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- 2271: The Lexus And The Olive Trees
- ... New York Times and he describes it as the best job because he gets to be a tourist with an attitude. He is the fifth foreign affairs columnist in the history of the Times and it is actually the paper s oldest column. This column started in 1937 by Anne O Hare McCormick and she covered the disintegration of balance-of-power Versailles Europe and the beginnings of World War 2. When he started the column in 1995, the Berlin Wall had crumbled and the Soviet Union was history. He referred to the post-Cold War system as the globalization system. Which is the international system shaping the domestic politics and foreign relations of virtually every country. As an ...
- 2272: To Kill A Mocking Bird 4
- ... minded or to wait for the official trial to begin. In Maycomb, people were judged not only for the color of their but also for their social class and family history. Upper class were made up of white people with respectable family background and skills in particular fields. The lower class were considered to be the Negroes and whites such as ... in shoes and a new suit, but he'll never be like Jem" Since several generations of the Cunninghams were considered low class, Aunt Alexandra judges Walter by his family history and shows that she does not want to relate to him in any way. Mixing of different classes were not desirable as it meant the roots of upper class was ...
- 2273: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- ... military officers, who had been influenced by the spread of democratic ideas following the French Revolution, attempted to overthrow the Czar Nicholas I in the earliest days of his reign. History has come to call this dramatic episode in Russian history "the Decembrist Rebellion." After the uprising was successfully put down by the new government of Nicholas I, Pushkin found himself in grave trouble with the Czar's secret police because ...
- 2274: The Censorship Of Huck Finn
- ... outweighs the negative. The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn should not, in any way, shape, or form, be restricted from readers and students. This great American novel is part of our history, a part of history that has lasted and been passed on from generation to generation. The passing on not of racism, but of a way to learn about the past and to learn from ...
- 2275: The Brothers K
- ... had the ability to realize. Quote 3: Problem #1: War Page 371 The novel illuminates light on the situation not just during the Vietnam era, but also rather throughout all history and the future to come. Throughout mankind s occupation of earth, we have been plagued by war and the sufferings caused by it. Nearly every generation of people to walk ... my father s generation, World War 2 for my grandfather s, and World War 1 for my great-grandfather s. War has become an unavoidable factor of life. Looking through history and toward the future, I grow concerned over the war that will plague my generation, for it might be the last war. Quote 4: Then I noticed how first President ...
- 2276: The Mystery That Was Gatsby, T
- ... title, Jay Gatsby. Though Gatsby s mysterious life is the focus of the novel, the reader always has a vague conception of the details that surround Gatsby s life and history. This causes Gatsby s character to seem that much more mysterious. Other characters in the novel, major or minor, are described by Fitzgerald much more deliberately and with much greater ... the reader to form their own image of him, which can be of a slightly older man than Gatsby proves to be later in the story. Information about his past history is important to the story, yet given sporadically by the narrator and often when it could have been useful sooner in the book. This presents Gatsby early in the story ...
- 2277: The Crucible And Mccarthyism
- Many times it has been said that if people learn form their mistakes they are doomed to repeat them. Such is the case throughout history. There are many different examples of this, but one example is the blatant similarities between the witch hunts in Salem Massachusetts and the era of McCarthyism. When looking at either ... both the Salem witch hunts and the anti-Communist movement there is a visual sign of sympathy that eventually led to the end of each respective event. While looking throughout history it is possible to retrace events and see where society has repeated their mistakes. Two of these events that are different in some ways, but similar in more, are the ...
- 2278: Romeo And Juliet 11 -
- ... Hamnet. At this time, Shakespeare was twenty-one, and the way he supported his family is unknown. In August of 1596, Hamnet died at the age of eleven (Shakespeare s History). Stories say that Shakespeare began his career by holding horses outside the theaters. More reliable information indicates that he acted in plays, many of his own. From acting Shakespeare progressed ... with great applause) played publicly . At this time the play was already well known, in Italian, French, and English. Shakespeare owes most to Arthur Brooke s long poem The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1592) (The Complete Works, 335). He also may have looked and studied other versions of the play before writing his own version of Romeo and Juliet ...
- 2279: Review Of 1984
- ... with this message which is the slogan of the Party. "The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth." The narrator describes the way the party manipulates history by changing all documents referring to the history. "Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on ...
- 2280: Reader Response Theory And The
- ... THis concept seems ideal in theory, but somewhat flawed in practice. How much freedom is really allotted to the reader in the interpretation of a text? In his essay, "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory", Hans Robert Jauss identifies a "horizon of expectations" that every reader brings with him/her upon approaching a literary work (937). This "horizon of ... freedom. Although Jauss does not openly address the issue of reader freedom in his essay, he provides hints about his position on the matter. The overriding theory of Jauss' "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory" is that there exists a "horizon of expectations" that every reader possesses upon greeting a new work of art. This "horizon" encompasses any opinions ...
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