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Cry The Beloved Country
Number of Words: 592 / Number of Pages: 3
... its quite impossible. I really don't see why they can't have separate days for natives. Where can these poor creatues go?
Pg. 78-79 and others say there is a danger for better paid laor will not , but will also read more, think more, ask more, and will not be content to be forever voiceless and inferior.
Pg. 79 Who knows how we shall fashion such a land? We fear not only the loss of our possessions , but the loss of our whiteness.
Pg. 86 Soe he introduced Kumalo to the European Superintendent, who called him Mr. Kumalo
Pg. 123 He loooked l ike a man used to great matters, much greater htan the case o ...
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My Lost Love
Number of Words: 2099 / Number of Pages: 8
... non-
exclusively for about one month. On our one month anniversary, I
gave her my letter jacket which I earned playing varsity
football. And while I did that, I asked her to date exclusively.
She answered my question so fast I didn't realize that she said
yes. We started going out together almost every weekend and
talked on the phone all night and walked with each other to class
everyday, and I gave her a ride to and from school everyday. We
had been going out for about 3 months. The student body voted us
cutest couple of the year. We had to get our pictures taken for
the year book. We went t ...
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The Evolution Of Modern Englis
Number of Words: 704 / Number of Pages: 3
... speaks of the unions and their "kangaroo courts", a metaphor that is commonly used without any knowledge of it's meaning. In another article, metaphors like "His voice thunders..." and "...taken the theater scene by storm" are too frequently used just because the author lacks the imagination to make one up for himself, a common problem in Modern English. The use of dying metaphors could be avoided if writers would just take the time and trouble to make up a new metaphor for themselves.
The use of pretentious diction is probably the most prevalent mental vice used in writings today. Author feel ...
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Much Ado About Nothing: Love And Marriage
Number of Words: 763 / Number of Pages: 3
... individuality. We can see this idea in the passage provided and many other parts of the play…
Beatrice: just, if he send me no husband; for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face I had rather lie in the woollen…
Benedick: the savage bull may; but if the ever sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bulls horns and set them in my forehead; and let me be vilely painted, and in such great letters as they write ‘Here is a good horse to hire’ let them signify under my name ‘Here you see Benedick the married m ...
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Nathan The Wise
Number of Words: 1222 / Number of Pages: 5
... saw in the young man, “A modest greatness would hide behind the monstrous, merely to escape admiration” (212). The lengths the Templar went to in order to save a life is a testament in itself of his goodness, far more powerful than his insults, "I find it strange that such an ugly spot [on Templar’s robe], soiled by the fire, bears better witness than a man’s own lips” (212).
For Nathan, friends do not concern themselves with social status, religious beliefs, or titles; but rather, they can distinguish between the man and the facade. In Nathan’s words, "are Jew and Christian, Jew and Christian fi ...
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The Book Elements Of Style By
Number of Words: 482 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the middle of a sentence before a word, such as and or but, there are two separate clauses in that sentence. When the comma is reached the second clause has the appearance of an after-thought. You should be careful on the that rule because if there is not an and or but then the comma should be a semicolon. Make sure that you keep the writing in one tense because the reader may get confused if the writer keeps going to past to present or even future. He also says that you should place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end. He feels this is necessary because it makes the prominent posit ...
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A Moveable Feast
Number of Words: 638 / Number of Pages: 3
... chapter on Ezra Pound by saying that he "was always a good friend and he was always doing things for people". He also said that Ezra was a kinder and more Christian person with people than Ernest was. He was very impressed by how Ezra could write so perfectly and hit things just right. He was very meticulous about his errors. But, he said that sometimes he could be rather irascible. He also described him as the most generous writer he had ever known. He would help poets, painters, sculptors, writers, and anyone else the he believed in or was in trouble. Ezra was probably his favorite p ...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God R
Number of Words: 3109 / Number of Pages: 12
... town, where she said, "... [I] grew like a like a gourd and yelled bass like a gator," (Gale, 1). When Hurston was thirteen she was removed from school and sent to care for her brother's children. She became a member of a traveling theater at the age of sixteen, and then found herself working as a maid for a white woman. This woman saw a spark that was waiting for fuel, so she arranged for Hurston to attend high school in Baltimore. She also attended Morgan Academy, now called Morgan State University, from which she graduated in June of 1918. She then enrolled in the Howard Prep School followed by late ...
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The Red Badge Of Courage Essay
Number of Words: 808 / Number of Pages: 3
... have a want and a need to satisfy themselves. This was Henry’s main motive throughout the first part of the novel. On more than one occasion Henry is resolved to that natural selfishness of human beings. After Henry realizes that the attainment of glory and heroism has a price on it. That price is by wounds or worse yet, death. Henry then becomes self-serving in the fact that he wants to survive for himself, not the Union army. There is many a time when Henry wants to justify his natural fear of death. He is at a point where he is questioning deserting the battle; in order to justify ...
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Digging By Seamus Heaney
Number of Words: 1163 / Number of Pages: 5
... also implies that there used to be a lot of turf-cutters in his day. So when Heaney writes, ‘But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.’
This could be because of a number of reasons; one could be that he just doesn’t want to be a turf digger. He might not find it mentally stimulating enough. But he shows a lot of pride in what his Father and Grandfather do and did for a living. It may be because turf cutters are no longer needed. In other words the world is changing and ‘men like them’ are no longer needed.
Turf cutters are no longer needed because firstly turf is a lot harder to obtain than coa ...
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