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Iowa- An American Portrait
Number of Words: 453 / Number of Pages: 2
... farming had become the ideal way of life. Working on the farm involved all of the members of the family, which brought them together and made them stronger through hardships and great opportunities.
Draft horses used for plowing later became a luxury and farming soon lost its fun and joyful qualities. It was a time of greater hardship than ever before, but the freedom Iowa farmers had to work, worship, live, and play in their own way made it worth the despairing times.
Towns of all sizes began growing throughout Iowa. With them came churches, schools, businesses, and co-ops. The various inst ...
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A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The
Number of Words: 1478 / Number of Pages: 6
... accumulated four New York Drama Critics Awards; three Donaldson Awards; a Tony Award for his 1951 screenplay, The Rose Tattoo; a New York Film Critics
Award for the 1953 film screenplay, A Streetcar Named Desire; the Brandeis University Creative Arts Award (1965); a Medal of Honor from the National Arts Club (1975); the $11,000 Commonwealth Award (1981); and an honorary doctorate from Harvard University (1982). He was honored by President Carter at Kennedy Center in 1979, and named Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in 1981.
In addition to kudos ...
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Analyzing The Struggle For Power In Four Novels: Fahrenheit 451, Invisible Man Lord Of The Flies And Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 1152 / Number of Pages: 5
... permeate their society and corrupt the minds of the people.
Unannounced searches of property by "firemen" are not at all uncommon. At the
slightest inkling of this futuristic contraband, these firemen will rummage
through all of one's property, at times, destroying everything in their path.
On the opposite side of that spectrum, there is a struggle for power by the
people as well. There is the woman who hid several thousand volumes of books in
her house. She loves these books so much that when the firemen ransacked her
house, she went down with the books without hesitation. In another example o ...
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The Theme Of Evil In Literature
Number of Words: 840 / Number of Pages: 4
... with
selfishness. Jack, in Lord of the Flies also begins tearing the island
apart when he becomes extremely selfish. "I'm not going to play any
longer...not with you" (Golding 127) is what he said to the group, right
before he broke away and formed his own clan, where he was the unchecked
ruler, and could perform any task he pleased. One of Jack's other
intolerable acts was the tying up and torturing of Wilfred, another boy on
the island.
Torturing others is the next step in the quest to become evil. "He
didn't say what for" was the other boys' answers for why Jack tied up
Wilfred. "He's going ...
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Freya Goddess Of Love
Number of Words: 813 / Number of Pages: 3
... give the giant the sun, the moon and the goddess Freya. Loki gave him from the first day of winter to the first day of summer to finish the wall or else he will not get his reward. The stranger asked if he could use his stallion to rebuild the wall and Loki agreed, not knowing that it was the stallion that helped speed up the work. Time passed, until there was three days left until summer and the stranger was almost done. The gods were frightened, that the strange man was going to finished in time, so Loki came up with an idea. That night a beautiful mare appeared and whinnied the giant's stallion. Th ...
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Oroonoko, Not An Anti-slavery
Number of Words: 628 / Number of Pages: 3
... from male writers and critics, although she was praised by some. Yet the anthology introduction states that she openly signed her name and talked back to critics. If this is true why would she be afraid to take a more open stance towards the question of slavery. Why does the antislavery perspective have to come from a slave, someone who is obviously going to be antislavery and not that of someone with a higher rank in society whose feelings toward the issue would be more considered.
It is funny that even though the narrator is considered to be a member of the middle class in the colony, she s ...
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Every Day Use
Number of Words: 524 / Number of Pages: 2
... she can do whatever she wants.
Another example that exposes the reality of Maggie is that even her mother treats them differently. Dee is the perfect girl while Maggie is just a normal person. Her mother dreams with Dee; even in her dreams she believes that Dee is perfect. In her dream, there are only three persons: Herself, Dee, and the TV guy. "Sometime I dream a dream in which De and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program…" those were the words of her mother. Maggie's name was never mentioned in the dream.
The descriptions that the mother makes of Maggie and Dee are completely d ...
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On The Universality Of Poetry
Number of Words: 671 / Number of Pages: 3
... a concise description of resent ideologies and philosophies. With a lot of difficulty and guidance, we understood and even appreciated the poem, primarily because we are familiar with the "language" that Elliot used. But would a farmer or just abut any individual unfamiliar with the nuances of poetry understand o appreciate it? Maybe, but the most probable scenario is that they would understand the major points of the poem, but t not recognize little details that make the poem great -- the fact that it contains excerpts from major English writers and that the images in the poem echoes its sense.
It c ...
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"Deep Play: Notes On The Balinese Cockfight"
Number of Words: 1670 / Number of Pages: 7
... He and his wife are watching a cockfight take
place. Cockfights are illegal in Bali. They continue to watch the fight
and he describes the cockfight like any "layman" might see it. This way of
not interacting and seeing things from a spectators point of view, is in a
way using ethnocentrism. This means he isn't really seeing the culture as
it is. From this view point the things which take place may even look
stupid. So, things like the cockfights can be seen only as wrong. At best,
their belief toward the cockfight is a distorted belief; at worst, it is an
outright falsehood. This is somet ...
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Fables
Number of Words: 1502 / Number of Pages: 6
... dear father and mother never tell you not to go into deep water until you could swim? Now if you were a strong swimmer like me, and so he went on preaching at Tom until the poor boy was almost drowned. But Tom managed to find a place where the water was not so deep, and was able to scramble to the bank. Lesson of this fable is, A helping hand is better than a sermon.
Another example of friendship is THE LION AND THE MOUSE. One hot day a lion was sleeping under a rock, he was big, long, very splendid and noble; in fact, as everyone knows, he was King of all animals. Now it so happened that a mou ...
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