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- 13571: The Problem of War and Peace
- ... an educational peace program for my generation because it teaches that one person can make a difference. These words can empower students with the critical knowledge that in this world there is no problem so great it can't be solved in a constructive fashion. It is so important that my generation have opportunities to develop responsibility and motivation and to feel trusted to make significant decision. Mistakes and poor choices ...
- 13572: Robert Frost and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Similarities in Nature
- ... It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life- not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects as cults are founded on , but a momentary stay against confusion."(Frost77). Frost believed that his poems helped to clarify life. However Frost also believed as Emerson that poetry helped to ...
- 13573: Objectivism and the Work of Ayn Rand
- ... life. However, one doesn't have the responsibility for the lives of others, except in a negative sense.. not to interfere with the rights of others to pursue their own life. Ayn Rand wrote a great deal of non-fiction after making her name as a fiction author, including THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS, CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL, THE ROMANTIC MANIFESTO, PHILOSOPHY: WHO NEEDS IT (her answer is everyone), and others. A ...
- 13574: The Color Purple - Compared To Macbeth
- ... bloody business she drags Macbeth "... in blood/Stepp'd in so far, that should [he] wade no more,/Returning were as tedious as go o'er" ( III. v. 136-138). Sofia's stubbornness has a great impact on the plot of The Color Purple. Sofia, being a secondary character, stands up for herself and as we see her character get physically knocked down we feel sympathetic for her. She gets into ...
- 13575: Why Hester Is A Whore
- ... would never be fully executed to the extent in which Hawthorne s text elaborates. However, the act is still punished. Be it humiliation or financial loss through divorce "The public opinion" still punishes to a great extent. Even worse in Hesters case, her wanton disregard for morals embarrassed everyone in the town. "This woman has brought shame upon us all and ought to die!" So horrible was her wrong that even ...
- 13576: The Chysanthemums - Feminism
- ... nothing like that for you to do" (paragraph 46). The drifter mentions Elisas chrysanthemums and she immediately loosens up as "the irritation and resistance melt(ed) from her face" (paragraph 51). The drifter feigns great interest in Elisas chrysanthemums and asks her many questions about them. He tells her he knows a lady who said to him "if you ever come across some nice chrysanthemums I wish youd ...
- 13577: The Point of Point of View in Capote's "My Side of the Matter" and Cheever's "Five-Forty-Eight"
- ... get the reader into his shoes. He tells us the story but not without throwing in his two cents of how the whole situation could have been avoided. There seems to be a sense of great regret on the main characters part, which is clearly shown in a few passages. "It began six months ago when I married Marge. That was the first thing I did wrong" (p.189). "Well, we ...
- 13578: The Chosen
- ... by raising Danny in silence... it teaches him to be more independent, it puts him in the position to be a leader... a Rabbi, but Danny does not want this. He continuously reads books on great scholars and on psychoanalysis, because of this certain interest he decides he would like to be a psychologist. Danny explains to Rueven how he wants to be a psychologist, "I'll be majoring in psychology ...
- 13579: A Town Like Alice: Discussion
- ... the way of achieving these goals differs. It isn't really interesting to know if people would have turned out the same if they wasn't affected by cultures because I think it's a great thing that there is such things as different cultures and different religions, but I would like to have the opportunity to examine different cultures closer to see what fits me the best.
- 13580: The Cask Of Amontillado: The Dangers Of Pride
- ... his trowel. The implication is that Montressor is a stonemason--that is, that he will be building things out of stones and mortar: namely Fortunato's grave. Irony is also widely used throughout Poe's great story. In fact, even the mode of revenge in this story shows irony. Montressor avenges himself by fooling his victim into literally walking into his own grave. Fortunato pursues the "cask" which ends up being ...
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