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Gale Power Search - Document - 2 views

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#7 invisible man past rebirth history

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  • After the narrator is hospitalized and given a form of electroshock therapy, he emerges desensitized but imbued with a sense of racial pride, the superficiality of his previous experience having been erased.
  • Connor P on 05 Jan 12
     
    This shows how the narrator moves on with his life after his rebirth. He drops his past and comes out with a racial pride. There is a big difference between the individuals past and the groups history which IM learns here
Connor P

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#2 invisible man past

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  • The narrator eventually takes a job with the Brotherhood, a political organization that supposedly helps the socially oppressed. To take the job, he is forced to change his name, leave Mary, and make a complete break from his past. He complies.
  • Connor P on 05 Jan 12
     
    This quote has to due with the Invisible Man's attempt to break away from his past. This shows his progression as he knows that it is only holding him back. He needs to thirve in the new north with a new life
Connor P

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#6 Malcolm X rebirth past education chaos vs order

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  • The doctrines of the Nation transformed the chaos of the world behind prison bars into a cosmos, an ordered reality.
  • Malcolm finally had an explanation for the extreme poverty and tragedies his family suffered, and for all the years he had spent hustling and pimping on the streets of Roxbury and Harlem as "Detroit Red."
  • Connor P on 08 Jan 12
     
    This helps show the rebirth of Malcolm X as he begins to understand the world around him and embrace his past. It also explains the theme of chaos vs. order for out of the chaos of prison comes the order of his new principles.
Ellen L

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In Cold Blood insanity defense

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  • Years from now, when socialist historians of the future examine the dead carcass of US capitalism, they will pay special attention to the growing barbarism of the penal system in the late 20th century. While most attention will obviously be paid to the reintroduction of the death penalty and a racist judicial system that incarcerates minorities disproportionately, there will also have to be close look at the tendency to treat mentally ill people as common criminals.
  • The insanity defense was first used in the case of an 1843 assassination attempt on British Prime Minister Robert Peel by a psychotic individual named Daniel M'Naghten. When a physician testified that M'Naghten was insane, the prosecution agreed to stop the case and the defendant was declared insane despite protests from Queen Victoria and the House of Lords.
  • Ellen L on 21 Mar 12
     
    Originally used in 1843 for an assassination case, the insanity plea has been used by many cold killers to save their lives in return for being labled as a sociopath. Both Dick and Perry undergo psychological evaluations to determine if they, too, qualify for this sentence.  Interestingly enough, this defense now seems to be a thing of the past, as some courts require their jury to answer whether or not a criminal understood his actions.
Evan G

shsaplit - How Racism Prevents the Invisible Man from Attaining Goals and his Identity - 1 views

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invisible man

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  • the Invisible Man felt that in order to reach his goals he had to have a white lifestyle and was insecure within his true culture. This hindered his goals because he was trying too hard, and once he accepted who he was and where he came from, including his culture and the foods that came with it, he could begin to grow and become the person he once wished to be.
  • He never realized that the brotherhood was bound for nowhere and they were just averting him from achieveing something greater. They treated him unequally such as any other negro in the civil rights movement or the Jews in the holocaust, he was an unheard voice.
  • Evan G on 05 Jan 12
     
    Discusses direct correlations between quotes from IM and the racist impact they have upon him. As seen in the case of the yams, it is only after IM decides to accept his own culture and past that he can have his own identity. Until then, he is still trying to live white. Also, back to the theme of oppression, the Brotherhood was acting in the name of blacks, yet truly just held IM back, hovering inches from success, in order to ensure that he never gets his fully deserved recognition or rights.
Evan G

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invisible man

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  • It is commonly felt that there is no strength to match the strength of those powers which attack and cripple modern mankind.
  • In all other parts of the country people live in a kind of vastly standardized cultural prairie, a sort of infinite Middle West, and that means that they don't really live and they don't really do anything. Most Americans thus are Invisible.
  • Ellen L on 01 Jan 12
     
    This literary review of IM praises the plot line, and discusses its relevancy to not only Harlem, but everywhere in the world where a social norm has developed. 
  • Sydney C on 04 Jan 12
     
    For there is a way for Negro novelists to go at their problems, just as there are Jewish or Italian ways. Mr. Ellison has not adopted a minority tone. If he had done so, he would have failed to establish a true middle-of-consciousness for everyone. In all other parts of the country people live in a kind of vastly standardized cultural prairie, a sort of infinite Middle West, and that means that they don't really live and they don't really do anything. Invisibility touches everyone, and Ellison helps to bring this fact to light.
  • Evan G on 04 Jan 12
     
    "Most Americans thus are Invisible." Discusses both the faults of the novel as well as the powerful impact of the novel, and the application of it to all Americans, both past and contemporary. 
Sydney C

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in cold blood'

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  • "Smith, in his confusion, jealousy, anger, disappointment - and spite - reactively and instinctively thrust that hunting knife into Herbert Clutter's throat (Smith may also simultaneously have been displacing his anger onto the victim, thereby symbolically killing his feckless paramour).
  • Evan G on 13 Mar 12
     
    Dealing with speculations regarding the insanity of the killers, this site personalizes Smith as a rather unmasculine, almost soft person. All his past experiences, abuses, and hatred welled up inside him, and when he killed Herb, it was as though he was taking his anger out against the world. Insanity theme
  • Sydney C on 23 Mar 12
     
    This is an interesting perspective on the killings, placing the murder on a fit of "romantic jealousy". It also provides a theory on the sexual orientation of smith and hitchcock...
Vivas T

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In cold blood

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  • Smith lived with an alcoholic mother who became a prostitute; a brother and sister who committed suicide; and a father whose fanciful dreams kept Smith moving from place to place, unable to continue his education past the third grade.
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      Vivas T on 23 Mar 12
       
      This article clearly illustrates Perry's horrific childhood and its negative effects on him as an adult.
Vivas T

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In cold blood

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  • After his parents separated, Smith lived with an alcoholic mother who became a prostitute; a brother and sister who committed suicide
  • and a father whose fanciful dreams kept Smith moving from place to place, unable to continue his education past the third grade.
  • In his twenties, Smith has a falling out with his father. They had built a hunting lodge in Alaska, a venture which quickly failed, and after a Page 183  |  Top of Article violent episode where each tried to kill the other, they parted ways.
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  • it also concentrates the reader's sympathies on Perry Smith, who, abused and abandoned as a child
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      Vivas T on 23 Mar 12
       
      This article illustrates Perry's encounters with abuse and the negative treatment that his father gave him.
  • Connor P on 21 Mar 12
     
    This shows the troubles that Perry has in his early childhood. It also shows the isolation he faces and the poor parenting and lack of support. This motivates him to go on a life of crime
Connor P

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#5 Malcolm X rebirth past

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  • . Via his autobiography and lectures, Malcolm X quickly emerged as the instrumental figure in this renewed black consciousness.
  • Connor P on 08 Jan 12
     
    As part of his rebirth, just like IM, X discovers a new sense of pride in his race. He must embrace his roots and stop immitating the white man. This goes on to help him for the rest of his life.
Sydney C

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invisible man

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  • Sydney C on 04 Jan 12
     
    I forgot the quotes, but since this is a pdf I can't copy and paste direct quotations. But, it mainly focuses on the leg chain and the effect that Tarp has on IM and his journey and growth.
Ellen L

In a Chinese Orphanage - 96.04 - 0 views

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Frankenstein orphanage

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  • Some of the children grab their bottles and eat lustily, and some--often the same ones--demand attention, crying, spreading their arms to be held. Their eyes beg for human warmth and affection. Others are already passive and withdrawn. Their bottles lie untouched, as though they are too weak, too indifferent, or still too young to make the effort.
  • She feels that such human contact would be cruel to children who have never known warmth or affection or holding, and would perhaps prolong their dying. Instead she gives all her energy and unconditional love to the little ones who respond to it energetically.
  • Ellen L on 20 Feb 12
     
    This article discusses conditions of Chinese orphanages and the case of certain children who die due to a lack of attention and human contact. This shows how crucial a role social contact plays in child development, making the monster's violent reaction to Victor's abuse understandable. 
Sydney C

"As I Lay Dying" as Ironic Quest - 0 views

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as i lay dying

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  • Sydney C on 29 Feb 12
     
    I can't copy and paste direct quotes, but the article talks about the irony in the journey they are embarking on, including how the burial is being thought of as a "quest", while there is no ultimate prize nor joy in what they are doing.
Sydney C

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as i lay dying

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  • Sydney C on 29 Feb 12
     
    once again I can't copy and paste (ugh) but 236 has a lot of good ones about Anse and Addie's character traits and Addie's "journey home"
Ellen L

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grapes of wrath poor treatment

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  • People usually do not resort to risky and desperate moves unless they have nothing left to lose. Steinbeck begins the Joads’ story with the loss of everything they had
  • Whether as tenants or small landholders, either for subsistence or for markets, the vast majority of the poor migrantes now coming to this country are fleeing the loss of their farms and their livelihoods, just as the Joads
  • As far as capitalism is concerned, whatever will maximize profit is the arrangement that must be pursued, regardless of the human consequences. The situation in Mexico today resembles that of Oklahoma 75 years ago. Small family farms are no longer profitable enough, and people are being thrown off their land every year by the thousands.
  • Ellen L on 30 Sep 11
     
    Interesting perspective comparing the Okies of the 1930s to the Mexicans of today. Covers the capitalism, xenophobia, and enclosure presented to both groups. This article shows the attitude that little has changed over the past century
Evan G

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the jungle treatment of the worker ethics

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  • Sinclair's book is a muckraking expose of the institutionalized inequality, corruption, privilege, sickness and slavery needed to keep the machine running that runs beneath he thin veneer of the American dream of freedom and success.
  • It's a losing battle, of course, and work in the packinghouses brings poverty, disease, death, injury, injustice, rape, jail and exploitation to the Rudkus family.
  • In the drive for even a half-penny of profit spoiled meat is bribed past inspectors, men are crushed and killed, waste is driven wholesale into public drinking water and, like the meat the process, every ounce of worth in a human being is taken before being discarded in favor of fresh meat
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  • Jurgis also is glad that he is not a pig – only to realize at the end that he and all the working men were treated as cruelly and as senselessly as the animals, driven to the point of death to churn out meat faster and faster and then discarded.
  • better to be a homeless vagrant than in service of the Trusts.
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    This site is AMAZING for topics regarding treatment of workers. It literally describes in vivid detail the cruelty and carelessness of the corporations, as well as the insignificance and disposability of the worker. No one matters; the companies see people in terms of dollars, not faces or names. People are just a means to an end, a way to get profit. Once the profit ceases, the people are discarded in search of even better workers, which will be discarded in their time as well
Sydney C

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grapes of wrath poor

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  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    The poor living conditions in TGOW are not a thing of the past. This article, from 2009, talks about how people are once again being booted from their homes by "the Bank Monster"
Vivas T

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fast food nation ethics

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  • Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal maintains that the enormous growth of the fast-food industry has caused conditions in the big slaughterhouses to pose serious health concerns
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This article displays the lack of ethics that businesses such as meatpacking industries posses due to the "serious health concerns" that their food possesses. In addition, this also, ironically,relates to the Jungle which depicts the lack of progress in sanitizing slaughterhouses in the past 100 years.
David D

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fast food nation the jungle ethics

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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    "Mohandas Gandhi said that a nation's moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals."
  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article brings up a very important point to the discussion of ethics, or lack of, in the meat packing industry. While many readers who read The Jungle or Fast Food Nation focus on the treatment of the worker or food safety, animal welfare is also a chief concern of these books, and even in plants today. Throughout the past century, people and groups, like PETA, have fought for better conditions for animals in the slaughterhouses. These are places where chickens don't have enough room to flap their wings, pigs cannot turn around, and sick cows are sometimes dragged to the slaughterhouse.
Willie C

Food and Beverage Serving and Related Workers - 1 views

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treatment of the worker Fast Food Nation america workers poor

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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    "Most jobs are part time and have few educational requirements, attracting many young people to the occupation-21 percent of these workers were 16 to 19 years old in 2008, about six times the proportion for all workers"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This website provides statistics for the fast food industry and how it uses the unskilled labor in the workforce that are young so they can pay them less. This can be used to tie in the jungle by using their use of he unskilled immigrants.
  • Ellen L on 03 Oct 11
     
    In addition to the Jungle, this can be tied in to the unskilled harvesters in GOW, and the workers Ehrenreich explores in N&D. It shows how the type of workers being recruited for these jobs has not changed over the past century.
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