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Billy Budd
Number of Words: 1337 / Number of Pages: 5
... is "strength and beauty. Tales of his prowess [are] recited.
Ashore he [is] the champion, afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion
always foremost"(9).
Despite his popularity among the crew and his hardworking attitude,
Billy is transferred to another British ship, the Indomitable. And while he is
accepted for his looks and happy personality, "…hardly here [is] he that
cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship's companies of the
merchant marine"(14). It is here, on the Indomitable that Billy says good-bye
to his rights. It is here, also, that Billy meets John Claggart, the m ...
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Mice Of Men
Number of Words: 503 / Number of Pages: 2
... is evidenced by this novel is when Lennie killed Curley’s wife. When Lennie is in the barn (after killing his new puppy) Curley’s wife came into the barn and came on to Lennie. Lennie not knowing what was happening let her lull him into touching her hair. To Lennie it was like petting any other animal. Curley’s wife became flustered when Lennie became scared and would not let go of her hair. She started to scream and Lennie tried to cup her mouth, which concluded in him killing her. Lennie was truly remorseful after this action. Soon after killing her Lennie can be heard saying to himself, “I done a ba ...
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Wright's "Black Boy": An Oppressionist Impression
Number of Words: 882 / Number of Pages: 4
... audience into a hymm. Omisdt violence, under anger and
fear, Wright converses with the reader as though he were a youth leader telling
a story to a group of boyscouts outside by a campfire. His spellbounding words
chant the reader into his world and produce a map through which the reader
follows his life in the shadows of others. “ I mingled with the boys, hoping to
pass unnoticed , but knowing that sooner or later I would be spotted for a
newcomer. And trouble came quickly- a bloabk boy came bounding past me, thumping
my hat to the ground and yelling.” To keep his audience from dazily drifting
into ...
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Crime And Punishment In Wuther
Number of Words: 487 / Number of Pages: 2
... is made the stablehand instead of the rightful owner of the Heights. Heathcliff also trespassed when he imprisoned Catherine upon her visits to his son Linton. He coerced her into marrying Linton while her own father was dying, and so gained ownership of Thrushcross Grange as well as the Heights.
These corporeal sins are not without their spiritual counterparts. One of the most prevalent crimes committed in the novel is not by Heathcliff, but against him. Partly influenced by her stay at the Linton’s, Cathy (Earnshaw) sees Heathcliff as lower than herself, and that “It would degrade me t ...
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Araby And A Rose For Emily: Comparison
Number of Words: 637 / Number of Pages: 3
... she knew he would try to go to the Araby in order to buy something for her. It was only at the end that he realized that he was “a creature driven and derided by vanity” (Pg. 92). Only then did he really figure out how dumb he was and that he was only thinking with his penis (but I already knew that). So my view of him after the ending was reinforced and even added to my views of his horniness and stupidity.
In “A Rose for Emily,” Miss Emily was pictured to me as a very quiet lady that kept to her self, liked to keep things that were close to her, respected, and also she always kept her head high n ...
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The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: Good And Evil In Nature
Number of Words: 348 / Number of Pages: 2
... of humor does not always make people laugh. At times I can also have an attitude. If you catch me at the wrong moment, beware! When I am extremely tired and overwhelmed, I get frustrated and take my anger out on the people around me. When I feel repressed I often have a bad temper. Sometimes at my job I feel overworked and exhausted, and I have no patients with customers. I try not to show these evil traits to people, but they sometimes come out and I cannot help it.
My good and evil traits are a part of me and they represent what I am. Like Dr Jekyll I am often become another person when fa ...
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Ragtime
Number of Words: 1690 / Number of Pages: 7
... as a new hegemonic class that possessed riches and power that were practically undreamt of. This era saw a dramatic increase in the size of the lower classes as immigrants filled the country and jobs became scarce, and a decrease in the size of the middle class. However, despite the less than ideal conditions that existed for many people in the country, middle and upper class citizens had the impression that they were in an era of prosperity. They turned a blind eye towards all the suffering and hardships of the lower class, in their perfect, ignorant world “There were no Negroes. There were ...
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Steinbeck's East Of Eden
Number of Words: 692 / Number of Pages: 3
... the Ames house went up like
a rocket ... Enough remained of Mr. and Mrs. Ames to make sure there were two
bodies ." Cathy had set the house on fire and broke into the safe to steal the
family's money. As the investigators scooped the place, they noticed that the
bolts stuck out and there were on keys left in the locks. They knew it was not
an accident. Cathy's body was never found, but the town assumed that she died.
"If it had not been for Cathy's murder, the fire and robbery might have been a
coincidence. " Steinbeck, again, portrays the reader that Cathy is a monster.
"when I said Cathy was a m ...
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Gregory (Panos Ionnides)
Number of Words: 881 / Number of Pages: 4
... At first, the Executioner mentioned his first experiences of killing the enemy-soldiers headquarters had handed down to him. He described them as "delicate assignments". The first time, he said he threw up. The second, he was ill for days, the third, drank a bottle of alcohol, the fourth, a few glasses of beer, the 5th he joked about it, and finally the sixth, remorse, for it was Gregory fe killed. As you can see, he was slowly desensitized to his job. That is, he comfortably adapted to it and as he eliminated each of the five soldiers before Gregory, the intensity of his honor towards headqu ...
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Tavris' In Groups We Shrink
Number of Words: 707 / Number of Pages: 3
... was willing to be an individual and step up to take responsibility and
put an end to the senseless lottery.
Another good example of the reluctance to act against the group would be
the Rodney King incident. As the officers clubbed, electrocuted, and beat
Rodney King to a bloody pulp, onlookers just looked on. Nobody did anything to
stop the senseless beating. It was obvious that the police officers were using
excessive force. Someone even shot the whole incident on videotape. Despite
the number of onlookers, to no one's surprise, not a single person tried to stop
it. Even as other fellow ...
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