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Black Bart
Number of Words: 761 / Number of Pages: 3
... sorrow.
Let come what will I’ll try it on,
My condition can’t be worse;
And if there’s money in that box
‘Tis munny in my purse!"
Once again the lines were written in varying hands and the work signed "Black Bart, the PO8." In order to make the highways safe once again, Governor William Irwin posted a $300 reward for the capture of the bandit, to which Wells Fargo & Co. added another $300. Another $20 contributed by the postal authorities. The reward went unclaimed for five years, during which Black Bart seemingly robbed at will. Often laying low for several months, Ba ...
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Taming Of The Shrew 2
Number of Words: 534 / Number of Pages: 2
... to make her wrong. Eventually she realizes he is playing a mind game with her. If she does what he says and agrees with him, even if she knows he’s wrong, she will get what she wants, a loving husband, a nice home, nice clothes, food and a warm bed to sleep in. In a way she manipulates him into thinking he has won when really they are both equal.
Kate’s independence is overwhelming for the sixteenth century. Shakespeare had a very wild imagination, he creates a woman who would be respected today but is so extroverted that in it’s day and age it was almost unbelievable. To cont ...
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The Green Mile Card Report 2 -
Number of Words: 919 / Number of Pages: 4
... to pick fights. He represented the fears of Paul Edgecombe. Though it is not obvious at the beginning, it becomes clearer as Paul ages. Toot-Toot was portrayed as a jester to lighten the mood of the story. His humor is what kept the other guards sane. Hal (Warden) Moores was the warden of Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Melinda Moores, Hal’s wife, is portrayed as a sick elderly woman. She is used in the story to demonstrate the miraculous healing power that John Coffey held. Janice Edgecombe was Paul’s wife. She died in a bus accident, setting up the character of Elaine Connelly, wh ...
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Fools And Kings In King Lear
Number of Words: 1109 / Number of Pages: 5
... This soliloquy shows the audience Edgar's foolishness in his belief that malevolence is the force that drives one to greatness or prosperity. It also illustrates the bastard's mistaken belief that by fooling his father, he might be able to eliminate Edgar, the competition for Gloucester's title, and possibly rid himself of his father in the same
act. This is a prime example of immoral foolishness in King Lear.
Another type of fool in King Lear is the ignorant fool. Whereas characters such as Goneril, Regan, and Edmund are fools because of their tendency to harm others for self-gain, ...
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Beowulf: Link Between Traditions - Pagan And Christian
Number of Words: 423 / Number of Pages: 2
... to appease
Grendel in Verse 2. They can't offer him gold or land, as they might an
ordinary enemy. Like most people in a time of crisis they slip back into old
ways of thinking. Instead of praying to God for support, they sacrifice to t he
stone idols of their pagan past.
The Christian motifs that run through the poem contrast with the pagan
system of values that underlies the actions of the kings and the warriors. The
influence of Christianity was just beginning to make its mark in this world, and
most of the characters are torn between their newly discovered religious
feelings and the ...
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Achilleus
Number of Words: 322 / Number of Pages: 2
... ".
By defeating Agamemnon Achilleus proves to be the greatest Achaian
soldier and the most respected because he stood up to Agamemnon the
"wine sack, with a dogs eyes, and deer's heart; the King who feeds on his
people".
After the death of Patrokolos Achilleus returns to avenge his friends
death in book XXII.
In the Iliad Achilleus shows three sides of his personality a great
leader towards his people, a brutal killer, and a grieving soldier. There are
numerous quotes and statements that prove this to be true. Also Achilleus is
pas ...
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Willy (death Of A Salesman) Vs
Number of Words: 1048 / Number of Pages: 4
... talks to himself. He believes physical appearance to be the catalyst of a successful career; however, his sons, who are well built and attractive, turned out to be failures: " Biff Loman is lost. In the greatest country in the world a young man with such-personal attractiveness, gets lost."(Discovering Literature, 1215) His high expectation for his sons and their failure hurt him. Willy pretends to be a successful man in front of his wife. In addition, Willy does not like his wife to mend stockings, because he feels guilty for giving stockings to his mistress and not his wife: "Willy (angrily taking th ...
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Definition Of War
Number of Words: 769 / Number of Pages: 3
... a result, they felt their freedom of unity and nationhood had been taken away. It is difficult to say who was right, but when all of the negotiations had been exhausted, war was the result. In this case there was no other option because both sides believed in their cause. The soldiers in the war suffered. American men spent weeks at a time in rat infested trenches with lice all over their bodies in both World War One and Two. There are countless examples of horrible war crimes, biological weapons, napalm strikes, and of course nuclear weapons. War has claimed would say that they would do it again.
In ...
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Examination Of Twenty Lines Of
Number of Words: 1012 / Number of Pages: 4
... what is right and wrong.
Another analogy of this is that he is so corrupt and disabled by his greed that he is in fact an invalid whom can not do any more then he is already doing.
The arrival of Corbachio prompts Volpone to say “the vultures gone and the old raven’s come”. This line in it’s self exemplifies Jonson’s writing of ncredible depth, as well as Volpone’s ability to say bold things.Volpone and Mosca’s ability to create such meaningful and vivid images in the story is partly why the audience feels so captivated by the play. The imagery that it cre ...
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Everyone Has Dreams, But To Carry Them Out Is The American Dream
Number of Words: 1137 / Number of Pages: 5
... father came to the United States when he was a young child and
was raised in a one bedroom apartment that he shared with his parents and
brother. Still he had a dream, the American Dream, to own his own business.
This dream for him came about when he was a young boy and read the book
The Rothschilds, by Frederic Morton. In this book he read about a family
that came from nothing and built up a fortune through hard work
perseverance and most of all ambition. It was this yearning to carry out
their dream that motivated the Rothschilds, and it was the book about them
that motivated my dad to car ...
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