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- 201: The Great Gatsby - The America
- ... That is why she did not live the American dream. The American dream is all about happiness. I believe that if you are happy with what has happened with you in life, then you have lived the American dream. Sure Daisy seems happy, but inside she went through 5 years of hell. My second example is Gatsby. There could not be a better example of someone who has lived a life that is a total opposite to American dream. How did he become rich? He was a bootlegger. He got his money illegally. What did he concentrate on for the past 5 years? He ... mattered because had someone not killed him, I m sure he would have committed suicide. He couldn t bear to live another second in life. You could tell because as I stated before, all he lived for was Daisy and he couldn t have her. And so that was the end of that tale. Tom is the one who is closest to living the American dream. He might be the ...
- 202: Hesse's Siddhartha: Siddhartha's Character
- ... for more intellect and perspective in his life and from there on he endured many transitions. Siddhartha let himself experience all forms of life in his society. He unhesitatingly learned more about how different people lived by stepping into their shoes. He gained the vast varieties of intellect and perspective that he had longed for through his diversity, and he shrewdly applied it to compose his accurate philosophies of everyday life ... learned all he had to learn amongst his elders, and he was right. He chose to follow another path in life, a path that would show him another part of how people in his world lived. Siddhartha did not allow himself to stick to something that he could not feel to be right, thus he could not stay and worship the gods his father worshipped. He, as discontent people long for ... worth when he was in a more quieter and reserved life. He meditated a while before he joined the ferryman in the last phase of his long pursuance. Siddhartha finally felt at peace when he lived with Vasudeva. Vasudeva taught Siddhartha how to listen to the river, and be patient and capable of waiting in life. It was when Siddhartha was with Vasudeva that he encountered the son he had ...
- 203: Gays: A Struggle For Acceptance
- ... with the GI's longing for leave so he could go downtown and find himself a prostitute. What these movies do not show is a new community, within the military, of homosexuals who until now lived socially isolated lives because they were either unsure of what they were or of their sexual preferences or just plain scared of what people would think if they found out their secret. In the military ... now. The first organization for gays was founded in Germany. The Scientific Humanitarian Committee wanted to abolish the German anti-gay penal code and to educate the public on being gay. The movement was short lived and was disintegrated when the Nazi regime came to power. There was also an effort for gay organizing in Chicago during the 1920s but they dissolved without major recognition. Then came the Mattachine Society. It ... for homosexuals having to fight for recognition and acceptance against what seemed to be the entire American public? Before World War II, the public was uneducated and unaware of the gay and lesbian society they lived with. Like a child, they were easily affected by government doctrine, justified by the government's need to keep the economy growing by uniting the people with false anti-Communist anti- gay propaganda and ...
- 204: Hostile Takeover Of The New Wo
- ... and the Sioux, Cheyenne and other remaining tribes. The Indians believed it was wrong to sell their land. They believed it was theirs and a price could not be put on the fields where they lived, cultivated crops and hunted buffalo. Donehogwa best summed up Indian dissatisfaction by saying, " Although this country was once wholly inhabited by Indians, the tribes, and many of them once powerful, who occupied the countries now ... would not give into reservation life without a fight. And fight they did. They killed 224 of General Custer's men in The Battle of Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876. But, their victory was short lived. The betrayal that resulted was sickening. Crazy Horse, and Ogala Sioux, was assassinated. The Nez Perces were wiped out and Chief Joseph was said to have died of a broken heart shortly after.(Brown, 330 ... are neither truthful nor accurate. Stereotypes and prejudices replaced unity and togetherness. Pollution haunts every city on the planet. Respect of one's fellow man gave way to crimes unthought of by the Indians. They lived their lives honorably. They died honorably. Even despite hardships and misconceptions, they will continue to live honorably. That is one thing the government can never take away from them. Word Count: 2968
- 205: A Rose For Emily: Emily’s Disbelief In The Truth
- ... only way she knew how, death. Homer and Emily were too different to be together. He was part of the new generation that held a contrasting belief to the old generations views. When Homer, whom lived in the present, wanted to take his pleasure and move on, Emily was hurt. “Breaking up is hard for almost everyone. Few like the idea of starting over again. The idea of finding someone ... the past is a “diminishing road”. (p. 129) I think the real problem with Emily was that she couldn’t let go, her father, Homer and even the old Negro. The fact that she lived in the past played a huge role in her actions because she feared being alone and she feared becoming human. She was called a “Fallen Monument” because she was so unreal. She never escaped ... really a war with the past and present. Her beliefs sealed everyone out and kept her sheltered in her world. Because she was monumental she was inhuman and when she died I think she really lived.
- 206: Harriet Tubman
- ... and safely got them all to Frederick Douglass house in Pennsylvania. There they waited until money could be found to transport them to St. Catherine s, an area in Canada where white and black people lived peacefully together.6 Harriet got jobs in the north to pay for her next rip down south to rescue people out of slavery. When the times got rough, because of fugitive slave laws, she and ... to be found. Harriet's rule was that time was freedom, and she waited for no one, this caused her to leave the scene without Henry. The first stop was the cabin where her parents lived, which was forty miles north. Although it was a treacherous hike through forests, hills, rivers, and creeks, Harriet led the group to the cabin without any problems, arriving late Christmas Eve. Since Tubman had not ... Victoria in 1897. It was not until 1857, after she had gone to the south for her parents, that she retired to her home in Auburn. She married a man named Nelson Davis and they lived together until his death in 1908. There she resided, poor, but she still helped people by opening her home to them. Her last years were spent running her home to shelter and feed the ...
- 207: Abraham Of Chaldea
- ... seventy years of age he moved with his family to live in Haran. The reason he moved was because "The God of glory appeared to our father Abram when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, and said to him, "Depart from your country and your relatives, and come into the land that I will show you." 2 While in Haran, Abram's father died and God spoke to ... had in mind for Sodom and Gomorrah. At this time, God allowed Abraham to negotiated with Him over destroying the cities if any righteous people were found living their. As it was, no righteous people lived in these cities, not even Lot and his family. The next morning, Abraham got up early in the morning and saw the fate of the cities as smoke rose "up as the smoke of a ... the Hittites n the field of Machpelah. The next significant act of Abraham was to procure a suitable wife for Isaac. He commanded his eldest servant to go to Haran, where Abraham's brother Nahor lived to get Isaac's wife. The servant went to Haran with many camels and gifts. When he got to Haran, he made the camels kneel down by a well during the evening. He did ...
- 208: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... number 6- a book reviewed by a newspaper (my own doing). A unique cooperation between the New- York Times, the most influential newspaper in the world, Mark Twain, one of the most popular novelists ever lived: Mark Twain s is a novel about a young boy s coming of age in the Missouri of the mid-1800s. It is the story of Huck s struggle to win freedom for himself and ... a plea for humanity, for the end of caste, and of its cruelties (Allen 260). Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. During his childhood he lived in Hannibal, Missouri, a Mississippi river port that was to become a large influence on his future writing. It was Twain s nature to write about where he lived, and his nature to criticize it if he felt it necessary. As far his structure, Kaplan said, In plotting a book his structural sense was weak: intoxicated by a hunch, he seldom saw far ...
- 209: Anna Knight
- lived a long and prosperous life. During her lifetime, she accomplished many things and did a lot of great things for the church and her community. She was born in 1874 in Mississippi, but her family ... Vernon, she continued her education at Battle Creek College in Michigan where she prepared herself to be a missionary nurse. When she graduated, she chose to return home to Mississippi. She remembered the conditions she lived in while she was there, and remembered all the kids like her who were not allowed into schools and didn't have a chance to get a formal education. She decided she wanted to start ... organized. In total, Anna Knight worked for 16 union presidents, 38 local conference presidents, 8 union Sabbath school and home missionary secretaries, 22 union education and missionary volunteer secretaries and 5 union colored secretaries. She lived for 98 years, and died in 1972 at the Riverside Sanitarium. She is buried on the Knight's family plot near Soso Mississippi.
- 210: St. John The Evangelist
- Throughout the human history there have been many saints who have lived among us. They followed Jesus’ principles and they did God’s will. One of the earliest saints was St. John, and he lived during the times of Jesus. His childhood and his date of birth are unknown, but it is well known that he was one of the best followers and students of Jesus. St. John was the ... little children, love one another.” When he was asked why he said it he replied, “Because it is the word of the Lord, and if you keep it you do enough.” He lived to an extreme old age, surviving all his fellow apostles, and died about the year 100. St. John is called the Apostle of Charity, a virtue he had learned from his Divine Master. He ...
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