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Beowulf Vs. Mcmurtry
Number of Words: 721 / Number of Pages: 3
... worthy of a spot in heaven. "And Beowulf uttered his final boast: 'I've never known fear, as a youth I fought in endless battles. I am old, now, but I will fight again, seek fame still, if the dragon hiding in his tower dares to face me."
Not only are war and football alike in game, but they are alike in name. "The family resemblance between football and war is, indeed, striking. Their languages are similar: "field general", "long bomb", "blitz", and "take a shot"." Those are just to name a few. "Their principles and practices are alike: mass hysteriaa, the art of intimidation, absolute co ...
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King Lears Blindness
Number of Words: 2232 / Number of Pages: 9
... 261-264 )
Because of Lear’s high position in society, he is supposed to be able to distinguish the good from the bad; unfortunately, his lack of sight prevented him to do so. Lear’s first act of blindness is his foolish need of displayed affection by his daughters. First, he was easily deceived by his two eldest daughter’s lies, then he was unable to see the reality of Cordelia’s true love for him, and as a result, banished her from his kingdom. Lear’s most loyal follower Kent, notices Lear’s mistake, and attempts to make Lear see how foolish of an act ...
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Maturation Of Scout
Number of Words: 1141 / Number of Pages: 5
... porch, watched the sunset, talked, took care of Miss Maudie's garden. That's when Scout became very close to Miss Maudie. Basically, Scout admired Miss Maudie. She was her hero.
Calpurnia is a very important character in the novel. Scout has known her her whole life and has basically lived with her, but they weren't that close. Scout never liked Calpurnia very much, mostly because she always complained about her behavior. "She was always ordering her out of the kitchen, asking her why she couldn't behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling her home when she wasn't ready to come. The ...
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Native Son (Summary)
Number of Words: 706 / Number of Pages: 3
... it I took a plane up I'd take a couple bombs along and drop'em sure as hell..." By saying this Bigger reflects the feeling that he feels frustrated and angry with the whites for how they cna simply deny them certain opportunities. This also proves something of hes attitude and his emotions toward white society, in that he knows the boundaries set between the race of whites and blacks. Fear represents an even larger factor in the definition of his personality in the instance of the murder of the Dalton's Daughter Mary. Early on when he meets Mary he expresses he hate for her as a result of Mary a ...
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Night
Number of Words: 1262 / Number of Pages: 5
... to the hospital she would’ve been killed. What as freaky was how she could see that there were big flames and fires in their near destiny.
Eliezer’s Father never showed any emotion until their town was effects by the Nazis. He was strength for the Jewish community. He helped everyone prepare to be evacuated. He was a leader and he helped him neighbors and friends as much as he could. I knew when he was in the back yard talking while they were in the ghetto that something bad would happen, then the nazis come and take him away to a meeting when he came back he told them that the ghetto would be cle ...
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Choices And Consequences In Fr
Number of Words: 677 / Number of Pages: 3
... the traveler "looks down one as far as I could." The road that will be chosen leads to the unknown, as does any choice in life. As much as he may strain his eyes to see how far the road stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he can never see where it is going to lead. It is the path that he chooses that sets him off on his journey and determines where he is going and what he will encounter.
In the second stanza, Frost lets the reader know that the traveler has chosen to take the path less traveled by: "Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim." The path that ...
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Killer Angels 2
Number of Words: 747 / Number of Pages: 3
... Michael Shaara takes you there, as soldiers saw the war and army life. He showed the true sorrow and terror. "Yet you learn to love it. Isn't that amazing? Long marches and no rest., up very early in the morning, and asleep late in the rain, and there's a marvelous excitement to it, a joy to wake in the morning, and feel the army all around you and see the campfires in the morning and smell the coffee…"[pg.125] Leadership in those days, was all about character, and conducting your self as a gentlemen. Shaara wrote of Gen. Armistead, "He was one of the men who would hold ground if it could be ...
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Julius Caesar By Shakespeare
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... was cheering so loud in appreciation of Brutus. Antony realizes that Brutus has the upperhand during the specific time phase, so he begins humbly, acknowledging that he speaks with Brutus¡¯s permission. But with his shrewd skill, he slyly disqualifies Brutus¡¯s claim of Caesar¡¯s excessive ambition with the innocuous sounding speech, ¡°if it were so¡±(line 81). Then with the obscure introduction of Antony¡¯s real purpose of his speech, Antony begins to directly attack Brutus¡¯s argument that Caesar was ambitions. He first refers to Caesar¡¯s generosity in sharing the spoils of war with the citizen ...
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Discussing Literary Genre
Number of Words: 946 / Number of Pages: 4
... structure and style. However, the nature of genre leads to several problems inherent in the defining of genres. Certain genres are looser and more open ended in their conventions than other genres and some genres have many conventions while others have very few. Furthermore, literary texts that overlap and mix genres blur the distinction between them. Genres are not discrete systems consisting of a fixed number of list able items. Consequently, the same text can belong to different genres in different countries or times. For example, Latin poets categorized the elegy mainly in terms of its met ...
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Macbeth - Imagery
Number of Words: 1799 / Number of Pages: 7
... his, and that do not fit. Hence, his ambition. This ambition, as we see, is what leads to his demise. When Macbeth first hears the prophecy that he will be King, he does not see how it can be so, "to be king / Stands not within the prospect of belief" ( I, III, 73-74). However, Macbeth’s ambitious nature becomes visible when he considers murdering King Duncan to claim the throne, "If it were done, when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well / It were done quickly" ( I, VII, 1-2). His ambition is encouraged by Lady Macbeth, of whom attempts to convince him to commit this crime, and lay claim to the throne. ...
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