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- 13161: Automobile
- ... over American roads. In France and Germany, meanwhile, attention turned to the development of the internal-combustion engine. By 1980, more than 300 million cars and 85 million trucks and buses were operating throughout the world, forming an indispensable transportation network. Germanys Volkswagen sent its first shipments of autos, popularly known as Beetles, to the Unites States in the early 1950s and eventually became a major force in the U ...
- 13162: Irony Of Dickens In Oliver Twi
- ... that it sickened from want and cold, or fell into the fire from neglect, or got half-smothered by accident, in any one of which cases the miserable little being was usually summoned into another world, and there gathered to the fathers it had never known in this. Due to the fact that Oliver lived with the people who were supposed to take care of him he approached the line of ...
- 13163: Crime And Punishment 7
- ... Weave..." In Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky guides his readers through the mind of an axe murderer. Believing himself to be above common law and common man, Raskolnikov proclaims himself "extraordinary." To prove to the world that he is someone special, he commits a murder, not expecting punishment. By Part VI, however, Raskolnikov seeks redemption, realizing it is the only way he can have a relationship with Sonia. To do this ...
- 13164: Is Macbeth Responcible For His
- ... crime of regicide would have been horror. The Elizabethans and the Stuarts believed that murdering a king was the worst offence that could ever be committed, as it would upset the natural balance of the world. Shakespeare shows this in Act 2 Scene 4, where Ross and an Old man discuss the unnatural events that happened on the night of King Duncan's murder. A quote from Act 2 Scene 4 ...
- 13165: Cultural Inheritances In Polyn
- ... the way he uses their mythologies in his poetry. In his poem No Return there is an obvious use of culture s mythology: her journey to Pulotu has no dawn. (p109) Pulotu is the spirit world in Polynesian mythology. In The Mountains of Ta u he draws on the famous legend of Maui: like spinning tops or Maui s endlessly / inventing mind. (p110) Maui is an important part of Polynesian mythology ...
- 13166: I Heard An Owl Call My Name
- ... respect towards the old people and the old ways of life. His first problem was trying to be accepted into this struggling primitive community, which was starting to be swallowed into the white man's world. Then he had to help preserve the old culture of totems and salmons from being replaced by a new culture of alcoholism and residential schools. A few Indian youths went to a school in Vancouver ...
- 13167: Articles Of Confederation
- ... constitution of the United States, the Articles of Confederation created a legislature where each state was represented equally. The Congress had jurisdiction over foreign relations with the authority to form alliances and make treaties, make war and peace, sustain an army and navy, coin money, establish a postal service, create admiralty courts, and settle disputes between states. Thus, the power vested in Congress allowed it to operate with moderate control over ...
- 13168: Intertextualilty - The Mocking
- ... although central to the main character also differs between short stories and a novel. A short story generally told through the eyes of the main character the reader is given a picture of the story world by the way the character feels about and interacts with other characters in the story. In a novel how ever more complicated views are shown through dialogue and actions of interacting characters. The plot of ...
- 13169: In Search Of Our Mothers Garde
- ... mere women: they became Saints. Instead of being perceived as whole persons, their bodies became shrines: what were thought to be their minds became temples suitable for worship. These crazy Saints stared out at the world, wildly, like lunatics or quietly, like suicides; and the God that was in their gaze was as mute as a great stone. This attitude towards women, especially black women, as being a sexual object presents ...
- 13170: Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre An
- ... As a child she was emotionally adrift and withdrawn, rejected by her mother and not for the last time in her life was isolated, lonely and vulnerable. She continually found herself within a male-dominated world of financial dependence, despite her childhood mistrust of the male figure as stable protector. Her feminine vulnerability was repeatedly exploited and her love rejected. It is understandable why she began her self-destructive cycle of ...
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