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Jude The Obscure
Number of Words: 1958 / Number of Pages: 8
... obsessed
with religion simply because his mentor Phillotson felt this way. One of the
major reasons that causes Hardy to have these views is that he feels religion
leads to hypocrisy. He feels that man has many desires that go against the laws
of religion, and these desires lead man to feel very hypocritical. These
feelings of hypocrisy then cause man to have many inner conflicts that lead to
many problems. This negativity towards religion is seen both through symbols in
the book and in the plot itself. The symbols that convey this message are the
name Jude, which is an allusion to Judas Iscariot who ...
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Materialism And Happiness In America: The Gatsby Era And Today
Number of Words: 1061 / Number of Pages: 4
... are trying to sell.
It's true that this desire for things is what drives our economy. The free
market has given us great blessings, but it has in some ways also put us on
the wrong path -- the path to a selfish, unhappy society. Michael Lerner,
who worked as a psychotherapist to middle-income Americans notes that
"The problem is that the deprivation of meaning is a social problem, rooted
in part in the dynamics of the competitive marketplace, in part in the
materialism and selfishness that receive social sanction. . . many
Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on
princi ...
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Huckleberry Finn: On The Surface…
Number of Words: 881 / Number of Pages: 4
... of blacks. Helen Steele, a member of 100 Black United claimed, “Anything that's going to harm any kid - white, black, Hispanic, anything - needs to be removed from required reading… We try to teach them every day not to be racists”(Simmons 1).
This means then, that books that discuss racism to its fullest (fullest including the language of the period) are inappropriate for students to read. Honestly, though, how many high school students haven’t heard the word nigger? And it’s not like Twain’s usage was meant to be derogative- he was merely showing how bad racism was back then. The fact that it r ...
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Crucible 4
Number of Words: 571 / Number of Pages: 3
... to judge
her as less respectable of the two.
Hester was not secretive about committing her crime as Abigail was.
Abigail is even described as "an orphan with an endless capacity for
dissembling" (page 9). This proves that she tried to cover up her actions.
Hester did not try to hide the fact from the townspeople that she was
pregnant; she only tried to conceal the identity of the father of her baby.
Abigail, on the other hand, made sure that the citizens of Salem did not find
out that she and her friends had been lying when they accused many
innocent people of witchcraft. She even we ...
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Emotions Seen In "Of Mice And Men"
Number of Words: 461 / Number of Pages: 2
... is being sold, he goes to his side, try to help him. From Candy, we see
love towards his dog that he had for so long and we see a guilty feeling for
letting others execute him.
Curly show hate and jealousy at the same time. Because he's not a big
guy, he wants to fight all of them, and because he's always the winner (Just
because he doesn't fight fairly), he is proud to tell everybody that he's the
best.
Slim is a man who shows a lot of emotions during the story. He shows us
indifference to Curly and friendship towards Lennie, but when Lennie killed the
woman, and George killed ...
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A Review Of "The Cay" By Theodore Taylor
Number of Words: 843 / Number of Pages: 4
... there when Phillip's father was offered
a job in an oil refinery nearby. Williamsted is very quaint and the harbour
is always full of black people on their fishing boats, called schooners.
One day a German U-boat is spotted near the harbour. The whole harbour is
on edge . When everyone calms down, the first tanker in a week sets sail
with gallons of crude oil on board. The whole population is shocked when
the tanker blows into pieces and scatters shrapnel all over the sea.
Phillip's mother becomes anxious and she brings Phillip on a small cargo
ship back to Central America. Phillip's father thin ...
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The Crucible
Number of Words: 485 / Number of Pages: 2
... so that life could return to normal. Peer pressure and her lust for revenge caused her to change her mind about starting the witch hunts.
Grace played a key role in the disintegration of Salem Village. Characters’ feelings often changed . For example, Abigail decided that she was going to go ahead with the witch hunt, feeling compelled to after the town was talking witchcraft. Her change of heart started the trials. The character whose feelings did not change was Danforth. He said, "You misunderstand, sir: I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is n ...
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Cooper's "Deerslayer": View Of The Native Americans
Number of Words: 2277 / Number of Pages: 9
... from two men who had lost their way, and were searching in different
directions for their path" (Cooper, p. 5). Bewley states that this meeting is
symbolic of losing one's way morally, and then attempting to find it again
through different paths. Says Bewley, "when the two men emerge from the forest
into the little clearing we are face to face with... two opposing moral visions
of life which are embodied in these two woodsmen" (cited in Long, p. 121).
Critic Donald Davie, however, disagrees. His contention is that the
plot is poorly developed. "It does not hang together; has no inte ...
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The Sniper
Number of Words: 563 / Number of Pages: 3
... killed with the “enemy” sniper’s bullets! ’s own bullets are quite dangerous, too, as seen when he easily kills the tank commander and citizen woman informer. After shooting them, the “enemy” sniper sees him, and “His forearm [is] dead.” This is considered lucky as far as war goes, though, for instead of just having a broken arm he could be dead! brushes with death again when he throws his revolver down without thinking and it goes off. Bullets make a war very deadly, as they are much more precise than earlier and much simpler weapons (such as swords and muskets).
The psychological effects of w ...
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Touch Wood: Rene
Number of Words: 847 / Number of Pages: 4
... people, started trouble all over again. First, seven synagogues were blown up. Then, the Germans created a curfew prohibiting Jews to go during certain hours. Any Jew caught in the street after curfew would be taken as hostage. Also, all Jewish people must wear a Star of David on their shirts. An ordinance is created requiring all Jewish firms to be registered. Then the Jewish are forbidden to go to most public places, and they are only allowed an hour to grocery shop.
Suddenly, their family¹s Jewish neighbors are being taken away one by one. Renée¹s family becomes fearful. At one point, ...
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