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The Eleventh Commandment
Number of Words: 1094 / Number of Pages: 4
... others. "'You ass'... said the Director,... 'Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity'"(Huxley 23). Through a hierarchy of Alaphas and Betas down to the lower cast Epsilon, everyone was suited for their job. The Director however, through his position of authority, was able to "... condition the masses to hate the country,"(Huxley 30). In doing so, the Director succeeds in creating an obedient society, which obeys and bows to every whim of his commands. The Resident Controller and Director were two authoritative figures that were ...
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The American Dream In Self Rel
Number of Words: 728 / Number of Pages: 3
... own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense” (from Where I Lived and What I Lived For 212) and for which the only cure is simplicity. In addition, Transcendentalists believed that man should live life to the fullest by seeking to reach their potential. Thoreau “did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I [Thoreau] could best see the moonlight amid the mountains” (from Conclusion 217). Seeking to reach one’s potential means that one must “Absolve you to yourself, and you should have the suffrage of the world” (from Self-Reliance ...
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America Is In The Heart
Number of Words: 2377 / Number of Pages: 9
... his brother Macario, who was attending high school at the province capital. They needed money for Macario’s education so his father sold a hectare of their four-hectare land. When they needed more, they sold more land. They gave up almost everything they owned just to make their son Macario go to school. One day when his father and his brother Amado were farming, Amado started beating up the carabao. His father stopped him and Amado told his father that he couldn’t live like this anymore. So he ran away from home, leaving Allos as his father’s only helper on the farm. When his brother Macario went ho ...
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Great Expectations- The Evolut
Number of Words: 1802 / Number of Pages: 7
... age. She taunts Pip for calling knaves "Jacks", for wearing thick boots, and for having coarse hands. This makes Pip feel ashamed of things he has never been ashamed of before. His self-esteem is demolished by Estella. Pip thinks to himself: "I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before; but I began to consider them a very different pair," From then on, Pip is ashamed of who he is and where he comes from. He doesn't see himself in the same light as he used to.
Pip's feelings of guilt are shown after the fight with the young pale gentlemen and the attack of Mrs. Joe. After beating up the ...
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Writing Well Chapter 1 Respons
Number of Words: 701 / Number of Pages: 3
... to be putting too much focus on what is correct, and not enough on what makes an interesting work of literature. The impromptu theme does rely heavily on clichés in the first few sentences; however, the narrative uses so much language in avoiding the clichés that the first six paragraphs in the 13-paragraph essay – close to half of the narrative – are utterly boring and colorless. Furthermore, the “What did I see?” arrangement in paragraphs 4-6 attempts to elicit some kind of emotion and utterly fails. Assuming that these three paragraphs could be considered a short story ...
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The Great Gatsby By Fitzgerald
Number of Words: 988 / Number of Pages: 4
... of Hopalong Cassidy.
"Rise from bed ……………………………….6:00 AM
Dumbbell exercise and wall-scaling ……..….6:15-6:30 "
Study electricity, etc. …….………………….7:15-8:15 "
Work …………………………………………8:30-4:30 PM
Baseball and sports ………………………….4:30-5:00 "
Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it .5:00-6:00 "
Study needed inventions …………………….7:00-9:00 "
GENERAL RESOLVES
No wasting time at Shafters or (indecipherable name)
No more smoking or chewing
Bath every other day
Read one improving book or magazine per week
Save $5.00 $3.00 per week
Be better to parents" (174).
Hopalong Cassidy is a typically romantic Ameri ...
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Johnnys Adventures
Number of Words: 1005 / Number of Pages: 4
... this at once he ran to the tent to see if there was anybody inside and indeed there was. Without thinking twice he courageously jumped into the tent, grabbed the 2 women inside quickly and jumped out before the flames could even touch him. This daring act showed how Johnny is very brave and puts others lives’ before his own. Another example of this is the time when he saved a little boy from bears. On a Sunday, not long ago, he was hiking on his most favorite trail on the Bubas Mountains. While hiking he heard a yelp for help and ran towards the source of the sound. There he saw a boy was bein ...
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Stereotyping In Mona And The P
Number of Words: 677 / Number of Pages: 3
... make her own decisions, Mona is trying to change the "Chinese" girl stereotype. This shows that Mona is a strong individual willing to fight stereotypes.
Barbara Gugelstein is Jewish. It is brought up almost every time Barbara is talked about in the book. One of the first stereotypes that Barbara is faced with is the Jewish nose. Barbara asked her parents what a Jewish nose was and they told her that it is a large nose the classifies her as a Jew. According to her parents, a Jewish nose is unattractive. They also tell Barbara that she has a Jewish nose. Instead of fighting to overcome the ste ...
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