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The Brady Bunch
Number of Words: 689 / Number of Pages: 3
... to be. Mike Brady, the father always gives out these lessons. For example when Marcia’s new boyfriend steals Greg’s phony playbook for the football game, Mike tells Greg that in actuality, Greg would win the game by cheating himself, unless he confessed to Marcia’s boyfriend and told him the truth. After doing so, Greg and his team prevailed as champions of that game.
Although sends out loving vibes every episode, as the hippie’s did at that time, it did in fact portray surprising violence in one memorable episode. A boy by the name of Billy continuously calls Cindy ...
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The Great Gatsby 12
Number of Words: 706 / Number of Pages: 3
... confusion. They are just walking along, minding their own business, doing their day-to-day activities, and suddenly get caught up in an impenetrable mess. This happened to Nick. He was just minding his own business, and then he met Gatsby, who planned things for him without his approval or advice, and who basically used him to his advantage. Nick had no way out of this mess, but he did not really want one. He was the only person who cared enough to give Gatsby a proper burial.
Another symbol in this novel is T. J. Eckleburg's huge blue eyes. "The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic- ...
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The Decline Of Chivalry And Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Number of Words: 2354 / Number of Pages: 9
... criticism of the system. The poet is showing Gawain's reliance on chivalry's outside form and substance at the expense of the original values of the Christian religion from which it sprang. The first knights were monastic ones, vowing chastity, poverty and service to God, and undertaking crusades for the good of their faith. The divergence between this early model and the fourteenth century knight came with the rise of courtly love in which the knights were led to their great deeds by devotion to a mistress rather than God. The discrepancy between this and the church's mistrust of women and desi ...
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Tamed Shrews And Twelfth Night
Number of Words: 1099 / Number of Pages: 4
... many have considered it to be one of his most controversial in his treatment of women. The "taming" of Katherine has been contended as being excessively cruel by many writers and critics of the modern era. George Bernard Shaw himself pressed for its banning during the 19th century (Peralta). The subservience of Katherine has been labeled as barbaric, antiquated, and generally demeaning. The play centers on her and her lack of suitors. It establishes in the first act her shrewish demeanor and its repercussions on her family. It is only with the introduction of the witty Petruchio as her suitor, that one ...
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Tamed Shrews And Twelfth Night
Number of Words: 1099 / Number of Pages: 4
... have considered it to be one of his most controversial in his treatment of women. The “taming” of Katherine has been contended as being excessively cruel by many writers and critics of the modern era. George Bernard Shaw himself pressed for its banning during the 19th century (Peralta). The subservience of Katherine has been labeled as barbaric, antiquated, and generally demeaning. The play centers on her and her lack of suitors. It establishes in the first act her shrewish demeanor and its repercussions on her family. It is only with the introduction of the witty Petruchio as her suitor, that one ...
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A Separate Peace
Number of Words: 437 / Number of Pages: 2
... on page 54, it says “… it was no remote aristocrat I had become, no character out of daydreams. I was Phineas, Phineas to life. … standing there (it seemed) that I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character again.” That meant that following that day, he was going to try to live each day more like Finny. Through out the book Phineas taught Gene more and more about himself, he taught Gene to live each day to the fullest, because you might never have another.
At the end of the book, once Finny has past away, Gene learns to live life for himself, not through somebody else. He wa ...
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A Voice Of The Future
Number of Words: 557 / Number of Pages: 3
... in the newspaper compared to the
number of times you see our names in the “arrest made” section?
It’s bad when children aren’t fortunate enough to be praised for
their actions in their own home but they can’t even get it at school
anymore. I was recently in a pageant and one of the questions asked was, “
How will your generation be remembered?” According to society we are
trouble makers. We are categorized as once again, Alcoholics, druggy’s, and
a threat as far as pregnancies are concerned. I would like to say that we
are the key to tomorrow’s technology. With the knowledge we have we can do
a ...
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Through The Tunnel By Doris Le
Number of Words: 857 / Number of Pages: 4
... irregular cold currents from the deep water shocked his limbs" clearly describes the beach where the boy is swimming and how it is seen by him. With the addition of words like "discoloured monsters" and "real sea" we can tell what the boy's feeling are toward his beach which he considers scary but at the same time challenging.
By using the third person omniscient point of view, the narrator is able to render the characters with information related both from direct description and from the other character's revelations. This way, the description remains unbiased, but at the same time coherent with how t ...
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Role Of Queen In Beowulf & Gre
Number of Words: 1475 / Number of Pages: 6
... role in
Hygelac's kingdom. There is reference in both texts concerning this
tradition, and it is evident to the reader that this is not an unusual
Anglo-Saxon custom.
Queen Wealhtheow and Queen Hygd served as excellent role models
for the courts in which they served. They exemplified the mannerisms
and etiquette of the noble people. Queen Wealhtheow showed excellent
poise from the very beginning of both texts. She was admirable as she
passed the mead bowl around Heorot. The offering of the bowl was
symbolic, being that the bowl was first given to Hrothgar and then ...
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Ideas And Reality (thoreau)
Number of Words: 586 / Number of Pages: 3
... contradiction is evident, what is government but on how the people conduct their meetings, lacking the laws of the government, the society would collapse.
He also criticizes the government for not being virtuous (Ponds pg. 119 last paragraph). The American government is controlled by the people, if he wants a government that is virtuous, he should either get elected, or try to get the non-virtuous people out of office. Further, politicians who made their name elsewhere have said things to the effect of, “either you already have a name for yourself, or somewhere along the line you sell your soul…” e ...
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