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To Kill A Mockingbird: A Hero Among Them
Number of Words: 827 / Number of Pages: 4
... trial of Tom Robinson, Atticus speaks to Mayella Ewell with a respect that she is not accustomed to receiving. This respect is shown to Mayella simply because it was the right thing to do. Additionally, Walter Cunningham is treated as a guest, while in the Finch home for lunch, not as a poor person in the community Atticus shows Walter respect for the hard work that he contributes to his family. Atticus also takes on the Tom Robinson case with all his might and power as an established attorney simply because he believes in Tom’s innocence, and does not permit public opinion to sway him.
Being a ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Faults Of The Social Structure
Number of Words: 479 / Number of Pages: 2
... out about the social structure in the society is the lunacy associated with the revolution. The way the people of St. Antoine get crazy from being in such a violent situation is the fault that is being described here. When the wood-sawyer starts talking about his saw as "his little guillotine" it shows that he is affected and is a "typical revolutionary", with a cruel regard for life. Another place where Dickens describes this revolution lunacy is when the crowd of "five thousand demons" come around the corner "dancing" to the Carmagnole, the song of the revolution. This shows that everyone who has a ...
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Call Of The Wild: Buck
Number of Words: 513 / Number of Pages: 2
... leave, but Buck couldn't move at all and the Scotch half-breed kept on beating Buck, then John Thorton went up and beat up the Scotch half-breed cut Buck free from the harness and the man left without Buck. Buck joined Thorton's team of dogs. They went to a bar; Thorton made a bet with a man that Buck could pull one thousands pounds of equipment by himself. Buck did it and Thorton won sixteen hundred dollars worth of gold. Thorton went on a search for the gold that everyone was talking about. Throton made it and found a gun and some blankets and there was no one around, he did not think anything of i ...
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The Crucible By Arthur Miller
Number of Words: 651 / Number of Pages: 3
... have been caught dancing in the woods by Reverend Samuel Parris, the town’s minister. Two of the girls are related to him. Abigail is his niece and Betty is his daughter. When Betty gets sick, rumors start to spread that there is witchcraft involved in her illness because they were out in the woods all by themselves. Salem is a very tightly sheltered town that is pretty much run by the church, which is against the devil and all forms of the devil such as witches , and it is also against enjoyable acts such as dancing. Not only that but in the book the town is described as the following, R ...
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The Great Gatsby: Daisy Buchannon
Number of Words: 766 / Number of Pages: 3
... to the world wondering aloud what she is going to do with the rest of her life. She appears to be bored yet innocent and harmless. Yet her innocense is false. Simply a materialistic young girl and has little mind of her own is underneath all of that covering. Daisy rediscovers her love with Gatsby because of his nice shirts and large house. Daisy has been well trained in a rich family. She has grown up with all of the best. When Gatsby failed to contact her, she went off and married another man, without evening having heard word from Gatsby. All of these many and round characteristics add compl ...
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Computer Ethics: A Review
Number of Words: 1120 / Number of Pages: 5
... crime is a very broad title for such a large group of dissimilar crimes. The only factor, which groups all of these crimes together is that they all involve the use of a computer. Computer Ethics includes a chapter dedicated to computer crimes and how broad the law is when it comes to computer crimes. This chapter defines computer crime and gives some real life examples of the computer crime that has gone on in the past. One of the largest computer crimes ever discovered is covered in the computer crime chapter. It occurred from 1965 to 1971 and involved an insurance company called Equit ...
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Beloved: We All Look The Same In The Dark
Number of Words: 743 / Number of Pages: 3
... not brought along when her mother tried to escape (unsuccessfully) from the plantation. Sethe was breaking, but not yet broken. The emptiness of Sethe’s relationship with her mother only increased Sethe’s motherly obsession for her own children. As a parent with two kids and another one on the way, Sethe needed to escape slavery. She felt she had to place her children outside the horror of slavery, even if it meant taking their lives.
A life was lost. Sethe refused to allow herself and her children to be dragged back into the evil of slavery. Like the woman in Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, Sethe want ...
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The City Of The Sun
Number of Words: 679 / Number of Pages: 3
... are judged to have the greatest nobility. Moreover, the Solarians have a Prince Prelate called Sun. Sun is elected by knowing a significant amount of information in diverse academic fields. For example, he must know all the mechanical arts and the mathematical, physical, and astrological sciences. In his dialogue, Campanella stresses the importance of acquiring knowledge in this ideal city. He demonstrates this by describing the position of the Prince Prelate: “Once appointed, his tenure lasts until someone with greater knowledge and greater ability to rule is discovered (Campanella 45)”. Therefo ...
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A Doll's House: Role Of Women As The Comforter
Number of Words: 1316 / Number of Pages: 5
... House" depicts the role of women as
subordinate in order to emphasize the need to reform their role in society.
Definite characteristics of the women's subordinate role in a
relationship are emphasized through Nora's contradicting actions. Her
infatuation with luxuries such as expensive Christmas gifts contradicts her
resourcefulness in scrounging and buying cheap clothing; her defiance of
Torvald by eating forbidden Macaroons contradicts the submission of her
opinions, including the decision of which dance outfit to wear, to her
husband; and Nora's flirtatious nature contradicts her devoti ...
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Lyrical Analysis Of The End
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... melodic variation backing a complex story line. It builds to an effect of mood rather than a sequence of events. Morrison's masterpiece was almost pure poetry, which probably remains the single most astounding track the doors ever recorded.
Jim Morrison uses words as much for their emotive effect as their meaning. The song suggests rather than states a mind filled with fears of sex, violence and death. Its the imagery more than the meaning of the words themselves that gets the message across. The imagery is terrifying-"the snake is long" and he's "old and his skin is cold." A symbol of evil if combi ...
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