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“All Summer In A Day”: Selfish And Hateful Of The Human Race
Number of Words: 1309 / Number of Pages: 5
... seeing the sun. Margot does and because of this they despise her. She hates living on Venus and wants to go back to her former life on Earth. Before the sun comes out, the teacher leaves and the children lock Margot in a closet. When the sun comes out, they forget about Margot and go outside to play for the one hour they can spend in the sun. When the sun leaves and the rain returns, they come back inside and remember Margot is still in the closet. They let her out and she leaves in silence.
Margot is a nine-year-old girl who lived in Ohio. When she was four years old her family decided to move ...
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Literary Essay - Dead Poets So
Number of Words: 763 / Number of Pages: 3
... new English teacher, Mr. Keating, challenges his students to think for themselves and to resist conformity. He most memorably illustrates how easily conformity affects people during his lesson involving a stroll in the courtyard. He instructs three of his pupils to walk around the courtyard. The three boys march in unison, and the remainder of the pupils begin to clap in time with the marching. He asks why the boys are clapping, and they do not know. Perhaps they were clapping because everyone else was clapping, or perhaps they were just having a good time. However, it cannot be disputed that the g ...
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... had wanted in its acquisition, respect. Everyone except Simcha, Mr. MacPherson, and Uncle Benjy thought he was going to be a nobody. He wanted so much to prove them wrong and he has. We may say he has gained self assurance, restating the fact he was a somebody important. Since his days at Fletcher's Field High School, he ran a gang based on respect, not friendship. Things do not change when he becomes an adult. Virgil is just one of the people Duddy uses to get money for his land. He feels no grief for hurting his so called friends because he has never experienced true friendship. His purchasing of la ...
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Freedom Of Speech?
Number of Words: 386 / Number of Pages: 2
... many cases, a simple word can lead to
disastrous catastrophes. Domestic violence, a serious problem in today’s
society, is often initiated by “fighting words” - words that are so
insulting which would cause immediate violence.
The Bible says, “Do not accuse a man for no reason-when he has done
you no harm” for “God hates slanderers.” False statements that are made
to accuse another person cannot be tolerated. A recent study suggests
that a slandered person may suffer from injury of reputation, loss of
properties, mental disorder, and, in some cases, death.
The misuse of language can cause trem ...
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Hard Times
Number of Words: 777 / Number of Pages: 3
... the model student of Gradgrind's school of "facts, facts, facts" becomes the very symbol of evil in the educational system that Dickens is trying to portray, as he learns to take care for number one, himself. Reflection of this and Bitzer's informative definition of a horse, as a child in book one, occurs in book three as he speaks of the necessity of apprehending Tom Gradgrind Jr. Sissy represents what Dickens is attempting to foster a desire for in the reader, imagination. This is an aspect that the other children lack or are reprimanded for possessing.
Another character introduced to the rea ...
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Hamlet 19
Number of Words: 2305 / Number of Pages: 9
... the beginning of the tome. In Act One, Hamlet appears to be very straightforward in his actions, inner state, and role. When his mother questions him, Hamlet says, "Seems, madam? Nay it is. I know not seems" (Act I, Scene 2). By saying this, Hamlet lets Gertrude know that he is what she sees, distraught and torn over his father’s death. Later, he makes a clear statement about his state of mind when he commits himself to revenge. "I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records, all saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, that youth and observation copied there, and thy commandment all alo ...
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Claudius: Leader, King, Man
Number of Words: 446 / Number of Pages: 2
... King that he didn’t stop his wife, the Queen, from drinking from the poisoned cup because it would reveal his plan. "It is the poison’d cup. It is too late." (V,ii,296)
MAN: He is a coward, a man of no honor.
Example 1
Claudius kills his brother in his sleep, by pouring poison into his ear, without even giving him a chance to fight for his life. "And in the porches of my ears did pour / The leperous distilment." (I,v, 63-64) To kill someone in their sleep, without giving them a chance to fight is something a man who is brave would never do. A man who is brave would confront another man and dea ...
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Why Hester Is A Whore
Number of Words: 749 / Number of Pages: 3
... Wronging deserves punishment. "Before the ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass plot, much overgrown with burdock, pigweed, apple peru, and such unsightly nail in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison." Almost parallel to Hester’s deserving of pain stands a prison. Born out of civilized society springs a prison, a home of villainy. A breading ground for the wrong. What building more deserving, and what woman? Hester became a prison. Holding in the wrongness of her sin. Her justice was to carry out it’ ...
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A Bintel Brief
Number of Words: 847 / Number of Pages: 4
... from there homeland. They had to blend in with there surroundings to get a job or even to make friends. In one of the letters, a young Jewish woman would go to work each day knowing that she would be harassed when she arrived. One of her fellow co-workers said the all Galician Jews should be dead. With comments like that, I myself would try to hide the fact that I am of different culture. The Jewish people would have to slowly bring back there heritage after they become treated more equally. Another letter about a 18 year old boy, that is a machinist, would get beaten up as if he was a punch ...
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Jurassic Park
Number of Words: 408 / Number of Pages: 2
... the control room with Arnold. Arnold didn’t care much for Nedry when he said "That idiot Nedry turned off the security systems"(Crichton 177). Arnold said this after Dennis Nedry had put a bug in the computer system that shut almost every thing down in . Nedry is a problem
because he has full control of the park from his desk. He being a computer expert can cause any computer system problem he wants.
Nature is the biggest problem has at becoming successful. As stated by Dr. Malcom in the book, he said "Life will find a way"(Crichton ). He meant that the dinosaurs will find a way to live the ...
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