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Commentary On The Short Story
Number of Words: 782 / Number of Pages: 3
... “like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box.” The embarrassment Rachel feels is made apparent through the use of point of view, when her teacher makes her take the lost sweater in front of the whole class. Even if the ugly sweater with red plastic buttons and a stretched out collar and sleeves were hers, she would not admit it since “it was maybe a thousand years old,” Rachel informs the reader. The teacher puts the sweater on Rachel’s desk, insisting that it belongs to Rachel; despite Rachel’s objections, the teacher makes her put the sweater on. Rachel tells the read ...
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Alienation Paper Hemmingway
Number of Words: 668 / Number of Pages: 3
... effect on the characters. In both books, the characters went on living as they always had.
Even with all the similarities in the two novels, there was plenty of room left for differences. The setting was one noticeable difference. In The Sun Also Rises, the setting changed a lot. It moved from country to country, and from city to city. There were so many different places in the book that it was hard to keep track of all of them. On the other hand, The Old Man and the Sea, had only one setting. Another difference can be found in the importance of vocations and money. In The Sun Also Rises, the charact ...
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Evil Dead Vs. Evil Dead 2
Number of Words: 620 / Number of Pages: 3
... Dead2”, allowed the making of the sequel, “army of darkness”.
In “Evil Dead”, Ash, his girlfriend, and 3 other friends rent a run-down cabin in the middle of a deserted forest for a couple nights as a vacation. Ash seems to be the easy-going push over type. He does what everyone says without question. Shortly after a tree sexually attacks one of the girls in the group she becomes possessed and attempts to kill ash’s girlfriend. While this is happening ash is standing 4 feet away with an ax, yet he is too scared to do anything. The other man in their group has to ta ...
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The Green Mile Card Report 2
Number of Words: 919 / Number of Pages: 4
... to pick fights. He represented the fears of Paul Edgecombe. Though it is not obvious at the beginning, it becomes clearer as Paul ages. Toot-Toot was portrayed as a jester to lighten the mood of the story. His humor is what kept the other guards sane. Hal (Warden) Moores was the warden of Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Melinda Moores, Hal’s wife, is portrayed as a sick elderly woman. She is used in the story to demonstrate the miraculous healing power that John Coffey held. Janice Edgecombe was Paul’s wife. She died in a bus accident, setting up the character of Elaine Connelly, wh ...
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Contrasts In Taming Of The Shr
Number of Words: 920 / Number of Pages: 4
... and lovely person to everyone. At the other side Bianca at first is known as a sweet and gentle person who only care about studying, but as she reach her goal, to be married her true self appears. She becomes insensitive and unkind by not coming at the call of Lucentio. In the other word she becomes almost what her sister was. By making this contrast Shakespeare developed the theme that we can not decide about people by only look at them because, what a person really is, is more important than how they look or how they seems they are.
One of the other important contrasts in this play that is help to d ...
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Revolutions
Number of Words: 599 / Number of Pages: 3
... in
the universe.
Invention such as the telescope and microscope made new scientific
discoveries possible. The printing press was a very important discovery
that made it possible to spread ideas far and wide.
Astronomy, mechanics and medicine were the areas that were affected
the most during the scientific revolution. It was proven that the planets
and the moons revolved around the sun in circular orbits. These discoveries
were made possible due to new mathematical theories of Copernicus and
Kepler. Newton's universal law of gravity was essential to the historic
changes in mechanics and th ...
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Battle Royal
Number of Words: 2163 / Number of Pages: 8
... does directly result from the prejudice of the white men. The white community is unwilling to look beyond their stereotypes of the role and place of black men. The school superintendent that had requested IM's appearance at the ballroom to give his speech was also the same man that brought the black men into the ballroom with the words, "Bring up the shines, gentlemen! Bring of the little shines!" (1527). A few days earlier IM had given a valedictorian speech that " . . . was a great success. Everyone praised [him] and. . . . It was a triumph for [his] whole community" (1526). In the environment o ...
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Suffering In Crime And Punishm
Number of Words: 721 / Number of Pages: 3
... the crime. Raskolnikov never
again recalls the massive amounts of blood everywhere, the look on
Lizaveta's face when he brings down the axe on her head. These things
clearly show that the crime isn't what might cause him suffering, or
pain, it is something else.
After Raskolnikov is sent off to Siberia, he doesn't feel
remorseful. His feelings haven't changed about his crime, he feels
bad at not being able to living up to his own ideas of greatness. He
grows depressed only when he learns of his mother's death. Raskolnikov
still hasn't found any reason to feel remorse ...
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Contrasting Views In Home Buri
Number of Words: 977 / Number of Pages: 4
... commentary on Frost's works, "The Indespensible Robert Frost," it is revealed that "Mrs. Frost could not ease her grief following Elliot's death, and Frost later reported that she knew then that the world was evil. Amy in "Home Burial" makes the same observation". "Home Burial" illustrates the cause of the failing marriage as a breakdown of communication, both verbally and physically, between two people who adopt totally different views in the midst of crisis.
Amy does not believe that her husband is in mourning over the death of their child. Her view can be defended by the fact that she is feel ...
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Beach Burial
Number of Words: 1297 / Number of Pages: 5
... me to be able to use this poem, (as it has been my one of my favourites for years) I though that for it to have ANYTHING to do with national identity I would have had to use my creative ability to dissect and warp aspects of the poem that COULD have something to do with national identity if the poet had actually CHOSEN to write about national identity. Basically a lot of windbagging- and as much I was looking forward to see how great my powers of persuasion were I finally realised that they wouldn’t be necessary. I realised that even though Slessor’s Beach Burial doesn’t ramble on about the Australia ...
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