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Years Ago Five Years
549 words
Have you ever wondered why we, humans, exist? Who
is our creator? How did we get here? Well, as for
me, these questions pop into my mind especially
right before I go to sleep. These questions have
been on my mind since I was about five years old
till present time. Perhaps one day, Ill get me
questions answered. It all begin when I was about
five years old. I remember waking up during the
middle of the night, gazing into this green night
light against the shadows of a statue of the
infant Jesus. ...
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Crime And Punishment Christian Religion
929 words
Fyodor Dostoevsky drew upon his many hardships and
life experiences in order to instill a sense of
realism and truth into the novel Crime and
Punishment. He bases many of the characters in the
novel on his own life. By incorporating his own
life challenges into the novel, there is a greater
sense of personal reflection and emotional
honesty. This is what brings the story to life.
Perhaps one of the greatest occurences that
influenced the writing of Crime and Punishment was
the death of Dostoevsk...
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Catcher In The Rye Elkton Hills
1,295 words
Holden Caulfield's monologue in The Catcher in the
Rye is an examination of one boy's struggle of
entering into adulthood. He is a classic screw up
with no goals, just as Stradlater, his roommate at
Percent, states; "you don't do one damn thing the
way you " re supposed to" (Salinger 41). It is
really Holden's avoidance of having to grow up and
his fears related to it. It is because of Holden's
fears the he becomes so full of despair and
loneliness and is often nauseated by the world
around him ...
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Carson Mccullers Marital Relationship
1,348 words
Carson McCullers takes the reader on a journey
into the lives of a family plagued by alcoholism
in "A Domestic Dilemma." The realism of the story
is astounding, as most people will often find
themselves torn when facing difficult family
decisions. The Meadows family is torn by both
compassion and suffering, and Martin Meadows is
faced with one of the most difficult decisions of
his life. In A Domestic Dilemma, the author
conveys the idea that individuals facing difficult
decisions in marital rel...
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Nervous Breakdown Brother Allie
1,506 words
Crit Scholar 4 - 28 - 00 English 2 Ms. Nessier,
Period 4 Societies Influence Upon Humanity
Rejection is the key to self-destruction.
Rejection of an individual could possibly cause
the mental deterioration (nervous breakdown) of
that individual due to the repudiation of society.
Ostracization is not always induced by the
physical appearance of a person but is sometimes
caused by a character flaw. In both J. D. Salinger
s The Catcher in the Rye and E. L. Doctorow s
Ragtime the main characters, Ho...
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Jump Off Creek Lost Babies Gloss
641 words
The Jump-Off Creek introduces the reader to the
unforgiving Blue Mountains and the harsh pioneer
lifestyle with the tale of Lydia Sanderson, a
widow who moves west from Pennsylvania to take up
residence in a rundown homestead. She and other
characters battle nature, finances, and even each
other on occasion in a fight for survival in the
harsh Oregon wilderness. Although the story is
vividly expressed through the use of precise
detail and 1800 s slang, it failed to give me a
reason to care becau...
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Younger Waiter Older Waiter
580 words
A Clean Well Lighted Place Earnest Hemming way
Analysis The conversation starts out with the
narrator setting up the story and the scene, as
most do. An indication is made about the setting
in the caf? with the leaves giving a shadow and
hence telling us that the story was taking place
on a patio or street of the caf? . An old man that
was deaf and seems to be on hard times, which he
was, especially after finding out that he had
recently tried to commit suicide. One of the
waiters whos table the...
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Kurtz Last Words Cut Off From Civilization
1,937 words
Conrad s Heart of Darkness is the story of the
dissolution of a man and the system that he stands
for. Kurtz has decomposed because he lacks
restraint. While Kurtz was in the darkness of the
Congo, he found the most inhumane and violent ways
of producing material wealth. It is Kurtz s
metamorphosis into absolute evil which kills him.
is the man who has decayed and succumbed to the
evil within himself because of the society s
system he is from. European civilization has
conjectured itself to be s...
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Dylan Thomas Personal Life
804 words
Under Milk Wood is a play by Dylan Thomas, wherein
he creates a great number of characters in a very
short period of time. In less than one hundred
pages, Thomas has introduced sixty-five
characters. The reader is able to learn a great
deal of information about each of the characters,
despite the fact that he uses less than a page to
introduce each of them. Thomas has accomplished
this, through the creation of scenes and the use
of language, which imply various traits about each
of the character...
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Men And Women Dorothy Parker
670 words
Dorothy Parker, an accomplished American poet,
exposes the darker side of human behavior through
her epigrammatic style of poetry. She believed
that a writer must say what he feels and sees. She
specialized in the hard truths, particularly about
death, in both life and love. Some major motifs
present in Parkers work include loneliness, lack
of communication between men and women,
disintegration of relationships, human frailties,
and the affectations and hypocrisies of a
patriarchal society. Park...
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Story Of An Hour Mallard
1,150 words
Kate Chopin? s The Story of an Hour and Gail
Godwin? s A Sorrowful Woman are both similar
pieces of literary work in that both stories
offers a revealing glimpse of extremely unhappy
marriages. Both Mrs. Mallard and the unnamed
mistress in A Sorrowful Woman called (the wife)
seem to reveal a problem or possibly a disease
which is plainly inherited through the institution
of there marriages. They are so unhappy with the
lives they lead and the person (s) in them they
seem to drive themselves to t...
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State Of Mind Figures Of Speech
620 words
September Frederick Douglas Frederick Douglass
September 3, 1838 marks the first day of freedom
for Frederick Douglass. On this first day from the
wretchedness of slavery, Douglass felt the
blessedness of freedom. However, he soon finds
that his free life will not always be blessed.
Through figures of speech and syntax, Douglass
conveys both a blessed and excited state of mind
and an insecure and lonely state of mind. When
questioned about his feelings upon becoming free,
Douglass s response was...
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Thousand Years Ago Three Thousand
1,931 words
Celestial sat with Fulcrum Fulcrum Celestial sat
with about two-dozen of her best friends. She was
dressed head to toe in the latest gear. Her shoes
were black patent boots with a slight heel and
glistened silver in the bright artificial light.
Her silver pants had a slight flare to them,
flowing around her boots and accentuating her thin
hips. She wore a jet-black shirt and classy
tailored jacket that ended mid-thigh. Her
sparkling silver necked bore an ancient symbol. It
was created by a long ...
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Joe And Biddy Pip
1,010 words
Of Great Expectations Great Expectations Of the
major themes from Charles Dickens novel Great
Expectations to be discussed as to their
importance concerning its structure, I have
selected Love in the context of human relations, ?
Isolation? and finally? Redemption. ? The
loneliness isolation brings can only be redeemed
loving associated of our fellow man, this is a
two-way thing. Had grown diseased, as all minds do
and must and will that reverse the appointed order
of their maker. In isolation t...
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Streetcar Named Desire Glass Menagerie
594 words
Tennessee Williams incorporates numerous aspects
of his life in his plays; The Glass Menagerie and
A Streetcar Named Desire illustrate these
autobiographical tendencies. He once said, My work
is emotionally autobiographical. It has no
relationship to the actual events of my life, but
it reflects the emotional currents of my life.
Homosexuality, loneliness, and family relations
all integrate themselves into Williams plays,
these themes portray the isolation he experienced
during his life. William...
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Langston Hughes Rhyme Scheme
468 words
the Island I came to the conclusion that Langston
was writing about te struggle to freedom for
blac's. Langston Hughes wrote about racism often
in his poems, and this particular poem seems to
follow that pattern. Hughes gives the feeling of
loneliness and dismay at the fact that he is not
considered equal to white people. The poem
represents the struggle for freedom and to be
considered equal. The speaker conveys a feeling of
sadness and loneliness in the tone of their voice,
as stated in the op...
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Grapes Of Wrath Dust Bowl
1,870 words
65279; Of Land and Men Over 100 years ago, a
large number of homesteaders settled in a area
which would come to be known as The Dust Bowl.
Spreading from New Mexico and Colorado through
Oklahoma and Kansas, hardy grasses and
fine-grained soil provided an incentive for these
settlers to pursue a future in farming. And so
they did. Over the years they cultivated the land
planting wheat and raising cattle; over the years
the overworked land became more anymore vulnerable
to erosion. While the sq...
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George And Lennie Curly Wife
660 words
Of Mice and Men George and Lennie are travelling
workers who travel around ranches looking for
work. Lennie is a big, coarse man yet he is
mentally undeveloped and George is small yet is
smarter, and therefore leads and takes care of
Lennie. Lennie has a fetish for soft things and
when he pets mice and small animals he,
unknowingly kills them by squeezing too hard. The
men s plan is to make enough money to settle on a
nice, small place of their own and live off the
fatta the land. The come to a ...
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Frosts Poems Desert Places
773 words
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. He
moved to New England at the age of eleven and
became interested in reading and writing poetry
during his high school years in Lawrence,
Massachusetts. He was enrolled at Dartmouth
College in 1892, and later at Harvard, but never
earned a formal degree. Frost drifted through a
string of occupations after leaving school,
working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the
Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem,
The Butterfly, was published on...
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Holden Nervous Breakdown
1,410 words
Societies Influence Upon Humanity Rejection is the
key to self-destruction. Rejection of an
individual could possibly cause the mental
deterioration (nervous breakdown) of that
individual due to the repudiation of society.
Ostracization is not always induced by the
physical appearance of a person but is sometimes
caused by a character flaw. In both J. D.
Salinger? s The Catcher in the Rye and E. L.
Doctorow? s Ragtime the main characters, Holden
and Evelyn, feel rejected by society and in
isolat...
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