Livy's Historical Approach
.... time wrote a total of 142 books, many of which have been lost, and most of his later books are known only by summaries.
The history of Rome, which was compiled by Livy in the height of the Roman civilization takes a look at the past achievements of his great civilization. Although a historian, Livy did not take an objective view towards the history of Rome.
There is not a lot to be known about the man himself; it is assumed though that he must have had some kind of independent fortune because he was not dependant on official patronage. Being not sponsored by someone with any political favours would lead to the belief t .....
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Death Of A Salesman
.... (Not his own greed for he was a simple man with simple dreams, but by the greed of others.) The developers who took away the sun and gave birth to shadows, his boss who reduced him to commission and his sons which reduced him to a failure.
The next largest flaw in society is a lack of compassion. This could be as a result of almost overwhelming greed, the main culprit being big business. "I'm always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it's on it last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a god-dam maniac. They time those things."(Act 2, page 73, lines 16-19)
Willy's belief in .....
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Nature And Its Elements In Jane Eyre
.... the time of love and pleasure is over with you; but you are not desolate: each of you has a comrade to sympathize with him in his decay.'"
As reflected in the passage above, nature plays an integral part as a thematic element in Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte consistently draws a parallel between Jane's life and nature and its elements throughout the novel. This passage seems central to the narrative because it serves as an analogy to the relationship of Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre, the two main characters of the novel.
Once Jane Eyre has left Lowood and arrives at Thornfield, the relationship between her and Mr. Rochester see .....
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Lord Of The Flies: Primal Instincts
.... in a navy" (p. 8), in such a way hoping that he will somehow finds the boys and bring them off the island. Furthermore, at various moments of the novel, especially when Jack lost interest in the fire, Ralph reminds the boys how important the fire is. At one point a ship passed by the island but did not see the smoke because Jack took all his hunters who were supposed to keep the fire lit, on a hunt, Ralph was indignant! He yelled at Jack like he was never going to forgive or forget about the incident. The other boys could have released their anger against Jack; however, Ralph was the most outraged. This shows his desire and .....
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Flannery O’Conner And Grotesque Characters
.... need it for a honeymoon trip, he convinces the old woman to fix the car and give him some cash. The story ends with him marrying the retarded daughter, leaving with her on a honeymoon trip, then abandoning her in a rundown diner on the side of the road.
“Good Country People” is a story about Joy Hopewell, a very well educated young woman living in the rural south. Joy lost a leg in a hunting accident when she was ten and since then had been forced to wear a wooden replacement. She also had a weak heart and it was this affliction that forced her to remain amongst these “good country people” whom she considered to be intellect .....
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Animal Farm And A Tale Of Two Cities: Their Authors' Disenchantment With Human Nature
.... our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable.
George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . . ."(Gardner, 106) Orwell noted that " there exists in England almost no literature of disillusionment with the Soviet Union.' Instead, that country is viewed either with ignorant disapproval' or with uncritical admiration.'"(Gardner, 96) The basic synopsis is this: Old Major, an old boar in Manor Farm, tells th .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: The War Against Disillusionment
.... and his friends started to lose their innocence the day they enlisted after their school days. In school their master, Kantorek pounded into them an idea that they are men and are obligated to do their duty for the country of Germany. Kantoreks blind patriotism led all the boys, none more than twenty to enlist. He sends them off thinking he did Germany proud but at that expense he had sent the students to a hell on earth. Kantorek called them Germany’s iron youth, but Paul said “none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That was long ago. We are old folk” (18). Already Paul has lost faith in .....
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Themes Of Struggle, Social Oppression And Money In The Pearl
.... when Kino goes to the Spanish doctor for help with Coyotito’s scorpion bite and the doctor, selfish as he is, rejects them. The Spaniards are also turning the Indians own people against them because the doctor’s Native servants which have joined in on the oppression of his own people. Even the Spanish priest only becomes concerned with Kino and Juana once they have found the pearl. The Spanish people often cheat the Indians out of money. A good example of this would be the Spanish pearl buyers. They all work for one person at the top and organize their prices so that one price will always look good to the person that is selling. K .....
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Allegorical “Young Goodman Brown”
.... clear symbolic elements. Goodman Brown stands for the naïve, immature young man who only sees the good in his fellowman, and has yet to be confronted with evil. Faith, Goodman Brown’s young wife stands for what Goodman Brown believes in. He sees his wife as all that is good and when he realizes that she too has made a pack with the devil he cries “my faith is gone…There is no good on earth.” This makes Brown a stern, sad and distrustful man. I think Hawthorne was saying that when man’s faith is gone he is lost and without purpose.
There are many objects in “Young Goodman Brown”, that have dual meaning such as the pink ribb .....
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Babylon Revisited
.... life. Honoria wants to live with her father and can’t wait for the day when she will be able to. As she says, “Daddy, I want to come and live with you … I love you better than anybody. And you love me better than anybody, don’t you?”(1871). I don’t think it would be right to take away the only immediate family that Honoria has left. Everyone should have a sense of family and be able to interact with their immediate family.
Charlie has removed himself from “Babylon” and become more of a real man. He has become more responsible, and now he is trying to prove himself to everyone around him that he is worthy of this duty. T .....
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Vladimir And Estragon: A Symbol Of Man
.... in his hat, which symbolizes his using knowledge and his intellectual capability for solving problems. Both Estragon and Vladimir are searching for what the reader assumes to be the key to life’s problems. When they continue to do this throughout the drama, it expresses the fact that they are searching and will continue to search until they find what they are looking for.
Vladimir is more practical, and Estragon is more of a romantic. In the drama, Estragon wants to talk about his dreams. Vladimir doesn’t want to. He can not stand to hear about the dreams that Estragon has. When Estragon wakes up from falling asleep .....
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Tom Clancy's Genius
.... also a time when the Soviets did the same exercises with the same amount of live ammunition. Therefore there was reason enough to worry about potential conflicts. Deep within the ocean waters, submarines played similar cat and mouse games with other submarines and surface ships. However some of these submarines were more dangerous then a whole army because they were fully loaded with nuclear missles. These facts were well know to the American public and made Red Storm Rising all the more real when it combined land and ocean warfare in a way that captivated millions of readers.
The book begins as the Soviet Union’s ability to .....
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