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Inherit The Wind
Number of Words: 847 / Number of Pages: 4
... I don’t believe in the literal deciphering of the Bible, but
that it is a book of ideals that we must trust in it’s veracity. It isn’t meant to be explained!
Ironically, the thing that people are the most hungry for, meaning, is the one thing that science hasn’t been able to give them. Enter God, the means
that mankind has clung to for purpose. If there isn’t a God, does that mean
that 95% of the world is suffering from some sort of mass dillusion? There
may be a thousand arguments against there being a supreme being that we can
think of, but it’s all those reasons that we cannot th ...
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The Great Gatsby - The America
Number of Words: 676 / Number of Pages: 3
... for her with both money and protection. That is why she did not live the American dream. The American dream is all about happiness. I believe that if you are happy with what has happened with you in life, then you have lived the American dream. Sure Daisy seems happy, but inside she went through 5 years of hell.
My second example is Gatsby. There could not be a better example of someone who has lived a life that is a total opposite to American dream. How did he become rich? He was a bootlegger. He got his money illegally. What did he concentrate on for the past 5 years? He arranged parties and gathe ...
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Editha
Number of Words: 1289 / Number of Pages: 5
... back for dinner. At this point Editha considered their relationship over. She did not see how she could continue to love a man who did not love his country as much as she did. When George left, that was it for Editha. She decided that if he could not believe the way she did then he did not deserve her. She sat down and wrote him a letter and gathered all the things he had ever given her and put them all in a box. In the letter, she told him that she could not be with a man who was not loyal to his country first of all. She could not be with a man who did not believe the way she did and therefore ...
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Dog Logic
Number of Words: 1401 / Number of Pages: 6
... Commendatore, who rushes to her defense. The two begin in a duel in which Don Giovanni slays the old man. Upon seeing her dead father, Donna Anna and her fiancé, Don Ottavio vows death as the only revenge. The next morning Leporello and Giovanni run into a celebration a young couple that is going to be married. The couple, Masetto and Zerlina, along with their friends are invited to Don Giovanni’s house for a celebration. However, Giovanni has the intentions of celebrating alone with Zerlina, who falls for his woes only until Elivra interrupts Giovanni’s game and denounces him taking Elvir ...
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Kurt Vonnegut--slaughterhouse
Number of Words: 2173 / Number of Pages: 8
... asked by survivors of war. Vonnegut was tormented by this question and through Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist in Slaughterhouse Five, he attempts to reconcile the guilt which one feels when one is randomly saved from death, while one's friends and loved ones perish. Billy Pilgrim's own life was spared, but was never able to live with himself knowing that so many others had died. The feelings of guilt which emerged from his having survived the bombing of Dresden and from Billy's fortunate escape from death under the shelter of the fifth Slaughterhouse haunted Billy through much of his life. Billy ...
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The Ineffable Aphrodite
Number of Words: 590 / Number of Pages: 3
... derived from "aphros," an ancient greek word for foam. She soon washed up on the shore of the island of Cyprus. Her beauty was unsurpassed, and every god wanted to marry her. Zeus, fearing a war among his pantheon, gave her to his trustworthy son Haphaistos.
Hephaistos was the god of fire and blacksmiths. He kept his wife happy by making exquisite jewelry for her to wear. Unfortunately, his craftsmanship wasn't enough to keep Aphrodite faithful to the him, the homeliest of the gods. She slept with any and everybody she wanted to. She bore the children of many different gods including Ares and Dionysus ...
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Candide - Voltaires Writing St
Number of Words: 1164 / Number of Pages: 5
... everything goes wrong in
our world; that nobody knows his place in society or his
duty, what he's doing or what he ought to be doing, and that outside
of mealtimes...the rest of the day is spent in useless
quarrels...-it's one unending warfare.
By having this character take on such a pessimistic tone, he
directly contradicts the obviously over-optimistic tone of Candide.
In the conclusion (page 1617) an old turk instructs Candide in the
futility of needless philosophizing by saying that "...the work
keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty." In each ...
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Macbeth - Character Changes
Number of Words: 1349 / Number of Pages: 5
... her strong desire for ambition and her cold nature leads Macbeth astray. Macbeth is a little ambitious at first, but Lady Macbeth’s far exceeds his and so she is able to get Macbeth to agree with her to kill King Duncan. Macbeth still has a conscience at this stage because he is very hesitant about killing the King but his weak nature over comes him. He has a conscience throughout the entire play as this is seen by the hallucinations of the dagger and the ghost of Banquo and his vivid imagination and his constant worry also provokes him. This is also evident in his terrible dreams which gives the soli ...
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In My Fathers House
Number of Words: 373 / Number of Pages: 2
... with Will. She even asked her tutor, “will you teach me
to best Will McLean?”
Although Maria and Oscie are very different they do have a few
things in common. They both have an odd attraction to military men.
This is shown in their choice of guys. They also both share the same
parents. Sarah who is dead now, also has Dr. John and Mama as
parents. Both Oscie and Maria are in love with the south and don’t
want to part with most of its ways when they move.
It is amazing how Ann Rinaldi is able to work so much of these
almost completely different people into this novel. At the same ...
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The Mystery Of Edwin Drood By
Number of Words: 1622 / Number of Pages: 6
... to be married off to a man, not God. Rosa capitalizes on this situation by leading the other girls in the nunnery to be her “poor pets”(118). She realizes that the girls as well as the head of the school, Miss Twinkleton, who describes Rosa as her “pet pupil”(14), look at her to be the embodiment of romance because of her prospective marriage. Miss Twinkleton and the girls live their love lives through Rosa, “over her shoulder”(51). Rosa feeds into the situation by making sure that the girls are watching her and letting Edwin know that they “must get married . . . the poor girls would be so dreadf ...
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