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Beowulf As A Hero
Number of Words: 660 / Number of Pages: 3
... to kill the monster Grendel, who has been terrorizing the Danes for twelve years, with his bare hands by ripping off his arm
Another heroic trait of Beowulf is his ability to put his peoples welfare before his own. This is because of his strong belief in fate. If he dies in battle it’s because it is his destiny to do so. "Fate will unwind as it must! (189)" He realizes the dangers but fears nothing for his own life. This is what I believe makes Beowulf a true hero. This is where all the super-men, batmen and other such characters come from. Even after serving his people as King of the Geats for fi ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird 4
Number of Words: 1089 / Number of Pages: 4
... ('Jem'), and is somewhat of a tomboy. Their mother died when Scout was two. Their servant Cal-purnia, a black lady, is treated as a member of the family. Atticus Finch is a proper gen-tleman and a most gentle father. Scout and Jem love and respect him very much. Scout is an intelligent and observant child. She reads newspapers and tends to discuss matters with her father as a grown-up. Still, due to the liberal and open-minded views of Atticus, Scout, and, to a lesser degree, Jem, the family doesn’t fit well in the rural South, where racism and narrow-mindedness is the common attitude.
One ...
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Paradise Found And Lost - Critique
Number of Words: 650 / Number of Pages: 3
... who had been sighted even before Columbus made landfall. According to the medieval concepts of natural law, only those territories that are uninhabited can become the property of the first person to discover them. Clearly this was an unethical act. Thus, the first contact between European and non-European worlds was carried out through a decidedly European prism, which ensured Spanish claim to the islands of the Americas. Faced with a colony in an inhospitable area, the Spanish soon inaugurated the practice of sending regular military parties inland to subdue the increasingly hostile natives. Members ...
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Educating Rita
Number of Words: 2087 / Number of Pages: 8
... "Everything." Later on she seems to think that she has acquired and learnt everything. "I've got what you got Frank, and you don't like it."
At the beginning he finds himself faced with an unexpectedly fresh and uncluttered mind. Rita tests Frank's intellectual talents to the full, by requiring constant justification and explanation of statements that would usually be taken for granted and accepted in a conversation between a student and a tutor. Frank is intrigued by her freshness in Act One Scene One showing that what Rita possesses is individuality, "I think you're the first breath of air t ...
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Amy Foster & The Mythology Of
Number of Words: 998 / Number of Pages: 4
... spotted in the seaside town. He is whipped,
stoned and beaten by many of the residents. In addition, he was
captured and caged like a wild animal. He is described as a "drunk",
"tramp", and "creature". He is very different from the usual
Englishman and is treated as such. He is segregated and is forced to
work for Mr. Swaffer. However, one person sees through the
differences. Amy, perhaps because of her stupidity or an ability to
feel for Yanko, does not see a wild foreigner that screams at night
and dances strangely. She saw only the similarities, the oneness of
two human be ...
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Taming Of The Shrew Illusion V
Number of Words: 653 / Number of Pages: 3
... taunts her with food, she exclaims, "I pray you husband, be not so disquiet: The meat was well, if you were so contented." (Pg. 70) Disposing of the invincibility she maintains in Padua, she hungrily entreats her new husband to be reasonable. Taking off the fierce mask she wears in the beginning of the play, Katherina exposes the reality that she too is human.
Stumbling onto the scene in Padua, Petruchio makes a grand entrance as a man who brings merriment to all those around him. He jokes with Hortensio and eagerly accepts the offer to woo Katherina. At his first encounter with the eldest daught ...
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Philosophy - Mills Utilitarian
Number of Words: 1339 / Number of Pages: 5
... which would
be caused by the bomb exploding against the pleasure and pain that would
be caused by torturing the terrorist. Then, the amounts would be summed
and compared. The problem with this method is that it is impossible to
know beforehand how much pain would be caused by the bomb exploding or
how much pain would be caused by the torture. Utilitarianism offers no
practical way to make the interpersonal comparison of utility necessary
to compare the pains. In the case of the bomb exploding, it at least
seems highly probable that a greater amount of pain would be caused, at
least in the present, b ...
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Native Son: Characters
Number of Words: 2195 / Number of Pages: 8
... act of doing something socially unacceptable and being the subject of punishment. Although he later admits to Max that Mary Dalton's behavior toward him made him hate her, it is not that hate which causes him to smother her to death, but a feeble attempt to evade the detection of her mother. The fear of being caught with a white woman overwhelmed his common sense and dictated his actions. When he attempted to murder Bessie, his motivation came from intense fear of the consequences of "letting" her live. Bigger realized that he could not take Bessie with him or leave her behind and concluded that kil ...
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The Glass Menagerie 2
Number of Words: 475 / Number of Pages: 2
... to others is more important to the function of society as a whole than personal happiness. However to a single person, happiness generally seems to be more important than responsibility. An unhappy person that spends their entire life being burdened by the responsibility of another person might as well be a slave.
In the case of Tom Wingfield, leaving his family's home in search of happiness was an appropriate and understandable action. This is because his mother was so unrealistic in her expectations of him as well as extremely critical that it was self-destructive for him to stay in such an ...
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In Our Time
Number of Words: 375 / Number of Pages: 2
... your course I could not
help but think of how much Hemingway's content was influenced by his life. Many
of the stories like "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" were based directly on
personal experiences of Hemingway's life. Since it is not the focus of your
course, I am trying to just accepted the content and concentrate more on writing
style and the way Hemingway writes something. I have found it difficult to pay
close attention to both the story and the writing at the same time and have had
to reread several times.
"The Three-Day Blow" offered an interesting irony to the title "In Our Time",
but may ...
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