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The Innocent Adventure
Number of Words: 1165 / Number of Pages: 5
... Cosmogonic Cycle. It is the actual "call to adventure" that one receives to begin the cycle. In The Adventures of Huck Finn, Huck is forced with the dilemma of whether to stay with his father and continue to be abused or to leave. Huck goes because he desires to begin his journey. In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden mentally is torn between experience and innocence, it would seem to him that an outside force is luring him to do something but in actuality he is beginning his journey because of his desire. The Call to Adventure is the first step in the Cosmogonic Cycle; it is the step at which the cha ...
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Oedipus The King - Blindness
Number of Words: 724 / Number of Pages: 3
... decimating their country was. What Oedipus was not expecting, however, was that the sin he could not see himself was to blame for the judgement being poured out upon the country. The sin so hidden from Oedipus’ and the peoples’ eyes was quite visible to Teiresias. What Teiresias lacked in his ability to see the world, he made up for in being able to see a person’s heart - a skill that nearly cost him his life after a lengthy argument with Oedipus. Yet what distinguishes Teiresias from the others was his genuine concern for others – a concern that he voiced before demolishing Oedipus in front o ...
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Compare And Contrast
Number of Words: 430 / Number of Pages: 2
... like a hero, to make people come to the new world. In John Smith's work he always made fun of the Indians like he was the greatest one then everybody. William Bradford's purpose in writing was to teach people. He directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and never left them till he died.
John Smith and William Bradford were very mean to the Indians and hated them all together, but towards the end William Bradford started liking them. "All this while the Indians came shulking ...
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Orwell's Politics And The English Language
Number of Words: 1118 / Number of Pages: 5
... and to give an appearance of
solidarity to pure wind". Orwell's point is clear and his evidence is well
organized. He speaks with an earned authority on the subject and a clear
and concise manner. Orwell's essay is a valuable essay for the fledgling
writer, the political critic and all readers because, as Orwell says "in
our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics'. All issues are
political issues".
The essay Politics and the English Language offers numerous
examples and evidence for the reader to draw from. Orwell is allowing the
reader to recognize phrases that they have seen multipl ...
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Catcher In The Rye
Number of Words: 1365 / Number of Pages: 5
... has this feeling when it comes to his family as well. Upon his return to New York City, Holden does not go home. Instead, he chooses to hide out from his family. According to Ernest Jones, "with his alienation go assorted hatreds – of movies, of night clubs, of social and intellectual pretension, and so on. And physical disgust: pimples, sex, an old man picking his nose are all equal cause for nausea" (Jones 7). Holden feels Previts 2 as though all of these people have failed him in some way or that they are all "phonies" or "corny" in some way or another. It is Holden’s p ...
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The Cry Of The Wild
Number of Words: 877 / Number of Pages: 4
... resource heritage must be preserved. Education is the answer. Through writing my paper I have learned that endangered species is more than a name, it is a mission in-and-of-itself, a mission to keep safe our wildlife---forever.
The earth is home to more than 5.2 billion people, each having certain needs, wants, and desires. The process of consumption drastically changes the natural landscape, an many cases to the wearing away of other species. Consumption transform vast quantities of natural resources, such as fossil fuels and trees, into countless products and mountains of waste. As such, it dire ...
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Emily Dickinson: Transcendentalist Experience Through Imagination
Number of Words: 1508 / Number of Pages: 6
... Ralph Emerson and David Thoreau used societies stereotype of the
true male environment, “nature”, to draw their power and write from their
experiences. Experience was the most important factor to these writers. The
ability “to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account in my next
excursion” was the basis of all their writings. “To get the whole and genuine
meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the whole world” was their goal
behind all their writings. They did not use their power of writing in order to
gain a transcendentalist experience, but rather to record them. ...
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A View From The Bridge
Number of Words: 1449 / Number of Pages: 6
... there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'. This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin, his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that might be good is that he has had bad luck with his goal for a great period of time and is sure it will work this time. Later, though, when Santiago needs him for the quest he s ...
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The Picture Of Dorain Gray
Number of Words: 2830 / Number of Pages: 11
... his artistic creations. He searches in the outside world for the perfect manifestation of his own soul, when he finds this object, he can create masterpieces by painting it (Bloom 109). He refuses to display the portrait of Dorian Gray with the explanation that, "I have put too much of myself into it" (Wilde 106). He further demonstrates the extent to which he holds this philosophy by later stating that, "only the artist is truly reveled" (109). Lord Henry Wotton criticizes Basil Hallward that, "An artist should create beautiful things but should put nothing of his own life into them" (Wilde 25). Iro ...
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Hawthorne And Symbolism
Number of Words: 454 / Number of Pages: 2
... Cloyse freely takes up the Devil's staff. Proud of himself for denying the Devil, while again using his wife's name to strengthen his resolve, Brown discovers that his respected Minister, Deacon Gookin, is a servant of the Devil. When Brown learns that his wife has given into the temptation of the Devil, the Christian belief he is struggling to keep is shaken from him. "My Faith is gone!" "There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to
thee is this world given." This shows that the most important thing in Christianity, his faith, is lost.
Throughout the night, Brown finds ...
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