While Winton's Cloudstreet is presented from the point of view of two white' Australian families, several aboriginal values and beliefs can be found being mirrored in the text. ... It takes the black man' as a symbol of Aboriginal culture to bring Sam to realize that "you shouldn't break a place. ... Finally there is human's coexistence with the land and nature that deals with perhaps the most challenging issue in the play, the drowning of Fish Lamb. ... In view of the fact that the play is almost wholly dedicated to one social group, most if not all of the remaining...

• Word Count: 1509
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Along with advances in science and technology, philosophers began to see the world as governed by natural laws such as gravity and motion. ... Once realized, this brand of political association would be one which "will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before". ... Certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy left room for human err, such as the easily influenced mind and its ability to misrepresent information, beside the already prev...

• Word Count: 3737
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Along with a transformation of Russian civilization came the remodeling of the Russian citizen, a new archetype with particular qualities that became idealized for all Soviet citizens. ... Upon Gleb's return to his hometown, the narrator describes, "In Gleb's heart-swollen and throbbing-he heard the mountains and the quarries, the smoke stacks and the dwellings the factory Diesel engines the revolving cylinders in the furnace room" (Gladkov 3). ... Greeting him coldly, she exclaims, "What's wrong with you, Comrade Gleb? ... Gladkov provides a thorough, gruesome ac...

• Word Count: 3036
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate