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Louisa May Alcott Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,452 words
... s House. After leaving the Customs House,
Hawthorne published the novel The Scarlet Letter.
In the introduction to the novel, Hawthorne
dedicated two paragraphs to express his contempt
of the town of Salem. Although this angered many
Salemites, the book became very popular, even with
many Salemites. According to John Clendenning, The
novel is controlled by a single idea the suffering
that results from sin (114). In the book,
Hawthorne reveals that in Puritan New England, a
sinner was not nec...
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Feeling Guilty Meursault Deals Life
806 words
In Albert Camus novel, The Stranger, the main
character Meursault displays a unique indifference
to his surroundings and the world around him. It
takes him a degree of time to come to terms with
his indifference, but when he does he feels truly
free from society's constricting bonds. He leads
an apathetic lifestyle that is characterized by
his constant lack of a definitive personality.
Meursault wanders through life as if in a drunken
stupor, living the life of a pleasure seeker. When
he accepts...
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Catholic Church Short Fiction
936 words
William Trevor, Of the Cloth, New York, New York,
The New Yorker, March 09, Of the Cloth is a
contemporary work of short fiction set in the
remote Irish community of Ennismolach County
during the early summer of the year, nineteen
hundred and ninety seven. The greater part of the
story takes place in a small, stone rectory
nestled among the green valleys and pastureland's
that lie below the Irish mountain slopes. The
author describes solitary hillsides, peaks and
valleys, and a remnant of what o...
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Rest Of The Family Worst Part
1,252 words
People say when you marry someone you dont just
marry that one person, but you marry that persons
whole family. Every family has its dysfunctions.
Every family has members that are often times
difficult to deal with, but thats what family is
all about; sticking together and loving one
another, despite what differences or opposing
forces may exist. In Liars Club, Mary Carrs
Grandma didnt share this point of view when it
came to Pete, Marys father. In fact, she wanted
Marys mother, Charlie, to div...
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Strong Emotions Life Events
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The Macmillan dictionary for students defines
stranger as: 1. Person with whom one is not
acquainted or familiar. 2. Foreigner, outsider, or
newcomer. 3. One who is ignorant of, unacquainted
with, or unaccustomed to something specified. In
the book, The Stranger, by Albert Camus, these
three definitions apply to the protagonist,
Meursault. Meursault is portrayed as aloof,
detached, and unemotional. He does not think about
events and their consequences. He also fails to
express any emotion in his...
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Rose For Emily Norton Anthology
1,126 words
An analysis of "A Rose for Emily" by Celia
Rodriguez West suggests that modern art grew out
of a dissatisfaction with existing belief. He also
claims that nineteenth-century romanticism in
England and in America, particularly during the
latter half of this age, was relatively
complacent, but that this complacency became an
impossibility following the shock of World War I
(West, 92). Artists asked the questions: "Which
values of the past are illusory? Which have value
for us today? In what terms ...
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Child Neglect Ellen Foster
1,383 words
The outcome of a ravaging issue called child
neglect is a disturbed eleven year old girl, with
the mind of a thirty year old woman, and an
insecure future. It is a worldwide curse that will
plague our children forever if it persists to take
over our family values. Ellen Foster, by Kaye
Gibbons, is an emotionally moving novel of child
neglect in the South. Ellen tells her story of a
dreadful life, leading to another of
self-acceptance and solace. Shes born into a life
of child neglect from her fa...
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Tom And Huck Aunt Polly
1,219 words
This is a story about a young boy named Tom Sawyer
who is very mischievous and likes to go on
adventures. He lives with his Aunt Polly and his
half-brother Sid. Tom also had two friends named
Joe Harper and Huck Finn. Becky Thatcher is Toms
girlfriend and Injun Joe is the towns thief and
murderer. This story took place in the mid- 1800 s
in a small village in Missouri along the
Mississippi River. The story begins when Aunt
Polly has to punish Tom Sawyer for playing hooky
from school. She orders ...
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Irish Immigrants Irish Americans
1,344 words
... lower these coffin ships waiting for the
bodies of the newly deceased (Coffey). Families of
the emigrants held American wakes, which were both
mourning's and celebrations. These wakes were
somewhat happy occasions because some were able to
leave their lives of hardships behind them
(Coffey). The high mortality rate caused parishes
to hold mass funerals. The funeral bills,
although, were near impossible for families to pay
so each church had a community coffin. These
community coffins were us...
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Hamlet Sr Father Death
656 words
The 3 rd film version of Hamlet staring Mel Gibson
varies in many ways to original play, "The Tragedy
of Hamlet. " The film version starts out with the
morbid funeral of Hamlet, the deceased king of
Denmark. Joining fellow mourners was Hamlet's son,
Hamlet and Gertrude, Hamlet Sr. 's former wife.
This conflicts with the play for the first scene
shows the ghost of the king while the guards keep
watch. In the film, we do not see this scene for a
good fifteen to twenty minutes or so. And when the
a...
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Daisy And Gatsby Tom And Daisy
1,325 words
The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott
Fitzgerald, published by Charles Scribner's Sons,
and copyrighted in 1925. The book takes place
mostly in a small town near New York known as West
Egg during the 1920 s. One of the main characters
of the novel is the narrator of the book, Nick
Carraway. He relates the events of many summers
that affected him deeply. He has a knack for
telling the truth, at least according to him, and
he comes from a small mid-western town seeking
employment as a bond trad...
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Autumn Of 328 10 000 Talents Alexander
1,302 words
... he met serious resistance at Tyre, where he
was refused entry into the island city. The
Tyrians walled themselves inside their island
fortress. Alexander could not leave them to attack
his rear and he could not attack by sea so he
decided to build a land bridge, which still
exists. He succeeded finally only after seven
months, not on land but in a very brutal naval
battle. During the siege of Tyre, Darius opened
negotiations to his surrender. He even offered a
division of his empire. He want...
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Play Julius Caesar Brutus And Mark Antony
325 words
In William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar,
there is a major difference between two of the
characters, Brutus and Mark Antony. Brutus was
very honorable and Antony was very persuasive.
When Brutus spoke at Caesar's funeral, he appealed
to the people's logic and Antony spoke to the
emotions of the people. Antony is very smart and
uses his brain frequently during the play and
Brutus is very naive about many of things. Brutus
was very honorable and Antony was very persuasive.
Brutus was very hono...
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Antony And Octavius Mark Antony
770 words
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a play about
loyalty, betrayal, love, and deception. There are
many characters with fairly in-depth
personalities. Some of the main characters are
Cassius, the crafty, deceptive, witty man who is
the leader of the conspiracy that killed Caesar.
Brutus, the noble, honest, honorable man who is
one of the key members of the conspiracy. There is
also Antony, who is Caesars right hand man. He is
shrewd and ruthless man, willing to do anything to
get revenge for Caesars...
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Reading This Book Read A Book
1,389 words
Annemarie Johanson and her family lived in Denmark
in a chaotic time of World War I. The Germans had
been roaming around Europe, searching for Jewish.
The Germans even took over Denmark, a country that
is so peaceful that the king dont even need
protection when he walk out to the streets
everyday. They stand in every corner of the
streets of Denmark. Taking away any goods that
Danish and Jewish need. Everyone feared them. All
they know is that if they do not follow their
rules, they would be in ...
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Gas Station African Americans
1,180 words
... up and they left Jackson after a few hours.
Before they left Jackson Stacey's cousin Oliver
had an Aunt and Uncle that ran a restaurant in
Jackson. They stayed there till Jeremy showed up
with Moe. Cassie went to study for a debate in the
back of the restaurant and met the man by the name
of Solomon Bradley. She liked him from the stat
but he was way to old for her. Then Oliver got
some food and money from his Uncle and Cassie,
Stacey, and Little Willie were of to Memphis, TN
to get Moe on a...
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Streetcar Named Desire Blanche Dubois
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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
focuses on the fragile Blanche Dubois who is no
longer able to bear the hardships of life. As a
result, she chooses to live in a dream world
filled with fantasies and lies. The adoption of
this new world, along with her inability to adapt
to her physical surroundings, is what causes her
own fateful end. Blanches plight can well be
understood by a detailed analysis of her character
and the symbols used by Williams to describe her
nature. By analyzing...
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Strong Imagery Mother Funeral
580 words
IB English Paper Many artists, authors, and
composers have put the beauty and warmth of the
sun in their work. The Dutch painter Vincent van
Gogh created landscapes that expressed his joy
with bright sunshine. The American poet Emily
Dickinson wrote a poem called "The Sun, " in which
she described the rising and setting of the sun.
The Russian composer Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov
included a beautiful song, "Hymn to the Sun, " in
his opera The Golden Cockerel. Uniquely, Camus'
usage of the sun oppos...
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Wrong Thing 10 Years
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I dont think theres genius in my writing Observer:
What is Hotel Honolulu about? Theroux: I see it as
a book about a place which is very difficult to
write about. There are two places that are hard to
write about. A place like Britain, England in
particular, which has been written about by
everybody, and then the place thats never been
written about. Ive tried to find a form that would
accommodate the place that Ive been living in for
11 years. Obs: Is it the first attempt to make a
literature o...
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Light Body Poem Death
383 words
In my opinion, Emily Dickinson as a
transcendentalist used her poetry to describe the
process of transcendental meditation, particularly
the meditation of death. In this poem she tries to
allow us to experience our true nature by entering
directly into our conscious. The poem is a deep
seeking of the nature of death, the death that is
a process of expansion and transformation from
solidarity to a spaciousness. When she says: I
felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and
fro, kept treading, t...
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