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Swift's A Modest Proposal
Number of Words: 583 / Number of Pages: 3
... be for the Irish to sell their infant children to the English. If the Irish nurse their children until they are one year old, they will be plump enough for the English to use as food. They can also use their skin to make leather that the men can make into boots, and the women can make into gloves. This way no parts of the children will go to waste. Since the English thought of the Irish as animals, they could treat them as they would treat animals. The ideas of the persona solves all of the problems mentioned before. The English will get food, and the Irish will have a way of making money.
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A And P Essay 1
Number of Words: 448 / Number of Pages: 2
... “sheep” twice in the story. Once as he views the customers continuing to push their carts down the aisle only glancing slightly at the girls and continuing to shop. Sammy “bets you could set off dynamite in an A & P and the people would by large keep reaching and checking oatmeal off their lists and muttering…” The second time is when the girls go to the check out lane and Lengel starts to explain the policy. “All this while, the customers had been showing up with their carts but, you know sheep, seeing a scene, they had all bunched up on Stokesie…”
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What Philosophy Might Do To Us
Number of Words: 733 / Number of Pages: 3
... accepting public opinion. "The unexamined life is not worth living," said Socrates (Plato 38a). The Athenian people rejected the idea that man has control over himself, instead they believed that everything was dictated by the Gods. The fact that Socrates strived to live a virtuous life was his undoing. The people of Athens killed him because he challenged their tradition way of thinking.
For Socrates there was a choice, one could live for pleasures of the body or one could live for pleasures of the soul. If one is to have pure knowledge, one must escape the needs of the body in order to understand th ...
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Grapes Of Wrath - Characterization
Number of Words: 692 / Number of Pages: 3
... Jacks, she threatens to call upon her brother, who has killed two men and is now in hiding. Ruthie's revelation endangers Tom and forces him to abandon both his hideout and family. Ma, whose primary goal has been to keep the family together, must bid another painful farewell.
Through his speech, Muley reveals that he is stubborn and refuses to accept the fact that things have changed. His home has been seized, and his family migrated to California, but he refuses to leave the land. Muley roams the countryside alone, sleeping and eating like a wild animal.
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To Judge A Book By Its Cover
Number of Words: 999 / Number of Pages: 4
... is returned, but after that, youngsters basically have carte blanche access to everything the library has to offer. Parents may never see what their adolescents are finding of interest. The minds of children, full of curiosity, snooping and filling the void that parents have good reason to make elusive, greedily lap up the dribble of some warped author's pen. Shelves and rows loaded from floor to ceiling with books containing pictures of art illustrating various sexual positions, manuals graphically depicting murder victims, books upon books full of political ideologies, rape, sex, illegal acts, h ...
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Upton Sinclair, Jr. And The Ju
Number of Words: 927 / Number of Pages: 4
... serious literature was an traumatic
religious experience. From his friendship with a young minister, Sinclair got a devotion to moral and social justice. The Reverend, W. W. Moir took the Gospels so seriously that he taught his students that a rich man had no chance of going to Heaven. When he gave Sinclair some works to read, Sinclair found them so contradictory to Moir's teachings, he lost faith in orthodox religion, but for the rest of his life he did believe in the moral teachings of Jesus. From that point on his writing became highly serious and idealistic.
Now finally unto the interestin ...
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Robin Hood Summary
Number of Words: 812 / Number of Pages: 3
... traits that are quite obvious in the story and the movie. For one he is very set on taking from the wealth of Nottingham and giving back to the poorer community so they can live well. His main idea here is to get as much taken from the Sheriff of Nottingham and his sympathizers so they can easily attack and take the kingdom back. In the end his plan works and Robin kills the Sheriff and the Kingdom is once again his, as well as Maid Marion. His goals are reached because he is persistent in what he wants, and will stop at nothing to get back all the things that the people had lost, and all the things h ...
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The Catcher And The Rye -x
Number of Words: 801 / Number of Pages: 3
... home comes. On the train to New York Holden meets the mother of student at Pency and lies about him just to be sociable while all the time laughing that he is being a phony while he hates them. Once in New York at his hotel he calls a girl he was given a phone number to but he ends up not doing anything with her and is angry with himself for it. He goes down to the bar at the hotel and can not even order a drink. He ends up sitting with 3 girls for whom he buys drinks and dances with although after the whole evening they end up just leaving without saying goodbye. Holden then goes to another club ...
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Siddhartha By Herman Hesse
Number of Words: 392 / Number of Pages: 2
... track” and entangles himself in a “senseless cycle” of acquiring and squandering wealth.
In the final chapters, Siddhartha proves that achieving or over-coming obstacles do lead to better Unity. Prior to making a leap forward in reaching his goal, Siddhartha finds himself in despair. He speaks to Vasudeva, the ferryman. The ferryman smiles and says very little, allowing the River to speak for him. Siddhartha listens as the River reveals its first true, complete message.
“Om.” Siddhartha hears.
His “wounds” heal, losing the attachment he had for his son. Siddhartha merges into Unity ; he attains his ul ...
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The Glass Meangere
Number of Words: 2009 / Number of Pages: 8
... who are outcasts because they can not, or will not, conform to the values of the dominant culture, and of conformists, who represent that culture. The outcast characters in Tennessee Williams's major plays do not suffer because of the actions or circumstances that make them outcast but because of the destructive impact of conventional morality upon them. The outcasts are driven, in the conflict between their values and those of conventional morality, to: 1) confess their transgressions against conventional morality, and 2) suffer, at their own hands or by placing themselves in dangerous ...
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