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- 2251: Comparison Of Animals In Anima
- ... and knew that communism wouldn t work as long as there were power hungry leaders. The total line of events that took place on the Animal Farm totally parallel the history of the Russian Revolution. The animal revolt was supposed to make life better for all animals and the Russian revolution was supposed to fix the problems of the Czar. On ... Animal farm indeed is very representative of the events that took place in Russia. Just about every character in the movie and major plot change has a parallel in Russian history. Putting the actions into animals made the whole sequence of events seem clearer as to just how the Russian dream fell apart so easily due the greed of those in ...
- 2252: Grand Avenue Masks
- ... in the novel Grand Avenue, by Greg Sarris, are wearing masks. Masks that conceal themselves and their culture in an attempt to fit into the world that has enveloped their history and stifled their heritage. The key to these masks is the eyes. The eyes of the characters in the novel tell stories. The dispair of the Native Americans is first ... was seeing something she didn t want to see and couldn t look away from (p.4) Faye, like many inhabitants of the novel, seems helplessly focused on the sordid history of her family and the poison that seems to infect their very souls. She is obsessed to the point of madness and this poison is best described by Jasmine when ...
- 2253: Affirmative Action
- ... educational purposes without having to meet the same requirements as the whole seems to me to be a bit discriminative in nature. A popular case that has occurred in our history was that of Bakke v. Regents of the University of California (1978). Allan Bakke is a white man who applied for admission to the medical school at the University of ... is not taken sometime in the near future, and affirmative action continues to separate minority groups from whites, we can be sure to see racial tension reach points that our history has never seen. .
- 2254: The Color Purple - The Struggl
- There is one primordial reason why we do not doubt Europeans have taken the lead in history, in all epochs before and after 1492, and it has little to do with evidence. It is a basic belief which we inherit from prior ages of thought and scarcely ... realize that we hold: it is an implicit belief, not an explicit one, and it is so large a theory that it is woven into all of our ideas about history, both within Europe and without. . . (Blaut pg. 6-7). African-American people have had to climb over many obstacles to get to their position today. First, was the selling of ...
- 2255: The Count Of Monte Cristo
- ... attempt to dig his way to his salvation had led him only to Edmond's cell. The two meet daily and an incredible relationship flourished. The old man taught Edmond history, mathematics, and languages. In Edmond's fourteenth year, Faria became mortally ill. The wise elder told Edmond where to find a massive buried fortune. When Faria finally did die, his ... by close friends because of their jealousy. He is imprisoned for fourteen grueling years during his imprisonment he meets another prisoner named Abbe Faria, who teaches Dantes many languages, sciences, history and other subjects, they become like father and son, and when the Abbe was about to die, he revealed to Dantes the hiding place of a long-secret buried treasure ...
- 2256: OLIVER TWIST SUMMARY
- ... Orwell's entire purpose of writing the novel was to worn against the dangers of society forming a totalitarian society. He effectively creates a story that almost completely parallels the history of the Russian revolution. Although I do think this is a great book I believe it has some flaws. One of the major flaws with the writing of this book ... into account his audience when he wrote this book. He must have known that not everyone who would read his great work of literature would not know well the complete history of the Russian Revolution. Taking this idea into account, I think he could have somehow made it possible for a person who did not know about the Russian revolution to ...
- 2257: Women In Beowulf And Lanval
- Property of the King: Life of Medieval Women in Beowulf and Lanval History has been recorded throughout time in stories, books, poems and other literary works. These writings give historians and readers of the present day valuable insights into the lifestyles, beliefs, society ... and time. The works they write provide a window to the past that allows us to peak through and see what life was like for the people of that particular history. Middle Age literary works show the reader of the present who the people were, what was important to them, and how they lived. In a culture with limited literacy and ...
- 2258: Winston Smith
- ... telescreens, and everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party's omniscient leader, the figure known only as Big Brother. The Party controls everything, even the people's history and language: The Party is currently forcing the implementation of an invented language called Newspeak, which prevents the possibility for political rebellion by eliminating all words related to it. Even ... beautiful dark-haired girl, staring at him; he worries that she is an informant who will turn him in for his thoughtcrime. He worries about the Party's control of history: it claims Oceania has always been allied with Eastasia in a war against Eurasia, but Winston seems to recall a time when this wasn't true; the Party also claims ...
- 2259: War Of The Worlds
- ... so firmly imbedded in the British culture dissolves, and its futile attempts at defense only serve to diminish the remaining hope of its citizens. In these pages we find both history and prophecy. The massing of the people into types echoes the fates of the native Tasmanians and native Americans, while the use of deadly gas by the Martians was to ... also see that the Martians have no bacteria, perhaps because they have evolved past microbial infection on Mars. The mechanism of Martian death also has its historic roots in European history. When England colonized lands in Australia and America hundreds of diseases were introduced to the native people as well as to the Europeans, and plagues like the bubonic plague and ...
- 2260: 1984 4
- ... of 39 whom is not extraordinary in either intelligence or character, but is disgusted with the world he lives in. He works in the Ministry of Truth, a place where history and the truth is rewritten to fit the party's beliefs. Winston is aware of the untruths, because he makes them true. This makes him very upset with the government ... laugh when Winston and Julia getting caught. Now all he can do is wait for his next victim to enter his store. The Ministry of Truth is a place where history and facts--significant and insignificant are rewritten to reflect the party's utopian beliefs. They thoroughly destroy the records of the past; they print up new, up to-date editions ...
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