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Contaminated Motives
Number of Words: 1271 / Number of Pages: 5
... are induced during the process. Therefore, money is the root of all evil.
Despite the two novels possessing slight differences, they coincide in many aspects. When Pip acquires the money from the unknown benefactor, he moves away under Jaggers guidance and barely ever returns to his hometown. In the beginning, his reasons for coming back were to visit Joe, Biddy, and Miss Havisham, but eventually he changes and seeing the people previously so important to him appears to become a chore. This is ironic because not even a year ago he looked up to Joe, and regarded him as a father, now he refuses to se ...
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Willa Cather's "O Pioneers"
Number of Words: 1095 / Number of Pages: 4
... attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she gained the
knowledge and creativity to write such beautiful work. In her first works,
Willa's animosity towards Nebraska was relevant in her work. 4 After she
went east in 1896 and became editor of McClure's Magazine and gained
success, her feeling toward Nebraska changed, which was evident in "The
Bohemian Girl," in 1912. 5
When she published O Pioneers in 1913, many of her memories of
childhood and life on the prairie were depicted in the tale. For example,
a phrase in the tale O Pioneers is a memoir of the Divide when she was a
child:
" ...
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France And England In A Tale O
Number of Words: 2813 / Number of Pages: 11
... of the chapter shows that Dickens regarded the condition to be an 'evil' one, since he depicts both countries as rife with poverty, injustice, and violence due to the irresponsibility of the ruling elite (1-3; bk. 1, ch. 1). As the novel unfolds, however, England becomes a safe haven for those escaping the violence perpetrated by the French Revolution. In this paper, I shall argue that A Tale of Two Cities reflects the popular confidence in the stability of England in the eighteen-fifties, despite Dickens's suggestions at the beginning. A Tale of Two Cities thus becomes a novel about the England and th ...
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Wuthering Heights Nelly
Number of Words: 978 / Number of Pages: 4
... knowledge is more valuable because she got along with and talked to everybody.
Nelly never really had a life of her own because she lived at Wuthering Heights all her life. Therefore, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange was her life. Nelly was more than a servant, and had a personal relationship with most of the characters,which is why her story is so efficient, and her lack of knowledge not as important. She really loved them, and she shows it when she says, "I kissed Hareton good-bye; and since then he has been a stranger: and it's queer to think it, but I've no doubt he has completely ...
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A Modest Proposal: A Different Version
Number of Words: 1024 / Number of Pages: 4
... thought out to
solve the common problem of students sleeping and hurting their future
lives and careers is to place table top dancers in every classroom.
I have worked out the details entailing the added cost of these daily
dancing ladies. A well-known friend of mine, who owns a nightclub off of
Harry Hines, was kind enough to divulge the rates per hour that dancers, he
could find for Jesuit Prep, would accept. The amount I was told is $5.00
per hour, ensured that this was a very generous deal by my friend. This
meager hourly wage, times the 7 hours of school, times the 30 classrooms,
and t ...
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The Different Conceptions Of The Veil In The Souls Of Black Folk
Number of Words: 2957 / Number of Pages: 11
... forests of his striving his
own soul rose before him, and he saw himself, -darkly as though through a
veil"Footnote2, is a allusion to Saint Paul's line in Isiah 25:7, "For now we
see through a glass, darkly."Footnote3 Saint Paul's use of the veil in Isiah and
later in Second Corinthians is similar to Du Bois's use of the metaphor of the
veil. Both writers claim that as long as one is wrapped in the veil their
attempts to gain self-consciousness will fail because they will always see the
image of themselves reflect back to them by others. Du Bois applies this by
claiming that as long as on is behin ...
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The Swimmer: Themes Of Loss And Social Status
Number of Words: 1076 / Number of Pages: 4
... The Grahams are marvelously surprised by his visit and offer him a drink. Merrill did not want to seem rude but he did not have the time to stay. He swam across the pool, spoke with them for a few moments and then moved on to the next pool.
Men and women were gathered together drinking at the Bunker’s house for a small poolside party at Merrill’s next stop. Once again, the hostess Enid Bunker, is happy to see Merrill drop by unexpectedly and leads him straight to the bar for a drink where “a smiling bartender he had seen at a hundred parties gave him a gin and tonic.” (Cheever 285). Anxious not t ...
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Slaughterhouse - Five: Satire About War And Life
Number of Words: 899 / Number of Pages: 4
... coat that Billy Pilgrim got had been crumpled and frozen
in such a way, and was so small, that it appeared to be not a coat but a
sort of large black, three-cornered hat. There were gummy stains on it,
too, like crankcase drainings or old strawberry jam. There seemed to be a
dead, furry animal frozen to it. The animal was infact the coat’s fur
collar.” (Vonnegut, p.81- 82)
Another example of satire in WWII is when Billy and the other
American prisoners are to stay in empty slaughterhouses. Billy and Edgar
Derby, a 44 year old American private were going to the communal kitchen
for supper the first ...
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Fahreheit 451
Number of Words: 1734 / Number of Pages: 7
... McClellan. She talks to him about his job and they talk for a while. He finds out that this girl lives upstairs from him. He returns to his home after talking to Clarisse, and finds his wife lying on the bed with an empty bottle of sleeping pills next to her. He calls the emergency hospital and an ambulance comes, pumps her stomach, and replaces her blood with clean blood. The next day Mildred remembers nothing about overdosing on the sleeping pills. After breakfast, Montag goes to work at the fire station. Over the next seven days, Montag talks to Clarisse more and more. On the eighth day, ...
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Lord Of The Flies
Number of Words: 1200 / Number of Pages: 5
... Near the end of their journey, they encounter a wild pig. Jack tries to kill it, but is unsuccessful.
When the explorers get back, a meeting is held. The explorers explain that the island is deserted but there is enough food to keep them alive. Jack and the hunters promise to supply meat. Ralph makes a rule that whoever is in possession of the conch shell is allowed to speak. Ralph proposes the idea of a signal fire to alert passing ships of their presence. All the boys agree and everybody rushes to the hilltop to start a fire. The fire sparks the gathered wood into a blaze. One of the boys is ...
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