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Julius Caesar – Victim Of Tragic Flaw
Number of Words: 499 / Number of Pages: 2
... whom he trusts. Little does he know that Decius is part of the conspiracy, and it is his job to bring Caesar to the Senate, the place in which the assassination would occur. Not only does Caesar trust his friends, but all the citizens of Rome.
Caesar cared very much for all Romans, and always openly expressed his compassion for them. An example of this display of affection is when Caesar is on his way to the Senate. Artemidorus is desperately trying to get his attention to read a warning of the conspirators, but Caesar does not listen or heed the man’s plea because he feels that he should tak ...
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Blind Is As Invisible Does, A
Number of Words: 2171 / Number of Pages: 8
... that does directly result from the prejudice of the white men. The white community is unwilling to look beyond their stereotypes of the role and place of black men. The school superintendent that had requested IM's appearance at the ballroom to give his speech was also the same man that brought the black men into the ballroom with the words, "Bring up the shines, gentlemen! Bring of the little shines!" (1527). A few days earlier IM had given a valedictorian speech that " . . . was a great success. Everyone praised [him] and. . . . It was a triumph for [his] whole community" (1526). In the ...
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Emily Dickinson
Number of Words: 878 / Number of Pages: 4
... her poem. Besides the literal significance of —the "School,"
"Gazing Grain," "Setting Sun," and the "Ring"—much is gathered to complete the poem’s
central idea. Emily brought to light the mysteriousness of life’s cycle. Ungraspable to
many, the cycle of one’s life, as symbolized by Dickinson, has three stages and then a
final stage of eternity. These three stages are recognized by Mary N. Shaw as follows:
"School, where children strove"(9) may represent childhood; "Fields of Gazing
Grain"(11), maturity; and "Setting Sun" (12) old age" (21). In addition to these t ...
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Analysis Of Poe's "A Tell Tale Heart"
Number of Words: 660 / Number of Pages: 3
... At this point the old man's eyes open and
the protagonist sees the evil eye. The narrator's obsession is becoming
more furious. Then, already furious the protagonist hears a heartbeat. It
was a sound that, "a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." This was the
old man's heartbeat and it increased the protagonist's fury. Now the
narrator is full of fury. He also had an uncontrollable feeling of triumph
and power. The narrator under all this confidence, triumph and fury, barged
in to the room. Scaring the old man, the protagonist put him to the floor
and pulled the bed over him. The protagonist could s ...
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Sonnet 138
Number of Words: 1551 / Number of Pages: 6
... sonnet begins with a "When" clause, launching the reader on a sentence of indeterminate length and subsequently leaving us with expectation, in suspense, at the end of the line. The woman is emphatic: she does not merely tell the truth, she is made of truth. Both the nature of this truth, and the reason for her swearing it, are unknown to the reader. The immediate thought is that the speaker has challenged her in some way, and whether or not this is correct, it is certainly an unconventional way to begin a love poem.
The second line, "I do believe her, though I know she lies," in ...
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Why We Are So Jaded
Number of Words: 367 / Number of Pages: 2
... with sarcasm, because the 'businessman's ethic' is predeminant. All this optimistic, picture perfect emotionally driven 'art' willn ot bring about success, or money, or power, things that are so superficially valued, so naturally that or thoses who exemplify it are going to be ridiculed.
may be because of the value placed in our society on all things material, as mentioned above, but when one encounters truly excellent art, it is almost always a combination of both the ironic sarcasm, and extreme emotion - quality wihtout irony, and emotion without gushiness. For a second, if only brief, it lifts us ...
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Jungle Book
Number of Words: 2098 / Number of Pages: 8
... so he had to leave. Mowgli
then went to live with the humans of the area for a while, but after Mowgli killed Shere
Khan they also threw him out. Mowgli went back to the wolf pack and showed them all
that he was boss and took over the leaders position.
The White Seal
This story is about a baby seal that grows up in a nursery on St. Paul Island. This
baby seal is the first white seal that has ever been born. His name is Kotick. After two
years Kotick follows a group of seals that are being herded by men. The men chase them
to a slaughter pen. Kotick sees what happens and goes to talk to hi ...
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Young Goodman Brown
Number of Words: 1363 / Number of Pages: 5
... to be less with faith vs. the faithless void than with the points in between these states. The
story seems more about the journey through between two rigidly defined states than about good and evil. By
describing good and evil through heavy-handed metaphors and symbols, such as his wife's name and the satanic
communion he finds himself at in the forest, and then describing goodman Brown's inability to adapt his self-image to
the hypocrisy he finds, Hawthorne comments on the ultimate failure of such a rigidly proscribed formula for human
existence. At the same time that sin is described as a seeth ...
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Catcher In The Rye
Number of Words: 2504 / Number of Pages: 10
... knew that he had a problem, that he need to do something about his face; but Stradlater thought that he was a great guy. He actually thought that there was nothing wrong with never washing his razor. I think that what mad, Holden so made Stradlater was perpetrating in other word being "phony" every time he went out all GQ after using that filthy razor. Another instance is when he calls that girl in New York, Faith Cavendish, that Eddie Birdsell had brought to a dance at Princeton. Anyway he called her and she almost went off until Holden drooped Eddie's name. Then all of a sudden "she was getting frien ...
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Examination Of The Reasons For
Number of Words: 1174 / Number of Pages: 5
... taken a course in botany and done very well. I never answered one test question wrong all year.`
Because of her perfectionist attitude, Esther was surprised to hear herself say that she didn't know what her career plans were:
`Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue.
"I don't really know", I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.`
She claims that she has `always wanted to learn German` although `the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam`. Esther associates the l ...
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