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Heart Of Darkness: Different Centers Of Darkness
Number of Words: 843 / Number of Pages: 4
... bear a striking likeness in not only their physical appearance, but there state of mind as well.
However, Dorall continues deeper into abyss of interrupting these two novels by pointing out subtle variances. He first mentions the fact that the characters on the riverboat in the novel lack the depth and development of a true character. On the other hand, the film takes time and effort to develop each individual character on the patrol boat, thus creating some sort of personality that the audience can relate to and take comfort in. Dorall continues down into the darkened minds of both Kurtzs by citin ...
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Indians Of The United States
Number of Words: 284 / Number of Pages: 2
... to the natural instinct of man to explore, the explorers just that to figure out the mysterious Indians. The explorers later theorized that the Indians came from Siberia through a land bridge in the Bering Strait during the time when the water levels were not high. They also realized that it was difficult to predict the times when things happened to the Indians since they did not keep written records. Then they figured out by use of imagination that the Indians crossed over the land bridge to Alaska finding wild game. And following rivers and bodies of water, they moved south covering most of Americ ...
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Gatsbys Dream
Number of Words: 1327 / Number of Pages: 5
... himself. "I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west-all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition."(69) Lastly, he spends his money like pouring water. He held expensive parties, owns a huge mansion, a Rolls Royce, two motor boats, aquaplanes, a swimming pool (ironically that he has never used it except the day he has died), and a flashy wardrobe including a pink suit. Gatsby's materialism is not something to praise about. However, all of his amoral actions are caused by one pur ...
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Comparison Of To Kill A Mockingbird With The Dewey Decimal System
Number of Words: 611 / Number of Pages: 3
... 1).
Like the Dewey Decimal System Maycomb also had its classification system. In the book, Jem confused the Dewey Decimal System with John Dewey’s philosophy of education. This is clear when Scout says, “What Jem called the Dewey Decimal System was school wide by the end of my first year, so I had no chance to compare it to any other teaching technique, I could only look around me” (Lee 37). Dewey’s educational philosophy was the new way students were to be taught in the Maycomb schools. It stressed the hands on experiential method of teaching. Jem easily confused John Dewey’s new way of teachi ...
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Gimpel The Fool: Golde Vs. Elka
Number of Words: 1236 / Number of Pages: 5
... tiresome to her, Elka would simply make fun of Gimpel, keeping him quiet because he did not know how or want to retaliate. “Look who’s here! He’s come, the drip. Grab a seat” (Singer 6). She belittled him all of the time.
Golde was more sarcastic, than mean, to Tevye. Tevye did not always have the opportunity to be a great provider for his family. This would upset/anger Golde. “A lot he need children-and seven of them at that! God punish me for saying so, but my mistake was not to have taken them all and thrown them into the river” (Aleichem 5).
When Tevye came come from driving the old ladi ...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... Rainsford picks to go hunting and hopes to survive the three days.
If he did live, he would be set free with money and new clothing, so Zaroff says…
On the hunting trip, Rainsford successfully avoids Zaroff for three days by
hiding and setting up traps, then he pretends to go to sea by freeing the boats.
Finally, he sneaks into Zaroff's room and hides there until Zaroff arrives.
Eventually, he confronts Zaroff and fights him to his death. After that,
Rainsford gets the best night sleep he has ever had.
I feel that Richard Conel tried to express a feeling of change within the
character's ...
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A Lesson Before Dying 2
Number of Words: 1110 / Number of Pages: 5
... who at first isn’t too keen on the idea of helping a crook. Wiggins agrees to talk with Jefferson only out of a sense of duty--he is an unhappy, angry man who dreamt of escape from his deprived childhood yet returned to his hometown after a university education to teach in the same one-room parish school he attended. Despite humiliation at the hands of the white sheriff, Jefferson's lack of cooperation, and his own sense of futility and uncertain faith, Wiggins forges a bond with Jefferson that leads to wisdom and courage for both. At first, Jefferson sees himself as a hog, and nothing ...
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The Scarlet Letter 2
Number of Words: 432 / Number of Pages: 2
... letter”replied Roger Chillingworth.). But for Dimmesdale he had a whole different plan. He came back to town as a different person with a different name. Now he was Roger Chillingworth (We don’t know his name before the first scaffold incident), a well-appreciated and educated physician. He came to help Dimmesdale, who was very sick. He became his close physician and they became very close friends.
But the truth was that Chillingworth was constantly investigating Dimmesdale and reaching to the depth of his heart and prying his secrets and by that constantly hurting him. Dimmesdale was hurt ...
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy Loman
Number of Words: 764 / Number of Pages: 3
... became a salesman. Willy is the most unqualified
salesman ever! He never sold a thing. Willy stops seeing the truth at one
point of his life and he relies on his own lies to numb his pain. The pain
of knowing he cannot and wont be able to become Dave Singleman. He is
Willy Loman, who is good at fixing the house. He is not cut out for
travelling from city to city and selling goods to people he has never met
before. Willy dramatically dies living out his dream, the dream that never
suited Willy Loman.
Willy does not allow people to tell him what to do. He believes
that he cannot be bossed aro ...
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The Great Gatsby: Portraying A Morose Tone
Number of Words: 589 / Number of Pages: 3
... to receive. The word procession reflects the despair and lack of friendship that Gatsby witnesses in his life. The lack of companionship that Gatsby has cogitates how lonely and despondent he is. Through the uses of certain words the author helps express feelings and emotions of the morose tone.
Through imagery Fitzgerald can make the reader feel like they are in the story. Water, specifically evokes the senses. It describes how the procession of cars stopped in a thick drizzle. This depicts how gloomy it appears outside. The reader can hardly see the three cars because of continuous soaking ...
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