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Modern Critical Interpretations York Chelsea House Publishers
1,487 wordsAll My Sons, a play by Arthur Miller, tells predominantly of the story of the Keller's. This play takes place after World War II, in the year 1947. It is a drama of actions and consequences and morality. This theme of actions and consequences is shown after Joe Keller ships out defective engine parts, which ultimately ends in the death of many pilots including that of his own son, Larry Keller, who kills himself in shame of his father s actions. Joe Keller had two sons, Chris and Larry, who is d...
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York Chelsea House Publishers Long Term Affects
1,089 wordsIn the past twenty years heroin use has grown dramatically. Psychoactive drugs have become the young person's largest problem to face. Drugs have become a part of even the most stereotypically normal family's life. No workplace, home, or school can be completely "drug proofed." To live with these drugs one must learn about them. Not knowing the facts about heroin will ultimately lead to the drugs winning the game. Heroin is an opiate, which comes from the opium poppy. When the opium poppy dies, ...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs York Chelsea House Publishers
1,355 words... use such dangerous materials? That is one question no one can yet answer. Performance-enhancing drugs are not solely used by men in these types of activities. Women also have been known to use them, especially Chinese women. For example, there was quite a controversy in the recent National Games in Shanghai, China. According to Phillip Whitten of The New Republic, ... in the weight-lifting arena alone, Chinese women eclipsed every world record in all nine weight classes... in some weight-lif...
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Illegal Drugs Their Effects On The Body
2,045 wordsIllegal Drugs: Their effects on the body There are many types of drugs, and they have many different effects on the body. Drugs can kill those abuse them in 3 different ways: by overdose, through side effects or bad reactions, and as a means of committing suicide. Some drugs may cause both murderous and suicidal behavior. The hallucinogens, especially PCP, are infamous in this respect. Valium has also been cited as producing unwanted suicidal thoughts in some people. Drugs that affect mood and l...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Modern Critical Views
1,655 words... loom 18). In contrast to the animals on Animal Farm, meetings are not held between the different social classes. The vast majority of the working class is not aware that they have political rights and only knows of the propaganda the government provides for them. The working class is allowed to live their own lives as long as they remain oblivious to the governments daily communications. By contrast, the Outer Party of Big Brothers administration is required to work hours on end. Winston Smi...
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Macbeth Lady Macbeth York Chelsea House Publishers
1,044 wordsOften in literature women are depicted as powerful, impelling forces that alter the characters or entire society that surrounds them. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth urges Macbeth into murder, in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne alters society's attitudes toward her sin, and in My nokia, by Willa Cather, the life of nokia Shimerda motivates Jim Burden to lead an exceptionally successful life. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth compels Macbeth to assassinate King D...
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F Scott Fitzgerald York Chelsea House Publishers
1,798 wordsSpring 1996 The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God -- a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that -- and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end (99). James Gatz was already 'about his Father's busin...
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Baton Rouge Louisiana Charles Scribner Sons
1,088 wordsBy: Russ Crawford E-mail: Russ Crawford Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, or None of the Above? Mark Twain was one of the most popular and well-known authors of the 1800 's. He is recognized for being a humorist. He used humor or social satire in his best works. His writing is known for "realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression" (Mark Twain 1). Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835. He was born on the Missouri frontier in a...
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York Chelsea House Publishers Gulliver Travels
1,364 wordsMany of the critics who have critiqued Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels have used the word extraneous more then once. Swift was viewed as an insane person who was a failure in life. But this is far from the truth. Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels, a book that has been assigned to students for years, and it is written from experience. Swifts experience with the Tories and their conflicts with the Whigs caused him to write books that mock religious beliefs, government, or people with views differi...
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Charles Scribner Sons Baton Rouge Louisiana
1,067 wordsMark Twain was one of the most popular and well-known authors of the 1800 s. He is recognized for being a humorist. He used humor or social satire in his best works. His writing is known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression (Mark Twain 1). Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835. He was born on the Missouri frontier in a small log village called Florida. His parents had come to Florida from their former home in ...
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Edgar Allan Poe Modern Critical Views
1,244 wordsThe short story writer which I have chosen to research is Edgar Allen Poe. After reading one of his works in class, I realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. Although many critics have different views on Poe's writing style, I think that Harold Bloom summed it up best when he said, Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives. (7) For me, this is done through his use of setting and narrative...
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York Chelsea House Publishers Crime And Punishment
2,027 wordsSuffering in Crime and Punishment It is an unfortunate aspect of life, but suffering is all around us. We as a human society have always realized this and have looked for ways to cope with it. The time of 19 th century Russia, in which Fyodor Dostoyevsky lived, was filled with far more suffering, than we tolerate today. His environment was filled with poverty, filth, and social turmoil, which made the atmosphere far more volatile than current life. Dostoyevsky tackles the topic of suffering in C...
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Lady Brett Ashley Sun Also Rises
3,195 wordsIn this paper, I will describe what critics have to say about Ernest Hemingway^s novel The Sun Also Rises and his short story A clean well-Light Place. First I will describe the basic plot of the story, then go one to describe each of the characters by what the critics have to say about them. I will start off with the main character and narrator Jake Barnes. Then go to Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Pedro Romero, and finally I will fish off that section with a little about Bill Gordon. Then I w...
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York Chelsea House Publishers F Scott Fitzgerald
1,775 wordsSpring Gatsbys Sacrifice Gatsby's Sacrifice Spring 1996 The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end (99). James Gatz ...
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York Chelsea House Publishers Marijuana Is Smoked
1,544 wordsname = Neal Peterson email = publish = yes subject = Composition title = Marijuana papers = Marijuana Outline What are all the different ups and downs of marijuana, what can it be used for, and what is it? s role in today? s society? Introduction I. Marijuana A. Getting high 1. Effects 2. How B. Hemp 1. What is it for a. Clothes / paper b. Seasoning / cooking II. Use A. History B. Who uses 1. Average user Celebrities III. Medical use A. Pain reliever B. Legalization yes or no 1. Lincoln quote 2....
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York Chelsea House Publishers Long Term Affects
1,147 wordsIn the past Heroin Heroin In the past twenty years heroin use has grown dramatically. Psychoactive drugs have become the young persons largest problem to face. Drugs have become a part of even the most stereotypically normal family's life. No workplace, home, or school can be completely drug proofed. To live with these drugs one must learn about them. Not knowing the facts about heroin will ultimately lead to the drugs winning the game. What is heroin? Heroin is an opiate, which comes from the o...
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2,241 wordsArt represents beauty. It represents the soul and spirit of the artist. Its a form of communication that the artist can use as a substitution for words. Art has flourished the world for thousands of years and it has no intentions on stopping. One of the most important figures in modern art (Selfridge, 15) is a man by the name of Pablo Picasso. He has taken the world into many places and has enabled us to see many abstract creations through his artwork alone. (Selfridge, 20) Born on October 25, 1...
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York Chelsea House Publishers Funk 038 Wagnalls
706 wordsDetailed Outline and Working Bibliography I. Introduction A. Main Ideas 1. History of marijuana 2. Effects of marijuana 3. Why teens use marijuana 4. What marijuana looks like 5. What if someone wants to stop using it 6. Statistics B. Thesis statement: Marijuana will effect the way high school students act and learn in school. II. History of Marijuana A. First known in Central Asia and China 3000 B. C. 1. Known as Cannabis Sativa 2. Came from tropical and temperate climates B. Seen in America? s...
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F Scott Fitzgerald York Chelsea House Publishers
1,577 wordsThe Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about one mans disenchantment with the American dream. In the story we get a glimpse into the life of Jay Gatsby, a man who aspired to achieve a position among the American rich to win the heart of his true love, Daisy Fay. Gatsby's downfall was in the fact that he was unable to determine that concealed boundary between reality and illusion in his life. The Great Gatsby is a tightly structured, symbolically compressed novel whose predominant i...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Salem Witch Trials
5,631 wordsGuilt as Reparation for Sin in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a novel about a Puritan woman who has committed adultery and must pay for her sin by wearing a scarlet A on her bosom. The woman, Hester Prynne, must struggle through everyday life with the guilt of her sin. The novel is also about the suffering that is endured by not admitting to one s wrongs. Reverend Mister Dimmesdale learns that secrecy only makes the guilt increase. Nathaniel Hawthorne is trying to display how guilt is ...
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