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Robert Frost Poem Choices Are
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... as he describes one road as "having perhaps the better claim". Here he tries to make an excuse for choosing this road over the other - "because it was grassy and wanted wear." But in line 10 he confesses that both roads are, in fact, not different at all - "as for that passing there had worn them really about the same".
In the third stanza the speaker realizes he has to make a decision soon as he can't just stand there forever. But he still can not decide which one of the roads to travel on. "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" the speaker hopes he has more time to decide. And his reason for thi ...
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Number of Words: 284 / Number of Pages: 2
... erosion of both the physical house of Usher and the people of the house Usher are comparative to each other. As the physical house of Usher crumbles, so do the family members in turn. As each brick in the house erodes, so do the minds of the Usher family. As Roderick Usher crumbles there is a sense of approaching doom is descending upon the entire household. Both the house and the Ushers are awaiting collapse. When Roderick collapsed to the floor dead, the narrator ran from the house, as he "saw the mighty walls rushing asunder" (1405). When the Ushers deteriorated, the house did too, until the ...
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The Ideas Of Government Held By Locke And Hobbes
Number of Words: 818 / Number of Pages: 3
... that absolute power was justifiable because of its usefulness and not on grounds of divine right. Hobbes explained that fear of violent death is the principle motive that causes people to create a state. In order to maintain a stable society, people made an unwritten “social contract.” So people chose a leader to rule them, and any attempt to break this contract is punishable by whatever penalty the monarchy may exact in order to protect his subjects from returning to that state of anarchy.
Hobbes’ theory seems to put more at stake. Continual war is inevitable if there is no government. Thus prote ...
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Love In Hamlet
Number of Words: 1107 / Number of Pages: 5
... him. One of Polonius' first deceitful actions, was against his own son, Laertes. Polonius hired a spy, Reynaldo, to go to France to spy on Laertes. Polonius even went as far as to tell Reynaldo to spread a few lies to get to the truth about what Laertes was doing. "Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth: and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out." (II.I.63-66)
Despite the devious and deceitful actions taken by Polonius, there was still love. The relationship Laertes and Polonius had with each other went beyond dece ...
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Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Number of Words: 910 / Number of Pages: 4
... told them about those books I’d pasted over...but that was only an excuse." (Pg 151)
This highlights some of the themes by TJ’s total lack of loyalty and personal integrity.
One of TJ’s biggest mistakes in the book is befriending two white boys, R.W. and Melvin Simms (Jeremy’s brothers). He thinks they are his friends and he doesn’t know that they are just using him. By hanging around with these two he ends up getting himself in a lot of trouble. They talk him into stealing the ‘pearl-handled pistol’ from the Barnett’s store.
"R.W. broke the lock off the gun case with an axe ...
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Speech Observations
Number of Words: 806 / Number of Pages: 3
... over thirty years in the field. This gave the students the opportunity to hear the information in various ways and possibly help the understanding of how it might relate to their individual roles as they pertain to their jobs. His demeanor was affable and he seemed genuinely concerned that the class not only understood the topic in preparation for the exam, but also would be able to utilize the information in real time situations. As students related the information to their experiences and attempted to make analogies of their own he gave full attention to the student. He then reiterated the inform ...
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Things Fall Apart 9
Number of Words: 1027 / Number of Pages: 4
... tribe becoming further apart. Obierika said, “Our own men and our sons have joined the ranks of the stranger. They have joined his religion and they help to uphold his government.”(Pg. 161, Paragraph 6) The tribe may have been able to get rid of the missionaries earlier but now it is too late and there are too many converts in their village; so to fight the religion would be like to fight with their friends. The problem has gotten out of hand, they cannot stop the new wave of change in the way the tribe handles its business. The missionaries are the gyre; spinning the tribe out of control ...
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To His Coy Mistress
Number of Words: 542 / Number of Pages: 2
... love her from the beginning of time. He then continues by saying, “and you should if you please refuse, till the conversion of the Jews”. If the reader has any knowledge of the strength of the belief of Jewish people in their faith, then the reader would get the idea that the speaker meant to say that he will lover till the end of time, even if she was to refuse his love.
Next, the speaker compares his growing love for her to the expansion of great empires. In lines 11 and 12 the speaker says, “and my vegetables love should grow, vaster than empires and more slow.” Once ag ...
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Disjunction Vs. Communion In Raymond Carver's Short Stories
Number of Words: 3839 / Number of Pages: 14
... later writings, as in his
collections in Cathedral, create much more depth and interest in his stories.
It is within this scope of communion that Carver's stories seem to become more
fulfilling with character affirmation.
Communion occurs in Carver's stories when several conditions are
satisfied. The difference in the two criteria; communion and disjunction, is
simply defined. "Communion, n 1. A sharing of thoughts or feelings 2. a A
religious or spiritual fellowship." (Websters, 141) It is a connection
between characters which allows them to transcend the ordinary and redefine
them ...
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Tragedy In Macbeth
Number of Words: 815 / Number of Pages: 3
... of greed, and deserved to die because of his flaw.
Duncan was the King of England, and was murdered by
MacBeth. He was murdered, because in order for MacBeth to
fulfill his plan and become king, Duncan would have to die.
Duncan's fatal flaw was that he was too trusting. For
example, he thought that none of his friends could really be
enemies. If Duncan was more careful about his safety at
MacBeth's castle, he may have had a chance to survive. But
Duncan's flaw, wasn't something so horrible that he should
die. Most people need to trust each other more, and
jus ...
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