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Hundred Years White Men
1,509 wordsCoromantien was a part of Africa, which in the seventeenth century was one of the chief resorts of the slave traders. Its king was a man of more than a hundred years old. Thirteen of his sons died in battle, and he had left for a successor one grandchild, called Oroonoko. He was sent into the field to be trained to war as soon as he could bear a bow. At the age of seventeen he became one of the bravest and most expert of captains. The old General, a father-like figure, who had trained Oroonoko i...
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Third Class Class Passengers
1,088 wordsThe R. M. S. Titanic was called the ship of dreams, and some called her the unsinkable ship. It was the largest steam engine ever built in the world. She was the most beautiful and biggest ship ever to set sail to the sea. In the summer of 1907, Lord Pierre, Harland & Wolf, J. Blue Islam, and White Star Line planned to build three giant ships (Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic). They were to be designed as the most luxurious ships in the world, and to be built with the finest woods and furnishings...
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Feel Bad For Atalanta Pomegranate She Had To Stay Persephone
795 wordsOne day, Persephone was in the field gathering the crops and Hades, the god of the underworld, was admiring her. He decided that he had to have her as his wife. Hades then shook the ground and caused it to split open and Persephone fell into the realm of the underworld. Persephone was then offered a pomegranate from Hades and she accepted. Little did she know that once she ate the pomegranate she had to stay in the realm of Hades as the wife of Hades. Demeter, Persephone's mother, pleaded with Z...
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30 A M P M
1,362 wordsTitanic Titanic was the largest ship in the world, built by a workforce of 17, 000. The ultimate in turn-of-the-century design and technology. First-class suites ran to more than $ 55, 000 in todays dollars, and when she sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England on route to NY, she held among her 2, 227 passengers. The cream of industrial society, including colonel John Jacob Astor. Macys founder; U. S. congressman Isidor Straus and Thomas Andrews, the ships builder. The ship was bui...
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Producing Wondrous Deity Musubi No Mikoto Island
902 wordsBefore the heavens and the earth came into existence, all was a chaos, unimaginably limitless and without definite shape or form. Eon followed eon: then, low and behold out of this boundless, shapeless mass something light and transparent rose up and formed the heaven. This was the Plain of High Heaven, in which materialized a deity called Ame-no-Minaka-Nushi-no-Mikoto (the Deity-of-the-August-Center-of-Heaven). Next the heavens gave birth to a deity named Takami-Musubi-no-Mikoto (the High-Augus...
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Virginias Life One Virginia
667 wordsChaucer's The Physicians Tale was a moral tale because it deals with issues of right and wrong and it stands to teach a few lessons which everyone could interpret in their own way depending on whom the reader believes is responsible for the tragic death of the fair maiden Virginia. Among the lessons one might learn is, ye shall not covet thy neighbors daughter or assume themselves above the law because plotting to attain a young girl by force could get you thrown in jail and fill you with suicid...
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Fairy Tale Wild Animals
568 wordsAfter reading the Brothers Grim version of Cinderella and viewing the film version of Cinderella, Everafter, one can distinguish precise differences between the these two similar stories. Both versions tell of a young maiden whose mother died when she was young and is then tormented by her stepmother and her two stepsisters who enslave her in her own home and force her to sleep among the ashes of the fireplace. Yet, both stories vary greatly when it comes to the content of the tales. The Brother...
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Ophelia Developed By Symbolism Imagery And Irony
1,711 wordsDenied the freedom of speech, she cannot survive the contemptuous conversations of the cruel world. Being a female in a kingdom full of chaos and deceitfulness, the harmless Ophelia is forced to keep silent and surrender to the domineering men in her life. Her lover feigns madness in an attempt to avoid prosecution of murder. By hiding behind his mask of insanity after accidentally killing Ophelias father, Ophelias lover ultimately loses his true-love: Ophelia. Hamlet is the name of Ophelias lov...
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Lovely Annabel Lee Beautiful Annabel Lee Love
452 wordsEdgar Allen Poe's poem Annabel Lee represents the unfortunate demise of Annabel Lee. The poem begins by introducing, Annabel Lee and how someone feels about her. That a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me (5). This stanza exemplifies how this person feels about Annabel Lee. According to this verse. Annabel Lee is the love of his life, and nothing else matters to him. Unfortunately, he is ...
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Act Ii Sc Act I Sc
958 wordsIn Shakespeare's play The Tempest, the cast of characters are squeezed into some archetypal roles. Prospero is our noble hero, Miranda is the beautiful maiden, Antonio is the closest thing we have to a villain. It's our temptation as readers to categorize these characters as roles and not as people, perhaps out of convenience. However, Shakespeare gave his creations the gift of humor, a tool that allows us to see the subtle details of their minds; A glimpse at the inner workings of a character's...
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
1,553 wordsSir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a fanciful tale of Sir Gawain, a young noble knight of King Arthurs round table, and his adventures to hold up a challenge made by a mysterious Green Knight. This epic poem is not your usual story of adventure, the challenge that the Green Knight gives Gawain is more about integrity and bravery. (Silverstein, 29) In the book Gawain comes across a lords manor and takes refuge there, The lord gives him another test of integrity bef...
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Calixta And Alcee Kate Chopin
939 wordsIs Bad Weather an Excuse for Deceit? In the story The Storm, Kate Chopin plots a situation in which two people surrender to their physical desires. Chopin wrote fiction stories in the late 19 th century. She was condemned due to the immorality presented in her work. At her times, woman was considered to be very innocent, and always faithful to her husband. In Chopin's work one sees a totally different view of a womans behavior. She is not a popular writer of her era because of her crude works; t...
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Edgar Allan Poe Stories And Poems
646 wordsEdgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. Orphaned at the age of three, Edgar was sent to a foster home where he lived with the Allan's in Richmond, VA until he married his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. Throughout his youth, Edgar experienced rocky relations with the Allan's and was eventually disowned before his marriage. (Compton's, pp. 401 - 02) Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and poems induce disturbing emotions which stem from an unstable childhood ...
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Bust Of Pallas Roman Mythology
1,307 wordsThe Meanings of the Raven Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven employs a raven itself as a symbol of the torture, mainly the self-inflicted torture, of the narrator over his lost love, Lenore. The raven, it can be argued, is possibly a figment of the imagination of the narrator, obviously distraught over the death of Lenore. The narrator claims in the first stanza that he is weak and weary (731). He is almost napping as he hears the rapping at the door, which could quite possibly make the sound something...
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Live In A Blighted Tess Of The D Urberville Alec
827 wordsTess of the D Urberville's Essay In the novel, Tess of the d Urberville's, the characters personality combined with the unfortunate coincidences lead to the ultimate tragedy. In Phase the First, subtitled The Maiden, Thomas Hardy gives a strong sense of fate at work through the series of incidents that led to Tess impurity. In the opening of the novel, there is a strong emphasis on Tess ancestry. Tess father is very proud and eager to claim kin as he thinks it will benefit the family in some way...
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Characters In The Play Father
1,245 words&# 9; &# 9; Today women have many rights. We can vote, work, and even voice our own opinions. In the past women were seen as mothers and housekeepers, always taught to respect, listen, and serve there husbands or the man of the house. In those days this was considered normal, therefore women had no choice but to obey and do as they were told. In Hamlet, Shakespeare portrays a similar relationship between women and men. He allows men to hold the higher position in the causing, them to treat women...
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King Hundred Years
1,546 wordsCoromantien was a part of Africa, which in the seventeenth century was one of the chief resorts of the slave traders. Its king was a man of more than a hundred years old. Thirteen of his sons died in battle, and he had left for a successor one grandchild, called Oroonoko. He was sent into the field to be trained to war as soon as he could bear a bow. At the age of seventeen he became one of the bravest and most expert of captains. The old General, a father-like figure, who had trained Oroonoko i...
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Wife Of Bath General Prologue
631 wordsHenry Louis Mencken stated, Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another. This motto rings true for the travellers that Geoffrey Chaucer accompanied on the pilgrimage in The Canterbury Tales. Each of the authors characters fit in their own archetype, each with their own story. As the tales are told one by one, the pilgrims opinions and feelings are exposed for the host and the reader to evaluate. This reveals important traits, including how the caravan perceives love. These characteris...
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Beauty Of Nature Eighteenth And Nineteenth
844 wordsRomantic Poets and the Nature Around Them Nature plays a significant role in many of the Romantic poets works of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. Two great poets who used nature in many of their writings are William Blake and William Wordsworth. We can link their romanticism to the love and appreciation they had for nature in many of their poems. Blake and Wordsworth must have found it easy to associate nature and poetry together because during the romantic period, the surrounding landsc...
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Dead Father Basketball Team
935 wordsPortia is Definitely a Man s Name Why must we label some women s jobs while men s aren t? A basketball team needs to be changed to the women s basketball team when women participate. Women operate as the other in society, many being unacknowledged and treated as such. Judging by some of Shakespeare s works, it seems this same social placement existed in his time. Through examination of Jessica s escape from her father and Portia s conceding to her royalty in Shakespeare s Merchant of Venice, soc...
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