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1984: The Party Has Many Slogans
... eyes follow you about when you move. Big Brother Is
Watching You, the caption beneath it ran (5).
This poster shows Big Brother as having a face. Big Brother was not an
individual person so he did not have a “face”. The face, however, gives Big
Brother a human quality. By doing so, the government puts itself on the same
level of humanity as the citizens that it governs. The people are supposed to
feel more comfortable with a ruling party that is just like them. The billboard
is also found on every landing and every streetcorner. The overbearing number
of posters is a way for the Party to continuously remind its citizens of its
presence and ...
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Who Am I This Time
... days. It's the same boring routine every day; there is no excitement in their lives. They seem to avoid doing anything new because they are complacent in their narrow views of reality. They only feel comfortable with each other. Harry roams in and out of acting rolls and Helene wanders from city to city. They are never able to sit still long enough to decide who they are. Once they are done with a job, it is on to the next, with a chance of finding themselves anew. Harry would always leave right after he was done acting. Before anyone could tell he would wander off. He would never stay long enough for the cast parties partly because he couldn't take praise very wel ...
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The Stone Angel And The Fifth Business: Analysis Of The Main Characters
... Business, for
whom the snowball was intended, feels extremely guilty because he knew that
Percy Staunton with whom he had earlier a fight, would throw one final
snowball at him before he goes into the house for supper. To avoid the
coming snowball he dodges around pregnant Mrs. Dempster who at the same
time gets hit on the head, causing her great pain. Dunny is just reaching
puberty and listening to his mother's reports on the premature birth of
Paul Dempster gave him the sense that he is directly involved in it.
Furthermore, he has been raised in a strict Presbyterian household that has
encouraged him to feel guilty about almost every lapse of duty.
So a ...
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The Red Badge Of Courage: Fear
... from the first battle he feels embarrassed because he
didn't have a wound. No one knew he ran so he still had his pride and
after that his attitude changed and he began fighting with no fear.
Tom Wilson is another young sodier in the 304th regiment who is called
the loud soldier. When he is in the tent talking to Henry and conklin he
talks about how he will not run and take on the whole army on by himself.
When he is in the first battle he tries to run but is caught by an officer
and made to go back and fight. His attitude changed from being confident
to being scard of fighting.
Jim conklin is also a soldier in the 304th regiment who talks with
Henry an ...
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International Economic Policy: Book Review
... issues related to international trade that one can study,
however as it is usually the case, this book was to examine only some of them.
The author, in some parts of his book, was to concentrate on the question of
adjusting the US trade deficit against with Japan. He was to show the American
point of view that argues that Japanese terms of trade are unfair (104). Also he
was to refer to the North American Free Trade Agreement and reflect how it is
beneficial for Mexico (as first developing country to join the US and Canada)
which could not gain support from Europe to develop (as Europe was to
concentrate on its own further development and unity at the moment), and ...
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Joy Luck Club: Conflicts Faced By June And Her Mother
... topics as finding our life's importance,
making choices, and understanding ourselves and our families.
Most of the conflicts that June and her mother face are based on
misunderstandings and negligence concerning each other's feelings and
beliefs. June does not understand or even fully know her mother because she
does not know about her tragic past and t he pain she still feels from the
memory of it. Because Suyuan lost two daughters in China, and her entire
family was killed in the war, she leaves this place behind her and places
all of her hopes in America and her family there. She wants the very best f
or her daughter June. Even her name, Suyuan, meaning "lon ...
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Summary Of Cue For Treason
... is a very bright and smart boy. But Peter didn't like him at all when they met each other. They still become friends in the company.
In Chapter 8, Kit finally tells Peter that she is a girl, she ran away home from her gudience because her own very reason. They also met the man from Stratford, William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is a very understanding man, he is nice to Peter and Kit. They both join Shakespeare's acting company. Kit's play as a Juliet very well. Everybody in town is all talking about Kit's act. But when every thing is ready to go on to stage for the play of Shakespeare's company. Kit ran away at the last moment. Nobody knows why. They put Peter on the ...
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Sphere
... think that this wasn't just any airline crash. I knew something was up. Later Barnes called a meeting where I learned that we were all here for reason. Barnes told us that a UFO crashed. I was skeptical at first and didn't believe it. Then bares said we are going to go down and take a look at it, I thought this meant them but a few hours later I was going to the bottom in a submarine.
The site is 1,000 feet under water which is shallow compared tot he rest of the pacific. At the site there was a huge grid on lights and a massive metallic fin sticking up out of the grid. It was part of the craft and it looked like nothing I have ever seen. We settled into he habita ...
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Catcher In The Rye Holdens Sig
... school he attends because he fails to apply himself, his simple reasoning being “How do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t” (213). Everybody else in his life tries to encourage him to care about school and his grades but it doesn’t make any difference. From the start of the novel Holden’s history teacher at Pencey tells him “I’d like to put some sense in that head of yours, boy. I’m trying to help you. I’m trying to help you, if I can” (14). But the fact of the matter is he can’t help him, Holden has to help himself. The drive to succeed has to ...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God 2
... Janie to make no friends at school.
When Janie is sixteen years old her grandmother marries her off to a potato farmer named Logan Killicks. Janie’s grandmother feels that Janie needs to be married to a man that can take care of her so that she isn’t wasted on someone who can not support her. The marriage to Logan does not work out for Janie. Logan sees her as a spoiled child who needs to learn to be a farm wife. Logan becomes one of the many people who do not give Janie a chance to be herself.
During her marriage to Logan Janie meets Joe Starks and runs off with him. Janie desperately wants Joe to be the one person to understand her and ...
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