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Home Burial
Number of Words: 1355 / Number of Pages: 5
... from an upstairs window of their house. Day after day she goes to the stairway window looking out upon the nearby family plot. The sight of the raw mound where her child lies buried reopens her grief. But, another emotion wells up as well – anger and bitterness at her husband, which is at first unexplained. The first hint of the rift between them shows up on lines twelve to thirteen, she "refused him any help, /
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with the least stiffening of her neck and silence." Their dialogue is cold and antagonistic. "What is it—what? /Just t ...
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Shel Silverstein
Number of Words: 544 / Number of Pages: 2
... interested in him. He gave his energies to writing. He developed his very own writing style at a young age and was unfamiliar with the poetry of the great poets of his time. "I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty (1)" By the time girls were interested in him he was involved in his work."
Silverstein's work goes beyond writing children's literature. He began his career as a writer and cartoonist for an adult m ...
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The Rich Brother, Pete Exposed
Number of Words: 856 / Number of Pages: 4
... yet Pete shoves it right back at him calling the money, "nickels and dimes." While he knows that his brother's pockets are empty, it seems as if Pete enjoys forcing money into Donald's hands to display his wealth, because of the vast amount of jealousy between the two. Pete uses money as a weapon against his brother, and to show that he will always be a few more notches up the ladder than Donald. Yet Donald, who still attempts to show love for his brother, grabs Pete an orange soda for the long trip home.
The story takes another turn when Donald hops out of the car to get bags, and spills the orang ...
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Macbeth - Macbeth The Tyrant
Number of Words: 733 / Number of Pages: 3
... is that if he stops being afraid and pulls himself togehter they will not fail.
When Macbeth hears the prophesies of his future, he appears to disregard them, but when he is made Thane of Cawdor (as foretold by the witches), he already is thinking about killing the king when he says these words to himself "The Prince of Cumberland' That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies."(I,iv,48-50). This is why he writes to Lady Macbeth, as to prompt her for some persuasion in killing Duncan, and she later refers to the latter as his agreement of the murder when she s ...
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Ernest Hemingway
Number of Words: 2997 / Number of Pages: 11
... he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible.
Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't get o ...
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The Children Left Behind
Number of Words: 2093 / Number of Pages: 8
... was a prostitute, so they feel he
deserves it” (DeBonis 60-61).
Joe did attend school up until the fourth grade, at which time his family moved from Saigon to Long Thanh, he was denied the right to attend. He was told, “No, you can’t go, you don’t have any paper work plus you’re ‘My Lai’ you’re half-American” (DeBonis 61).
Before Joe and his mother immigrated to the United States he was made to feel like an outcast, Joe says “ ‘I considered Vietnamese as my family, as my people too, but they don’t think of me the same way…’” (DeBonis 56). Joe was like a “man without a country”; he was made ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Self-Reliance”
Number of Words: 635 / Number of Pages: 3
... life. Emerson was correct in saying that it is insane to seek advice from someone who is a “go-between” themselves and God. One could run into a false prophet and be headed the wrong direction in life. I believe that it is an important part of life’s education. Whether the pupil is young or old, they should learn the gospel, learn right from wrong, and live by it. God’s word should be understood and believed and the people should have faith in him, that he will take care of his people.
The main weakness of the essay is that there aren’t any explanations of who people are or if Emerson had any re ...
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The Minister's Black Veil
Number of Words: 650 / Number of Pages: 3
... see him and look in his eyes and be able to tell that he is hiding something that he doesn't want anyone to know about. Even his fiancé tries to get him to remove the horrid veil and he said he would when the hour is to come. He knows that everyone else should be wearing a black veil because they are all hiding their secret sin as well. Mr. Hooper feels that his secret sin is a very evil thing and he doesn't want anyone else to know about it.
The people in his congregation don't understand why he has to cover his face like that and they treat him a lot differently now just because he has the veil ...
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Utopia
Number of Words: 1930 / Number of Pages: 8
... is it is a work of social comment. Since is a work of many ideas, it is impossible of course to expand the book unless one has some notion of the hierarchy of conception in it. A caretul reading of does seem to me to reveal clearly the hierarchy of it author's ideas at the time he composed the book. Although the interpretation of which follows has no pretension to substantial novelty, but rather disavows it, my approach to the problem may seem singular and eccentric. The account of such an analysis will necessarily be a little dull, so I shall have to request the forbearance of the reader without ...
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Cinderella: A Child’s Role Model?
Number of Words: 1377 / Number of Pages: 6
... beauty she was forced to lay among the ashes in her own home. She is depicted as a helpless child who simply waits to be rescued and suggests that, as many other fictitious heroines, she wishes to be accepted. She humbly assumes the role of the victim and does chores that lessen her true qualities.
This is where Cinderella fails compared to a woman of today. Very few women of the 90’s would patiently wait for a prince charming to fall into their lap. They are expected to stand firm and make a path for themselves. They can no longer be meek and passive and still survive in the 20th century. ...
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