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- 8351: E. M. Forster
- ... novel, Where Angels Fear to Trend, in 1905. He wrote many other novels including Longest Journey, Howard's End, and A Room with a View. As a pacifist Forster wouldn't fight in the First World War, instead he worked for the International Red Cross. Two years later Forster moved to India where he worked as a personal secretary for Mahaharajah of Dewas. This resulted in his novel, A Passage to India ...
- 8352: Abortion Paper
- ... they are born. The vast majority oppose government welfare programs to help support needy and dependent children. These people are also in favor of the death penalty and see the killing that goes on during war as justified and noble. My personal belief is that each woman should have a right to decide whether she wants to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. For reason's of women's right to self-determination ... One thing is obvious. These pregnancies were not planned and they are unwanted. Children born to these mothers are "biological accidents". In my opinion it is sinful to bring innocent and defenseless children into the world when they will not be cared for. All over the globe these are children starving, being raped, dying, being beaten up because they're are unwanted. They suffer abuses from which they never recover. Medical ...
- 8353: Eli Whitney
- ... hundred guineas a year. He sailed on a small coasting packet with only a few passengers, among whom was the widow of the Revolutionary general, Nathanael Greene. The Greenes had settled in Savannah after the war. When Whitney arrived in South Carolina, he found that the promised salary was going to be halved. He not only refused to take the position, but decided to give up teaching all together. Coming to ... on January 8, 1825. Unfortunately, Whitney has been all but forgotten. He is mostly remembered as "the cotton man," and nothing else. However, without the ingenuity and dedication of this individual, who knows where the world might be today.
- 8354: The History Of Affirmative Action
- ... action. They are saying that affirmative action is nothing more than a quota or reverse discrimination. As you can see, there have been many additions to the policy of affirmative action. People from the Vietnam War, people with disabilties, and minority groups have made gains in the workforce but more research needs to be conducted as to the qualifications of all of these people to make sure that race is not ... kind of regulation you think of, will change unless the people (employers in this case) are willing to cooperate. I find it sad that in America, the "Melting-pot" of cultures from all over the world, the "Most Powerful Nation on Earth", is so weak inside. As long as people are not willing to live with each other and respect each other, the "Melting-pot" will keep on boiling. Despite all ...
- 8355: Emily Dickinson 2
- ... the nuances that the framework would allow. No democrat, she constructed for herself a set of aristocratic images; she was queen and empress. No traveler, she stayed at home to examine small fragments of the world she knew. For Dickinson life was kinesthetic; she recorded the impressions of experience on her Said 3 nerves and on her soul. Rather than being linear and progressive, it was circular: My business is circumference ... history and tries to make some sense in how a fly may have had an affect with what is known today as a profit, the sun of God, or God to the people of this world. Another reader, author, Eugene Hollahan sees the fly as something more evil. Hollahan states: Assuming that the fly as an element in the poem takes on a new meaning when seen as an example of ... depression, uncertainty of her well being, or just wanted to keep to herself for her own reasons. Although, it may not ever be certain why she never allowed herself to be exposed to the out world. For the poems that she wrote about love they could have been what she hoped she could of had happen to her. In those poems she spoke of what she thought love was, who ...
- 8356: Emily Dickinson 3
- ... space and unending time. The poem s conclusion is more implicit, and expressed through suggestive images - ie: important dignitaries surrender and die, and this is of the same significance as specks on snow - that the world out there is vast, cold and impersonal. Later, she wrote a further two replacement stanzas for the last, which sentimentalise death in keeping with the tone of the first stanza. This, apparently was at the ... and power The description of the initial picture is soon disturbed by the sense that the "beast" is intrusive, consuming (juxtaposing "feed" / "lap" / "lick"), and swallowing up the valleys - a potential threat to the natural world. No human is to be noted, the "beast" appears to be self-sufficuent and self-motivated. The "beast" swells - it is "prodigious", can "step / around a pile of mountains" , - it s proportions become nightmarish. The ... of structure and sense. The point of view is deliberately engineered to be amusing and ironic. The fly represents both the feeder on carrion, a symbol of life and echoes Dickinson s larger theme : This world is all. In the final line "I could not see to see" the subject is still not able to imagine her/his own lack of consciousness. It has been said that criticism on Dickinson ...
- 8357: Essay Analyzing The Biographic
- ... lobotomy. Laura in the play seems very strange sometimes. Tom says this about her. Laura is very different from other girls. In the eyes of others strangers she s terribly shy and lives in a world of her own and those things maker her seem a little peculiar to people outside the house (1166). Rose was almost all of her life in the sanitariums. Edwina tried to find Rose a mate ... illness has left her crippled exquisitely fragile (1146). Rose was more mentally crippled and not with a bad leg like Laura. But they are both crippled and fragile girls who are left alone in the world and abandoned by their fathers, their gentlemen callers, and their brothers in the end. Williams says this of Amanda, Tom s mother. A little woman of great but confused vitality clinging frantically to another time ... a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, and I speak to the nearest stranger anything that can blow your candles out! For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura and so good-bye (1188). Tennessee Williams entire life s work was, in many ways, recognition to his sister Rose.
- 8358: Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" and Desai's "Clear Light of Day": Tension and Conflict Between Traditional and Modern Views
- Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" and Desai's "Clear Light of Day": Tension and Conflict Between Traditional and Modern Views How does the tension between traditional and modern views of the world play itself out in Achebe's and Desai's novels? In both Achebe's and Desai's novels, tension and conflict between the new and the old, traditional and modern are the strong undercurrents that ... In this tale, Bim is much like Okonkwo, trapped between two worlds. We have the story of two sisters and a brother, all intertwined but each with their own path. The brother Raja in his world of poetry and heroism, but never venturing into a bold new path, preferring to follow the paths of others. "She had not realized that Raja's ambitions were so modest and unassertive. Far from playing ... to be strong to deal with the tides between tradition and modern culture. Their lives are not easy, but while reading about them, maybe we can make it easier for others to live in our world and understand those who do not wish to make the journey of "progress". Failing that, maybe we can at least understand our own journey through this jumble we call life.
- 8359: E. E. Cummings
- ... to volunteering as an ambulance driver in France during WWII. From his experiences in La Ferte Mace (a detention camp) he accumulated material for his documentary novel, The Enormous Room (1922), one of the best war books by an American (Triem 2). After a lifetime of literary achievement, Cummings died in Conway, NH, on Sept. 3, 1962 at the age of 68 (Ulanov 565). Thus, his early childhood and his later ... He attacks many aspects of American life, especially Puritanism and Philistinism (Cummings, Penguin, 470). In some of his poems, he favored toward the spiritual outlook of man. The poems showed his transcendental faith in a world where the self-reliant, joyful, loving individual is beautifully alive but in which mass man, or the man who lives by mind alone, without heart and soul, is dead (Cummings, Microsoft, 154) Cummings usually stayed ...
- 8360: Emily Dickinson 4
- ... confidantes and friends through letters, rarely seeing them. The men she corresponded with during her life include Benjamin Newton, a law student; Reverend Charles Wadsworth, a Philadelphia minister; Thomas Higginson, a literary critic and Civil War hero, and Otis Lord, a judge who had been her father s closest friend. She regarded these men as intellectual advisers as well as friends. Although many of them found her poetry to be fascinating ... a permanent separation: death. Death was only one more thing that Dickinson knew of which kept people apart. The death of her friends and family forced her to acknowledge the loneliness and separateness of this world. Dickinson s preoccupation with death began when she was a young child and continued throughout her life. (Wolff: 84) She was a meditative child, sensitive and serious, and began to marvel over the mystery of ...
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