The Good Earth: Summary
.... During this time, Wang Lung purchases some land from the House of Hwang, where O-lan was once a slave. With this extra land, he would be able to make enough silver from his next harvest to join both pieces of his land.
All hope ends once famine drives the family from their home and they end up on the streets in a city of southern China where they had to beg for just enough to feed themselves. His two sons are raised away from the land and exposed to life on this streets. The sons had less value for the land than their father. Wang Lung grew up with the land- being taught how to farm it, harvest it, and survive off of .....
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Character Analysis: Catherine Morland
.... "the happiest day of her life" . It is not that Catherine despises music, she just does not prefer the lessons. She does, however, enjoy drawing, although it does not rank the highest of her fancies. Her supply of paper is not plentiful, so she draws on "any other odd pieces of paper" that she can get her hands on. She is taught lessons by each of her parents, but she gets out of both whenever she can. Though her qualities are not near ladylike, Catherine keeps a pleasurable personality. She is not often stubborn, or cruel, and she is nice to the younger children. At the same time, Catherine has a wild spirit that just wants to .....
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The Prince And The Pauper
.... short amount of time in jail in which he must witness as innocent people have limbs cut off, and are burned at the stake. He remembers it all though, and promises himself when he is returned to his rightful position he will rule mercifully and correct unjust laws. Due to his persistent claim that he is king, he is sentenced to twelve lashings in which Miles takes for him. Edward is greatly moved that he could be so generous. It is within; these prison walls, in my opinion, that Twain uses the most intense satire throughout the book, socially criticizing the unjust laws and practices of the time period.
They are eventually releas .....
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Millennium: Winners And Losers In The Coming World Order
.... have already opened the way for the unprecedented industrialization of service-from communication to education to health care and security” (Attali 11). Products such as the laptop computer and Sony Walkman highly foreshadow the undeveloped form of the portable objects of the future.
In the coming millennium, I believe that economic power will dominate military power. Japan will lead in the new economic order, over America and Europe, because of the technological products they will manufacture and release in the market. Already Japan has mass produced high-technology consumer products that have been developed longer than in any o .....
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Discourse On The Origin Of Inequality: Savage Vs Civil Men
.... knowledge than before and without it savage man would not survive.
To begin with, Rousseau claimed that the entire population of savage man was happy and satisfied just by hunting everyday because that is what he loved. The author states, “…when I consider him, in a word, as he must have left the hands of nature, I see an animal less strong than some, less agile than others, but all in all, the most advantageously organized of all” (Rousseau 19). He is basically saying that the savage man was at an advantage because even though he was smaller, weaker, and less active than most he still knew what he had to do and would do .....
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Oroonoko: Heroism
.... stories of Oroonoko’s heroism. She tells tales of him killing lions with bare hands, and of hunting and killing the lion which terrorized the community. She also portrays Oroonoko’s ending in the most noble of lights, in that all that he did was for love. “Perhaps (said he) she {Imoinda} may be first ravished by every Brute; expos’d first to their nasty Lusts and then a shameful Death” (pg. 71). She even portrays his selfish acts of attempting to seek revenge as noble, while others might interpret them as foolish. “…(however horrid it appeared to us all) when we heard his Reasons we thought it brave and just (pg. 71).
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The Harness Conspiracy
.... see all the inconsistencies and clues that lead to this conclusion.
First, there are many inconsistencies concerning Emma's incessant illness. When we first see Emma described, we are told that her eyes were "feverish with a determination to live" (39). This image does not suggest that she would give up life as easily as she supposedly does. Her illnesses were either planned or were hugely coincidental, because "Each time Peter returned from a business trip, Emma was ailing for a month or two . . . " (40). She never got sick when Peter was away on "business." They kept this charade of her "illness" to give the impression .....
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Stephen King: Telekinesis And It’s Effects On The Innocent
.... loathing
( Magistrale 336 ).
One of Carrie White’s biggest and greatest downfalls in her misinformation to life is
her misunderstanding of the pre-adolescent menstrual cycle.
Carrie White experiences some sort of dysmenorrhea
which functions as a portent of her personal
destruction and the destruction of her community
( Burns and Kannee 369 ).
Carrie White’s mother never explained this important event in a young woman’s life to Carrie. Carrie’s mother believed the period was somewhat of a sinful omen sinful that had been done. When Carrie’s turn came to be “blessed” with this joyous miracle in a pre- .....
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The Great Gatsby's Theme
.... the rich stand together against all outsiders.
Myrtle's condition, of course, is a weaker reflection of Gatsby's more significant struggle. While Myrtle's desire springs from social ambition, Gatsby's is related more to his idealism, his faith in life's possibilities. Undoubtedly, his desire is also influenced by social considerations; Daisy, who is wealthy and beautiful, represents a way of life which is remote from Gatsby's and therefore more attractive because it is out of reach. However, social consciousness is not a basic cause. It merely directs and increases Gatsby's belief in life's possibilities. Like Myrtle, Gats .....
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The Bluest Eye: Summary
.... sexually molests his daughter more than once. The first time he has sexual intercourse with his daughter, he leaves her slightly unconscious, and lying on the kitchen floor with a quilt covering her frail, limp, preteen body. The next time he performs the same act, but this time he impregnates her. Of course, the baby is miscarried. This is obviously not a love a father should be sharing with a daughter. This act displays hatred in the worst way.
Her mother's rejection is subtle yet potent. When Pecola tells her mother about the molestation, Mrs. Breedlove does not believe her own flesh and blood. Pecola calls Pauline Mrs. .....
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The Influence Of God In The Characters Of The Scarlet Letter
.... to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer" (67). Chillingworth's first reaction is one of shock, but he quickly suppresses it (61). Since his first sight of his wife in two years is of her being punished for being unfaithful to him, he is naturally surprised. It does not last for long though, because it is his nature to control his emotions (61). Pearl's very existence in this scene is the largest immediate effect of her parents' crime (52). She obviously would never have been there had her parents resisted their love for each other.
The second scene occurs several years later and shows the effects after ti .....
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Kafka: The Reality Of Change
.... to be friendly” (Kafka 13). Gregor, working to pay off his family’s debt, has resigned himself to a life full of no pleasures only work. Kafka himself paralleled this sentiment in a quote taken from his diaries noting that no matter how hard you work “that work still doesn’t entitle you to loving concern for people. Instead, you’re alone, a total stranger, a mere object of curiosity” (Pawel 167). Gregor submerges himself in work and becomes a stranger to himself and to life. Any type of social contact beyond porters, waitresses or bartenders was non-existent. He had once met a “cashier in a hat shop, whom he had pursued earnestly .....
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