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The Scarlet Letter: Forms Of Punishment
Number of Words: 238 / Number of Pages: 1
... by a person on a higher level. The punishment given
can take many forms. In the book The Scarlet Letter, By Nathaniele
Hawthorne, The protagonist, Hester Prynne, is punished for an act of
adultery. Her sentence was to bear a scarlet letter of "A" upon her
bosom. This punishment is a form of public humiliation. In the 1620's
this form of punishment was one of the severest sentences given. The
people would want the guilty to suffer in front of his fellow man. To
keep the person from hiding himself from his humiliation, they produced a
device that would hold the hands and the head of the culpri ...
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The Scarlet Letter 2
Number of Words: 706 / Number of Pages: 3
... a pair of gloves, but more importantly to inquire about the possibility of the government taking away her child. Also there with Governor Bellingham are Pastor Wilson, Reverend Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth. After Mr. Wilson asks Pearl a few questions, the Governor decides that Hester is unfit as a mother and that the child would be better off in the hands of the church.
Hester begs Dimmesdale, whom she says knows everything about her and has charge of her soul, to speak for her. Therefore, he does, convincing the Governor to let Hester keep Pearl. This is Dimmesdale’s first step to ...
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Passing By Nella Larsen
Number of Words: 883 / Number of Pages: 4
... published during this period in the United States than ever before. Not only were African-American writers being published more, but they were also getting a great deal of recognition for their work. The body of work characteristic of this time period showed a heightened sense of racial consciousness. African-American writers during this time were not only seeking to counteract racial prejudice, but were also perpetuating the cultural heritage of Africa. Some of the major writers born from this period include Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Neale Hurston and of course, Nel ...
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"Gotti, Rise And Fall": A Book Review
Number of Words: 297 / Number of Pages: 2
... Jon Gotti has always ben a name you have heard of when you think of the mafia. He was one of the beiggest mafioso's ever in the world. He has commited many murders expesially some in 1977. He was a very secretive man who "worked in the underworld", and was never afraid of anyone or anything, he would never show fear. Jon Gotti believed in the Cosa Nostra's (a huge mafia group) laws. Despite the fact that everyone knew that he was doing serious crimes but they did not have any proof, it finally caught up with him.
In 1989, Jon Gotti was convicted of assault. His luck had finally ran out. I ...
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A Priest’s Death: An Examination Of Uncanny Elements In James Joyce’s "The Sisters"
Number of Words: 987 / Number of Pages: 4
... that I was under observation, so I continued eating as if the news had not interested me…I felt that his [Cotter’s] little black beady eyes were examining me, but I would not satisfy him by looking up from my plate (10).
Seemingly unwilling to accept the news on face value, he goes to see the for himself the following day. After seeing the death notice on the door, the narrator is "persuaded that he was dead" (12).
The boy’s apparent relief at the news of the priest’s death lends to an interpretation that their relationship may have been more than just that of mentor and student. It is hard not t ...
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Summary: Jurassic Park
Number of Words: 1405 / Number of Pages: 6
... was bit, was
sent to a lab to be examined, and it was identified as a Procompsognathus,
thought to be extinct for millions of years. The scientists who witnessed
the evidence, Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant, both foremost in the fields of
paleontology, were soon requested to fly down to a private island off of
Costa Rica by John Hammond, founder of InGen. A little later on in the
second section, the story unfolds somewhat, when the scene shifts to a
meeting of the Biosyn Corporation of Cupertino, where they explain that
InGen was cloning dinosaurs. The Biosyn company then hires Lewis Dodgson,
an scient ...
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Neuromancer By William Gibson
Number of Words: 808 / Number of Pages: 3
... best and most representative anthology of cyberpunk writers is Mirrorshades., edited by Sterling, the genre's most outspoken advocate. But cyberpunk's status as the revolutionary vanguard was almost immediately challenged. Its narrative techniques, many critics pointed out, were positively reactionary compared to the experimentalism of mid-60s "new wave" SF. One of the main sources of its vision was William S. Burroughs' quasi-SF novels like Nova Express, (1964), and the voice of Gibson's narrator sounded oddly like a slightly updated version of old Raymond Chandler novels like The Big Sleep, (1939). ...
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Lord Of The Flies; Creating A New Society
Number of Words: 2008 / Number of Pages: 8
... without the help of
adults. The boys must take what they have been taught and incorporate that
into a new society governed by themselves. Before long these boys will
deal with the many fears associated with this new life and the power
struggles for survival that will exist along the way.
The boys' creation of a new society helps the reader to see what
might really happen if a group of young boys is thrown together and must
fend for themselves without any adult supervision (Bowen, 58). This new
found freedom brings about many mixed emotions among the young boys. The
oldest of the boy ...
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Absalom: Using The Three Narratives To Understand Sutpen
Number of Words: 949 / Number of Pages: 4
... distorted. It becomes apparent that Miss Rosa’s impression is somewhat old fashioned. This romanticism is seen in her when she becomes involved with the engagement of Charles and Judith and later with her personal involvement with Sutpen. Miss Rosa put all of her dreams into this marriage and when the relationship failed, she felt destroyed herself. When Sutpen did finally propose to Rosa, she sought this as a final chance to live out her romantic dreams. But Sutpen came to her with a request to try and have a baby boy before marriage. This ended their relationship and shattered her dreams on ...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God 5
Number of Words: 2223 / Number of Pages: 9
... black settlement called Eatonville. Joe is an ambitious man. He becomes mayor of the new town, opens a store, builds a big white house, and runs the post office. He wants Janie to act like the wife of an important man, just as he directs. He also wants her to run the store and obey his other commands. Janie, however, wants to live like the other townsfolk, who talk and laugh on their porches and are involved in social events. Although Janie puts up with Joe's mistreatment, life is not pleasant for her. One day after almost twenty years of marriage, Joe humiliates her once again in front of people in t ...
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