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1984
Words: 1025 / Pages: 4 .... Stalin’s Communism is the use of technology and communication to control the economic, social, and personal aspects of life.
Stalin and Big Brother achieved total control, not only of social and economic aspects of the state, but also of their people’s personal lives. They did this first and foremost by constantly observing the people. Both Stalin & "The Party" believed in total control over their "party members". The objectives of the Spies, the Ministry of Truth, Thought Police, and the telescreens in Oceania are mirrored in Stalin’s Russia by the actions of the KGB, and all the technologies they used to monitor people. Another way was by al .....
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The Role Of Women In Sir Gaiwa
Words: 5377 / Pages: 20 .... had drastically weakened the religious values behind chivalry. As such, the poem is a warning to its Aristocratic readers that the traditional religious values underlying the feudal system must be upheld in order to avert destruction of their way of life.
It is easy to read _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ as a romantic celebration of chivalry, but Ruth Hamilton believes that "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight contains a more wide-ranging, more serious criticism of chivalry than has heretofore been noticed" (113). Specifically, she feels that the poet is showing Gawain's reliance on chivalry's outside form and substance at the expense of the origi .....
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20/20 Vision, Not A Vision For Me
Words: 1440 / Pages: 6 .... always had a vision impairment. It was always a problem my family thought was normal. This all changed towards the end of my fifth grade year in Elementary School. My teacher continuously asked me questions referring to things on the board. I told her that my glasses didn't work, but she thought I was just trying to get out of doing my work. After several days of this she called my grandmother. I got in a lot of trouble for not doing my work. I complained often about my glasses with no recognition from anyone. It wasn't until that summer when my glasses broke that they realized I had been telling the truth. I went to Lens Crafters, a place th .....
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How Is Tension Built Up In “The Monkey’s Paw” And “The Red Room”?
Words: 686 / Pages: 3 .... wishes brought unhappiness.
- Morris says, “ I warn you of the consequences.” Clearly here however innocent the wish, Morris knows it will end badly. “ Don’t blame me for what happens.”
- The major coincidence centred on the £200. “How could £200 hurt you.” She will soon find out. There are two climaxes in the story. The first is how they get the £200 (the fact that Hubert did not only die but the way he died, a horrible mutilated death) and the second the tension associated with the knocking at the door.
- Hubert the son is himself the focus in what happens to him of some tragic irony. He refers to the money and uses the wor .....
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The Sun Also Rises 2
Words: 680 / Pages: 3 .... examples of this theme, that when read the first time make no impression but stand out boldly the next.
One example of a missed thematic expression occurs on pg. 39, the last two paragraphs "I…" to "…sorry." This in itself seems insignificant but when compared to an incident that takes place later, on pg. 194 beginning "Well…" and ending with "… right.", it shows how although many things had happened Jake Barnes’ feelings for Robert Cohn had not truly changed. This gives a very good example of the theme that everything comes back around again.
Another example of this appears on pg. 148 "Perhaps…about." This se .....
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Culture Clash
Words: 982 / Pages: 4 .... I would see Hong’s entire family speak in their own Language, and occasionally speak some English to me. Simple words or sentences such as, hi, hello, how are you, and good-bye were used. It was interesting to see my friend switch sides of language as soon as he stepped home.
His family seemed to have a special connection to each other, culturally. I would see Hong, and his father have a discussion on Bruce Lee in their own private language. Every word that Hong spoke flowed smoothly, and was interpreted well by his father. Hong’s father also spoke in Cantonese, and argued against what Hong thought of Bruce Lee. They had an interesting debate in .....
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Rabbit, Run Happy Endings
Words: 3266 / Pages: 12 .... is gloomy, life as a whole seems depressing. Let your mood brighten, and suddenly your relationships, your self-image, and your hopes for the future all seem more promising. In John Updike's novel, rabbit, run, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is a man who wants constant change. He hasn't found his happiness so he runs away from what he knows as life to something new, in hopes that he can find his answer. For some people happiness is a walk in the woods, a sunny view of a waterfall, or some other experience of the tranquility and beauty of unspoiled places. Such settings may free us from stress that triggers bad moods or may put us in touch with a place .....
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Anderson I Want To Know Why
Words: 804 / Pages: 3 .... a common bond of shared love for the thoroughbreds and champions.
The narrator, a white boy, is envious of the black cook, Bildad for his closeness to the horses' life. He states that "he is going all season to the races and working in the livery barn in the winter where horses are and where men like to come and talk horses, wish I was a nigger. It's a foolish thing to say, but that's the way I am about being round horses, just crazy, I can't help it". Young people are ambitious, regardless of color and the similarities in taste demonstrates the similarity of persons of all races.
Disappointed dreams and fantasies play an important role in the the .....
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To Kill A Mocking Bird 4
Words: 1225 / Pages: 5 .... the whites and the Negroes. The whites, being the dominant race, disapproved of the black population and was weary about any association with them. The Negroes were out casts of the town and were considered the lower class of Maycomb, even lower than the true trash of the white community, the Ewells. The Negroes were referred to as ‘niggers’, ‘trash’ among other dehumanizing names and they were stereotyped as violent, unclean and were unfit to blend with their community.
In Maycomb, Negroes were generally assumed guilty of any crime that a white man accuses them of because of the stereotypical ideas constructed about them. .....
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Prejudice Of A Bigot
Words: 674 / Pages: 3 .... -- maybe he
attends many parties, better watch out for him. The lady across the aisle
is looking perky -- too perky. Maybe she's just out to brown-nose the
instructor to try to get a good grade. The prejudgment phase is why many
students wear nice and well-mannered clothing the first two weeks of class.
They know the very real danger that other students might dismiss them as
second class citizens if they just wore comfortable clothing such as jeans
and a T-shirt.
Everyone knows the problem with prejudgment because everyone has
been a receiver of such. One such occurrence may be if a couple would be
repainting their house when they realize .....
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