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The Sign Of The Moonbow
Number of Words: 625 / Number of Pages: 3
... was to find one so he could rid the world of his eight thousand year old enemy.
Cormac's first development occurred when he had witnessed a young girl get raped by four very large men. Cormac had never hurt the defenseless before, let alone rape a young woman. He felt a slight tinge of compassion and rescued the girl, slaying her attackers. The next time Cormac felt emotion was after he had followed the girl back to her town and had learned that their leader had knowledge of a crowned woman. When these weaponless people were attacked by the rapists' clan Cormac protected them. When asked of hi ...
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Blood Justice
Number of Words: 1065 / Number of Pages: 4
... to say that one African American had to be on a jury when an African American was on trial. This defense tactic by Brown was a legally intelligent thing to do but this actually became the motive for the mob to kill Parker.
On Friday April 24th J.P. Walker, Preacher Lee, Crip Reyer and L.C. Davis got into Reyer’s Oldsmobile and they took off on a mission to kill Mark Charles Parker. (3 other cars of men followed) They went to the courthouse/jail in Poplarville and they could not get in. So they went to Jewel Alford’s House (The jail keeper) to get the keys to the Jail. Alford went with the four men t ...
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The Theme Of Coming Of Age In Literature
Number of Words: 1844 / Number of Pages: 7
... a very realistic part
to this event in a person's life which is often ignored. The coming of age is
an event which is often celebrated in many different cultures, through rituals
or ceremonies. The rituals, also known as passage rites, mark the passing of a
person from one stage of life to the next: birth, infancy, childhood, adulthood,
old age, and death. The coming of age is celebrated along with birth, and death
because it is known as a universal life crises. Evoking anxiety, these crises
often elicit passage rites. Arnold Van Gennep stated that "Passage rituals have
three steps: separation ...
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H.m.s. Pinafore
Number of Words: 533 / Number of Pages: 2
... The brass railings really gave it a realistic feel to the whole thing. On the deck was a steering wheel and a bell and both of these things were used on numerous occasions. Also up there was another entrance/exit. As well as another by the cabin on the bottom as well as in the cabin.
To stage right there was a movable rope holder that is a hug part of the ending. Lower stage right are typical supplies a ship would store, such as crates and extra rope. There are two exit/entrances used- one that is suppose to lead to the right end of the boat and another that is suppose to lead to the shore. ...
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The Dreams Of Alice
Number of Words: 779 / Number of Pages: 3
... as though they could fly, but few have ever actually felt that they were flying. Even those users who report they are flying report more of a blurred sense of flying, not the clear experience one has while dreaming, or like the experience Alice has falling down the rabbit hole.
Another connection to dreams is the pattern of things appearing and disappearing in the novel. Oftentimes, in dreams, things appear and disappear for no apparent reason, much like the experience Alice has throughout her journey in Wonderland. Alice finds things appearing when she comes across the glass table with the sm ...
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Dances With Wolves
Number of Words: 432 / Number of Pages: 2
... to see the frontier, or land that hasn’t been settled. This just so happens to be Indian land. As the story progresses, Dunbar befriends the tribe, turns against his Northern army, and goes to live with the Sioux. The tone here is a more warm and friendly environment, because Dunbar realizes that his new friends are more civil than men of his own kind.
Things really start to turn around when Dunbar’s troops find out that he has joined the Sioux. They trap him and beat him, then make him serve as a slave. Dunbar never ends up going back to the white men’s army.
The way that Blake pre ...
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Barrio Boy And The House On Mango Street: A Character's Goals
Number of Words: 382 / Number of Pages: 2
... goals in his Barrio make it evident that the quote is correct.
Esperanza's life on Mango Street sustains the message captured by the critical lens. Esperenza and many other characters in this short novel are determined to escape Mango Street. They all have the same goal for different reasons. Esperenza longed to leave because she was ashamed of where she lived and she did not believe that she fit in. Her thoughts determined her life. She once told Alice that she did not live on Mango Street. She felt that she did not belong. She was also ashamed to tell Alice where she lived. These thoughts contribu ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Attitudes
Number of Words: 908 / Number of Pages: 4
... outskirts of Boston, but because her sentence
does not restrict her to the limits of the Puritan settlement, Hester could
return to Europe to start over. She decides to stay because she makes
herself believe that the town "has been the scene of her guilt, and here
should be the scene of her earthly punishment" (84). This belief gives the
impression that she views her action as a sin and feels a need to further
punish herself. But this belief only covers her actual feelings. To the
contrary, as Hawthorne describes, her real reason for staying is that
"There dwelt, there trod the feet of one with ...
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Types Of Monsters
Number of Words: 629 / Number of Pages: 3
... some problem with how they were treated as a child or it can even be caused by a fight with friends or family that causes them to leash out on the people around them. Basically, a real life monster is someone who, for any unjustified reason, goes and commits a serious wrong against any number of people. These are the people that pose a serious threat to society. Although both are very different from each other, they both share the fact that they are defined as a monster by their looks and by their intentions.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s creation is a classic example of a storybook monster. He f ...
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Candide: A Satire On The Enlightenment
Number of Words: 594 / Number of Pages: 3
... It attacks the idea that optimism, which holds that rational thought can inhibit the evils perpetrated by human beings. Voltaire did not believe in the power of reason to overcome contemporary social conditions.
In Candide, Voltaire uses Pangloss and his ramblings to represent an often humorous characterization of the “typical” optimist. Of Pangloss, Voltaire writes, “He proved admirably that there cannot possibly be an effect without a cause and that in the best of all possible worlds the Baron’s castle was the best of all castles and his wife the best of all possible Baronesses.” (522)
The at ...
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