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Native Son
Number of Words: 1219 / Number of Pages: 5
... of his life. His life is dictated by a large group of white people’s false belief of superiority. With every cause there is an effect, and the effect that this burden has on Bigger turns him into an animal, living for only one thing, survival.
“There he is again, Bigger!” the woman screamed, and the tiny, one-room apartment galvanized into violent action. A chair toppled as the woman, half dressed in her stocking feet, scrambled breathlessly upon the bed. Her two sons, barefoot, stood tense and motionless, their eyes searching anxiously under the bed and chairs. The girl ran into the corner, hal ...
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Kennewick Man
Number of Words: 1232 / Number of Pages: 5
... After receiving his permit he returned to the site several times and recovered a near complete skeleton. At first the nineteenth century artifacts led him to believe that the skeleton was from the same time period, but then he noticed that the bones were discolored and there was soil adhering to them. This indicated that they were not as recent as the late nineteenth century (Slayman).
Chatters began to clean and study the skeleton to try to learn as much as he could about it. As he did this he noted that it appeared that this person was male, around fifty years old when he died, and he was abou ...
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Comparion Between: A Doll's House And Crime And Punishment
Number of Words: 1287 / Number of Pages: 5
... is not looking. After Sofya, whose nickname
is Sonia, finishes talking to Luzhin she leaves. Sonia has no idea that
Luzhin has put money into her pocket. Raskolnikov's friend, Andrei
Semyonovitch Lebezyatnikov, was present when all of that takes place. "All
of this was observed by Andrei Semyonovich." (Dostoyevsky 460) Luzhin goes
to a reception for Sonia's father, Semyon Zakharovitch Marmeladov, and
announces that Sonia is a thief. Sonia immediately denies the accusation.
Luzhin tells her to look in her pocket. Sure enough the money that he was
missing was there. Luzhin wants Sonia to marry him but ...
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Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl
Number of Words: 1793 / Number of Pages: 7
... Nancy Woloch states in Women and the American Experience “middle class Americans had rising incomes, expectations, and living standards” (p.67). The atmosphere was charged with growth and transformation.
It was out of this shift in society that the “cult of true womanhood” was born. This idyllic view of women’s appropriate sphere “celebrated the new status of the middle class woman, along with her distinctive vocation, values, and character” (Woloch, p.68). True Women reigned in the domestic realm, whereas men controlled the outside world of politics, business, individuality, intellect, etc. Tr ...
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The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 765 / Number of Pages: 3
... and Gatsby were unable to see each other. Gatsby knows that Daisy is now married, but he feels that he can win Daisy from Tom, so that he could fulfill his dream. As before, society prevents them from being together.
Before Gatsby left, society prevented the two from happiness because of economical standings. Daisy was raised with money and Gatsby came from a lower class. However, when Gatsby returns from the war, he comes back with an abundance of inherited money. Now, society prevents the two from having a relationship, because of the fact that Daisy has already married. This does not prove to ...
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A Picture Of Dorian: Gray Basil's Changes As Related To Wilde's Opinion On Art
Number of Words: 868 / Number of Pages: 4
... each other for the first time. Basil finds something different about Dorian. He sees him in a different way than he sees other men. Dorian is not only beautiful to Basil, but he is also gentle and kind. This is when Basil falls in love with him and begins to paint the picture. Basil begins painting the picture, but does not tell anyone about it, including Dorian, because he knows that there is too much of himself in it. Lord Henry discovers the painting and asks Basil why he will not display it. Lord Henry thinks that it is so beautiful it should be displayed in a museum. Basil argues that the rea ...
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The Return Of The Native: A Relationship Destined For Destruction
Number of Words: 1533 / Number of Pages: 6
... aspects of the Yeobrights reflect the “condition of man”(Hardy 496).
Mrs. Yeobright is quick to pass judgment on others, including Clym.
“And yet you might have been a wealthy man if you had only persevered. Manager to that large diamond establishment –what better can a man wish for? What a post of trust and respect and respect! I suppose you will be like your father; like him, you are getting weary of doing well.” (Hardy 139)
Clym, like Mrs. Yeobright, is also quick to judge. He is a man of ideals with no real sense of love in his heart. After hearing of the circumstances surrounding his mot ...
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The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer: Summary
Number of Words: 609 / Number of Pages: 3
... his aunt's fence which he did not
want to do. Later on Tom's friend Jim came along he had to get a pail of
water from the town pump so Tom said that he would get the water if Jim
would whitewash some. Jim said no so Tom was stuck with whitewashing until
Ben Rogers came eating a apple, and said "Hello, old chap, you got to work,
hey?" Tom told him that it wasn't work it was fun. Then Ben stoped eating
his apple, and said "Say, Tom let me whitewash a little" Tom told him no
because his aunt wanted this fence to be whitewashed carefuly. Then Ben
said that he would be careful, and that he would give Tom th ...
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Heart Of Darkness 4
Number of Words: 1811 / Number of Pages: 7
... as in the face looking back at him. In taking this path, the person runs the risk of becoming the very thing he is trying to destroy. In Joseph Conrad’s macabre story Heart of Darkness, the protagonist represents the person selected to seek out and destroy the monster. Conrad uses many techniques to bring the reader into the darkness: archetype, symbolism, and foreshadowing. The theme of this classic tale is succinctly made through the words of the western philosopher Nietzsche; when fighting monsters the person fighting should be careful not to become one, and when looking into a void the ...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody Has To Find Out About Living For Themselves
Number of Words: 2768 / Number of Pages: 11
... meet de boats in Savannah, and all of us slaves
was free. So Ah run got mah baby and got in quotation wid people and found a
place Ah could stay." Grandmother was wanting to make a school teacher out of
Janie's mother. Janie found out that a school teacher rapped her mother so she
never met her father either. Janie's mother was seventeen, when she was
pregnant with Janie. After Janie was born, Janie's mother took to drinking a
lot. Janie's grandmother raised Janie since she was born, grandmother says
"Maybe it wasn't much, but Ah done de best Ah kin by you. Ah raked and scraped
and bought dis ...
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