Great Expectations
.... Expectations, which, apart from David Copperfield, is his most autobiographical novel. Pip, the novel's protagonist, lives in the marsh country, works at a job he hates, considers himself too good for his surroundings, and experiences material success in London at a very early age. In addition, one of the novel's most appealing characters is a law clerk named Wemmick, and the law, justice, and the courts are all important components of the story.
Great Expectations is set in early Victorian England, a time when great social changes were sweeping the nation. The Industrial Revolution had transformed the social landscape, enabling .....
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The Giver: The Setting
.... knowledge of the specific time and place. It takes sometime in the future because of the way people see things and how it is nothing like now. also the laws that the people have are stupid, like females under the age of nine are to have their hair ribbons tied neatly at all times, and you could not receive a bicycle until they turned nine.Another thing that happens is the food at night for dinner is brought to every home. In this society you have no choices to make.
If this story took place in a different setting like the city, it would be chaos. It would be impossible to keep track of every one and if they broke t .....
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Heart Of Darkness: Feelings Of Characters And Uncertainties Of The Congo
.... be denied, since the creator can only explain himself in his creations."(Kimbrough,158)
The story is written as seen through Marlow's eyes. Marlow is a follower of the sea. His voyage up the Congo is his first experience in freshwater navigation. He is used as a tool, so to speak, in order for Conrad to enter the story and tell it out of his own philosophical mind. He longs to see Kurtz, in the hope's of appreciating all that Kurtz finds endearing in the African jungle. Marlow does not get the opportunity to see Kurtz until he is so disease-stricken he looks more like death than a person. There are no good looks or .....
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Book Review: Changing Concepts Of Race In Britain And The United States Between The World Wars.
.... developed quite differently in the two scientific communities. On both sides of the Atlantic, physical anthropology and racial taxonomy lost ground to the new social and cultural anthropology. This shift away from biological determinism was significant, but Ballen too readily equates environmentalism and cultural relativism with a defense of racial equality. (p. 34) In the British case, as Henrika Kuklik has recently demonstrated, social anthropology suited a conservative colonial policy of indirect rule (p.55). Ballen is on firmer ground in the United States, where Franz Boas challenged conventional ideas about fixed racial .....
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Fahrenheit 451: The Strength Of Beatty
.... to the point that he almost disclosed his passion for reading books.
Beatty has mastered the skill of holding people under his power. Beatty, himself, said, "Knowledge is more than equivalent to force." (Pg. 116) He additionally declared, "I don't think you realize how important we are to our world as it stands now." (Pg. 66) He takes his position to rule the people. By depriving people of books he striped the residents of knowledge and therefore withdrew their power.
One of the ways that Beatty controls is with fright. He is very proficient at using fear for control. During his speech he said, "What if a fireman accide .....
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Heroic Elements In Beowulf
.... battles with Beowulf, a young adventurer wanting fame.
Throughout this epic poem , various heroic elements can be appreciated, which reflect the values by which the Anglo-Saxon society lived as strength, loyalty, and bravery. Beowulf has outstanding characteristics that convert him into a real hero. In this epic, Beowulf use strength in all fights to get out victoriously. He and some minor characters demonstrates loyalty during the battles to serve the warriors who where there. Finally, Beowulf displays bravery, during fights, and struggles with natural facts . Therefore, in this poem Beowulf, the characteristics of strength, lo .....
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The Bluest Eye: Quest For Personal Identity
.... time.
The Breedlove family is a group of people under the same roof, a family by name only. Cholly (the father) is a constantly drunk and abusive man. His abusive manner is apparent towards his wife Pauline physically and towards his daughter Pecola sexually. Pauline is a "mammy" to a white family and continues to favor them over her biological family. Pecola is a little black girl with low self esteem. The world has led her to believe that she is ugly and that the epitome of "beautiful" requires blue eyes. Therefore every night she prays that she will wake up with blue eyes.
Brought up as a poor unwanted girl, Pecola Br .....
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
.... pass through her grandmothers grocery store, with the suffering of their ill paid work. Right from the start of the novel Angelou demonstrates a humanistic sympathy for the Southern blacks. When Maya was a young girl growing up, her brother Baily brought her to see a Kay Francis movie where she was relegated to the colored balcony. In her early adolescence Maya had a great concern for equality and self- determination for the black race, which took precedence over forging friendships, receiving love notes, exchanging valentines, sizing up a male admirer, and completing the eight grade. Even from early on Angelou had a s .....
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
.... scheduled to do. They cause a lot of trouble with all the patients especially McMurphy. 2. The doctor: Another of Ratchets henchmen. She won't allow him to think for himself until McMurphy come in and changes the way the doctor thinks. 3. Harding: Another one of the patients on the ward. He's not to sure of the motives behind Randall McMurphy. 4. Candy: An old friend of McMurphy's who takes the guys on a fishing trip and the party to end the book and Billy Bibbits life. Candy is considered to be a whore.
III. List and describe 3 important settings: 2-3 sentences each.
1. The day room: This is where most of the book take .....
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Smee
.... player is presented with a sheet of paper. All the sheets are blank except one, on which is written "Smee". Nobody knows who is "Smee" except "Smee" hims! elf-or herself, as the case may be. The lights are then turned out and "Smee" slips from the room and goes off to hide, and after an interval the other players go off in search, without knowing whom they are actually in search of. One player meeting another challenges with the word "Smee" and the other player, if not the once concerned, answers ….The real Smee make no answer when challenged, and the second player remains quietly by him." P. 378 By this time the author have .....
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The Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglas, An American Slave
.... their position in life. Douglass, for his own safety, was urged to travel to England where he stayed and spoke until 1847 when he returned to the U.S. to buy his freedom. At that point, he began to write and distribute an anti-slavery newspaper called "The North Star". Not only did he present news to the slaves, but it was also highly regarded as a good source of information for those opposed to slavery.
During the Civil war, Douglass organized two regiments of black soldiers in Massachusetts to fight for the North. Before, during and after the war he continued his quest to free all the slaves. He became known as a .....
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The Godfather: Did The Author Present An Accurate Portrayal Of Narcotics As A Major Part Of The Mafia Business
.... to make cocaine from Bolivia and Peru. Plus their smuggling routes and expertise were solidly established. Hence, the first drug laboratories were established in Medellin, supposedly with Mafia money (Eddy and Hugo, 45). The New York Mafia as well as other American crime families, would buy the drugs from Colombian drug lords. One of the major Colombian syndicates- commonly referred to as the "Medellin Cartel". As opposed to actuality, in the Godfather, poppies, mainly used to make heroin would be harvested from Turkey (not the major supplier of opium in the 40’s and 50’s), then processed into heroin in Sicily.
Drugs have been .....
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