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- 10201: Comparison of the Characters in "A Doll's House" and "The Stranger"
- Comparison of the Characters in "A Doll's House" and "The Stranger" In the real world there exist many different people, of different races and ages, each one unique. Some live secluded lives with few friends and others live very rich and complex lives surrounded by friends and acquaintances. No matter ... what the reason is for people wearing masks and altering their external personalities to hide their true selves, it is evident that it happens not only in novels and play but also in the real world and is therefore a major part of human nature. To survive and be accepted by oneself as well as others people need to have available to them a number of different masks that can be ...
- 10202: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... became a magistrate, and later a Governor as did her father. Soon after arriving in Massachusetts, Anne wrote: "I changed my condition ad was married, and came into this Country, where I found a new world and new manners, at which my heart rose. But after I was convinced it was the way of God"(Blair 228). The Bradstreets had eight children, and Anne was a devoted wife and mother as ... the will of God, acknowledging that earthly objects are vanity, that her wealth on earth had no real meaning, that real wealth lies with God. The poem ends: Farewell my pelf, farewell my store. The world no longer let me love, My hope and treasure lies above (Blair 232-233). The poem can easily be read as a didactic poem, what the poet should feel, she does feel. Yet, upon re ...
- 10203: Young Goodman Brown 3
- ... of the forest, as if his calls to Faith were falling on deaf ears. A pink ribbon flies through the air and Goodman grabs it. At this moment, he has lost all faith in the world and declares that there is "no good on earth." Young Goodman Brown in this scene is easily manipulated simply by the power of suggestion. The suggestion that the woman in question is his Faith, and ... like a "bewildered man." He cannot believe that he is in the same place that he just the night before; because to him, Salem was no longer home. He felt like an outsider in a world of Devil worshippers and because his "basic means of order, his religious system, is absent, the society he was familiar with becomes nightmarish." (Shear 545) He comes back to the town "projecting his guilt onto ...
- 10204: Young Goodman Brown
- ... categories into which no one, not even the religious figures of the community, fit neatly. Is Hawthorne preaching a more pliable attitude toward human thinking? Is he describing the hypocrisy which undoubtedly exists in the world and then letting goodman Brown be a truly pious individual through his inability to accept what he sees in the forest? Or is he more concerned with the journey itself than with any specific message ... by the easy categorization of good vs. evil, because he is unable to accept the possibility that goodness and sin are inextricably bound up in human nature. His version of himself can't accommodate a world in which his "race of honest men and good Christians" could have taken the same path as he and returned "merrily after midnight" (p 578). Ultimately, I think Hawthorne is more concerned with the tension ...
- 10205: Your Journey Toward Christ
- ... of maturity toward Him. There is absolutely nothing in the street which can keep you from reaching Jesus. So, when you receive Christ, you fix your eyes on Him and start walking. But since this world is still under the dominion of Satan, the row houses on either side of you are inhabited by beings who are committed to keeping you from reaching your goal. They have no power or authority ... Yes. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus, "the author and perfecter of faith" (Hebrews 12:2) and take "every thought captive to the obedience of Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5). Lord, I know this world is a crazy, unsafe place, full of obstacles and impediments. I trust You today to protect me from the enemy, to light my path, and to watch over me with Your sure presence.
- 10206: Alcoholism 4
- ... others do not are unknown. Many health problems are associated with chronic alcohol abuse, including damage to the liver, brain, or central nervous system. Alcohol is probably the most widely used recreational drug in the world. The production of alcohol is the result of the fermentation of plant products such as fruit grains. Gin, Vodka, Whiskey, and other hard liquors, require a further process known as distillation. The active chemical ingredient ... comfortable abstinence from alcohol. Such abstinence is the desired goal, despite some controversial suggestions that a safe return to social drinking is possible (Taylor 37). Alcoholics Anonymous is the oldest and largest group in the world dedicated to helping recovering alcoholics. There are about two million members in Alcoholics Anonymous of which more than half live in the United States. Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by Bill W. and Dr. Bob S ...
- 10207: Farewell to Manzanar
- ... This was not anything that was enforced by law, like in the South, but it was self-enforced because she thought it would win her more respect and maybe gain her entry into the White world. As a junior high school student, Jeanne asked her best friend, Radine if she could join the Girl Scouts. Radine's mother was an assistant troop leader, however Radine's mother would not allow Jeanne ... her not to do, American society wanted her to do in order to be an acceptable part of it. As she stated, "…[H]is tastes [Papa's] could not compete with the pull from the world outside our family." (p. 118) So, being accepted as American and playing into American gender roles was more important to Jeanne than her fathers thoughts about how she should act. Another way Jeanne uses her ...
- 10208: A Grain Of Wheat And Jomo Keny
- ... was very interesting. This is a compelling account of the turbulence that inflamed Kenya in the 1950s and its impact on people's lives. A brand new perspective upon the emancipation of so-called Third World Country .On the verge of Kenya independence, both colonizers and colonized were bewildered and confused. White colonial agents lost faith on their lifelong commitment, and Kenyans were cast into a precarious future, which they had ... Great Britain in 1945. The congress, modeled after the four congresses organized by black American intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois between 1919 and 1927 and attended by black leaders and intellectuals from around the world, affirmed the goals of African nationalism and unity. In September 1946 Kenyatta returned to Kenya, and in June 1947 he became president of the first colony-wide African political organization, the Kenya African Union (KAU ...
- 10209: W.E.B Du Bois
- ... helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was its spokesman in the first decades of its existence. William Edward Bughardt Du Bois was born three years following the Civil War, on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His paternal side was French, settling in America in 1674 and, the Burghardts', his maternal side, were descendants of slaves who fought in the Civil War. William' father died when he was a child and was reared by his mother, and judgmental aunts. Massachusetts was predominately white and so were Du Bois friends. As William grew he realized some people thought ...
- 10210: Beowulf: The Ultimate Hero
- ... Hrothgar's speech to Beowulf. It was the "Almighty" who sent Beowulf and it was "with the Lord's help" that Beowulf was able to defeat Grendel. Hrothgar wants to make it known throughout the world that Beowulf is the strongest man alive and is a proven hero. It is the characteristics of agelessness and dedication that sets him apart from the other warriors, and makes him a truly heroic individual ... even if he is the only one. Beowulf is able to finish off the dragon but in the process looses his own life. The response of the warriors shows how quickly the values of the world are changing. Without the tenacity to keep with it, even though the though times, they will bring upon themselves there own destruction. The definition of a hero is one who places himself or herself at ...
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