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1984 8
468 Words - 2 Pages.... rights from Big Brother, and fighting for their right of freedom.
The people of London could very easily create a plan to make the Party less powerful. The occupants of London could stop following the rules of the Party, and start living as regular human beings. The citizens could stop fearing the Thought Police, and make a stand to demolish the whole empire known as Big Brother.
The men and women have one way that could almost assure themselves of overthrowing the Party; create a revolt against Big Brother itself. The people could all get together, go to Big Brother to demand that they have their rights and that they can live a happy life if they please to do so. ....
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1920s And 1930s With Reference
3437 Words - 13 Pages.... the years of the Twenties, the economy was prosperous, there was widespread social reform, new aspects of culture were established, and people found better ways to improve their lifestyle. Overall, the people, released from the pressures of a war government enjoyed life. The 1920s and 1930s defined America as a period when the society that so longed to forget the war, that they were slowly transformed into a population where self-love was rampant, and the morals that America had been so tediously grasping to, fell away. Through the novels of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, the attitudes of disillusionment and isolation are ....
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Cloudstreet
1184 Words - 5 Pages.... they have come to grow, develop, love and change over a period of twenty years, while living with each other. Unfortunately, both moves coincided with different family disaster’s. For the Lamb’s, the unfortunate event takes place in the form of the near drowning of Samson, or as he is better known as Fish. While for the Pickles, it occurs with the loss of Sam’s (the father’s) fingers in a fishing accident. The reader can relate these events it to the biblical story of ‘Samson,’ and how he gained his strength through his hair. Meaning that by losing some of their strengths, (like Samson’s hair cut,) both Sam’s where able to gain new insights and opportuniti ....
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Henry David Thoreau's Walden
1895 Words - 7 Pages.... ever
produced were handwritten copies of the Bible. Pamphlets, poems, odes, and
epics throughout the centuries have continued to reflect religious content.
I have also read insightful essays about the hidden Christian Symbolism in
A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. Well, why not the presence of Zen Buddhism
within the teachings of Thoreau's Walden? In accordance with the history
of literature, one might say "Why not?"; in accordance with Walden's
content, I would say, "I couldn't see it being any other way."
What is Zen Buddhism anyway? In the book Zen Buddhism, D.T. Suzuki
says that "Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's
own being, and i ....
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Tamed Shrews And Twelfth Night
1082 Words - 4 Pages.... to contemporary attitudes of women, circumvented them by creating resolute female characters with a strong sense of self.
The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, and has weathered well into our modern era with adaptations into popular television series such as Moonlighting. For all the praises it has garnered throughout the centuries, it is curious to note that many have considered it to be one of his most controversial in his treatment of women. The "taming" of Katherine has been contended as being excessively cruel by many writers and critics of the modern era. George Bernard Shaw himself pressed for its banning during the 19th century (P ....
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Black Like Me
1895 Words - 7 Pages.... deep South as a black man but he didn't know anything about how the black behaved. Griffin could look like a black man but he may not have been able to act like a black man or have the mindset of a black man at that time. Griffin could get food or shelter as a white man anywhere by paying money, but as a black man he could be cold, starving in a rich area of town, and wouldn't be able to get food or shelter. Griffin also didn't know how to respond to white people of the time, so he would probably have to talk to black people to learn that. I also after his story was published there would probably be retaliation from hate groups. I also want to know why Griffin met with ....
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April Morning
228 Words - 1 Pages.... was growing up, and if he told Adam not to fight in the war he probably would
have anyway. Quote "If I had forbade him to sign that muster book then and
there, I would have lost a son. Is that what you want? But I saw him there so
tall and strong I could have wept. You can't shelter him. There comes a time,
and this is that time" (page 75.)
I think that Moses had to die in order for the story to continue because
if he had lived I don't think that the Battle would have been such a alarming
experience for Adam, and because of the traumaticness of watching his father's
death Adam was able to grow up and become more of a man.
Some of the actions of Moses's death were ....
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Macbeth - Supernatural
801 Words - 3 Pages.... every battle is lost by one side and won by another. Macbeth's fate is that he will win the battle, but will lose his time of victory for the battle of his soul.
After the prophecies of the witches' revealed the fate of Macbeth, the plan in which to gain power of the throne is brought up. The only way to gain power of the throne was for Macbeth to work his way to the throne, or to murder King Duncan. Murdering the king was an easier plan since the motivation in his dreams urged him on. Lady Macbeth also relied on the supernatural by her soliloquy of calling upon the evil spirits to give her the power to plot the murder of Duncan without any remorse or conscience(Act I, ....
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