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- 4921: Muckraking Newspapers And Maga
- ... were filled with bribery and crime. The “Land of the Free” had turned to the “Land of the Few.” One of the biggest factors in this corruption was the rise of industrialism. Before the Civil War, a large corporation had a few hundred workers and a bank account with thousands of dollars. However, the corporation of the post-Civil War period made the previous companies look like small home-run businesses. As Ellen F. Fitzpatrick in Muckraking writes: “Railroads, with their huge administrative structure, large capital investment, extensive numbers of employees, and complex business activities ... troubled regarding “the roles of individuals, small producers, and local entrepreneurs in a mass industrial society” (5). Because of the competition caused by such a growth in industry, all was not smooth in the business world. Strong competition, large capital requirements, an unpredictable consumer market, and the continued drive to increase the bottom line lead to price cutting across the board. Much of the cuts came from the labor costs. ...
- 4922: Elduc In 2000
- Eliduc In 2000 Sarah DeMoranville Prof. Gardner Ancient World Ren. Love in 20th century is entirely different from when Marie De France lived. In her time, she wrote a sweet story of two women who love the same man, Eliduc. He leaves his wife ... lingered for weeks. Eli arrived in the South and the new chief had not recalled talking to him about the job. Aggravated, Eli told him "I will go to another city and fight their drug war if you don’t want me." The chief welcomed Eli because the city had an immense drug problem. Suddenly, the alarm sounded in the station! There was an emergency; a riot had broken out in ... the cops he was framed, the younger cop said "yeah... yeah...tell it to the judge. We always knew you were a druggie. You left your sweet wife for this junkie? Boy, what is this world coming to?" The older cop said "we have to accept it...it’s just not the like the good old days. Too bad huh?" "Yup." See, in 2000, people experience harsh emotions and they ...
- 4923: Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men: Go West Young Man
- ... pigs and……… ‘An’ live off the fatta the lan’.”(Steinbeck 14) What George wanted most of all was to not be lonely. “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place.”(Steinbeck 13) George has been saving up money to buy a piece of land for Lennie and him to live on. He finally has enough ... d just be the catcher in the rye………that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.”(Salinger 173) Holden does not want children to be exposed to the evil things of the world. He wants them to remain innocent as Phoebe is. The field of rye represents the children’s world where everything is good and the cliff represents the evilness of the world. Holden wants to protect the children from all the bad things in the world. Later, Holden realizes that you can’t ...
- 4924: 1984: The Party's Control Over the Thoughts
- 1984: The Party's Control Over the Thoughts The world of 1984 is bleak; individualism is utterly suppressed the reign of terror of the Thought Police. In this setting, Orwell's work details the efforts of one individual, Winston Smith, to resist and retain a ... diary in a hidden nook. The Party further erodes human uniqueness through destruction of truth. In addition to revising the past, the Party accomplishes this goal through Party slogans and though Newspeak. The Party slogans, "WAR IS PEACE, SLAVERY IS FREEDOM, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" (17) pervert the truth of reality through blatant contradictions. Party members are required to accept these contradictory statements through doublethink, and as they do, they subvert the ... in Room 101. Room 101 serves as the Party's method for evoking the exact same reaction of every single inmate. As O'Brien explains to Winston, Room 101 contains "the worst thing in the world," a horror which "varies from individual to individual"(233). By exposing Winston to that which he fears most in the world, the Party ensures that Winston will respond with the betrayal of that which ...
- 4925: What Is Art ?
- ... individualistic veil of perception and creates a work where others can share in his objectivity. This is an act of virtue. In appreciating art, we become less selfish and can see the reality of the world presented. I agree very much that objectivity is introduced to the spectator, and I can think of no more fitting example than when Dickens removes the selfish, ignorant veil of the rich through his writings ... and allow the audience to experience a fiction or representation of reality. Michael Norman does not think that this fiction is at all healthy. In his essay "Carnage and Glory, Legends and Lies" he criticizes war movies for being the bad representation of the truth. Norman argues that "the lie begins as soon as the first cut is made and time and reality are altered" (book pg.211). Life is not as neatly structured nor as dramatic as we see in all forms of Art. Movies, poems and plays all have a beginning, a middle and an end. Just as Norman says that war movies are about our "fantasies of war"(book pg.213), art is a fantasy of life. It is the fantasy of situations that we are unable to or too afraid of experiencing. The realization ...
- 4926: Fahrenheit 451
- ... roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about."(37). Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a futuristic city while a war is taking place. Oddly enough the city has its own problems. The protagonist , Guy Montag, goes against society and steals books to read at home, meets a friend to help him in his brave stand ... the history of the profession."(53). Montag disagrees with him and meets an old retired English Professor named Faber who helps him understand the books. "The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way an average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book."(80). In doing this he gets wiser and learns more about famous poets and writers ... reason, reading books. This group hopes to preserve knowledge for future generations by memorizing passages from books. They do this so they cannot be caught and it also improves their thinking. All the while a war is going on and all of a sudden planes came swooping down and bombed the city. "The city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of death came after" (160). Montag and his ...
- 4927: Dickinson vs. Whitman
- ... them or people they were interested in. Emily Dickinson started writing poetry in 1850, but most of her poems are dated after 1858. Whitman wrote for many newspapers before he actually began writing poetry. The world found out he wrote poetry when he published the first edition of Leaves of Grass. The major turning point for Whitman was in the 1860's, when his work started to gain more recognition from ... off-rhyme. The subjects that Whitman and Dickinson used in their poetry are very different. There is a big difference because the things that each poet was interested in. Whitman often wrote about the Civil War. Dickinson often wrote about death and nature. The punctuation is drastically different as well. Whitman used mostly traditional punctuation in his poetry, but in the poem "Beat! Beat! Drums!" he used a big amount of ... ruthless force." Dickinson used a form of punctuation unique to her poetry as well as capitalization. She used irregular capitalization to emphasize certain words for example, in the poem "This is My Letter to the World," she capitalized the words, World, Me, News, Nature, Majesty, Message, Hands, Her, and Sweet. She did this because those things were important to her. Walt Whitman's and Emily Dickinson's lives were very ...
- 4928: Orwell's "Such, Such Were the Joys....": Alienation and Other Such Joys
- ... far from perfect, but at least it was a place ruled by love rather than by fear, where you did not have to be perpetually taken out of this warm nest and flung into a world of force and fraud and secrecy, like a goldfish into a tank full of pike. (23) Young Orwell, impacted by this, “hard,” disorienting situation, realizes he is alone in a hostile, harsh environment. Orwell uses ... able to avoid it. Sin was not necessarily something you did it might be something that happened to you” and “[t]his was the great, abiding lesson of my boyhood: that I was in a world where it was not possible for me to be good” (5). This is the result of a child's flawed, but logical process of thought. Though he realizes that which is conveyed to him bodes ... essence, that he does not belong amongst the living. This defeatist mentality pervades the daily life of young Orwell. He obediently not only prepares himself for self-destruction, but also assumes the rest of the world is out to destroy him. Relating one of the few joyous moments of his youth, buying candy, Orwell is interrupted by his own fears of wrongdoing and detection. ”I assumed that any adult, inside ...
- 4929: The Working Class In Middletow
- ... of the 1930's the Middletown economy started to turn around. Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the New Deal which brought Middletown and the rest of the United States out of the depression. Partly due to World War II and partly due to the general up-swing of the economy three new plants were introduced to Middletown. Two General Motor plants, Borg Warner, and Owens Illinois all became established in Middletown. This brought a variety of opportunity to the working class of Middletown. As the United States got more involved in the war there was a number of Middletown's working class men getting drafted. During this time the industrial workforce saw more women employees than ever. The nineteen forties, fifties, and sixties were some of the ...
- 4930: Robert Edward Lee
- ... on stabalizing the Mississippi river channel. He was promoted to captain in 1838. Being sucessful in Saint Louis he was assigned to Fort Hamilton in 1841 to work on the New York Harbor fortifications. When war broke out with Mexico in 1840 Lee was sent to Mexico for two years as an engieneering officer. There he was praised for his galantry and good conduct. In the war with Mexico he was wounded in the Storming of Chapultepec in 1847. The Mexican war was suposed to be the help that Lee needed in the experance of commanding troops. After the Mexican war Lee was assigned to Baltimore in 1848, he was to supervise the construction of Fort ...
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