The theme of the story is that of the plague of social bigotry of the people of the South in the time of desegregation. O"Connor suggests to us, not only in the title but, throughout this short story that people often resist to growing away from egoism towards self-awareness and love for all humankind that is so necessary for life to converge in equality. ... He takes refuge in dreaming of his grandfather's magnificent old plantation house because "all the neighborhoods they had lived in had been a torment to him-" He gloomily proclaims, "Some day I"ll start making money", even though h...

• Word Count: 806
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He set up an ideal government for his people and conquered many lands, expanding his kingdom. ... His concept of Dharma provided his people with a common, compassionate way of life and curtailed war and suffering. ... He was tolerant of all religions and allowed his people to worship freely. ... To guard against local rebellions, Shi Huangdi outlawed private possession of arms and ordered hundreds of thousands of prominent or wealthy families from the conquered states to move to the capital. ...

• Word Count: 613
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although the basis is in Conrad's personal experiences, he moves away from an autobiography. ... The effect in both cases is to weaken the connection with Conrad's own experience and to move away from African specificities. ... (Adelman 28) Marlow is one of the few people in the novel to realize the truth of this statement, the only other being Kurtz. ...

• Word Count: 2001
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For this reason, he enjoys interactions with the experienced circle of the theater, such as leading juvenile Charley Edwards, until his English teacher connects his glamourous world with an inferior world outside him: "what business had she here among all these fine people and gay colors?" (Cather, 214) From there on, he decides that he is too fabulous for pitifull Pittsburgh and decides to move on to the high class society of New York City. ...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, when Caucasian rapper, Marshall Mathers, a.k.a Eminem, emerged from the slums of his Detroit home, he managed to stir more controversy with his lyrics than most people were ready to cope with. ... He has been labeled a menace to a society because of his raw honesty which seems to offend many people who might only be afraid of the truth themselves and condemn him for expressing it in such a vulgar manner. ... Many misunderstand his philosophy as a master plan to corrupt the youth, when indeed, he is simply doing what most people are afraid to do: speak their mind. The ability of his...

• Word Count: 1106
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In response to a letter in a newspaper by writer Maxim Gorky criticizing the Bolshevik actions, Lenin wrote: "As the State is only a transitional institution which we are obliged to use in the revolutionary struggle in order to crush our opponents forcibly, it is pure absurdity to speak of a Free People's State. ... Interesting to note that a young Stalin, then the head of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities, wanted to deprive the Soviet Republics of their independence by turning them into republics within the RSFSR, but had his proposal rejected when Lenin opted for his ow...

• Word Count: 1728
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1854, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, which was also an up and coming shipping center. Not long after young Tom - who was called "Al" in his earliest years - learned to talk, he began pleading with people he met to give him their explanation of how everything worked. ...

• Word Count: 3349
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Value is a central social reality for people; they constantly think and talk about it directly or indirectly; they want some way to transfer it directly among themselves, separate from particular commodities. ... Insofar as commodity relations are well developed, so that exchange of products is common and people are forced willy nilly to consider the value of products separately from their use values, the money form of value will also be present. ...

• Word Count: 5092
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The principle of socialism was that of a party of the proletariat or the working classes and in 1928 Russia did not have a very large proletariat because most people worked in agriculture. ... Stalin used industrialisation to appeal to the nationalistic tendencies of the Soviet people, which had been largely ignored and discouraged beforehand, and through this he glorified himself as a dictator of the people and a true proletariat fighting back the bourgeois academics polluting the communist party. ... As Lenin had made clear, the N.E.P was a step backwards so that we can make two steps fo...

• Word Count: 5589
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An Einstein to his Profession: A Closer look at Sigmund Freud "Sigmund Freud, an Einstein to his profession" states Gayford. I don't think I could agree anymore with that statement made by him. He was a physiologist, medical doctor, and psychologist. He was the founder of psychoanalysis, the the...

• Word Count: 1758
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Poland's western boundary will be moved to the Neisse River, a territory containing approximately nine million Germans. Churchill and Roosevelt had both agreed that they would work for the establishment of a new Polish government that represented the Polish people. ... Poland was seen as a "test-case- of Soviet-Western relations, so Churchill and Roosevelt had to find solutions, or at least, explanations, to satisfy their own people. Despite admiration for the Russians for defeating the Germans, the British people felt honor bound to support an independent Poland. ...

• Word Count: 2338
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate