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The Iron Heel
Number of Words: 805 / Number of Pages: 3
... be shooting at. I admire him at his work but like I said, no one man can effect a populating class of millions.
Before I go into my opinion on his actions and consequences, I would like to give you an overview of the book.
Ernest Everhard is highly educated young man with a vision. He wants the upper class to experience what the workers go through everyday. With his brilliant wit and first hand experience, he triumphs past hundreds of debates and analysis's for a personal "high." He doesn't do this for himself but for the people of course. After a brush with this character in the beginning of th ...
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Hamlet Analysis
Number of Words: 734 / Number of Pages: 3
... the whole stage when the ghost finishes off the quote saying, “murder”. If you manipulate the light in another way the ghost can be presented as a caring father. By using a white or a blue light would portray him as good because the colors of white and blue are connected with things such as heaven and angels, both of which have good connotations. For example, when showing the ghost, a white light could be coming at him from all angles, following wherever he goes. When the ghost of King Hamlet says, “Taint not thy mind…aught.” A white light could be coming from ...
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Essay Analyzing The Biographic
Number of Words: 1630 / Number of Pages: 6
... of the play. He takes whatever license with dramatic convention as is convenient to his purposes” (1147).
“I am the narrator of the play, and also a character in it. The other characters are my mother, Amanda, my sister, Laura” (1147). Because Tom is the narrator, and the narrator is the one who tells the story, we can decide already that he stands for Tennessee Williams, who wrote the play and tells the story through Tom. Also for the same reason, Amanda is Williams’ mother Edwina Williams and Laura is his sister, Rose Williams.
Tennessee Williams dropped out of school ...
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Heart Of Darkness
Number of Words: 4389 / Number of Pages: 16
... heart. Each and every aspect of the setting can be paralleled to darkness and unknown aspects of one’s own self. This aspect provides for the metaphorical ways of interpreting the novel. The novel opens on the deck of a large sailing vessel called the Nellie. As the reader is introduced to each character onboard the ship the sun is continuing its decent and shortly all will be exposed to the utter darkness brought upon with the approach of night. Marlow then begins the journey, which will bring the reader into the far reaches of the African Congo. This beginning scene is the first use of the ...
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Dog Dreams
Number of Words: 468 / Number of Pages: 2
... Patty told me that the one pup that was still holding on was a male, and he looked just like his father, Samson. This information rekindled my dreams and I began to have some hope. She told me that if anything happened she would give me a call. Sunday went by along with Monday and most of Tuesday. Then around 9:30 while I was at work, one of the servers informed me I had a telephone call. My heart began to race, as I answered the telephone. As I expected it was Patty, she wanted to tell me that the pup had passed away. It felt like a hundred pounds of bricks hit me in the chest. We talked a bi ...
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Ordeal By Hunger
Number of Words: 318 / Number of Pages: 2
... supplies. Unfortunately they were unsuccessful and had to turn back, do to heavy snow.
McCutchen was not the only hero in the Donner Party; Eddie William played a big roll in this 2,500 journey. Like McCutchen, Eddie took the trip to Fort Sutter, with the Forlorn Hope. McCutchen’s and Eddies children died in the hands of the psychopathic, Keseberg. McCutchen and Eddie both went back to Truckee Lake with a rescue party. Two had also survived the disastrous Trail to California, by taking the Hastings cut-off. I am glad for all the Donner Party members who lived through this horrible experience. McCutc ...
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Beowulf
Number of Words: 1004 / Number of Pages: 4
... to "[lead] the Danes to such glory." and as his tendency to "In
battle, [leave] the common pasture untouched, and taking no lives."
Through this display of compassion for the commoner who doesn't fight in
battles, Hrothgar proves the full extent of his honor and therefore the extent
of his wealth and status. Beowulf, the hero-prince, also proves his true
wealth and status through his deeds as defender of the Danes.. As he fights
and defeats Grendel, Beowulf Earns Fame and wealth from his companions,
and from the Danes, but more importantly, he earns honor raising him to the
level o ...
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Ariel By Sylvia Plath
Number of Words: 1200 / Number of Pages: 5
... her own ends" (Bundtzen 233). While the outcome of the poem is positive, "Plath turns on herself, identifying with her oppressor, and sadistically punishes her body in the process of
recreating it" (Bundtzen 237).
Plath did not see the rebirth process as a pleasant experience, but one that is expected of her "I guess you could say I've got a call" (Plath 245). She, however, sees the benefits that come from her suffering and continues the process again and again. “Fever 103" is also about a women releasing herself from a man, but in a different manner — she desires to have androgyny. She realizes s ...
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Folklore
Number of Words: 1754 / Number of Pages: 7
... include also folk beliefs or superstitions, customs and performances, dances and plays. Moreover, is not a science about a folk, but a traditional folk-science and folk-poetry" (Balys, 255). The term "folk" means "working class, marginalized, and grassroots" (Montenyohl, 230). The term traditionally meant, according to Montenyohl, community-based, orally transmitted, and historically rooted (230).
is an "integral part of American culture and are told and believed by some of the most sophisticated 'folk' of modern society" (Brunvand, xi) The definition of has changed throughout the changing of tim ...
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H.G. Wells
Number of Words: 850 / Number of Pages: 4
... with no knowledge of satire, it appears to be another bizarre journey of Gulliver, no more unusual than his other travels. However, upon further inspection, we see that Book IV criticizes the nature of man as a rational being (Crane, 402). Of interest to the readers of today is Swift's choice of creatures inhabiting this land; a barbaric, man-like creature dubbed the Yahoo, and the civilized, good-natured horse-like creature, the Houyhnhnms. R.S. Crane explains the reason for this choice in his essay "The Houyhnhms, the Yahoos, and the History of Ideas". Crane begins his analysis of Book IV by dis ...
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