The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. ... She published her first children's book, The Big Box, in 1999, which she worked on with her son Slade, that focuses on describing the ways that well-meaning adults sometimes block their children's independence and creativity. ... She believes that it reminds people about their heritage and shows them their place in the community. ... Cholly as a ch...

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These are codes that were instituted by the early leaders of Jewish thought in order to strengthen the mitzvoth. ... For all acts one must repent both to God and to those who were wronged. The one who was wronged must be repented to first, for as God is all knowing he will know of your atonement and recognize it. ... This results in the ingraining of the invocation of their God's name upon every act, and their insistence of attributing everything, good and bad, to their God and his plan. Also, the codes that were developed were formed as a result of the harsh situations that they ofte...

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Achilles as the son of Thetis has a special relationship which allows him to communicate with the gods by way of Thetis's favor in the eyes of Zeus (Il. 1.490) Both characters are headstrong warriors; the epics do relate their preeminence in battle. ... In book I, Patroclus is shown to be obedient to Achilles (Il. 1.408), but slightly before that Achilles refers to him as diogenes, which is an obvious sign of respect. ... In the story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, the characters have a series of adventures in which we further watch the development of their relationship. The first event involv...

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After is friends were taken he got off the ship and onto a small raft that landed on an island. ... This particular section of the novel, of Sinbad's preliminary encounter on this new land, closely emulates the story of Adam and Eve, taken from the bible, out of the book of Genesis. ... " I (Sinbad) swallowed the pieces whole, and at the same time laughed and sang with them, the three women They were all laughing at me, laughing with malicious pleasure because I had joined this bloody fest- (64-65) In both stories the knowledge of good and evil was the downfall, the end of their i...

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These physicians who generally refused to assist suicide because they believed that those acts were morally wrong and that such actions an inappropriate practice and that in their religion beliefs such deeds would "violates God's authority over life, which is God's gift.... Throughout the early period of the colonies and later the United States, there were no specific laws created regarding assisted suicide as a manner of death, because religious belief largely prohibited even consideration of any such practice. ... As time evolved, changes in people's mindset were leading ...

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INTRODUCTION In 1988, the now-bestselling author and former lawyer John Grisham had his first book published. ... PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER The book offers a variety of social commentary, especially on race-related issues. ... (Baldassarro) It is certainly not likely that a book that has no current-day relevance anymore would receive such a treatment. 4. ... The most extreme form of continued racism in the novel is the return of the Ku Klux Klan to Clanton halfway through the book. ... "[T]he Kluxers listened intently to this ignorant redneck. [] they had also read the papers and watched T...

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Horton (2002) says Blacks were scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, and were among those who first encountered Native Americans. ... Slaves were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage, where thousands died on their way to the colonies. The vast majority of Africans brought to the British colonies worked as agricultural laborers; many were brought to the colonies specifically for their experience in rice growing, cattle herding, or river navigation (Collier, 1985). ... The movemen...

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"God bless her,"" he said a few weeks later. "I hope she makes a zillion dollars and the book flies out of the store, which apparently it is."" ... Several months later Crown Publishers bought her book. ... Her book is killed abruptly by Rupert Murdoch's publishing house but later picked up by a liberal, European-owned Manhattan firm. ... Barbra Streisand and Rob Reiner were identified by their ideology four times more often than Selleck or Willis. ...

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"Emerson's moral doctrines could not sustain Thoreau for long," Worster concludes, "for they were aspiring branches that had no roots to support them. They were ideas that were not soiled enough." (4) Worster's figure of difference, complete with Thoreauvian pun--the spiritual airiness of Emerson's imagination can't compare to the fecal matter of Thoreau's ecological ideas--maps a path in the ecocritical reading of Thoreau by way of Emerson that remains prominent and, I would suggest at the outset, stands in need of revision. ... As I see it, this reduction stems from...

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