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Political Correctness: The Teddy Bear Massacre
Number of Words: 1431 / Number of Pages: 6
... at the same time. The burning of the bruin was just one of many activities held during the week before the big UCLA game. The idea being that everyone could find something that they could identify with and rally around their school. If the burning was intentionally created to represent or oppress the offended students, the event would have been banned long ago. However, as Matt Hutaff stated in his editorial in the Daily Trojan:
"It’s about school pride. It’s love for the things that brought the university to where it is today. It is traditions that define a school; it’s student body and its heritage. ...
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Analyzing Shakespearean Sonnet
Number of Words: 1101 / Number of Pages: 5
... be and ageing has left him feeling like he has lost the power to write. By focusing on the fact that ageing is a slow and discouraging process he is building on the hopes that someone will feel sorry for him and acknowledge the fact that he may die soon.
In me thou see’st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest. The second quatrain is focusing on twilight and the metaphors adjoining death. This is the time between night and day symbolizing life and death, he is saying that I ...
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A New England Nun
Number of Words: 1737 / Number of Pages: 7
... The suitor brings out different traits than the norm in both the animals and the woman of this story.
The man’s influence is seen as disruptive. Man is seen as a threat to the serenity and security of a spinster’s life. Imagery put forth by this story, and by stereotypes of the
day is of the new England spinster. Women who were not married yet, lived a life of chores and piousness. They learned their domestic chores and other things that would make them presentable as a wife. They did gardening work, read literature, mended
clothing and the sort. These women were dependent on men to come and ta ...
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Brutus Character Analysis
Number of Words: 841 / Number of Pages: 4
... his back..."(act 2, scene 1, ll.24,26). As the quote says, Brutus would not allow Caesar to rise to power and then turn his back onto the people of Rome. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Brutus talks to Antony about Caesar's death. "Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful; and pity to the general wrong of Rome..."(act 3, scene 1, ll.185-186). Brutus says that Antony cannot see their(members of the conspiracy) hearts, which are full of pity. Again, this shows how Brutus loved Caesar but cared for the life of Rome and its people more. This is the only reason Brutus would conspire against C ...
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Israfel By Poe, An Analysis
Number of Words: 1724 / Number of Pages: 7
... "horror writer" a crown which does him a great injustice considering the great variety of works that he wrote and the passion which drove him during his writing. It is this passion that is evident in "Israfel."
The Poem itself draws heavily on Arabian and Oriental literature, subjects which fascinated Poe.(Allen 249) Supernatural elements, which are strong in all of Poe's works and a basic concept of all the Romantics, are represented here, as well as heaven itself. The poem is mystical in nature and a praise of inspiration, which is represented by the angel Israfel, who dwells in heaven and sings so ...
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Gatsby 17
Number of Words: 613 / Number of Pages: 3
... Dream.” Near the beginning of the story, Nick drops the first hints that lead us to infer Fitzgerald's view of the "American Dream.”
Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing ...
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Siddhartha
Number of Words: 1264 / Number of Pages: 5
... lot of names like Gotama, the Illustrious one, the Sakyamuni, and he was rumored that he was perfect. agrees with Govinda so they started on a journey to hear the Buddha's teaching.
After they heard the Buddha's teachings, Govinda becomes his follower, but doesn't. and Govinda said goodbye to each other. learned that even from the perfect one, the teachings wouldn't teach him, so he decides to be taught by nobody. He realizes that he was trying to lose the Self because he was afraid of it. From here, he starts to learn from himself.
After a few days, he reaches a large town, and the ...
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A Passage To India
Number of Words: 1086 / Number of Pages: 4
... house. During this conversation Dr. Aziz states his estimation of how the British have become malicious stating, "I give any Englishman two years… And I give any English woman six months." They also conferred on the likelihood of the British accepting bribes and mistreating their positions. Dr. Aziz's views about the British were not unfounded; he and his friends had various unfortunate experiences with the British. His boss, Major Callander, treated Dr. Aziz very shoddily calling him for appointments and then leaving before Dr. Aziz's arrival. One night after a similar occurrence, the ...
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Othello 10
Number of Words: 588 / Number of Pages: 3
... in a trap, but does not reveal how.
Which thing to do
If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trace
For his quick hunting, stand the putting on
I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip
Abuse him to the Moor in the right garb.
(Shakespeare, II, i, 302-06)
These are but a few of the ways that Iago manages to keep the audience involved in the plot of his diabolical scheme.
Iago is also a very deceitful character. He will always tell the characters one of two things: exactly what they want to hear or the exact opposite, in order to make it easier for them to succumb to his constraint. Othell ...
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Scarlet Letter Thesis
Number of Words: 669 / Number of Pages: 3
... nerve to hold up against a town which despised her very existence, and to stay in a place where her daughter is referred to as a "devil child," either has some sort of psychological problem, or is a very tough woman.
The second meaning that the letter "A" took was "able." The townspeople who once condemned her now believed her scarlet "A" to stand for her ability to create beautiful needlework and for her unselfish assistance to the poor and sick. "The letter was the symbol of her calling. Such helpfulness was found in her- so much power to do and power to sympathize- that many people refused to in ...
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