All works of Utopian literature are designed to present ideologies and protest. Through this they have maintained their popularity whilst retaining the ability to reformulate. This ability to reformulate itself has created a way for authors to explore and investigate ideologies and protests whilst keeping the issues contextual to the time. More has done this extremely well‚ establishing the genre at the beginning of the 16th century‚ in his novella Utopia. By using Rafael as the narrator he successfully
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1865 To My Old Master‚ Colonel P.H. Anderson‚ Big Spring‚ Tennessee Sir: I got your letter‚ and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon‚ and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again‚ promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this‚ for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin’s to kill the Union
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around her. She changed those around her for the better and everyone admired Alaska Young. This story is set in modern times at a boarding school in Alabama. The most important characters of this book are Alaska Young‚ Miles "Pudge" Halter‚ Chip "Colonel" Martin‚ Lara Buterskaya‚ and Takumi Hikohito. Alaska Young is a flat and static character. At the beginning of the book Alaska is very lively and exciting but sometimes she would have quick mood changes and she
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Burnside resigns his commission in the U.S. Army and organizes Bristol Rifle Works in order to manufacture his invention‚ the Burnside carbine. * April 16‚ 1861 – During the beginning of the American Civil War‚ Ambrose E. Burnside is commissioned colonel of the 1st Rhode Island Volunteers. * July 21‚ 1861 - Ambrose E. Burnside leads his 1st Rhode Island Volunteers in the First Battle of Manassas. * August 6‚ 1861 - Ambrose E. Burnside is appointed brigadier general of U.S. Volunteers‚ after
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Evan Hour 3 October 28‚ 2013 “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive” (Green 218). In John Green’s‚ Looking for Alaska‚ Alaska and her friends are searching for the way of the “labyrinth” while finding their Great Perhaps at the same time. All of the characters in Looking for Alaska‚ especially Pudge are trying to find their Great Perhaps during the duration of the novel. For example‚ when Pudge learns he is going to attend Culver Creek‚ he thinks that he will be
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the question‚ “How did she die?”. Another example of Faulkner presenting questions is in one part of the story where the narrator goes back to an account of Miss. Emily banishing the taxes collectors from her house. “See Colonel Sartoris.”‚ Miss. Emily replied‚ (Colonel Sartois has been dead almost ten years.) “I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!” The Negro appeared. “Show these gentleman out.” So she vanquished them‚ horse and foot‚ just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before
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conducted his household”. However‚ those belonging in higher classes‚ such as Colonel Bradford‚ have the power to leave infected areas and are able to change their destiny unlike the lower classes such as Anna or Elinor although the colonel’s “family was first here...villagers look to
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timing of this incident. It is significant to the series of events since Stanhope is in a terrible mental state due to the news he has just received from the colonel. Although Stanhope was aware that the big attack was imminent‚ The Colonel reinforced the fact that there would be no help from either company. In addition to that‚ the Colonel had brought news of the ‘absurd’ raid‚ the Brigadier wanted planned for that afternoon‚ in ‘broad daylight’. This
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When the city authorities come to tell her that she can no longer be remitted from her taxes‚ she sends them off by saying‚ "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson" (35). Emily continues to insist on an agreement she had with Colonel Sartoris remitting her from paying her taxes‚ even after the Colonel has been dead for ten years. The people in this small town put her on a pedestal instead of throwing her in jail where she actually belongs. The loneliness of
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to the demands of the new era of post-Civil War. After her father’s death‚ Emily began to receive tax notices in the mail and she simply ignored them or mailed them back without comment. Emily believes that she is exempt from paying taxes because “Colonel Sartoris”‚ a sheriff of previous generations‚ “invented an involved tale
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