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The Joy Luck Club: Differences In Generations
Number of Words: 688 / Number of Pages: 3
... nothing, to swallow other people’s misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect for their elders, and for life itself. These Chinese mothers were all taught to be honorable, to the point of sacrificing their own lives to keep any family members’ promise. Instead of their daughters, who "can promise to come to dinner, but if she wants to watch a favorite movie on TV, she no longer has a promise" (p. 42), "To Chinese people, fourteen carats isn’t real gold . . . [my bracelets] must be twenty-four carats, pure inside and ...
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Sir Gawain And The Wife Of Bath
Number of Words: 4742 / Number of Pages: 18
... Graal} (one episode)
They are chosen because of certain common features which may help to illuminate Chaucer's use of motifs and incidents, and certainly not with an eye to source study.
If we count the magical nature of the meeting with the hag as a separate feature from her transformation, then there eight features which these tales, or most of them, share in common with Chaucer's:
1) A magical meeting with the Hag occurs in DS, DR, KH and MG. This last is uncertain, as several leaves are missing.
2) The Hag is magically transformed into a fair maiden in all the tales except SD. Jo Janet's ...
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Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clark: No More Laughing For Paddy
Number of Words: 924 / Number of Pages: 4
... his mom to win because she does so much for him, however his father is his
father and he loves him.
Sinbad reacts differently to his parents fighting. He doesn't try to
intervene or stop them. In fact he closes up, he implodes emotionally. He cuts
himself off from everyone. During one of their parents arguments Paddy tries to
talk to Sinbad, but Sinbad shuts himself off. ""Sinbad?" He didn't answer. He
wasn't asleep though, I knew the breathing. I could hear him listening. I didn't
move. I didn't want him to think I was going to get him." (p.222)
This drama did not effect me as much as the dail ...
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Good And Evil In The Crucible
Number of Words: 829 / Number of Pages: 4
... his last child baptized. With the latest craze of witchery and swirling accusations, John Proctor was easily indicted of being a messenger for the devil by the testimony of his disillusioned servant Mary Warren, who in the past committed perjury. The court who heard the testimony easily accepts it because she is a church going person, while John Proctor slightly deviates from the norm. This transfer of blame is also noticeable when the truth is first discovered about what the girls were doing in the woods. The girls were not blamed. The blame was put on Tituba, the “black” slave who was ...
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Lockes Primary And Secondary Q
Number of Words: 1200 / Number of Pages: 5
... and motion. Motion can be classified as movement from one location to another, or that the object is at rest. Take for example a block of ice. Thoughts probably come to mind of something very cold, smooth, and semi-transparent. Notice that these are all sense orientated, because that is what sticks out in the mind about a block of ice, our past perceptions of examining a block of ice. If one was not able to touch, sense it's coldness, or see, one would not be able to perceive these phenomenon of the objects secondary qualities. One would only be able to realize the objects relative size, shape ...
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Kozol's Amazing Grace: Trials And Tribulations Of Everyday Life
Number of Words: 1789 / Number of Pages: 7
... safer place for these
children and others to live.
Problem Identification
The environment in which we study these people can only be defined by
first taking a look at possible reasons why the people have problems. Some of
the problems discussed in Amazing Grace have festered throughout the United
States for some time now. The high numbers of drug users in the community, the
high amounts of gang-related violence, and the numerous cases of people who have
contracted the AIDS virus are just some of the problems that have arisen in this
ghetto. There are many differences between this community an ...
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A Separate Peace; Chapter Summaries
Number of Words: 1546 / Number of Pages: 6
... have a drink at the bar, the spend the night
on the beach, and Phineas tells Gene he is his best pal. Gene is not sure if he
feels the same.
Chapter 4: Gene and Finny (Phineas) wake up and head back to Devon. Gene fails
his trigonometry examination for the first time. Finny tells Gene that he
studies too much. Gene thinks Finny is jealous. Gene wants to earn the
Scholastic Achievement Citation to get even with Finny. Gene knows that Finny
must be best and that he cannot be best if Gene becomes even with him through
his studies. Gene decides that he and Finny are locked in a complete enmity
rather th ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities
Number of Words: 321 / Number of Pages: 2
... over the common people of France. He has no respect for the common people. This is apparent when he cold hartedly runs over an innocent child with his carriage. After he runs the child over, he does not stop his carriage, he throws a coin to the child’s parent, thinking that the coin is make up for the child’s life. This act portrays the nobility’s no respect for life. It also portrays the coldness and unsympathtic atitude of France’s nobiliyt. Dickens makes the reader despise the French nobility by showing us these acts. Throught the development of the novel, this feeling changes. In “Book the T ...
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Heart Of Darkness: Marlow And Kurtz
Number of Words: 639 / Number of Pages: 3
... has embraced his savage side when he goes and travels with the native savages. Marlow shows he has the savage qualities as well when he follows Kurtz into the forest, but not to the extreme Kurtz has. Marlow also shows his savageness when he is first in Africa when he and his men are carrying a dead man. One of his men expects to see Marlow kill someone, this man sees that Marlow has the potential to kill a man.
Marlow realizes that Kurtz is a savage by his actions and behavior. First Marlow is horrified by the human heads on the poles outside his house. Marlow is also outraged and upset when ...
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Remember Me: Review
Number of Words: 1013 / Number of Pages: 4
... of high school graduation. The reader meets a carefree girl who lives for the moment. She has the ideal life of sex, parties, friends, and a handsome boyfriend. Her parents are rich and did not hesitate to buy her an expensive, red sports car. She can't imagine her life getting any better. She has the immortal feeling of most teenagers until she is pushed from a balcony at a party and killed. Her soul does not leave this earth in the first book. She stays on earth and helps to solve her murder. Early after her death she is bitter and feels cheated of her life. Yet as the book progresses, Pike ...
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