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Farewell To Manzanar
Words: 1043 / Pages: 4 .... school were based on how her parents acted, who were first generation Japanese immigrants. Accordingly, Jeanne had to work extra hard to compensate for her differences so she could fit in with the mainstream of white people. Because of the want to fit in, Jeanne accepted white culture's beliefs in terms of school and gender as the way to model her life because it is made fitting in easier.
Jeanne seems to have set up her own type of Jim Crow rules, like those in the South. She always had to be complaisant around White people and apologize or be submissive to them even if they were in the wrong. This was not anything that was enforced by law, li .....
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Millennium: Winners And Losers In The Coming World Order
Words: 1177 / Pages: 5 .... and mobile. They become privileged nomads, roaming the globe attached to cellular phones, portable fax machines, and waistband computers. Many people work all the time because they can’t get away from all the high tech paraphernalia, which he refers to as “Nomadic Objects.” “Microchip-based technologies, such as the transistor and the computer, have already opened the way for the unprecedented industrialization of service-from communication to education to health care and security” (Attali 11). Products such as the laptop computer and Sony Walkman highly foreshadow the undeveloped form of the portable objects of the future.
In the .....
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Romeo And Juliet
Words: 392 / Pages: 2 .... lovers knew this
and this is why they kept their marriage a secret. If their parents
discovered their secret, they would have made their children's lives
miserable. Romeo and Juliet would not have been able to see each
other. Both of these families were very stubborn and there was hardly
any thing that would have made them become friends. In the prologue
we learn that the only way the "strife" could be ended was by the
deaths of Romeo and Juliet. "Doth with their death bury their
parent's strife". (Romeo & Juliet, Prologue, l.8) Neither the
Montagues or the Capulets would have accepted the marriage. Keeping
the marriage .....
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The Killer Angels
Words: 579 / Pages: 3 .... the South and from the North, Brigadier General Lewis Armistead, and Colonel Joshua Chamberlain. This is a tremendously moving novel, guaranteed unforget-table. The book instills in one's mind what a battle fought during the Civil War was actu-ally like to be apart of for the soldiers.
The setting for the book takes place in Pennsylvania, where the Battle of Gettys-burg is fought. The author provides many detailed maps of both army's positions.
Throughout the book, the reader is shown the pain, difficulty, anguish, and other dilemmas the armies face leading up to the final confrontation. In the beginning of the book we learn about the North from a .....
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A Raisin In The Sun: The Propagation Of Pride And Dignity
Words: 1029 / Pages: 4 .... a 'mover and shaker' in the business world by using an incoming insurance check for his mother as a downpayment on a capitalistic adventure. Walter tells his wife that, "I'm trying to talk to you 'bout myself and all you can say is eat them eggs and go to work", which is the first sign of Walter's recurring feelings that if someone in the family would just listen to him and put forth their trust his dreams would come to fruition. Following this argument Walter goes off to his job as a chauffeur which is the job he so longs to be done away with because he would rather "be Mr. Arnold[his employer] than be his chauffeur.
This episode illustrates a major .....
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The True Sinners
Words: 1915 / Pages: 7 .... she wore the “A” on her chest. Although she is not justified, Hester did not commit the greatest sin of the novel. She did not deliberately commit her sin or mean to hurt others. Hester’s sin is that her passions and love were of more importance to her than the Puritan moral code. This is shown when she says to Dimmesdale, “What we did had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said so to each other!” Hester fully acknowledged her guilt and displayed it with pride to the world. This was obvious by the way she displayed the scarlet letter. It was elaborately designed as if to show Hester was proud of what she had done. Hester is indee .....
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‘A White Heron’ By Sarah Orne Jewett
Words: 1684 / Pages: 7 .... Besides, Sylvia had all the time there was, and
very little use to make of it. Sometimes in pleasant
weather it was a consolation to look upon the cow’s
pranks as an intelligent attempt to play hide and
seek, and as the child had no playmates she let
herself to this amusement with a good deal of zest.”
This quote lets us know several things. Sylvia does not have any playmates; in fact, we get the impression that her best friend is her grandmother’s cow. The story soon gives us another piece of vital information about Sylvia.
“ “‘Afraid of folks,’” old Mrs. Tilley said to
herself, with a smile, after she had made .....
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Okonkwo: Overwhelmed By His Past
Words: 1755 / Pages: 7 .... his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness. (13)
This displays his desires to live his life differing with that of his father. In his first step to overcome his past, he believes that he is one step closer to overcoming his fear of becoming like Unoka. This eventually develops to be his ultimate goal in life. As time progresses, he becomes obsessed with the concept of being different from his father, beginning his life having nothing.
With a father like Unoka, Okonkwo did not have the start in life which many young men had. . . . But in spite of these disadvantages, he had begun even in his father’s l .....
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Summary Of "A Raisin In The Sun"
Words: 678 / Pages: 3 .... that is Travis's age no longer
lets her son play with Travis and he become hurt and confused. Walter has to
explain that many people that are white beleive that they are better then those
who are black. Travis who is stay in dismay and is confused waits at home while
Walter goes over to the neighbors house to talk to them about what has happened.
Walter is, in good reason, very angry and annoyed by the racist whites. He goes
over and at first tries his best to stay calm over the situation. The white
father then says, "Listen, if I ever see your son with mine, I will througth
that little black spoiled brat back into your yard." Walter becomes enrage .....
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The Black Cat: Deranged Narrator
Words: 736 / Pages: 3 .... the story that his bad habits, namely alcoholism, lead to his
irrational state of mind. His alcoholism was the root of his downfall. While
intoxicated, the narrator mutilated his favourite pet, Pluto, causing the cat to
become terrified of his master. The alienation of his cat gave the narrator
even more cause to become mentally unstable.
The hanging of his cat shows how the narrator has become obsessed with
doing evil things for the sake of their evilness. This evilness is linked to
his alcoholism. The narrator was most-likely in a drunken state when he hung
his cat, which only infuriated his temper. This separation of friends had a
huge .....
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