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The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse
Number of Words: 323 / Number of Pages: 2
... follows close behind this rider because he always follows death.
I believe that one day this will happen. It seems like its happening already since there are a lot of wars, a lot of poor countries that don't have the luxury like the richer counties and there are a lot of men slaying one another. If this was to happen right now there would be nothing for me to do. I wouldn’t be able to hide so then I would just buy some guns and protect myself.There were some prophets that say the horsemen will not come until the 23rd century, so then I have nothing to worry about. ...
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich: Summary
Number of Words: 1249 / Number of Pages: 5
... pass him through when,
for safety's sake, he crushed the mitten
that Shukhov held out to him - the empty one. (Solzhenitsyn, Pg. 107)
The smart move that he does is to place the empty mitten on top and take the
risk that the guard will only search the empty one. Shukhov was lucky. Another
example of having to be smarter is after they find the wood panels, they want to
carry them back to make the place where they work warmer. Shukhov knows that if
they carry it flatways, it will be easily noticed by others, so, they hold it
upright in between them and set off. If they are seen by the su ...
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Materialism And The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 744 / Number of Pages: 3
... for material possessions that drives our economy. While this type of economy has given us great opportunities to further our own personal wealth, it has also put many people on the path to making ours a selfish and unhappy society that is never content with it already has. The market society of our country feeds on economic growth, but excess consumption does not really satisfy people in the end. It only leaves you wanting more and once you are caught up in the obsession of materialism it seems like you can never have enough.
The 1920's were also an era of blatant materialism and consumption ...
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The Effects And Implications Of Sin In The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 817 / Number of Pages: 3
... breast, would
scamper off with a strange, contagious fear.” In addition to the physical
separation, a more intangible manner of exclusion also exists, in that
Hester becomes a pariah. She is subject to derision and malice from the
lowliest of vagrants to the most genteel of individuals of the community,
though many are often the recipients of her care and attention: “The
poor...whom she sought out to be the objects of her bounty, often reviled
the hand that was stretched forth to succor them...Dames of elevated rank,
likewise, were accustomed to distill drops of bitterness into her heart.”
Hester c ...
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Superstition In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of Words: 746 / Number of Pages: 3
... to ask him why Pap is here. Jim gets a hair-ball that is the size of a fist
that he took from an ox's stomach. Jim asks the hair-ball; Why is Pap here?
But the hair-ball won't answer. Jim says it needs money, so Huck gives Jim a
counterfeit quarter. Jim puts the quarter under the hair-ball. The hair-ball
talks to Jim and Jim tells Huck that it says. "Yo'ole father doan' know yit
what he's a-gwyne to do. Sometimes he spec he'll go 'way, en den ag'in he spec
he'll stay. De bes' way is tores' easy en let de ole man take his own way.
Dey's two angles hoverin' roun' 'bout him. One uv'em is whi ...
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Macbeth - The Masks Of Lady Ma
Number of Words: 1084 / Number of Pages: 4
... Macbeth craves for her husband's success so much that she would "dash the brains out" (1.7.58) of her own child in order to achieve her goal. The strong ambition within her makes it seem as if she had no conscience or human feeling. Supernatural incidents are what mainly motivates her desire for power. Lady Macbeth would not have wanted to commit murder if the three weird sisters had not said Macbeth would be king. She even mentions how "the raven himself is hoarse/ That croaks" (1.5.34-35), which foretells the upcoming death of Duncan. Lady Macbeth's hunger to be queen is only the start of the im ...
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Mother-Daughter Tradition In The Joy Luck Club
Number of Words: 418 / Number of Pages: 2
... her first babies she had failed as a person.
When she made June take piano lessons June thought that she was trying to
make her become a child prodigy like Waverly, but her mother did this
because she knew it would benefit June for the rest of her life.
Because of the death of her mother, June was forced to take the
place of her mother in more than just filling her place at the Maj Jong
table. The mother daughter tradition was broken because the lost babies
were found after the death of their mother. June's trip to China can be
seen as the completion of her mother's promise to return, honoring h ...
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Catch 22 And Good As Gold - Sa
Number of Words: 2538 / Number of Pages: 10
... these two novels, Catch-22 and Good as Gold, Heller criticizes many institutions. In Good as Gold it is the White House and government as a whole, and in Catch-22 it is the military and medical institutions.
In Catch-22 the military is heavily satirized. Heller does this by criticizing it. Karl agrees with this statement by offering an example of the satire of both the military and civilian institutions in Catch-22:
The influence of mail clerk Wintergreen, the computer
foul-up that promotes Major Major, and the petty rivalries among officers satirizes the communication failures and the cut-throat co ...
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The Magic Barrel
Number of Words: 676 / Number of Pages: 3
... part of a Jew's life, and the family is more important than the girl herself is. He does not think about love. It is possible to imagine how Leo was disappointed when Salzmen introduced the girls to him. "Sophie P. Widow. Father promises eight thousand dollars. Has wonderful wholesale business. Also realestate." "Lily H. Regular. Father is successful dentist thirty-five years. Interested in professional man. Wonderful opportunity." Moreover, "She is a partikiler. She wants the best." Leo's interest to Lily was aroused, and he began seriously to consider calling on her. Finally they met. ...
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Water Is Wide
Number of Words: 388 / Number of Pages: 2
... Martin Luther King Jr's
assassination. Pat noticed that the white students reacted passively to
the event.
"Since the faculty was all white, the black
students walked the halls in silence, tears
of frustration rolling down their cheeks and
unspoken bitterness written on their faces in
their inability to communicate their feelings
to their white teachers." (p. 11)
This reaction to the assassination stayed with Pat for many years. Pat
Conroy's view have changed drastically. He is currently a liberal after
watching and witnessing many acts of brute force against bl ...
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