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Irish Literature And Rebellion
Number of Words: 1437 / Number of Pages: 6
... would not be in vain.
William Butler Yeats was born in the Dublin suburb of Sandymont on June 13, 1865. Interestingly enough, his family was of the Protestant faith. He wasn’t much of an activist at first and didn’t really care all that much for schooling either, “because I found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my thoughts, I was difficult to teach” (DLB 19, 403). However, in 1886 he met John O’Leary, an old Fenian leader. O’Leary had been a Young Irelander and fought in the insurrection of 1849. He took Yeats under his wing and introduced him to the world of fenians an ...
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A Modest Proposal: Spontaneous Or Serious Idea
Number of Words: 435 / Number of Pages: 2
... must have been a little off in the head. How can a person even consider eating another human being, unless in situations of great extremes?
For example, the people that had the plane crash in the 1980's. They crashed in Alaska, stranded with little food and water. As the wounded died they had no choice but to eat their fellow man or die of starvation. In the situation of this essay, A Modest Proposal, this was not the case. There must have been other options. Why did they not consider selling their children to barren couples, couples who would cherish the thought of having a baby. Some famili ...
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Renaissance Poetry
Number of Words: 2423 / Number of Pages: 9
... woman of the Renaissance was faced with, a life that was weighted down with the chains of an abusive patriarchal society.
The difficulty that female writers faced cannot be understated. As Wendy Wall states, "When women wrote, privately or publicly, they had to confront forms and figures that alienated them from the position of speaking subject." This difficulty was perhaps the most profound in terms of their ability to set up a counter idea to the Petrarchan ideal woman. Silencing them ensured that males could define what it meant to be a woman, and Petrarch ensured that there was a dominant tra ...
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Bless Me Ultima - Dreams
Number of Words: 1329 / Number of Pages: 5
... and blurs the view. Another element of storms is thunder and lightning. In Tony’s dream he sees, ".....a flash of lightning struck and out of the thunder a dark figure stepped forth. It was Ultima......I sought more answers, but she was gone, evaporated into a loud noise."(Anaya 71) Lightning can offer glimpses of illumination, but then darkness returns, and the noise of the thunder that follows deafens the ears. This represents the moments of good that can occur within the midst of conflict. Ultima’s appearance gives Tony a glimpse of where he needs to search for innocence, but he is still ...
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Analytical Essay On The Grass
Number of Words: 1213 / Number of Pages: 5
... paper is a vertical stripe to convey a prison like feeling and the colours are green and gold, the colour of money. As Collin puts it in the film, " She was the richest person in town... and it did not make her an easy woman." Being the richest person, she has considerable power over the other characters in the small township, one being the sherrif, as shown when she instigates the party to bring Dolly home, and to stop the revival meeting. Even the road she lives on is named after her- Talbo Lane. Verena is extremely domaineering over the people that live in her house, especially her sister. " P ...
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Great Expectations
Number of Words: 1277 / Number of Pages: 5
... has been frozen in time for the past twenty years. "Mrs. Havisham’s house of darkness, decay, and frozen time …. is a symbol of the spiritual condition of Mrs. Havisham. "(Miller 192) Dickens has been known for using houses as symbols of the characters that lives in the house. "Satis house is an elaborate example of a figurative technique constantly employed by Dickens: the use of houses to symbolize the state of the soul. "(Miller 191) Mrs. Havisham’s house is called the "Satis House". It could also be called the Satisfied house.
Mrs. Havisham is satisfied with everything she has and everything ...
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Maturing In The Faith
Number of Words: 685 / Number of Pages: 3
... to bed. But sadly, other than those “routine” elements of being Christian, most of us do not really understand what the Bible says, or what the priests are preaching, or what really is the will of God. Neither do we involve ourselves with other people who are part of the Church. Not to mention, how we seem to think less of non-Catholics, instead of trying to share what we are all supposed to know, the Word of God. A friend told me about a conversation he had, the other person saying that non-Christians will never enter the kingdom of God. He was dead serious when he said this, which made ...
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Othello - The Greatest Tragedy
Number of Words: 1085 / Number of Pages: 4
... downfall there is no reason for the reader to feel pity, therefore, no tragedy. The downfall of the protagonist in Shakespearean tragedies always originates from their tragic flaw. Othello’s tragic flaw is his jealousy, which Iago constantly reminds him about. This is first brought about in act III, scene 3 when Iago asks Othello if he has "Seen a handkerchief spotted with strawberries… did I today see Cassio wipe his beard with" (III, 3, 431-432/435-436). At this point Othello is jealous at Cassio for having won the heart of Desdemona and earned the handkerchief. Upon hearing this Othello fl ...
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Getting A College Education
Number of Words: 448 / Number of Pages: 2
... medical school and to become a psychiatrist. I have always wanted to be a doctor for as long as I can remember. I enjoy working with people, and I would love to heal the world one person at a time. Mental illness is such a problem in our country that I feel there should be more people to work with the mind. Psychiatrists, psychologists, and neurologists are people who are shied away from. The reason is that many people are in denial that they have a problem. That is the reason I want to be a psychiatrist. I could help heal people from severe depression, suicidal ideation, and other things that aff ...
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A Clean, Well-lighted Place
Number of Words: 1188 / Number of Pages: 5
... at the late hour are the two waiters, the old man finds it content. The two waiters comment that although he is "A good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying." The younger of the two waiters wants to go home. He has a wife and claims he never gets "into bed before three o’clock." He treats the deaf old man as if he were dumb. He speaks to him "with that omission of syntax stupid people employ when talking to drunken people or foreigners." The young waiter knows that the old man tried to commit suicide last week, but feels no remorse for ...
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