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Discussing Literary Genre
Number of Words: 946 / Number of Pages: 4
... structure and style. However, the nature of genre leads to several problems inherent in the defining of genres. Certain genres are looser and more open ended in their conventions than other genres and some genres have many conventions while others have very few. Furthermore, literary texts that overlap and mix genres blur the distinction between them. Genres are not discrete systems consisting of a fixed number of list able items. Consequently, the same text can belong to different genres in different countries or times. For example, Latin poets categorized the elegy mainly in terms of its met ...
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Senseless: A False Sense Of Perception
Number of Words: 594 / Number of Pages: 3
... being affected, these reactions are
caused by the affected person seeing things which they perceive to be real .
Hallucinations are only one way by which the visual perception of an object can
be altered there are many more ways by which the visual perception of an object
can be altered; for example consider a square envelope, pay very close attention
to what you see when you look at this object. If the envelope does not move but
you do then your perception of this object will continually change as you move
about and the "square envelope" no longer looks square. Because a square object
such as an en ...
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Loneliness 2
Number of Words: 926 / Number of Pages: 4
... stopped by, but "Sometimes--oftener--she was alone"(Wharton 317). Charlotte rarely had anybody around other then her husband, and he was becoming more distant. Erdrich begins the story at the end, and Lyman is looking back on the past. Erdrich writes, "Now Henry owns the whole car, and his younger brother Lyman (that's myself), Lyman walks everywhere he goes" (143). When Henry died, Lyman's spirit and happiness went with him. Lyman walking every place symbolizes that there is nothing for him. Lyman only has memories of companionship.
Although both characters were lonely at the beginning of t ...
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The American Classroom: Making It Work For The Native American
Number of Words: 3909 / Number of Pages: 15
... According to Manning Native American students function at equal levels to their counterparts up until the fourth grade. After that time many Native American students fall behind their European American peers. Much of this failure is a result of feelings of isolation, rejection, and anxiety as they begin to see how their own cultural value system is different from that of their peers. "These feelings contribute to alienation, poor self image, and withdrawal. (Sanders 84)." Native American students are forced to deal with the same sort of predicaments that other ethnic minorities do. Native Americans ...
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An Analysis Of The Cask Of Ama
Number of Words: 1285 / Number of Pages: 5
... to taste some of his non- existent amontillado. At this point, the reader knows the conflict will be one of man against man. It is an external struggle because Fortunato and Montresor are in a life and death fight. However, the conflict is largely internal, because Montresor has a fierce hatred that Fortunato is unaware of. The narrative hook seems to occur when Fortunato follows Montresor into the vault. Even if the reader was confused by the language of the first paragraph or is puzzled by the motive of the narrator, he is curious to know what will happen next. We know the moment of revenge is ...
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Two Works By Anton Chekhov
Number of Words: 440 / Number of Pages: 2
... The conflict facing each family is the selling of their homes due to bankruptcy. In both stories they look to a rich friend to bail them out. Both families also want this friend to marry one of their members. In “A Visit to Friends” Podgorin is asked to marry Nadezhda and in The Cherry Orchard Lopakhin is asked to marry Varya. Chekhov is able to share his view on family life through both stories.
Chekhov’s use of nature is evident in both “A Visit to Friends” and The Cherry Orchard. In The Cherry Orchard, the main focus of the play is the conflict over what to do with the orchard. On one hand the ...
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The Crucible - Burn The Witch
Number of Words: 824 / Number of Pages: 3
... she did not die until 1696. Reverend Parris never graduated from Harvard as stated in the movie. He did attend for a short while but later dropped out.
Even though most people believe those young girls were the only ones accused, also grown men and women were too. History tells about how a neighbor’s pig fell astray into the Nurse family’s yard and Rebecca Nurse yelled at her neighbor. Soon after the neighbor feel ill and died of a stroke.
Arthur Miller, the original writer, admits in the introduction to the play that he boosted Abigail Williams' age to 17 even though the real girl w ...
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A Midsummer Nights Dream For T
Number of Words: 683 / Number of Pages: 3
... they set eyes on. "The next thing then she waking looks upon, (Be it lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, On meddling monkey, or on busy ape) She shall pursue it, with the soul of love". The spell can only be reversed by applying yet another herb to the eyes of the victims. Titania serves as a good example of the power of the spell when she falls in love with Nick Bottom, a character who, at the time, has the head of an ass.
Titania also falls victim to the spell, and gives the reader a representation of the naivety of love. In her mind, she has no conception that she is in love with a man who has a donke ...
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Sula
Number of Words: 1520 / Number of Pages: 6
... and frequently sleeps around. The characters that exist around serve as a point to compare the different ways the community treats those who are different. Specifically the way the characters, Shadrack and Hannah are treated by the community can be compared to the way the community treats . In one way or another, , Shadrack, and Hannah are outcast from the community in the bottom. Shadrack and Hannah however are not regarded with near as much fear or resentment the town feels towards . The difference between the way the town treats Hannah and is particularly alarming. After the death of ’s father ...
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Brave New World And The Giver: Similar Yet Different
Number of Words: 846 / Number of Pages: 4
... and, for the most part, outgoing. The characters in Brave New World do not know the meaning of the world love. They do not have the slightest inkling of what it is like to have a family; the idea of parents and childbirth repulse them. The Giver has a society that believes in having families for stability, but they do not believe in love. The word is broad and meaningless. When Jonas asked his parents if they loved him, they laughed and told him to be more specific because language is everything. Do they enjoy him? Yes. Are they proud of him? Yes. But do not use the word love! On the issue of childbi ...
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