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How Does Jane Eyre Fulfil Your
Number of Words: 3916 / Number of Pages: 15
... is not just bravery that defines a heroine. Trustworthiness, putting others before themselves and not being afraid of speaking out for something they believe is right, are just a few different qualities of a heroine.
When people associate a romantic heroine with literature, they sometimes get a different impression of the woman. In most books she is the lead part in the novel. And as well as having the characteristics of an ordinarily thought of romantic heroine, she has great looks and is admired by all society. She seemingly can do no wrong and is liked by everyone.
I believe that Jane, on n ...
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Solomon Gursky Was Here
Number of Words: 1403 / Number of Pages: 6
... of Solomon and his re-incarnation as Sir Hyman Kaplansky, in conjunction with his family and their exploits. Every character in this novel is in some way corrupt or failure. Moses is an alcoholic who did not live up to his potential; Bernard is a greedy self-centered bastard;
Solomon is a cheat, when it comes to gambling, women and anything else you can think of. Richler, through this exaggeration of corruption and failure, is satirizing the idea that Canada is a second rate nation. One character, in conversation with Moses, once said:
"Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled w ...
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The Role Of Spirituality And R
Number of Words: 1456 / Number of Pages: 6
... man made institutions, the core of religion and spirituality-- morality and goodness -- must be preserved, if one is to survive in the midst of horror.
The Jewish religion was a key motivation to the citizens of Sighet. To Jews religion is not only a method to achieve immortality, but a way of life that must be holistically embraced. This all-consuming religion demands total obedience and is a key motivation in the Jewish deportation and personal surrender to Germany (German officers). Analyzing history, one sees the pattern of a Jewish nomad lifestyle -- Jews escaping persecution by placing their ...
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Writing About Literature
Number of Words: 1233 / Number of Pages: 5
... more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go:
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she, belied with false compare.
Most readers at one time or other have read this poem during their education. Even though it is so widely read, it is often misinterpreted upon the first reading. My initial interpretation was that Shakespeare did not think this lady was very pretty and did not really think she was all that enticing. But by reading the poem several times I found that he felt quite the opposite for her. The lady that Shak ...
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The Lords Of Discipline
Number of Words: 425 / Number of Pages: 2
... in this twisted military school. It's a school where "the system" rules instead of the teachers. The "system" is run by upperclassmen, obsessed with upholding the school's reputation for turning out the finest men the country has to offer to the war. Will watches as the boys in his class are dismantled and reassembled to become military men. He watches as boys are tortured because of their differences, as they are run out of the school, and even as they are driven to the threshold of sucide. The instutite seems to change everyone who remains there. It seems to harden them, to turn them int ...
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Transformation Power Of Love
Number of Words: 2670 / Number of Pages: 10
... started between them changed their lives forever. They returned to their homes as different persons, with new aspirations, attitudes, hopes and goals.
In the story the person who undergoes the major change is Dmitri Gurov. When Dmitri first saw Anna, all he wanted was to have fun. His first thought was “If she’s here without her husband, and without any friends, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make her acquaintance.” He saw Anna as a person for usual short affair on the vacation. He did not consider this acquaintance anything more than temporary affair. For him it was meant to be one of the numerous ...
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Plagarism
Number of Words: 937 / Number of Pages: 4
... papers. On most university campus', up to 75% of students admit to some
cheating. (Follette 87) Students believe that few cheaters are getting caught and those who do, punishments are very lenient. Lower levels of cheating are foundwhere the primary responsibility for academic integrity has been placed in the hands of students, generally through an honor code. (Johnston 201)
Students who plagiarize generally fall into two categories. The first
includes those who have difficulty writing correct, coherent essays. They may
never have received good instruction in writing; they may never have d ...
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Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison
Number of Words: 1251 / Number of Pages: 5
... Tod Clifton who give him a chain link and a paper doll, respectively. I choose to write about these items because they are symbolic of his struggle in his community fighting for the black people and of his struggle within himself searching for identity.
The narrator works hard for the Brotherhood and his efforts are rewarded by being distinguished as the representative of the Harlem district. One of the first people he meets is Brother Tarp, a veteran worker in the Harlem district, who gives the narrator the chain link he broke nineteen years earlier, while freeing himself from being imprisoned. B ...
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Ibsens Ghosts
Number of Words: 1738 / Number of Pages: 7
... she had sought refuge. For the sake of her son, she spent the rest of her life covering up the truth about her husband.
? The story very powerfully brings out its themes, but is very much less shocking than it seemed over a hundred years ago. It is still a play which makes one think about what you really inherit from your parents, anticipating Philip Larkin's famous poem by many years.
? Ibsen's Ghosts has been subjected to a succession of interpretations and re-interpretations. Like any great work of art, it has meant widely different things for different generations. It has been seen variously as a ...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Number of Words: 1112 / Number of Pages: 5
... (Doyle 19) The noble Baskerville family is very likely a reflection of what Doyle thought, or knew, about his own family. Another thing that is evident in the book is Arthur Conan Doyle's chivalrous side. The characters of Sir Henry Baskerville and Sir Charles Baskerville continually show that they are honorable men. "Being himself [Sir Charles] childless, it was his openly expressed desire that the whole countryside should within his own lifetime, profit from his good fortune." (Doyle 20) By providing for his neighbors and friends, Sir Charles showed that he was willing to put others first and that ...
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