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- 4541: Candide 2
- ... literary works, Voltaire s Candide and Alexander Popes A Modest Proposal They use satire in a different way. One to entertain the upper class and the other to show us the harsh realities of the world. Swift's "A Modest Proposal" In his lengthy literary career, Jonathan Swift wrote many stories that used a broad range of voices that were used to make some compelling personal statements. For example, Swifts, A ... a terrible plan that involves both the sacrifice of another human as well as cannibalism and expect to be taken seriously? Voltaire presents a story with a distinctive outlook on life. He tells of a world that has gone mad and is laced with evil. Voltaire questions optimism, philosophy, and absolutes. Through his story he exploits absolutes such as: justice, happiness, true love, humanity, brotherhood, and many others. He leaves the reader feeling that the world really is a cruel place and that happiness is hard to come by. By using the main character Candide, a naive and innocent optimist, Voltaire ridicules concepts such as: belief, philosophy, religion, and absolutes ...
- 4542: Analysis Of Poem Woman To Man
- ... every man. The title Woman To Man makes the poem universal, more than just a poem from Judith Wright to her husband. There are no names given to the woman and the man within the world of the poem. The experience of 'the Woman' becomes the experience of 'every woman'. The third audience for this text is the literati the world of literature. Judith Wright is a well-known Australian poet; this poem has been published many times; this poem obviously did not stay between Wright and her husband. The poem displays the poet's highly ... conception, pregnancy and childbirth in an era when women did not speak of such things publicly. Her purpose is not only to reveal her emotions to her husband, but to reveal her emotions to the world. We need to consider the social context of the poem. Woman To Man was written in 1949. During the post-war years Australia was experiencing a period of affluence. Men were enjoying their role ...
- 4543: Money and the Way it Alters the Mind
- ... of money in America’s culture. It is obvious, to those who read Lapham’s passage, that he researched thoroughly the ways we, as Americans, have been brought up differently than the rest of the world. The way Americans honor what is important is perceived as ridiculous, by many other cultures, because the only way to be respected in America is to be wealthy and therefore, powerful. Lapham chooses to compare different cultures of the world with Americans to demonstrate the westerners idiocy. The Greeks would have seen Americans as “insane,” because of the loyalty and devotion to money. The commercial world is overflowing with money. The loyalty that people have is due to the manipulation of how the businessmen choose to portray what is necessary for consumers to possess. Unlike Americans, Germans find a “University ...
- 4544: Definition of Education
- ... of art and philosophers is dead due to our age of "so called" education. We are being molded into people who can not think for ourselves. An example of this would be the giant "American War Machine." The government says we need all these weapons to protect America. They do not say who we need protection from. In fact there really is no one we need to be protected from. The Soviet Union is no more and the rest of the world is already years behind in technology. Then why do we spend billions of our dollars on weapons. We spend in order to line the pockets of weapon manufactures. If we thought for ourselves then we ... scraps off the table of those who have the power. Where does it say education is to just simply learn? It is stated nowhere. Education should be about becoming enlightened to the works of the world. I am not saying becoming a lawyer or a business person is wrong or inimical. What I am saying is being a artist or philosopher is just as advantageous. In fact art and philosophy ...
- 4545: Catcher In The Rye Holdens Sig
- ... collectively results in him giving up on life before he ever really has a chance to get it started. Holden lacks the essential ability to motivate himself, which he needs to survive in the real world. He continues to be kicked out of every school he attends because he fails to apply himself, his simple reasoning being How do you know what you re going to do till you do it ... and in which case not to give up so easily. Holden is quite skilled at citing exactly what is wrong with other people. However he never acknowledges his own faults. He was sure the entire world was out of step with him. As Alan Stewart explains, Holden seemed to divide the world into two groups. He was in one group, along with a few other people such as his little sister, Phoebe, and Jesus; everyone else was in the other group . Being the reason that he ...
- 4546: Censorship in Public Schools
- ... who understands his own and other cultures, who lives compassionately and cooperatively with his fellow man, who respects both himself and others, who has developed self-discipline and self-motivation, who can laugh at the world, and who can successfully develop survival strategies for existence in the world. (Jones 184) As one who is striving to be an English teacher I know that literature has a significant part in the education of man. I am aware that I have responsibilities to my students ... seek to control written expression in our schools while waving the banner of freedom, for it is censorship that we must fear, not words, and hope that in the future, the true obscenities of the world (poverty, hunger, war) will be what we shall strive to censor. Works Cited Berger, Melvin. Censorship. New York: Franklin Watts, 1982. Jones, Frances M. Defusing Censorship: The Librarian's Guide to Handling Censorship Conflicts. ...
- 4547: A Black Cloud
- ... displayed through forms which include: prejudices towards large groups of people, crimes of hatred being committed, and indirect hatred which involves hurting others as an act of rebellion against someone or something. Throughout history, the world has been afflicted by the prejudices of powerful leaders who in turn took their animosity out on large masses of people. Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany during World War II, is a prime example of this. He took his hatred out on the Jews, forcing them into concentration camps. Another group that is a target of hatred are the blacks. The Ku Klux ...
- 4548: Crime And Punishment - Russian
- ... his predecessor, Nicholas I, and his successor, Alexander III, it is necessary to mention him to prove the need for change in Russian society. His liberal education and distress at the outcome of the Crimean War, which had demonstrated Russia's backwardness, inspired him toward a great program of domestic reforms, the most important being the emancipation (1861) of the serfs. In 1861 and 1862 revolutionary leaflets were distributed in St ... a passionate appeal for insurrection. Alexander II met these demands. A period of repression after 1866 led to a resurgence of revolutionary terrorism and to Alexander's own assassination, at the height of the Crimean War. The war had revealed Russia's glaring backwardness in comparison with more advanced nations like England and France. Russian defeats, which had set the seal of final discredit on the oppressive regime of Nicholas I, had ...
- 4549: Bamn By All Means Neccessary
- ... points of "No More Miss America" were so extreme and negative, but others were agreeable and acceptable. It had the wrong idea but the right tactics because it was backed-up by ten points. No war was included. · Yippies actions only benefited to males not females. They had the wrong ideas and tactics. They involve in using drugs and raping women. There are many things the people of democratic country did ... s okay because she gave ten points and after all it's her opinion. On the other hand, Yippies wants the freedom of doing nothing. That's a big difference. The difference is that the world could live without having beauty contests but it can't live without people doing nothing. There were many things people of democratic country did to protest for their rights and desired freedom. The author of ... because they feel rejected and useless by losing the Beauty Pageant. Therefore, it hurt those forty-nine women's feelings. For example, the one that wins goes to different tours and places all over the world; those who loses to became Miss America, when they went back to their states, they don't get that much respect and sometimes called losers. For that reason, when their feelings are hurt, then ...
- 4550: Daisy Miller
- ... educated privately by governess and tutors in New York and Albany. In 1855, he traveled to Europe with his family and attended schools in Switzerland and France. In 1860, with the outbreak of the Civil War, The James family moved back to the United States and settled in Newport. James was unable to enlist in the Union army with his two younger brothers due to a back injury he received when ... wrote his autobiography entitled A Small Boy and Others. The following year, he wrote Notes on Novelists with Some Other Notes (criticism) and another autobiography entitled Notes of a Son and Brother. Deeply disturbed by World War I, as with all wars, James did volunteer refugee and hospital work during the war. In 1915, James became a citizen of Great Britain. On December 2nd of the same year, James suffered from ...
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