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Heart Of Darkness - Cruelty
Number of Words: 655 / Number of Pages: 3
... the insensibility of reality, and the moral darkness. We have noticed that important motives in Heart of Darkness connect the white men with the Africans. Conrad knew that the white men who come to Africa professing to bring progress and light to "darkest Africa" have themselves been deprived of the sanctions of their European social orders; they also have been alienated from the old tribal ways. "Thrown upon their own inner spiritual resources they may be utterly damned by their greed, their sloth, and their hypocrisy into moral insignificance, as were the pilgrims, or they may be so corrupt by their ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities The Arche
Number of Words: 2271 / Number of Pages: 9
... helped the people around him. Sydney Carton was physically identical to Charles Darnay. When Darnay was being prosecuted for treason against the English government, Carton allowed Mr. Stryver (the lawyer Carton worked for) to reveal him “Look well upon that gentleman, my learned friend there, and then look well upon the prisoner. How say you? Are they very like each other?” said Stryver (page 86). “My lord inquired of Mr. Stryver, whether they were next to try Mr. Carton for treason? But Mr. Stryver replied no” (Page 86). The court then released Darnay. This was one of the ways Sydney Carton presen ...
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An Analysis Of Orwell's "Shooting An Elephant"
Number of Words: 763 / Number of Pages: 3
... of their race, ethnicity, or heritage. In this case, Orwell was
pictured as a leader because he was British and he worked for the British Empire.
Readers are able to relate to the fact that he does not want to be humiliated
in front of the Burmese. He declares, “Every white man's life in the East, was
one long struggle not to be laughed at” (101). Orwell compares the elephant to
the huge British Empire, and just as the elephant has lost control, he feels
that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys
(100). Secretly he hates the British Empire and is on t ...
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Hunger Of Memory
Number of Words: 1153 / Number of Pages: 5
... his father
described English speaking Americans. This evidence made it
apparent to the reader that definite animosity existed
between his parents and the society around them.
Resultingly, assimilation into the American culture was not
a very comfortable process for his parents. Despite this,
the authors parents created a comfortable haven for him and
his siblings in their adopted country. The author shares
with the reader how close and tightly-knit his family was.
He describes in numerous instances the "special feeling of
closeness" that he shared with his family. He also menti ...
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Arcadia
Number of Words: 861 / Number of Pages: 4
... from 1809 using the scientific determinism whereas in the present day, they use more of the religious view of determinism.
In the first story, a scientific view of determinism is shown through Septimus and Thomasina in order to introduce to the reader the basic ideas on determinism and science.
łNo more you can, time must needs run backward,
and since it will not, we must stir our way
onward mixing as we go, disorder out of disorder
into disorder until pink is complete, unchanging and unchangeable, and we are done with it forever. This
is known as free will ...
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Revelation
Number of Words: 1712 / Number of Pages: 7
... the early Christians. Their intense belief in the imminence of the end of the world, however, along with the mode of interpretation which they applied to the , reflected trends in Christian thought redirected by Martin Luther, and largely ignored by John Calvin.
In this paper I will examine Luthers role in three English interpretations of the , discussing both his influence as an intellectual precedent, and his appearance as a character within these texts. Luther himself never wrote a detailed commentary on the Apocalypse, but in a preface to the 1530 edition of his German New Testament, he outlined a ...
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From Dirt To Duchess
Number of Words: 400 / Number of Pages: 2
... first day and it was Mrs. Pierce who kept her appearance refined. She picked out the clothes and made sure she ate correctly. In some ways, Mrs. Pierce was like a mother taking care of a baby; Eliza was the baby because she is just learning how to be a lady.
The final and most important character responsible for transformations in Eliza was none other than Colonel Pickering. He was responsible for buying all the beautiful clothes that Eliza wore. Not only did he make her look good, but he made her feel good about herself. He did this by always treating her like she was special, by always t ...
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Pragmatics Deixis And Conversational Implicature
Number of Words: 3386 / Number of Pages: 13
... get chunks of information and therefore lack context. If, for example, a person tells a story and forgets to give the essential information a deictic term refers to, we will grow aware of the weakness the deictic system features. Or if the fax machine just receives the second page of a letter, beginning with "Then he was quite embarrassed about it " - the adressee will never be able to guess what "then", "he" and "it" stands for. Similar gaps arise if we read about an utterance made in the past and lack information about the references. Although the adressee at that time could easily have understood ...
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A Raisin In The Sun Crtical An
Number of Words: 914 / Number of Pages: 4
... Walter doesn't want his son to see him struggle. Children are very impressionable. Walter displays an unselfish characteristic that is overshadowed by unwise decisions later in the play. In one particular scene, his son Travis asked both parents for money. Walter acts out of pride and little motivation by giving Travis his last pocket change. This symbolizes Walter's willingness to be a good father. In a different situation, Walter wouldn't display his selfish intentions. This behavior can be attributed to working in a degrading, underpaid position and not seeing results. The overcrowded liv ...
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Symbloism In The Stone Angel
Number of Words: 1565 / Number of Pages: 6
... wife, in the Manawaka cemetery. The stone angel is the largest and most expensive memorial in the cemetery. Although the stone angel is intended to be a memorial for Mrs. Currie, it was not really suitable because Hagar describes her as being meek and a feeble ghost. The angel is not intended for Mrs. Currie, but in fact, represents the materialistic and egotistical values that characterizes Jason and later, Hagar. Jason purchases the stone angel in pride and not in grief over the death of this wife: "bought in pride to mark her bones and proclaim his dynasty, as he fancied, forever and a day." ...
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