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- 9921: Loneliness
- ... woman in "All Souls'" who, is paralyzed by loneliness (383). This loneliness in the younger life of Wharton was inevitably ingrained in her stories. The story "Pomegranate Seed" is a perfect example of how Wharton's loneliness seeped into her writing. Erdrich's "The Red Convertible" is contained in the book Love Medicine. Marie, a character in another story, is losing Nector, her husband. Her grandson Lipsha attempts to cure her loneliness by preparing a love potion. He botches the recipe and kills Nector. This shows that loneliness is not a foreign idea to Erdrich's writing either. Both "Pomegranate Seed" and "The Red Convertible" begin with lonely characters. Charlotte begins the story remembering her friends sometimes stopped by, but "Sometimes--oftener--she was alone"(Wharton 317). Charlotte rarely had ...
- 9922: Dorothy Parker
- ... today, they were labeled in this manner at the height of her popularity. Her cynical verses developed into something of a national frenzy, while giving the reader the impression that she recklessly stretched a woman's equal rights to include sexual relationships. It seemed that infidelity was included among these "rights." Her admirers culled quotations from her poetry that, while seeming to be among the most clever, were also among the ... that many of her verses tackle are as follows: "bitterness, humor, wit, and love" (Adams 519), together with an absolute foreknowledge of their futility. Love, especially, plays a major role as a theme of Parker's verse. Many poems are relating to love and loneliness or death as results of love. Parker once said of an actress in a review of a play that she "runs the gamut of emotions from ... from its hook and set it on end upon the little table.' However, "A Telephone Call" is merely an agonizing soliloquy in which a woman waits for the appeasing call from her lover. The woman's thoughts periodically reveal her desperation and hostility toward the prospective caller, as well as the telephone itself. The monologue later includes pitiful appeals to anyone or anything that could possibly hear her pleas and ...
- 9923: The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Advice to Dimmesdale
- The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Advice to Dimmesdale After committing the sin of adultery, Dimmesdale’s physical and mental condition begins to deteriorate. When Hester asks him to run away from the situation they are in, he begins the final descent to his demise. Initially, the idea lifts his spirits. Eventually he feels compelled to confess when he realizes that the act of fleeing demonstrates his own moral weakness and compounds of his sins. Hester’s advice acts as a catalyst to propel him from a state of self-loathing into a state of self-destruction. This destruction also serves as his only means of moral salvation. In the initial ...
- 9924: Ywain
- ... of the main characters, as well as the names and details given about their war-horses and weapons, were important to a society that was constantly in a state-of-battle readiness, such as Roland's was. Beyond the battle scenes, Roland is true to the era in its portrayal of vassalage between a lord and his liegeman. In her introduction, Dorothy L. Sayers defines vassalage as "a personal bond of ... the army, Roland refuses because it is more appropriate, for the greater good of the community, that the army guards the emperor. Likewise, at the death of his nephew, Charlemagne is bound to avenge Roland's death. It is the responsibility of both the vassal and the lord to provide, among other things, this defense and revenge for one another. Loyalty and love play a definitive role in this early medieval period. It is important to give these to one's friends, lord, and community. However, the love of a woman is not significant here. The romantic love between man and woman is not a trait of the early medieval society; that is to come ...
- 9925: Ebonics Is Not The Answer
- ... and finally lowering the students’ self-esteem and confidence are equally significant in the fight against Ebonics. Oakland Unified School District strongly disagrees with the linguists and the Board of Education opinion of lowering student’s academic standards and proposes its ambitious professional development goal: ensuring that teachers understand the structural details of AAVE so that they can draw on Black students' linguistic proficiency. Attitudes toward the vernacular dialect may well ... doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education." An education that promotes success and esteem, not one that suggests lower standards. Warren's words are no less true today. President Kennedy once said, "A child miseducated is a child lost." Ebonics has fast become a statewide concern because it promises to miseducate an entire generation of children by lowering academic standards, forcing students to underperform. Oakland’s proposal on Ebonics intending to improve performance of black students, who make up more than half of the distinct and whose average grade is a D-plus will not be successful as many studies ...
- 9926: Escape From El-Ashaq
- ... female character . The rare similarities encourage the comparison to Job, a non-Israelite, finding favor in God, and the parallel with Esther marrying a Gentile husband, suggesting Gentiles were to only be blessed through Abraham’s seed. However, the extent to which God actually provided for Ruth is questionable; the text gives nothing of God’s thoughts on Ruth. Ruth’s desire to worship Naomi’s god seems to only affirm her love for Naomi, not God (Ruth 1.16). Nor is Ruth’s marriage to Boaz necessarily a blessing. Ruth enters into marriage for ...
- 9927: Charles Darwin
- ... concentrated on teaching classic languages. Even as a boy Darwin loved science and his enthusiasm for chemical studies earned him the name "Gas" from his friends. The headmaster at Shrewsbury, Dr. Samuel Butler noted, "Here's a boy, plays around with his gases and the rest of his rubbish and works at nothing useful." He was also an avid collector. Anything he could get his hands on- shells, eggs, minerals and ... in getting Darwin the position of naturalist on the boat The Beagle. In April of 1831, he graduated from the University. In the fall following his graduation, the government decided to send the H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, to complete an unfinished survey of Patagonia and Tierra Del Fuego to help map out the shores of Chile and Peru. Th e voyage was to last two years. Darwin volunteered his services without salary and offered to pay his own expenses on the condition that he was allowed to keep all the plants and animals he collected. On Henslow's recommendation, Darwin was chosen to serve as naturalist for the exploration. The Beagle set sail from Devonport on December 27, 1831 and returned on October 2, 1836. Throughout the journey, Darwin shipped back to ...
- 9928: A Critical Analysis of "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor
- A Critical Analysis of "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor's background influenced her to write the short story “ Revelation.” One important influence on the story is her Southern upbringing. During her lifetime, Southerners were very prejudiced towards people of other races and lifestyles. They believed ... characteristics she gives her characters definitely reveals the Southern lifestyle which the author, Flannery O'Connor, was a part of. In addition to her Southern upbringing, another influence on the story is Flannery O'Connor's illness. She battled with the lupus disease which has caused her to use a degree of violence and anger to make her stories somewhat unhappy. The illness caused a sadness inside of Flannery O'Connor ... disposition about herself. She is far from perfect, yet she is happy to be who she is. Perhaps the most important influence on the story is religion. In the words of Robert McCown, O'Connor's writing was mainly generated by a most powerful Christianity which was fed by her Catholic background (McCown, 256). O'Connor was not only influenced by her own Catholic heritage but by others as well. ...
- 9929: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
- ... the most influential and inspiring transcendentalist writers of their time. Both men extensively studied and embraced nature, and both men encouraged and practiced individualism and nonconformity. At first glance, one may conclude that these men's thoughts were parallel and their beliefs identical. But with careful study of their essays and poems, and understanding of the way in which they lived, Emerson and Thoreau become very different thinkers, with some very different thoughts and opinions. A basic theme common in both Emerson's and Thoreau's writing is nature. Many of their most famous works, like Emerson's "Nature" and Thoreau's "Walden," discuss the beauty and perfection of nature. Both men felt a deep love, admiration, and vital connection ...
- 9930: The Battle of Gettysburg
- ... this earth." Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863. It seems only appropriate to begin a report devoted to the Battle of Gettysburg by looking at something delivered after it ended. Contrary to his belief, Abraham Lincoln's brief, yet overwhelmingly powerful speech, is still looked upon by Americans as an enduring symbol of the Civil War and a testament to the ideals of the United States of America. However, Lincoln was more than correct when he praised the efforts of the soldiers, living and dead, bestowing upon them the adulation of changing the war in the Union's favor for good. Gettysburg, particularly Pickett's Charge is considered by many historians to be the high-water mark of the Confederacy. After that the Union gained the upper hand and would not relinquish it until the conclusion of the war. ...
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