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Jade Peony - Wealth
Number of Words: 864 / Number of Pages: 4
... who are in need of emotional support. The opposite of emotional wealth is emotional selfishness or lack of understanding. This happens when people do not understand each other and therefore they may help another to believe that they are worthless and that they can not achieve their goals. This person is only damaging and not providing emotional support that the individual needs. Wong Suk provided a wealth that some members of Jook-Liang's family could not provide.
Most people need some people who they can tell their hearts to and express their feelings. These people usually your parents, grandp ...
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Grapes Of Wrath 3
Number of Words: 1183 / Number of Pages: 5
... the cats would plow over their houses anyway with no remorse. When asked why they did this, they simply said that they had a family to feed just like the rest of the people who were suffering during this difficult time.
Most of the families that the movie showed were very reluctant to leave and when the cats came, they would attempt to stand their ground and threaten the workers. They would say that if they came any further, that they would shoot at the workers. I remember that one worker said that it would not do any good because if he got shot, the sheriff would come and put him in jail and then ...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Number of Words: 1078 / Number of Pages: 4
... Eisman, she easily makes the transition from being a part of the working middle class to the life of leisure of the upper class. This of course would be a tremendous event for most people, but Lorelei seems not to dwell too much on it. She chooses, rather to focus on other more important things like diamond tiaras. So, instead, I will focus on it for a moment. It seems completely out of line for a book that claims to be such an intelligent commentary on women’s lives, to focus on a woman of such privilege. I know that the fact that she is so privileged adds a very amusing edge to the novel, but i ...
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Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
Number of Words: 1100 / Number of Pages: 4
... illusion of natural beauty and ends with tragic human experience. The poem begins two-part stanzas, the first which is promising and hopeful; the second replaces optimism with a reality which is grim. Arnold uses contrast when he appeals to the sense of sight in the first section and to hearing in the second. Arnold starts with the descriptions of the "calm sea", "fair tide" and the "vast" cliffs which create a calming, innocent appearance. This sets the mood of peace and contentment which the speaker feels when he gazes out upon the sea. "Come to the window, sweet is the night-air", gives the reader ...
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Orgon The Good, Or Orgon The B
Number of Words: 717 / Number of Pages: 3
... treachery also confronted Orgon, but Orgon does not believe him. Orgon screams, “ So! You insult him, and defy your father! A stick! A stick! Out of my house this minute! Be off with you, and never dare set foot in it again. I disinherit you; an empty purse is all you’ll get from me-except my curse!”(Act 3, scene 6) Also, when Orgon was confronted by his own wife, he still could not believe that Tartuffe was a bad man. Orgon states, “I know the facts, and I shall not be shaken.” Elmire says, “ I marvel at your power to be mistaken. Would it, I wonder, carry ...
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As You Like It
Number of Words: 1792 / Number of Pages: 7
... are coming to the Ark” , abundant love is illustrated by the numerous lovers in the play. Yet love is not merely romantic love, it also encompasses “sisterly love” , brothery love, love between companions and even love in the form of loyalty between the master and his servant. The play is opened with a scene depicting love-lost.Brotherly love ceased to exist and in the case of the brothers, Orlando and Oliver ,it breds evil. Oliver felt that he is “altogther misprized” by his “gentle never school’d and yet learned full of noble devices” brother, Orlando .In Oliver’s jealousy fit, he first tried to ki ...
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Burmese Days
Number of Words: 1180 / Number of Pages: 5
... . One man who realized that white men are not as
superior as they might think, James Flory is desperate to get his black friend, Dr. Veraswami, into the social club. The docter thought of the club as "fortress impregnable" pg 150 and mr. flory will stop at nothing till he is. U Po Kyin, jealous of
Veraswami's freindship with the "white man" is set on ruining both Flory and Veraswami for he should be the one considered for the prestigus club. Hence, he will stop at nothing to cross the thick racial barrier that consist over the entire town. At the end of
the novel, riots, suicide, and m ...
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The Outsiders 4
Number of Words: 710 / Number of Pages: 3
... violent and dramatic events ensues and puts the boys in the most dreadful situation of their lives.
The characters in this book are fairly realistic and believable. They may seem a tad different to a kid nowadays, but keep in mind that this takes place in the 1960's.
S.E. Hinton's plot is not very difficult to understand, since the story rarely gets complicated. It is suitable for readers of all ages, from adolescents to adults.
The setting of this book is not only believable, but interesting as well. Upon reading it, you probably wouldn't know that it takes place specifically in Oklahoma sinc ...
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The Permanent Campaign
Number of Words: 1733 / Number of Pages: 7
... recent books such as How We Can Get Out of It, Debt and Taxes: How America Got Into Its Budget Mess, and
Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy.
Amy Mitchell is a journalist whom graduated from Georgetown University, she has written may articles concerning government and the media and was a congressional associate at the American Enterprise Institute for four years. She is now the staff director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. The CCJ is an organization of editors, producers, reporters, and producers whom are concerned with the future of the media. They believe that right now is ...
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The Lexus And The Olive Trees
Number of Words: 2343 / Number of Pages: 9
... Russia. Too many of Russia’s factories couldn’t make anything of value. Without much of a growing economy, the Russian government became dependent on taxes from crude oil and other commodity exports to fund its operating budget.
The hedge funds – the huge unregulated pools of private capital that search the globe for the best investments – were the transmission device from Russia to all the other arising markets in the world, particularly Brazil. The declines in Brazil and the other emerging markets became the delivery that triggered a herdlike stampede into U.S. Treasury bo ...
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