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All Quiet On The Western Front
Number of Words: 565 / Number of Pages: 3
... But their luck didn't last long. The French came and started shelling the village. While trying to escape, Paul and his friend Albert were injured by a gunshot wound. They were bandaged up and sent back home on a train. Albert got the flu and was scheduled to be dropped off at the next stop, so Paul convinced the nurse that he was also sick from infection, so they both were dropped off at the hospital to be treated. Alberts leg had to get amputated at the thigh. After a few weeks, Paul and Albert parted, Paul going back to the war, and Albert going home. It was hard for Paul returning back to t ...
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Waterlily By Ella Cara Deloria
Number of Words: 350 / Number of Pages: 2
... After being publicly humiliated, Blue Bird, her grandmother and Waterlily
luckily and happily ran into their family's tiyospaye. The reason why it was so
fortunate is because Blue Birds parents and brothers were killed one day when
Blue Bird was about fourteen. They were taken in and made to feel at home.
Along with finding their family, Blue Bird also met her new husband, Rainbow.
Rainbow was a good provider, hard worker and a widow who had a son. Little Chief.
Together, Rainbow and Blue Bird would have two more children.
One of the major customs that was most interesting was that of the S ...
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Juanita Platero's "Chee's Daughter": Character's Environment Reveals A Great Deal About Personality
Number of Words: 513 / Number of Pages: 2
... that if he "Take care of the land and it will take care of you."(81)
Chee cared and respected the land and in turn the land gave him food for which
he would to barter back Little One from Old Man Fat. Chee treats the land as an
equal. "he felt so strongly that just now this was something between himself
and the land."(82) Chee treats the land as an equal, respects it and it
respects him by giving him the food he needs. Where he lives is pure and real,
like the earth.
The setting Old Man Fat chooses to live in reflects his personality and
values. Old Man Fat owns a small store one the side of the ...
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Young Goodman Brown-the Awaren
Number of Words: 1188 / Number of Pages: 5
... were emanating. The voices of the townspeople coming from such an evil place lead Brown to believe all of the people he knows are evil. The people he knows well and interacts with on a daily basis are all living an evil lie. Brown’s life becomes gloomy because he can no longer live happily with the people he knows, and he can never trust them as friends or good Christians again. Furthermore, Faith’s pink ribbons “flutter[ing] lightly down through the air”(56) and landing on a branch further move Brown toward a gloomy life. The ribbons belong to his wife ...
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Niccolò Machiavelli - The Qual
Number of Words: 557 / Number of Pages: 3
... to still act like “saints” when they cannot even save themselves.
Selfishness is an ugly trait among people; however, disloyalty is probably the most offensive trait found in human nature. Machiavelli’s says, “when it comes nearer to you they turn away”, which clearly establishes where a person’ true loyalty stands. Loyalty is more consistent to oneself rather than to others. Past events in history supports Machiavelli’s opinion with Julius Ceasar and Brutus as an example. Brutus’s loyalty to his most trusted friend, Caesar, went astray when a p ...
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A Child’s Verdict
Number of Words: 809 / Number of Pages: 3
... at home. His mother, single and constantly dating, treats him poorly. Mrs. Mackessy plays a negative role in Robbie’s life that eventually brings him to do certain mischievous things. From neighbor’s and Robbie’s accounts, one can clearly see the environment in which he lives. Through a next door neighbor’s testimony we learn that Robbie has been seen frequently unattended away from and at his home. For periods of time, neighbors describe him coming and going from his home, awaiting his mother. For someone as young as he, Robbie is being severely effected by this neglect. Robbie is als ...
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Crucible Term Paper
Number of Words: 1319 / Number of Pages: 5
... wife, a sinner against his community, a sinner against his own morals, and a sinner against his Puritanical society. He was so troubled by this sin of adultery, that he came to regard himself as a kind of a fraud, although he does not show it on the surface for even a second.
Elizabeth Proctor, John’s wife, is a strong woman who knows about her husband’s sin but, like John, does not let on to her secret. She spends most of the novel trying to cope with her husband’s sin and as she comes to terms with it, Elizabeth is able to once again forgive her husband and make an effort to pr ...
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Pride And Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet
Number of Words: 1728 / Number of Pages: 7
... the volition and aspirations of the self"(Tanner 125). She is
self-reliant and independent, while "contemptuous of all the conventions
that restrict the individual's freedom"(Litz 65). Darcy observes Elizabeth
as "...sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention...disgusted
with the women who were always speaking, and looking and thinking for
[men's] approbation alone"(Ghent 185). Elizabeth rejects Mr. Collin's
proposal because she does not think that "marriage was the only honorable
provision for a well-educated woman..."(Lauber 45). Nor does she believe
in marriage of convenien ...
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Moll Flanders
Number of Words: 793 / Number of Pages: 3
... Good of it, so really no good issue
came and all my seeming prosperity wore off and ended in misery
and destruction;..."
Whenever Moll would have kids she would sell them or give them away. Moll saw children as a biprouduct of having sex. The choice of going to whoredom, however, was only because she felt the need to survive. Most animals have this instinct to survive. Whenever she would marry a man he would pay her to have sex, but his life would be short. This caused her to have to find another person in order to have money to eat and a place to stay. This was because the ...
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Twain And Finn: Breaking The Language Barrier
Number of Words: 559 / Number of Pages: 3
... yet
Huck goes anyway, showing great willpower in the character of Huck in that
he was gaining an education that he never really wanted in the first place,
but soon came to realize that it was something actually useful, and in the
fact that he was disobeying his father's orders.
Huck's feelings about slavery are shown when he helps Jim, Miss
Watson's slave, to escape. Huck's constant statement that “Jim talks like
he is white inside” shows that Huck was unique amongst the society in which
he lived in the fact that he saw beneath the color of a person's skin and
saw the person that was truly there. Ji ...
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