Its realism and humanness, short simple phrases, and true to life pauses and breaks in thought draw the reader quickly into the story. ... In truth the café that provides the location of the opening seen could have been set nearly anywhere without a great deal of difficulty but post war Spain (Europe in truth but Spain in this particular story) provides a number of readily available images that would not be especially common ifh the story had been placed elsewhere. ... The café does however provide the source of Hemingway's nearly hidden comments as to how the nothingnes...

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This demonstrates another type of philosophy, ethical egoism, "While psychological egoism purports to tell us how people do in fact behave, ethical egoism tells us how people ought to behave" (McConnell 41). ... When she achieves this Liesel quickly masters the power of language, which is seen in Max's short novel The word Shaker: "The best word shakers were the ones who understand the true power of words. ... Another example of human nature is how Hans and Max react to the concept of death. ... " This is seen in the novel with the destruction of Europe by the Nazi wa...

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De Waal tells how Mencius believed that "humans tend toward the good as naturally as water flows downhill (666)". ... The holocaust, slavery, Stalin, Hitler, the Nazis, Caligula, and countless other events illustrate how dark are true nature can be. ... De Waal simply doesn't want to answer these questions; he avoids them with stories about dogs and other animals. ... Before World War 2, Hitler was Times man of the year, some one who was looked on as a great leader. ... The world even let Hitler have a country because we believed he would be happy and would not go to war. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

De Waal tells how Mencius believed that "humans tend toward the good as naturally as water flows downhill (666)". ... The holocaust, slavery, Stalin, Hitler, the Nazis, Caligula, and countless other events illustrate how dark are true nature can be. ... De Waal simply doesn't want to answer these questions; he avoids them with stories about dogs and other animals. ... Before World War 2, Hitler was Times man of the year, some one who was looked on as a great leader. ... The world even let Hitler have a country because we believed he would be happy and would not go to war. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Orwell's story the state controls its citizens with fear and punishment. ... In Brave New World Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, tells John the Savage: "The people are well off; they"re safe; they"re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they"re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they"re so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave" (Huxley 169). ... In 1958 he felt that the prophecies he made twenty-seven years earlier were coming true faster than he expected...

• Word Count: 2421
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School