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- 17921: Joy Luck Club: Symbols
- ... to allow herself be demeaned by anyone. An-Mei was a person who realized at an early age that a person's self-worth is a must if a person is to survive in the world. Her own mother was someone who allowed others to determine her self-worth and she eventually hates herself because of this. An-Mei was determined not to allow her daughter to follow in her mother ...
- 17922: Lord of the Flies - A Symbolic Interpretation
- ... nature. From reading this book you might gather that Golding believed that people are basically bad, and it is only the influence that society has on them that makes them good. Golding was in the war and it is believed that the experiences he had during this time influenced the way he viewed people and society. The underlying message about society and human nature in this book is clearly shown in ...
- 17923: Breaking Down Racial Barriers
- ... the race barriers can be broken. It shows people how harshly blacks were treated in the South, all because of the color of their skin. It is because of people like John Griffin, that the world will continue to grow, and change itself. It is only through brave and courageous people that we will ever truly realize the mistakes that we make and how to work to change them.
- 17924: Social Darwinsim History
- ... in which individuals struggled and where the fittest survived. They agreed that from within societies, the businessmen proved to be the fittest. Sumner once said, "The men who have not done their duty in this world never can be equal to those who have done their duty. ...The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to ...
- 17925: Grapes of Wrath Essay
- ... migrants in general, were able to adapt because life had to go on. If humans werent able to adapt, we wouldnt have been able to survive as long as we have. Everyday the world is changing for the better and for the worse. There are natural changes and human changes; as time progresses people are learning more and more about the changing planet, but at the same time people ...
- 17926: Gangs
- ... of this interaction from what the gang members have to say about their square contacts. Retrospective data like this may reflect romanticism about the old days, ruefulness at missed opportunities to reintegrate with the conventional world, or self righteousness at having "gotten out in time." But what evidence we have indicates that the cliques of the 1950s were more closely integrated with the conventional barrio structures and norms. The cliques of ...
- 17927: Beloved: Sethe's Character
- ... other woman; talked about baby clothes like any other woman, but what she meant could cleave the bone. This here Sethe talked about safety with a handsaw. This here Sethe didn't know where the world stopped and she began. Suddenly he saw what Stamp Paid wanted him to see: more important than what Sethe had done was what she had claimed. It scared him"(164). Paul D.'s character suggests ...
- 17928: The Stranger - Immersed in Sensuality: A Contemptible Trait
- ... price for this crime. Sentenced to death by a jury who knew no details of the crime itself, one must ask, why was Mersault executed? The answer is simple for bringing the fear to the world, the fear of a man who refuses to let an absurd society dictate to him what he must say, feel and do, and instead is dictated by an uncontrollable and unpredictable sensual force the sun ...
- 17929: Dickens and "The Jew"
- ... feels like to have ethnic slurs thrown is very familiar to me. From my perspective, I know the picture of what Dickens' created in Fagin separates them from the humanity of the rest of the world. Unlike the other characters in the novel, Fagin's life is unsayable and unnarratable. His being is spiritually different from other characters in the story. His language of charm, including the "my dear" and "deary ...
- 17930: The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
- ... it within the text, or among its readers. The Pardoner is a prime example of one who refuses to listen, whose folly or disbelief (which is it?) is such that he firmly opts for this world's petty happiness ('Nay, I wol drynke licour of the vyne / And have a joly wench in every toun.' (Riverside 452-3)) And to hell with hell!
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