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Folk Tales
Number of Words: 633 / Number of Pages: 3
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The second folk tale is titled From things fall apart. It is a story of a greedy manipulative turtle who tricks a flock of birds out of their feast in the sky, but he soon learns his lesson when the birds take away their feathers and he is forced to jump back to earth thus shattering his smooth shell. This story shows that this culture believes that if you do bad things you will eventually get what is coming to you.The third folk tale is called In the Land of the Small Dragon. This story has many similarities with Cinderella. It is the story of a beautiful young girl named Tam who’s be ...
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Social Criticism In Literature
Number of Words: 1501 / Number of Pages: 6
... books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of
intentions, our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate
that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the
means" are deplorable.
George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system
by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . .
."(Gardner, 106) Orwell noted that " there exists in England almost no
literature of disillusionment with the Soviet Union.' Instead, that
country is viewed either with ignorant disapproval' or with uncritical
a ...
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Animal Farm
Number of Words: 1088 / Number of Pages: 4
... Of the golden future time.
Soon or late the day is coming,
Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown,
And the fruitful fields of England,
Shall be trod by beasts alone.
Rings shall vanish from our noses,
And the harness from our back,
Bit and spur shall rust forever,
Cruel whips no more shall crack.
Riches more than mind can picture,
Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels
Shall be ours upon the day...(p.22-23)
After the song the animals were even more excited. They sing the
song so loud it wakes Mr. Jones up. Mr. Jones starts firing his
gun into the darkne ...
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Similarities In "Rappaccini's Daughter" And "Paul's Case"
Number of Words: 907 / Number of Pages: 4
... His father calls the hall and tells Paul's boss not to employ him
anymore. His father even tells all of his friends in theater not to see
Paul. Paul, like Giovanni does not listen to his peers. Paul steals money
from the print-shop and goes to New York to live the good life like the
people that he used to seat at Carnegie Hall.
The stories deal with three different types of love. Rappaccini's
Daughter, deals with the love of science and the love of a woman. Today
there are scientists, who are doing experiments on people "for the better
of human kind". These scientists are too busy thinking if t ...
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Why Animal Farm Is A Great Pie
Number of Words: 498 / Number of Pages: 2
... people.
“Trotsky and Stalin's relationship was very much like Snowball's and Napoleons. Trotsky organized the Red Army and gave speeches and everyone in Russia thought he would win power over Stalin. After Lenin's death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party.”(Bignerds.com, unsure/unclear)
Boxer the horse represents how people can be used for their skills. When Boxer wasn’t useful to Napoleon anymore Napoleon still got rid of him even though Boxer was the hardest worker of the animals on the farm. A quote from the book about Boxer’s tra ...
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Confronting Death In Poetry
Number of Words: 1092 / Number of Pages: 4
... with children is especially disturbing because in our unconscious mind we are all immortal, so it is almost inconceivable to be openly confronted with the reality of death. For children, this thought is especially implausible because of their youth. It is much easier to turn our attention to less frightening possibilities. The boy states this to his sister after crying out in a rueful laugh, "Don't let him cut my hand off / The doctor. When he comes. Don't let him sister!" (Frost 25, 26)
Step two and three of the grieving processes when confronting impending death are anger and depression. Anger ...
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The Jungle
Number of Words: 1933 / Number of Pages: 8
... same way they use swine (every part), joins a Union, as does Marjia, and various other members of his family. Investing money into a home and life into his job gets a Jurgis no where. Positions of power tend to go only to the corrupted characters. Bribes and kickbacks come as commonly as unemployment and job insecurity. He finally realizes that even a physically strong man, willing to work hard, can be beaten by the system; indeed, the system must defeat and discard him as part of its "progress" through exploitation of people for profits. Eventually his luck runs out and Jurgis is injured upon his the ...
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A Fantasy
Number of Words: 432 / Number of Pages: 2
... rescued me. He would take me to places like Disney World and Six Flags and of course he got to ride the rides to. He would even go with me to school some times. Thank goodness he was just in my imagination or I might have gotten into trouble by the teachers.
He was my bestfriend, up until about third grade. He was always there to play with me, he never had to go home and he always shared. Lighting and I were inseparable up until the third grade when I met my bestfriend Emily. Lighting just kind of went away because I got so busy with my new friend and I just forgot about him.
As you can see does ...
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A Worn Path By Eudora Welty
Number of Words: 667 / Number of Pages: 3
... ago. But because she loved her grandson very much, she made regular trips down the worn path. The hardships she came across along the way made her life more interesting. As the Author writes in the story, old people talk to themselves. The trips down the worn path give Phoenix many things to talk to her self about during the long journey. The exercise keeps her strong and the love for her grandson keeps her on the right path.
This picture along with many others were taken by Eudora Welty in the 1930’s while she was traveling though some of the poorest parts of Mississippi. Old Phoenix Jackso ...
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Heracles
Number of Words: 772 / Number of Pages: 3
... Hercules was one strong baby, and he strangled the snakes, one in each hand, before they could bite him. Hera decided to pay Zeus back by making the rest of Hercules life as miserable as she could.
When Hercules grew up and had become a great warrior, he married Megara. They had two children. Hercules and Megara were very happy, but life didn't turn out for them the way it does in the movie. Hera made Hercules go so crazy that put him into a great rage. murdered Megara and the children. When Hercules regained his senses and saw the horrible thing that he had done and he asked the god Apollo to help ...
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