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Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes: Hardships Of Tracy Whitney
Number of Words: 1259 / Number of Pages: 5
... in something pleasant.
In this story, the character Tracy Whitney goes through a series of
changes, which lead to her eternal happiness. Tracy's character is
different from most other characters, because instead of going through one
change she goes through two. As the story begins, Tracy is loving and
compassionate. She has everything that she needs a rich lover, a great job
and happiness. Every thing is great until she goes down to New Orleans to
attend her mother's funeral. Soon after she arrives in New Orleans, her
entire world turns in to utter chaos, when someone frames her for a crime
that she ...
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The Dead: A Necessary Introduction
Number of Words: 783 / Number of Pages: 3
... and what they can get out of you" (Joyce, 178). Gabriel blushes immediately. He feels bad for bringing it up, and tosses her a coin in thanks, and as an indirect apology. He then rushes away to avoid further discussion, and perhaps his guilt as well.
The reader also discovers very quickly that Gabriel is very well educated. He is to give a speech at the dinner table, and he struggles with whether or not he should include certain poetic and academic references. He feels that he will appear superior to the guests, and that his speech will be misunderstood, or not understood at all. He is conscio ...
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2061 Odyssey Three
Number of Words: 468 / Number of Pages: 2
... off at the moon base the universe was assigned to go pick up a ship that had crash landed on Europa. Universe went to pick up the people when it was hijacked by Universe's stewardess and was forced to land when Universe had landed The Hijacker killed her self by shooting herself in the head. after the ship had land the landing pads had sunk into the ground and the hijacker must have thought that they were stranded. After the event with the hijacker the crew decided to explore the mysterious mountain while picking up the survivors. When they got to the mountain they realised that it was infact a diamo ...
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Representations Of Masculinity And Femininity In Miguel Street
Number of Words: 2076 / Number of Pages: 8
... looking
at both male and female characters in the book as well as the boy narrator of
the book.
Finding examples of manliness are found with great ease considering that
12 of the 17 stories in some way deal with the theme of manliness (Thieme 24).
It doesnt take long before the first example, a carpenter named Popo, is
introduced. In the chapter titled "The Thing Without A Name" we are told that
"Popo never made any money. His wife used to go out and work and this was easy ,
because they had no children. Popo said ' Women and them like work. Man not
made for work" ( Naipaul 17). This attitude im ...
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My Antonia 2
Number of Words: 905 / Number of Pages: 4
... farm. He is blissfully happy when he first meets Antonia. They become great friends and share numerous adventures.
Cather uses brief, beautifully descriptive and nostalgic recollections of situations and feelings to increase the pain and sadness of the separations that she places throughout the book. An excellent example of this is the way Cather builds up to Mr. Shimerda's suicide.
Mrs. Cather describes Antonia's love and strong bond with her father. Antonia talks of how much he loved the old country, how much he wanted to stay there and live among his friends. She describes the beautiful relati ...
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Freedom And Liberty
Number of Words: 939 / Number of Pages: 4
... their expression.
Syme and Winston, two middle-class workers in Oceania, discuss the concept
of Newspeak. Syme reveals that he supports the system, demonstrating how he
has been brainwashed by the Inner Party who enforces the system.
"It’s a
beautiful thing, the destruction of words... You haven’t a real appreciation
for Newspeak, Winston... Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to
narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thougtcrime literally
impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. (p. 46)"
One can detect from this quotation that the peopl ...
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Black Elk Speaks
Number of Words: 1311 / Number of Pages: 5
... the earth that would direct him toward his true
calling of being a wichasha wakon or holy man like his predecessors. Black
Elk's childhood vision stayed with him throughout his life, and it offered him
aid and wisdom whenever he sought it. It is from the strength of this vision,
and the wisdom in his heart that Black Elk eventually realized his place as a
leader and wise man in the Ogalala band of the Sioux.
The wisdom possessed by Black Elk is immediately present in his
recollections of various lessons learned by himself and by others. These stories
ran the whole gambit of life experiences from t ...
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Jane Eyre 3
Number of Words: 2419 / Number of Pages: 9
... rejects the idea of seeking spiritual liberty alone and accepting a life of solitude like St. John, and chooses instead to remain in a type of servitude as Rochester's wife. However, she consoles herself with the fact that this is a different type of servitude unlike her others, it is that of a lover caring for another, someone who needs and appreciates her, and someone who treats her with respect. These are the things that she has wanted all of her life, and she is willing to put aside her personal freedom to enjoy them and to for once be loved, accepted, and appreciated.
Throughout the book Jane s ...
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1984
Number of Words: 755 / Number of Pages: 3
... lead him to the wrong conclusion. That he still thinks that he can get away with this and that the thought police will never catch him. This is where Winston unconsciously seals his fate of being caught but he feels the adventure is well worth the risk. Later in the relationship, they both are aware that the end to them is near. There were a couple of things that Winston owned that were deemed illegal but ironically the glass paperweight seemed to be the most important. First of all, the paperweight serves no purpose in the world that Winston lives in. Another thing about it was that it represented in ...
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“All Quiet On The Western Front”: Effects Of War
Number of Words: 746 / Number of Pages: 3
... because he realized that “the Enemy” were just men much like himself, with family, friends and most of all, life This also shows great insight because Paul feels the tremendous guilt for taking a man’s life, and attempts to fight against the idea of war. In war, men, who might otherwise be brothers, fight each other without knowing that the other side is human as well.
The author describes the horrors and sights of war at the front line. Along the way, Paul sees the dead bodies of soldiers who were killed in battle. This is important because each soldier realizes that at any given moment, he ...
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