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Ethan Frome Book By Edith Whar
Number of Words: 1007 / Number of Pages: 4
... or perhaps, as she sometimes said, it was because Ethan "never listened" " (pg 72). Due to this Ethan felt it was his responsibility to take care of his wife. Zeena had been trying hard to get help as she occasionally left town to seek medical assistance. Ethan had "grown to dread these situations because of their cost" (pg. 62). Zeena had always returned with expensive remedies that were promising but never ended up working. Ethan felt his commitment of marriage was enough for him to believe that it was possible for his wife to re-cooperate from her illness and return to a normal life.
While Ethan w ...
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Animal Farm By George Orwell
Number of Words: 658 / Number of Pages: 3
... in Old Majors ideals. He wanted all the things Old Major wanted, such as the welfare of the animals. In the Russian Revolution his counterpart would be Trotsky. Trotsky believed and wanted the same things as Lenin, and wanted to continue what Lenin had started. Then comes Napoleon. Napoleon was selfish and greedy. He did not want to share the power or the decision making with any other individual. This was the same for Stalin. At first Napoleon and Snowball shared the decision making and had debates about what course of action they would take. This worked for awhile. Then Napoleon grew weary of lo ...
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Cantebury Tales
Number of Words: 921 / Number of Pages: 4
... he knows another great flood will come and that he, the carpenter, and Alison will be safe if the carpenter builds three separate barrels and hangs them from the ceiling where they can climb to safety. On that night, all three climb into the barrels and the carpenter immediately falls asleep, due to the exhaustion from all of his work. Alison and Nicholas climb down and go into the carpenter’s bed. Absalom appears at the window at midnight. Absalom demands a kiss from Alison, and Alison says she will kiss him if he leaves immediately. Then,”…she thrust her ass out the window. A ...
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John Steinbeck: Realist And Naturalist
Number of Words: 388 / Number of Pages: 2
... presentd scenes of great crulty and passion in his books, his characters often use profanity beacuse they know no other way of speaking, it's sort of a manerism with them. the reason for this is that profanity is often found inthe speach of illiterate people. Foul language in some groups is as much a convention as politness is in other groups. Stienbeck's characters are seldom cruel, and are more
likely to be gentle. If they commit crimes it is usually through an accident as in Grapes of Wrath or stupidity as in of Mice and Men, and they regret there act as soon as they relize their full ...
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Sweetness And Power
Number of Words: 1994 / Number of Pages: 8
... be looked at individually to see how each is organized.
Chapter one begins by describing the connection between different groups of society and the food that each of them eats. Mintz argues that food is a factor in which one can identify and categorize a society and/or those who belong to that society, which is shown on page 3 with the line "Food choices and eating habits reveal distinctions of age, sex, status, culture, and even occupation." Later in the book, Mintz will continue this contention by describing sugar as a symbol of power and nobility. Another important idea revealed to ...
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Self-Reliance
Number of Words: 1212 / Number of Pages: 5
... the power to accomplish anything and everything. Social organization and friendship offer a small satisfaction of companionship and structure in life, but one will ultimately succeed based upon his own skills and conviction. In doing so, he will lose interest in the society and concentrate on more individual dependency as he strives to gain ultimate truth in life. "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." Once one considers less the social ramifications of his actions and considers more the personal consequences, he will become more apt to discover what he is ...
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Lewis' "Surprise By Joy": Analysis
Number of Words: 2750 / Number of Pages: 10
... attention that Lewis's private life has received since
his death in 1963, Surprised by Joy stands apart as an astonishingly candid
yet self-effacing volume by one widely-regarded as the premier Christian
apologist of the twentieth century. Lewis proceeds in Surprised by Joy as
one reluctant to reveal specific details of his life but who relents, as he
suggests in the preface, in order both to answer "requests that I would
tell how I passed from Atheism to Christianity" and "to correct one or two
false notions that seem to have got about." Lewis's reluctance involves not
just the conventional modesty o ...
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My Personal Experiences With Math
Number of Words: 889 / Number of Pages: 4
... support and persistence kept my nose to the grindstone. Looking back at those days and being where I am now in my life, striving to become this great mathematician, I can say I have done an enormous 360°.
Through my high school career there was one person that really inspired me and gave me this drive that has gotten me here in college today. Everyone else writing this paper is probably saying it was there favorite math teacher or a caring parent but mine was the non-obvious. It was my head football coach. He, Coach Whisman, coached me for four years. He illustrated to me that math can ...
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Inherit The Wind
Number of Words: 845 / Number of Pages: 4
... to lead to his downfall. Even Brady is taken a tad aback by the news that Drummond will be joining the trial "Brady: (pale) Drummond?" (Pg. 25) While he basks in his loving audience of townspeople, he will yet be pulled down from his high throne to be questioned and scorned. While the town feels much strife resulting from the trial, the truth will yet be discovered that there really is no right answer to the question who is right and who is wrong. The fact is, Brady is threatened by Drummond and so Brady rallies his supporters to his assistance. While he not only wishes to rally the ...
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The Chocolate War
Number of Words: 527 / Number of Pages: 2
... to hide his anger for Jerry’s’ refusal. Jerry knows Brother Leon’s hate for him and his fear of failure with the chocolate sale. "He had met Brother Leon in the corridor late one afternoon after football practice and had seen hate flashing in the teachers eyes. More than hate: something sick." (Cormier 92) Jerry knows that Leon hates him for refusing the chocolates but he doesn’t want to give into Leon and take the chocolates. This is what motivates Jerry to become a rebel
Webster’s dictionary defines a hero as any man admired for his courage, qualities or exploits, especially in war. Som ...
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