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In-Just Topographical
Number of Words: 1532 / Number of Pages: 6
... springtime- revelry that reads with both excitement and a measured awareness.
White space is used after the first line, “in Just-”, by cummings to emphasize the speaker’s observation that only in spring do the following things happen. The white space after “spring” in the second line suggests that the speaker ponders first what his audience later learns to be a springtime memory . The white space is quite obviously used for the benefit of someone listening to the poem being read. The white space in the first line between “Just-” and “spring” of the second line builds suspense when the reader pau ...
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Clytaemnestra And Penelope - A
Number of Words: 1081 / Number of Pages: 4
... women in ancient Greece.
Skills play an important role in determining value among women. This is seen when Athena presents herself to Odysseus (Homer, page 239, lines 368-370) '...she seemed a woman,/ tall and beautiful and no doubt skilled/ at weaving splendid things'. Clytaemnestra states how skilled she is at dyeing bronze. Penelope is constantly praised for her weaving, which is used to illustrate her cleverness in one story. Domestic skills are presented as desirable as demonstrated by the reactions of the other characters with whom the women interact.
That women were considered mere possessions ...
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Hamlet By Shakespeare
Number of Words: 1410 / Number of Pages: 6
... to his son with advice that sounds sincere but in reality it is rehearsed, hollow and without feeling. Polonius gives his advice only to appear to be a good father. The reality is he only speaks to appear sincere as a politician, to look good rather then actually be good. Polonius even ends his speech to his son by saying:
"And borrowing dulleth th' edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!" (I, iii, ll. 77-81).
Polonius gives his son Laertes his blessin ...
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A Literary Analysis Of East Of
Number of Words: 1237 / Number of Pages: 5
... in the novel, Adam Trask is a young man who is not loved by his brother or mother but only by his father. Cyrus had punished Adam before and had tried to teach him to be a soldier and so Adam hated him for that and when Cyrus told him he loved him, Adam did not accept his love. Cyrus tells Adam, “I think you’re a weakling who will never amount to a dog turd. Does that answer your question? I love you better. I always have. This may be a bad thing to tell you, but it’s true. I love you better. Else why would I have given myself the trouble of hurting you?” (Steinbeck 28). Cyrus is telling Adam tha ...
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Affirmative Action
Number of Words: 2698 / Number of Pages: 10
... the scope was very narrow, mostly terms. My key understanding is that of a definition, which I can hardly recall. I don’t know whether is a law or if it is a subset of a bunch of different laws that were passed during the civil rights movement. I am also unaware if people protected under this program like the special treatment if there is any.
My attempts to answer the question of what I think I know start with the idea that since evolved from the civil rights movement, its aim is to protect certain minority groups as well as women. I think that the idea is used in a business context because t ...
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Scarlet Letter 4 =
Number of Words: 1034 / Number of Pages: 4
... to have been left there, to be the plaything of the angels” (75), but she is a “born outcast of the infantile world…an imp of evil, emblem and product of sin” (79). Her physical features did not show she is different: she has perfect arms and legs and has a native grace with innocent beauty. She is magnificent when she is displayed in her exquisite robes as her natural beauty shown through such that there was a circle of radiance around her. However, emotionally something is wrong with Pearl. If other children gather around her, she would feel the dislike from the other childr ...
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Calamitatum Of The Individual
Number of Words: 1412 / Number of Pages: 6
... distinct way of thinking by referring to dialectic, the art of examining options or ideas logically, as a weapon of war. "I chose the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these I chose the conflicts of disputation instead of the trophies of war." (p. 58, ll. 7-9). This is remarkable for the son of a soldier to make such a choice - even renouncing his inheritance - and pursue only intellectual advancement. Leaving home, he traveled off to school in Paris. He was welcomed for a short while, but soon found disfavor with his teacher Champeaux, the grand master of di ...
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Comparison Between Virginia Wo
Number of Words: 1303 / Number of Pages: 5
... criticism.” He goes on to analogise the poetic process to the scientific experiment. Whilst it is tempting to see this as a negation of the creative process. Eliot’s later remarks lead us irresistibly to think in terms of the earlier alchemists and their somewhat romantic mystical aura rather than some cold clinical experiment. This attitude again presupposes the poet in the role of a catalyst.
Woolf’s ideas in ‘Modern Fiction’ are the antithesis of those of Eliot. She begins by suggesting, “it is difficult not to take it for granted that the modern practice ...
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School Uniforms
Number of Words: 541 / Number of Pages: 2
... less trendy or "cool" clothes. Hairstyles help ease this integration as well by giving each person similar styles making everyone feel more at ease. The overall integration helps the students realize that although people may look similar, the idea that everyone exhibits will be greatly different. These different ideas are present in everyone, and the dress code and hair restrictions help illustrate that just because someone looks the same, they do not think the same. When the students get jobs or find careers in their future, it will be helpful to know that even though all their co-wor s seem similar, ...
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Son Of A Salesman. (death Of A
Number of Words: 577 / Number of Pages: 3
... in vain." "I'm staying right in this city, and I'm gonna beat this racket!" (138). Happy, still trying to please his father from beyond the grave, dooms himself to live the same life, and perhaps death, of his father. Happy never knew his father, and if he had, he may not have respected him so much. If Willy had talked with his son Happy, opened up to him, Happy would have probably chosen a different path of life. Instead, Willy focused his all his attention on Biff, leaving Happy a lost child, yearning for attention, willing to do anything to receive it.
The lack of morals in the Loman house ...
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