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To Kill A Mockingbird 3
Number of Words: 1020 / Number of Pages: 4
... they construct emerges a vivid character. "Boo was about six and a half feet tall, judging him from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands are blood-stained - if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time." The children test his boundaries as well as their own imaginations by constructing the image. It adds to the game and encourages Jem and Scout to develop distinctions for their boundaries ...
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Star Wars
Number of Words: 541 / Number of Pages: 2
... by a teacher, Joan McKenzie. She taught him of how the earth is round not flat like his father believes. This starts the conflict between father and son.
I believe another thing that both stories have in common is Luke’s Uncle and Mr. Solchuk’s beliefs that they should stay at their homes and live simple lives like they did. Luke’s Uncle believe Luke should stay on Tatoonie and be a farmer like himself, he also worries that if Luke begins to learn to be a Jedi that he will turn to the darkside and become evil like his father, Darth Vader. Mr. Solchuk believed Nick should also stay ...
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A Review Of To Kill A Mockingb
Number of Words: 765 / Number of Pages: 3
... was accused of raping a white woman. This case causes
many problems that they have to deal with everyday. The entire town turns against them
saying that Atticus is a “nigger-lover.” Even Atticus’ family turned against them, which
really hurts Scout, especially when her cousin Francis says “I guess it ain’t your fault if
Uncle Atticus is a nigger-lover besides, but I’m here to tell you it certainly does mortify
the rest of the family-” (Harper 91).
Racism is a major theme in this story along with growing up. Throughout the
story the reader sees how Scout and Jem are afraid of Boo Radley ...
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Damsels In Address
Number of Words: 1367 / Number of Pages: 5
... and values of the society in which the tales were written. Through the examination of tales, their inherent messages surface.
Children’s perceptions of fairytales can go a long way towards shaping social interactions among said children. Passivity is a major player in the personalities of Rapunzel, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. Rapunzel relies completely on a determined prince to escape her imprisonment; Cinderella uses a fairy godmother to help her cause and Sleeping Beauty waits until Prince Charming wakes her. Children could see these characterizations of women and begin to intertwine the ...
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The Accuracy Of News Reports
Number of Words: 737 / Number of Pages: 3
... Daily News and The New York Post. That definitely
wasnt the most important thing that happened the news that day but it
did sell newspapers. You may think that this is wrong but if The Daily
News doesnt sell newspapers they dont last. Thats the reality of the
world and we must accept it.
The whole story is never fully told sometimes because the
broadcasters havent received the information. There was no way that the
media couldve seen through the eyes of the shooters. They were still in
the school while the reporters were giving their story. We as an audience
naturally takes sides when hearing a ...
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Silkworms
Number of Words: 654 / Number of Pages: 3
... economy. Things such as predicting harvest by the amount of sprouts that a garlic put out, the way they isolated Lotus believing that she would bring bad luck to them just because her family had a bad harvest, and Huang's interest in Taoism, they were all somehow reflection of Mao's affection. Just around the same period of time, he has been encouraging the peasants for abandoning the worship of Gods and rejecting Buddhism. T'ung Pao hated the foreigners. Since they brought in foreign goods in, in other words, they brough in competitions. The global power seemed to have shifted irrevocably from Eas ...
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Poetry- Woman To Man By Judith
Number of Words: 1050 / Number of Pages: 4
... the man, not only the pleasure, but through blood and pain, a child.
The language compliments the mood of this poem, as it varies from a sad and melancholy cry, to a voice of hope, all in a constant confident feel, and by this, the poet's reflections and contemplation’s are communicated successfully to us, making us feel in the same way she has felt.
The first stanza begins with a bold and confident entry describing in a simple way the sexual relation between the man and the woman; or better said; Woman to Man. The ‘seed’ which the woman holds - has the potential of becoming a child. The image ...
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Charley Skedaddle
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... for the army. He trained and worked hard to be a
good one. He may have been physically ready for his first
battle, but emotionally he was not. I don’t think he really
knew what killing a person involved. All of his life he
watched the people he cared about be taken away from him.
First, it was his parents, then Johnny, then Noreen and now
it was about to happen again. This time it was about Gem,
the only person who took an interest in him during battle.
Gem was killed and this caused Charley’s anger to peak. He
shot the Confederate who killed his friend.
After realizing what he ...
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The Odyssey: Virtues And Vices
Number of Words: 432 / Number of Pages: 2
... of his life. In every case, story or real life, if hospitality is not practiced bad things will happen.
Also a theme found in the Odyssey is revenge. One case of revenge is where Odysseus blinds the Cyclops in order for his crew and himself to escape and at the same time obtain revenge for the deaths of his men. Polyphemus deserved his fate because of his cruelness. Even after being blinded, Polyphemus stumbles out of his cave to thrown boulders at Odysseus' ship and to curse the men to never return home. Later along the story, when Odysseus, Telemachus, and the faithful herdsmen slaughter al ...
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Joyce's "The Dead"
Number of Words: 1061 / Number of Pages: 4
... His arrogance is revealed in his interaction with others. A
primary example would be the way he treats his wife Gretta as an object.
As Peter J. Rabinowitz informs one that in reader response
criticism the "…activity of reading always alters the text at hand. Unless
we are limiting ourselves to reading in the sense of uninflected recitation,
reading is never a passive activity to which the reader contributes nothing.
In the reader response criticism, reading is a text in which individual
experiences bear on the subject. Every individual interprets the text
differently due to one having different e ...
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