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A Raisin In The Sun: Achieving Impossible Dreams
Number of Words: 626 / Number of Pages: 3
... money is lost, this lifetime dream of Mama and Ruth’s is not destroyed. They keep their pride and dignity and contribute to sacrificing their time into working endless hours to keep the house. Ruth says, “Lena—I’ll work… I’ll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago… I’ll strap my baby on my back if I have to scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to—but we got to move…”(Hansberry 112). Through the struggle of poverty, one can still achieve success by keeping their pride and confronting the problem.
Walter often struggles with his identity and indi ...
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Claudius And Hamlet
Number of Words: 680 / Number of Pages: 3
... is of course the threat of Fortinbras who, thinking Denmark to be vulnerable "by our late dear brother's death" has been demanding "the surrender of those lands/Lost by his father" (I, ii, 23-24). In a gesture of contemptuous superiority, Claudius simply declares "So much for him" (I, ii, 25). That crisis is over.
The fact is Claudius is in control. He has already acknowledged the moral awkwardness of marrying his "sometime sister" Gertrude but characterizes it as mere political expedience: she is "The imperial jointress to this warlike state"(I, ii, 8-9). He thanks his supporters who have shown th ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
Number of Words: 898 / Number of Pages: 4
... with Jim shows the authors views on slavery. Huck was taught at home and in school that slavery was a part of the natural order. He never found anything wrong with the way slaves were treated. In the beginning of Huck and Jim’s journey Huck treats Jim in a prejudice manor (according to our standards) in the way that Jim is different from him. “When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim Lay down in the canoe and cover up with a quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a
good ways off ...
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Critique Of "The Invisible Man"
Number of Words: 1758 / Number of Pages: 7
... change his life forever. He was to chauffeur Mr. Norton, a founder
of the college he attended. Mr. Norton was a well educated but very ignorant
man. He felt that the college was doing all of the good that could be done. He
had no idea of the evils that dwelled upon the grounds. Dr. Bledsoe, the head
of the college, had arranged for Mr. Norton to go for a tour of the grounds, but
didn't expect for him to see “everything” at the college. Mr. Norton asked to
see some of the more unseen areas of the college, so the driver had to oblige
him. Their they met a man with an incestuous past. Mr. Norton wa ...
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Mark Twain Wishes To Bring Attention To Man's Often Concealed Shortcomings
Number of Words: 733 / Number of Pages: 3
... island along the river, they find
themselves drawn to get as far as possible from their home. Their journey down
the river sets the stage for most of Mark Twain's comments about man and society.
It is when they stop off at various towns along the river that various human
character flaws always seem to come out. Examples of this would include the
happenings after the bringing on of the Duke and King. These two con artists
would execute the most preposterous of schemes to relieve unsuspecting
townspeople of their cash. The game of the King pretending to be a reformed
marauder-turned-missionary at the t ...
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Pride And Prejudice: The Summary
Number of Words: 3827 / Number of Pages: 14
... Jane sends notice that she is to stay longer than expected due to her ill health. Jane is soon better and the next event takes the daughters to another ball and another chance for Elizabeth to confirm Bingley’s affections for Jane. During the ball, Darcy asks her to dance, she refuses his hand and tries to be cordial in displaying her dislike for him.
Mr. Bennet receives a letter from his cousin, Mr. Collins who wishes to come and visit his family. Here Mr. and Mrs. Bennet show their dislike for the system that will give Mr. Collins the estate of Mr. Bennet, and leave his wife and five daught ...
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The Great Gatsby: The Green Light
Number of Words: 1041 / Number of Pages: 4
... meanings in different situations. (Beckson and
Ganz 207)
The green light is first mentioned in chapter one of the Great
Gatsby. Nick, the narrator of the novel, sees Gatsby curiously stretching
his arms out towards the water. Nick went to see what Gatsby was looking
at and all he could see was "...nothing except a single green light, minute
and far away, that might have been the end of a dock."
At this point in the novel the symbol of the green light is
introduced to the reader. The reader does not know that the light is on
Daisy's dock. Therefore, one cannot affiliate Gatsby with Daisy. The
r ...
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Book Report A Voyager Out
Number of Words: 3551 / Number of Pages: 13
... a writer and came from a family of writers. He did not produce much however. He left a lot of his works unfinished, and many others unstarted. Because he did not do much in his lifetime, it has been said that his greatest gift to the world was his daughter. Her mother, Mary Bailey, was the innkeeper’s daughter. Four days after her father and mother were married, Mary Kingsley was born. If her father had not married her mother, Mary would have been bastard child of a destitute domestic. Mary would have only been able to lead a life of servitude herself. Oddly enough though, most of her y ...
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A Study Of The Negro Policeman: Book Review
Number of Words: 1012 / Number of Pages: 4
... efforts to reconcile their race with their work in the present
framework of American values and beliefs.
The research for the study was based on intensive interviews collected
over a period of eleven months, from December 1964 to October 1965. During that
time the author talked with Negro police engaged in different types of police
specialties, and men of different rank and backgrounds. Alex was interested in
preserving their anonymity, and substituted code numbers for names. The
language in which their thoughts were expressed is unchanged.
Most of the interviews were obtained either ...
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The Awakening: Edna's
Number of Words: 804 / Number of Pages: 3
... to Adele how she feels about her children and how she feels about
herself, which greatly differs from the mother-woman image. She says: "I would
give up the unessential; I would give my money; I would give my life for my
children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only
something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me." This
specifically contrasts the mother-woman idea of self-sacrificing for your
husband and children. Also, the "something . . . which is revealing itself"
does not become completely clear to Edna herself until just before t ...
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