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Animal Farm - Power Corrupts
Number of Words: 445 / Number of Pages: 2
... what happened.
Another way Napoleon uses methods to make him look good is simply changing the rules to favor himself. Squealer again is responsible for the wrongdoing. All of the Seven Commandments of Animal Farm are eventually broken before the commandments are "revised" to prove the pigs did nothing wrong. In the eighth chapter, the commandment that strictly forbids animals to kill one another was cunningly changed to "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause" after a series of executions of supposed traitors and probable Snowball followers. Napoleon forced confessions and eliminated th ...
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Beowulf: A Story Told In One Mothers Point-of-View
Number of Words: 638 / Number of Pages: 3
... tug at her flesh. Still she is not
deterred from her morbid course. She swims back to her cave with the man still
in her evil, cunning clutches. She gains solid ground again, and casts the
killer-of-children to the floor of her dingy home. As he is recovering from the
shock of the water, and his recent capture, she has time to note that this mans
seemingly invincible flesh is merely a protective covering. She is grimly
pleased to witness his surprise and disgust at his sordid surroundings. She
cracks a wicked smile full of razor-sharp teeth as she sees his head turn, and
sees his eyes widen in recogn ...
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Failure In Shiloh
Number of Words: 756 / Number of Pages: 3
... who
died because of premature birth defects. He can't accept the fact that his
life has changed and he must move on. On the contrary, Norma Jean has
taken up new hobbies, which include weight lifting, adult education classes,
and living life more. Norma Jean has decided to continue on with her life
and not reflect on the past. Leroy can't accept the fact that his wife
wants to change and move on with her life and this causes them to drift
apart and eventually leads to their separation of souls.
Leroy and Norma Jean also faded apart because they stopped
communicating with each other. Without t ...
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Romeo And Juliet Why They Died
Number of Words: 509 / Number of Pages: 2
... Being irrational they ran to get married. This will cause a lot of problems to come.
Act III is the feud climax. Mercutio dies by the wound inflicted by Tybalt after they meet and fight over Romeo. Romeo tried to stop them but he couldn’t and the sword of Tybalt went under his arm and sliced Mercutios breast. Tybalt ran away after the death of Mercutio. Romeo is sadden and realizes his love for Juliet has blinded him. Furious over his friend’s death he slays Tybalt when he returns. The Prince arrives after Benvolio told Romeo to run. Benvolio tells the Prince what happened and the ...
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The Road I Should Have Taken
Number of Words: 972 / Number of Pages: 4
... to consider the perils of choosing a path that is seldom tread upon. The consequences of selecting a road that is noticeable more unkempt and perhaps even hazardous could be devastating; it is a miracle in its self that the speaker is still alive or even sane enough to recall his precarious adventure through the uncharted territory. Does no one remember the legend of Little Red Riding Hood, who against her mothers warnings, wandered off the trail only to fall victim to the wolf?” As the story goes, Little Red Riding Hood was sent forth with a basket of goodies to visit her ailing grand ...
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Number of Words: 261 / Number of Pages: 1
... on his audiences. Gloom and pain encompassed his life as a young child. In , this is apparent.
This house was an actual mansion, huge in appearance with an eerie presence. It was also, the Dynasty of the Usher family. There were many apartments within the house. On a gloomy Fall day, clouds were so near that it felt like a thick fog. The members of the house have a similar disease, it is an inability to cope with real life. The one with the greatest intensity of the disease is lady Madeline. She is a twin sister which dominates this horrifying story till the end. A hosekeeper setting i ...
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Fallacy Of Personal Attack
Number of Words: 206 / Number of Pages: 1
... of rejection is not logical. There
are three forms of personal attack, character assassination, circumstantial
and tu quoque.
Character assassination is a personal attack where the arguer's
reputation is considered evidence that his argument is false. For example,
if a convicted felon out of jail has an argument, most people will not
believe him because of his prior involvement with illegal matters. By
rejecting his argument only because he was in jail, a personal attack has
occurred.
Circumstantial personal attack is another form of the fallacy. If
a person thinks that university professors tea ...
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Frost 2
Number of Words: 813 / Number of Pages: 3
... every path. In an attempt to make a decision, the traveler “looks down one as far as I could”. The road that will be chosen leads to the unknown, as does any choice in life. As much as he may strain his eyes to see as far the road stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he can never see where it is going to lead. It is the way that he chooses here that sets him off on his journey and decides where he is going.
“Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim.” This quote in the second stanza and what made it have the better claim was that ...
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The Great Gatsby 3
Number of Words: 976 / Number of Pages: 4
... reader can decide if the Great Gatsby is truly 'great'. Fitzgerald allows the reader to incorporate the story into their own past and past relationships, ultimately putting the reader in Gatsby's shoes and seeing what the reader would do in the same situation. It raises a great debate; should people live their lives yearning for something in the past? Is it acceptable to live one's whole life on a past experience or memory hoping to reach back in time and pull the past to the present. Is it healthy?
In this case, Fitzgerald is saying no its not healthy. He says it ruins a person and things change. I ...
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Reading The Light
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... though children have wild imaginations, it did not occur to me that a child in kindergarten would tell such an elaborate lie. When I looked back in the story, I found the spot where I think that Laurie first started to tell his lie. “The teacher spanked a boy, though, ... For being fresh” was Laurie’s replay to his mother asking him what happened in school. “Laurie thought. “It was Charles”” (14) When I reread this I thought that this was where Laurie decided to put on his act. I know that young children are capable of a lot of things, and some times they go u ...
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