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Peacefully Ever After
Number of Words: 1433 / Number of Pages: 6
... in life on Janie.
The conflict between Janie's sacred view of marriage and Nanny's wish for
her to marry for stability and position is a good illustration of just how
deep the respect and trust runs. Janie has a very romantic notion of what
marriage should be. "She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a
bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the loveembrace . . . so
this was a marriage," is how the narrator describes it (p.24). Nanny's
idea of a good husband is someone who has some standing in the community,
someone who will get Janie to that "higher ground." Nanny wants Ja ...
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To Sir With Love - Change
Number of Words: 681 / Number of Pages: 3
... the house of their black friend during his crisis, or
their learning to treat each other with respect;they learned to address
each other as their last names, inthe case of the boys, and "Miss", for the
girls. For the students,they learned to respect and really learn from their
teacher,something they had never cared to do before. Braithewaite helped
them to break out of the the pattern of intolerance and roughness that
society had placed them in. They began to respect themselves and then to
respect others. In short, it was obvious that both the teacher and his
students were able to adapt their way of t ...
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The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
Number of Words: 7517 / Number of Pages: 28
... brother, the man who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner." And Edward Fitzgerald, Scott's father, was a handsome, charming man, but one who seemed more interested in the family name than in hard work.
The McQuillan and the Fitzgerald in Scott vied for control throughout his childhood. He was a precocious child, full of energy and imagination, but he liked to take short cuts, substituting flights of fantasy for hard work. On his seventh birthday in 1903 he told a number of the older guests that he was the owner of a yacht (perhaps the seeds of Gatsby's admiration for Dan Cody's yacht in the novel). A ...
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: Evil
Number of Words: 905 / Number of Pages: 4
... increases as the plot develops.
By trading his soul for his youth, Dorian rids of the good inside of
himself. The plot proves to us that evil does actually lie within an
individual. From the moment that he becomes forever young he begins to
deteriorate. Even once he reached his epiphany and saw his evil through
the portrait he simply denied seeing it and continued his malicious deeds.
The characterisation of the book is one of the most important
elements of this book. Dorian begins by being a very naïve lad. He is
very easily influenced by others especially his two new good friends; Basil
and ...
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To The Lighthouse 2
Number of Words: 696 / Number of Pages: 3
... Mr. Ramsay understands and regrets the sorrow he brought on Mrs. Ramsay. He sympathizes with her and is "ashamed" for what he had done. Mr. Ramsay wants to appease his wife and make her happy as a result of the torment that he inflicted on her. Next, Woolf again illustrates Mr. Ramsay's insensitive dimension when Mr. Ramsay makes Mrs. Ramsay "bend her head as if to let the pelt of jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked." (32) Mr. Ramsay is heartless to his wife's feelings; it is as if he enjoys "drenching" Mrs. Ramsay and enjoys seeing her in mental anguish. However, Woolf ...
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Machiavelli's View Of Human Nature
Number of Words: 1086 / Number of Pages: 4
... distrusted citizens, stating that "...in time of adversity,
when the state is in need of it's citizens there are few to be found."5
Machiavelli further goes on to question the loyalty of the citizens and advises
the Prince that "...because men a wretched creatures who would not keep their
word to you, you need keep your word to them."6 However, Machiavelli did not
feel that a Prince should mistreat the citizens. This suggestion once again to
serve the Prince's best interests.
If a prince can not be both feared and loved, Machiavelli suggests, it
would be better for him to be feared bey ...
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Invisible Man
Number of Words: 378 / Number of Pages: 2
... the narrator angry, because it was symbolic of blacks, being slaves to white people, and how some white people though of black people as entertainment, and were not actually people but where just animals. 4. I believe that the narrator was unnamed for two reasons. One being that most of the novel was a flash back to things that had happened and he was explaining about himself, and we didn't need to know his name since we knew so much about him. Secondly because of the title of the book Invisible being mysterious, and to follow that the author decided not to tell the readers the narrators name to fol ...
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Analysis Of Chris Marker's "La Jetee", And Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida"
Number of Words: 5041 / Number of Pages: 19
... most interesting aspects of this study, and also the
most challenging, is the nature of Marker's “film” itself. Simply the fact
that I have to put the word film in quotes when applying it to La Jetee is
perhaps the strongest evidence of the enigma that this film has been
throughout its history. What exactly is la Jetee? This is a question that
haunted my research. How do you take a book about photography, and apply
its statements to this “film?” Now, obviously there are some answers to
this question. Marker's film is of course largely about photography
because it is largely photography. Howeve ...
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Catch 22 Analysis
Number of Words: 1484 / Number of Pages: 6
... that enrich their community, it shows a pattern of slowly diminishing individuality among them. This trend become more apparent as the book progresses, and eventually fosters situations that can be characterized as simply farce. One such incident is clearly portrayed in SHITHEAD’s parade strategies. As the book begins, SHITHEAD is introduced as a lover of parades and little else. At first strict, wanting all soldiers to march in perfect formation, he later wishes to string together all participants to create a perfect march. His ambitions are hilarious at first glance, but it is evident that huma ...
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Rosemary Well's When No One Was Looking: Ambition
Number of Words: 489 / Number of Pages: 2
... ball
game the night of the murder. She regains her confidence, and works her way up
to the top.
Julia and Kathy have been best friends since they were in first grade.
Because of Julia's wealth, she is different, and is treated just that way.
Kathy would defend her when she used to get picked on. Since then, Kathy and
Julia are inseparable. They have such a good relationship, that they would do
anything to stop the other from getting hurt.
Ruth Gumm has no special talent when it comes to tennis, she is just
okay at the sport. When Kathy competes with her, she expects it will be a snap,
but she actua ...
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