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Keeping Things Whole
Number of Words: 1696 / Number of Pages: 7
... Chopin by all accounts was a happy one. Taking on the role of a high society lady as well as wife and new mother, Chopin fit in well with the New Orleans culture. She enjoyed the Louisiana atmosphere so well that most of her writings were based here. Chopin continued living in Louisiana raising her six young children until the sudden death of her husband brought her back to St., Louis (Skaggs 3).
Oscar Chopin died while their youngest child, Lelia was only three. Soon after Chopin moved her family to St. Louis to be with her dying mother. In the grief of her losses Chopin had to rediscover who she wa ...
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To His Coy Mistress
Number of Words: 738 / Number of Pages: 3
... only get larger and more ripe as they grow, analogous to his love, but vegetables grow very slow. His love is so great that it would grow ³vaster than empires, and more slow? meaning that if there was enough time, his love for her would be immense. The speaker in this poem is suggesting that his coy mistress is well worth all of these praises, but considering the situation with such little time, there is no period for such high praise. The speaker in this poem seems frustrated; he delicately tries to inform his coy mistress that their death is near, and they still have not had sexual intercour ...
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What Is A Luxury?
Number of Words: 729 / Number of Pages: 3
... his luxuries.
Personally, I have been there and experienced this kind of stupor or
addiction to a possession of mine.
I met Denny Hippchen and Aaron Steinmetz during my first year at
Shasta High School and these two young men awakened my interest in
computers. A computer has been around me ever since. You could call it a
luxury but now I am so used to using the computer that it is now a
necessity. All of my homework is done on my computer, and it is one of my
many ways of communicating. It provides entertainment, music, school needs,
and many other things upon which I depend. In a sense, the co ...
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The Epic Poem Of Beowulf Blend
Number of Words: 530 / Number of Pages: 2
... fate in the Christian religion, yet fate seems to play
an important role in the morality and values of Beowulf. For instance, Beowulf said that
he could serve God because of his fate, because it was his belief that he was fated to be a
servant of God. Beowulf made such references to fate as, "Fate must decide." It is
obvious through the statement, "Fate has swept away the courageous princes who were
my kinsmen, and I must follow them," that the belief in fate also effected the action of the
story.
In the Christian faith, there is a strong belief in the power of God's j ...
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The Pencil Box
Number of Words: 2192 / Number of Pages: 8
... the door wit ha garage sale, dog eared copy of Gone With the Wind—a five-hundred-page-long book! —swinging her patent leather Mary Jane shoes because they didn’t reach the ground and she had to do something to keep her attention through the first twenty pages, pages she always found sub-standard to an otherwise exhilarating book. Yes, supposedly teachers just loved Jane. That’s what all the other children accused them of, love, favoritism, unfair grading, and things like that. They just loved Jane, even though they showed it weird ways.
It took Jane’s second grade teach ...
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Portrait Of The Artist As A Yo
Number of Words: 1339 / Number of Pages: 5
... itself. As a child, the image of the mother figure is strong. It is nurturing and supportive, that of "a woman standing at the half-door of a cottage with a child in her arms . . ." (10) who shelters and protects and makes Stephen afraid to "think of how it was" to be without a mother. As Stephen grows, however, like any child his dependency of him mother begins to dwindle, as does his awe for her. He begins to question his relationship with her and she is suddenly seen as a dirty figure, beginning the transformation of Stephen's image of women; from that of mother to whore. He first begins to ...
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Young Goodman Brown
Number of Words: 794 / Number of Pages: 3
... wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap" we associate the purity of "Faith" and the "pink ribbons" as a sign of the innocence and goodness of the town he is leaving behind (211). As he continues "on his present evil purpose" he sets off at sunset to enter the forest (212). A place "darkened by all the gloomiest trees," unknown territory, and a place where "there may be a devilish Indian behind every tree," with this we know the forest represents evil and sinfulness (212). His decision to enter the forest and leave his "Faith" behind is the first decision, of many, between good and evi ...
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Plato Vs Shelley
Number of Words: 559 / Number of Pages: 3
... thesis through metaphor. He uses a metaphor that compares the work of a poet to a mirror. “Turning a mirror round and round – you would soon enough make the sun and the heavens, and the earth and yourself, and other animals and plants, and all other things of which we were just speaking, in the mirror…but they would be appearances only.” (44) The way in which the writing is interactive with two people creates contradictions, which challenge Plato’s beliefs, yet they are still proven throughout. “Why not? For the duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.
“Very true, but in your presen ...
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Good News From Outer Space By
Number of Words: 1704 / Number of Pages: 7
... in a “Second Coming.” The Reverend Jimmy-Don Gilray, a major character in the book, is convinced that God will send a messenger to arrive on earth on January 1, 2000 in a spaceship. Using television, the smooth preaching Gilray manages to herd the followers in like cattle by the thousands. The words roll off of his tongue like honey and his followers are easily convinced that the perilous times of their last days have come Gilray’s prophecies are given light in the following quote: “They have been fulfilled. That’s how we know we’re in the Last days. The Bible pre ...
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An Exemplum
Number of Words: 403 / Number of Pages: 2
... dealership. When he arrived at the dealership, a new salesman came out to help him. Petros asked him the price of one of the new models in the showroom. The salesman looked at the old man, with his foreign accent, and wearing his old, beat-up hat, and told him that it was very expensive and that he would show him a different one that was much more affordable. Petros told him that he still wanted it. The salesman insisted that the car was much too expensive and that it was not the right car for Petros. At that moment, the owner of the dealership came out of his office to go to lunch and, recogni ...
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