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Analysis Of Two Stories
Number of Words: 470 / Number of Pages: 2
... under dressed women throughout the store. With this you gain a certain amount of knowledge about human behavior in some form. Not only the girls, but how the young cashier reacts, tells about human behavior as Updike interprets it.
In “The Rumor” I enjoyed being given a synopsis of the husband’s background and details of his marriage from his wife as to decide whether or not he is, or has been engaged in a homosexual relationship. You are also given so many details concerning his past and many actions he has taken, to try and conclude if he truly is gay, and if he is in a gay relat ...
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The Scarlet Letter 9
Number of Words: 944 / Number of Pages: 4
... book revolves around. All of the events are based on the letter and what it symbolizes in the story. Hester is bearing it for the first time. The letter means adultery. The scene is also a turning point because it shows the connection with the strange man (Roger Chillingworth.) Roger Chillingworth is a new character being introduced. The hidden relationship between Hester and Chillingworth will lead to many events and turn the story in a different direction that is not just about the scarlet letter, but about Hester¹s past.
The second ³scaffold scene² is also a very big turning point. This is ...
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Gullivers Travels
Number of Words: 576 / Number of Pages: 3
... government officials. The government was ran with people that could go under or jump over a stick. The entire notion of classes and ranks seemed to be stupid to Swift.
The island of Brobdingnag portrayed Swift’s idea of a perfect society. Everyone was equal, and everyone got an equal share. There were no taxes and everyone got a say in how to deal with problems that arose.
When Gulliver explained English society to the queen of Brobdingnag, she no longer regarded the little man with wonder. She proclaimed that the crimes of his society were lying and swindling, and the English were horrib ...
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Ride Of The Second Horseman
Number of Words: 1935 / Number of Pages: 8
... aggression were characteristically preceded by inertial congregations. If there is strength in numbers among the sedentary, there is only hunger among the nomadic.’(21) Again this shows how the nomadic are going hungry and have no way to turn except to fight for food. The agriculturalist have superior strength in numbers and after a few attacks from the nomads the will be ready to take them out for good and worry about them no more. This new age of society is just too profitable for them to leave it, crops that a few men farm yielding the food for twenty. The economics itself are just to great ...
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Beowulf And Norse Mythology
Number of Words: 1508 / Number of Pages: 6
... very close relations and were even thought of as companions (Cohat 10). No one had complete control over the other. If a god did not perform to a worshipers expectation, then the human would not hold back, but turn away from the god, abuse him, or even kill the priest involved! This made the gods even more like the humans; they had to worry about pleasing the people who worshiped them, and what might happen if they did not perform to expectation.
In the Norse pantheon, Odin is the god of war and knowledge. He is the head god, and leader of everyone. He is the wisest of all the gods (http://www. ...
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Comparison: Dover Beach And Do
Number of Words: 1285 / Number of Pages: 5
... that one might hear in a bar. The speaker could easily be the local bartender in any town. He indulges a listener and begins to tell a tale about a woman whose only thought about her time on the cliffs of Dover with Matthew was how nice his whiskers would have felt on her neck. In the original poem the girl is there with Matthew but barely mentioned because he is too wrapped up in his own thoughts to notice her. In the parody, however, the woman is the main subject of the poem but ironically enough she is not there. This is the crux of how the original’s introspection is debased. Ther ...
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The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
Number of Words: 798 / Number of Pages: 3
... their actions are very typical and not anomalous. Children play happily, women gossip, and men casually talk about farming. Everyone is coming together for what seems to be enjoyable, festive, even celebratory occasion. However, the pleasant description of the setting creates a façade within the story.
The setting covers the very ritualistic and brutally violent traditions such as the stoning of Mrs. Hutchinson, who dared to defy tradition. It is very apparent that tradition is very coveted in this small, simple town. This can be proven by the ancient, black box used for the lottery and the significan ...
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Eminem Guilty Conscience Analy
Number of Words: 708 / Number of Pages: 3
... one way or another.
Next, the second part is about Stan who is twenty-one and takes advantage of some young fifteen-year-old. He figures if she is drunk and on the drug that makes you not remember any, then who cares what happens because she will never see you again. While them two are making out his conscience comes back into and they argue about since she’s only fifteen and why take advantage over her. Which in turn does happen because there both all drunk and who knows what else there on. Then like the first one it all ends in about raping the girl and if he gets caught he will end up in j ...
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Short Story, Critical Analysis
Number of Words: 305 / Number of Pages: 2
... about a new child prodigy then could try to test Jing-Mei to see if she could do what the child prodigy could do. At first Jing-Mei wants to find her prodigy, but after many failed attempts, she reveals how she hated the tests, "The raised hopes and failed expectations". Another example of her self image being lowered is when Jing-Mei learned to play the piano, she says, "So maybe I never really gave myself a fair chanace". And again, Jing-Mei proves her low self image when she reveals that she believed that she could not do anything as her mother had said ...
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Analysis Of King Lear With MLA
Number of Words: 1240 / Number of Pages: 5
... in the grandest possible fashion. Cordelia finds that she is unable to show her love with mere words:
Cordelia (aside)
What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent (23).
Cordelia’s nature is such that she is unable to engage in even so forgivable a deception as to satisfy an old king’s vanity and pride.
Cordelia (aside) Then poor Cordelia!
And yet not so, since I am sure my love’s
More ponderous than my tongue (23).
Cordelia clearly loves her father, and yet realizes that her honesty will not please him. Her nature is too good to allow even the slightest deviation from her morals. An impressi ...
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