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The Indian Awakening In Latin America
Number of Words: 1367 / Number of Pages: 5
... which they once owned was meticulously cared for and the
lessons which they learned of respect for nature was passed down to their
children for generations. Much of the land they once owned was stolen from them
when the Europeans invaded.
Another aspect which was described in this book was religion and the
effects it had on the natives of Latin America. The Catholic church was forced
upon many of the Indians when the European, mainly Spanish, ideologies were
forced upon the Indians. The church claimed to want to help them to enrich thier
lives and help their communities. The new church soon forced th ...
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A Separate Peace: The Internal Constant
Number of Words: 715 / Number of Pages: 3
... gymnasium and discovered a few pole vaults. Finny abruptly picked
one up, ran, and pole vaulted, breaking the school record. He then told
Gene never to tell anyone about Finny breaking the record. Both of these
instances are incredibly alike. Finally, Finny was symbolicly killed
because of society. Finny was wounded and wound up in a cast. He
eventually died after he had seen what society really was. This situation
is a lot like Mason's situation. Mason moved out of our neighborhood and
his new next door neighbor introduced him to drugs, killing that free
spirit which made him alive. Society ...
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Emerson's Self-Reliance
Number of Words: 376 / Number of Pages: 2
... notice a lot of similar things in it and Thoreau's saying, "the sky is less grand when it shuts down over less worth in the population." They are both saying that if something happened and nobody was around would it have the same affect as it would if many people saw it. Thoreau was saying that the sunset is not as beautiful when only a few people see it. I think that a person would have to question things like that, because nobody really knows.
In conclusion, I agree with many of the writers of the transcendentalist period. They believed that you don't need anything except water, clothing, and ...
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Crime And Punishment: Is There Or Is There Not Such A Thing As Crime?
Number of Words: 1017 / Number of Pages: 4
... and morals. Each person
on this Earth possesses a conscience; when we do something wrong, our conscience
makes us feel guilty, although some people feel less or more guilt than others
about certain acts; it varies individually. Based on this, one can define a
crime as the things that make us feel guilty, although some crimes do not make
us feel guilty. Some people do not feel any guilt when committing immoral acts;
these people are deemed psychopaths or sociopaths by society. For example, most
people do not feel guilty when they break the law by speeding, its just a way of
life these days, but with ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Courage
Number of Words: 252 / Number of Pages: 1
... was one of the people who showed the
largest amount of courage. He showed courage when he shot the dog. He
showed courage in not fighting when it seemed to be the only thing to do.
But, first and foremost, he showed courage in taking the Robinson case.
Because “even though you're beaten 100 years before you started is no
reason not to do something”. This is one of the things that Atticus lives
by.
Scout also has courage, but in a different way. She has shown
courage in many situations, such as when she has stood up for her brother,
and also when she hasn't. Overall, Scout has just as much courage ...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman By John Fowles
Number of Words: 972 / Number of Pages: 4
... Fowles comments that the job of a novelist is "to put two
conflicting wants in the ring and describe the fight", which is essentially
what he has done. However it is hard to decide for whom to fix the fight in
favor of when one owns both fighters.
Fowles also briefly mentions allowing "freedom of characters" in his
writing. This concept is somewhat vague. To allow freedom of characters is
to essentially allow the characters to do anything that the author thinks
of. Why would a character ever not be able to do whatever the author thinks
of ? There are no written rules that authors must conform to w ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Chapter By Chapter Review And Analysis
Number of Words: 4496 / Number of Pages: 17
... of France,”
(Page 52, pink highlight). Instead of using the pillory, which would lock
a person's head and hands together where they could not move and be forced
to not be able to show their humiliation. “No outrage more flagrant to
forbid the culprit to hide his face from shame,” is in Hawthorne's
commentary on page 53.
Hawthorne's commentary appears twice on this page (about more than
one topic) and you can see them in my highlighted sections. What really
got to me was the second highlighted section on that page where Hawthorne
is comparing/contrasting the nurturing image of a mother and her son to ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Man Is Savage At Heart
Number of Words: 1045 / Number of Pages: 4
... youth throughout their lives, the
boys have backpedaled and shown the underlying savage side existent in all
humans. "Golding senses that institutions and order imposed from without are
temporary, but man's irrationality and urge for destruction are enduring" (Riley
1: 119). The novel shows the reader how easy it is to revert back to the evil
nature inherent in man. If a group of well-conditioned school boys can
ultimately wind up committing various extreme travesties, one can imagine what
adults, leaders of society, are capable of doing under the pressures of trying
to maintain world relations. ...
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Kim Kim
Number of Words: 1689 / Number of Pages: 7
... that would wash away all sin, came to Lahore. Struck by all possibility for an exciting adventure, Kim attached himself to the lama as his chela. His adventures began almost at once. That night, at the edge of Lahore, Mahubub Ali, a horse trader, gave Kim a cryptic message to deliver to a British author in Umballa. What Kim did not know was that Mahbub was a member of the British Secret Service. He delivered the message as directed, and then lay in the grass and watched and listened until he learned that his message meant that eight thousand men would go to war. Out on the big road the lama and Kim en ...
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Critical Essay On Billy Budd
Number of Words: 521 / Number of Pages: 2
... to pure nature, and the dictates of
necessity" by lashing out at Claggart. I agree with Reich's notion that Vere was
correct in hanging Billy, and that it is society, not Vere, who should be
criticized for this judgement; for Vere is forced to reject the urgings of his
own heart and his values to comply with the binding laws of man.
First, the moral issue aside, Captain Vere had no choice but to convict
Billy. As captain of a ship under pressure of war and the constant threat of
mutiny, Vere had to act swiftly. Also, as captain, Vere had the responsibility
of making sure the laws were strict ...
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