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Personal Response To Orwell's "Shooting An Elephant"
Number of Words: 551 / Number of Pages: 3
... for fellow students. My friends might do anything from
standing on top of the table and striping their clothes off to jumping in a
near-by garbage can. None-the-less I tried to stay away from such oddities
and keep an observatory posture, which in turn happens to be what Orwell
would have preferred. All of these maniacal actions undoubtedly spawned
from good old peer pressure, or the natives watching us, expecting such
activities.
In the center of our table was a hole, no one knows for sure why,
maybe it was for a big umbrella to keep the sun and rain out, but now there
was a hole a little ...
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Love And Acceptance
Number of Words: 622 / Number of Pages: 3
... the mother tells us that "Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure." She Fahning -2-speaks of the fire that burned and scarred Maggie. She tells us how Maggie is not bright, how she shuffles when she walks. Comparing her with Dee whose feet vwere always neat-looking, as if God himself had shaped them." We also learn of Dee's "style" and the way she awes the other girls at school with it.
The mother in I Stand Here Ironing speaks of Susan, "quick and articulate and assured, everything in appearance and manner Emily was not." Emily "thin and dark and foreign-looking at a time when ...
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Farewell My Concubine -- Inter
Number of Words: 1081 / Number of Pages: 4
... specialize for life. Douzi, with a natural feminine beauty, is trained for female roles, while Shitou is given masculine military parts. Douzi, however, has difficulty accepting his role as a woman, but eventually does so for he does not want to disappoint his fellow students. Douzi, a confused, pained, and jealous man who cannot distinguish between male or female, reality and dream. He is doomed to fail the one thing he wants: Duan's love. His movements, both on-and offstage, are careful and precise, much like a woman's. At times, in fact, it is hard to believe he is a man.
Both boys go throug ...
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Once And Future King: Analytical Paper
Number of Words: 1855 / Number of Pages: 7
... the world at his
feet - he was to feel this gap: something at the bottom of his heart of which he
was aware, and ashamed, but which he did not understand.”(p.315) As a result of
this fear of himself, Lancelot trained to become a knight. The knighthood, a
bastion of chivalry and nobleness, would be the only way to counter his immoral
soul. Secondly, Lancelot lived a baneful existence as a boy. He was kept away
from all the other children and spent his every waking hour with a fiery old man
in a single room, learning to fight, joust, and fence. This may seem extreme to
some, but for Lancelot, it was ...
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Honesty And Reputation In Othe
Number of Words: 1436 / Number of Pages: 6
... Iago used his reputation, and the insecurities of Othello being a Moor, to allow him to manipulate Othello. Othello had a reputation of being a military man, and a courageous leader. “Valiant Othello, We must straight employ you...” “Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor.” Othello has been a soldier since he was seven years of age, and has experience on the battle field. Othello was chosen when they went to fight the Turkish fleet. Because of his reputation, it wasn’t hard for other people to accept the relationship between him and Desdemona. As Iago started putting i ...
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Hamlet - Act 1 Summary
Number of Words: 326 / Number of Pages: 2
... plot how I will kill Claudius in my mind. I am not sure whether to make him suffer or just kind of blast him. My fathers' spirit has told me to leave my mother, Gertrude, to suffer until she dies. I sure hope that is a LONG time. She has helped to ruin the time that should be fun by allowing for my fathers death and remarriing so soon. I SHOULD be inhereting the throne. But no, my uncle is the new king and I must wait until he dies. Well, that won't be to long .
I shall slay Claudius soon, avenging my father and me! ...
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The Development Of Desire
Number of Words: 3616 / Number of Pages: 14
... to the captain when he goes ashore!” (Homer 166). The irony
falls as Odysseus only desires his homeland. ”Begin when all the rest who left
behind them headlong death in battle or at sea had long ago returned, while he[
Odysseus] alone still hungered for home and wife” (Homer 1).
Odysseus has many opportunities to end his journeys and start a new life.
For instance, if he desired, Odysseus was able to stay with Kalypso who wanted
him forever, “Her ladyship Kalypso clung to him in her sea-hollowed caves- a
nymph, immortal and most beautiful, who craved him for her own” (Homer 1).
Kalypso knows even thou ...
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Edwin Hubble
Number of Words: 1440 / Number of Pages: 6
... is one characteristic in Hubble that allowed him to do his work so well. Whether it was devotion to his family or to his work. It started when he was just a youth; he was in a family of seven children and was expected to earn money for the family (Whitney 222).
Hubble’s devotion was mental and also physical. Hubble worked at Mount Wilson for most of his career. Here, “he spent hundreds of bone-numbing hours in the observer’s cage at Mount Wilson telescope. Anyone who has spent time in ‘the cage’ knows what an extraordinary effort of will it can demand: total concentration, and an ability to su ...
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
Number of Words: 841 / Number of Pages: 4
... are against one another. Here again, Hemingway doesn’t idealize either side, not referring to their political beliefs but to the fact that each side is very much the same. Both sides consist of sad, depressed fools who have been shipped off to war, content to live in peace and harmony with each other. It is here that Hemingway’s first satirical punch at war comes in, when he makes it clear that both sides are human, with no clear line separating the saints from the sinners.
Another thing that is connected to the war concept is that both sides are hopelessly disillusioned. A victory for any army i ...
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Problrm Television Programs
Number of Words: 970 / Number of Pages: 4
... in America, meaning that thirty million adults are unable to read past the fifth grade level. He does not go as far as to say that television is to blame for this outcome, but he does
believe that television contributes significantly to the misfortune. MacNeil also insinuates that viewers are attracted to simple and quick resolutions for many of today’s complex problems in these one half hour shows.
Complex problems and quick, easy solutions are often found in these ine half hour comedy sitcoms such as Home Improvement. In a recent episode eighteen year old Brad (the eldest son) confronted his ...
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