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Magic: I Know The Secret!
Number of Words: 710 / Number of Pages: 3
... and mystical place. It is true
that all magicians and performers of that nature would have to take up new
professions and that most of them would become broke and most likely
homeless. But it is also true that everyone would be having the time of
their lives performing those tricks for their friends and family.
Just think about all of the conveniences that magic would bring to
our fast paced life. The next time you are at the grocery store and you
are a dollar short, you can now just reach up into the air and pluck a ten
dollar bill. Even better, you could pluck a twenty or a hundred dollar ...
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Petcharchen Love In Romeo And
Number of Words: 534 / Number of Pages: 2
... was just like Rosalynn. Romeo saw her once at the party and immediately fell in love. All of the sudden the idealism and the metaphors change titles from Rosalynn to Juliet. In addition, Romeo turns Juliet into a god like figure. 2.2. 114 “ o, swear by the moon the inconstant moon.” this is an example of the metaphor of which he compares his love towards Juliet to the moon. Again, this is not true love. Romeo has just met her and again he is infatuated. He is in love, with the idea of being in love. This is not true love. He just met her. He simply is so desperate to have someone to love him that he ...
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Story Of An Hour
Number of Words: 449 / Number of Pages: 2
... free! 71) The first voice of protest breaks out after those tedious, miserable years. Now she realizes the feeling approaching her and possessing her occupies her entire soul and body: his possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being. Free! Body and soul free! 72) These unbelievably radical words show her enormous hunger for freedom, her strong wish to be herself again. Her husband sudden death has made her lifetime emotional torment come to an end, and she can be as free as a man now.
On the other hand, Mrs. Mallard may cry again for the loss o ...
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Essay On "Things Fall Apart"
Number of Words: 683 / Number of Pages: 3
... the ceremony guns where fired, Okonkwo accidentally fired his gun, killing the son of the dead elder. Since this was done accidentally he was able to return to the village with his family after being banished for seven years.
During the seven years of his exile, the Ibo village started to fall apart. The downfall of the Ibo spiritually was the mechanism that triggered the downfall of the Ibo village and it's livelihood. White missionaries emerged on the village bringing with them their Christian religion and beliefs that were totally different from the Ibo people. This was two years after on ...
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King Lear -
Number of Words: 419 / Number of Pages: 2
... Albany, that is is difficult to separate them. Gloucester, like Lear, suffers from filial ingratitude. It is in his
castle that Lear is humiliated by his daughters and flees into the storm. Gloucester's sympathy helps Lear to Dover to meet
Cordelia, yet leads to his own blindness and his going to Dover for suicide.
Edgar becomes embroiled in the main plot when, disguised as a madman, he meets Lear on the heath. His destruction of
Oswald, Goneril's steward and his defeat of Edmund in the duel leading to Edmund admitting he has given secret orders for
the execution of Lear and Cordelia, togethe ...
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Ceremony 2
Number of Words: 609 / Number of Pages: 3
... murder and disease. The few that were left were cramped on tiny reservations.
By reading this book you can see that the Native Americans live in extreme poverty. This is brought upon the Indians by the white man who gave them dry dusty desert land that he didn’t want. Then white men do not give the Indians a chance to get out of the poverty because he believes the Indians are good for nothings.
Many white people believe the myth that the Indians are drunken good for nothings. They believe this because to a certain point it is true. Many Indians do drink at bars but that is because they do no ...
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The Bluest Eye 4
Number of Words: 885 / Number of Pages: 4
... girl. Claudia then goes into a series of stories and descriptions of what type of environment Pecola must live in at her own home. She describes the abandoned store in which the Breedlove family lives in and the terrible condition of the furniture, which reflects the type of family the Breedloves are. Whether it was Claudia or another unknown third person narrator, a specific situation is described in a brutal manner of exactly what type of environment exists in Pecola’s home. The situation was where Cholly and Polly fight each other with little hesitation or thought, and the brief narrat ...
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Cyrano De Bergerac 4
Number of Words: 1381 / Number of Pages: 6
... tirade in front of the Cadets where he openly refuses to be under De Guiche’s patronage, proclaiming that living under another man's honor is beneath him.
“Seek for the patronage of some great man,
And like a creeping vine on a tall tree
Crawl upward, where I cannot stand alone?
No thank you!”
(Cyrano, p.75)
However, Cyrano should have realized that with De Guiche’s support he would have a higher status and a more stable economic source. The reason why Cyrano's ingenuity is never publicly recognized is because his poems are never published. Not only does he not hav ...
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The Art Of War
Number of Words: 1421 / Number of Pages: 6
... war. I’d like you to find one pretty aspect of war. There is none, so therefore, war, as a subject for art, is hardly ever pretty. The stories that they write, the paintings that they paint, the pictures that they take, are usually horrific scenes. Only rarely do we see pictures of triumph (i.e. raising the flag at Iwo Jima) but those scenes take place only after the aftermath.
It is also no wonder that many war artists actually use their talent only during and after war. They use their art as a place for catharsis. Only after they are done healing the torment of the war, they can be do ...
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Ordinary People
Number of Words: 1319 / Number of Pages: 5
... hair-hacked Conrad seems bent on perpetuating the family myth that all is well in the world. His family, after all, "are people of good taste. They do not discuss a problem in the face of the problem. And, besides, there is no problem." Yet, there is not one problem in this family but two - Conrad's suicide and the death by drowning of Conrad's older brother, Buck.
Conrad eventually contacts a psychiatrist, Dr. Berger, because he feels the "air is full of flying glass" and wants to feel in control. Their initial sessions together frustrate the psychiatrist because of Conrad's inability to ex ...
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