.... sleep for a while. While he slept, Wang Lung absorbed strength from the earth. It healed his spirit and he awoke ready to work. Wang Lung’s first experience away from his land was troubling for him. He had worked the land since the beginning of his life. He depended on it for his subsistence, as did his family. When a serious drought came, he had to abandon his land and travel in search of a way to feed his family. He and his family moved south, to a big city, where he found work. Although his family was fed, he still longed for his land. When he returned, he felt as .....

.... llich Lenin, favored establishment of a centralized communist society. The other faction, the Mensheviks favored establishment of a constitutional government because they believed Russia was not ready for revolution. In reality, neither party held a real majority, and many political figures became powerful and then were expelled. Leon Trotsky joined the Bolsheviks and supported plans that would be for the good of all Russian people. Joseph Stalin built consensus with the members of several factions. In the final stages Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized power and formed .....

.... obsessed with gold and riches. The same obsession for money was in all of the characters. Zerkow was viewed as a "lost" soul and Trina as a proper young lady, yet they were both almost exactly alike. Here are some quotes on greed. "Miser, nasty little old miser. You're worse than old Zerkow, always nagging about money, money, and you got five thousand dollars. You got more, an' you live in that stinking hole of a room, and you won't drink any decent beer." "She don't care if I get wet and get a cold and die. No, she don't, as long as she's warm and got her money." Greed in the .....

.... town called Dawson’s Landing. Dave Wilson was a new citizen. He had a law degree, but when he moved in he ruined his reputation by saying, “I wish I owned half of that dog, because I would kill my half”. Every one called him instead of Dave Wilson. His career, as a lawyer was ruined, no one would come to him to seek advice. His hobby was keeping fingerprints of everyone it the town. People thought him crazy, but in the end I was worth it. Robert Regan stated, “Wilson was to be a satirized hero, a man who revels in being praised for the wrong reasons by the wrong people.” This .....

.... April 11, 1718, the second was in 1726. After his first confinment Francois Marie Arouet adopter the name Voltaire, which later became synonymous for horatian sarcasm towards the aristocracy of France, whether it was truly his work or not. This is how Voltaire once again found himself in the Bastille. Falsely accused of the authorship of a politically abrasive poem, he was imprisoned. Once released Voltaire was forced to travel to England, but returned to France three years later, in 1729, and began his prolific career. One of Voltaire’s most notable pieces is , published in .....

.... mystical about them. Only places that children dreamed about were used. These were places such as palaces, and Kingdoms, mystical forests or a witches castle. One story was of a lonely cabin located in a mystical forest. I suppose places like these were used to provoke the children imagination. Many of the themes I found to be quite common. I quite often found them to be about a boy and a girl and them getting together. There was also usually some sort of a competition were the protagonist would win and get the girl. The boy and the girl were often a prince and a prince .....

.... cup his hands for a drink, he without thinking, plunges his entire head into the water leads to support to the idea of a slightly slow, child-like, innocent man. The lack of looking if the water was running shows Lennie’s position as a character with little or no common sense. He just does things less carefully than he should, though without negative intent. Also, Lennie is portrays himself as a very caring individual. While he enjoys his drink, he had to make sure his friend George would not be dehydrated. 3. Quote: “’Lennie!’ [George] said sharply. ‘Lennie, for God’ sake .....

.... of man, which kept her and her sisters from developing their minds. She felt that females back then should have the same rights as women have achieved through the Civil Rights Movement today. Her answer to this was "A Religious Retirement." It is Mary Astell's ideal place to end her intellectual suffering and open new doors for the female mind. I feel that Mary went a little to far with this idea. She wanted to segregate males and females, live in a convent, and find alternates to marriage for women, which, I guess, would be the same as living in a convent. M .....