Authors often portray ideologies of the society of 1920's America in their novels. ... Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, one ideology critiqued is the American Dream. ... The settings are symbolic of the great divide between rich and poor. ... The authors intention may have been to create dislikeable characters to show the corruption of the 1920s society. The author presents the theme of the Dream as being corrupt. ...

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All the issues that are elaborated on are of very great significance and are accepted as "life teachings". ... All these issues have been carefully selected by the author, who happens to be one of the two main characters. ... Through Mitch's descriptive language telling us and describing the amount of family photographs around Morrie's house shows us how Morrie puts great emphasis and importance on family. ... We should express "core" values with others is one of Morrie's great philosophies that he tries to persuade Mitch to adopt as he is quite opposite and living in the mater...

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Helen Barr, author of Pearl--or 'The Jeweller's Tale' takes a different look at how the Pearl Poem is interpreted. ... The author's thesis, "The social implications of figurative language," gave a deeper and more intricate view of the poem itself. ... This leads to the Pearl Maiden herself, whom the author interprets as the embodiment of aristocracy. ... So, in the simplest of terms, she did a great job of proving her point and then disproved herself at the very end. ... However, the cause for this may be that author is trying to eliminate any doubt that is l...

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The author shows prejudice through three main characters, Author Radley, Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson. ... The author set the book in a town where fear of the unknown affects people. A great example of this is when Boo doesn't come out of the Radley house during the day so the town's people fear him and make up a cruel nicknames that claim he is a monster. ...

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A literate person can read and write which is great for them, but what do they do with it from there? According to the authors of "Literacy Practices", David Barton and Mary Hamilton, literacy is used as a set social practices. ... In the article "Literacy in Three Metaphors" the author Sylvia Scribner can answer those questions. ... The author also goes on to say that even though some societies/countries have started literacy programs, other societies should develop their own as the saying goes "what works for one person, may not work for another" (Scribner 43). ...

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Another way the author portrays the daughter's innocence is with the lack of control the character seemingly has over her own fate. ... In using the last name "Crater", which represents a pit, the author illustrates this isolation and susceptibility to the evil and immorality of Mr. ... Shiflet, Flannery O"Connor uses a great deal of symbolism to portray him as someone that the old woman and her daughter should not be afraid of. ... This also allows the author to set the stage full of irony in almost all of the conversation between the old woman and Mr. ... Repeatedly the author strateg...

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ARTICLE: "Leaders as Value Shapers," by Kevin Freiberg, Business Ethics Annual Editions 2002-2003, 2002, pp. 96-98 SUMMARY The course of a firm is directed through great leaders that understand that their capacities to shape values and educate through vivid, living, personal example. ... This is a great tool to judge what a leader values. 2. ... I disagree with this statement because I feel that there are more types of values than the author states. ...

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John Betjeman's poem "In Westminster Abbey" is set in the beginning of World War II in Great Britain. ... John Betjeman poem is suggestive in a way; the woman is depicted as a very racist one, and with the words the author uses in the prayer of the woman "Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans" she is asking the Lord to bomb Germany in order to help England win the war and keep her safe and in exchange she will do something for the church and obey their orders, and this is where the reader can recognize the woman is a hypocrite. ... The author is treating religion as a dis...

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The author emphasized the opposing views of many white males used to discredit Affirmative Action. ... I believe no matter how great our society has advanced towards equality we are not yet where we need to be. ...

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In the words of the great children's author, Dr. ... However, it was in her youth that she and many others found something great. ... Akins, who is also a great singer, admired her voice, her passion and her love for God. ... She met great people that she promised herself she would never forget. ...

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These were the peak years of the market revolution and the Second Great Awakening. During anytime of great change and uncertainty, people who are directly affected can be left searching for answers to such questions as why did this happen, and why did it happen to me? ... The authors start the Prologue after Matthias had been in jail and was headed toward the Morman settlement at Kirkland. ... I think the authors were successful in conveying the main ideas and eluding to the fact that "each of the Kingdom's major characters appeared to be emblematic of a more general social type; and ...

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I would like to take this opportunity to focus on the author, C. ... To better understand what an author is attempting to convey, we must know where he is coming from. ... These "big three", using Mills depiction, are as follows: The economy-once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance-has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated, which together hold the keys to economic decisions (Mills 1956). ... We have overcome great hardships and we have grown as a nation. ...

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Within a particular society there is a great deal of consensus about what values and norms are important. ... The only solution that the author suggests about states not allowing homosexuals to adopt is basically to change the laws. ...

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Many of the authors whose works have been included in the canon are white males like William Shakespeare and Mark Twain. ... Although knowing the past is important, a biased view of the past isn't such a great idea since the merits of many are over looked. ...

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Even the plans that are being put forth to improve education are not being received with great colors by the critics. One important thing one should give some thought to, is that any great reform of our education system is highly unlikely, because it is an institution which keeps our society the way it is. ... According to Howard Gardner, the author of the article "Make Teaching a True Profession," it is expensive to start out charter schools, vouchers would not nearly cover all the costs of those schools, and only the best maintained school would remain. ...

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This blaming of the troubles of modern society on women, and the seeming division of women into castrators and good-hearted whores, may have been at least slightly unintentional on the authors part. ... It wasn't the practices, I don't think, it was the feeling that the great, deadly pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me- and the great voice of millions chanting, 'Shame. ...

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Review From Marx Weber: essays in sociology, politics as a vocation' (396-450) Author Marx Weber, Hans h Gert (Originally a speech at Munich University, 1918, originally published in 1919.) ... However all that a side after a few more reads I eventually grasped his ideas, which could be open to great interpretations. ... In turn providing great analogies from across the globe, this then led to rich cultural thought and interpretations of political thought and comparisons. ...

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Margaret Mead and Elise Boulding made great contributions to the social sciences world of the United States. ... Elise Boulding was a sociologist and author of great works regarding peace research. ... Her work shows a great presence in societies of peace and of cultures. ... American society will forever be changed because of the great contributions that Margaret Mead and Elise Boulding made....

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The two authors have different perspectives on how the society is disciplined, however Galloway's and Foucault's account of discipline differ in their application; Foucault's is clearer while Galloway's is unclear with how he sees the technology can influence the society. ... According to the passage, "Our society is not one of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous concrete training of useful forces;" (Foucault 334). ...

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All four the authors pretty much agree that education produces a citizen. ... Hart say, "Citizen should know the great themes of his civilization its important area of thought, it's philosophical and religious controversies, the outline of its history and it's major works. ...

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Television as medium of information and entertainment would always be a topic that leads to different points of view. For instance myself, deem that television is an untrusted medium of communication that change the way people think about history, religion, politics, commerce and education into form...

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I have often consulted my great grandmother about her experience and I find her historical perspective enlightening. ... It seems Blatant that society is bent on putting women in their places, this is evident when author Fetzer states I found a scolarship for veterans and asked my father to sign proof that he was a veteran. ...

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When writing a composition, it is important for the authors to compose something that is fresh yet important at the same time. ... She has made a great statement about the single parent families and how they are still not fully appreciated in today's society. ...

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Daniel Miller, Bourdieu, Deborah Posel, Baudrillard and other authors suggest that we consume things often for reasons other than simply satisfying our basic needs. ... To guarantee a pleasurable life lived, we have filled our lifeless creations with significance and instilled great importance and value into the manufactured or modified 'inanimate'. ... Videos of Izikhothane members destroying things of great financial value can, and have, gone viral – giving them instant celebrity status. ...

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When I was deciding what kind of approach I should use for the novel of Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre, I was reading the author's CV and I was surprised that she published her novel just as some of her other works under the pseudonym Currer Bell. ... She was such a great personality, it was innate for her to say what she thinks even to a man on another social level. ...

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