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Romulus And Remus
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... Therefore Romulus, judging that the gods had favored him, began to lay the foundations of the city of Rome. He plowed a furrow to mark where the walls would be. But Remus mocked him, leaping over the thin furrow and saying that Rome's enemies would be able to get over its walls just as easily. Romulus was so furious he struck his brother dead. The city was built. It had a ruler, but no citizens. So Romulus declared Rome's sacred grove to be a sanctuary, and it soon filled with outlaws and fugitives, whom Romulus welcomed as his subjects. But there were still no women. So Romulus organized some g ...
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A Man For All Seasons 2
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties...they lead their country by a short route to chaos."(Bolt, p 22).
Despite what many may think, More would rather not get involved or influence the life of the king concerning the divorce. To most people signing the oath is a minor thing. It is something that should be done to appease the King , despite personal beliefs. However, for More his decision to sign the oath must be based on his beliefs. If he were to sign the oath he would lose all self respect. The audience learns this when he says " I neither could nor would rule my ...
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Dolly Madison
Number of Words: 1495 / Number of Pages: 6
... years old. She did not contend against John Todd. "Dolly had the ability to accept whatever fate might have to offer and make the very best of it."2 They were married on January 7, 1790, at the Friends' Meeting House on Pine Street. In the summer of 1793 there came the yellow plague. Dolly was struggling with her children along the crowded road to Gray's Ferry, one of the panic driven throngs escaping from the stricken city. John Todd stayed behind to give his able bodied and courageous help, and before the winter was over Dolly had lost her husband and her baby. Dolly herself was desperatel ...
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Everyday Use
Number of Words: 973 / Number of Pages: 4
... we learn very quickly that the mother (narrator) has inherited many customs and traditions from her ancestors. She describes herself as "a large big-boned woman with rough man-working hands" (485). She also describes here various abilities including, " I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man…I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing. I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledgehammer and had the meat hung up to chill by n ...
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Tragic Differences
Number of Words: 1260 / Number of Pages: 5
... Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, can easily be classified as a tragedy. It is a repulsive story about a woman, who died just as she lived: lonely. Emily Grierson was a peculiar woman, who owned a large house, which was a mystery to many people. She never had any real friends and she never had a spouse. And when she started seeing a man, Homer Barron, everybody was assured that she would marry him. But Mr. Barron was as queer as Ms. Grierson was, so their melding was very unlikely. “When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, “She will marry him.” ...
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Jonathon Swift
Number of Words: 1398 / Number of Pages: 6
... food and at the same time making food. It is interesting to see how well Swift conveys his view towards the poor in this odd manor. Swift sees how the poor are treated by the affluent who may think that the impoverished are the reason for Ireland’s food problems. In fact, the entire essay is nothing more than sarcastic piece that deeply imbeds the blame upon the rich who he feels might have just as much or even more blame on Ireland’s food problems than the poor ever have. Swift intelligently uses his common sense logic in a strange way to convey his feelings about this predicament. Swift goes to g ...
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Crime And Punishment 7
Number of Words: 469 / Number of Pages: 2
... Sonia, Svidrigailov overhears them talking and uses the information to his advantage. He tells Dounia that "[Raskolnikov] made a full confession to [Sonia]" (498). It devastates her to discover her brother is a murderer. From there Raskolnikov's mother "heard [Dounia] talking in her sleep" and "understands at least half of it already" (526). Both Sonia and Dounia urge Raskolnikov to confess. He goes for a long walk
and decides he "[wants] to end it all" (526). After careful deliberation, however, Raskolnikov finally decides against suicide. He would only be escaping punishment, and his pride ...
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Psalm 96
Number of Words: 566 / Number of Pages: 3
... feared above all gods. We can see by the quotation that God is definitely elevated and exalted among all others.
Direction of Focus-Keeping in accordance with Ryken's text, the author of Psalm 96 gets the reader to focus all of his attention on God and the grace of God and the workings of God. When looking at Psalm 96:7-10 it gets the reader to really see the power and grace of God, and that he really is all powerful, everlasting, and omnipotent.
Declarative Vs Descriptive Praise
According to the Ryken text these are the two main types of praise. When reading Psalm 96 for the first time, one might ...
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The Stranger 2
Number of Words: 837 / Number of Pages: 4
... distracted, and not being able to concentrate brought him some troubles. The biggest would be a senseless murder he is drawn into.
The story begins with the death of Meursault's mother in an elders' home. That was the first time he's shown his carelessness in life. He went to her funeral, but didn't cry. Basicly, what he did was just sitting there and watched the whole thing as it was someone else's mother. He was distracted by all kinds of actions, and noticing unnecessary details.[quote] He didn't even know his mother's accual age. [quote] This alone to some people is probably unforgivable. ...
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The Beak Of The Finch
Number of Words: 8537 / Number of Pages: 32
... hot volcanic rock. However, the writers and editors of the book avoid simple logic and put a spin on history that is misleading. The facts and logic presented in The Beak of the Finch really make the book's author out to be a closet creationist.
It just so happened that at the same time I read this book, I was reading The Storm Petrel and the Owl of Athena by Louis Halle. Half of The Storm Petrel is on the bird life of the Shetland Islands, another isolated natural system. Halle, though an evolutionist, devotes a whole chapter on how the Shetlands and other islands conserve species. (Halle. ...
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