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The Gambles In Life
Number of Words: 534 / Number of Pages: 2
... lovely female will say "yes," or "no." If
the female says "yes," He has won the gamble; although the male has lost
the gamble is the female says "no."
As life progresses, this child continues to gamble. When this
person gets old enough to obtain a driver's license, he will continue to
take chances. Some people will drive very recklessly by speeding,
disobeying traffic signs, running traffic lights, and even passing. When a
person does any of these, he gambles with both his life and even the law.
Through speeding, and disobeying signs and traffic lights, a person takes
the risk of having an accident, ...
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Macbeth - Tragedy Or Satire
Number of Words: 2067 / Number of Pages: 8
... six parts: plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song. Most important is the plot, the structure of the incidents. Tragedy is not an imitation of men, but of action and life. It is by men's actions that they acquire happiness or sadness. Aristotle stated, in response to Plato, that tragedy produces a healthful effect on the human character through a katharsis, a "proper purgation" of "pity and terror." A successful tragedy, then, exploits and appeals at the start to two basic emotions: fear and pity. Tragedy deals with the element of evil, with what we least want and most fear to fac ...
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Clear Vision In King Lear
Number of Words: 1409 / Number of Pages: 6
... he never wants to see Kent again, but he could never truly see him for who he was. Kent was only trying to do what was best for Lear, but Lear could not see that. Kent's vision is not clouded, as is Lear's, and he knows that he can remain near Lear as long as he is in disguise. Later, Lear's vision is so superficial that he is easily duped by the physical garments and simple disguise that Kent wears. Lear cannot see who Kent really. He only learns of Kent's noble and honest character just prior to his death, when his vision is cleared. By this time, however, it is too late for an honest relations ...
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Dreams
Number of Words: 2666 / Number of Pages: 10
... Because he was having sex with his mother most likely means that, he needed to take on
some of the qualities that she possesses. Although it is a matter of interpretation, many feel
they have found the ‘right way’ to understand theirs and others dreams.
Dreams have been a curiosity since ancient times. Recently psychologists like
Sigmund Freud and Karl Jung have become well known for their studies. There are many
reasons to study dreams. At dreams research laboratories, they use machines,
electroencephalographs (EEG) to tell when dream sleep occurs.
Dreams have been studied since an ...
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Essay Of Flowers For Algernon
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... his sister yelling at him and making fun of him. He also had memories of the night his parents took him to the Warren Home. He was terrified and his dad would never answer his questions. Charlie remembered his childhood and through his memories, he felt guilty for hurting his family. After the operation, Charlie also suffered from disillusionment. In the bakery he used to have friends. Friends that would talk to him and care about him. "...Why? Because all of the sudden your a bigshot. You think you are better than the rest of us..." Charlie then realized that he had no friends but merely knew people t ...
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East Goes West
Number of Words: 722 / Number of Pages: 3
... of Kang's humor until reaching the final sentence of the story. Before the final scene, Kang's wit serves the purpose of elevating the Asian Han in the eyes of his audience, but ultimately, it has a more serious, lingering effect. Ironically, it reveals the life of this character to be tragic, hopeless, and not at all amusing. The final line, delivered by Han's mistress, dismisses him from his post, for she requested "a house servant, not a comedian" (2001). Kang thus suggests here that regardless of the amount of effort Han puts into his work and no matter how honest his intentions, he will never b ...
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Oedipus Rex
Number of Words: 1111 / Number of Pages: 5
... hands the child over to a traveling shepherd from Corinth to take back to the childless King and Queen to raise as their own son. For the next twenty years, Laios and Locaste rule in Thebes believing their son to be dead. Unfortunately, Hera sends a drought associated with a sphinx to bedevil Thebes. A desperate Laios travels back to the Delphic Oracle for a reading.
Meanwhile, back in Corinth, Oedipus grows to manhood believing Polybos and Merope (the King and Queen of Corinth) are his real parents. Soon, he too learns of his horrible fate and seeking to avoid it, he flees hi supposed homeland. As ...
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The Use Of Symbolism In "A Jury Of Her Peers"
Number of Words: 930 / Number of Pages: 4
... that identity until she is faced with the brutality of what John
Wright did to Minnie. She says "I know what stillness is. The law has got
to punish Crime, Mrs. Hale"(glaspell 167). The difference is she is
talking about the crime committed against Minnie, not the murder of John by
Minnie.
The Rocking chair is another important symbol in the story. The
chair symbolizes the absent Minnie Wright. The rocking chair "was dingy,
with wooden rungs up the back, and the middle rung was gone, and the chair
sagged to one side"(glaspell 157), which was not anything like Mrs.Hale
used to remember it being. ...
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Peer Pressure In The Osage Ora
Number of Words: 442 / Number of Pages: 2
... himself said, "I might talk to her, I thought. But of course it was out of the question" (371). The author didn't talk to her at school but he would at the tree. "The next day at school I didn't ask whether her father wanted to take the paper"(370). He was afraid to be seen with her. The narrator asked himself, "could anyone in the house have been watching. I looked back once"(370). Peer pressure prevented the narrator from socializing with Evangeline at school.
Sometimes peer pressue involves people making fun of each other. Although the narrator never made fun of Evaneline, other people did ...
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Marx's Philosophical Writings: Alienation
Number of Words: 1076 / Number of Pages: 4
... species
essence, which he describes as communal.
Marx sees material alienation as the cause of social or
psychological alienation. Material alienation he said is caused by the
existence of private property. Private property came into existence
through the (unequal) division of labor. Division of labor, therefore, is
the central idea on which Marx bases his arguments concerning the eventual
(inevitable) outcome of alienated labor.
Division of labor, in which the contradictions between the forces
of production, the state of society, and consciousness are implicit because
of the sep ...
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