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Buddhism
Number of Words: 1343 / Number of Pages: 5
... leader. These sights or as how Buddhists refer to them "The Four Signs" were in turn, a sick man covered with terrible sores, an old man, a corpse, and a wandering monk. The sightings of these men made Gautama think of the suffering and inevitable death which comes to all people great and small. This brought further questioning such as the meaning of life and the ultimate fate of man. As time passed these thoughts became great burdens to Gautama and he increasingly became dissatisfied with the shallow dissolute life of the royal court in which he lived. Therefore at the age of 21, although marr ...
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Farewell To Manzanar
Number of Words: 1043 / Number of Pages: 4
... in terms of school and gender as the way to model her life because it is made fitting in easier.
Jeanne seems to have set up her own type of Jim Crow rules, like those in the South. She always had to be complaisant around White people and apologize or be submissive to them even if they were in the wrong. This was not anything that was enforced by law, like in the South, but it was self-enforced because she thought it would win her more respect and maybe gain her entry into the White world. As a junior high school student, Jeanne asked her best friend, Radine if she could join the Girl Scouts. Radi ...
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Symbolism In The Scarlett Lett
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... down upon by the people of the town.
In the middle of the book as several years have passed the meaning of the letter “A” starts to change. Instead of it meaning adultery it means something else which is a good meaning. The reason for this is because she starts to create beautiful needlework and she helps the people who are poor and sick. “The letter was the symbol of her calling. Such helpfulness was found in her -- so much power to do and power to sympathize -- that many people refused to interpret the scarlet 'A' by its original signification”(Pg. 141).
At the end of the ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Symbolism In The Title, Names And Objects
Number of Words: 762 / Number of Pages: 3
... name was used to symbolize his qualities. Jem was like the valuable stone. He was rough on the outside but inside was nice. Jem was not always mature to other people in the beginning but at the end he treated all people like he was an adult. “How he could tell I was feeling bad under my costume I don’t know, but he said I did all right, I just came in a little late, that was all. Jem was becoming almost as good as Atticus at making you feel right when things went wrong.”
Harper Lee used the title of the book in the story as a symbol. One example is when Mr. Underwood said that killing Tom Ro ...
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The Maturity Of Scout And Jem In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Number of Words: 562 / Number of Pages: 3
... a white woman. Scout watches the trial and believes that he will be found innocent. Instead, Tom Robinson is found guilty. Her disappointment in the verdict makes Scout question the idea of justice.
"Who in this town did one thing to help Tom Robinson, just who?" (215)
Scout and Jem had believe that their father was not like any other fathers in school. They see him as an old man who can’t do anything. However, when a mad dog appears on the street, Atticus, their farther, kills that dog with one shot. They are surprised to learn that he is the best shot in the town. They’re attitude towards their fa ...
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Sister Carrie: Dreiser's Reversal Of Male/Female Roles
Number of Words: 521 / Number of Pages: 2
... he can
offer her, she drops him in favor of Hurstwood. In Hurstwood, Carrie sees
all that lacks in Drouet--a more acute sense of culture and worldliness,
and the wealth to explore the new wonders of civilized Chicago life.
Hurstwood serves as yet another step in her ladder to success, and when he
sinks into poverty and self-disgrace after his divorce, she sees him as a
no longer being an asset, and leaves him in favor of striking out on her
own, leaving him to turn into a beggar, while she makes it big. Too, after
she makes it big, and Drouet comes to see her, she can no longer see him as
a frien ...
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The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall: Ellen Weatherwall
Number of Words: 1192 / Number of Pages: 5
... to carry the story forward. (DeMouy, 46)
Ellen Weatherall’s life changes when she is jilted. “A young women with a peaked Spanish comb in her hair and a painted fan.” Ellen was characterized by her beauty and delicacy. “She is a prize to be claimed by a worthy man.” She dreams of getting married and living happily ever after. She depended too much on one man. George is to give her his name, but if not “chaos is to come again.”:
Such a fresh breeze blowing and such a green day with no threats in it. But he had not come, just the same… There was the day…
But a whirl of dark smoke and covered it, crept u ...
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A Book Of Double Meanings
Number of Words: 1297 / Number of Pages: 5
... than being happy that both the empress and the palace are not in ruin, the littleness of the government and the people in general is displayed in this act. Another display of the littleness is the fact that Gulliver is used as the Emperor's absolute weapon, but the emperor only uses him to conquer his world of two islands. This makes the emperor's ambition seem extremely low. Swift also criticizes the religious beliefs of the Lilliputians and England in the first story. In Lilliput, Ministers were chosen strictly on agility, or their ability to walk a tightrope or stick jumping. They were able ...
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Around The World In Eighty Days: Summary
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... habits of Fogg that Passepartout had to support.
My least favorite character is Fix the detective. He followed Fogg
around the globe, he missed arresting him in India and Hong Kong through
incompetence, and as soon as they arrived back in London, he did arrest Fogg but
erroneously.
The main conflict of the novel was time. Time caused a lot of pressure
on Fogg; he had to get back to London on time or he would lose the money he
wagered. Mr.Fogg and Passepartout were confronted many times with the problem
of lost time; when time was lost extra effort and work had to be put in so as to
make up for the ...
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Book Report On "A Dramatic Death"
Number of Words: 1335 / Number of Pages: 5
... very fond of Steve but because she was Steve's sister's friend for so
long Steve treated her as a sister, which she didn't like. Emma became so fond
of Steve that she start doing all these gruesome things and in the end she went
to a mental hospital. Emma liked to be in the play a lot and she was said to
have a very over active imagination.
SETTING
The setting was in a small quiet town called Dorking, the play took in a high
school drama room. The setting brings people together (the drama group) which
brings conflicts. The town was described to bring a spooky setting to the novel.
THEME
The the ...
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