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Barn Burning By William Faulkn
Number of Words: 2222 / Number of Pages: 9
... to this possibility. The father points out that de Spain's house is built with "nigger sweat" as well as the white sweat of the sharecropper. He seems to view himself as a victim of an unfair socio-economic system: he "burns with a ravening and jealous rage."(p.169), he is the "element of fire", the narrator speaks to "some deep mainspring" of Mr Snopes being "as the element of steel or powder spoke to other men, as one weapon for the preservation of integrity ...used with discretion."(p.166).
The father does not make any discrimination between the rich and the poor. For him, there are only two ca ...
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The Ugly Tie
Number of Words: 258 / Number of Pages: 1
... from all over.
The flashy illuminating polyester fabric gleams with a lust of
shiny plastic coating. The tie is milky colored all around and at the
center a cherry colored circle. However, as creative as it may seem, the
tie is indifferent to any color other than ivory or ebony. Thus, a snow-
white suit with beaming bleach-white colored shoes is necessary in order to
pair with this particular tie.
History has taught that fashion is something that relates to the
time period. As the people evolve from the seventies they realize that
clothes could not be outrageous or it would decease as a fad ...
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Cause And Effect Of Speeding
Number of Words: 471 / Number of Pages: 2
... your way after paying the
fine. If the judge is kind, and offers a traffic school option, the
unpleasantness continues. Usually the traffic school is no where near to
the courthouse, which causes you to search to find the it. The great
experience of paying is close at hand after locating the school. You must
endure the nine hour course after paying for the privilege of attending.
This is a class most people would have never taken if given the chance. The
unpleasantness associated with a speeding ticket is almost finished when
you have completed the course.
A reoccurring reminder of a previous mistak ...
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Presuppositions Of The Game Theory
Number of Words: 1180 / Number of Pages: 5
... People often think the more
money one has, the happier they are. You often hear people say "if I only had
more money, I would be happy." Frequently the perceived level of success is
compared to the size of one's bank account, the location of their house or the
amount of cars in the driveway. People seem to perceive money as being
happiness.
Soloman says that keeping score, although it is not an essential feature of
games, seems to be one of the most durable features of game theory. He thinks
that the best way to keep score is to have a dependable point system, a definite
unit of worth, which is mo ...
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Walt Whitman Biography
Number of Words: 1983 / Number of Pages: 8
... of dramatic symbolism in the piece. The actions of the characters themselves reflect the piece’s definite goals. Though these “characters” set the scene and take center stage at different points, it must be remembered that what occurs is removed from the reader by two filters. The first is the filter of interpretation by the boy who is witnessing the events, it is then filtered through the memory of the boy become both man and poet. The boy has thus created a profound story of want and injustice through translation of natural occurrence (sounds and sea), and the man-poet has created a path though ...
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The Contempary Enlightend One
Number of Words: 502 / Number of Pages: 2
... York, the dirt and grind capital of the world. He gets more and more sickened by the fakeness, and cruelty of the world. An example of this would be in the Catcher in the Rye, when he goes in to the museum “he notices an obscenity written with a child’s red crayon on the wall”(121 bloom). Holden says in the novel “That’s the whole trouble,” he realizes. “You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and w ...
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Godlike Odysseus
Number of Words: 517 / Number of Pages: 2
... of the sea/ All quivering, even so she swung them/ All quivering up to her high crag./ There she devoured them, one and all,/ Before her doorway, while they shrieked/ And still stretched out their hands to me/ In dying agony. that sight/ Was the saddest sight my eyes/ have ever seen, while through sore trials/ I wandered the sea's ways." I interpreted this like it was one of those things a person would tell and cry about, and yet another characteristic of a human.
The last of the few examples I saw Odysseus give in the Odyssey, showing characteristics of a human, was in "Penelope Tests Odysseus." ...
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Hamlet - The Tragedy Of Hamlet
Number of Words: 914 / Number of Pages: 4
... room. This shows how Polonius, a man unaware of the true nature of the situation he is in, is killed by a member of the royalty during the execution of one of their schemes. This makes Polonius' death a tragedy.
The next member of Polonius' family to die is his daughter Ophelia. Ophelia's death is tragic because of her complete innocence in the situation. Some may argue that Polonius deserves his fate because of his deceitfulness in dealing with Hamlet while he is mad, but Ophelia is entirely manipulated and used by Hamlet and the king for their own selfish reasons. An example of how Ophelia is used ...
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Comparative Essay Between The
Number of Words: 706 / Number of Pages: 3
... Atticus also tells his children some very good advice for the future, "As you grow older you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it-whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."
Women, as well as children, although they are not a minority, they are treated the same way. In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery they schedule a public stoning every year for June 27, and decide who to stone through a process of drawing slips of paper for fami ...
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Aspects In Marianella
Number of Words: 987 / Number of Pages: 4
... does not answer him. Pablo didn't have to visit Teodoro or Marianella .Pablo: It is not important to me to stay blind after i have seen. I had a dream that that you were looking for me. To your side were very ugly girls. Why are you beautiful? Creí that you wish to be at my side. My cousin, and wife of my soul. Florentina: what? No,no,no. Teodoro, Pablo is crazy. Say something.Teodoro: Pablo..... go to your room!
Pablo: you are the boss, Teodoro. As Pablo was leaving, he sees Marianella on the couch. He looks at her. Pablo: My God! She is sick Teodoro: Of course she is you crazy fool. Pablo puts his ...
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