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Gave Them A Dollar Poor Out Of Work Mrs
568 wordsThis short story, "The Doll" is about poor out of work okie's back in the early 1930 's looking for any type of job they can find, so they can get paid or something to eat. Mrs. Hollis and the two okie's are the main characters in the story. The story tells about these okie's asking for work from a well off woman, Mrs. Hollis, and how she treats them. In spite of her will to help them, she eventually sends them away after meager payment and food. The story starts off as two ragged boys walk up M...
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Side Of Human Nature Parts Of The Book
1,676 wordsGulliver's Travels - Gulliver's Crushed Spirit Although Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift has long been thought of as a children's story, it is actually a dark satire on the fallacies of human nature. The four parts of the book are arranged in a planned sequence, to show Gulliver's optimism and lack of shame with the Lilliputians, decaying into his shame and disgust with humans when he is in the land of the Houyhnhnms. The Brobdingnagians are more hospitable than the Lilliputians, but Gullive...
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Ku Klux Klan Racial Hatred
2,015 wordsTo define an organization of the Ku Klux Klan is an enigma of many historians. Most historians either take the side of the Ku Klux Klan (a. k. a. the KKK) or as most show how hateful and immoral the KKK were. One is not saying these ideas are wrong or right but both should be heard for one to determine the truth of what the KKK really was and really stood for. Behind the Mask of Chivalry describes how and why the Ku Klux Klan rose in popularity in the 1920 s -- through campaigns over issues perc...
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End Of The Book Gatsby Father
1,243 words... und wealth to achieve things is repetitive throughout the whole book. Not only Gatsby but also everyone in this story who can use their status to gain possessions or people will do it. However Tom discovers Daisy's affair and confronts Gatsby at a hotel in New York with Daisy, Jordan and Nick as witnesses. Tom tells Gatsby that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby would never understand. Tom also reveals that Gatsby made his fortune illegally by bootlegging illegal alcohol. Gatsby respond...
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Nick Carraway Jay Gatsby
1,348 wordsThe Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway, who was once Gatsby's neighbor. Nick Carraway grew up in the Midwestern United States and went to school at Yale University. After this, he was stationed in France during World War I. Returning home after traveling a great deal, he is unhappy and decides to move to the East at the beginning of the summer of 1922, renting a broken down house in Long Island's West Egg section. He begins working in nearby New York City as a bondsman and it is here ...
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Violence Against Women Twenty Years Ago
1,950 wordsIn David Williamson Part A In his play The Club, David Williamson presents numerous Australian attitudes of the 1970 s. However, many of these attitudes are still relevant and fairly accurate representations of Australian attitudes in the 1990 s, although some of course have changed somewhat over the time since the play was written nearly twenty years ago. Tradition plays a very important part in The Club. Each of the characters of course has his own ideas and attitudes towards tradition, but th...
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Gulliver Travels Side Of Human Nature
1,697 wordsGulliver's Travels Gulliver's Crushed Spirit Although Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift has long been thought of as a childrens story, it is actually a dark satire on the fallacies of human nature. The four parts of the book are arranged in a planned sequence, to show Gulliver's optimism and lack of shame with the Lilliputians, decaying into his shame and disgust with humans when he is in the land of the Houyhnhnms. The Brobdingnagians are more hospitable than the Lilliputians, but Gulliver's...
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