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- 651: The Tower of Babel
- The Tower of Babel Racialism--a doctrine or teaching, without scientific support, that claims to find racial differences in character, intelligence, etc., that asserts the superiority of one race over another or others. Throughout time, conflicts between contrasting races and cultures have been apparent ...
- 652: A Summary of The Adventures of 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 ...
- 653: Baldwin's "Fire Next Time"
- ... that going to the church will protect him, and shield him against what he feared. Instead of freeing the community from discrimination between Blacks and Whites, the Bible supported the existence of racial barriers by teaching one should behave. Realizing the hypprocarcy involved with Christianity, the author broke away from the congressional church, to search his own way of liberating the society. Baldwin emphasizes that liberation is love, and "love is ...
- 654: John Steinbeck's`"In Dubios Battle": Summary
- ... stay on his land. Jim Nolan, the main character of the novel, is a person of feelings and dreams. He starts off the novel as Mac's student, but by the closing, he finds himself teaching Mac. In this scene Jim is taking charge of the camp and giving orders to London, the elected leader of the camp. "All right, tomorrow morning we are going to smack those scabs. I want ...
- 655: The Touch of Magic by Lorena Hickok
- ... her parents never did. She thought it would be best if she could be alone with Helen so they moved into their own little cottage a few minutes away from Helen's parents. Annie started teaching Helen the manual alphabet that she had learned from Laura Bridgman. Helen was able spell things back, but still they had no meaning to her. About a month after Annie's arrival, Helen finally figured ...
- 656: Hemingway's Portrayal of Nick's Consolation
- ... has with and eager student, or the satisfaction a professor gets when a young pupil completes an assigned task with an above average outcome is measurable to the happiness Nick's father got out of teaching him about nature. "Nick's father, Dr. Henry Adams, played a notable part in Nick's early education" (Baker 129). In the short story "Indian Camp", Hemingway writes, "In the early morning , on the lake ...
- 657: Great Expectations: Pip
- ... loser in Pip's eyes. Another of Pip's unfavorable decisions include neglecting Joe and Biddy. Joe had been like a father to Pip. Being a good friend, supporting him in time of need, and teaching him important values of life. Biddy first taught Pip to read and write and loved Pip. For Pip to turn his back on these early friends just because of his new position in society was ...
- 658: Orwell's "Such, Such Were the Joys....": Alienation and Other Such Joys
- ... the eight-year old Orwell condemns himself as a sinner, following that which he is preached. Without thinking, questioning or understanding, he blindly accepts the morality presented him. The school establishment shuns and castigates him, teaching him through fiery sermons and corporal punishment to hate himself for his incorrigible actions. Sim and Bingo, the benefactors of this psychologically ailing scholarship student, aid him in no way, adding only to his misery ...
- 659: Lord of the Flies: An Analysis
- ... The whole book is symbolic in nature, except at the end where adult life appears, dignified, and capable of leading a civilized group. This theme is probably one of the most important ones in life, teaching humans as a civilization, that they must not let their irrational side, that man cannot control, take over the rational side. There can be no happy solution to the problems of man's society because ...
- 660: Nine Tomorrows: Will Computers Control Humans in the Future?
- ... take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them without having any choice of creativity. Computers would start to control humans' lives and make humans become too dependent on the computers. Another point that is criticized by Asimov is ...
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