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Adventures On The Rapids
Number of Words: 500 / Number of Pages: 2
... The adults went in another. About an hour after we left, we made our first stop; an enormous rock midstream. We sat there for several minutes hopped back into the raft and we were on our way, rushing down the river, nearing towards the end.
As we approached the last of the rapids, our guide asked if we wanted to surf up them. Surfing is basically paddling up a rapid. We practiced for several minutes, because you have to get used to paddling against the current, then you can go up against a rapid. We were prepared, and ready for the last of the excitement in our adventure on the rapids.
Fighting our w ...
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Grapes Of Wrath
Number of Words: 724 / Number of Pages: 3
... members leave the group for various reasons leading to the slow but sure disintegration of the Joad clan. The first to go is Noah; then Grandpa and Grandma die;Connie walks off and leaves Rose of Sharon; Young Tom leaves because he has gotten into trouble again; and Al becomes engaged and decides to go with his fiancee’s family. Ma deals with each loss as best she can. As the story progresses, we find Ma Joad becoming more and more concerned with people outside the family unit. She feels the need to share whatever meager food and belongings her family has with other families enduring hardships. S ...
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Death Of A Salesman 3
Number of Words: 679 / Number of Pages: 3
... wastes his life being a thief and a loner; furthermore, Biff, along with happy try to conjure up a crazy idea of putting on a sporting goods exhibition. The problem with Willy is that he never grows up and deals with his obstacles.
Willy is also a very stubborn man. He is like a little child
that wants to do something their way even though they know that
another option would be the wiser choice. Charley practically sets a
potential job into Willy’s lap and he refuses it. Willy just was
fired and needed a job. He refuses one. Willy is too stubborn to let go of his old job and ...
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April Morning
Number of Words: 228 / Number of Pages: 1
... would
have anyway. Quote "If I had forbade him to sign that muster book then and
there, I would have lost a son. Is that what you want? But I saw him there so
tall and strong I could have wept. You can't shelter him. There comes a time,
and this is that time" (page 75.)
I think that Moses had to die in order for the story to continue because
if he had lived I don't think that the Battle would have been such a alarming
experience for Adam, and because of the traumaticness of watching his father's
death Adam was able to grow up and become more of a man.
Some of the actions of Moses's death were ...
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Doll House
Number of Words: 1196 / Number of Pages: 5
... She didn't even have to care for the children; the maid would usually take care of them. Speaking stereotypically she was your everyday housewife. She never left the house, mostly because her husband was afraid of the way people "would talk." In my opinion not too many people knew of their marriage, and that was they way Torvald wanted it to be. It really wasn't her fault she was the way she was. It was mostly Torvald's for spoiling her.
Ibsen uses creative, but effective, animal imagery to develop Nora's character throughout the play. He has Torvald call his wife "his little lark" or "sulky squir ...
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Odysseus And Bill Clinton: A Comparison
Number of Words: 564 / Number of Pages: 3
... have been trying to figure a way out of this predicament? But, still he sat on the shore crying, supposedly wanting his wife!
In addition to Odysseus’s infantile, he, like Bill Clinton, had some affairs. His first affair was with an enchantress named Circe. Circe had turned some of Odysseus’s men into wild pigs, and the only supposed way to turn them back was if Odysseus would “linger” with this “poisonous flower”. His second affair would be with the goddess Calypso. After losing his ship and all his men, Odysseus floated on a log in the sea and banked at Calypso’s Island, where she would invite ...
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Aunt Rosanas Rocker-hispanic-a
Number of Words: 1775 / Number of Pages: 7
... play, but it can be seen and
understood through the events that take place and through
the way the characters act.
Castro, who is one of the main characters of the story
is married to Zoraida. Zoraida’s husband, Castro, is the
head of the family and is the one who is working and
supporting the family. “He had even considered sleeping on
the living room couch, but he would not be driven out of his
own bed. He was still a man after all, a macho, master of
his home, someone to be reckoned with, not be pushed out.”
(Aunt Rosana’s Rocker pg. 81) Castro is a mascu ...
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The Bean Tree
Number of Words: 1130 / Number of Pages: 5
... she leaves almost everything behind, including her real name. Taylor is the name she adopts at the place where her car runs out of gas, in Taylorville, Illinois.
However, what starts out as a commonplace search for personal opportunities soon turns into a test of her character and beliefs, and of her ability to face and overcome obstacles. On her way west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she acquires a completely unexpected child. The baby girl is given to her outside a bar, by a desperate Indian woman. Taylor moves on to Tucson, Arizona, with Turtle, as she calls the little girl. ...
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The Red Badge Of Courage 2
Number of Words: 776 / Number of Pages: 3
... The war gives him an opportunity to do so. It is very important for him to feel like he can succeed in the world; and he puts emphasis on the tests he is undergoing. I think that Henry's analytical nature is his best attribute. A good mental stature is the basis for a good person.
The setting to this story is key. In the beginning of the story, the setting is the bank of a river, and that represents the journey he is undertaking. Not just his enlistment, but the ever- moving journey of his life. He is going to go and do something. During the rest of the story, he is in the forest. This is ...
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The Importance Of Being
Number of Words: 372 / Number of Pages: 2
... it in her mind that she will only love a man named Ernest. This mindset causes the men to lie and deceit the poor girl because he has fallen in love with her. She finds out in the end that his name is not Ernest and that she will love him after all but she would have not given him another look had he not lied.
This play has a lot of points that can be relevant to a historical society as well as the one of today. The people of today have the inner need to lie and create this god-like image of self that hides the beautiful person they are inside. We also narrow our choices in deciding not to talk ...
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