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- 4261: FightClub
- ... narrator. This is a normal every day man. We see his kind a thousand times a day in the business district of any city. This is exactly what he is trying to escape. His entire world is factory produced. All he is in society is a consumer. And he is losing it. He is suffering from real bad insomnia. He goes to the doctor who's only reply is "Nobody has ... their curiosity but that motive soon changes. More and more men gather to hear Tyler's philosophies. We are the Middle children of history, with no purpose or place. We have no great depression. Our war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We are a generation of me raised by women. Tyler speaks to people. He say's the things many have thought but never said, and he dose something ...
- 4262: Book Report - Lies My Teacher
- ... lived in could be considered treasonous. (Lies…20) President Wilson is also an example Loewen used in his book “Lies My Teacher Told Me”. Current textbooks say that Wilson led the United States reluctantly into World War 1 and associate him with helping progressive causes. (Lies…22) Under his administration Wilson intervened in Latin America more often than at any other time in our history. He also led us into an “Unknown War” (Robert Maddock) that not even one of the twelve textbooks Loewen reviewed mentions. (Lies…24) Racial problems also plagued Wilson throughout his Presidency abusing power as Chief Executive he segregated the Federal Government. He ...
- 4263: Leda And The Swan
- ... an eagle, and when the tender-hearted Leda had given protection to the swan, he had his way with her" (346). Leda is innocent and unassuming. Her attacker disguises himself and deceptively targets her. In World Literature Criticism, John Lucas says, "Yeats is writing here about the violence of entering history, and about how all, even the most innocent, are caught up in it" (4110). Leda is of the utmost innocence ... follows: Upon her senseless lips his senseless beak, His neck snaked around her neck. His eyes Are elsewhere – they foresee perhaps the roles The girls who soon will hatch will play: Adultery justifying genocide and war crimes By barbarians considered heroes to this day. (1). Leda’s misfortune ultimately leads to revenge on Zeus through war and tragedy. "Leda and the Swan" is a testament to the fact that even the most powerful forces in the universe are subject to paying the consequence of their actions. Zeus is somewhat a ...
- 4264: Henry James And William Dean H
- Post-Civil War American Literature saw a transition from the prominence of romance to the development of realism. In the late 1800's, the United States was experiencing swift growth and change as a result of a changing ... While his birth in 1843 was in New York City, his parents were purposly rootless, and by the age of eighteen he had already crossed the Atlantic six times. He avoided participation in the Civil War because of a poor back and began a role which he would maintain throughout his life and writings, one of a detached observer rather than participant in the American social scene. (Matthiessen 14) The first ... by the dying heroine's tragedy. A year later, "The Ambassadors, which James' called ‘the best, ‘all round' of my productions' describes the initiation of an aging American into the relativistic ethics of the Old World in ‘huge iridescent' Paris. The Golden Bowl verbosly analyses father-daughter and adulturous relations." (Matthiessen 16) Ultimately, James' genius was recognized by those who share his craft. His works explore psychological subtlies; he is ...
- 4265: Jane Addams
- Jane Addams Jane Addams was a United States social worker, reformer, and peace advocate. During her active career of 46 years she made Hull House in Chicago world famous as a social settlement. An outspoken pacifist, Miss Addams shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University. Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois, and graduated from Rockford ... vice and corruption. She campaigned for better working conditions, more protection for working women, for stricter child labor laws, for playgrounds, and for a juvenile court. She joined in the votes-for-women movement. After World War 1 broke out in1914 Miss Addams devoted much effort to obtaining peace. In 1915 she was elected chairman of the new Women's Peace party and was president of the International Congress of Women ...
- 4266: Christa Wolf
- Wolf, Christa (1929- ), German novelist and essayist, known for her novels about Germany during World War II (1939-1945). Born Christa Ihlenfeld in Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland), she studied at the Universities of Leipzig and Jena from 1949 to 1953. In 1951 she married writer Gerhard Wolf ... East Germany, and a woman who stays. Two of her later novels, Nachdenken über Christa T (1969; The Quest for Christa T, 1971) and Kindheitsmuster (1976; A Model Childhood, 1982), examine the final years of World War II and the early development of the GDR. The first of these novels describes the life of a woman and her early death from leukemia, which is described as a psychosomatic response to ...
- 4267: Lies My Teacher Told Me - Book Report
- ... lived in could be considered treasonous. (Lies…20) President Wilson is also an example Loewen used in his book "Lies My Teacher Told Me". Current textbooks say that Wilson led the United States reluctantly into World War 1 and associate him with helping progressive causes. (Lies…22) Under his administration Wilson intervened in Latin America more often than at any other time in our history. He also led us into an "Unknown War" (Robert Maddock) that not even one of the twelve textbooks Loewen reviewed mentions. (Lies…24) Racial problems also plagued Wilson throughout his Presidency abusing power as Chief Executive he segregated the Federal Government. He ...
- 4268: Hades
- ... invisible. Hades lent it to gods and mortal men. Perseus used the helmet on his quest for Medusa’s head and Athena, goddess of battle skills, put to use the helmet so the god of war, Ares, could not notice her. Persephone, Hades’ wife, is the goddess of spring and the Queen of the underworld. She resides in the underworld for only six months of the year due to Hades kidnapping ... seed each year. So, Persephone now resides in the underworld six months out of every year. When the Olympians overthrew their father Cronus, the Olympians drew straws to see who would rule what part of world. Even though Hades, also known as the Roman God Pluto, drew the straw for the underworld, there are many gods, goddesses and personifications within the underworld besides him. These being: The three Furies, or Erinyes who would seek out miscreants. They were three women: Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone. Alecto is often known as the goddess of war and death. The god of sleep, Hypnos, also resided in the underworld, in Cimmerians in a cave on the island of Lemnos. Hypnos was the son of Nyx and the brother of Thanatos. His ...
- 4269: Women In Western Society
- ... for women. They wanted to secure divorce and property laws. Some women were able to get access to higher education. First they took over teaching them the medical field. This movement soon entered the political world. They believed women should have the right to vote. Only in a few countries and states the women won. Both Mussolini and Hitler believed that women should stay home and bear children. They both wanted women out of the work force. The women worked to hard to get where they are. No dictator would drive them out. They both failed. After World War 2 things started to change. Women made up lots of the work force. They occupied the same traditional jobs. But salaries still didn t change; they were being paid less then men. Many women ...
- 4270: Tiger Woods
- "Let your clubs speak for you." Tiger Woods was too young to notice the racism around him. He didn’t understand that in this world, people were judged by the color of their skin. He couldn’t speak out about it; he couldn’t voice his opinions, or come up with possible solutions because he was too young. Tiger faced ... be the best golfer. The only way Tiger dealt with racism was to let his clubs do all the talking for him. The book starts off with Earl Woods, Tiger’s father, during the Vietnam War. A sniper almost took out Earl but his friend saved him. Later on that day, he gets in a predicament with a bamboo viper, and once again, his friend saves him. The friend’s name ... and he was good in combat; he was a tiger in combat. Nguyen Phong had the nickname of "Tiger". Earl vowed that if he ever had another son, he would call him "Tiger". After the war, back in the United States, Earl met a Thai woman named Kultida and he married her and had a son. They named the baby Eldrick, but Earl called him "Tiger". Tiger Woods took interest ...
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