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Makes The Reader Feel Upton Sinclair
1,364 words... yes of a variety of people using a god-like narrator. This mix of views helps to strengthen his socialist beliefs in the novel. The other narrator expounds upon certain events that occur in the novel. This narrator is like an aside in a play; it is just like Sinclair stepped into the story to deliver a message to the reader. This narrator is used when Sinclair feels that a traditional narrator is not enough. The narrator is used in muckraking passages to show things that Jurgis couldnt possi...
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Forces Of Nature Survival Of The Fittest
1,063 wordsOne of the focuses in Jack London's writing is the survival of the strongest beings driven by the primitive desire to live. London shows this belief in many of his novels and short stories; however, it is most apparent in those involving strong animals and brutal men. Within his novels, London illustrates this theory of the survival of the fittest through the forces of nature, animals, and through humankind. The first way which London portrays this theory is through the forces of nature in the n...
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Trail Of Tears And Cherokee Women
1,236 wordsMore than 150 years ago, in 1839, the United States forced the Cherokee Nation West of the Mississippi River into what later would become the state of Oklahoma. The weather was unusually harsh that winter and the cold, the disease and the hunger cost the Cherokee Nation the lives of at least four thousand of the fifteen thousand people who traveled the thousand miles West (Perdue 93). Not only was the journey a very cruel and dangerous one for the Native Americans, but it also upset their tribal...
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Amount Of Money Capital Punishment
594 wordsCapital Punishment: For Have you been wondering where all our tax dollars are going to these days? A large amount of it is going towards maintaining murderers, rapists and thieves, and for what reason, to live the good life? The average prisoner costs the federal government one hundred and fifty dollars a day which amounts to fifty- three thousand four hundred dollars a year. Now, ask yourself this question, Is it worth all this money to keep these savage criminals in jail? Do you really want th...
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Mortally Wounded Hamlet
872 words-Compare in an essay Hamlet? s attitudes about revenge with Matt Fowler? s in Andre Dubus? s short story? Killings? (p. 81) Losing a loved one to tragedy, especially two most brutal and malicious tragedy? s as these, will torture the minds of any and all men. Terrifying thoughts, even carefully planned acts of revenge will plow themselves into your brain. It is how we react to these situations that can and will forever define that man, his life, and his actions. In these two stories, Hamlet? s f...
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Feeling Of Security Type Of Law
650 wordsWhat Hate Crime Laws Can Do Hate crimes are on the rise all over the United States because there are so many different cultures, which do not get along. The majority of these crimes are occurring mostly in states where there are no hate crime laws or where the laws are not strict enough, which is why all states should have some type of law to prevent such crimes. Laws against hate crimes should exist in every state because these laws would deter people from committing crimes, punish those who co...
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Roman Empire Popular Sport
1,227 wordsWhat sport has so monstrous of a drawing power that millions of viewers would pay excess of forty dollars to see an event that lasted less than a minute and a half? No, its not the world s most popular sport soccer or even the great American media giant of professional football. It s boxing. A sport whose ancient origin in years is only surpassed by its controversial surprises. Surely Homer, the great bard and author of the Iliad and Odyssey, could not have imagined the future of a sport he knew...
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United States Constitution President Of The United States
1,058 wordsPresident Clinton addressed the people of the United States on June 10, 1999 over the United States mission in Kosovo. Kosovo is a province of Serbia, which makes this war a civil war. Highlights of his speech outline the goals that he wanted to obtain in this Humanitarian intervention, as he called it. The mission had flaws innate to it from the beginning. The three-tiered goal of the President was clearly stated. The first is to allow the Kosovar people back into their homes. The second is to ...
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Life Of A Slave Girl Incidents In The Life
1,353 wordsThe feminist movement sought to gain rights for women. Many feminist during the early nineteenth century fought for the abolition of slavery around the world. The slave narrative became a powerful feminist tool in the nineteenth century. Black and white women are fictionalized and objectified in the slave narrative. White women are idealized as pure, angelic, and chaste while black woman are idealized as exotic and contained an uncontrollable, savage sexuality. Harriet Jacobs? Incidents in the L...
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African Americans Family Loyalty Slave
536 wordsIn Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl Linda Brent reveals the unique brutalities that were inflected on enslaved women that would make one believe that it was best to be dead then to be a slave. Incidents discussed the economics of slavery; the quest for freedom; pain and suffering (physical and emotional) community support and family loyalty; resistance and the issue of literacy. It also includes moral conflict between slavery and Christianity; color prejudice; racism; the bon...
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Crane Hell Quot
808 wordsIt is not surprising for an author? s background and surroundings to profoundly affect his writing. Having come from a Methodist lineage and living at a time when the church was still an influential facet in people? s daily lives, Stephen Crane was deeply instilled with religious dogmas. However, fear of retribution soon turned to cynicism and criticism of his idealistic parents? God, " the wrathful Jehovah of the Old Testament" , as he was confronted with the harsh realities of war as...
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Doctor Child
955 wordsIn William Carlos Williams? s? The Use of Force? it is apparent that the physician took great gratification in defeating the tenacious child in her valiant attack towards him during an examination. During their physical discord another struggle manifested concerning who had control and power above the other. It could be stated that the doctor was doing his duty overpowering the girl for the sake of her health. However, he strangely and almost perversely enjoyed the dominance over the child. In t...
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Macbeth And Lady Macbeth Murder Of Duncan
1,758 wordsShow how Macbeth Macbeth MACBETH Show how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have to go against their own natures in order to kill Duncan. Each character in Macbeth has to either fight or give in to the evil. Because evil is contrary to human nature, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have to go against their own conscience in order to murder Duncan. When the witches predict that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor and later, King of Scotland, he is stunned to silence by their prophecies. When murder enters Macbeth...
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19 Th Century Point Of View
1,251 wordsIN 1970 MARGARET Atwood, known only in small, mostly Canadian circles for her poetry, published a book entitled The Journals of Susanna Moodie, a persona poem sequence written from the point of view of a legendary 19 th-century Canadian pioneer who had encountered the notorious murderess Grace Marks on a visit to a lunatic asylum. Grace had been alternately institutionalized and imprisoned for the brutal murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his lover / housekeeper Nancy Montgomery, spared ...
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Trench Warfare Shell Shock
801 wordsTrench Warfare Every aspect of the war, is ugly and brutal. The worst aspect of this war was trench warfare. This trench warfare was so horrific, it cause many people to loose their minds, or even worse, loose their lives. There were many things that made this style of fighting brutal; the 3 significant ones are the fighting conditions they had to live in, the poor supplies they had to rely on, and thirdly the poor defensive conditions they were in with all the new weapons to use, like poison ga...
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African American Women Sojourner Truth
1,356 wordsSojourner Truth Overburdened with the trials and tribulations of slavery Sojourner Truth was able to prosper with spiritual beliefs. Sojourner Truths stability was made possible by a strong belief in the Holy Spirit. God was the major source of guidance, and willpower from the commencement of the slave trade until the emancipation of slavery. Slavery was orchestrated on a mass scale and caused the separation of many families in order to ensure that slaves would remain with there respective maste...
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Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries Peter The Great
1,684 wordsIn the 1660 s the Russian government under Czar Alexis I had begun the practice of punishing common criminals and political offenders by exiling them to Siberia. During the last two centuries of Russian imperial rule, punishment varied significantly from czar to czar. Different styles of interrogation and justice were prevalent with each successive ruler. Autocracy allowed for what seems to be a harsh system of imperial punishment. In actuality, the practice of capital punishment and torture wer...
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Stephen Crane Blue Hotel
810 wordsIt is not surprising for an author s background and surroundings to profoundly affect his writing. Having come from a Methodist lineage and living at a time when the church was still an influential facet in people s daily lives, Stephen Crane was deeply instilled with religious dogmas. However, fear of retribution soon turned to cynicism and criticism of his idealistic parents God, the wrathful Jehovah of the Old Testament (Stallman 16), as he was confronted with the harsh realities of war as a ...
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Red Badge Of Courage Crane
1,041 wordsStephen Crane? s The Red Badge of Courage is a novel that reflects its time period and the style of its author to a great extent. Also, it was praised for its accuracy. Ironically, Crane lived after the civil war and never served in the military. Stephen Crane? s life is portrayed on the web site web Crane, Stephen (1871 - 1900), American novelist and poet, one of the first American exponents of the naturalistic style of writing. Crane is known for his pessimistic and often brutal portrayals of ...
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Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams
930 wordsTennessee Williams novel, A Streetcar Named Desire, is the story of the brutish Stanley Kowalski and his meek wife Stella, a New Orleans couple whose lives are turned upside down with the arrival of Stella's neurotic, Southern belle sister Blanche who is immediately drawn into a battle of wills with Stanley. Blanches childlike helplessness, romantic desires, and pretensions to aristocracy completely collapse when Stanley's ruthless exposure of her past brings about Blanches final disintegration....
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