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Nel And Sula Makes It Clear
1,515 words
Many works of contemporary American fiction
involve one individual's search for identity in a
stifling and unsympathetic world. In "Sula, " Toni
Morrison gives us two such individuals. In Nel and
Sula, Morrison creates two individual female
characters that at first are separate, grows
together, and then is separated once more.
Although never physically reconciled, Nel's self
discovery at the end of the novel permits the
achievement of an almost impossible quest - the
conjunction of two selves. A...
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Sexual Abuse Unconditional Love
1,291 words
Reminisce of the days of being a child. What comes
to mind? Romping through the forest, connected to
nature? Feeling free and innocent? Basically, what
society views childhood to be? Well, guess what;
childhood can be hell! Unfortunately, many
children have horrible childhoods, suffering from
abusive parents. Bad childhood stems from bad
parents. Every ten seconds go by, and a parent
abuses his child. Acts of rebellion, loss of
self-esteem, lack of confidence-all factors are
the results from a c...
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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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Stand Trial Female Body
821 words
Ed Gein was born at the turn of the century into
the small farming community of Plainfield,
Wisconsin. Gein lived on his family homestead with
a weak, ineffectual brother and domineering mother
who taught him from an early age that sex was a
sinful thing. Eddie ran the family's 160 -acre
farm on the outskirts of Plainfield until his
brother Henry died in 1944 and his mother in 1945.
When she died her son was a thirty-nine-year-old
bachelor, still emotionally enslaved to the woman
who had tyranni...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Vivid Imagery
850 words
The Futility of Dying for a State through Poetic
Devices: "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "The Death of
the Ball Turret Gunner" Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et
Decorum Est" (1920) uses vivid imagery primarily
to remove any romantic or patriotic idea that it
is sweet to die for one's country. Randall
Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
uses ambiguity to compare the death for the state
to an abortion. Each poem presents the death of a
man for his country, though with contrasting
poetic devises. Th...
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Birthday Annie Christmas Shopping Mary
554 words
"Hurry up!" Annie said to her mom as she went
barreling down the stairs. "I'm coming. " Ms. Mary
Weston called back to her daughter. She was almost
ready to go Christmas shopping when she remembered
that she had forgotten to get her gloves out of
her coat pocket. She found Christmas to be a
bittersweet time of year at their house. Her
beloved husband of eighteen years had passed away
on Christmas Eve four years ago. Annie was only
five when Richard died of cancer. She was too
young at the time t...
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Make Her Feel Back To Teaching Family
1,359 words
Sassy has been my friend for the past eight years.
We met in middle school when she moved to my town.
We grew up together and there are a lot of
similarities in our lives. Sassy is now a
homemaker who lives in New Jersey. Last year she
changed roles from being a second grade teacher
and wife to become a new mother. Ten years from
now she said, "I see myself working in a classroom
again. I would love to go back to teaching. I miss
teaching so much. I want to have more children and
I plan to teach...
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Native American Heritage Of The Navajo Clan
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Hello professor, my name is Joshua Little Wolf. I
am of the Bitter Water people. I am born for the
Big Deer people. My maternal grandfathers clan is
the Bitter Water people, my paternal grandfathers
clan is the Big Deer people. I am from Houston,
Texas. I was born in Austin, Texas. I will be
discussing the importance of clans to the Navajo
people. I will also discuss the origin of the
clans, the four initial clans, the creation story
involving Changing Woman, and the proper way
people of the Nav...
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Joy Luck Club Generational Dichotomy Of Culture
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In a mixed race society, misunderstanding amongst
different ethnicities occurs frequently. In her
novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan asks what happens
when different generations of the same heritage
misunderstand each other. Tan focuses on the
stifling relationships between mothers and
daughters from seemingly separate centuries. The
driving wedge proves to be cultural. Tan questions
the role of culture in individuality and whether
one can choose to ignore her history. After
reading this novel, on...
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Men And Women Hopi Indians
763 words
In the southwestern United States, above northern
Arizona, are three mesas. The mesas create the
home for the Hopi Indians. The Hopi have a deeply
religious, isolated, tribal culture with a unique
history. The Hopi stress group cooperation. The
tribe is organized around a clan system. In a clan
system, all the members consider themselves
relatives. The clans form a social glue that has
held the Hopi villages together. Clan membership
provides a singular Hopi identity. The Hopi have a
highly deve...
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Hamlet Behavior Nineteenth Century Hamlet's
482 words
Hamlet may be the most complex character any
playwright has ever placed onstage. Over the
centuries critics have offered a multitude of
explanations for Hamlet's behavior, but none of
them has wholly been able to "pluck out the heart
of my mystery, " as Hamlet himself puts it.
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theatergoers
saw him as the classic ideal of the Renaissance
courtier, poet, and philosopher. You can make a
case for this view, since Hamlet often sees
immediate events in a larger persp...
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Hamlet Believes Killing Claudius
515 words
Hamlet wants to achieve two goals with respect to
Gertrude. One is to express his anger against her,
which he harbors for essentially the same reasons
that he had it for Ophelia. Two is to somehow
induce her to stop loving Claudius. This latter
development would eliminate the possibility that
Hamlet might feel estrangement from motherly love
in attempting to kill or from succeeding in
killing Claudius. After all, in killing Claudius,
Hamlet would not be killing the man his beloved
mother loves. ...
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Dis Me Says Tupac Finally Felt White
1,180 words
... at fucked-up childhood. The reason why I could
get into acting was because it takes nothin' to
get out of who I am to get into somebody else. "
When Tupac was 12, Afeni enrolled him in the 127
th Street Ensemble, a theater group in Harlem. "I
wanted Tupac to focus on something since he was
becoming of age, " she says. In his first
performance, Tupac played Travis in A Raisin In
the Sun. Tupac leans back on the sofa and beams at
the memory. "Right now I can remember the bug
biting me right th...
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Avenging His Father Death Tragic Heroes
1,048 words
Hamlet's character dominates the play, lending the
tragedy its greatest philosophical and
metaphysical dimensions. Shakespeare has
brilliantly raised Hamlet above a stock figure of
an avenger; as he answers the call of revenge, he
also proves he is an intellectual aristocrat. As a
scholar and a thinker, Hamlet often reveals the
high quality of his mind, pondering many weighty
matters. He is also a perceptive student of drama
and obviously well read in the classics. Hamlet is
a noble and sensitiv...
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Biography Of Mary Shelley Author Frankenstein
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It was certain when Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
greeted the world on August 30, 1797, her life was
going to be out of step with the ordinary. Her
unorthodox parents and family structure ensured
this from the beginning. Her father, William
Godwin, himself a philosopher-historian, was cold
and ever remote. Originally he trained for the
Calvinist ministry, but only wore the cloth a few
years. A sharp man who ate to excess and borrowed
money from anyone who would give him a loan, he
had little time f...
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Younger Brother Older Brother
652 words
What do you think of when you hear about a single
mother raising her three kids? Usually, people
think of a deadbeat mom, and low life, rebellious
kids. However, in my mother's case, you see an
independent woman, who is confident in her kids
and in her job. My mother isn't the kind of parent
that you would see in the newspaper for killing
she was desperate for money or love, or too
depressed from a divorce to care for us. Living in
my house as a youngster was rough. The holidays
were the worst. ...
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War Has Changed Experience In Combat Paul
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One way that Paul changes is that his patriotism
towards his country about war decreases. Paul is
sitting with his men around a fire picking off
lice and comparing them before throwing them in
the fire. Muller starts to ask others what they
would do if and when the war is over. After
dwelling on the topic for a while they realized
the younger men do not know how to do anything but
fight. They joined the war at such a young age
that they did not get a chance to explore anything
else. "'The war ha...
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Hagar Shipley Stone Angel
871 words
A symbol is a literary device used by the author
to portray an idea to the reader. In Margaret
Laurence's, The Stone Angel, the stone angel is a
symbol used to heighten the reader's understanding
of the characteristics of Hagar Shipley. First,
the stone angel is used to show Hagar's pride in
the Currie family name. She prizes the stone angel
because it is expensive and imported from Italy to
honour a mother Hagar never knew. Similarly, the
stone angel is symbolic of Hagar's inability to
show emo...
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Claudia And Frieda Feeling Of Inferiority
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The Bluest Eye (1) Toni Morrisons novel The Bluest
Eye is rightfully considered as the classic
example of African-American literature, which
illustrates the ability of Black writers to
discuss the issue of racism from their own unique
prospective. In it, author was able to analyze the
deep psychological motivations that cause many
Black Americans to feel psychologically
inadequate. Unlike modern proponents of racial
equality, who suggest that the feeling of
inferiority has strictly an artificial...
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Works Of Shakespeare Point Of View
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Aida Burzic 12 - 10 - 05 Eng 105 - 033 Opinion
Essay I would like to dedicate the following
writing to my mother, who inspired me to love
reading and writing in every form. To me, quality
literature can take many forms. It can be in the
form of a poetic play, like in the works of
Shakespeare, with long flowing sentences building
a specific mood or message. It can also be sharp,
witty, and short like the works of Twain. It can
also span across poetic forms. No matter the form,
the vital part of l...
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