...When comparing our time now to the past, there is no doubt that society has changed culturally, economically, and even environmentally. People from an older generation do not see eye to eye with the younger generations behavior because it is completely different from their time, especially those of the higher social class. In the short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find", by Flannery O'Conner, O'Conner portrays the difference between the social class of the grandmother, the misfit, as well as the her family and the actual good that is within them. O'Conner describes this through imagery in the old fashioned cultural behaviors and the present cultural behaviors. He shows the difference between the how the children act, as opposed to how the grandmother reacts to their actions. Because of her southern mindset, she emphasizes this idea by describing what it is like to be a "lady" or a "gentleman" and those of a higher social class are automatically suppose to be classified as good. In...
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...fiction and is written in the year 1934. “Soldiers'…” is an article written in 2010. In the analysis and in comparing you need to be aware of the different genres and positions. For example the time and the reasons for war in the two texts have a big impact on people's attitudes and reactions. In the article the message obvious and has a political purpose. In “WAR” Luigi Pirandello has sympathy with all the families who have seen a loved one go to war and tries in this text to give examples of how people are dealing with their problem in different ways. He seems neutral in his way of describing the different characters’ reactions and it means that you as the reader are freer to form your own opinion and interpretations. The two main characters, the fat man and the woman have different ways to handle the grief. The fat man has lost his son to the war, but doesn’t feel the same kind of sorrow like the other people. He is not really sad for his son’s death, but is very proud because his son died while fighting for his country. The fat man speaks from his own experience and thanks God, because his son before dying sent him a message saying: “he was dying satisfied at having ended his life in the best way he could have wished”. Although he talks about, what you should be proud of your child’s going to war, it is only an outer barrier. Anyway his son's death has been very hard on him...
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...Mockingbird is a story about a young girl named Scout as she grows up in the racially segregated south. The major event of this story is about a black man, Tom Robinson, who is accused of the rape of Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch, Scout's father, and Tom’s lawyer knows that Tom is innocent in the trial but is ultimately found guilty of the crime. July 11, 1960. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she develops many themes but the one that sticks out to me is racism. The book takes place during the 1960’s in the south during the civil rights movement. Even though the book takes place during the 1960’s when there were civil right movements, even today in 2018 we still see African Americans fighting for their rights. The book impacts me today because I witness the racial tensions that happen everyday. It also affects the future because if something isn’t done for equal rights for everybody there will still be tensions just like in the 1960’s. Comparing the present and the 1960’s I notice very little has changed African Americans are still fighting for equal...
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...describes himself as an elderly man. He grew up with an easy life and has become accustom to that lifestyle. Being an “elderly man” means he has gone through school and has become a well-educated man, with a job as an “unambitious lawyer”, that makes a good amount of money. With that money comes a certain arrogance about him when he compares himself to Jacob Astor. His language creates a sort of complexity to him that only he wants to understand himself and with the terms like “Imprimis” he could possibly be of Latin or Spanish decent. 2. The narrator introduces Turkey, and Nippers as copyists and a third, Ginger Nut, as an office boy. First described is Turkey. Turkey is a man that begins his day in harmony and finishes his day off in chaos. “In the morning, one might say, his face was of a fine florid hue, but after twelve o clock… it blazed like a grate full of Christmas coals”, Melville shows the polar opposites of Turkeys work ethic in the morning with the “florid hue” to the evening “blazing coals”, also comparing him to the sunrise and sunset. Next we have Nippers. Nippers was a man that was also a wreck at certain parts of the day, but luckily for the narrator Nippers and Turkey swapped craziness throughout the day as if it were clockwork. “There fits relieved each other like guards” explains the way the two copyists worked simultaneously. Nippers was also a man of good taste and according to the narrator a little to good of taste for a man making such a salary as a copyist...
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...in the labor market in the different countries all over the world. The results show that the skin color discrimination is the most widespread type of discrimination followed by the sexual orientation discrimination. Unexpected result was about gender discrimination which is the least likely in the EU but the evidence indicates that sex discrimination remains a possible explanation of the unexplained gender pay gap between men and women. Key words: labor market, discrimination, women, skin color, sexual orientation. JEL: J71 Introduction It’s all about the money, isn’t it nowadays? We need to buy our food, pay our bills and educate our children. Money is the “necessity bad” today. But even in our modern, global, without barriers world, world in which they teach us that everything is possible, there is still big inequity. The chance for some people to achieve job and to feed their families is much lower than to the others. Even nowadays not only dream and ambitions are enough. When it comes for having a job and building career there is also comes the problem with discrimination in the labor market. This topic is one of the most difficult for researches and usually is hard to be proved that this still exists nowadays. In the following paper we will discuss discrimination in the labor market in different countries and areas. Some nations are more tolerant than the others. Some nations are more acceptable to one type of different people, than the other. To show how different...
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...well big of their country. That is not all true because every single American are different in many factors. They could have different opinions and beliefs. Some might be very quiet, shy, share different political views, wealthy, different race, while others are quite the opposite. Just because one particular American has been involved in something bad, means that every American will be or do the same. Some do consider to find a way to help out and saver their country and their people, but others unfortunately do not. Those Americans who consider not helping is mostly because they do not want to deal with the problem and...
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...over the world. The restaurant business has grown rapidly in twenty first century because of the fact that almost every day there are thousands of people going to restaurant. There are many reasons for people dining in at a restaurant. People dine in at the restaurant because of the busy schedule, to socialize, to eat varieties of food, and many more. What is a restaurant? According to oxford dictionary, “Restaurant is a place where people pay to sit and utilize the service along with the food and drinks.” Looking at the current context of restaurant, the meaning of restaurant has changed widely. According to Prof. and author John R. Walker, “Delmonico’s, located in New York City, is thought to be the first restaurant in America and Delmonico’s opened its door to the public in 1827” (John, 2008 (fifth edition)). There used to be times when people used to cook at homes which changed drastically and nine out of ten people would visit restaurant on a daily basis at least 2-3 times a day. Cooking have faded away in American because people are working more than what they used to work 10 years ago. This is one of the reasons that gave birth to restaurants and became a huge success in the twenty-first century. According to Lorri Mealey, “ By the seventeenth century, while full meals were typically eaten at home, moderately well-to-do people would hire a trattatorie(caterer) or take their meals in private salon, rather than in the main dining room of a public house”(Mealey). When did...
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...Religions, all over the world have always tried to find an association between mankind and nature and a relation between human beings themselves. One of religion’s main goals is to provide rules and guidance that create order and support for the people that follow it. However, the notion of religion and where it came from has been a subject of debate amongst many historians, thinkers, sociologists and philosophers. Karl Marx, the German philosopher, revolutionist, and sociologist, believed that religion was a manmade ideology. He did not believe that God made humankind; he believed we made God (Marx, 1978). Alex de Tocqueville did not believe in what I just previously mentioned. Instead, the Roman Catholic political thinker and historian believed that God created us and he was responsible for providing the people with the proper rules and keys to living in a materialistic and worldly place (Tocqueville, 1972 pp 359). In this paper, I will be contrasting the different views of religion from the perspectives of Karl Marx and Alex de Tocqueville. With that being said, and although by now we know that both thinkers have different views regarding religion, some of their writings show otherwise and in turn, we will find some striking similarities between them. Beginning with the ideas of Karl Marx; Karl Marx was known to be an atheist who strongly believed that religion was created by the people who had power over the less fortunate people. They created it as a tool to keep down the exploited...
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...is often believed that the best way to give a good claim through writing is through three different individual elements. These elements are ethos, which is the credibility as to why the reader should be interested, pathos, being the emotions of the writer and logos, the logic behind the claim. These three elements combined together can make the writer persuade the reader and make an explicit argument. In the stories “Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Robert F. Kennedy, “Letters from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, and “A Homemade Education” by Malcolm X, all three authors used these elements to get their message across and keeping the reader interested in what they are saying. However, too much of one element can throw the reader off, and a good example of a well balanced use ethos, logos and pathos would be Malcolm’s X “A Homemade Education”. Through the use of these three elements Malcolm made his point and managed to keep the reader's attention. Malcolm’s goal through his story “A Homemade Education” is to show the reader how having an...
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...Historical Overview England itself is actually not a country, but part of Great Britain, which again is part of the United Kingdom. Great Britain consists of the three regions England, Scotland and Wales. Besides Great Britain, Northern Ireland is also part of the United Kingdom. The history of England goes back to thousands years before Christ. Therefore, this historical overview will outline some major events in British history and will concentrate more on the last century. Major events in British history were The Hundred Years War against France during the 14th century and the civil war that was also known as the War of Roses: the House of York was fighting against the House of Lancaster for the English throne, which weakened the power of the English aristocracy. (Strasbourg l’europénne: 2014) Another aspect of the British history is that England, Scotland and Ireland are very different countries with different histories. Each kingdom favored a different form of religion. The English favored a moderate form of Protestantism, the Scottish were Calvinist and the Irish were stouthearted Catholics. But each kingdom also had strong minorities of other religions. The strongest minority group in England was the Catholics. Those religious differences were responsible for a lot of rebellions. For example in 1641, arms of Catholics in Ireland killed many hundreds of English and Scottish Protestants who had settled in their country. Religion always was a central issue of politicians...
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...The Great Society Lost history, former president placed in between Presidents Kennedy and Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson. If one takes a deeper look into his presidency however, you will find he proposed a grand domestic policy which would revitalize America and truly create a “Great Society.” At the University of Michigan on May 22, 1964 Johnson first outlined his “Great Society. Speaking to the thousands of graduates in attendance, Johnson used his speech to explain a three-pronged plan in which America’s youth would rise up and tackle the mounting problems that the nation was facing. He was addressing not only the graduates in attendance but also the youth all across the country and the speech sent a notice to the establishment that the status...
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...leaders in these two countries had different techniques when it came to ruling their kingdoms. When comparing the two, Elizabeth I who was the Queen of England was a more organized and supportive ruler than Philip II the King of Spain. At the time of the battle, the Spanish were not well prepared and made many mistakes. And last but not least the terrible weather and bad luck had an impact on the outcome....
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...1817, Victorian Era Mid 19th century till to beginning of 20th century, Hard Times published on 1854, Schools become mandatory in 1889. _____________________________________________________________________ OUR TALK WILL BE DIVIDED INTO 4 PARTS: INTRODUCTION OF VICTORIAN ERA The Victorian era of British history: was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death, on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain, where during that time, the British Empire has existed for centuries and was able to maintain a world order which rarely threatened Britain’s wider strategic interests. By the end of Queen Victoria’s reign, The British empire extended over about one-fifth of the earth’s surface and at least a quarter of the world’s population. One of the ways they achieved such a thing is through the Industrial Revolution. What is the Industrial Revolution exactly? Prior to the Industrial Revolution, a working person would be lucky to have 1 or 2 shirts. To make fabric, these people had to spend their whole lives weaving this shirt and as demand for british goods increased, they needed a way to speed up things in a way without affecting it economically. As a result, they came up with the idea of factories where workers would repeat the same thing over and over again. So I want you to think like a business man in the victorian era right now. What would make sense for you if all you...
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...questions. 1. How are you asked to show similarities between the poems? 2. How are you asked to show differences? 3. What is meant by “literary” – what might you refer to in a literary response? Sample question with its indicative content from the mark scheme: For 5a: Compare all the way through, all your points should lead to exploring a similarity of a difference Compare all the way through, all your points should lead to exploring a similarity of a difference It’s OK to disagree with the statement in the question It’s OK to disagree with the statement in the question Don’t forget L, F & S for AO2 Don’t forget L, F & S for AO2 For 5b: You should follow the same guidelines for comparing themes and L, F & S as with 5A (above) You should follow the same guidelines for comparing themes and L, F & S as with 5A (above) Choose your second poem carefully – it should enable you to form a discussion and allow you to compare the...
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...but you should know how to answers your children doubts and curiosity. This part of the story also shows how religion has an influence on a child life and no matter how much you try to hide it the questions of supernatural being will always arise. 2. What is the significance of an entire community being involved with the birth and development of a child and why? From reading the story it is stated that the entire community is not involved in the birth and development of a child. It is just the parents and grandparents of the child that are involved with the birth. The community needs to help and being involved for the days that the mother and child are in isolation. With the help from the community, the child will have a variety of people that will help him or her during their development and help with the discipline of the child. This will generate a large family and help the parents with the development of the child, large family means a lot of love and compassion towards the child. Academic Journal #2 Stacey Cayetano ENGL1035 Academic Journal #2 African Literature: What a Tradition? “We had been discovered by an aggressive Western culture” – what the writer is trying to get across to the...
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