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Racism Related To The Novel Ja
Number of Words: 387 / Number of Pages: 2
... had killed the girl because she had tried to leave him. From that point on the story became a struggle of suffering and survival after the deception of “jazz”.
Jazz symbolized the music that bloomed along with the Harlem Reniassance between the years of 1920 and 1930. Like the harlem Reniassance, it claimed to offer a better life foe southerners with new hopes of opportunities in the North. Violet was embraced by this image, but recalled a different view of “jazz”. Like many black women of her time, it did not provide the promised opport ...
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Helen Of Troy Willing Resident
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... Priam calls her over to sit by him. He feels sorry for her and tries to take her mind off of her situation by asking her to point out members of the Achaian army. She responds by first telling him that she wished she had never come to Troy.
"Helen answered: 'You do me honour, my dear goodfather! How I wish I had died before I followed your son here, and left my bridal chamber and my family, my beloved daughter and all my young friends! But that was not to be; and so I pine away in sorrow.'"
In the battle between Alexandros and Menelaos, Alexandros is almost killed but Aphroditę saves him ...
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Book Report: I Am David
Number of Words: 488 / Number of Pages: 2
... In the camp David did not have anyone to teach him anything
until he met Johannes. Johannes taught David different languages and also
to help one another, especially in the camp. After Johannes was shot David
became very much like Johannes. David became caring, kind and smarter with
the languages he had learned. Any chance David had to do something good he
would, for ex. the time David risked his life to save the girl in the
burning cabin. (I hope I did not give away to much of the book)
Critique:
One reason I liked the book was because the author gave the character,
David, a ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Assorted Themes
Number of Words: 751 / Number of Pages: 3
... Lucie and her family. Miss Pross was the loyal servant for
Lucie. She showed her loving devotion to Lucie by fighting off Madame Defarge.
Many characters are skilled with the force of love in this book. Miss
Pross, fought off Madame Defarge for the reason that she loved Lucie, and did
not want anything to happen to her. The true love was the feelings of Sydney for
Lucie. This love was so great he sacrificed his own life for her. He showed
more love for her than for himself. Hate is also plays a big part in the book.
Madame Defarge had so much hate she went to the extent of trying to kill Luc ...
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Canterbury Tales
Number of Words: 703 / Number of Pages: 3
... about this because he enjoys the pleasures of life and not much of his training. Chaucer’s thoughts of his appearance were:
He was some twenty years of age, I guessed. In stature he was of moderate length,With wonderful agility and strength. (78-80) He stayed up mall night and partied so he did not get much sleep.
The Oxford Cleric was an odd scholar. He had a skinny horse and he looks hollow. His clothes were worn thin because he spent all his money on learning. He took money from his friends and spent it on more knowledge: Whatever money from his friends he took / He spent on learning or another ...
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Comparing "Witness For The Prosecution" And "Wine": The Keys To A Great Story
Number of Words: 823 / Number of Pages: 3
... recently had his boots
shinned. She also said the most striking characteristic of Mr. Mayherne is
his shrewd and piercing gray eyes. From his brief encounter with Mrs.
Mogson, we found out that she was scared with sulfuric acid by Romaine's
boyfriend and has been bent on getting revenge on Romaine. Plausible
characters and vivid description make this story more interesting and add
to the plot of the story.
The author of "Wine" was very non-discriptive about the characters.
This lack of description makes the characters extremely difficult to relate
too. The author never even gives her characters na ...
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Sins In The Scarlet Letter
Number of Words: 742 / Number of Pages: 3
... adulterous sin was discovered and she was cast out from their society and required to wear an embroidered “A” on her bosom in punishment. Hester felt guilt for her sin the rest of her life and sought repentance and absolution until the time she died. Hester never had true love for Chillingworth, but was tricked into marriage. She later told him this while speaking in her jail cell saying to him, “... thou knowest that I was frank with thee, I felt no love, nor feigned any.” Hester was betrayed, tricked and allowed herself to become caught up in the evil desires of anot ...
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A Separate Peace: Finny How Things Change
Number of Words: 1102 / Number of Pages: 5
... more. Finny was so perfect that he didn't care what others thought, like when Finny wore a pink shirt as an emblem after the bombing of central Europe. " '...Pink! It makes you look like a fairy!' 'Does it?' He used this preoccupied tone when he was thinking of something more interesting than what you had said." One time Finny and Gene were at the swimming pool when Finny noticed that a boy named A. Hopkins Parker had the record for the 100 yards free style. When Finny realized that A. Hopkins Parker had graduated before they came, he remarked, "I have a feeling I can swim faster than A. Hopkins Parker ...
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Huckleberry Finn: Controversy Paper
Number of Words: 328 / Number of Pages: 2
... by Fishkin, has been plagued
with a dialect that should not be represented by the African American race
during that time. The question is raised by Fishkin as to if Huck Finn was
black? This in turn would take away from the whole basic outcome of the moral
lesson that we are all so desperately wanting to hear about.
I found it almost appalling to see how one author could so easily turn
the goodness of a young white boy and basically call it a lie in the eyes of
Mark Twain. It is up to us as the reader to close our eyes and open our minds
to the whole heartedness of a man kind. ...
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The Young Goodman Brown: Resistance, Acceptance, And Embracing Of Evil
Number of Words: 1040 / Number of Pages: 4
... Brown’s disillusionment, which turns out to be the beginning of the end for Young Goodman. The man along the path is clearly seen as evil because of the detailed description of his devilish appearance and the nature of this late-night rendezvous. The devilish man says to Goodman Brown “I have been well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans (Nathaniel Hawthorn, 198)”. This devilish traveler is implying that Goodman Brown’s family, and the entire Puritan community is not as “pure” as they appear that they might in fact be involved in satanic behavior or witchcraft. ...
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