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Lessons To Be Learned From The
Number of Words: 727 / Number of Pages: 3
... hysteria is a powerful force and can bring even the most intellectual of people to lose sense of what is occurring. More modern examples of hysteria such as the McCarthy trials and the ostracizing of people infected with AIDS show that learning to properly evaluate a situation for it’s reasonability and integrity prove to still be a valuable lesson for today.
Martial betrayal forms a central basis for the relations between the main characters of Abigail, John Proctor, and Elizabeth Proctor. John betrayed his wife by cheating with Abigail, and throughout the course of the play, he attempts to redeem ...
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Number of Words: 1179 / Number of Pages: 5
... small
(Reische 51). Technological advances in the 1920's brought a variety of effects. The
use of machinery increased productivity while reducing the need for as many farm laborers.
The industrial boom of the 1920s drew many workers off the farm and into the cities.
Machinery, while increasing productivity, was very expensive. Demand for food, though,
stayed relatively constant (Long 85). As a result of this, food prices went down. The
small farmer was no longer able to compete, lacking the capital to buy productive
machinery. Small farms lost their practicality, and many farmers ...
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Oedipus Rex 6
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... but eventually it brought him shame. Oedipus was humiliated and disgusted and stated, “…kill me; or hurl me into the sea, away from men’s eyes for ever(p882, 183).” Oedipus’ wanted to be isolated from the people of Thebes because all his respect and fame was destroyed by his fate.
Oedipus’ fate caused him to isolate himself by blinding himself. Ironically, when Oedipus had his sight, he didn’t know the truth about the murder or even his life. He thought a group of bandits killed Laios and that his parents were from Corinth. Teiresias, a blind man, a ...
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Ethan Frome
Number of Words: 627 / Number of Pages: 3
... because she brought a bright light upon his dismal day. He seemed to have found someone that cared for him, was always happy, and could share his youth, unlike his sickly wife who always nagged him. He longed to be with Mattie, however he had to be loyal to his wife. Being married to the wrong person proved to be Ethan's first failure.
Ethan's second failure was not being able to stand up for himself against his wife. Zeena claimed that a new doctor said that she was extremely sick, and needed more help around the house. She told him, without any discussion, that Mattie had to go. Ethan could not ...
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Death Perspectives From Dylan
Number of Words: 915 / Number of Pages: 4
... the seas are silenced. This stanza establishes a cycle of darkness before creation and a darkness after destruction that lays a symbolic foundation for the rest of the poem. The next stanza depicts Thomas as he himself enters this cosmic cycle and reveals this tremendously cosmic cycle to be death.
Thomas's word choice is crucial as he describes the death cycle in order to compress as much meaning into as few words as possible, because it is his words that allow the reader to comprehend death as a religious as well as natural and inescapable experience. The use of the words "round" and "again" in L ...
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Beowulf, Epic Hero
Number of Words: 608 / Number of Pages: 3
... and then come after you. “Forward Grendel came, stepping nearer. Then he reached for Beowulf. Beowulf grasped his arm and sat up. The criminal knew he had not met in this middle-earth another with such a grip”(ch. 4). At this point Grendel was afraid of who this man was. Just the courage not to run away, but to fight the beast, Beowulf proved himself to be a courageous man.
Another trait that comes with courage is being noble. To be noble, one has to take risks on his own behalf to save the suffrage of others, because he wants to. Beowulf had killed many monsters before, but this was fo ...
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George Bernard Shaw And His Short Story About The Cremation Of The Narrator's Mother
Number of Words: 770 / Number of Pages: 3
... aspects of
a traditional burial service, Shaw's mood is revealed as ambivalent toward
cremation by imposing recalled fragments of ground burial for contrast.
Strangely fascinated, he begins to wonder exactly what happens when one is
cremated. This mood of awe is dramatized as he encounters several doors to
observe in his chronological investigation. He sees “a door opened in the
wall,” and follows the coffin as it “passed out through it and vanished as
it closed,” but this is not “the door of the furnace.” He finds the coffin
“opposite another door, a real unmistakable furnace door,” but as the
cof ...
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Words On "To His Coy Mistress"
Number of Words: 818 / Number of Pages: 3
... life in the fresh start of the new
covenant. Because time keeps going, with or without them, they must be active
participants and not just the static spectator. Otherwise, the fate Marvell
relates would become their reality.
Marvell's vegetable love is rather oxymoronic. Love is not normally
like the uncaring, thoughtless, and noncommunicating plant. And yet his love is
vegetable in that it is not adaptable. She is the water, food, and light for
his love; and as long as she is there, he will love her. She is evrerything
that supports his love, and if she is not there, his vegetable could not be
s ...
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Analysis
Number of Words: 612 / Number of Pages: 3
... his thoughts and feelings. Kafka developed a low self-esteem because of the way his father treated him; his father made him feel as though he was not wanted by the way he treated him. His suffering and depression would make him think of disturbing thoughts like his own death. In "Metamorphosis," Gregor had a slow and painful death. First, he began to lose his vision. Second, the apple that his father had thrown at him began to rot. He was also cut by a piece of glass from a bottle of alcohol, which made him bleed heavily. On his way home from getting cut, he gets stuck in the door. All of these ...
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Theiving
Number of Words: 828 / Number of Pages: 4
... a lot less fun, but it brought in as much as a hold up, sometimes even more.
It was September 14th, two thirty am. Jason stepped silently from the small red hatchback parked in the street outside of the Federation Bank Building. He stood for a moment, letting his eyes scan the street, and on finding no one, grabbed his bag and jogged quietly across the road to the front doors of the bank. There were two pin tumbler locks protecting the doors, but he quickly picked them both and entered the building, immediately scanning the room for security devices. There was a movement sensor in the far left corne ...
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