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- 51: Character Analysis Of The Gran
- The grandmother is the central character in the story "A good man is hard to find," by Flannery O'Connor. The grandmother is a manipulative, deceitful, and self-serving woman who lives in the past. She doesn't value her life as it is, but glorifies what it was like long ago when she saw life through rose-colored glasses. She is pre- sented by O'Connor as being a prim and proper lady dressed in a suit, hat, and white cotton gloves. This woman will do whatever it takes to get what she wants ...
- 52: Foreshadowing
- Foreshadowing `Flannery O’Conners short story, “A good man is hard to find” seemed confusing, as I reed from beginning to end the first time. I read over it a few more times ... foreshadowing techniques she used. The end the story was very unsetteling and unexpected the first time I reed it. However, After reading over it several times the forshadowing used by O’Connor throughout the entire story became much clearer. In this short story the foreshadowing O’Conners uses will give hints to the reader on who the characters will meet, what ...
- 53: Why Mitchell V Wisconsin Sucke
- ... system with which to classify crimes as hate-motivated. Another case which is cometimes cited as a precedent to support rulings such as Wisconsin v. Mitchell, is U.S. v. O¹Brien. O¹Brien had burnt his draft card to protest the draft and the Vietnam War, despite a law specifically forbidding the burning of draft cards. The Supreme Court ruled that the ... and was therefore not a government attempt to regulate symbolic speech, but a constitutionality legitimate police power. The Court ruled that there is no absolutist protection for symbolic speech. Under O¹Brien, the government may regulate conduct which incidentally infringes upon First Amendment rights, as long as the government interest is ³unrelated to the suppression² of belief or expression. However, ...
- 54: Mitchell v. Wisconsin: Why Mitchell v. Wisconsin Sucked
- ... system with which to classify crimes as hate-motivated. Another case which is cometimes cited as a precedent to support rulings such as Wisconsin v. Mitchell, is U.S. v. O'Brien. O'Brien had burnt his draft card to protest the draft and the Vietnam War, despite a law specifically forbidding the burning of draft cards. The Supreme Court ruled that the ... and was therefore not a government attempt to regulate symbolic speech, but a constitutionality legitimate police power. The Court ruled that there is no absolutist protection for symbolic speech. Under O'Brien, the government may regulate conduct which incidentally infringes upon First Amendment rights, as long as the government interest is "unrelated to the suppression" of belief or expression. However, ...
- 55: The Beginnings of a National Literary Tradition
- ... s first published work displayed him as "an Apostle of beauty, feeling, and meaning of the Canadian scene, a title which he will always be best and most widely known"(Connor 102). This first volume contains thirty sonnets of which Lampman uses to ‘Landscape' the nation. Lampman is a pictorial artist. He uses images to allow the reader to see what he sees. Connor describes this first volume of poetry as the "exponent of a great soul, a gentle heart, a refined taste, and a pure life"(97). Among the Millet is a delicate ... However, the poet's own personal attitude toward his art can be best summed up in his poem "The Poet's Possession" from The Poems of Archibald Lampman: Think not, O master of the well-tilled field, This earth is only thine: for after thee When all is sown and gathered and put by, Comes the grave poet with creative ...
- 56: The Beginnings of a National Literary Tradition
- ... s first published work displayed him as "an Apostle of beauty, feeling, and meaning of the Canadian scene, a title which he will always be best and most widely known"(Connor 102). This first volume contains thirty sonnets of which Lampman uses to ‘Landscape' the nation. Lampman is a pictorial artist. He uses images to allow the reader to see what he sees. Connor describes this first volume of poetry as the "exponent of a great soul, a gentle heart, a refined taste, and a pure life"(97). Among the Millet is a delicate ... However, the poet's own personal attitude toward his art can be best summed up in his poem "The Poet's Possession" from The Poems of Archibald Lampman: Think not, O master of the well-tilled field, This earth is only thine: for after thee When all is sown and gathered and put by, Comes the grave poet with creative ...
- 57: The Glass Menagerie 2
- ... classes, she begins to panic about Laura's future. Amanda talks Tom into inviting a nice young man from the warehouse over for dinner at the apartment. When nice Jim O'Connor comes to dinner, Laura recognizes him as the boy that she had a crush on high school. Laura becomes so sick that she has to be excused from dinner. After ... who spends all her time in a world of glass ornaments and phonograph records. Though she tries several times to participate in the outside world, she is too fragile. Jim O'Connor: Gentleman Caller. Jim is a friend of Tom's who works at the warehouse. he is the only outside connection for Laura and Amanda. Though he finds Laura ...
- 58: Homeopathy And Women
- ... middle-class pilferers was defined on medical grounds as being impervious to the law. The diagnosis of kleptomania was an act of contemptuous patronage, in which the perpetrators themselves colluded (O'Brien 1983; Adelson 1989). More serious, however, was the diagnosis of nymphomania, for that could make a lesbian or sexually expressive woman vulnerable to corrective procedures such as clitoridectomy or cauterization (Groneman 1994). In some instances medical problems were made subject to hegemonic control through technological innovations. Erin O'Connor, for instance, discusses the role of medical photography in helping consolidate anorexia nervosa as a modern disease entity in the 19-th century. The photographic image, by substituting a ...
- 59: Freedom of Speech & Censorship on the Internet
- ... acknowledges that the sites his index tracks are a fraction of the "millions" of places people can travel on the Internet but he said it is a good representative sample (O'Conner, 1995). Who should censor the Internet and how? Due to the lack of a controlling body and the Internet's anarchic nature, who could act as a censor of ... to place "indecent" material on-line anywhere children might view it. After the Oklahoma City bombing, a prominent Jewish group called for the monitoring of hate groups on the Internet (O'Connor, 1995). Currently, such a move is strongly opposed by most of the Internet users because that would ruin the whole anarchic nature of the net where information is exchanged ...
- 60: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan
- ... They were young, attractive, naïve, and unattained by scandal."8 Wyman met Reagan while on the rebound and dated him during the filming of Brother Rat. Hollywood gossip columnist Louella O. Parsons, whose initial bond with Reagan was based on the coincidence that Parson also came from Dixion, Illinois, encouraged their relationship. Reagan and Wyman were married in Glendale on January ... environmental and business regulations. House Democrats resisted this reversal in tax and spending policies. However the country was in an economic recession. Reagan's appointment in 1981 of Sandra Day O'Connor as the first woman justice of the United States Supreme Court was a popular one. However the administration's support for prayer in the public schools and its opposition ...
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