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Ernest Hemingway Nick Adams
1,317 wordsAn Analysis of the Presence of Alcohol in Ernest Hemingway's Short Stories Alcohol and Desperation: An Analysis of the Presence of Alcohol in Ernest Hemingway's Short Stories Throughout the short stories of Ernest Hemingway, alcohol inevitably lends its company to situations in which desperation already resides. In an examination of his earlier works, such as In Our Time, a comparison to later collections reveals the constant presence of alcohol where hopelessness prevails. The nature of the hop...
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Itchy And Scratchy Inter Textual
2,096 words... itchy Land. In order that they will be able to find their car again they make a point of parking in the 'Itchy Lot'. The camera then zooms out to reveal what must be millions of cars parked in the huge 'Itchy Lot'. Were it not for this film technique the comedy would have been lost as we would have seen them park among a million other cars from the start. These film and televisual techniques lead us on to the inter textual and self references in The Simpsons. The show often makes references ...
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Marge And Homer Dan And Roseanne Television
694 wordsSex and intimacy on television has long been a fought over topic in our society. For years, the FCC and the MPAA have censored any content they deem sexually or verbally explicit from our viewing, and as we know television is one of the largest influences on our culture ever artificially created. Still though, sex and intimacy seep through the cracks of the system and During the early days of television, sexual situations were rare and intimate moments were few and far between. On "I Love Lucy",...
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Play Called Absent Friends
1,251 wordsAbsent Friends is a modern comedy written for the stage. Its humor comes from the situations and actions of the characters. The setting is an afternoon tea party, thrown by a group of five 'friends' for an old acquaintance who recently lost his fianc. All of the characters are an exaggeration of dislike able traits in everybody's personalities; John, the workaholic who cares more for money than comfort, Paul the stereotypical self-dependant man and Evelyn, the slut succumbing to her own desires ...
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American Labor Movement Development Of Unions
1,216 words... pany came about as a result of wage cuts. The American Railway union joined the strike, and much of the countrys rail system was not running. Over three thousand men were trusted by General Richard Olney to keep the rails open. The federal court gave a court order against union interference with the trains since they were an important and necessary vehicle in transportation, and the strike was eventually broken. (2 - 3) The most militant of the strike-prone unions was the International Worke...
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J K Rowling Harry Potter
1,989 wordsHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is the third book in the trilogy of J. K. Rowling's other Harry Potter books, though she is coming out with four more books in the coming years. Just to quickly run through the two previous books; Harry Potter is a wizard, whos parents were killed by the worst dark wizard ever known. The reason why Harry Potter is still around, is because Lord Voldemort failed to kill Harry. His spell hit Harry, but then backfired on Voldemort taking all of his powers wi...
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Lisa And Bart Care Of The Kids One
709 wordsIm going to start off by saying that until now I never actually thought there was a difference in the way those cartoon characters (the Simpsons) were approached, depending on their gender (not that I watched them too often or anything). First of all Ill have to break the characters in two groups, because you cannot compare old people with children. So the first group will be composed of Lisa and Bart (the children) and the second one of Marge and Homer (the parents). Just by taking a glance at ...
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Marge Hicks And Converse Hicks And Converse Characters
421 wordsDog Soldiers is a story laced with despair, paranoia, and several other not so fuzzy moods, and this quote from the main character elegantly demonstrates this mood. The tone of the book was a point of interest and displeasure for me, since this was one of my first experiences with total negativity, it was a fun struggle for me to understand the point or the necessity of such an angry mood. At the same time it made me very uncomfortable, sometimes to the point where I would have to stop reading f...
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Writers Use Satire Parents Of Minor Children Reality
479 wordsTrends in television today, is it a reality? In shows 38 % of the characters are women, but in reality 51 % are women, 14 % are over the age of 50, when 38 % are in real life, and 15 % are parents of minor children, when in reality 32 % are parents of minor children. One show that ironically does flourish reality, is The Simpsons. The Simpsons is realistic reality, because it acquires episodes to relate to everything that goes on in life. Some examples of this is, children stealing, going to sch...
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Heimlich Maneuver Homer Simpson
1,264 words... r basis, but Bart and Homer loath it. A typical Sunday School conversation is as follows: Child: 'Will my dog, Fluffy go to heaven?' Sunday School Teacher: 'No' Other Child: 'How about my cat?' Teacher: 'No, Heaven is only for people. ' Bart: 'What if my leg gets gangrene and has to be amputated? Will it be waiting for me in heaven? Teacher: 'Yes' Bart: 'What about a robot with a human brain?' Teacher: 'I don't know! Is a little blind faith too much to ask for?' (Person) The pastor, Reverend...
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Horse Dealer Daughter Barbie Doll
1,176 words... the mills to the extent of stealing from the Bourgeoisie. It is said, "She is the character-poor, disfigured, female-who suffers the most profoundly" (Hughes 124). The void in her life can never be filled completely. When she and Hugh were placed in jail for the crime she first initiated, as an act of love, she suffered. It is said, "Deb has both a privileged body of knowledge and a classic text of pain, in whose suffering is revealed the inexpressible divine" (Hughes 127). She was in agony ...
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Marge Piercy Piercy War
510 wordsMarch 9, 1997 History Honors Period 8 A Critique of Gone to Soldiers The novel Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy intricately weaves the lives of many different people into a connected series of individual plots that give the reader an exciting view of life during World War II. Piercy connects the lives of women and men, Jews and gentiles by using family ties and steamy love affairs. The people have dramatically different profiles, some are rich some are poor, some are Americans, some are French, ...
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Death Of A Salesman Willy
515 wordsDeath of a Salesman vs. The Simpsons Each of the characters in death of a Salesman can be compared in some way to a character in the Simpsons. Linda Loman has a lot in common with Marge Simpson. Both love their families very much and are always the first to defend their husbands actions. Each wife is unappreciated and and does not receive much respect from her family. They try to instill good values onto their children: Marge reprimands Bart for stealing, and Linda tells Willy not to encourage t...
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York Vintage Books Raymond Carver
3,861 wordsDisjunction Vs. Communion In Raymond Carvers Short Disjunction Vs. Communion In Raymond Carvers Short Stories Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carvers Short Stories Raymond Carver, poet, essayist, and short story writer, was very different from some other writers in that he clipped his writing until only the essential remained. Carver not only acknowledged the effect that fiction could have on readers, he proclaimed that it should affect readers. (Bonetti 58) Thus, when Carver writes about i...
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Rights Of The Individual Dramatic Tension
993 wordsGood plays offer audiences an experience which is both theatrical and thought provoking. Is this true of the two plays you have studied? The Crucible by Arthur Miller raises many thought provoking issues throughout the play, including the importance of personal integrity, injustice in society and the rights of the community versus the rights of the individual. The first, the importance of personal integrity, is brought to light through John Proctor, who finds himself facing personal conflict whe...
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Barbie Doll Marilyn Monroe
520 wordsMarge Peircys Barbie Doll And Sharon Olds Marge Peircys Barbie Doll And Sharon Olds The Death Of Marilyn Monroe Women vs. Society: Society Wins Marge Peircys Barbie Doll and Sharon Olds The Death of Marilyn Monroe are two poems that deal with society's influence over women. However, the two women describe in the story are completely different on the outside, but the inside is much more similar. The female in Barbie Doll has no identity and no name, where as the female in The Death of Marilyn Mor...
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Clean Well Lighted Place Ernest Hemingway
2,680 wordsAn Analysis of the Presence of Alcohol in Ernest Hemingway s Short Stories Alcohol and Desperation: An Analysis of the Presence of Alcohol in Ernest Hemingway s Short Stories Throughout the short stories of Ernest Hemingway, alcohol inevitably lends its company to situations in which desperation already resides. In an examination of his earlier works, such as In Our Time, a comparison to later collections reveals the constant presence of alcohol where hopelessness prevails. The nature of the hop...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Barbie Doll
1,121 wordsMaxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman Versus Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman Versus Marge Piercys Barbie Doll No Name Woman vs. Barbie Doll: Battle of the Millennia Lets face it. Society is chock full of subtle, and not-so-subtle, demands to conform to the norm, and going with the flow is a big part of life. Ideas of conformity are beaten into us as soon as were able to comprehend the world we live in. A large piece of the conformity pie deals with the role of the woman, and how she should l...
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Itchy And Scratchy Heimlich Maneuver
2,116 words? The Simpsons? is one of America? s most popular television shows. It ranks as the number one television program for viewers under eighteen years of age. However, the ideals that? The Simpsons? conveys to parents are not always wholesome, sometimes not even in good taste. Parents are saying that? The Simpsons? should be removed from television because it is setting a bad example for children to follow. ? The Simpsons? are making a negative influence in our kids attitudes and behaviors in life, ...
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Lower Middle Class Itchy And Scratchy
1,170 wordsEngl. Simpsons Vito Pustovoy Engl. 114 Bill Intr Matt Groening changed television forever when, in 1987, he brought the Simpsons to the FOX. People all across the country enjoyed these hilarious animated series, and, that same year, it was given the Fox's EMMY AWARD. The Simpsons reveals many interesting aspects of modern American culture, one of them is the stereotype of lower middle class white american male. In Simpsons, Matt Groening shows the stereotype of lower middle class white male in A...
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