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Oedipus Rex
Number of Words: 946 / Number of Pages: 4
... would definitely honor such a man.
Both Oedipus’ life and his kingdom were filled with riddles, paradoxes, and mysteries. Oedipus’ beginning and ending at Thebes both arose from the riddle of the oracle. Without his parent’s confrontation with the oracle, Oedipus would not have been cast away from Thebes in the first place. Yet without the riddle of the sphinx, Oedipus would not have arrived at his royal position. This could be Sophocles’ method to involve our minds, letting us know that every action we take has an effect on us later in life. At Thebes he is bothered by the plague of the cit ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird 5
Number of Words: 479 / Number of Pages: 2
... Boo, so they make his property threatening and evil. Society characterizes
both of these misunderstood people as amoral and threatening. Therefore, no one wants to go on the land they own, because their values and lives could be risked by simply being near such a type of person.
Another similarity of their lives exists because most people assume their guilt. Without any evidence or reliable knowledge of the situation, Jem, Scout, and Dill assume the stories of Boo attacking his father are true. They do not ask their father if the story
ever happened or ask the sheriff, who was supposedly i ...
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A Crime In The Neighborhood
Number of Words: 1352 / Number of Pages: 5
... is the most visible crime in Marsha’s neighborhood, it is by no means the only one,
Marsha’s father and aunt run off together and Marsha wrongly accusses Mr. Green for the death
of Boyd Ellison.
Marsha’s father had left before the summer Boyd Ellison was killed. The divorce had a
tremendous impact on the whole family. Marsha’s twin brother and sister spent the summer away
on vacation and since Marsha had her ankle in a cast, she wasn’t able to do things most kids did
during the summer vacation like swimming. Marsha remembered "it was only after my father left
and Boyd Ell ...
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Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates
Number of Words: 945 / Number of Pages: 4
... interactions
with the world and all of their thoughts and actions. There does not seem
to be any plan or order to these events, just everything that happens.
Everything. Life is a long process with good, bad and indifferent points.
According to the World Book Encyclopedia, a box is "a container,
usually with four stiff sides, a bottom, and a lid to pack or put things
in," and chocolate is "a substance made by roasting and grinding cacao
seeds." A box of chocolates would logically be a container which holds
cacao products. A scientific dissection of a box of chocolates would show
a box ( ...
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Young Goodman Brown
Number of Words: 2413 / Number of Pages: 9
... faith he had before.
When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that the reason he was late was because "Faith kept me back awhile." This statement has a double meaning because his wife physically prevented him from being on time for his meeting with the devil, but his faith to God psychologically delayed his meeting with the devil.
The Devil had with him a staff that "bore the likeness of a great black snake". The staff which looked like a snake is a reference to the snake in the story of Adam and Eve. The snake led Adam and Eve to their destruction by leading them to the Tree of Kno ...
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Is There Such A Thing As The American Dream?
Number of Words: 1553 / Number of Pages: 6
... to millions of hopeful immigrants coming to America. They search for a dream. The American dream. What is this dream that so many came looking for? The American dream is believed to be freedom, success, opportunity, perseverance, equality, justice, and safety for all. (). A chance so unique, it only exist in a single country. But how many actually achieve it? Is it a fable or actuality? It can be fact or fiction. America is like a double-edged sword, with the ability to strengthen your heart and the risk of stabbing you in the stomach.
When people come to America searching for the dream, ev ...
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The Oddessey
Number of Words: 1550 / Number of Pages: 6
... Many suitors were there, trying to win the hand in marriage of Penelope, Telemachus's mother and Odysseus's wife. These many suitors had eaten Telemachus out of house and home. Athena arrives in the form of Mentor, a Taphian chief. Very generously, Telemachus invites Athena in. After they introduce themselves and Telemachus explains how the suitors have been living off of him, Athena puts Telemachus in his place.
Athena explains to Telemachus that he needs to rid his house of the suitors, tell Penelope to return to her father's house if she wishes to be wed, and to take his best ship and twe ...
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The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
Number of Words: 1642 / Number of Pages: 6
... source for another magnificent Tchaikovsky opera by the same name, as well as several ballets. Sections of this epic Romantic poem in novel form are still memorized by Russian and other Eastern European school children as reverently as if they were verses from the Bible.
Pushkin was the first giant to achieve a truly international status while working in the Russian language, although, ironically, his great fame beyond the borders of Russia came later than that of others who would follow him: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Turgenev, all of whom owed a great deal to Pushkin as their literary progenit ...
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Grapes Of Wrath 2
Number of Words: 786 / Number of Pages: 3
... Another program, the Works Progress Administration, later called the Works Projects Administration was created to develop relief programs, and to keep a person's skills. From 1935-1943, it employed 8 million people, and spent 11 billion dollars. But in 1939, there were still 9.5 million still unemployed. Another program was the Civilian Conservation Corps. Unemployed, unmarried young men were enlisted to work on conservation and resource-development projects such as soil conservation, flood control, and protection of forests and wildlife. These men we! Provided with food, lodging, and other neces ...
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