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The Upstairs Room
Number of Words: 612 / Number of Pages: 3
... Mr. Hannink thought a German followed him. Annie’s legs were getting crooked and couldn’t walk that much so she had to exercise. She really hated to do that. After a year and a half they haven’t even seen how the house looked. And Sini really wanted a tan. So Johan let them go out. He was going to pick them up around dinner. But then Dientje’s sister came and they couldn’t get in. Annie got real sick that day. A nice doctor came and helped them. The Germans came to inspect their house but Johan made a hiding place in the closet. The Germans caught one of their friends. The ...
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Achilles’ Actions Bring His Eventual Doom Closer To Reality
Number of Words: 1430 / Number of Pages: 6
... which put pain thousandfold upon the Achaians.” The wrath of Achilles begins in Book One of “The Iliad.” Agamemmnon, leader of the Greek army, takes Achilles booty prize, Briseis to replace his own concubine, Chryses, daughter of a priest of Apollo, who was returned to end the plague put on his people by the angry god, Apollo. Achilles feels unappreciated for all that he does for the army when Agamemmnon takes his girl to be his own. He leaves the army because he feels that the king has disrespected him. Thus begins the onset of his doom; by not fighting, and continuing to refuse to do so until af ...
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The Pain Of Moviegoing
Number of Words: 558 / Number of Pages: 3
... seem loose or tilted so that you sit at a strange angle. The newer twin or quad theaters offer their own problems. Sitting in an area only one-quarter the size of a regular theater, moviegoers ofter have to put up with the sound of the movie next door. This is especially jarring when the other movie involves racing cars or a karate war and you are trying to enjoy a quiet love story. And whether the theater is old or new, it will have floors that seem to coated with rubber cement. By the end of the movie, shoes almost have to be pried off the floor because they have become sealed to a deadly compound o ...
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Flowers For Algernon
Number of Words: 972 / Number of Pages: 4
... things about the world and himself that he never knew before.
Ms Kinnian cares deeply for Charlie, in this radio play, she believes Charlie is a " very fine person," but Charlie feels more than respect for Ms Kinnian. As Charlie's emotions develop, he realises that he is "in love with Ms Kinnian." It is questionable, however, if Charlie really does love Ms Kinnian, or just thinks he does for she is the one person that understands him.
In the beginning of the radio play, Charlie believes he has wonderful friends, who he has fun with and who are very nice people. Meanwhile, Joe and Frank, ( ...
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Importance Of Being Earnest
Number of Words: 1424 / Number of Pages: 6
... but however it still leaves a very good opportunity to make a Marxist critique about the way the class structure influences the play. He leaves room for these critiques when he writes about the servants, the nobles, and the middle class. His view on society and class is very evident on the way the servants are portrayed.
"‘I don't know that I am much interested in your family life, Lane'"
"‘No sir; it's not a very interesting subject. I never think of it myself.'"
In this passage from the play it is very clear that Wilde likes to give his characters some life, but however it seemed that h ...
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Dream Of A Long Fur Coat; Judg
Number of Words: 632 / Number of Pages: 3
... sheep have been domesticated to live in pins the same ways that animals being used for fur are being domesticated. She also forgets to tell her audience that these animals were once wild animals captured and bred for food and clothing in the same way the fur bearing animal are.
Drew also states “as high as 95% of all animals trapped are non-target animals.” Trapping is like playing a hand of blackjack. The intent when playing blackjack is to get a blackjack every time. This is unrealistic because many times a person can win with something other than that. The same goes for trapping ...
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Huck Finn Morality
Number of Words: 956 / Number of Pages: 4
... off from the beginning, Huck wanted to turn Jim in because it was against society’s rules to help a slave escape and Huck knew it. But when Jim said that “Huck; you’s de bes’ fren’ Jim’s ever had; en you’s de only fren’ ole Jim’s got now (89),” made helped Huck to grasp the concept that there is a friendship in the making. Even though Huck didn’t turn Jim in, he is till troubled by his conscience when the slave catchers were leaving because he knows it is wrong to help a slave. Still Huck cannot bring himself forward to tell on Jim ...
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Fantasy Author Charles De Lint
Number of Words: 2184 / Number of Pages: 8
... in the novels Someplace to be Flying and Memory and Dreams, as well as in the short story collection titled The Ivory and the Horn.
Charles de Lint was born in the Netherlands. He moved with his family to Canada only three months later. He confessed to Clinton Somerton in the article Charles de Lint takes readers Someplace to be Flying that he never planned to be a writer growing up. "For a long, long time, I was just going to be a musician" he said. Music does, in fact, play a large role in almost all his work. Along with his love for music, de Lint also "developed a large affinity to reading book ...
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Poems By Robert Frost And Leon
Number of Words: 623 / Number of Pages: 3
... character is effect by there obligations to the world. In “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night” Frost’s character is honouring his responsibilities and obligations by leaving the wood to go home to his family. In “The Bus” the character wants run away from them.In both poems the author escapes into nature. At on point in “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night” Frost’s character notices the beauty of the forest around him: “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep” (pg 127). This shows that the character has a deep feelings for the nature around him.Leonard Cohen also escapes into nature in his poem. Wh ...
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Antigone: The Structure Of Classical Tragedy And The Theme
Number of Words: 1504 / Number of Pages: 6
... several minutes. The protasis in Antigone is brought about by Ismene attempting to reason with Antigone and reminding her of all that has gone wrong in the past. On line 48, Ismene pleads, "Think of our father, dear Antigone, And how we saw him die hated and scorned…And how his mother-wife, two names in one, Knotted a rope, and so destroyed herself…Our brothers fought each other to the death…" In her attempt to dissuade Antigone, Ismene reveals that Creon has demanded no one touch the body of Polynieces, Antigone’s brother, and death is the consequence for such action, justifying statements made ...
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