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Canterbury Tales
Number of Words: 903 / Number of Pages: 4
... Alison will be safe if the carpenter builds three separate barrels and hangs them from the ceiling where they can climb to safety. On that night, all three climb into the barrels and the carpenter immediately falls asleep, due to the exhaustion from all of his work. Alison and Nicholas climb down and go into the carpenter’s bed. Absalom appears at the window at midnight. Absalom demands a kiss from Alison, and Alison says she will kiss him if he leaves immediately. Then,"…she thrust her ass out the window. Absalom, knowing no better kissed it enthusiastically before realizing the trick.&qu ...
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Equus
Number of Words: 506 / Number of Pages: 2
... drawn to anything his father did not like because he did not want to be like his father. Allen is driven to all his father hates, such as television and religion. When Alan sees his father coming out of the porno movie theater, he is devastated because he is caught acting like his father.
The relationship between Alan and Dysart is one of mutual envy. Dysart envies Alan because of his passion. Dysart lives a boring life with a wife he does not love. He resents her for lacking passion, when he lacks passion himself. He is sarcastic when he speaks of his relationship and his life. He has no pa ...
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Winter
Number of Words: 356 / Number of Pages: 2
... voices made my spine shiver with the reality of the dreary season upon me. From afar I heard the faint whisper of car engines driving slowly on the slippery roads. The silence of the fields immediately surrounding me was broken with the roaring of snowmobiles making trails and children’s laughter as their sleds neared where I was standing. The laughter ceased as the sleds came to a halt visible through the barren trees ahead of me. The kids picked themselves up and trudged up the hill, their feet crunching below them disturbing the clean lines of newly fallen snow.
I took a step forward and realized ...
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The Grapes Of Success
Number of Words: 841 / Number of Pages: 4
... to maintain some sort of dignity and pride is broken by the tragedies they must witness and experience: the murder of their former preacher and good friend Casy, the constant harassment by the deputies, ugly nicknames, depressing camps, and a tired lack of jobs. Through this story Steinbeck refuses to let the plight of the migrants remain impersonal and distant. He gives the American people a way to understand exactly what was going on by turning the situation into a well-written story. Through his moving narrative the American people become intimately acquainted with one family, and thus b ...
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Death Of A Salesman - Symbols
Number of Words: 2103 / Number of Pages: 8
... home, Miller worked as a truck driver, a warehouse clerk, and a cargo-mover; consequently, these odd jobs bring him close to the working-class type people that will later be the basis of many characters in his plays. It is while he is involving himself in these jobs that Miller forms his love for literature; he is greatly impressed by Fyodor Dostoevski’s The Brothers Karamazov because it questions the unspoken rules of society, a concept he often wondered about, especially after the Great Depression. He believes that American society needed to be made over; for this reason, many of his earlier pla ...
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The Tragic Hero Of Julius Caes
Number of Words: 626 / Number of Pages: 3
... a bad idea because if they hadn’t gone everybody wouldn’t have been killed. Brutus also made poor judgment on his friend Cassius. Cassius was the one persuading Brutus to become one of the conspirators, if he hadn’t listened to Cassius, he wouldn’t have killed Caesar.
Brutus was one of Caesar’s best friends, but he was not the greatest friend in the world. He killed his own best friend. Also, as good as a friend Brutus was to Caesar, it appeared as though Brutus loved Rome and it’s people more. “If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, thi ...
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Oedipus Rex: Fate
Number of Words: 1460 / Number of Pages: 6
... work. The shepherd brings the baby boy back to his city and gives him to King Polybus because the King and Queen could not have a child.
Oedipus grows up as the son of Polybus and Merope. When Oedipus was a young man he was told that he was not his father's son. He tires to dismiss this horrible accusation as that of a drunken man, but it always bothered him. One day Oedipus decides to go to the Oracle to see his knowledge of Oedipus' birth.
The oracle tells Oedipus his fate is the death of his father by his own hands and that he will marry his mother. He does not answer the original question Oedi ...
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Grapes Of Wrath
Number of Words: 616 / Number of Pages: 3
... to mix with the whites. Public areas such as schools were segregated so the blacks and whites went to different schools. It was like the whites wanted to rid the U.S. of the blacks. In The , the Californians wanted to rid the "dirty" Okies from California because they were afraid of them. They were afraid that the Okies would take their land. Blacks were also beaten for no just reason. Racial group such as the KKK, beat up blacks because they hated the blacks. They wanted the blacks to go away or die. In The , Okies were unjustly beaten. The California police beat them for no just reason because they ...
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Essay On Separate Peace
Number of Words: 556 / Number of Pages: 3
... friendship does develop when Gene is asked by Lepper to come done because he escaped. Leppers trust toward Gene is shown especially because Gene understands his emotional state. However all of these boys are drawn to each other because of the fo! rces surrounding them. So, for Gene and Finny, unlike Lepper, they realize their dependency on each other. Thus their friendship would not have evolved if it were not for war. Both Gene and Finny experienced an inner and outer war. Internally the protagonists are searching for their own separate peace, and that is found At Devon Prep. School. There they are s ...
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Transcendentalism: Aphorism
Number of Words: 557 / Number of Pages: 3
... everyday, many of the world's and the Unites States'
problems have arised because of these people. Man will always have greed,
it is in human nature...man will always be selfish. These traits can never
be extinguished, but at least they can be limited to only certain uses, and
maybe man can be accustomed to use these traits the correct way. All over
the world this aphorism represents society, and always will. Even in our
school I believe this is a valid point by Emerson. One should never have
power anywhere close to God but God himself. If they did...who knows how
society would be, or if it w ...
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