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King Henry IV Part 1 - Hal
Number of Words: 1441 / Number of Pages: 6
... his life and become reborn. There is an amoral quality to Hal that allows him to change allegiances as political winds would call it wise. But it is not just amorality that makes Hal a politician - he desires power as well. His amorality culminates in his eulogies for Hotspur and Falstaff with the greatest grasp of power he makes in the play. After he gives them and Falstaff is found alive, he realizes that he has made a slight blunder and backs off a bit, allowing Falstaff some room to remain. But while he delivers them, he is at his best, being the worst. His basic behavior appears king-like, but th ...
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A Time Capsule Of An-mei Hsu
Number of Words: 376 / Number of Pages: 2
... Band-Aid ©. This teaches An-mei an
important tradition. She must live to carry on the family. It is also a
symbol of her mother, when it closes up she forgets her.
The pearl necklace given to her by the second wife is important.
This show's An-mei how easily people can deceive her by presents and such.
It was a fake pearl necklace made out of glass. This shows her not to
trust anyone from first glance.
The next important item is the white dress that her mother gives
her. This represents the first thing in her new life. He life of riches
starts with the receiving of the dress. ...
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Image Of Child Heros
Number of Words: 1821 / Number of Pages: 7
... of the oldest child hero stories.
It was part of the Bible, in the Old Testament. In this story a young man named
David proposes to the king of Israel that he fight and attempt to kill Goliath,
the giant that had been plaguing Israel. The king agrees, however hesitantly,
and David goes on to slay the beast using just a slingshot. While this story
is not one that was made up, it still shows us that the ancient Hebrews
believed in the fact that a child, or in this case teen, has the will and
motivation to do the impossible.
Staying on the eastern side of the world, we will next see exam ...
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A Rose For Emily
Number of Words: 1302 / Number of Pages: 5
... she had no taxes in Jefferson because before the Civil War the South
didn't have to pay. This change occurred when the North took over the South. "After her father's death she went out very little;
after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all," (41). Miss Emily might have stayed out of the public eye after
these two deaths because she was finally alone, something she in her petty life was not used to. Emily's father never let her
alone and when he died Homer Barron was a treat that she was never allowed to have. Miss Emily's stubborn attitude
definitely came from her father's stric ...
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Howl & Kaddish By Allen Ginsberg
Number of Words: 2615 / Number of Pages: 10
... Kerouac, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Felinghetti. Perhaps the most famous and most criticized of these "beatniks" is Allen Ginsberg. Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. His mother, Naomi, was a Russian immigrant, and his father Louis was a poet and Paterson, NJ teacher. Allen’s childhood was not always a happy one; Naomi went back and forth from mental hospitals and endured the physical abuse of Louis. She also had Communist leanings, thinking that spies were out to get her and that Hitler was on the way. All of these are mentioned in some of Allen’s works, the topic ...
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Macbeth - Contradiction In The
Number of Words: 690 / Number of Pages: 3
... ii, lines 60-61). When he
murders Banquo, Macbeth is still in torment, but
the cause of his anguish seems to have changed.
He is afraid of Banquo, because Banquo knows about
the witches and because the witches predicted that
his descendents would be kings. Banquo’s death,
he says will put his mind at rest.
As the play goes on, there is a fundamental change
in Macbeth’s character. Due to the manipulation
of others, Macbeth has lost all sense of morality
and right and wrong. The craving for power and
obtaining more control consumes Macbeth. Macbeth
orders the murder of Macduff’s wife and child ...
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Brave New World
Number of Words: 995 / Number of Pages: 4
... Thus, through a
series of events, Bernard uses the curiosity of the society to his
advantage, fulfilling his subconscious wish of becoming someone
important; a recognized name in the jumble of society. This ends when
the curiosity of others ends, and as a supreme result of his arrogant
behaviour, he is exiled. The instigator of this curiosity as
well as the author of Bernard's fame (and folly), is an outsider know
as the Savage. The Savage is brought in from outside of the utopian
society by Bernard as an experiment. He faces "civilized
society" with a bright outlook, but ...
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Five Ripe Pears And On Moralit
Number of Words: 684 / Number of Pages: 3
... mindset. The idea she provides says, as human beings, we cannot distinguish “what is ‘good’ and what is ‘evil’”. Morality has been so distorted by television and press that the definition within the human conscience is lost. This being the case, the only way to distinguish between good or bad is: all actions are sound as long as they do not hurt another person or persons. This is similar to a widely known essay called “Utilitarianism” [Morality and the Good Life] by J.S. Mills with which he quotes “… actions are right in the proportion as ...
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Oedipus Rex - Oedipus Is Innocent
Number of Words: 1474 / Number of Pages: 6
... There was no way to stop the prophecy no matter what action was taken. Throughout his life he ruled for his people. He was looked at as a "mortal set apart to face life’s common issues and the trials, which the gods dispensed to men" (3). He was the hero, the one that everyone looked to in a time of need. It can be said of his case that the good should outweigh the bad. That Oedipus reacted as any other would. Though the prophecy is what he was running from, the prophecy is what he ran into. Oedipus did not want his fate to be his destiny. He wanted to be honest…to be a savior. He want ...
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Battle Royal
Number of Words: 1238 / Number of Pages: 5
... Near the end of the story however, his grandfather’s presence scares him to death. The grandfather’s advice was a little too much for the narrator to handle. "Live with your head in the lion’s mouth…overcome them with yeses…let ‘em swoller you till they vomit." This scares the boy. These last words that his grandfather tells him makes him feel like that there is a curse hovering over him. The family being black had a harder time growing up than the more wealthy white folks did. He wrote a graduation speech that totally went against his grandfather’s words that he gave the narrator. The ...
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