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Freedom Bound
Number of Words: 315 / Number of Pages: 2
... civil rights organizations of the time, inlcuding the NAACP, CORE, SNCC and SCLC, and details their actions in moving toward racial equality. He also enlists personal accounts from those involved with the movement, incluing highly-regarded leaders and student protesters, to add a more intimate perspective to the movement. Through this, he successfully demonstrates that the civil rights movement was not simply an event in our nation's history, but rather, a movement comprised of many different people with many different backgrounds, all working toward a common goal of equality and freedom. Weisbort's ...
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Diamonds Are My Best Friend
Number of Words: 4156 / Number of Pages: 16
... him of his past. What would have been witnesses were nothing more than cold and bludgeoned heaps.
Ryan lived on the outskirts of the city. Wandering from house to house throughout his childhood he knew not much of the meaning of family. His parents were constantly sending him to foster families for a few weeks at a time then taking him back, only to get a few more pleasurable meetings with him. He was unwanted by all but himself and ignorant to the idea of remorse. He always knew one day, he alone, could stop all his pain and all his suffering but he wasn’t concerned with that right n ...
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The Bluest Eye By Toni Morriso
Number of Words: 2824 / Number of Pages: 11
... quest of many of the Black northern newcomers of that time. The Breedlove family is a group of people under the same roof, a family by name only. Cholly (the father) is a constantly drunk and abusive man. His abusive manner is apparent towards his wife Pauline physically and towards his daughter Pecola sexually. Pauline is a "mammy" to a white family and continues to favor them over her biological family. Pecola is a little black girl with low self esteem. The world has led her to believe that she is ugly and that the epitome of "beautiful" requires blue eyes. Therefore every night she prays that she ...
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Beowulf - Christianity Vs. Paganism
Number of Words: 1166 / Number of Pages: 5
... he swims, without the use of oxygen, downward for an entire day before he sees the bottom. During the battle with Grendel's mother, Beowulf realizes that Unferth's sword is useless against the monster’s thick skin. He grabs an enormous sword made by giants, almost too heavy to hold, and slashes through the monster's body. This superhero strength continues into the battle with the dragon. By this time Beowulf is an old man. He decides that he must avenge his people and fight the dragon. Although Beowulf is fatally wounded himself, he still manages to deliver the final blow that kills the dragon. Grend ...
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A Rose For Emily 3
Number of Words: 1294 / Number of Pages: 5
... visual details of the inside of the house and of her. Inside was a dusty, dank desolate realm dominated by the presence of the crayon portrait of her father. Miss Emily was described as a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare: perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes lost in the fatty ridges of her fa ...
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The Reflections Of Gore Vidal
Number of Words: 1919 / Number of Pages: 7
... According to American
Writers “The consequences of publishing a gay novel in 1948 were severe, and Vidal’s literary
career nearly ground to a premature halt” (681). With the publication of The City and the Pillar,
Vidal became ostracized by his fellow writers and the public as well. Homosexuality is not an
accepted practice today by many, and since it was less common in 1948, some became enraged
and refused to buy any of his work (681). For years Vidal could not sell anything because he had
already been labeled as an advocate of homosexuality. In an interview with Salon ...
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Invisibility Of The Invisible Man
Number of Words: 1083 / Number of Pages: 4
... read on in the story, it is apparent that the invisibility that the narrator experiences, goes much further than just white people unwilling to acknowledge him for who he is.
While searching for his true identity, the narrator frequently encounters different people who each see him differently. "Who the hell am I?" is the question that sticks with him as he realizes that nobody, not even he, understands who he really is. At some points in his life, identities are given to him, even as he is still trying to find himself. While in the Brotherhood, he was given a "new identity" which ...
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Doll House
Number of Words: 349 / Number of Pages: 2
... to him "No,I haven't practiced at all yet"(Act II,1596).Nora does that beacuse she does not want Torvald to find out about the money she borrowed from Krogstad.
Another example that proves Toval's treating Nora as a child is that he does not trust her with money.He thinks that she will weaste the money on some child's things.
In act III, After Krogstad threatens to expose Nora,Torvald does not immediately offer to help her.He cares about himself only. He does not think about her wife and her feeling.He waits until he discovers that his social status will suffer .When knows that his social posi ...
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Barn Burning: Abner Snopes Character Analysis
Number of Words: 1026 / Number of Pages: 4
... with no regard for his fellow humans and with no respect for their right to material possessions" (731). After being told to clean the rug, Abner took a rock and further ruined it. His coldness is shown when he demands his two daughters to clean the rug in pots of lye and then hanging it to dry. Later in the evening Abner calls his son to get to return the rug to DeSpain. When Abner returned to DeSpain’s house he threw the rug on the porch instead of knocking on the door and returning it to DeSpain properly. Abner was later charged for the damages he did to the rug. "This is enough to sati ...
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Romeo And Juliet
Number of Words: 911 / Number of Pages: 4
... and drowsy humor; for no pulse
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease;
(4.2.93-97)
In this part of the plan, Juliet could drink the liquid but not drink all of it, or the potion might not work at all. Friar should make it clear to Juliet to drink the whole vial and tell Juliet that there is a chance that it might not work.
No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To wanny ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall
Like death when he shuts up the day of life;
Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death;
And in this borrowed lik ...
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