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- 1911: Chaucerian Commentary
- ... of the individual travelers in the Tales to paint a picture of his own society. Chaucer s philosophy best described as humanist, or liberal humanist; it places the individual above history, and esteems the human capacity not to be made but to make history. (Patterson, 1) This humanist theory is evident through out the tales in which it is Chaucer s characters spinning the wheels of action and adventure. Those who are naive or ...
- 1912: Catcher In The Rye Holdens Sig
- ... else in his life tries to encourage him to care about school and his grades but it doesn t make any difference. From the start of the novel Holden s history teacher at Pencey tells him I d like to put some sense in that head of yours, boy. I m trying to help you. I m trying to help you ... that must occur for him to move on in society. Mr. Antolini later points out to him Learning is a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn t education. It s history. It s poetry (189). His goal for Holden being to see school as something he loves and not something he is being forced to do. Mr. Antolini tried to give ...
- 1913: Burry My Heart At Wounded Knee
- Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is a compilation of accounts covering a period in American history which should be remembered with shame by all descendants of the Europeans who settled this land. The truths contained within this book show the attempt at the genocide of the ... Wounded Knee shows the truth about the mortar that is holding the building blocks of a nation together is heavily made with Indian blood. Maybe Hitler should have studied the history of the Native Americans. Because as it has been said many times those who do not study the past are doomed to repeat it.
- 1914: Beowulf 2
- ... story represents these qualities in both main characters. The struggle began when God allowed Satan dominion over the earth. Since then the battle between them has been recorded throughout literary history. Some of the heroes that have challenged Satan did so to protect the weak. Others fought for fame and glory. Beowulf, as a conquering hero, destroyed all the monsters in ... destroy everything good and kind. Beowulf is like a parent and Grendel is like a child whom he chastises. The characters of Beowulf and Grendel are represented in stories throughout history. They represent the classic struggle of good and evil. There will always be the hero looking for fame and glory. There will always be a "monster" that, acting like an ...
- 1915: A Review Of The Scarlet Letter
- ... his three-year stint as a Surveyor in the Salem Custom House. Mostly filled with older gentlemen, the workplace was a very political, Whig-influenced environment and charged with Puritan history. After brief character sketches of the personalities in the Custom House, Hawthorne then explains how he came upon a special package among the piles of papers. It contained a red ... manuscript by Jonathan Pue (the man who once held Hawthorne s job). Finding the story extremely interesting, the author thus retells the story of Hester Prynne from Massachusetts s Puritan history. The first chapter begins with Hester being led to the scaffold where she is to be publicly shamed for having committed adultery. Hester is forced to wear the letter A ...
- 1916: Beat Movement
- The "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion, the beat writers created a new and prophetic vision of modern life and changed ... out of the classrooms and into non-academic setting—coffee houses, jazz clubs, large public auditoriums and even athletic stadiums. Poetry is more popular and more read than anytime in history, not only spoken poetry but also sung poetry of a high order. "The literature, coordinated by pop music, with a way of dressing, with a way of life, it something ...
- 1917: Animal Farm By George Orwell
- ... became the Soviet Leader after the death of Lenin. He was underestimated by his opponents who always became his victims, and he had one of the most ruthless, regimes in history. In was not till very many years later that the world found out about the many deaths that Stalin created in Russia during the Revolution. For almost 50 years the ... population is suppressed and not allowed to accumulate things for themselves then an overthrow of the government that is suppressing them will be the result. WORKS CITED Clarkson, Jesse. A History of Russia. New York: Random House, 1969. Golubeva, T. and L. Gellerstein. Early Russia - The Russie. Moscos, Press Agency Publishing House, 1976. Imse, Ann. Mass Grave Seen as Evidence of ...
- 1918: Animal Farm - Compared To The
- ... make the decisions in the government but acted more like the controlled media as in the Russian government. His job was to influence the people by exaggerating and re-writing history and sometimes telling plain lies all together. The people would listen to him, and he would always listen to Napoleon. Other animals were the worker class type citizens. The types ... certain individuals get away with anything just because they do not feel like standing up to them. If you tried, this story could also be compared to other times in history when the people let dictatorships form in their own country. I enjoyed this book a lot but I do not think that it should be just compared to the Russian ...
- 1919: True Sinners
- ... of Hawthorne's characters. Hester and Dimmesdale seek redemption. Chillingworth, the worst sinner of the story, never seeks redemption. Hawthorne has written one of the first symbolic novels in American history. One of the most obvious symbols of sin in the story was Pearl. Pearl is the embodiment of her parents' sin. She is the incarnate of the letter "A" on ... constant reminder that she has committed a great sin. Pearl almost seemed inhuman until the end of the novel. Lastly, I feel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is an almost history novel of the Puritan society, and its conviction of sin, in his view and research. Word Count: 1879
- 1920: Holocaust (devil IN Vienna)
- By: karen The Holocaust. A subject most people would like to forget but shouldn't. People must find out as much as possible about it so history won't repeat itself. Millions of Jewish men, women, and children , of all strata were persecuted because of what? Nothing besides the fact that they were Jewish. Most Jews living ... recorded. Doris Orgel probably took facts from the recorded events and created her own fictional scene. Although this project was very time consuming, it taught me a lot about the history of the Holocaust era. The book Devil In Vienna was very informative and historically accurate, yet it was entertaining enough to keep me interested in my reading. It supported my ...
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