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A Fantasy Story
Number of Words: 1974 / Number of Pages: 8
... weird, it was very dry and there looked like there was no source of water because of how dry it was. As we looked over the canyon I told my brother Jack, “Look how deep the canyon is, and how steep.” He replied, “Yea dude, it looks pretty nasty down there. I think we should just go and tell mom and dad that this place it pretty weird and we can’t live here.” I agreed with him for once in a long time, so we headed back to the starship to take off. We got back to the ship and those a couple of those creatures we had saw spotted us and came toward us pretty fast. We just went in the starship and didn’t tu ...
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Should We Believe Beyond Evide
Number of Words: 1696 / Number of Pages: 7
... James viewed truth as a constant movement of ideas, which guide human beings into more and more satisfying experiences every time.
Clifford holds that you should not believe any proposition just because it will give you eternal happiness when in fact there is a lack of evidence which should lead you to doubt the proposition. James, on the other hand, gives us three conditions to believe beyond evidence. “First, when you are confronted with what he calls a ‘genuine option’ that cannot be decided on evidential grounds, you have a right to decide the issue according to your ‘passi ...
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Scarlet Lettter
Number of Words: 265 / Number of Pages: 1
... consumed him, and changed his personality completely. The need for revenge will not only destroy the person who someone wants revenge on, but also the seeker.
Chilingsworth anger and need for revenge controlled everything about him. In the novel Hawthorne mentioned that, “Chilingsworth had been calm in temperament, kindly, and a upright man”. That is true until he allows his anger to take over him. He went from an intelligent and upright man to a person who was controlled by his anger, and used his intelligence to torture his victim.
Torturing Dimmesdale gave pleasure to Chilingsworth. ...
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Japanese Aristocrat
Number of Words: 740 / Number of Pages: 3
... government was modeled after China's. Although Japans government was modeled after China's it had some very distinct differences. The Japanese seemed to modify Chinese concepts and make them unique to Japan. They did not only do this with government, but with all things taken from China. Japan was undergoing a great period of development. Aristocrats at this time were shaping an entire nation. It would have been extremely interesting and fulfilling to be one.
The Heian period aristocrats surrounded them selves with wealth and beauty. The court rules of etiquette were strict. Not adhering ...
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Creative Writing
Number of Words: 2820 / Number of Pages: 11
... chubby Martin, but I can’t break that news to him. I lie and tell him that we’re in, when what I mean is, I’m in. Really, Anna with her tall beanpole-like figure isn’t anything to get too excited about. Her shoulder length brown hair is always pulled back so tightly it looks as if her forehead is about to crack.
"So, how do you want to do it?" Martin asks me.
"Well, seeing as how neither one of us has a car, we’re gonna have to meet somewhere close to their house since they got what we want," I tell him.
"Okay, you sneak out about 11:00 and come to my house. Then we’ll meet them at Oakdale park ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities - Best Or Worst Of Times?
Number of Words: 1045 / Number of Pages: 4
... France "rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it." (2) In England, "there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night." (2) The portrayal of the countries' state conveys the atmosphere of doom and chaos.
On the other hand, the plot set up and characterization in the novel imply a sense of hope, a light in the darkness. The central characters in the first book are all likeable people. Jarvis Lorry, the banker, is very reliable a ...
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The Plague 3
Number of Words: 1716 / Number of Pages: 7
... the matter?’ springs to
the lips of all the chief characters in the play- Othello, Iago,
Desdemona, Brabantio, Cassio, Emilia- but only Iago, masterly
improviser of evil deeds, doesn’t need to ask the question; that
is because he already knows the answer and rarely takes the
trouble to pretend otherwise.”3 He appears to be the shrewd
character which thinks himself to be wonderful and all-knowing.
Iago is the main driving force in this play, pushing Othello and
many others towards their tragic end.
Iago is not your ordinary villain. The role he plays is
rather unique ...
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Macbeth - Authority
Number of Words: 977 / Number of Pages: 4
... Captain describes Macbeth's violence to indicate what a good warrior he is thus showing that he has respect for Macbeth. Once Macbeth became king, he became overpowered with keeping his authority. Macbeth realized that he was being used just so that Banquo's sons can inherit the throne:
They hailed him father to a line of kings.
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding (act III, scene 1, lines 60-64).
Macbeth feeling this way convinces a pair of men to kill Banquo and his son Fle ...
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Red Badge Of Courage
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... in what the fought for in the end of the book and for example the loud soldier who (believed that he wasn't afraid ended up changing and becoming a nice person as well as a good friend. He learned that what he originally believed, which was I am not afraid of anything wasn't what he truly believed. He was terrified; he even gave the youth his will.
The Union or blue sky with sun, believed in what they fought for. They believed that a state cannot succeed from the union and a state cannot make a law null and void. In the back of their minds they believed that slavery was wrong and ended up fightin ...
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The Sun Also Rises By Ernest H
Number of Words: 384 / Number of Pages: 2
... towards the end of the book where Jake finds all of his friends eating at a restaurant and thinks to himself that he is too far behind to catch up. Jake always seems behind, or at least only a marginal player put so in his position because of his injury. He must have had relations with Brett before the injury and was a "player" before it, so this leads to the assumption that Jake purposely removed himself from being a participant. As I was reading I was trying to make connections and read into the story to try and understand if there was more there than what was just on the page. It was hard, for ...
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