Notes on Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times Outstanding Writer Course: Dr Z. Ramin Sara Khazai ‚ 2014 Historical Background: 1950s-1960s In The Sixties‚ Arthur Marwick describes the Fifties as “rigid”: [R]igid social hierarchy; subordination of women to men and children to parents; repressed attitudes toward sex; racism; unquestioning respect for the authority in the family‚ education‚ government‚ the law‚ and religion‚ and for the nation-state‚ the national flag‚ the national anthem; Cold War
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find Christian faith is the underlying theme in much of Flannery O’Connor’s writing. As she herself writes‚ “I write the way I do because (not though) I am a Catholic” (O’Connor‚ “On Her Catholic Faith” 435). Without keeping her Christian background in focus‚ it is impossible to fully understand and interpret O’Connor’s stories. Her major subjects‚ according to Frederick J. Hoffman‚ include the struggle for redemption‚ the search for Jesus‚ and the meaning of ‘prophecy’
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Marriage and Divorce in Dickens’ Hard Times: A Statement on the Religious Morals of 19th Century British Society The Victorian era in England gave birth to the first real industrial society the world had ever seen. With the rise of industry came large cities‚ an expanded working class population and the rapid rise of imperialism. Although England was progressing towards a more powerful place in the world‚ its citizens seemed to be drifting in the opposite direction. Oppressive laws and working conditions
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Conflict‚ however hard can result in a positive change. Identifying conflict in ones life and overcoming it can be beneficial to a person’s happiness and well being no matter how hard circumstances may be. In Beresford’s ’Paradise Road’ many of the characters displayed positive change even after being kept in a ’prison’ from the war. Even though the women experienced horrendous images and tragedies‚ they managed to be optimistic after being held in captivity. Some of the women had their values
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Dan Ramirez 6/18/2013 English Professor Jenkings Final Draft Hard Work Does Pay Off When I was born my father had to leave Peru. He left my mother and I to go to the United States. He didn’t leave my mother and I because he didn’t love us anymore. He left us so that he could go work his butt off. He wanted his wife and his son to have a better life. He wanted me to have opportunities that he couldn’t have for
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#1 A Closer Look Into “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” By James ENC-1102 The short story I chose for my critical essay is a story that caught my attention with a gentle and inspiring title and as I began to turn pages it suddenly evolved into a theme that caught me off guard and I quickly became intrigued by elusive style of writing the author used to express this story in a unique form of literature. After reading Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ I will discuss the vivid historical
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Hard work leads to success Hard work is the key to success. Nothing can be achieved without hard work. Work‚ work‚ ever work‚ is a great panacea. Edison worked for twenty-one hours a day. He slept only for two or three hours on the laboratory tables with his books as his pillow. Our beloved Prime Minister late Pt. Nehru‚ worked for seventeen hours a day and seven days a week. There were no holidays in his calendar. Mahatma Gandhi worked ceaselessly day and night and won freedom for his
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Chapter 21 Hard Determinism and Libertarianism 1. Free will and the hypothesis of mechanism In the previous chapter we looked at two arguments meant to show that no choice or action anyone ever makes is a choice or action made freely. Both arguments depend crucially on the idea that the behaviour of people‚ even their thoughtfully willed behaviour‚ is no less the mechanical result of prior events than is the behaviour of anything else in the world. Both arguments‚ that is‚ explicitly suppose
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1. What problems did the Rank Group find with the Hard Rock’s three main internal information systems (restaurant operations‚ merchandising‚ and financial)? Why was this a problem? [table] | |Problems | |Restaurant Operations |Nothing was standard because of franchises-each store was different | |
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Although introduced almost seventy-three years apart‚ Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times‚ and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis share many common parallels and themes. Through the use of biblical allusions‚ both Lang and Dickens are able to compare characters in their stories to holy figures such as Freder and Stephen Blackpool being alluded to as Christ-like. Both stories also show the harsh effects of industrialization‚ and present similar situations of with the school children and factory workers living
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