large house with a large dining table which was located in an entirely non-Japanese neighborhood. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was the moment Jeanne's life was critically altered. This started WWII and all Japanese were seen as possible threats to the nations safety. It is not difficult to see, but difficult to justify this view, and therefore Jeanne Wakatsuki ... Her father was immediately arrested and taken away, being accused with furnishing oil to Japanese subs off the coast. And now, Jeanne left without a father, her mother was trapped with the burden of Jeanne's rapidly aging grandmother and her nine brothers and sisters. Too young to understand, Jeanne did not know why or where her father had been taken. But she did know that one very important part ...
- 697: Literary Analysis Of The Woman
- Identity Crisis Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior presents the struggles of a Chinese-American woman growing up as she attempts to reconcile two cultures, a female devaluing Chinese culture and influences by an American culture, while developing her own identity as a Chinese-American. Using William R. Schroeder's model of interpretation will help to define the struggles and complications experienced by Kingston as relevant to my interpretation. Schroeder s model of interpretation presents eight interpretive elements: explicit statements, imagery, narrative point of view, plot/action, characters, notable effects, horizons, and world. The most important interpretive elements used in my interpretation were imagery, plot/ ...
- 698: E-commerce
- ... wireless communication explodes, and countless other new applications attract users, one of the biggest challenges is understanding the economic and social logic driving change. While much of the frenetic growth is fueled by the Internet's obvious capabilities-e-mail, newsgroups, Web sites, and a modest amount of actual market transactions-it remains uncertain what business models and Internet functions will prove most popular and profitable over the long term. Much ... in collecting taxes, controlling the domestic money supply, and addressing domestic social and cultural needs. The Internet and other electronic technologies are playing an important role in this transformation. For six years, the Aspen Institute's Communications and Society Program has sponsored the Roundtable on Information Technology to explore such issues. In August 1997, the Program once again convened a small group of top executives of information technology companies, computer scientists ... cited to a particular person, none of the comments herein should be taken as embodying the views or carrying the endorsement of any specific attendee at the conference. Most of the report is the author's own interpretive synthesis, supplemented by various materials credited in the endnotes. Part One: Electronic Commerce and the Restructuring of Markets The Global Advance of Electronic Commerce Communications and Society Program August 1997 The Aspen ...
- 699: Huck Finn 3
- ... town of Cannibal, Missouri. Mr. Twains own adventure for life was much as his character Huck Finns life was portrayed, a person who had to continually be on the go and experience life to it's fullest. Huck Finn is a boy who experiences many things in life such as: friendship, a broken home, prejudice, adventure, pain, struggles, and much more. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", is a novel that has ... in a different light in this book, but all you have to do is look back in time and realize that how Mark Twain describes blacks is the way it was back in the 1800's. Blacks were slaves to white people and while there is no excuse for this practice, Mr. Twain is simply creating an atmosphere that was true to the books time period in which it was taking ... the town"--in other words, of the abomination of slavery itself. As noted by another supporter of Twains book, "There are only a few instances which go to show that this is not a boy's book and does not fall under the head of flippant and worthless literature. Of its humor nothing need be said. There is a large class of people who are impervious to a joke, even ...
- 700: A Motherly Role-The Joy Luck C
- A Motherly Role A reoccurring theme in Amy Tans novels is mother-daughter relationships. In each of her three novels she represents different roles of the mother and the effects of each; The Joy Luck Club depicts mothers living through daughters, The Kitchen Gods Wife portrays mother teaching daughter through past experience, and finally The Hundred Secret Senses displays non-existence of the mother in the relationship. This excerpt from The Joy Luck Club shows what kinds of things ... to the uncontrollable features of nature. Auntie Lin and my mother were both best friends and arch-enemies who spent a lifetime comparing their children. I was one month older than Waverly Jong, Auntie Lins prized daughter. From the time we were babies, our mothers compared the creases in our belly buttons, how shapely our earlobes were, how fast we healed after we scraped our knees, how thick and ...
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