... change reality into mere representation" (Tyson 54). Because of this, nothing is valued purely in and of itself. Gatsby's collection of books is a good example of this. They cost a lot of money and promise to unfold "shining secrets" of wealth, yet he never opens them (50; Ch. 3). Another of these objects is the necklace that Tom gives Daisy to obtain her. The upper class is depicted as being tremendously artificial ... creatures then retreated back into their money... and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (188; Ch. 9). Here, Nick is using Daisy and Tom to typify the ent...

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... like during the journey of the Joad family. In chapter 21, he refers to the migration as " the people moved like ants and searched for work, for food." In this intercalary chapter, he relates the movement of the Joads to ants. Steinbeck intermits every other chapter as an intercalary chapter to give the reader a break from the action of the book, but more importantly does ! so to give the reader a deeper sense of why and how the characters accomplish ... did. Instead, Steinbeck starts with an intercalary chapter reading: "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the ...

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... see all the satire in chapter two, it tells how inefficient the idea of communism is. Human Nature cannot handle communism, we are to devious and demanding of things we want , we are "bossy". From chapter two to until the last chapter shows how the book is a satire and in the end has a conclusion that was apparent from the first page. In closing the moral of the Novel and the teachings of the Russian ... Revolution is that Dictatorship will not work and that the dream that Stalin and Napoleon both possessed of one race or ... species taking over the world is impossible and will ... ...

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... strategies to hold interest in a reader. Some of these elements include symbolism and characterization. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses direct characterization to illustrate Tom Robinson as an oppressed, poor, black man, the actions taken against him symbolized all oppressed African Americans in the south during the 1930's. In the novel Animal Farm, George Orwell uses characterization to ... symbolize certain figures and events of historical communist Russia, and conveys these aspects into a beast fable. ... According to Encarta Encyclopedia Stalin was a Georgian revolutiona...

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... idealism, we as a society lose that drive toward an "ideal world." The next article I will critique is a chapter taken from The Subcultures Reader, a book written by Gelder, K. and Thornton, S. The chapter I will be referring to is entitled "Subcultures, Cultures an Class," and the authors are John Clarke, Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson and Brian Roberts. In ... summary, this reading covered the different schemes of subcultures and class, along with the search for individual ... . have stressed emphasis on the development of subcultures, and the stigma associated with these individual sub...

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... began to live off of the streets and beg money from different people. One night, he walked into a Socialist meeting. He had never really heard of socialism, but he soon became hooked. It showed him some of his unanswered questions about life. The book was a flashback type of book. It starts out at Jugis and Ona's wedding in Chicago, but the next chapter flashbacks to them and their ... family coming to America. The Jungle is a lengthy book, but it was easy to read ... . I think this book is fairly accurate. Sinclair worked in a meat factory so his accounts about the factory and ... ...

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... He has witnessed "his people" being made risking and losing their lives for a government not at all caring about them. Apart from that, the relationship of his parents was characterised by many problems and Arthur himself as well as his brothers and sisters have suffered from their tyrannical father. Grown up, ... not true solution, that every Saturday night is followed by a Sunday morning bringing the bad consequences of that Saturday night, the headache and the sickness. Arthur is beaten up by the husband of one of his casual lovers, another "girl friend" of him has to abort his child....

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... machine. Smith makes his example very specific in explaining that each person does one job and only one job. If each creates the greater part of the whole, then it will be beneficial. Marx explains how this can come to be. He states that one capitalist may employ a ... the nuts and bolts, and it is doubtful that a person can get much joy from creating nuts and bolts. In utilizing them for a greater project, that the finished result would be much greater appreciated is without doubt. With all the evidence provided by Marx in this chapter, it makes one feel that division of ... labor can...

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... He has witnessed "his people" being made risking and losing their lives for a government not at all caring about them. Apart from that, the relationship of his parents was characterised by many problems and Arthur himself as well as his brothers and sisters have suffered from their tyrannical father. Grown up, ... not true solution, that every Saturday night is followed by a Sunday morning bringing the bad consequences of that Saturday night, the headache and the sickness. Arthur is beaten up by the husband of one of his casual lovers, another "girl friend" of him has to abort his child....

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... than an individual character with depth and development. Jurgis plays the role of the everyman- he embodies the struggles of the proletariat who is exploited by capitalism- these struggles range from being laid off, injured on the job, reduced to begging to losing his wife and family to rape and death. Every chapter in the book is chalk full of horrible events that little room is left for actual consideration ... of the characters. As such, the reader learns from Jurgis the ways in which capitalism stifles the working class. Upton Sinclair strategically subjects Jurgis to the atrocities...

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... , and younger generations has taken for granted education and social classes. D.H Lawrence was by far one the most contemporary authors of our time. Yet, during his lifetime he was viewed as vial, obscene and completely out of line for his generation.. His work when first published were considered inappropriate and to some extent not considered literature. Lawrence had always struggled for acceptance from ... his family, peers, and even the readers of his work. Lawrence's mother, Lydia Beardsall Lawrence, was a former schoolteacher who had grown up in a higher social class than what her ...

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... identifiable way. There must also be an identifiable break in history where the lower classes revolt against those ruling. To become a democracy, Moore states that the peasant class inevitably ceases to exist after a period of time. The bourgeois class rises, gaining power. They do not overpower the landed elites, but rather a balance of power is implicated so that neither has total control over ... the other's actions. To become a communist society, Moore's theory states that the bourgeois class must become very weak or disappear. ... Along with this, the peasant class does not gain p...

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... financially secure and being able to better themselves materialistically. This is the driving force behind the theory of capitalism. The society that we as Americans live in today perpetuates the need for greed through the voice of the media. Expensive clothes, overly-excessive accessories, and nice cars dominate television commercials and the pages of magazines. From the time we are born, these luxuries are presented to us as normalities, leading ... us to believe that these items are, in essence, necessities. This, in turn, leads to more greed and the jealousy of others. Without this ...

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... are presented as if they were little girls (young and innocent). On the other hand men are presented as explorers, active, strong and dominating. I think that gender especially, women, appears to be the best way to sell a product. Another thing that I have learned from the sociology class is about the American dream of black people. According to W.E.B. DuBois, white people used to consider blacks as ... a lower race. Therefore, the black people had to struggle for their rights. "To be black and American" - it ... was their biggest dream (DuBois calls it "the double consciousness") and ...

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... ! Willy: I hear that! Linda: Don"t, Biff! Biff: It's goddamn time you heard that! I had to be boss big shot in two weeks, and I"m through with it!" The next class I will discuss is the "nerds" or the "successful" of the play, Bernard and, Willy's older brother, Ben. Bernard was steady trying to tutor Biff so he could graduate, and Ben was successful with his business before ... he past away, and Willy tried to walk in his shadow and follow his example. The result of not being able to succeed in an environment that harbors the idea that "the business of America is business" is basically t...

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... Frederick Engels is essentially a "how-to" on communism. Marx was convinced that if he could follow through with his theory that salvation would reach these civilizations and a sense of equality would be present within the society. I agree with Karl Marx's standing in that a utopia would be an ideal society to live in; however, I believe that it is an unattainable dream. According to ... "stateless society" where central government had eventually wasted away and was replaced with a strictly democratic process. This process would include the elimination of the market system and the repla...

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... succeed Lenin. But By 1929 Joseph Stalin was in complete control of Russia. Here are the reasons why. Firstly, Stalin's leading rival Leon Trotsky was very arrogant. This made members of the Bolshevist Party and the public dislike him because of his self-importance. Trotsky underestimated Stalin, which led to Stalin winning the leadership of the Bolshevist Party. Secondly, Stalin believed in Socialism in Russia, which ... was a very popular idea with the people. Trotsky believed in a Bolshevist World Revolution, which would make the Soviet people very unhappy because it ... he did not...

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... that had no apparent flaws, but his sorrows and pain led him to the socialist form of government and the evils of capitalism. Through the trials and tribulations he repeatedly faces in the novel, he comes to believe in the evils of capitalism and how corrupt the system is. First is at the wedding, where the barkeeper starts off with a half keg, and drains that and uses another ... half keg through the festivities, and charges the family fully for both kegs. Not even the sacred tradition of marriage stops the immorality of the ... barkeeper who only looks out for himself. Next, when the...

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... , it was present in France and Germany too. This is where Karl Marx formulated his ideas of class warfare, the bourgeoisie, and the proletariat. Marx believed that when the proletariat, the common laborer, felt he created nothing for himself from his labor he would rise up against his employer, the bourgeoisie. Labor becomes alienated when workers surrender control over products and accept wages in its place ... reckless and indifferent, like all the rest of the men, who took but little thought of themselves in the ardor of their work."(p.206). In the same paragraph, the narrator explica...

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... , is classified as a work of Realism, the ideals it entails could not stray further from reality. In this excerpt, Marx and Engels attempt to explain the evils of the "Bourgeoisie's- power, and how the centralization of industry, capital, and consequentially political organization around this ruling class does nothing more than suppress the majority of the workers. To them, the working class is the backbone of not just the economy, but the state itself. However, due ... to the current distribution of wealth and control, they have become faceless drones, slaves to ... ...

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... leadership style was different compared to the likes of Sun Yatsun, Yuan Shikai and Chiang Kaishek. Mao was a communist leader who believed in the right of equality, and because of that he got the support of many of the Chinese peasants. Mao leadership style was different because he believed that the peasants were the key to China, which is why he organized the long march across China to gain ... support from the all peasants. Unlike Chiang Kaishek who wanted the extermination of all communists, Mao knew that if he didn't have the support of the ... if its people were treated equally. ...

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... up by those things, and then, they take to the streets and draw the symbol everywhere on the streets. As is known to all that the most important supporter of fascism is people who take to the streets. Another word, those things gather the students on same idea. After a whole, the students act other students badly. For instance, the students of Die Welle dress white shirt, and they do not ... thing, those days, we can see that government needs power of community. It is clear that this film shows how anatomies of people handle on political power. It is also interesting to note that I conf...

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... "Animal Farm", George Orwell gives us insights into our society that we would not generally notice, by creating a fictional world. Utilizing the form of an animal fable, "Animal Farm" tells the story of a group of barnyard animals that revolt against their human master in an attempt to create a utopian state. However, power and greed caused their society's tragic ... him. However, this is not the only event that corresponded between the novel and Russian history. Another example of the parallel between "Animal Farm" and the Russian Revolution is when the animals start to rebuild the wind...

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... (published in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) on the Russian populace in the late 18th century was a catalyst for the violent, bloody Bolshevik revolution in 1917 – however the influence of the Manifesto, and by extension Marxism, is still hotly debated by historians and differing historiographical schools of thought. The Marxist school of thought, rooted by the namesake inspiration of communist ideals and Marx's original ideas and theories, followed ... with historians such as Leon Trotsky, state that the Russian Revolution, and the beginnings of the workers class dismantling...

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... ideology when they state that "scientific criticism has an obligation to define its field and methods. This implies awareness of its own historical and social situation, a rigorous analysis of the proposed field of study, the conditions which make the work necessary and those which make it possible, and the special function it intends to fulfill" (686). They say that their object is to "not to reflect upon ... what we are doing and what we can do, and this is impossible without an analysis of the present situation" (686). They speak of where this occurs, the films, and the critical func...

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