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- 7291: Maurice Sendak
- Maurice Sendak may be the best-known children's author / illustrator in the world today. His artwork has become somewhat of an American icon; some even became the basis of an advertising campaign for Bell Atlantic. This extremely gifted genius was actually cultivating within Sendak since his childhood, and ... dreams, imagination, drawing, etc. This allows children to be who they want to be. Along with In The Night Kitchen, Sendak's most famous book Where The Wild Things Are exemplifies a child's dream world at best. One of Sendak's earlier stories, The Sign On Rosie's Door, exemplifies a child guided by her own imagination and features, "Real children, playing only as real children know how". Only Sendak ... Rosie, she is now, "Alinda, the lovely lady singer." She has a certain charisma about her with which she can impose her fantasy on her less-imaginative friends and bring them into them in her world. She is by far the most popular child on the block because she makes the boring summer days more fun with the imaginary scenarios she creates. This book inspired an animated film called Really ...
- 7292: A Comparison and Contrast of the Supernatural's Active Role in the Lives of Mary Rowlandson and Benjamin Franklin
- ... the Supernatural's Active Role in the Lives of Mary Rowlandson and Benjamin Franklin The literature written during this time period reflects the important part the supernatural (God) played during those changing times. The new world was struggling for a new identity. Were these individuals also defining the role of God to themselves? In the preceding discussion the lives of Mary Rowlandson and Benjamin Franklin will be discussed. Each wrote a ... her fate is in God's hands, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee"(133). At the end she recounts her old ways, "I have seen the extreme vanity of this world" (134). Franklin, states, " I had been religiously educated", Iseldom attended any Public Worship"(226). Some of the dogma he described as "unintelligible", "others doubtful" (225). He saw a need to center authority for our lives ... the end Franklin reviews his "Scheme" and relates it "was not wholly without Religion" but it did not necessarily reflect any "particular sect"(233). Is this an elusion of the America to come? A new world which offered religious freedom? This America in its infancy was establishing an identity free from the mother land. Breaking the tie that binds is never easy. In his Autobiography Franklin was seeking to establish ...
- 7293: Great Expectations: Miss Havisham and Disengagement
- ... disengagement, resulting in decreased interaction between the aging person and others in the social system he belongs to” (cumming and Henry, 1961, p. 2). Becoming disengaged from society is a way to hide from the world and the problems it contains. It is a way to hide from people and hide from dealing with relationships. This withdrawal from society is caused by many factors, which include: stress, a death of a ... dismay about Estella reflects her realization of the fact that by making the girl unable to love, she has made her unable to love her. She is undoubtedly insane, and in a well-regulated modern world, she would have been committed long ago. Dickens’ readers can be thankful that in Victorian England, eccentrics were left alone as long as they stayed indoors. Miss Havisham did stay indoors, and died there as ... was almost as if she had endured a death – a death of her own spirit. She was no longer active in her life, which can contribute to unhealthy aging. She isolated her self from the world around her. Isolation is a response to conditions that inhibit ability or opportunity to interact with others or is a result of the desire not to interact. When a person is externally imposed, it ...
- 7294: Animal Farm
- ... the drawing-room, even though Napoleon was against all of this in the beginning he became a big part of these activities. From this scene some animals are starting to notice their "Equal and Perfect" world is becoming not so equal any more. As the years pass by there are more incidents that prove, Napoleon wants to have more power. Also the "Utopia" idea is going away. Napoleon uses Snowball to ... animals are more equal than others. After all of this confusing the animals are very confused. They just go along with the scenario but some do not approve. The animals start to see there "perfect" world disappear. Orwell shows Old Major ideas of a Utopia vanish by having Napoleon emerge as a tyrant leader and shows that he is power hungry from the start. Throughout the story Napoleon starts to change ... only one who can read, so know one can remember the original Commandments. Napoleon like any tyrant blames his problems on everyone else and in the end ruins the animal's ideas of a perfect world completely. This story teaches people there is no perfect world and somebody always wants more.
- 7295: True Sinners
- ... she says to Dimmesdale, "What we did had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said so to each other!" Hester fully acknowledged her guilt and displayed it with pride to the world. This was obvious by the way she displayed the scarlet letter. It was elaborately designed as if to show Hester was proud of what she had done. Hester is indeed a sinner; adultery is not ... continue to do God's work as a minister. Throughout the seven years of the novel, Dimmesdale's sermons get more and more tantalizing the weaker he grows. He must wear one face for the world, another for himself. Dimmesdale is trying to excuse his behavior, when his soaring career may be a justification for concealing a sin. He is struggling to confess, and in each sermon, he comes closer and ... It is on the very scaffold that he first pleaded with Hester to reveal his identity, now he releases his secret. Chillingworth's remarks show the importance of Dimmesdale's confession: "Hadst thou sought the world earth over, there was no place so secret no high place not lowly place where thou couldst have escaped me save on this very scaffold!" I think Dimmesdale has not created the worst sin ...
- 7296: Led Zeppelin
- ... 1975 when “Physical Graffiti” that sold 500 copies an hour. All of their albums have gone platinum. They were the first group to heavily tour the United States and sporadically tour the rest of the world. This occurred because there was a lack of interest in them Britain. Their success was due to their manager Peter Grant. Peter was able to keep the group moving from place to place and kept ... company called and told Page that the sales of their new album Houses of the Holy was spectacular. The record company told Page that the group, Led Zeppelin, was the biggest selling group in the world and was making the most money at the time. After Page and Plant heard this they were having a moment of triumph because their band was making it big. During this time of popularity that ... Their road manager was also a great person for the band to have because he promoted them as much as possible. By the summer of 1975, Led Zeppelin was the most popular band in the world. They were filling football stadiums across the United States. They also filled the Earl’s Court, which held 20,000 people for five days in London. It was awesome an show that had an ...
- 7297: Shame
- ... and Bookmen, grew out of Rushdie’s interest in the Pakistani concept of sharam, a word that denotes a hybrid of embarrassment, discomfiture, decency, modesty, and a sense of having an ordained place in the world. Reaction to Shame was mostly positive; many applauded the style of Rushdie’s work and the themes it presented . Many critics appreciated the subject matter and presentation of Rushdie’s work. Cathleen Medwick in Vogue ... prose prances, a declaration of freedom, an assertion that Shame can be whatever he wants it to be coy and teasing an ironic and brutal all at once. . .[Rushdie’s work] is responsive to the world rather than removed from it, and it is because of this responsiveness that the mode in which he work represents the continued life of the novel. . . and one wants something better to describe it that the term ‘magical realism’— is an assertion of individual freedom in a world where freedom is strangle. . . "(360, Editor) Christopher Lehmann-Haupt boldly asserts, "If Mr. Rushdie had followed [the logic of realistic psychology] in Shame, he would have robbed his novel of its spectral magic, its ...
- 7298: Lucille Ball
- ... been a comedienne, but also a superb businesswoman, an excellent role model, and has won numerous awards. Lucille Ball's major contribution has been as a comedienne. Not only was she the star of the world renowned television show, I Love Lucy, but she has also performed on radio, in films, and even on Broadway. Ball had an extraordinary personality. "In short, Lucille Ball's unique brand of wacky physical comedy ... Dance Girl, Dance, and The Big Street. When she did act in these movies, she played minor, serious roles. So when she was discovered, people didn't even know how funny she was but the world would soon find out. When Ball finished with her weekly television shows, she turned her attention to Broadway and starred in such plays as Mame, and Wildcat. After her split with Desi Arnaz, "Lucille Ball ... Ball is watched all over the country. The most popular I Love Lucy episodes are still shown on television to this day. Obviously, this shows that Lucille Ball has made significant, positive contributions to the world. "So what if Lucille Ball's haircolor came out of a bottle? As a comic genius, she was a natural" (Dziemianowicz 53). Works Cited "Ball, Lucille." Biography.com. April 1999. Biography. 15 April 1999 < ...
- 7299: The Work of Poet and Philosoher Archibald Lampman
- ... a rich man and lived not a happy life, and most of his poetry reflects that. "The City of The End of Things" was written in a time of great sadness and hate for the world. Published one year after his death many people fail to realize the direct connection to themselves in the poem. Lampmans poetry was divided into two moods, saddness and joy, each primarly involed with nature or ... to act as he does, and if he even does, the masters shall flee, and the machine will rule for a little while, then wither and fall apart. Thus Lampman gives a mircocasem of the world today and a world to come, We must prevent this. For Lampman, landscape offers an environment sympathic to emotional and aesthetic capacities that are starved or preserved in the city. The infinitely varied complexion of nature fosters without ...
- 7300: Lewis Carroll
- ... therefore hurting his self-confidence (Kelly 13-14). When Carroll spoke to adults, his speech became extremely difficult to understand. Apparently, he panicked; his shyness and stammering always seemed worse when he was in a world of adults (Leach 2). Partly as a result of his stammering, he felt very comfortable around children and he was able to easily form close relationships among them. While speaking with younger children, Carroll’s ... he tried to keep totally separate from his born name, which creates the idea of Carroll having two selves: the pragmatic character of the regular, Oxford don and the mysterious character living in a shadowy world of fantasy. Carroll insisted on this division to a great extent and he would not accept fan mail addressed to Lewis Carroll at Christ Church (DLB v.18 45). Another odd obsession of Carroll’s ... though it springs from the very heart of the Victorian period, it is timeless in its appeal. This is a characteristic that it shares with other classics-a small band- that have similarly conquered the world" (Leach 5). WORKS CITED Blake, Kathleen. .Lewis Carroll.. Victorian Novelists After 1885. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1983. Vol. 18 of Dictionary Literary Biography. Green, Roger Lancelyn. The Story of Lewis Carroll. New York: Henry ...
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