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Analysis Of "Those Winter Sun
Number of Words: 1137 / Number of Pages: 5
... In the first stanza, Hayden uses vivid language to show that his father woke up before everyone else to light the fire.
Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
Sunday is not a workday, and his father could have slept late. However, he
did not do like that. The plural noun " Sundays" is associated with the word "too" to emphasize that his father always got up early. Hayden makes the read ...
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Social Control
Number of Words: 715 / Number of Pages: 3
... are technologies that
are typical of the modern, painless, friendly, and impersonal coercive
tools of the modern world. In fact the success of these technologies
stems from their ability to appear unobtrusive and humane. These
prisons Foucault goes on to explain like many institutions in post
1700th century society isolate those that society deems abnormal.
This isolation seeks to attack the souls of people in order to
dominate them similar to how the torture and brutality of pre-1700th
century society sought to dominate the physical bodies of prisoners.
In Foucault's interpr ...
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The Woman Warrior
Number of Words: 1298 / Number of Pages: 5
... the first things that Brave Orchid does is point out that Moon Orchid is fat and looks very old. “You’re an old woman...your hair is white and your face wrinkled...you’re so fat.” In Asia, fat people are considered to be rich. Being fat is a sign of being rich because only rich people can afford to eat so much that it would make them fat. In America, obesity is often times something to be ashamed of. Americans seem to desire the body of a model. Brave Orchid also screams at her own children about their appearance but Moon Orchid always defends them. Brave Orchid is very ...
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Lord Of The Flies-symbolism
Number of Words: 637 / Number of Pages: 3
... Ralph keeps and continues to wear his school sweater while other boys run around naked. This illustrates his desire to keep the island somewhat civilized. Secondly, he does everything in his power to keep the boys working together and getting along with each other. Lastly, Ralph attempts to keep the boys under a type of domesticated. He tries to do this by making such laws as the freedom of speech. This law gave any member of the group a right to express his opinion. Unfortunately, Ralph’s attempts failed and the boys became savages.
Secondly, the evil side of a person is an unavoidable t ...
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The Grapes Of Wrath 2
Number of Words: 897 / Number of Pages: 4
... and were now returning. These people, like the ragged man with the
sunburned face from the road-side camp described on page 242. He had
had children that died because wages were too low and work was too
scarce to afford food for his children and wife. His story was one of
pain and despair, also his story showed the cruelty and inhumane
treatment which the California land owners displayed towards the
migrant workers. This grim story of the broken man didn't discourage
the Joad's from parting from the set course. Later on inside the
Californian border the Joads stop by a r ...
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Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 1017 / Number of Pages: 4
... garage. One day while driving around Tom and Nick stop off at the valley to see Myrtle, Tom’s mistress. Nick describes this valley as being: "about half way between West Egg and New York... a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens" (27). The concern here is with the corruption of values and the decline of spiritual life. The traditional views of God and Religion are dead here and the readers can tell this because the only God-like image in this novel is a billboard with the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg advertising glasses. The eyes of Dr. T.J ...
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Nicknames
Number of Words: 449 / Number of Pages: 2
... because she was tough and always got into
fights with boys and girls. She was extremely insulted by the name,
because she was just trying to stick up for herself. People who are
overweight tend to develop nicknames such as fatty, or chunky, and to have
a nickname for something that some people aren’t able to control is
insulting and lowers their self-esteem even more. Nicknames that you
friends give you such as Pooh, Tiger, and Mandy are meant in a positive way.
None of those names are insulting to one’s body or actions. Many
nicknames are names individuals like to hear, rather than cruel ones.
N ...
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Anne Stevenson
Number of Words: 705 / Number of Pages: 3
... you won?"
(15-16). These unanswerable queries are some of the fundamental
questions of our human existence.
Below the topmost layer of meaning in The Victory, is an
underlying theme that any parent or guardian will easily relate to.
Children are born out of the great pain their mothers endure. They are
helpless in one sense, yet they command the care of their parents.
Stevenson describes the intrinsic helplessness of infants with the
words "Blind"(9) and "Hungry"(14). Yet, this poem does not refer to
new born babes alone. Birthing pains do not cease with the delivery of
a chi ...
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A Clockwork Orange
Number of Words: 2153 / Number of Pages: 8
... to watch films of rape, violence, and war and the mixture of these images and the drugs cause him to associate feelings of panic and nausea with violence. He is released after two weeks of the treatment and after a few encounters with past victims finds himself at the home of a radical writer who is strongly opposed to the new treatment the government has subjected him to. Ironically, this writer was also a victim of Alex’s but does not recognize him. This writer believes that this method robs the recipient of freedom of choice and moral decision, therefore depriving him of being a human at all. Th ...
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Educating Rita 2
Number of Words: 959 / Number of Pages: 4
... bound not to happen on stage. In fact nothing taking place outside Frank's office can be seen by the audience. All action is inevitably confined within these four walls. When Frank invites Rita to his home for dinner in the play the audience are not set up for suspension as to how it will turn out since they already know that whatever happens will not take place before them, but will be retold.
The movie is several scenes richer. Some of these scenes are in the play retold by the actors and some of them are not there at all. Scene three in act two begins with Frank cursing "Sod them-no fuck them! F ...
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