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The American Dream
969 Words - 4 Pages.... I strongly believe that minorities are not given the opportunities to be highly positioned or respected regardless of their notable abilities in their performances. Since many aspects of the American culture have seemingly been built on the myths surrounding the Dream, it encourages employees to work harder in order for the employers to profit more. Although the Dream is always stressed, my opinion is that it actually serves to help the higher positioned or class individuals in protection of their power and control over others. Thus, I believe that we must acknowledge that is an idealized concept and that it simply does not serve its original purpose in our socie ....
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The Ideals Of Knighthood In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
744 Words - 3 Pages.... “Though you tempted thereto, to take in on yourself…
I am the weakest, well I know, and of wit feeblest;
And the loss of my life would be lest of any;”
Gawain’s willingness to accept definitely sets him apart from the other knights. Gawain cleverly chooses his most courteous words to release Arthur from the challenge. Gawain’s devotion and loyalty is clearly evident as he offers his life for the king.
The poet reveals that Gawain is not only loyal, but also courageous, and worthy to have his attributes put to the test. This is done in the description of the shield that Gawain arms himself with to undertake his journey to the Green Chapel. The shield is ador ....
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A Town Like Alice: Discussion
495 Words - 2 Pages.... are no sharp limit between them.
An example from the book is the Australians, whose culture is rather close
to the English, but there are few Englishmen who would have liked the
loneliness in the big country Australia, and even fewer Australians, (I
think), would feel comfortable in the crowded England.
Another example in the book that is more about religion and culture is the
Japanese soldier who walked with the girls in Malaya when they got the
stolen poultry from Joe. The soldier is abused by his captain and he finds
it so humiliating that he looses his will to live. When he's infected by
the fever he doesn't fight it and he dies. This is a mentality that is or
mayb ....
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Symbolism In The Scarlet Lette
1064 Words - 4 Pages.... live. The letter "A" begins as a symbol of sin, an indication of her adultery against her husband, Roger Chillingworth. "This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die"(Hawthorne 43), hence from that day on Hester is isolated from rest of the Puritan community and treated as a sinner. Then after several years, the meaning of "A" change to able, for her ability to create her beautiful needlework and for her unselfish assistance to the poor and sick. "The letter was the symbol of her calling. Such helpfulness was found in her -- so much power to do and power to sympathize -- that many people refused to interpret the scarlet 'A' by its original signification"(H ....
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Marx's Philosophical Writings: Alienation
1076 Words - 4 Pages.... of labor as return to feudalism, as is
evidenced by his references to landlords and peasants in his writings about
alienated labor. He sees this as the ultimate surrendering of the human
spirit (in terms of social and psychological alienation) to the material
alienation of capitalism. Furthermore, he sees it as a cycle that can and
must be broken in order to allow us the full expression of our species
essence, which he describes as communal.
Marx sees material alienation as the cause of social or
psychological alienation. Material alienation he said is caused by the
existence of private property. Private property came into existence
through the (unequal) divis ....
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Herman Hesses Demian
3530 Words - 13 Pages.... uncertain between both of his little worlds, and not belonging to either one of them.
This struggle between Sinclair’s two worlds is evident when
Sinclair is about 10 years old. While playing one day with some fellow
schoolmates, Franz Kromer, an older kid, joins them. In an effort to
impress the older boy and his schoolmates, Sinclair makes up a story in which he and another unnamed accomplice stole a bag of apples from a fellow neighbor. Although the story is untrue, Kromer threatens Sinclair with exposure if Sinclair does not pay him off. Unable to pay the full amount, Sinclair is forced to become Kromer’s slave, ultimately sending Sinclair into depressio ....
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Julius Caesar
543 Words - 2 Pages.... mind, and partly credit things that do presage…”. He believes in omen and signs that foretell events to come. Cassius is conceded. This is shown when he says to Brutus (act1, scene 2, line 116), “ And this man is now become a god, and Cassius is now a wretched creature, and must bend his body if Caesar careless but nod on him…”. Cassius continues on saying about times when he saved Caesar from drowning and when he saw Caesar with a fever and he started to shake. All this tells us that Cassius thinks he is just as good or even better than Caesar.
Cassius first shows his character of deceit when he put false notes from people in the window of Brutus. This was ....
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A Farewell To Arms 2
606 Words - 3 Pages.... stopped to drink, and we sat inside warmed
by the stove and drank hot red wine with spices and lemon in
it. They called it gluhwein and it was a good thing to warm
you and to celebrate with. The inn was dark and smoky inside
and afterward when you went out the cold air came sharply
into your lungs and numbed the edge of your nose as you
inhaled.
The simplicity and the sensory richness flow directly from
Hemingway's and his characters'--beliefs. The punchy, vivid
language has the immediacy of a news bulletin: these are
facts, Hemingway is telling us, and they can't be ignored.
And just as Frederic Henry comes to distrust abstractions
l ....
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