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an underlying hierarchy of power, as well, that transcends through the populace itself, creating other levels of domination among ...
book, the first reaction could be "mad scientist" or "ugly monster." Hollywood, if nothing else, has done a very good job of takin...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...
and set off to search for a way to survive. They were a people, a family, that illustrated how "The movement of people on the Plai...
His wife does not seem to be well and is anxious all the time about what is to become of them. Obstinately refusing to believe tha...
British colonials who ruled that nation. The Mau Mau rebellion actually began in 1952 in highland Kenya, a British colony where w...
Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...
up by identifying Buck as a dog, but throughout the course of the text, the complex dog-hero is amazingly human in terms of his pe...
I couldnt ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cru...
because he is not at all athletic. In fact, he is rather pudgy and homely himself. He claims to like parties and social gatherin...
"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...
that stands out in the novel as the most meaningful, however, is the poet, philosopher, physician, and political prisoner Yurii Zh...
large family and its members extraordinary lives gave her much company and entertainment (one brother married their cousin, the Co...
direct order--never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons fo...
therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...
"Heart of Darkness" about Marlows river journeys in the Congo, questions of the inhumane treatment of Africans began to surface. T...
emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...
gas in Taylorville, Illinois" (Anonymous The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver bean_trees.asp). A small abandoned Cherokee child es...
the chapter "Penelope", the readers is somehow seduced into believing that Mollys thoughts and monologue are somehow unmediated (S...
during the nineteenth century they had been regarded as little more than an obstacle in the American quest for land and its resour...
people and the reader often finds himself shaking his head in amazement at what these people had to endure in order for this proje...
where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...
his life -- and that of everyone elses, as well -- had become a mere mockery of human existence. "Winstons body dealt with his fr...
the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...
was neither a hearer nor a companion of the Lord; but afterwards, as I said, he accompanied Peter, who adapted his teachings as ne...
is to truly examine our lives. It may seem that living a life of wealth would be easy and would negate the necessity of deeper ex...
them. There was no such thing as government agencies in those days that would provide help for these children. In this novel, Mo...
aunt and uncle reluctantly agree. Chen commits that they did not oppose this plan "too vigorously" because they were "apprehensive...
this political cruelty that is shown nearly crushing his characters in every novel has the danger of becoming common place, and th...
a woman with a very strong sense of the Chinese culture. It is, in these respects, a novel that speaks of searching for identity a...