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Hamlet - Act 2 Summary
Number of Words: 306 / Number of Pages: 2
... I will carry out my plan.
I have decided, that with the help of the players and a little improvising on my part with the script they will read, to check on Claudius' conscience. They shall perform a play in which the king is slain and shall watch my new king very closely, for if he so much as flinches I can be sure that the ghost has spake the truth. With that confirmation, I shall begin constructing my play to kill him. ...
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Red Badge Of Courage
Number of Words: 1451 / Number of Pages: 6
... these fresh men seem the wrong ones to be fighting in the Civil War. Crane remarks on this later in the narrative: "He was aware that these battalions with their commotions were woven red and startling into the gentle fabric of the softened greens and browns. It looked to be a wrong place for a battlefield" (69). Green is an image of the natural world and of the regiment's fresh youth, while red, in the previous quote, is clearly an image of battle. At the start, however, Crane uses red to describe distant campfires: ". . . one could see across the red, eyelike gleam of the hostile camp-fires set in ...
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The Problem Of War And Peace
Number of Words: 743 / Number of Pages: 3
... voice lacking for peace to
come to the world."
In contrast to the several books I read for my research that detailed the
cost and carnage of war, this one simple story moved me to want to add my
voice for world peace and to think that maybe one person can make a
difference for peace to come to the world.
My generation may well be the generation that brings total destruction or
total peace to the world. Therefore, the United Nations should think about
working together with government and educational cabinet members to put
together a unified educational program in the schools of every count ...
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Gone With The Wind
Number of Words: 1040 / Number of Pages: 4
... security and grace of the days before the war. There were four main characters in the story. They were Scarlett O’Hara, Ashley Wilkes, Melanie Hamilton-Wilkes, and Rhett Butler. Scarlett, Ashley, and Melanie were raised together, and Rhett Butler was an outsider who came from Charleston. Scarlett was the daughter of a wealthy Irish plantation owner. She was not beautiful but she was spoiled. She was selfish and scheming. She was also charming so men easily fell in love with her. Scarlett was obsessively in love with Ashley Wilkes and attempted several times to lure him away from his lovely wife Mela ...
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Cooper Thompsons A New Vision
Number of Words: 580 / Number of Pages: 3
... Sometimes masculinity is related to violence; violence became the tool maintaining their masculinity among boys. Then, he mentions the two most critical socializing forces in a boy's life: homophobia and misogyny. He explains that homophobia, hatred of feminine qualities in men, and misogyny, hatred of feminine qualities in women, put pressure on them to avoid femininity, even good qualities of femininity.
Then, he argues the negative side of the "traditional view of masculinity." He claims that believing in masculinity is being tough, daring and aggressive can put great pressure on boys. Thompso ...
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Witchcraft And Arthur Millers
Number of Words: 579 / Number of Pages: 3
... the influence of the witchery, "admitted to see the forms of their tormentors with their inner vision" (Miller 1082). and would immediately accuse some individual seen with the devil. At times the afflicted and the accused became so numerous that no one was safe from suspicion and its consequences. Even those who were active in the prosecutions became objects of suspicion. Revenge often impelled persons to accuse others who were innocent and when some statement of the accused would move the court and audience in favor of the prisoner. "I saw Goody Osborn with the devil" (Miller 1060). The accuser ...
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The Great Gatsby 14
Number of Words: 1455 / Number of Pages: 6
... Daisy so that he can meet her again and finally show off his social status to her. But before this could happen, Nick, Gatsby’s new neighbor and cousin of Daisy, meets Nick. As they began to talk, Gatsby starts to discuss portions of his past to Nick and he seems the need to shows proof to back up his claims. For example when Nick was with Gatsby in his car heading toward New York, Gatsby boasts how he had gone to Oxford University and how he had been promoted to major and was given a momento from Montenegro. What was odd was that he had evidence to back up both of these claims. From his pocket h ...
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Beowulf Society
Number of Words: 1735 / Number of Pages: 7
... representative of the tenth century culture yet it still managed to tell a story similar to the original version. Beowulf, then, gives us a significant insight into the cultural views of the tenth century Anglo-Saxons including their political, social and moral views. The individualistic society was just beginning to replace the tribal system in which no individual had been seen as more important to the success of the tribe than any other. The individuality that Beowulf displayed helped establish new rules in society. Beyond this, Beowulf gives us an even greater insight into middle ages society. W ...
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Silas Marner 3
Number of Words: 376 / Number of Pages: 2
... becomes Silas's treasure in life. Silas rears up Eppie as his own child and his life never becomes bleak again.
Life just comes with hardships and treasures. You can't have one without the other. In Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, the title character is subjected to a difficult life. As the novel progresses however, Nicholas's life becomes more bearable and in the end, he receives one of the greatest treasures of life, love. To live a difficult life makes the good things worth a lot more. I agree with the speaker in Silas Marner because there is absolutely no exception-you cannot find a life witho ...
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Warm Feelings For Cold Blood
Number of Words: 2111 / Number of Pages: 8
... Perry’s character. He gave an in-depth view of Perry’s world. He showed that Perry, although he had troubles in his life and sometimes had a total disregard for people’s life he also respected the people. Perry felt bad for some of the people he met. He also was willing to forgive people.
Truman Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons, in New Orleans September 30th 1924. His parents got a divorce when he was four and his mother later remarried and took on the last name of his stepfather. Capote’s childhood was extremely insecure. He was handed back and forth between relat ...
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