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The Chrysanthemums is a short story by John Steinbeck. It tells a story of a strong women named Elisa Allen and her husband Henry who live on a ranch across the Salinas River where winter has come, where the sun is blocked by a “grey-flannel fog.” At the beginning, Henry begins to negotiate a sale of thirty head of cattle, while Elisa Allen, his wife, and the main focus of the story, attends to her chrysanthemums in her garden. While handling the flowers, her husband comes back with great news:…

John Locke offers a unique perspective on what constitutes a person’s identity. His view focuses on an essential distinction between an individual being the same man and an individual being the same person. For Locke to say someone is the same man is to say that they simply possess the same body. The implication of this is that an individual will be the same man from the time they are born until the time they die. Although, Locke was unaware of DNA during his lifetime he would likely use such a…

The Swimmer by John Cheever, is a short story, written in the late 50’s, early 60’s. The story takes place in a high class suburb, and is an extreme metaphor for the life of drunkenness and negligence. The story is about a mid-aged man named Neddy Merrill. One Sunday, after a drunken Saturday night party, Ned is found drinking and laughing with his wife and other close friends. He decides to swim the eight-mile route back to his home, bouncing from one pool to another. But as the tides change,…

poetry, appealing to a wider range of critical thinkers. Others disagree with both statements, saying that Donne’s success was merely lucky and he held education to little importance, following blindly after the church. Some critics are convinced that John Donne consciously added literary allusions to his work. Caroline Spurgeon states that Donne’s treatment of love is similar to that…

John Steinbeck was one of the last great american authors. He wrote many books and novellas including The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and The Pearl. The Pearl is about Kino, a poor native who discovers the pearl of the world. Kino plans to use the pearl to improve the lives of his wife Juana and his baby son Coyotito. However, the pearl only brings misfortune and evil upon the family. Kino slowly becomes obsessed with using the pearl to make his family rich, even as it turns their whole…

particulars, he theorizes the value of property by arguing it must be generalized and placed into broad categories. However, he acknowledges that the price of a property does not commensurate its necessity for individuals. Additionally, enlightenment thinker John Locke provided a new theorization of land, property, and space by rooting it to the reasonable human. For Locke, people are free and equal as well as reasonable therefore he…

John Watson is often described as the Father or creator of Behaviorism. Behaviorism focuses on tangible and evident information rather than introspection to gain knowledge about something. The opposition to mental feelings and other internal states is what Watson believed gives humans the ability to control behavior. The original definition of psychology, the study of the human mind and its functions, takes on a different viewpoint that focuses on describing experiences. Watson, however,…

John Rawls and Barry Schwartz are very interesting philosophers, and both stress the importance of freedom and limitations on this freedom, for different reasons. Schwartz would warn that absolute freedom makes us less happy while Rawls argue that a constitutional democracy is one that ensures fair participation which requires a fundamental level of implicit agreement on certain convictions, like religious toleration and the rejection of slavery. Cooperation then for Rawls is dependent on a…

Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick John Watson have been around for more than a 125 years, and yet from the Victorian age to the present they have remained popular culture figures. It is unlikely that you will come across someone from a first world country that has not heard of the legendary duo. Naturally, this begs the question of why they have endured time so effectively. After over a century the name Sherlock Holmes still brings to one’s mind images of a deerstalker and magnifying glass;…

Based on the story "A & P" it is a clear example to the saying "Men will go to extreme measures to impress a women". As seen here in the story "A & P" written by John Updike.the first character goes by the name Sammy, he is a cashier at a supermarket("A & P"), Sammy displays a classic example of a man trying to impress a woman by all means . Sammy rash decision to quit his job was a bad idea and will definitely have an adverse effect on him in the future which he didn't take the time to…