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Longfellows Optimism In Writin
Number of Words: 708 / Number of Pages: 3
... to die. Death is not the point of living a just life. Lastly in this stanza, he states, ”Dust thou art, o dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul”. Our bodies will turn to dust but the soul will live on. He feel there is an afterlife and we are here forever in spirit. But what we do with our time on earth is what makes us eternal because we are remembered for how we lived our lives. (Lines 5-8, pg. 302)
In the fifth stanza Longfellow advises the reader to fight and to be active rather than sitting around in a passive way. We are ...
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The Characters Of A Jury Of He
Number of Words: 678 / Number of Pages: 3
... toward the true nature and feelings of women. She does this to protect them from things that really do not want to find out about because if they did they would be forced into things that are really not wanted by any, sending a woman whose husband she killed in self defense to her death. This dynamic character goes from an uncomfortable situation in which she really just wants to go home to a desire to help a friend in need so much that she commits obstruction of justice.
The next major character is Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife. This woman also feels a deep loyalty to womanhood and t ...
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Matthew Arnold
Number of Words: 1057 / Number of Pages: 4
... are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night”
(Arnold, 830-831).
Matthew Arnold gives his views on life, love and the world. He explains that the world is similar to a land of dreams, and that it is something beautiful and peaceful, but in actuality, Arnold says that it is not. Arnold states that we are like the waves that crash and hit the shore, struggling and fightin ...
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16th And 17th Century English
Number of Words: 1596 / Number of Pages: 6
... more on intellectual stingers such as philosophy, science, art, music, and writing. During all of this, conventions, or habitual patterns in literature began to change. Again, for the most part this affected the non-prose area of literature,
however there were some noticeable changes, which affected prose writings.
The use of the pastoral convention concerned itself with love, pursuit of contentment, and freedom from pride and ambition, rather than the gloomy ideas of war and politics.(lit. background site) As this convention came into use there were also several forms of literature during the per ...
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Abbey, And His Fear Of Progress
Number of Words: 1419 / Number of Pages: 6
... short vacation time. They have to deal with things such as: car troubles,
traffic, hotel rooms, other visitors pushing them onward, their bored children,
and the long trip home in a flood of cars. Many of them take tons of pictures,
possibly so that they can actually enjoy the park without all of the hassles
(Abbey 58). Without leaving their cars they will never actually experience the
beauty and wonderment of the parks. They will only find the stress and chaos
that they sought to leave at home (Abbey 59).
There is a minority though, that prefers to be able to get away from the modern
world com ...
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Oroonoko
Number of Words: 623 / Number of Pages: 3
... writers and critics, although she was praised by some. Yet the anthology introduction states that she openly signed her name and talked back to critics. If this is true why would she be afraid to take a more open stance towards the question of slavery. Why does the antislavery perspective have to come from a slave, someone who is obviously going to be antislavery and not that of someone with a higher rank in society whose feelings toward the issue would be more considered.
It is funny that even though the narrator is considered to be a member of the middle class in the colony, she separates her ...
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Romeo And Juliet
Number of Words: 1065 / Number of Pages: 4
... so assumes Juliet is truly dead.
Paris seems to keep everything does very hasty as he wishes to marry Juliet in two days. This means that Juliet drinks the potion that night, where she speaks her monologue in her bed. If Paris wasn’t going to marry her in two days time, then she would have waited for a reply letter from Romeo. None of the confusion would have arisen. Paris doesn’t love Juliet, not as Romeo does, but instead his love is only skin deep. He never really gets to know Juliet. If he did, then she may have liked Paris better than Romeo, which would completely cancel out everything else.
The ...
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Number of Words: 844 / Number of Pages: 4
... clearly demonstrates the difference between what is acceptable, and what is racist. O’Connor clearly provides us that she never has the intent to be racist herself, but rather her characters, possibly an influence in her life, are to blame. The grandmother shows her politeness to June, but also shows her rudeness by describing the dark colored boy with such racist terms, providing the reader with a sense of the "holy madness" that resides within her.
The story contains eleven characters, of which only one illustrates her lack of coming together and recognizing everyone as a whole, rat ...
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Fahrenheit 451
Number of Words: 539 / Number of Pages: 2
... province that is guarded by soldiers at all times. Why should you live in constant fear when you can have freedom and live in relative peace and you don't have to worry about what you say or do about the English because they have no rule there?
The consequences for all of Wallace's actions led to the deaths of many people, but it also led to freedom. The negatives of the war were starvation, torture, and deaths of your friends and companions. They all fought and many died fighting for freedom and the ones that lived got to enjoy the convenience of freedom. The positive effects of his actio ...
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No Mans An Island
Number of Words: 537 / Number of Pages: 2
... togetherness yet probably about the same time Europeans were discovering other parts of the world and exploiting and killing the inhabitants of these lands.
Chief Dan George writes about an age where everything was innocent and beautiful. Where his people looked for guidance to spirits, we now rely on computers and experts, psychologists and politicians to lead us through our daily lives. They took care of nature the way it took care of them, giving back what they took. Then the Europeans ‘Like a crushing wave’ came and used and abused this splendor, all in the name of progress. They pushed away ...
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