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Bad Luck Five Feet
434 words
Gr 4 - 7 -Stanley Yelnats is an unusual
hero-dogged by bad luck stemming from an ancient
family curse, overweight, and unlikely to stick up
for himself when challenged by the class bully.
Perpetually in the wrong place at the wrong time,
Stanley is unfairly sentenced to months of
detention at Camp Green Lake (a gross misnomer if
ever there was one! ) where he's forced to dig one
hole in the rock-hard desert soil every day. The
hole must be exactly five feet in diameter, the
distance from the tip...
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Santiago Man Santiago's
481 words
The old man Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea
is a character seen in many perspectives, as a
hero, an ordinary fisherman, an unlucky old man,
and a wise man. Throughout the novella he is made
out as a person of motivation, passion, and hope.
Despite what others do or do not think he is a man
of action, and not one consumed by regret. The
young and old villagers view of Santiago is an
important one, but not a differentiating one. The
villagers are split into two groups. The older
fishermen th...
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Men And Women Part Of Society
1,240 words
In the words of Pap, You think youre better your
father, now, dont you, because he cant [read and
write]? (2). In Mark Twain's adventure novel
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn escapes
from civilized society to traverse the Mississippi
River. Throughout the book, Twain uses various
themes such as social ostracism to comment on
human nature and its role in shaping society.
Sometimes mainstream society is not as right and
moral as it believes, and when individuals try to
justify it they pu...
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Joy Luck Club Hopes And Dreams
1,256 words
The Joy Luck Club is a movie by Wayne Wang based
on a book by Amy Tan. The movie begins with a
short narrative which is simply the gist of the
movie. It speaks of how a woman bought a goose
which soon becomes a swan. This woman aspired to
go to America and have a daughter. This daughter
was to be very happy, fluent in English, and
swallowing more happiness than sorrow. The woman
sailed across the ocean on the swan from a great
distance, but when she arrived in America they
took away her swan and...
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Part Of The Story Code Of Honor
1,457 words
Old Man and the Sea This part of the story has to
do with Santiago against nature and the sea. In
this part of the story, he goes out and fights
nature in the form of terrible forces and
dangerous creatures, among them, a marlin, sharks
and hunger. He starts the story in a small skiff
and moves out in a journey to capture a fish after
a long losing streak of eighty-four days.
Unfortunately his friend must desert him due to
this problem and a greater force, his parents.
Santiago must go out into ...
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Time To Die Good Luck
474 words
Greg Knott English 12 2 - 21 - 00 Freedom VS
Predestination People like to believe that they
have the freedom to choose what they want to do,
however it is quite the opposite. Freedom has its
limitations to what people are allowed to do, but
predestination has no limits of any kind. Freedom
is in fact used to cover up predestination, to
keep people content in following absurd rules.
Without predestination, how do we know what the
weather will be like, or if the sun rises, or if
someone will stop...
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Quot Im Boston Northeastern
2,031 words
Peter Stitt INTERVIEWER: In The Dream Songs there
is a passage about assistant professors becoming
associate professors by working on your poems. How
do you feel about being cannon fodder for aspiring
young critics and graduate students? As for the
graduate students, some of the work they do is
damned interesting. A woman somewhere in the South
did an eighty-page thesis investigating the three
little epigraphs to the 77 Dream Songs and their
bearing on the first three books of the poem. I
must s...
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Romeo And Juliet Lord Capulet
1,522 words
Fate is a power that can conquer everything and
nothing can alter it. It is the ultimate force
that determines a person s life even before it
starts and what people choose to do is only based
on the luck they were given. Either positive or
negative, fate is very often responsible for the
final outcome of various situations. One example
of fate affecting a plight is William Shakespeare
s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. In this play,
two youngsters, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet,
from feuding...
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Dont Worry Happy Birthday
2,112 words
Linda, why dont you meet your boy friend today?
Oh, Amy, Are you crazy? Meeting a jerk like him
right before my birth day is like a nightmare. But
still Its your 20 th birth day. Why dont you just
call him then? My boy friend, John, he has been
acting like a jerk since when we were young. He
always forgets my birth day and to save money, he
didnt buy me a music tape but always recorded the
songs with his own voice. One day, he said that he
is going to give me present that is really sexy.
His off...
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Death Of A Salesman Told The Truth
1,122 words
Willy Loman, the main character in Death of a
Salesman is a complex and fascinating tragic
character. He is a man struggling to hold onto
what dignity he has left in a changing society
that no longer values the ideals he grew up to
believe in. While society can be blamed for much
of his misfortune, he must also be blamed himself
to an equal extent for his bad judgement,
disloyalty and his foolish pride. Willy Loman is a
firm believer in the American Dream: the notion
that any man can rise from h...
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Greek Tragedy God
1,702 words
Is What Happens To Oedipus Fair? Are Is What
Happens To Oedipus Fair? Are We Supposed To
Respect Him? Would Sophocles? Original Audience
Have Agreed With Your Conclusions? Why? Sophocles
uses a mixture of both visual and emotional
imagery to create the morally questioning, Greek
tragedy? Oedipus Tyrannos? . He presents the
audience with an intense drama, which addresses
the reality and importance of the gods that the
Greeks fervently believed in. The play also forces
the audience to ask themselv...
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Eastern Europe Red Wine
985 words
Green Laws Boost Clean-up Industry
Engelskaflevering d. 01. 09. 95 Have companies
around the globe really become house-proud, or is
planet earth just in for a spring cleaning? It is
hard to say but one thing is for sure; the
environmental sector is en-joying a boom. The
market for pollution control technology is on a
steep exponential growth curve, which seems to be
interminable. Especially the European companies
put down their names for an immense part of the
expansion. But what is the precise ...
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Cold Mountain Civil War
1,523 words
Cold Mountain includes mention of many Civil
War-era weapons. Some are standard-issue field
arms, such as the Springfield and Enfield rifles,
and the Colt army and navy revolvers. Others are
rare, specialty items, like the powerful Le Mat
pistol or Whitworth sniper rifle. The question is,
why these particulars out of the hundreds of
devices that made a battlefield appearance during
the war? There must be something between them that
relates to the story and its mood. All of the
weapons, greatly v...
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Huck And Jim Jim
950 words
Throughout all of his adventures Jim shows
compassion as his most prominent trait. He makes
the reader aware of his many superstitions and Jim
exhibits gullibility in the sense that he Jim
always assumes the other characters in the book
will not take advantage of him. One incident
proving that Jim acts naive occurs halfway through
the novel, when the Duke first comes into the
scene " By right I am a duke! Jim? s eyes
bugged out when he heard that" In the novel,
Huck Finn, one can legit...
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Jack The Ripper Serial Killer
695 words
Who Did Jack the Ripper Kill? Jack Ripper Serial
Killer Murder Jack the ripper is the most well
known murders of all time! No killer has inspired
more people, there is even people who have jobs
know as ripper ologists. One of the reasons Jack
inspired so many people is because it was a time
of morality, prosperity and stability. By cutting
throats of victims and spilling the abdomen open,
Jack The Ripper terrorized the women of London in
1888. The first killing took place in Whatechaple,
a place...
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Joy Luck Club Mother Daughter Relationship
787 words
In the movie Joy Luck Club, four women are
introduced. Their lives are described, their
mothers lives are described, and their
grandmothers. This movie shows three generations
of Chinese women and how each of their lives have
progressed and changed. Through every generation,
there is a constant underlying tension between
mother and daughter. The pressure that a mother
applies to her daughter is described. In one
incident the mom forced her daughter to play the
piano. The daughter didnt even like...
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Joy Luck Club Mother Daughter Relationship
1,465 words
The stories of Suyuan and Jing-Mei Woo reveal some
of Amy Tans main themes in the novel. One
important theme is that we must get to know and
understand our parents in order to fully
understand ourselves. June spends the first half
of her life believing that she is a disappointment
to her mother and has been unsuccessful in life.
However, when she learns more about her mothers
past and discovers that her mother is proud of her
good heart and concern for others, she realizes
that she has accomplis...
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Joy Luck Club Mother Daughter Relationships
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An A-? ! ? ! ? Why isn t it an A+? ! ? You have to
do better or will just end up being an
underachiever! ! This is the usual comments many
people like me hear from their mothers and
fathers. The daughters in the novel The Joy Luck
Club by Amy Tan go through this kind of treatment
to. This book shows many mother daughter
relationships. The main characters consist of
Lindo, Waverly, An-Mei, Suyuan, and Jing-Mei, also
known as June. Lindo is mother to Waverly who is a
very talented chess player. Su...
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Build A Fire Jack London
796 words
In Arthur Gordons short story The Sea Devil and in
Jack London's short story To Build a Fire, it is
clear that in spite of the many differences the
two stories have many more similarities. First,
although there are more similarities between the
two stories, there are still many qualities that
portray the antithetic nature between the two
short stories. For example, when the fisherman (in
Jack London's story) used his intelligence to
defeat his enemy; Only by using his brain could he
possible sur...
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Man And The Sea Santiago
1,072 words
One can describe a hero as someone who achieves
greatness. The Old Man and the Sea, a novel by
Ernest Hemingway, involves an old man named
Santiago, who establishes himself as a great
fisherman many times, but yet, he still struggles
to prove it again and again. Santiago lives in a
small fishing village off the coast of Havana,
Cuba, and fishing is imperative to his survival.
Although an immeasurable amount of skill is found
in Santiago, eighty-four days passed without him
hooking a single fish....
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