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People Always Tend To Seek The
Number of Words: 860 / Number of Pages: 4
... by computer tapes. Putting in knowledge would take less time than reading books and memorizing something that would take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them without having any choice of creativity. Computer ould start to control humans' lives and make humans become too dependent on the computers.
Another point that is criticized by Asimov is the fact that people might take their ...
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Scarlet Letter Essay
Number of Words: 748 / Number of Pages: 3
... God and herself. Hester does not isolate herself from the Puritan town; instead, her isolation is inflicted upon her. Hester tries to establish a normal and honest relationship with many of the characters in the story, but sometimes it becomes very difficult.
Pearl, Hester's daughter, becomes so closely associated with the "A" on Hester's chest, becoming, as Hawthorne says, "the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life." Therefore, she becomes the embodiment not only of her mother's sin but of her conscience. Furthermore, because it is through Hester's acceptance of puni ...
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Chaucer
Number of Words: 941 / Number of Pages: 4
... , being "the great poetical observer of men, who in every age is born to record and eternize" (Blake 51), wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late fourteenth century in England. Religion dominated this time period in history; and therefore, it played a huge role in literary work. The Tale's plot is based on a very religious practice, a pilgrimage. The narrator of the Tales starts out by saying that he is "ready to go on my pilgrimage to Canterbury with a most devout heart" ( 3). A pilgrimage is a very sacred aspect of religion. It is an act of religious devotion, where a person or groups of people trave ...
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Utopia Vs. Dystopia
Number of Words: 962 / Number of Pages: 4
... novels. Some have done it by creating their own perfect world, while others have chosen a different path. They have selected to voice their opinions in anti-utopian novels, or dystopia. An anti-utopia is simply the reverse of a utopian novel. The aim of both novels is basically the same. Both have as their objective the improvement of society. The anti-utopian novel, however, instead of presenting an ideal society toward which all men should strive, it basically presents a highly defined, completely hideous society. This type of novel warns that if the tendencies of the real world are not co ...
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Fried Green Tomatoes
Number of Words: 1557 / Number of Pages: 6
... put poker chips in the collection basket at the Baptist church once. She was a character all right…”(12). This shows that nothing would stop Idgie from doing her pranks and having her laughs.
Maybe she was lectured by her priest or by her parents but she didn’t regret it. Idgie was concerned with the present, not the past or the future. Of course she had her hardship that
wouldn’t let her forget, like when her brother Buddy died, and she even looked forward to a day, but she lived in the present. She lived life for the moment. “Now, seriously, Idgie, I’m not trying to run your business or any ...
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Lord Of The Dead
Number of Words: 2432 / Number of Pages: 9
... a reified identity that is decided for women, by men, who “with their foot on women’s throats” do not allow them to speak for themselves. MacKinnon also has a crude, instrumental conception of power, especially in her view of the state as monolithic and fundamentally insensitive to women’s concerns (as she says, “the state is male”3). As a result, her view of politics is strategic and somewhat opportunistic: she appears willing to forge single-issue coalitions with any group to advance her cause, as she has with right-wing groups in her antipornography crusade. MacKinnon’s expressed sympathy for ...
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Beauty When The Other Dancer I
Number of Words: 781 / Number of Pages: 3
... girl anymore who was able to amaze the audience with her long Easter speeches. Furthermore, she started doing poorly at school, her contact with others ended, she did not stare at anyone anymore because she stopped raising her head up, students in her new school made fun of her. Her relatives kept telling that she did not change at all. Although, they knew that Alice changed.
Throughout the story the reader sees that Alice felt bad about herself. She had a great lack of confidence. Walker's fixation throughout life made her an oversensitive person. At the end of the story Walker mentions that she wa ...
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The Bluest Eye
Number of Words: 1403 / Number of Pages: 6
... "pretty" house. Pecola does not stand up to Maureen Peal when she made fun of
her for seeing her dad naked but instead lets Freida and Claudia fight for her.
Instead of getting mad at Mr. Yacobowski for looking down on her, she directed
her anger toward the dandelions that she once thought were beautiful. The
dandelions also represent her view of her blackness, once she may have
thought that she was beautiful, but like the dandelions, she now follows the
majorities' view. However, "the anger will not hold"(50), and the feelings soon
gave way to shame. Pecola was the sad product of having oth ...
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King Lear - Blindness
Number of Words: 1432 / Number of Pages: 6
... 160).
Kent, once banished, creates a disguise for himself and is eventually hired by Lear as a servant. The king's vision is so superficial that he is easily deceived by Kent's changed appearance. He can never see his trusted servant for whom he really is. He only learns of Kent's noble and honest character just prior to his death, when his vision is cleared. By this time, however, it is too late for an honest relationship to be salvaged.
Lear's vision is also blurred by his lack of direction in life, and his poor ability to predict the outcome of his actions. This, in addition to his lack of insight ...
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Madame Bovary 5
Number of Words: 446 / Number of Pages: 2
... scholar (Jorgen Tesman), haven't we in fact found an example of "role reversal"?
And while quite willful, she proves incapable of action on her own (until her suicide). She manipulates, then lives vicareously through others--which looks a lot to me like a take on conservative stereotypes, a quite UNreversed woman who can't gone amuck. She *fantasizes* male creative action, and identifies with it (though she can't even manage that--her fantasy is of herself mirrored in the glory of her hero, with ivy leaves in his hair--the perfect, worshipful female!) Yes, she denies her innate, feminine creative ...
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