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George Willard Great Deal
1,302 words"Hands, by Sherwood Anderson, is a story that seems to be stripped of sentimentality, yet conveys emotion. Anderson tells the somber story of a misunderstood and wrongfully accused man. The protagonist, Wing Biddlebaum, failed to communicate his true self. His inner desires were repressed because conventions and tradition distorted and twisted them. As mentioned before, the central character in Hands is Wing Biddlebaum. He is clearly a round character because he has more than one side to his per...
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Food And Water Praying Mantis
3,395 wordsThe Praying Mantis (Mantis Religiosa) Contents Introduction Classes First Things First Key Features Basic Features Diet 038; Combat Style Reproduction Growth 038; Development Self-Defense Cultural Significance Praying Mantis Kung-Fu INTRODUCTION Praying Mantis is the name commonly used in English speaking countries to refer to a large, much elongated, slow-moving insect with fore legs fitted for seizing and holding insect prey. The name, Praying Mantis more properly refers to the specific ...
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Vertical Lines Business Transactions
805 wordsThe object in question is marked as a Syrian, Bronze Age, stone label seal (c. 3 rd- 2 nd millennium). Most of the seals I have viewed have much more representational forms on them than this object has. I have not been able to find any books which have pictures of items with this name, which leads me to believe that it has been marked wrong. The object resembles a small, oval shaped bead with indentations in the centers of the longer sides, making it look like the number 8. Both sides have the s...
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Proper Burial Mount Olympus
1,097 wordsICARUS 038; DEADALUS The myth of Icarus and Deadalus has spanned the ages as a story told to teach children the value of obeying their parents. Under further examination though, it proves to have a set of underlying lessons, morals, and meanings that are common in Greek Mythology and pertain to modern day life. Deadalus was a highly respected and talented Athenian artist who was a descendent from the royal family of Cecrops. He was an architect, a sculpture, and an inventor who many said was ...
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Daedalus Hating Crete Daedalus Hating Wings
612 wordsDaedalus, hating Crete Icarus Miller Daedalus, hating Crete and his long exile, and longing to see his native land, was shut in by the sea. Though he may block escape by land and water, he said, yet the sky is open, and by that way I will go. Though Minos rules over all, he does not rule the air. So saying, he sets his mind at work upon unknown arts, and changes the laws of nature. For he lays feathers in order, beginning at the smallest, short next to long, so you would think they had grown on ...
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Quot Quot Poetry Quot
2,275 wordsKenneth C. Mason " Buteo Regalis" is a brief but startlingly vivid insight... an epiphanic moment... [I]ts object is to give a potent sense of the raw wild strength in nature. It is just its accuracy in description which is so impressive in this poem. Lines two and three " What sense first warns? / The winging is unheard, / Unseen but as distant motion made whole... " are remarkable for their realism and their apparent ease in handling a very difficult perception. Lines five ...
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