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Explication Of Dulce Et Decoru
Number of Words: 747 / Number of Pages: 3
... that many soldiers went through. Death by poisonous gas is slow and painful. The soldiers who died did so painfully, it was as if they were drowning. Choking slowly, like being drown, death by compression and collapsing of the lungs. This is a horrid death. The poem is from the viewpoint of a soldier watching another soldier die. The soldier is experiencing the death of the other soldier. He is describing his dreams of choking and grasping for breath, grasping for life. As he watches the other soldier die he is thinking about his own death, about the deaths of other soldiers, about the deaths and casu ...
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Brave New World
Number of Words: 992 / Number of Pages: 4
... curiosity of the society to his advantage, fulfilling his subconscious wish of becoming someone important; a recognized name in the jumble of society. This ends when the curiosity of others ends, and as a supreme result of his arrogant behaviour, he is exiled. The instigator of this curiosity as well as the author of Bernard's fame (and folly), is an outsider know as the Savage. The Savage is brought in from outside of the utopian society by Bernard as an experiment. He faces "civilized society" with a bright outlook, but eventually comes to hate it bitterly. Lenina, the supporting role of the nov ...
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The Lost World: Private Interview With Dr. Ian Malcolm
Number of Words: 1165 / Number of Pages: 5
... a choice. We agreed that silence was the best
option. The evidence of there ever having been dinosaurs on the island had
to be destroyed so that no one would ever know about the park. It was just
too dangerous, perhaps when we have means of controlling the dinosaurs we
might try to bring them back again.
4. The dinosaurs on Isla Sorna, are they still there?
Yes, we believe that this time we should be studying them instead
of destroying them. We have set up a surveillance system to observe the
dinosaurs for years to come. Perhaps this way we might learn about how we
may protect ourselves from ...
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The Pearl Notes: Chapter 1
Number of Words: 590 / Number of Pages: 3
... as they where part of the "Song of the
Family" and were natural. In chapter one it could be said that Kino and
Juana where trying to get out of the trap that they were living in, which
was characterized by the fact that the doctor and his people were in
control, and would not help Kino or his people, therefore laying the trap
that luck alone determined wether on of Kino's people lived to adulthood or
not.
5. Kino was a man who was typical of his breed. He would go straight
through a problem, attacking it directly. He cared much for his wife and
son, but was very stubborn. As described, he was sold in ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Light And Dark Imagery
Number of Words: 1113 / Number of Pages: 5
... Even Pearl, an innocent child who does not know
Chillingworth, refers to him as a dark person. When speaking to her mother,
she says, "Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will
catch you" (Hawthorne 123)! The "black" in "black man" refers to
Chillingworth's evil, which is clearly acknowledged by even a small child.
Guilt is also acknowledged by others through the dark imagery. It is shown
through the Puritan's clothing, which is "the blackest shade of Puritanism
"and through the lighting on certain characters, mainly Dimmesdale, in the
novel. Dimmesdale's guilt is caused by t ...
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Cry The Beloved Country By Ala
Number of Words: 966 / Number of Pages: 4
... to come to her house, and does not know if she can trust Msimangu and Kumalo. This constant apprehension causes people to act in ways that they normally would not.
It is this same panic that caused Absolom Kumalo to shoot Arthur Jarvis. Absolom, being a criminal, had reason to fear authority figures; and because Arthur was white, Absolom automatically associated him with supremacy and command. “‘I told them I was frightened when the white man came. So I shot him. I did not mean to kill him.’”(Pg. 98) When so many white people are being killed by blacks, it can only increase the fear felt by both ...
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Racism Related To The Novel Ja
Number of Words: 387 / Number of Pages: 2
... had killed the girl because she had tried to leave him. From that point on the story became a struggle of suffering and survival after the deception of “jazz”.
Jazz symbolized the music that bloomed along with the Harlem Reniassance between the years of 1920 and 1930. Like the harlem Reniassance, it claimed to offer a better life foe southerners with new hopes of opportunities in the North. Violet was embraced by this image, but recalled a different view of “jazz”. Like many black women of her time, it did not provide the promised opport ...
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Huckleberry Finn And The Issue Of Race In Our Country
Number of Words: 687 / Number of Pages: 3
... anywhere but particularly in the classroom ... That should not be ... The price that a student pays when they go into the classroom [sic] to exchange any form of humiliation or degradation in exchange for their education - period." For what reason would a student be ashamed or feel degraded to read such a novel? It would be more understandable if slavery was still part of our lives today and black people were still being called niggers and going through the same hardships as in the past. However, black people now a days call each other niggers more than a light skinned person calls a dark skin ...
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Animal Farm: Political Issues
Number of Words: 1253 / Number of Pages: 5
... worked and could not (Meyers
102). Animal Farm has also been known as a an enter-taining, witty tale of a
farm whose oppressed animals, capable of speech and reason, overcome a cruel
master and set up a revolutionary government(Meyers 103). On another, more
serious level, it is a political allegory, a symbolic tale where all the events
and characters represent events and characters in Russian history since
1917(Meyers 103).
Orwell uses actual historical events to construct Animal Farm, but
rearranges them to fit his plot. Manor Farm is Russia, Mr. Jones the Tsar, the
pigs the Bolsheviks who led the r ...
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The Secret Lion: Symbolism To Reinforce The Theme
Number of Words: 557 / Number of Pages: 3
... it. The symbolism Ri’os used in his story illuminated the theme, which is change is unstoppable , and that change is always accompanied by loss.
In the story “Miss Brill” the author Katherine Mansfield uses symbolism to reinforce and illuminate the theme. Miss Brill is a very lonely lady, she’s all alone. Miss Brill sits in the park and watches people as if she was watching a play. She has a fur that she wears around her neck, when the fur is not around Miss Brill’s neck it is kept in a box. One day she took the fur out of the box, placed it around her neck and went to the park. As she sa ...
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