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The Albanian Virgin
Number of Words: 1469 / Number of Pages: 6
... her stories are based on the region in which she was born, the characters and narrators are often thought of as being about her life and how she grew up; and making her stories appear from a feminist approach. This could also indicate why the central characters in the short stories in Open Secrets, are all women: a young woman kidnapped by Albanian tribesmen in the 1920’s in , and a young born-again Christian whose unresolved feelings of love and anger cause her to vandalize a house in Vandals.
Her theme has often been the dilemmas of the adolescent girl coming to terms with family and a small tow ...
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The Landlady: The Power Of Details
Number of Words: 624 / Number of Pages: 3
... cheap price was revealed. Why would such an exceptional environment be so inexpensive? He failed to question this. "There were no other hats or coats in the hall. There were no umbrellas, no walkingsticks-nothing." With such a reasonable rate, why wouldn't others be reaping the benefits? Again he failed to question the abnormality. As he began getting situated into his living arrangement, the observation of the landlady being a little "dotty" enters Billy's mind, "but at six pense a night, who gives a darn about that?" His mind is only focused on one point, the cost.
Throughout the pages a fee ...
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Hawthornes's Young Goodman Brown And Rappacini's Daughter: Solicited By The Devil
Number of Words: 2001 / Number of Pages: 8
... Goodman Brown knows exactly what he is going to look for, he is
searching for evil. He goes to the forest to do his deed and "he had taken a
dreary road darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest" to get there(611).
Goodman Brown is willingly seeking the devil, and Hawthorne is throwing in all
the stereotypes. This entire search for the devil is portrayed as being very
ugly. What then is pretty? In Young Goodman Brown beauty equals inherent
goodness, or Faith. Young Goodman Brown separates from this righteousness, for
evil. From the beginning, he was leaving, at least for the time being, Faith
b ...
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Machiavelli
Number of Words: 950 / Number of Pages: 4
... rewards, compassion, and integrity to achieve power. Whatever means to achieve the end.
QUESTIONS
2. Discuss Machiavelli’s “heroes”. Select one and discuss the traits that he finds admirable in that person. Be specific.
Machiavelli’s heroes are Moses, Cyrus, Romulus and Theseus. They all formed civilizations. When Machiavelli talks about his heroes he is speaking of how to acquire a princedom. As Isiah Berlin says in his essay, Machiavelli admired these heroes because they were high-minded, tough, and tough enough to use brutality against the few, to help the publi ...
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Excellence Is Your Best Weapon For Fighting Racism
Number of Words: 1000 / Number of Pages: 4
... in the day for all of us. How you use these hours is your choice.
You can use them on the playground or you can use them to play the books.
Playing on the playground might give you some hours of immediate enjoyment, but
playing the books will give you long-term gratification.
African Americans and other minorities can no longer use the excuses of being
poor or living in a bad neighborhood or small town to keep us from achieving
excellence through education. In some cases, the poorer you are the more
educational opportunities that are available to you. Poverty should not be an
excuse for not workin ...
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The Bay Of Pigs
Number of Words: 504 / Number of Pages: 2
... refugees. Some of the refugees from Miami have volunteered to work underground in Cuba. This book takes place during the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War, 1961. This time was critical for Cuba. Cuba is torn between Democracy and Communism.
Culture:
Culture has not changed in most aspects since 30 years ago, the religions and foods that people eat are all still the same. Americans still use military force to help other countries and their people. They still use methods of spying to gather information purposes, however those methods are very different now. The use of ...
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The Gift Of The Magi And The N
Number of Words: 434 / Number of Pages: 2
... sells her hair to buy her husband a watch chain, only to come home to find that her husband sold his watch to buy her some hair combs. There are many similarities, though: the women in both stories need to get something and get it, only
to end up with something worse than before. The plots of these stories are good to contrast and compare, because they have so many similarities, but at the same time they are so different.
There aren't many similarities in the theme of these stories at all. They teach totally different lessons. For example: "the Necklace" teaches you to tell the truth about things ...
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Number of Words: 2672 / Number of Pages: 10
... Tower: the restaurant owned by Red Sammy, and the plantation house. The restaurant is a "broken-down place"- "a long dark room" with a tiny place to dance. At one time Red Sammy found pleasure from the restaurant but now he is afraid to leave the door unlatched. He has given in to the "meanness" of the world. In contrast to the horrible Tower is the grandmother's peaceful memories of the plantation house that is filled with wonderful treasures. However, the family never reach this house because this house does not even exist on the this dirt road or even in the same state. Because of the grandmot ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird 6
Number of Words: 599 / Number of Pages: 3
... with my mother, I know that she feels the same way. My mother, however, does not listen to both sides of the story. Atticus always listens to both children, as Scout says: "Well, in the first place you never stopped to gimme a chance to tell you my side of it--you just lit right into me. Whin Jem an' I fuss Atticus doesn't ever just listen to Jem's side of it, he hears mine too, an' in the second place you told me never to use words like that..." (Lee, 85-86). Scout tells Uncle Jack that Atticus always treats her fairly, and he does not. My mother is like Uncle Jack in that manner. She will jump to ...
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An Attempt At A Rhetorical Ana
Number of Words: 1068 / Number of Pages: 4
... we want to live in. (140)
He provides several examples to advance his claim. The cliché receives much of his attention. He emphases that not only does Communism rely heavily on the cliché to cloud the minds of it’s followers, but we have our own also. He says the imagination is what allows us to realize that we can not take clichés literally, but to see beyond them. He speaks of government jargon or “gobbledegook” (sic) (142), the language used to avoid the actual conveyance of information. He uses as an example, “anti-personnel bombs,” bombs that kill men, but jargon puts it into a more poetic p ...
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