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Fahrenheit 451: Criticizing The Modern World
Words: 612 - Pages: 3.... homes itself, and cuts off. Its only copper wire, storage batteries, and electricity” (20), and “It doesn’t think anything we don’t want it to think” (27). That society was programmed to not think, wonder or ask why. They didn’t do anything that they weren’t supposed to do. Today, everything is happening just as The Hound is controlled. Programming is happening in our very world. Take schools for example. Consider Pavlov’s experiment with ringing bells to provoke an automatic response in dogs. He rang a bell; the dogs salivated expecting food. The school board rings a bell, and students rise to show respect for the Ameri .....
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The Canterbury Tales: Tools Of The Trade
Words: 901 - Pages: 4.... in two, then went his way without saying another word."
They show there feelings by pledging to each other to murder death. "Let
each of us hold up his hand to this false traitor Death. He that slays so
many shall be slain himself before nightfall."
In "The Pardoners Tale" personification is employed to make Death a
person instead of a process. Death is given human characteristics to make
him more real to us. This tool allows the main characters to focus their
feelings.With the use of personification the three men are allowed to
focus their feelings of vengence on a person instead of a biological
process.
Another tool that was heav .....
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1984 By George Orwell: Character Sketch
Words: 908 - Pages: 4.... concealed.
"There are five fingers there. Do you see five fingers?"
"Yes."
And he did see them, for a fleeting instant, before the scenery of his mind
changed. He saw five fingers, and there was no deformity. Then everything was
normal again, and the old fear, the hatred and the bewilderment came crowding
back again. But there had been a moment – he did not know how long, thirty
seconds, perhaps – of luminous certainty, when each new suggestion of O'Brien's
had filled up a patch of emptiness and had become absolute truth, and when two
and two could have been three as easily as five, if that were what was needed.
It had f .....
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A New England Nun By Mary E WI
Words: 1741 - Pages: 7.... ironically. The stories of the dog and the bird layer the theme to help represent Louisa's life, who in turn represents the Eighteenth century woman of society. Louisa's animals and their relationship to her suitor are further links between her and her pets. The suitor brings out different traits than the norm in both the animals and the woman of this story. The man's influence is seen as disruptive. Man is seen as a threat to the serenity and security of a spinster's life.
Imagery put forth by this story, and by stereotypes of the day is of the new England spinster. Women who were not married yet, lived a life of chores and piousnes .....
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A Doll's House: Theme Of Emancipation Of A Woman
Words: 781 - Pages: 3.... I couldn't stand it" showing how he
is more interested in Nora physically than emotionally. When Nora responds
by saying "Go away, Torvald! Leave me alone. I don't want all this",
Torvald asks "Aren't I your husband?". By saying this, he is implying that
one of Nora's duties as his wife is to physically pleasure him at his
command. Torvald also does not trust Nora with money, which exemplifies
Torvald's treating Nora as a child. On the rare occasion when Torvald
gives Nora some money, he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and
pastry; in modern times, this would be comparable to Macauly Culkin being
given money, then buyi .....
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Managing Globalization
Words: 1665 - Pages: 7.... realistic
insights than purely management-based books on the subject.
Business in tandem with government must develop safe new institutions to
manage global tensions. And communitarianism, or collective leadership among the
world's peoples, he says, is the challenge of globalization."
Introduction:
"Globalization is a fact and a process. The fact is that the world's
people and nations are more interdependent than ever before and becoming more so.
The measures of interdependence are global flows of such things as trade,
investment, and capital, and the related degradation of the ecosystem on which
all life depends, a degradation that c .....
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Maus: The Holocaust
Words: 390 - Pages: 2.... the camps, in some ways he, in fact, did not survive.
Prior to Vladek's experience witht the Holocaust he would never have attempted to return food, but because of the hunger experiences it seemed uncalled for for him not to. Vladek is also depicted as very tight with his money. No doubt this is because of the poverty he lived with for so long. In the book, he was said to have reused tea bags, kept his burner on all day to save matches, make sure to put his storm windows on in early september tp save on the cost of heating his home, and refusing to buy his wife's personal supplies because they were her expenses. It never clearly says, .....
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Hysteria In The Crucible
Words: 532 - Pages: 2.... of government. Because this system challenged the basic civil rights of Americans, this event involved the entire nation.
In order for hysteria to occur a significant number of people must learn of the event. This happens by the promotion and spread of fear throughout a community. Promotion is important because without public knowledge of the fear social unrest will not take place. As seen in the Crucible, promotion is shown when Reverend Parris holds a meeting of the largest town gossips to tell them of Betty and Ruth's ailment, and that witchcraft may be involved. This knowledge starts a chain reaction through Salem, which spread .....
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"A Raisin In The Sun": An Analysis
Words: 1044 - Pages: 4.... life
and want's to invest the money in a liquor store. Walter want's the money
so that he can prove that he is capable of making a future for his family.
By doing well in business Walter thinks that he can buy his family
happiness. Walter has dreams. Dreams he most likely got from his father.
Dreams of better life for his family and himself. A dream of financial
security and comfortable living. Ruth, on the other hand is stable and down
to earth. She doesn't make rash choices to accommodate a dream. She will
just make do with what she has. Mama is a loving person, she is wise but
lives in the past. She is happy to have her family with and be .....
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Song Of Solomon
Words: 642 - Pages: 3.... they used to fly off from Crete. On their journey to Athens, Icarus decided to try to challenge the sun, even though his father had warned him that if he got too near to the sea his wings would dampen and fall apart, or if he got too close to the sun, the wax in his wings would melt, and he would lose the ability to fly. Ignoring Daedalus' warnings, Icarus flew too high and the sun melted the wax that held his wings together. Icarus fell into the Aegean Sea and died.
Solomon, a slave, had been a leader when he worked in the cotton fields in the South. One day he decided to fly back to Africa with his youngest son, Jake, leaving behind hi .....
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