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Anthem
Number of Words: 705 / Number of Pages: 3
... not to eat from a specific tree. They were told by the devil that this tree was the tree of knowledge and to eat of it would give them knowledge equal to God’s. In , Prometheus and Gaea are told that they have everything that they will ever need or desire by the council. They are forbidden to gain knowledge that is not permitted by the council but only to do as they are told. Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the pursuit of knowledge and ate of the tree in order to gain equality to God. When they did this God found out and so condemned them and punished them for all eternity. God banished the ...
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Lies Of The Crucible
Number of Words: 868 / Number of Pages: 4
... speaking of Abigail says “She wants me dead, John, you know it!”(59, 60) Here we see how selfish Abigail can be. Abigail knows that if Elizabeth is accused but will not confess that she will be hanged. Another group of people who lie out of selfishness are the court officials. If the people of Salem were to find out that the girls fooled even the members of the court, their reputations would be ruined. So, they go along with the girls and continue to hang people. The only way to save themselves is to get a confession out of a man that they know to be innocent, John Proctor. The c ...
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Bless Me, Ultima: Conflicting Lifestyles
Number of Words: 1127 / Number of Pages: 5
... a simple life, and believed that by
worshipping the land it would provide for them. To be happy and prosperous
one did not need the comfort of towns or advantages of education, one only
needed the vast open plains of the llano. Gabriel's wife encouraged him to
give up the wild lifestyle and move into town where they could build a
family together. He did this but it crushed his adventurous spirit. He
was forced to give up his land, herd of animals, and close group of vaquero
friends who in turn condemned him for leaving. His life in town was much
different and became evident that he was not truly ...
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Grapes Of Wrath Essay
Number of Words: 1406 / Number of Pages: 6
... Joads’ lives had all of a sudden drastically changed, "The family met at the most important place, near the truck. The house was dead, and the fields were dead; but this truck was the active thing, the living principle."(128) Their change in values, was the first step in adapting. The change of environment came progressively: first at home, then their life on the road, and finally when they actually arrived in California. Life on the road was slow, unpredictable, and so very new to the Joads, who had never traveled before. "The moving, questing people were migrants now. Those families which had ...
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A Farewell To Arms
Number of Words: 902 / Number of Pages: 4
... and death to him. If
he is not asleep, he can avoid having to deal with it. Henry also is
accompanied by Catherine during nights at the Ospidale Maggoire. To Henry
there "was almost no difference in the night except that is was an even
better time" with Catherine. Catherine, who is already a code hero, has
values which transcend onto Henry at the Hospital. During the day, Henry
sleeps but Catherine has to work, so she stops coming to him on nights.
Henry is left to stay up, alone on nights. Also, he does not ask Catherine
to come stay with him thus controlling his desires to make love to her.
Fr ...
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Huck Finn 3
Number of Words: 1427 / Number of Pages: 6
... asleep, Huck wants to leave and meet the rest of the gang so that they don’t get caught, but Tom insists on playing a trick on Jim. So he lifts Jim's hat from his head and hangs it on a nearby limb. Huck tells us that Jim later turned this incident into an elaborate tale of being visited by witches while he slept. At this point in the story, Huck doesn’t have feelings for Jim one way or the other. Huck just doesn’t care much for Jim and sees nothing wrong with the prank that has just been played by Tom.
After staying with his drunken and unreasonable father for a short period ...
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Blood And Belonging
Number of Words: 1782 / Number of Pages: 7
... it has driven people to a desperate state to do
anything. This is a large contributor to the reasons for the
extreme violence present there today. The author states, "A
Croat, thus, is someone who is not a Serb. A Serb is
someone who is not a Croat." This quotation profoundly
expresses the short-sighted mentality present in their conflict.
In his travels in Germany, the author points out an important
question. Does the nation make the state, or the state the
nation? This question by far does not stop here, especially
when Germany is the subject. The essence of the German
people is seen by some as ...
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Doublethink In 1984
Number of Words: 1703 / Number of Pages: 7
... else different then what you thought before. An example of changing ones mind would believe the earth is flat and then after seeing sufficient evidence that it is not flat but actually round. Due to the new evidence you would change your mind and now believe the earth is round as you previously thought it was flat. This is clearly different from doublethink because you are not believing in two ideas at the same time and accepting both. You are believing one thing, then completely change your mind and believing in another. Changing ones mind involves completely dismissing one idea to belie ...
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Hobbes’ Leviathan: Analysis Of Its Impact On The Framing Of Our Democracy
Number of Words: 1672 / Number of Pages: 7
... What kind of being is man? What is the nature of man? What comprises a commonwealth that can successfully govern man? These are the pivotal questions presented in Hobbes’ Leviathan.
According to Hobbes, man is a creation of God not dissimilar to that of man manufacturing watches. Both have moving parts; a spring or heart to keep them alive, strings or nerves to hold them together, and wheels or joints to give motion to the whole body. But it is more than just this that Hobbes says makes up man. Man has, or at least should have sense, imagination, speech, and reason. Sense is an instrument ...
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Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract"
Number of Words: 2428 / Number of Pages: 9
... lives. Just as
we see Jane as a model of a woman successful in asserting her self-worth,
we are also given a warning about the possible outcome of failure to
realize self-worth in Bertha Rochester. This facet will also be discussed
briefly. Bronte uses the motivation of personal experiences to create the
life of Jane Eyre in which we see the quest for social betterment through
her relationships.
Bronte herself experienced the social limitations of the nineteenth
century. At this time "respectable women had few options in life beyond
marriage, education of children, and domestic service," (Magi ...
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