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Julius Ceaser
Number of Words: 701 / Number of Pages: 3
... I had been! Tears come to my eyes, as I see the dead corpse of the most exquisite man that had ever existed.
It was after all of this, that the crowd of Roman citizens is truly enraged. We chant: "...Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay! Let not a traitor live!". I am not going to let any of the conspirators get away. They killed the best thing that had ever happened to Rome, and for that they deserve to suffer! Antony says that were he an able speaker, he would move "The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny." I am not a highly educated man, but nor I am totally ignorant. I see what Antony is tying to tell us. I supp ...
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Great Gatsby 16
Number of Words: 773 / Number of Pages: 3
... authority: sturdy, supercilious, enormous, and aggressive, to name a few. Tom’s physical body is described as “cruel” and this describes more than just his body, but his demeanor as well. His voice, “…a gruff husky tenor…” (11), added to his rough image. Every one of his actions is completed with unnecessary force. Tom has the tendency to manhandle Nick, manipulating nearly all of his movements. “…wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square. (16)” T ...
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray 2
Number of Words: 870 / Number of Pages: 4
... provide all kinds of feelings that Dorian wishes to experience. Dorian finds extreme pleasure in experiencing through all the sentiments that Sibyl gives. Being a spectator to the different lives and stories amuses Dorian: one evening Sibyl is Juliet, next evening she is Imogen, another night, she is Roselind.
Art is something that arouse imaginations, imaginations of the viewer. In order for imagination to live, reality must not exist. ¡§She regarded me merely as a person in a play. She knows nothing of life¡¨ (61). Art is not ¡§real¡¨, or, rather, it forms its own type of reality, its own world. ¡§ ...
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Common Themes In Short Stories
Number of Words: 969 / Number of Pages: 4
... Everyday the boy would suffer with an infatuation with a girl he could never have. He even had to deal with his frustration of his self-serving uncle, which he and his aunt were afraid of. The absolute epitome of frustration comes from his uncle when he arrived late at home delaying the one chance of going to Araby. When the boy arrives at Araby to find out that all of the shops are closed his true frustration was reveled on the inside.
James Joyce, the man who implied all of his themes was a master of disguise because this theme was an extreme accomplishment to find. The dream of escape comes int ...
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Early American Writers
Number of Words: 515 / Number of Pages: 2
... god, "leading me to sweet
contemplations of my great and glorious God." Jonathan was also a puritan from
the early America, however, he was a preacher.
Like Anne Bradstreet, he did not believe in material things. In his
sermon entitle Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,
he states "now they see that those things on which they depended for peace and
safety were nothing but thin air and empty shadows." This statement agrees with
what Bradstreet believed in, that nothing (possessions) is important on Earth.
If a person has depended on those things for all your life a ...
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Superman And Batman: The Greatest Superheros Of All Time
Number of Words: 1622 / Number of Pages: 6
... crashed in a field in Smallville,
Kansas. Luckily, at that exact time, an older couple, Jonathan and Martha
Kent, were driving by. The impact of the rocket gave their truck a flat
tire.
When the Kents saw the little boy in the spaceship, they thought he
was part of "some cruel Russian space experiment" (Kents 1). They were
going to turn him into an orphanage, but decided that no one wanted him,
so they called him their own. The Kents had always wanted children, but
could never have any, so when the chance came to keep him, they did; and
named him Clark.
Clark realized he was different from every ...
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Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat
Number of Words: 960 / Number of Pages: 4
... I can relate for I also had a
great love for animals and nature when I was growing up; although I never
completely grew out of it, I don't have quite the passion I used to.
Poe takes his characters from one extreme to the other. For
example, his narrator in “The Black Cat” grew up a softhearted pansy, so
much so that he was made fun of and mocked. Then in his adulthood he
drastically changed for the worse, to the point where he hated and was
annoyed by his most favored pet, Pluto and Pluto's successor. With these
extremes Poe creates a character, out of the ordinary, which causes second-
gues ...
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Killer Angels
Number of Words: 741 / Number of Pages: 3
... Shaara takes you there, as soldiers saw the war and army life. He showed the true sorrow and terror. "Yet you learn to love it. Isn't that amazing? Long marches and no rest., up very early in the morning, and asleep late in the rain, and there's a marvelous excitement to it, a joy to wake in the morning, and feel the army all around you and see the campfires in the morning and smell the coffee…"[pg.125] Leadership in those days, was all about character, and conducting your self as a gentlemen. Shaara wrote of Gen. Armistead, "He was one of the men who would hold ground if it could be held; he wo ...
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Animal Dreams
Number of Words: 1426 / Number of Pages: 6
... Codi and Hallie identify themselves as orphans incapable of understanding their father's coldness. Codi and Hallie become dependent on each other for emotional nourishment. Codi describes her attachment to Hallie as being, "like keenly mismatched Siamese twins conjoined at the back of the mind"(page 8). Hallie becomes Codi's only definition and source of family. Codi becomes extremely dependent on Hallie in this aspect.This is the beginning of Codi's development of insecurities. In addition, Doc Homero's aloofness with the town people develops Codi's own feelings of inacceptance. To explain, Doc Homero ...
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Macbeth 6
Number of Words: 461 / Number of Pages: 2
... just so he may remain king (The witches said Banquo's sons would be kings, and Macbeth didnt like that). To boot, Macbeth sends assassins to kill Macduffs family. By the end of the play, Macbeth is a ruthless, honorless king, and gets killed by Macduff. Macbeth's good side was shown for a little bit in the begining of the play, but that quickly changes and Macbeth becomes evil.
Lady Macbeth's character shows that she is evil and ruthless. Everyone thinks that she is a tender woman, sweet and kind. But on the inside, she is a pure murderer with no concious. The entire plot to kill Duncan was thought ...
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