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- 611: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences on Huckleberry Finn
- ... like Huck Finn. Nevertheless, they attempt to make Huck into what they believe will be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize" him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women place ...
- 612: Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
- ... the two men to be seen even more strongly. As William P. Kelly (1983) states, the setting created by Cooper allows the story to have a certain myth-like quality, a quality which makes the teaching of a lesson by Cooper all that much more acceptable. "Cooper does not locate his narrative within the flux of history, but evokes a sense of timelessness consistent with the world of myth. For example ...
- 613: Cry, the Beloved Country: Stimulating a Change
- ... their country, and remove the segregation that runs rampant throughout the community. WORKS CITED Alexander, Peter. "Man and manifesto." Times Higher Education Supplement, August, 1994, 15-16. Hogan, Patrick C. "Paternalism, Ideology, and Ideological Critique: Teaching Cry, The Beloved Country." College Literature, October, 1992, 206. Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. New York: Collier, 1987.
- 614: Bless me Ultima: The Growing up of a Young Boy
- ... the young main character in the story, lost his innocence when exposed to the harsh world since he learned what life is really like. Ultima is a good whitch whom tries to guide Tony by teaching him morals and lessons. Narsico is percieved as the town drunk, but is a good person. Tenorio is the demon in this story, as he wants to destroy Ultima. This book is about Tony's ...
- 615: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... for music, but he was not accepted due to the fact that he had failed physics (Stinson 6). This minor set back did not, however, keep Burgess from learning how to play the piano and teaching himself how to compose music (Stinson 5). Even some critics have noticed how Burgess allows his love for music to creep into his love for literature: "[Burgess's] continuing fondness for music often found its ...
- 616: An Analysis of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife of Bath's Tale
- ... strength to her arguments. For instance, she argues that there is nothing wrong with her having had five husbands, pointing out that Solomon had hundreds of wives. In another debate, she argues that despite the teaching of the Church that virginity is "a greater good than the most virtuous of marriages," there is no biblical comment opposing marriage(Bowden 77). Even though these ideas may not seem so radical to today ...
- 617: Kovic's "Born On The Fourth Of July"
- ... was very certain, they would never come back again. The book ends with him describing memories from his childhood. Making plans in the backyard for his future. His mother using the hula hoop. His sister teaching him how to do the twist. Playing basketball with the girls watching. How wonderful the whole scene is compared to the gruesome descriptions from the chapters before. How easy everything was. He ends the book ...
- 618: Hosea
- ... book of Hosea. This verse summarizes the case against Israel as seen in the first two chapters and now relates the whole to Hosea's own personal experience with Gomer as a fit comparison for teaching purposes" (Hos.3:1) Scott, 1975, p. 30). Religious failures had corroded the national character. The unifying covenant of Sinai had long since been forgotten in practice, if not in name (Southwestern Journal of Theology ...
- 619: Technology in A Brave New World
- ... turvydom with being well-being." These procedures would be considered morally incorrect today, however, in the future the lack of ethics allows this to be a normal procedure. Eddy stresses the importance of humanities, and teaching of moral ethics. Schweitzer said that "If any age lacks the minds to force it to think about the ethical, the level of its morality sinks, and with it, its capacity to answering the questions ...
- 620: Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
- ... those who search vigorously, but more importantly for those who knows where to seek the guidance. There are few however, that surpass the stage of seeking, they go beyond to collect their wisdom into a teaching, guidance in the form of a philosophy. Ayn Rand is one among them. Individualism is the philosophy which exemplify self', promotes greatness and prolong longevity of the human race. It contains the power lock inside ...
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