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The Crucible - The Deteriorati
Number of Words: 820 / Number of Pages: 3
... claimed that the devil took them over and influenced them to dance. The girls also said that they saw members of the town standing with the devil. A community living in a puritan society like Salem could easily go into a chaotic state and have a difficult time dealing with what they consider to be the largest form of evil. Salem’s hysteria made the community lose faith in the spiritual beliefs that they were trying to strictly enforce. The church lost many of its parishioners because the interest of the town was now on Abigail because people wanted to know who was going to be named next. When the chur ...
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The Book Of Sand By Jorge Luis
Number of Words: 1285 / Number of Pages: 5
... He begins to speak to the man seated besides him, and finds out the stranger has the same name, and the same address as he does. When Borges asks the man what year it is, the man answers 1918, even though it is 1969. It is then that the narrator figures out he is talking to the person whom he was fifty-one years earlier. He then tells "the other" him of the future, after which they part, knowing they will never meet like this again. This story deals with time. The author is very nostalgic and lives for his memories. It also is a philosophical story where Borges expresses his doubt that we all may " ...
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Song Of Myself
Number of Words: 1230 / Number of Pages: 5
... with another individual in section five particularly expresses Whitman as a being of desire and libido.
Whitman begins his synthesis of the soul and body through sexuality by establishing a relative equality between the two. He pronounces in previous stanzas, "You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself," and, "Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest." Here, he lays foundation for the basic egalitarianism with which he treats all aspects of his being for the rest of the poem. This equality includes not only his sexuality, but in ...
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Venerating The Mystery The Vir
Number of Words: 795 / Number of Pages: 3
... evokes a mesmerist's disk, a hypnotic spinning spiral. The rendering of the shadows around her eye hints at the kohl rimmed eyes of an Egyptian hieroglyph, an ancient and mysterious goddess (Figure 2, Feature 2). Mary's power, her steady gaze, is unquestionable.
The shapes of the piece serve to emphasize her enigmatic power. The clothing is composed of angular and geometrically gilded polygons. The sharp lines clearly show gravity, tension, and the folding nature of the cloth (Figure 2, Feature 3). Conversely, the flesh is smooth and flowing, free from physical forces, sacred. Her face is at the apex ...
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Number of Words: 735 / Number of Pages: 3
... story begins with the Marquise de Merteuil corresponding with Vicomte de Valmont regarding a luscious new act of ‘revenge’, as she describes it, against the Comte de Gercourt. The young Cecile de Volanges has just come home from the convent and her marriage to Gercourt has been arranged. However, before he can wed the innocent child, Merteuil proposes Valmont ‘educate’ her, thus spoiling Gercourt’s fancy for untarnished convent girls. Valmont is uninterested in such an easy seduction and is far more aroused by the thought of lulling The Presidente’ de Tourvel, the very epitome of virtue, into submissi ...
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Fallen Angels
Number of Words: 846 / Number of Pages: 4
... After
Perry is wounded and sent back to war he becomes horrified by the thought of going back to war, and throws up. Another difference between Perry before an after the war is the fact that before
the war he had never killed anyone or had been around death that much. After the war you know that he will never forget these tragedies, because these are very traumatizing things to see, and they
scar for life. One example that probably scared Perry for the rest of his life were the sounds he
heard after Brew, and himself had been shot. He saw them trying to help Brew, but then “ I heard the zi ...
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John Donne And Shakespeare
Number of Words: 1723 / Number of Pages: 7
... sonnet is written for a wider audience as he is trying to get people to see his point of view. This is that the conventional blazon of the love sonnet is inaccurate and either ridiculous or impossible.
The language used for each sonnet is both different and surprising. In Shakespeare’s sonnet the language is interesting because in a love sonnet the reader does not expect language like “black wires grow on her head’ or “her breasts are dun”. Shakespeare uses this language to ridicule the descriptions in other love sonnets. For example, he makes us think how unnatural it would be to have ...
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Character Analysis Of John Pro
Number of Words: 455 / Number of Pages: 2
... but it can and sometimes will be overcome by other powerful emotions. John’s initial struggle for survival is suppressed by his overwhelming love for his wife. He becomes involved when his wife’s name is mentioned in court, and her life becomes endangered. John does a complete turn around on his perspective of the situation. He goes from being completely isolated, to attempting to take control of the situation. However, his initial failure to do the right thing from the start caused this plan to fail.
If he had been faithful to his wife in the first place, this could have all been a ...
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The Red Badge Of Courage 3
Number of Words: 1081 / Number of Pages: 4
... glorious
battles. He didn^t want to stay on the farm with nothing to do, so he
made his final decision to enlist.
After enlisting he finds himself in a similar situation, with
nothing to do. While there he becomes friends with two other
soldiers, John Wilson, ^the loud soldier / ^the friend^ and Jim
Conklin, ^the tall soldier^. Wilson was a loud spoken and obnoxious
soldier who becomes one of Henry^s best friends. Jim was a tall
soldier and was a childhood friend of Henry^s. He was always calm and
matter-of-fact like. He also loves pork sandwiches as that is all he
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Penelope As Moral Agent
Number of Words: 2964 / Number of Pages: 11
... in opposition to her findings. Since I am not familiar with and have not read any of the outside texts to which Foley refers (Aristotle's Oedipus Tyrannos, Poetics, Politics, and Ethics, the Hippocratic medical texts, and the feminist theory of Carol Gilligan), I can only assume that her interpretations of these texts are correct. In any case, she uses Aristotle and Hippocrates in order to develop a historical framework against which she can judge Homer's fictitious character Penelope. This method would have led to a good argument if she had included in her analysis an explanation of what constitu ...
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