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Choosing Ones Own Courses In Middle School
Number of Words: 482 / Number of Pages: 2
... would be prepared to take more advanced courses and become very skilled.
Second, if Middle School students had their choice of courses, it would reflect on the faculty as well as other students, making it more enjoyable for everyone. When the student is choosing his or her courses, they are choosing it for the reason that they feel they could do well in this subject, and because they think the topic is interesting and enjoyable. If the student wants to learn, it will make it a lot easier for the teachers and other peers in the classroom. One out of every three students has a final grade below av ...
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Huck Finn
Number of Words: 696 / Number of Pages: 3
... up and down it and went on along its banks are
projected with extraordinary power. Incidentally, and with a true artistic instinct, the villages, the cabins, the people of this river become startlingly real. The beauty of this is that it is apparently done without effort. Huck floating down the river happens to see these things and to encounter the people and the characters that made
the river famous forty years ago--that is all. They do not have the air of being invented, but of being found. And the dialects of the people, white and black--what a study are they; and yet nobody talks for the sake of ex ...
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Beloved
Number of Words: 452 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the book. How traps Sethe is simple, for Sethe "the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay" (Morrison 42) and when her past, , catches up with her the future is gone and she is enslaved. What's more, does not intend to allow her slave to go free, "I will not lose her again." (Morrison 214)
When Beloved returns to the leaves it could be argued that she was either chased away by Sethe's rejections and liberation from her slavery, or that the relationship between Beloved and Sethe has changed. The possible change in the relationship could be that Beloved is no longer the embodiment of ...
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The Conflict
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... ideas. Living '…between two massing powers…' often causes feelings of despair and loneliness where we just want to be alone and when bystanders such as family and friends who provide 'neutrality' try and comfort us we often push them away.
'None such shall be left alive;' goes to show that everyone loses in wars that are caused by mere disagreements. In all battles, even the innocent are harmed like when bullets are fired in the streets of a city, just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, an innocent by-stander could be the receiver of a fatal bullet wound. And as the innocent a ...
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Thoreau's View Of Civil Disobedience
Number of Words: 523 / Number of Pages: 2
... that morality is derived from the source of where we get our rights: God. The Trancendentalists believed that you could be one with God by tapping into nature and its oversoul (which ran through all of life and we could learn from it to better ourselves). While our government has committed wrongs in the past, it is the individuals job to correct those wrongs and the State needs to respect those individuals' rights. Thoreau spoke of the Mexican war and slavery, not homosexuality. Thoreau's use of morality was based on equal treatment of people (so attacks on homosexuals would be seen as negative by Thor ...
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Greek Literature
Number of Words: 4164 / Number of Pages: 16
... language .
Scholars have determined that the Greek alphabet was derived from the
Phoenician alphabet. During the period from the 8th to the 5th century BC, local
differences caused the forms of letters to vary from one city-state to another
within Greece. From the 4th century BC on, however, the alphabet became uniform
throughout the Greek world.
CLASSICAL PERIOD
There are four major periods of Greek literature: preclassical, classical,
Hellenistic-Roman, and Byzantine. Of these the most significant works were
produced during the preclassical and classical eras.
Epic Tradition
At the begi ...
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Response Paper On Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily"
Number of Words: 306 / Number of Pages: 2
... the arsenic. This hinted that somebody was going to die but we did not know who. I thought, just as the others thought,that she would kill herself but it ended up that she killed H.B. and she died of natural causes at the age of seventy-four.
I think, the story was titled "A Rose for Emily" because at the end of the story it describes the room furnished for a bridal in rose color and rose is a symbol for love. ...
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Love In The Renaissance
Number of Words: 779 / Number of Pages: 3
... deals with the emotion of love and to show that it had a very powerful way of controlling a man's heart and mind, and I also plan to show that love was a reoccurring theme of many of the poets writing during the Renaissance.
Wyatt and Surrey were two contemporary poets that wrote on the issue of love. Both of the poets derived some of their ideas concerning love from such works as Petrarch's Rime 140, and they also used each other to write about how they felt about love. In both of these sonnets Wyatt and Surrey wrote about how the issue of love labored heavily on their minds and in their hearts. Wyat ...
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Animal Farm
Number of Words: 1122 / Number of Pages: 5
... only to increase his power and the dogs to terrorize the other animals. Napoleon symbolizes the dictator Joseph Stalin in this world.
Snowball
He is a pig that fights with Napoleon over the power on the farm. He is a very energetic, eloquent speaking, brilliant leader who organizes the defense of the farm. Napoleons jealousness of him makes him try to kill Snowball. Snowball flees the area and every misfortune in Animal Farm after that is blamed on him. He represents Leon Trotsky in this story.
Squealor
He is a short, fat, twinkle eyed pig who is a brilliant talker. He justifies the horrible ac ...
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Catcher In The Rye 5
Number of Words: 443 / Number of Pages: 2
... and grace. Holden didn't like phonies, he thought of them as if they
were trying to show off. He didn't like it when they showed off because it seemed so fake
and unnatural every time they would do so. "At the end of the first act we went out with
all the other jerks for a cigarette. What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies
in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that
everybody could hear how sharp they were." (pg. 126) Throughout the book Holden
displays a lack of motivation for many things in which he should do. Holden couldn't
even ca ...
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