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The Odyssey And The Pearl: Loyalty
Number of Words: 442 / Number of Pages: 2
... one of the suitors. Staying loyal to Odysseus
brought about positive consequences to Penelope. She was reunited with her
beloved husband Odysseus.
Kino's wife Juana stayed by her husband through his time of distress.
Although it was her belief that the pearl was an omen of evil, she loyally
stayed at her husband's side. Juana remained loyal to Kino even after he had
savagely beaten her. She knew that she had brought it upon herself and it was
her place to accept the beating. Also, Juana vowed not to leave her husband's
side when he decided to flee from the town after murdering one of the
town ...
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A Clockwork Orange
Number of Words: 584 / Number of Pages: 3
... is destined for a life of evil and there is nothing he can do to change it. Alex has no free will or moral choice. The theme of the 20 chapter version is that there is no such thing as free will or moral choice. Alex is evil and he has no ability to change that. The story also ends without Alex evolving at all from the beginning of the book.
Chapter 21 gives the book an absolutely different theme. Alex becomes board with his malicious life, he begins to evolve. "I was like growing up" he says about himself in chapter 21. He decides he wants to create rather than to destruct. The theme of the book with ...
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The Merchant Of Venice
Number of Words: 626 / Number of Pages: 3
... her own house, not letting her out, and not letting her hear the Christian music around her. He orders her to:
"Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum...
..But stop my house's ears-I mean casements.
Let not the sound of shallow fopp'ry enter
My sober house." 3
Jessica considers her home to be hell, and she calls Launcelot, a "merry little devil". She even states that her father is Satan. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, by not loving her enough, even to the point where he complains about all of the money he's spending in a search to find her.
"Why, there, there, there, there! A d ...
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Accountants
Number of Words: 491 / Number of Pages: 2
... reports the public can use the reports to choose a company to invest in. Because a financial accountant is employed by an individual company, she is considered a private accountant. Another type of accountant is a tax accountant. A tax accountant prepares yearly tax returns for individual clients. The accountants have to use constant data such as rates of pay and other information to determine the proper amount of taxes to be paid. These accountants have to take a class once a year to catch up on yearly changes in tax laws and regulations. If a tax accountant has met state experience requirements, she ...
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Contrast Between The Lesson An
Number of Words: 500 / Number of Pages: 2
... on something that will brake quickly. It makes the narrator angry that Some people are able to afford a toy like that, when her family can barely take care of her. We see this When she notices a toy clown that does somersaults and pull-ups which cost thirty-five dollars. She tells us that thirty five dollars would pay the rent, and the piano bill, by her cousins bunk beds and Pay for a trip to the country to visits her grand father (112). At the end when the leave the store the narrator’s friend, Sugar, is the only one to get the point of the trip when she says: “Imagine for a minute W ...
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Women Of The Color Purple
Number of Words: 1050 / Number of Pages: 4
... it.
Later Celie admits that she told Harpo to beat her because she is jealous of Sofia. Celie is jealous because Sofia can fight back and she knows she can’t. Sofia tells Celie how she feels sorry for her because Celie reminds her of her mother and how she never could stand up against her father. Just seeing Sofia in control gives Celie hope in getting control in her own life.
Sofia does not live up to the standards of being a wife because she has a voice in her relationship with Harpo and most women allow their husbands to manipulate them. People just accept how she lives because she has a ...
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Hamlet 18
Number of Words: 743 / Number of Pages: 3
... outside the castle. This presents concern for Hamlet because he feels that there has been some 'foul play' to cause the appearance of this spirit. In Kenneth Branagh's movie production, Hamlet begins to look through a book about demons. This suggests that Hamlet presumes something unpleasant has taken place. Hamlet insists that he sees this ghost and accompanies Horatio and Marcellus on their watch. The ghost presents itself again and Hamlet follows it where it proceeds to make known to Hamlet the evil act of murder that has been committed by Claudius. Hamlet then swears to avenge his father's de ...
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How Literature Was Affected In The Victorian Age
Number of Words: 1634 / Number of Pages: 6
... Queen Victoria encouraged reading among all of her people. She gave
out free books to children and she built schools for the lower classes.
Also the Queen invited prominent Victorian age writers such as Alfred,
Lord Tennyson and Charles Dickens to read privately to her in Buckingham
Palace(Packard 59).
The Victorian Age was also an era of several unsettling social
developments. This forced writers to take positions on immediate issues
animating the rest of society(Brown 23). Hence, romantic forms of
expression in poetry and prose continued to dominate English literature
throughou ...
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On The Subway
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... 22, 1999
Essay 1
how the boy's appearance frightens her. She talks about his big feet with dark black sneakers with white laces and how they looked like a set intentional scars. Olds talked about what he looks like when he sees him, "He has the casual cold look of a mugger, alert under hooded lids" (7-9). She says that he is wearing red, which makes her thing of the blood inside of one's body. The speaker has on her black fur coat which makes for an inviting target.
In the middle of the poem, the speaker questions who has the power between her and the boy in the subway. She says " ...
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An Analysis Of Buried Child
Number of Words: 1163 / Number of Pages: 5
... family, so he drowned it, and buried it in the backyard. We can guess that this is when the farm ceased to be fertile, and fell into disuse. This is a symbol of the death of honesty and the birth of the family’s terrible secret.
Why exactly does everything go wrong for this family? We don’t know exactly when the problems started, but we know that Ansel died on his honeymoon, Bradley cut off his own leg in a chain saw accident and is now mentally imbalanced, Tilden is nonfunctional and has been driven out of New Mexico, Dodge is a crazy old sick guy, and Halie is doing shady things with the ...
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