The Catcher In The Rye: Now And Then
.... children. Today this is rare and far from normal. Today’s “normal”
family is undefined. If one were to look at the average family it would
probably consist of a single parent with children. Today in the U.S.,
there are over 8 million single-parent homes (Holzman). Forty years ago,
single-parent homes were few and almost unheard of. If a child grew up
with a single parent, divorce was hardly the reason. Death was the cause,
not divorce. Today, divorce is a common factor of life. Holden Caulfield’
s perspective is that of a nuclear family. Holden’s point-of-view and
perspective is still interpreted the same by most teenager .....
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The Great Gatsby - Daisy's Role
.... appears to be bored
yet innocent and harmless. Yet her innocense is false. Simply a
materialistic young girl and has little mind of her own is underneath all
of that covering. Daisy rediscovers her love with Gatsby because of his
nice shirts and large house. Daisy has been well trained in a rich family.
She has grown up with all of the best. When Gatsby failed to contact her,
she went off and married another man, without evening having heard word
from Gatsby. All of these many and round characteristics add complications
to the plot and dimension to the meaning she adds to the book.
The afore mentioned characteristics also .....
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The House On Mango Street: Esperanza
.... ).
Minerva finds herself forgiving without truly seeing that her husband is
sorry. She used marriage as a way out from her undesirable life, yet her
married life still carries the same characteristics. And so, without
fighting for a satisfactory life she settles with the hand she is dealt.
Furthermore, Sally, an innocent friend of Esperanza, tries to escape her
father’s cruel beatings through marriage, but her circumstances do not
change, her husband still treats her as her father has in the past. “ He
won’t let her talk on the phone. And he doesn’t let her look out the
window. And he doesn’t like her friends so nobody can .....
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Reverence
.... led through his own reverence back to his Christian roots. He
began working with Time magazine in 1939 and rose to the level of senior
editor. Over a decade later he was brought to court on account of his past
Communist connections. He identified former State Department official
Alger Hiss as one of the Communist who had supplied him with documents to
be turned over to Communist agents. Hiss was indicted and sentenced to
prison. Chambers showed reverence to God by not making his wife have an
abortion and by seeing God's plan through his daughter.
Reverence is the attitude which can be designated as the mother of
all moral lif .....
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"Paul's Case": Willa Cathers
.... at the Schenley Hotel or at the works of art at Carnegie
Hall. Even though he had spent numerous days fantasizing at masterpieces
and stage plays, Paul "had no desire to become an actor, any more thatn he
had to become a musician. He felt no necessity to do any of these things;
what he wanted was to see, to be in the atmosphere, float on the wave of
it, to be carried out, blue league after blue league, away from
everything." At the Schenley Hall he was able to see "all the actors and
singers of the better class" that had stayed there when they were in the
city or the big manufacturers that actually lived there. Paul had
wondered .....
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Cyril Falls, "The Great War"
.... "Schlieffen Plan", which said
that Germany has to knock out France first to avoid a two front war so
that the bigger strength of the Entente would be compensated.
The numbers at the beginning of the war were:
Russia 114 divisions
Germany 87 divisions
French 62 divisions
Austria 49 divisions
Britain 6 divisions (got bigger during the war, from her
colonies)
Chapter III The Clash in the West:
The Germans took the initiative during the beginning of the war. They
followed with all their patriotism the "Schlieffen Plan". It said the
Germany has to take down France in about six weeks so that a two fron war
could be avoided .....
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The Sound Of A Voice
.... anyone
should be left in silence. She feels lonely when she’s without sound. She
feels sad and abandoned when it is quiet. She speaks of how lonely it is
when no other living thing is around. The woman never really had a
permanent companion. Everyone that had visited her, left for some reason
or another. She states that it is hard to sleep at night without sound.
However, she soon becomes reassured knowing that she will hear the
visitors breath in the next room while he sleeps. The mats also are
important because they keep the women awake. She feels if she stays awake
then she won’t be lonely anymore. Sleeping in he .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Light And Dark Imagery
.... When speaking to her mother,
she says, "Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will
catch you" (Hawthorne 123)! The "black" in "black man" refers to
Chillingworth's evil, which is clearly acknowledged by even a small child.
Guilt is also acknowledged by others through the dark imagery. It is shown
through the Puritan's clothing, which is "the blackest shade of Puritanism
"and through the lighting on certain characters, mainly Dimmesdale, in the
novel. Dimmesdale's guilt is caused by the sin he commits. Many people
see Dimmesdale's guilt through his eyes. They describe his eyes by saying,
"his large, dark eye .....
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Anselm's Definition Of God
.... on something else for their existence.
One example of this is, that as a child we utterly depended on our parents
for food, clothing, and shelter. Contingent beings therefore can begin to
be or cease to be at anytime. They can, unlike God, be here today and gone
tomorrow.
Anselm uses the definition of God (the ontological argument), in which I
have described above, to prove God's existence. As I mentioned, Anselm
believes that God is the greatest being we can possibly think of. He does
this by first trying to prove the opposite of what he really wants to
prove. For example, lets suppose God does not exist in reality. W .....
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Beloved: Sethe And Her Daughter
.... slavery or does Sethe end her
daughter's life because of a selfish refusal to reenter a life of slavery?
It can be said that she is a woman who chooses to love her children
and not herself. Sethe kills her baby because her children are the only
good and pure part of who she is and must be protected from the cruelty and
the "dirtiness" of slavery(Morrison 251). In this respect, her act is that
of love for her children. The selfishness of Sethe's act lies in her
refusal to accept personal responsibility for her baby's death. Sethe's
motivation is divided in the sense that she displays her love by mercifully
sparing her daughter .....
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Social Class Distinction In Madame Bovary: A Way Of Categorizing People
.... what social class did the characters belong, in reality, in appearance?
Did they move from one class to another during the story? In the following
pages I will respond to these questions. Charles Bovary moves between two
classes: working and middle. He comes from a middle class home but he does
not seem to care what his social status is. Both his mother and his wife,
on the other hand, want to move up in class status. His second wife, Emma
Bovary becomes obsessed with becoming part of the bourgeois and is sorely
disappointed when she finds she has married a man that might have the
potential to do so but lacks the ambition (Gibbons .....
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Mary Shelley’s Self-help Guide To Life
.... and his monster’s actions.
Mary Shelley begins by telling of the dangers in being overly-
ambitious through Victor's obsession with creating life. As Victor toils
on a physically and mentally laborious project, he completely neglects the
other significant areas of his life, such as his family and his friends.
Victor speaks of this when he states that his obsession "caused me to
forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had seen for
so long a time" (40). Soon, he begins to think of this project, which is
supposed to fill his emptiness, as an affliction or punishment. Even as he
is progressing in .....
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