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- 2571: Catcher In The Rye - Boys Will Be Boys
- ... time is taking place. Holden's actions are those that any teenage can clearly relate with. The desire for independence, the sexually related encounters, the questioning of one's religion, the individual view of the world as a whole, the language, and dealing with teenage pressures such as drinking and smoking are issues that almost all teens have had or will have to deal with in their adolescent years. Thusly, this ... they were about as much use to him as a hole in the head" (99). He has many questions, as does all of society, of some contradicting issues concerning religion. As every teenager perceives the world in one way or another, Holden too has his own individual views on the world, in which he sees as an evil and corrupt place where Bailey 4 there is no peace. This perception of the world does not change significantly through the novel. However as the novel progresses, ...
- 2572: Catcher In The Rye 4
- ... unique as a sort of free agent, not bound to one or more schools of critics, like many of his contemporaries were. This ability to write freely, his status as a nobody in the literary world, was Salinger's greatest asset. Rather than to scope inside Salinger's mind and create a grea tness for him, we are content instead to note him for what he is: "a beautifully deft, professional ... and enticing as Holden Caulfield. As Engle wrote, "The story is engaging and believable . . . full of right observations and sharp insight, and a wonderful sort of grasp of how a boy can create his own world of fantasy and live forms" (3).Generally, critics view the novel as Holden Caulfield's melodramatic struggle to survive in the adult world, a transition that he was supposed to make during his years at preparatory school. Some critics will point to the fact that Holden has flunked out of three Pennsylvania prep schools, and use it ...
- 2573: Brave New World
- By: FarmChik Brave New World opens in a technically advanced future world. In the beginning of this book, we see the Director of World Hatcheries lead the new hatchery students on a tour of a Conditioning Center in London where babies are produced in bottles and pre-sorted to determine which class level they will be born into. ...
- 2574: Chinese Economic Reform under Communist Rule
- ... had to reinstitute price controls. China's economy retains these characteristics of potential for growth—and inflation—to this day. Another important aspect of Chinese economic reform was the decision of China to join the world economy. Deng Xiaoping and his allies hoped to effect this 1979 resolution in two ways: by expanding foreign trade, and by encouraging foreign companies to invest in Chinese enterprises. This policy—denoted the "Open Policy ... not necessarily a beneficial development. Inflation is rampant: prices have doubled in the industrial zones in the last five years. Nevertheless, the fact that Shanghai currently possesses the fifth most expensive office space in the world demonstrates that demand is high and that the prospects for future growth are promising (Tyler A8). Indeed, Pudong, a free export manufacturing zone described as "the future sight of Shanghai's Manhattan" (Tyler A8), boasts ... spending from the workers and executives of the companies represented (Tyler A8). It is conditions like these that have caused at least one analyst to predict that China will be "the richest economy in the world within the next 25 years" (Gilder 372). Shanghai is by no means unique to this growth. Additional foreign investments have continued to pour into other areas of China. For example, the Boeing Company recently ...
- 2575: A Farewell to Arms
- ... that the unfairness of life and the insignificance of our free will are apparently the most important themes in the book, but I don't agree. I also don't agree that it is a war story or a love story. Exactly what it is, though, is not clear to me. Can't art exist without being anything? "There isn't always an explanation for everything." War and love are obviously important themes in the book, and the relationship between the two is explored by Hemingway and, somewhat, by Henry. In the first two Books we are in the war and the war is overwhelming. In the last two Books we are in love. And, just as the first two Books are peppered with love in the time of war, the last two Books ...
- 2576: Star Trek - The Next Generation
- ... date: 41176.8 Captain's log. This is my (Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise #NCC-17O1 D) account of the events leading up to and beyond the Federation and Romulan war (2380-2385 AD). Star date: 32851.2: The Enterprise received a distressed call from a fleeing scout ship. SOS... I am ... under ... attack!! request ... asylum ... Federation ... Space!!.. The ship was pushing the limits of its ... itself. In any event, I was certain that we would learn a lot more during the next few days. Star date: 32851.5: Captain Shaq claimed that he was defecting in order to prevent intergalactic war. He told us that the Romulan Empire has plans for an abominable new weapon for use against the Federation and any others who might dare to resist total domination of the Romulans. The weapon, called ... self-destruct sequence before leaving his vessel. Seconds later, the scout ship exploded. We immediately questioned Captain Shaq as to why he initiated the self-destruct. He replied, that though he wanted to prevent the war, he was no traitor and would not willingly give up the secrets of his people. Star date: 32854.5: After two days of deliberations, we are heading for Romulus -- the home planet of the ...
- 2577: Comparison Of Brave New World
- Living in a genetically perfect world is not necessarily a great achievement to mankind. It makes one think, "where do you draw the line in the advancement of eugenics?" Both worlds, the Brave New one and Gattaca, are alternative futures (clearly ... of genoism, and although such discrimination is outlawed, the laws are unenforceable because in this dystopian society, as it is in BNW, one's "genetic quotient" is known from birth. The underclass people of this world are limited but aware of their social status and they are not particularly happy with it. With the BNW, the lower castes seem to be (they are made to believe so) aware but they are ... of parents can determine just how perfect and aesthetically beautiful they would like their child to be. Niccol is showing us that if we do not draw the line, these decisions could lead to a world that worships predictability and perfecion, leaving no room for the dreams and desires of God-children like Vincent. However, in BNW, there is more of a predestined life and there are no mothers of ...
- 2578: Political Parties During the Civil War
- Political Parties During the Civil War There are many political parties in the U.S. to day. The republican and the Democratic Party are the main ones everybody knows about. But I'm going to talk about the Republican Party. Founded ... cared about the social impact of immigration. In 1860 their candidate, Abraham Lincoln, was elected to the presidency; the Southern states reacted by seceding from the Union, and the country was plunged into the Civil War (1861-1865). The Civil War and the Reconstruction period that followed gave the Republican Party a solid core of strength and permanence. Republicans controlled most elective offices in the Northern states during the war, and for a generation afterward ...
- 2579: The Problem With Desertification
- ... governments and citizens can no longer doubt the seriousness of these issues. One issue that should be of great global concern is desertification. Desertification directly affects the livelihoods of more than one billion people worldwide (World Atlas of Desertification, 1997). These people are directly dependent of the land for their survival. Global financial loss (income forgone) due to desertification is estimated at US $42 billion annually. This figure represents only direct ... ten times as high (Atchia and Tropp, 1995). Desertification is the land degradation of productive drylands in arid, semiarid, and dry subhumid areas as a result of various factors, including climatic variations and human activities (World Atlas of Desertification, 1997) These drylands have been central in the evolution of mankind. These are the lands that sustained our transition from a hunting/gathering to pastoralism and agriculture (Kaya and Yokobiri, 1997). Drylands still provide much of our grain and livestock. These areas cover more than 40 percent of the world’s land surface. As these areas decrease in size, so does the reliability of the land to support the human population. In some areas, desertification is occurring to such a degree that some lands ...
- 2580: The Sixth Extinction
- ... which collided with Earth some sixty-five million years ago, wiping out half the worlds species in a geological instant. 'The Sixth Extinction', written by Richard Leakey, ultimately highlights humanity's mishandling of the natural world. Leakey's aim for his book is simply to make people aware of the real situation this planet and its ecosystems are facing, as a direct result of man. The statistics that have been compiled ... life on the planet, and this figure will grow as population jumps in the next 50 years from 6 billion to approximately 10 billion. Now, with the use of satellite imagery of much of the world's surface, doubts have been laid to rest about whether such alarming statistics are of real concern. The answer is beyond a reasonable doubt that at the current rate of destruction, tropical forests for example, will be reduced to 10 percent of their original cover in the next 50 years. The ultimate implication to all this, as Leakey attests is that the world is facing a sort of cataclysm, a crash with many consequences. Leakey successfully establishes that consideration must be made that if the further destruction of life and life's support systems is continued, in ...
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