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The Wages Of Whiteness: Race And The Making Of The American Working Class
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1009.... Associating with Blacks
was considered inappropriate, and the whites had to protect themselves from
Blacks. Clearly, we can acknowledge of hatred towards Blacks. In Columbia,
Pennsylvania 1834, skilled workers went on riots hysterically fueled by the
threat of inter-racial sex. Again, we see that society did not
want Blacks to mix with white. This was more emphasized with white women
mixing with black men, because the white working class did not want the
physical blending of black and white people. Mobs were against black causes.
“As David Grimsted has shown, the ten .....
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“All Quiet On The Western Front”: Effects Of War
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 746.... life apart. Paul began to think when he was in the shell-hole with the French soldier. This is significant because he realized that “the Enemy” were just men much like himself, with family, friends and most of all, life This also shows great insight because Paul feels the tremendous guilt for taking a man’s life, and attempts to fight against the idea of war. In war, men, who might otherwise be brothers, fight each other without knowing that the other side is human as well.
The author describes the horrors and sights of war at the front line. Along the way, Paul sees the dea .....
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Lord Of The Flies
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1934.... rape, with the boys ravenously
jumping atop the pig and brutalizing it, alludes to Freud's basis of the
pleasure drive in the libido, the term serving a double Lntendre in its
psychodynamic and physically sensual sense.
Jack's unwillingness to acknowledge the conch as the source of centrality on
the island and Ralph as the seat of power is consistent with the portrayal
of his particular self-importance. Freud also linked the id to what he
called the destructive drive, the aggressiveness of self-ruin. Jack's
antithetical lack of compassion for nature, for others, and ult .....
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The Infinity Mirror
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 716.... her bare hands.
She leaves the killing to exposure to the elements, enying herself a look
into Tularecito.
Franklin adopts Pancho's demon, and Tularecito transforms into a
disadvantaged who has been gifted with talent. Tularecito becomes a man at
the age of six, "The boy grew rapidly, but after the fifth year his brain
did not grow any more," To Franklin, Tularecito is grace, and graceless.
He is talented in all things of any physical strength, and well proficient
in the creation of beauty, and an artist in the care for life of nature.
The touch of Tularecito brings beauty, a .....
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Yugoslavia-a Land Torn Apart
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1575.... the Aegean Sea and the Danube, and the Iron Gates of the Danube, linking Central Europe and the Black Sea, that controlled much of the trade between the Mediterranean and Central Europe since ancient times. Most of the populations have lived separated from each other geographically and culturally, developing very strong national and tribal allegiances. This region is a frontier between Eastern and Western European civilizations and has also been influnced by Islam during the Turkish invasion.
The roots of the conflict in the Balkans go back hundreds of years. Farther than .....
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Huck Finn's Conflict With Society
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 851.... remember the cause. They kill each
other in duels for no reason, but say that it was in the name of honor.
All of this hypocrisy makes Huck want to rebel against this society.
Hypocrisy is still present in society today. There are many
reported cases of clergy having affairs or molesting children. For
instance, Reverend Baker has had relationships with prostitutes. He always
apologizes, but then he does it again. One of the precepts of the Catholic
religion is to follow the instructions of the Pope. Many Catholics however,
do not follow the Pope's instructions on b .....
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Analysis Of The Red Scare
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2344.... 18, 1917, which was put in place during World War I for the armed forces to be able to conscript more Americans. This law caused many problems for the conscientious objector to WWI, because for one to claim that status, one had to be a member of a "well-recognized" religious organization which forbade their members to participation in war. As a result of such unyeilding legislation, 20,000 conscientious objectors were inducted into the armed forces. Out of these 20,000, 16,000 changed their minds when they reached military camps, 1300 went to non-combat units, 1200 g .....
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Harper Lee: Introduction To Harper Lee
Number of pages: 19 | Number of words: 5172.... style. Her main interests, she says, are "collecting the memoirs of
nineteenth century clergymen, golf, crime, and music." She is a Whig in
political thought and believes in "Catholic emancipation and the repeal of
the corn laws."
Sources Of To Kill A Mockingbird Among the sources for Miss Lee's novel are
the following:
(1) National events: This novel focuses on the role of the
Negro in Southern life, a life with which Miss Lee has been
intimately associated. Although it does not deal with civil
rights as such - for example, the right to vote - it is greatly
conce .....
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