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- 891: The Plot Of Great Gatsby
- ... has experienced, Nick decides to leave New York and return to the Midwest. He ends his relationship with Jordan Baker and learns from Tom Buchanan that it was he, Tom, who told Wilson where Gatsby lived. Before Nick leaves the East, he stands one more time on the beach near Gatsby's house looking out at the green light that his friend had worshipped. Here he pays his final tribute to Gatsby and to the dream for which he lived, and died.
- 892: The Symbolism Of Religion And Comparison
- ... was always lying and being bad. On his confession day his mother sent Nora go with Jackie. Nora ordered Jackie to tell all of his sins, including how he was mean to the grandmother who lived with them. Ozzie seemed troubled to Rabbi Binder in "Conversion of the Jews". In reality Jackie wasn't bad at all, he was just a boy who wanted answers to his questions. And that was ... really a Christ. So with the point that Ozzie was trying to make helped to convert everyone and their beliefs. Jackie, like Ozzie, was also troubled in "First Confession". He was a young boy who lived with his family, including the grandmother. Jackie believed the grandmother didn't like him very much, so he did mean things to her like hide under the table when she cooked dinner. When it came ...
- 893: George Orwell Wrote 1984 As A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... been written directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it" ("George Orwell"). George Orwell has been a major contributor to anti-communist literature around the World War II period. Orwell lived in England during World War II, a time when the totalitarianism state, Nazi Germany, was at war with England and destroyed the city of London. "'I know that building' said Winston finally. Its a ruin ... warmth, but in actuality it's the complete opposite. It's a place of hate and pain and is cold and dark. A better name for it would be the Ministry of Hate. George Orwell lived during a time when Europe was in a period of rebuilding after World War II. During that time Soviets gained six nations as satellites. England was helpless and had to worry about their own problems ...
- 894: Marcus Aurelius
- ... he had money and privileges, and was royalty, he never became tranquil, or at peace with himself, with these material riches. It is evident when a person reads Meditations that Aurelius would much rather have lived the quite life of a philosopher than the public life of an emperor. He always wished that, at some point in his life, maybe when the wars were over, he would have some time to ... to read. Although the vast majority of the philosophies included in Aurelius book still hold true and make sense, we know that at least one was wrong. Aurelius believed that even posthumous fame was short-lived, for a person s named is never carried from generation to generation. However, this melancholy collection of philosophies written by a lonely man centuries ago is still considered to be one of the most influential ...
- 895: Douglas Hurt's The Dust Bowl
- ... dust storms that took place from the early 1800’s until the 1930’s and on. Also included in The Dust Bowl are descriptive pictures, and a vision into the life of the people who lived through the horrible dust storms. R. Douglas Hurt found his information from a number of resources located throughout the United States. Hurt’s biggest resources came from newspapers of local towns located inside the Dust ... rancher who overgrazed the Plains and upon farmers for breaking too much sod for wheat. Citizens of the Dust Bowl wanted the film not to be shown because it made the areas in which they lived seem less than that of the east. Also, people such as Eugene Worley, a delegate to the Democratic Convention, did not want to film shown because it showed a relationship between the film and New ...
- 896: Succot: The Jewish Holiday
- After the Exodus from slavery in Egypt, the wandering Jews lived in tents or booths, called Succots. They were pitched wherever they happened to stop for the night. Today it is called the Succot the festival of booths remembering both the ancient agricultural booths and those ... harvest at the end of the annual dry season. During this time rites were performed to incourage the rains. Boughs of fruit trees and evergreens were made into little booths which the early Jewish farmers lived during the festival. The last day of Succot is called Simhat Torah. It means the "rejoicing of the Torah." On this day, the reading of the Torah is completed, and is then immidiately begun again ...
- 897: Irony Of Dickens In Oliver Twi
- ... class. Oliver's life begins in a workhouse, when in less than a year he is transferred to a private workhouse asylum. There he found poor conditions and poor nutrition. Some of the children who lived with Oliver died due to systematic starvation: Unfortunately for the experimental philosophy of the female to whose protecting care Oliver Twist was delivered over, a similar result usually attended to the operation of her system ... accident, in any one of which cases the miserable little being was usually summoned into another world, and there gathered to the fathers it had never known in this. Due to the fact that Oliver lived with the people who were supposed to take care of him he approached the line of starvation. The woman in charge would feed the children only enough food to keep them barely alive. She did ...
- 898: The Spaniard Quietist Miguel De Molinos
- ... in Rome, and "several communities of nuns" found themselves implicated in the scandal. One month after his sentence the "Gazette de France" published the news of Molino's dead; however, historians tells us that Molinos lived nine more years, dying at the age of sixty-eight on December 28, 1696. The Catholic Encyclopedia ends its article about Molinos saying: "He lived 9 more years of pious and exemplary behavior, perhaps practicing his teaching that elevated souls seek only the humiliations and scorn that it might please God to send". IV. Possible Options It is evident that ...
- 899: Moll Flanders
- ... the final outcome. Although Moll reached her goals in the end, she would have had a more fulfilling and gratifying life had she suppressed her vanity and price and accepted her role in society and lived accordingly. Moll began life in the low class. Not much nobility or status was expected of the orphan born in Newgate Prison, and in English society, there was little chance for Moll to escape this ... for herself. Opting for financial security, Moll married a man whom she did not love. After Robin's death, Moll once again sought to marry a well to do man. She did just that and lived extravagantly for a few years until her husband was imprisoned for his debts. Once again, Moll was placed in a position of faring for herself or marrying for money and once again the marriage did ...
- 900: Dinosaurs 2
- ... discovery. It was found during the Bone Wars, a period when Paleontology was very popular and competitive. It is believed to have been discovered by Robert Plot during the 1800’s (Benton 128). The Tyrannosaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous Period (Benton 124). This dinosaur was first believed to be cold-blooded, but now many scientists believe that it was warm-blooded and possibly evolved from birds. Although very small, the ... a flat snout. Paleontoligists believe that the Velociraptor was closely related to birds due to their body structure. There has also been evidence shown that the Velociraptor was one of the smartest dinosaurs that ever lived (Wilford 221). The Velociraptor was a cunning and swift carnivore. The Velociraptor ate meat which usually came from dinosaurs of the same size or from eggs or small babies. It was so smart that it ...
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