In his groundbreaking work The Search for Order 1877-1920‚ Robert Wiebe seeks to prove that the drastic changes seen in America at the turn of the century were not disconnected singular events. Instead there was a singular “deep-flowing current‚ which gave unity and meaning to the period as a whole” (VII). This current was the shift from small town American and their values to the new bureaucratically-minded middle class and the development of values to help cope with this new focus of society
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ‘‘The overalls of the workers were white‚ their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen‚ dead‚ a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance‚ lying along the polished tubes like butter‚ streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables’’ (Huxley 8). 1. This is the narrator describing the uniform of the Conditioning Centre. 2. Everything in the centre was
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The Brave Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Anderson a short story of the experience of a tin soldier. In the beginning of the story there are 25 tin soldiers made out of one tin spoon in a tin box. One of the tin soldiers is different from the others; it only has one tin leg to stably stand on. Throughout the story the soldier faces many problems because he has one leg. But‚ regardless falls in love with a ballerina who is also standing on one leg near a castle. The themes of this story are multiple
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Allusions to the "Brave New World" 1. Ford Henry Ford (1863-1947) revolutionized the automobile industry with the assembly line method of production‚ which proved very successful for 15 million Model Ts were sold. Humans were similarly produced in the Brave New World where the embryos passed along a conveyor belt while a worker or machine would have a specific task dealing with the specimen. Again‚ this assembly line method proved very successful. 2. Lenina Vladmir Lenin (1870-1924) founded
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Robert Browning is very well known for his exploration of the psychology of people through his use of the dramatic monologue. Many of his pieces deal with individuals who possess seemingly uncommon morals and sometimes appear irrational‚ misguided‚ or even deranged. The various behaviours Browning’s characters express serve to personify many common outlooks among his contemporaries as well as provide a framework within which he could express his opinions about Victorian ideals in an effective and
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Robert Frost was an American Poet highly regarded for his realistic depiction and use of imagery involved in conceptualizing rural life. His work commonly used the monstrous theme of death and nature‚ using the setting of each piece to examine complex philosophical and social subject matters. The poems I chose to analyze are “The Vanishing Red”‚ “Home Burial”‚ and “Death of a Hired Man.” Each poem exhibits the theme of “death” in their own way as a result of the differences in setting and through
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Leonidas and the Brave 300 “This is Sparta”. This line was made famouse in now the Popular movie “300”. It is a story about king of Sparta Leonidas and 300 Spartan soldiers as they stood against the force of the Persians. But what is the real story about Leonidas and his 300 soldiers. Little is known about Leonidas other then stories about him that was written. According to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus in The History of Herodotus‚ Leonidas was in command of the now famous 300 Spartans
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In ‘Home of the Brave’ Kek and Ganwar faced many challenges‚ some were different some were the same. Both had their moments in which they were a little better at something than the other. Kek was better at finding a job‚ while Ganwar was better and understanding some of the American ways. Kek faced many challenges that Ganwar already faced‚ Ganwar has been in America a bit longer than Kek so most the things that Kek was having troubles with Ganwar already learned. There are a couple challenges that
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Confederate General who led southern forces against the Union Army in the American Civil War‚ Robert Edward Lee was born January 19‚ 1807‚ in Stratford Hall‚ Virginia. Lee was cut from Virginia aristocracy. His extended family members included a president‚ a chief justice of the United States‚ and signers of the Declaration of Independence. His father‚ Colonel Henry Lee‚ also known as "Light-Horse Harry‚" had served as a cavalry leader during the Revolutionary War and gone on to become one of the
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working hard‚ never giving up‚ and self-improvement) in Robert Lipsyte’s The Contender because Alfred learns this message and does the work to become a boxer. Evidence of this is when‚ "You have to start by wanting to be a contender‚ the man coming up‚ the man who knows there’s a good chance he’ll never get to the top‚ the man who’s willing to sweat and bleed to get up as high as his legs and his brains and his heart will take him" (Lipsyte‚ 25). This shows a character vs. self conflict because Alfred
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