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Play Review For Shakespear The
Number of Words: 1091 / Number of Pages: 4
... off with a little help from King Alonso. While on the boat they ran into the island and Prospero continued to practice his magic for years to come. Prospero decided to create a storm and have it bring all of his foes to his island. When the ship arrives Prospero sends Caliban, his slave and son of the late witch, to go get some wood. He was enslaved for trying to rape Miranda after being taken in by Prospero after his mother’s death. Caliban leaves and Ariel returns with Ferdinand. Miranda sees Ferdinand and becomes intrigued by the sight of a man her age. Prospero realizes that they will fall ...
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Hamlet: Father And Sons
Number of Words: 802 / Number of Pages: 3
... soliloquy he described his father as an excellent king, a god-like figure and a loving husband. It is strange that the Prince did not convey information about being a loving father. It is left for us to infer that there must have been a special bond between father and son for the Prince to be so willing to carry out retribution against his father's murderer.
Prince Hamlet changed after the death of his father. He is grief stricken certainly, but also he pretends to be getting increasingly insane to divert suspicion from his real purpose of avenging his father's death by killing his murderous uncl ...
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Jurassic Park
Number of Words: 1242 / Number of Pages: 5
... themes that runs through Michael Crichton’s . This novel is set on a small island off the coast of Costa Rica called Isla Nubar. On this island, construction of a new, virtuostic, state of the art park is almost complete, when a gathered team of paleontologists, businessmen, and a mathematician arrive to approve of the park opening. All seems well until the "experts" lose control of the park, leaving the main attractions, genetically engineered dinosaurs, free to roam and hunt. This loss of control further contributes to the downward spiral the park experiences, resulting in numerous deaths ...
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Romeo And Juliet - Examples Of Love
Number of Words: 979 / Number of Pages: 4
... not 'scape a brawl,"(III. I. 1-3).
The Nurse is Juliet's best friend, but calling her "mom" would be more appropriate. Unlike Lady Capulet, Juliet's mother, the nurse cares for Juliet, knows exactly when she was born, and has fond memories of her childhood. The Nurse acted like a messenger, meeting with Romeo to discuss wedding plans for him and Juliet. The love of friends was necessary for any future love to blossom.
The next form of love was for enemies. The hatred between the houses of Capulet and Montague was known throughout the town of Verona. Hatred had reached the lowest servants fro ...
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Grapes Of Wrath
Number of Words: 1182 / Number of Pages: 5
... cats would plow over their houses anyway with no remorse. When asked why they did this, they simply said that they had a family to feed just like the rest of the people who were suffering during this difficult time.
Most of the families that the movie showed were very reluctant to leave and when the cats came, they would attempt to stand their ground and threaten the workers. They would say that if they came any further, that they would shoot at the workers. I remember that one worker said that it would not do any good because if he got shot, the sheriff would come and put him in jail and then mor ...
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The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Number of Words: 1871 / Number of Pages: 7
... to Packingtown to find work. Packingtown is a section of Chicago where the meat packing industry is centralized. They take a tour of the plant, and see the unbelievable efficiency and speed at which hogs and cattle are butchered, cooked, packed, and shipped. In Packingtown, no part of the animal is wasted. The tour guide specifically says “They use everything about the hog except the squeal,” (The Jungle, page 38).
Jurgis’s brawny build quickly gets him a job on the cattle killing beds. The other members of the family soon find jobs, except for the children. They are put into school. At first, Jurgis ...
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Fifth Business
Number of Words: 594 / Number of Pages: 3
... Dunstan is related to both magic and religion.
Paul Dempster, another character in the novel illustrates the relationship between magic and religion. Paul is the son of Mary Dempster who Dunstan considered to be a saint. His father, Amasa Dempster is the Baptist parson of Deptford and is considered to be religious. After leaving home, Paul joins a travelling circus, becomes a magician, and is later renamed Magnus Eisengrim by Lisel. Along with the idea of magic, Eisengrim’s show Soiree of Illusions incorporated themes of myth including Dream of Midas, Vision of Dr. Faust and the Brazen Head of Friar ...
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Great Expectations Charcters G
Number of Words: 606 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the novel, Miss. Havisham remains constant. Her hatred towards men is easily visible. She manipulates people to her advantage without a thought to their heart and feelings. Her treatment of those around her stays very much the same until before her death, when she shows extreme remorse and pain for her actions. It is at that moment in the novel when the reader begins to feel some sort of sympathy for her. Even though she was an villainous character, it's easy to sympathize with someone who is dying with so many unresolved issues. She expressed her good intentions towards Estella's upbringing, ...
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King Arthur And Beowulf: A Comparison
Number of Words: 547 / Number of Pages: 2
... the weapons of the king. The noble King Arthur utilized the
arms of his time, opposed to Beowulf's unarmed way of battle.
Described as the strongest man in the world, Beowulf voyages across
seas slaying evil demons with nothing but his bare hands. "…Knew at once
that nowhere on earth had he met a man whose hands where harder." In the
confrontation of Grendel and Beowulf, our hero brings forth a force greater
than the unmerciful dragon. Weaponless, Beowulf slays the dragon with his
divine tools of god. "And was instantly seized himself, claws bent back as
Beowulf leaned up on one arm." Beowulf ...
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Campaign
Number of Words: 479 / Number of Pages: 2
... get rid of them?
After much political and emotional interest in lynching, Ida B. Wells launched her anti-lynching in 1892 in which 241 people were lynched. Through her hard work and determination she made a great mark in history. With the distribution of her pamphlets she was able to help people realize that the information that was out there was not necessarily true. She showed people the truth of what was going on and decided that it had to be stopped.
Many might say the her efforts were a failure but in the statistics she made a difference. Although it took a great deal of time, b ...
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