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The Sword In The Stone
Number of Words: 427 / Number of Pages: 2
... the Wart was a better person to Kay and although he may not have been superior to Kay, he certainly had a better personality and was kinder than Kay. With Merlyn's 'education', the Wart learned not only how to lead well, but also to be a better person, and Merlyn taught him much about how to treat other people with respect and to relate better with them. When the Wart meets Robin Wood and Maid Marion, he learns through Marion that women are no different to men and should be treated equally. He is also taught the pointlessness of violence when he requests a joust between Sir Grummore and King Pellinore. ...
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The Scarlet Ibis
Number of Words: 424 / Number of Pages: 2
... are that she would be more into picking wildflowers and feeding the squirrels. There are rare occasions where you will find a real special brother-sister relationship, especially at the age Doodle and his brother were at. Younger children often play with other kids of the same gender and thinks the opposite sex has \"kuddies.\" The two children would be at a vulnerable age to risk a close relationship. Close brother and sister relationships don\'t usually evolve until the mid teenage years. For example I have two older sisters that I am very close with now, but when I was young I didn\'t ...
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The Crucible
Number of Words: 539 / Number of Pages: 2
... horrible cruelness that humans do bestow.
Also in as another example, a man by the name of Thomas Putnam bestows his very cruel side over wanting more land. Thomas has his own daughter accuse all of his fellow neighbors of witchery just to receive their land. Selfishness is yet another one of humans’ worthless immortalities. So instead of buying or just inheriting his own land himself, he would have innocent people killed to benefit from their life. Thomas Putnam would have people hung for his own good and would not care at all if the people accused were guilty.
Others in this story woul ...
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Symbolism In The Scarlet Lette
Number of Words: 1776 / Number of Pages: 7
... paramour did not escape punishment. In fact, the father of her bastard child took a more severe sentence. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale seemed to be an upstanding, young priest. The whole town liked him and respected him as a holy man. Thus, his deception was much more direct and extreme when he did not confess that he impregnated Hester Prynne. Unlike Hester, he was not publicly punished. So although Hester overcame her ordeal and went on with her life, Dimmesdale exacted a constant, physical and mental reprobation on himself. This inner pain was so intense that his physical health began to reflect hi ...
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Odysseus The Hero
Number of Words: 314 / Number of Pages: 2
... home.
Odysseus also had a weakness for the opposite sex. He enjoyed women. Circe and Calypso played big parts in showing Odysseus' weakness for women. He stayed with Circe for one year and with Calypso for seven years. It is amazing to think that a man of such prowess and bravery had such a weakness.
The biggest surprise when looking at Odysseus was the fact that he had so many weaknesses. Nobody would think that a man of such stature would have any weaknesses at all, yet many of them. Odysseus was a great man, but like many great men throughout the history of the world, he had his uncontrollable fl ...
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Huckelberry And Finn
Number of Words: 580 / Number of Pages: 3
... almost impossible. When Anne saw how Helen lived, she knew that things were going to have to change and quickly.
One day, Anne was teaching Helen table manners. Helen was used to just grabbing food off her family’s plates. When Helen reached Anne’s plate, she refused to give Helen the food. A struggle went on for hours, until finally Helen was able to fold
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her napkin, which was a big accomplishment for her. Although this upset Helen’s family at this time, Anne felt it was worth it because she was able to communicate with Helen.
As time went by, the relationship wi ...
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Mesmerism And The Enlightenmen
Number of Words: 1438 / Number of Pages: 6
... through electricity, baths and a trained "mesmeris," diseases, and all other troubles, could be cured. He likened his "animal electricity" or "animal magnatism" to that of gravity, fire, light and electricity, The system of complex theories put forth by Mesmer could be discussed at great lengths and, in time, they were. His and many other "scientific discoveries" were all the rage in the salons of pre-Revolution Parisian society. The Enlightenment brought about a surge in scientific interest and since the fluids than man intellectuals believed in were invisible it left "every philosopher at th ...
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Romeo And Juliet
Number of Words: 786 / Number of Pages: 3
... relationship a secret. If their parents
discovered their secret, they would have made their children's lives
miserable; furthermore, Romeo and Juliet would not have been able to see each
other. Both of these families were very stubborn and there was hardly
any thing that would have made them become friends. In the prologue
we learn that the only way the "strife" could be ended was by the
deaths of Romeo and Juliet. We must remember that both Romeo and Juliet are the heir’s to their family as they are the only children in the family that will assume head of the house when their pre ...
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The Role Of Women In Medea
Number of Words: 1040 / Number of Pages: 4
... two free born groups
in Athenian society that had almost no rights at all (“Norton
Anthology” 739). Euripides could not have chosen a more
downtrodden role for Medea. Here is this woman who has stood by
her man through thick and thin. She has turned her back on her
family and killed her own brother while helping Jason capture the
Golden Fleece.
“Oh my father! Oh, my country! In what dishonor
I left you, killing my own brother for it.”
(Medea 164-165)
Despite all of her devotion to her husband he has fallen in love
with someone new, Glauke. The Nurse and the ...
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The Poem Sympathy
Number of Words: 1128 / Number of Pages: 5
... necessarily minorities, cannot enjoy because of social or economic circumstances. Underprivileged people may see white people doing what they enjoy and work themselves into a frustrated frenzy because try as they might, the deck is stacked against them.
Ironically, the life of the caged bird is the life of the African American. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the black population was enslaved and tortured by the white population. African Americans were looked down upon with disgust and inequity. The whites forced the blacks to become slaves to them because the white population pos ...
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