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The Changing Roles Of Women In
Number of Words: 652 / Number of Pages: 3
... hasn't got a thing to do with it." (p. 38) She goes on to say, "God is just one idea I don't accept… I get tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort. There simply is no God- there is only man and it is who makes miracles." (p. 39) Lena rises across the room and slaps Beneatha in the face. She is so intolerant of Beneatha's beliefs that she makes her say, "In my mother's house there is still God." (39) In a sense, she is right. Lena is so demanding and intolerant; she is the God of the house.
Lena and Beneatha also disagree about ...
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Le Cid (French)
Number of Words: 2611 / Number of Pages: 10
... le risque de mauvaise répercussions. Ceci est appelé le conflit cornélien. Le conflit cornélien consistait dans le Cid consistait d'une décision entre l'amour et le devoir/l'honneur. Après la première mise-en scène du Cid, il y avait plusieurs critiques. L'une d'elle venait des Espagnols, ils accusaient Corneille du plagiat d'une pièce écrite par un écrivain espagnol célèbre. Corneille avoua qu'il avait raison, mais il affirma qu'il l'avait seulement fait parce qu'il car il avait une grande admiration pour la pièce. Une autre critique qui portait sur l'élément de temps que déroula l'action de l ...
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Dimmesdale S Humble Morality
Number of Words: 962 / Number of Pages: 4
... in so wise, so high, and so holy a spirit, as he that spake this day (p.243)." These facts proved that he was a very loved and influential man in the small town. Hawthorne later portrays him as somewhat of a hypocrite. His outward appearance deceives the villagers, appearing to be a completely holy man. However, before the action of the novel begins, he falls into sin, by committing adultery with Hester Pryne. His cowardly outlook on his sins only causes his troubles to stack up. Abandoning Hester and her illegitimate daughter Pearl, also latched onto his problems, forcing Hester to go and fin ...
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Macbeth - Imagery In Macbeth
Number of Words: 1317 / Number of Pages: 5
... he is continually conscious of the fact that they do not belong to him. In the following passage, the idea constantly recurs that Macbeth's new honors sit ill upon him, like loose and badly fitting garments, belonging to someone else:
"New honours come upon him,
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould,
But with the aid of use."
(Act I, iii: 144)
The second form used to add to the atmosphere, the imagery of darkness. In a Shakespearean tragedy, we have known him to create a special tone, or atmosphere to show the darkness in a tragedy. In 'Macbeth', Shakespeare draws upon the design o ...
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A Clockwork Orange
Number of Words: 523 / Number of Pages: 2
... desire to sin, and can thus be described as in that his actions are controlled by his emotion. We can clearly see how Alex’s inclination to do things that satisfy his emotion are strikingly similar to our desires to do the things that we want to do. This is the whole message behind the doctrine of original sin, where Adam’s first sin against God carried into his descendants. All humans are born with the desire to do evil, and thus we can justify Alex’s violent actions.
Eventually, Alex’s friends betray him and set him up to be imprisoned, where he is conditioned to hate evil and to become sick at ...
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Self-Expression
Number of Words: 667 / Number of Pages: 3
... I play a tennis match and I win a big point,
I pump my fist with excitement. If students are really bored or tired,
they might put their elbow on the desk and their hand on their cheek.
Another example of hand gestures is the middle finger. People use the
middle finger when they are mad or angry. For instance, if I were driving
and someone cut me off, then I would give them the middle finger. It
might not be right, but I expressed my feelings toward them. There are
many different gestures that people use in everyday life to express their
feelings.
Another method of expressing yourself is writin ...
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Dog
Number of Words: 1053 / Number of Pages: 4
... while she refers to the sea as huge and empty. Andy sees the man's world as a wonderful, fascinating world while she sees the woman's world as meaningless and empty.
Andy sees the changes into a woman on the horizon and she is scared by these changes because they are very confusing to her. This is why she try's to do man-type things such as hunting. To further confuse her, her father supports her striving to be part of the man's world. He refers to her as Andy even though her real name is Andrea and takes her with him to do manly things.
The reader first gets a hint of the fact that Andy is unable to ...
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Shakespeare And Kingship
Number of Words: 1598 / Number of Pages: 6
... least did not act like the direct descendants of God. In Macbeth, he commits treason and murder, the two worst crimes of the day, and neither Duncan nor Macbeth were saved by God, who, according to the theory of the divine right of kings, should have saved Duncan and then Macbeth. When they were killed, they were both king, and therefore the right-hand man of God, the creator, who controls the entire world and who could have stopped them from being killed.
In Richard II, Richard bankrupts the country with his blatant mismanagement and his excessive spending on his 'favourites', who are already rich a ...
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Dead Poets Society, Summary
Number of Words: 498 / Number of Pages: 2
... was flat. He was on Mr. Keating’s side when the school tried to fire him. Cameron was dynamic. He went with the crowd. If a group of kids did one thing then he would follow right behind.
The plot in the story is rather interesting. The exposition is simple. A group of students have a English teacher who is very creative in the way he teaches. One of the students finds out about a group that Mr. Keating was in when he went to the school. Him and his friends decide that they would start it again. The rising action is when the kids start to have the meetings. The students get a little ...
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I Know WhyThe Caged Bird Sings
Number of Words: 2465 / Number of Pages: 9
... Bailey - Maya and Bailey’s father; he is a vain, selfish, and conceited man, who is not a good father. Chris Corey pg. 2 3) Character "I" 2: Secondary Characters - Grandmother Baxter - the children’s nearly white grandmother; she is a precinct leader - Grandfather Baxter - dies a few years after Maya returns to Stamps - Uncle Willie - Maya and Bailey’s uncle; he lives with Momma Henderson; paralyzed since he was three - Dolores Stockland - Daddy Bailey’s girlfriend; she is jealous of Maya and attacks her - Mrs. Bertha Flowers - Momma’s sophisticated friend who helps Maya find confidence th ...
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