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- 13791: Alcohol
- ... to 1933 (and 1917 to 1919 in Canada) beverages such as beer, gin, rum, whiskey, and wine were forbidden to manufacture, sell, or transport. Supporters of prohibition believed alcoholic beverages “endangered mental and physical health” (World Book Encyclopedia). Results of the Volstead Act, passed by Congress that enforced prohibition, were disastrous. Underworld gangs controlled the sale of alcohol in communities. Was this a sign of good “mental or physical health”? During ...
- 13792: Heart Of Darkness
- ... the horrors that provided the political and humanitarian basis for his attack on colonialism. Conrad's Kurtz mouths his last words, "The horror! The horror!" as a message to himself and, through Marlow, to the world. However, he did not really explain the meaning of his words to Marlow before his exit. Through Marlow's summary and moral reactions, we come to realize the possibilities of the meaning rather than a ...
- 13793: Heart Of Darkness
- ... of Africa, he realizes a difference in the perception of certain events by him and his comrades on the boat. As Marlow’s boat pulls up to the Outer Station, he sees a man-of-war shelling the continent, which is quickly clarified, by a pilgrim, to be a front against "a camp of natives - he called them enemies! - hidden out of sight somewhere" (Conrad 78) Marlow felt a "touch of ...
- 13794: Heart Of Darkness
- ... or train tracks was made. "One's cruelty is one's power; and when one parts with one's cruelty, one parts with one's power," says William Congreve, author of The Way of the World. (Tripp 206.) The Europeans forcibly took away the natives' land and then enslaved them. All the examples given are part of one enormous idea of cruelty - cruelty that the European white men believe because its ...
- 13795: Anthem
- ... was not allowed to question what he was taught. The troublesome young man was expected to be just like his brothers. This was quite possibly the greatest his many external conflicts because it started the war between his mind and soul. "It is a sin to write this." The very first sentence of the novel gives evidence that this person suffers from an internal struggle. The first display of this conflict ...
- 13796: Heart Of Darkness
- ... or train tracks was made. "One's cruelty is one's power; and when one parts with one's cruelty, one parts with one's power," says William Congreve, author of The Way of the World. (Tripp 206.) The Europeans forcibly took away the natives' land and then enslaved them. All the examples given are part of one enormous idea of cruelty - cruelty that the European white men believe because its ...
- 13797: Heart Of Darkness
- ... did not know how horrid imperialism was because when people went back to Europe they would lie about how bad it was. Marlow says of women, "we must help them to stay in that beautiful world of their own, lest ours gets worse" (Conrad, 63). Conrad uses women in his book to be the symbol for the people who are being lied to. In the end of the novel Marlow goes ...
- 13798: Heart Of Darkness
- ... to end his own life. Of Conrad’s many works some include Nostromo, Typhoon, The Secret Agent, and perhaps his most famous work Chance, which made him an instant celebrity within literary circles. From his world-renowned success, Conrad became very rich, and paraded himself as the typical aristocratic high-hat, and for the most part was allowed to play this role, until his death in 1524 from a heart attack ...
- 13799: H.G. Wells
- ... not as he considers himself, but rather more "compatible, indeed, only with a formula, infinitely more humiliating to human pride, which pushes man nearly if not quite over to the opposite pole of the animal world"(403). Crane then continues to describe how Gulliver is able to come to this realization. According to Crane, Gulliver sees the Yahoos not as beasts far-removed from the European man, but rather that the ...
- 13800: Greenspan - The Case For The Defence
- ... of the book, I came across various examples of how society today is being powered by the overwhelming rise of feminist demands. Although Greenspan himself does not prefer to enagage in a verbal or emotional war with many of these women, he does not deny wishing he could just establish a section of the criminal code for them. In the chapter called Out Of The Mouth Of Babes, Greenspan is found ...
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