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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
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... ous breakdown. This was evident by his bouts
of unexplained depression, impetuous spending and
generally odd, erratic behavior, prior to his
eventual nervous collapse. Some critics have
argued that Holden's character is erratic and
unreliable, as he has many of the middle-class
values that he claims to reject. Later on critics
began to have praised the twisted humor of the
main character. These critics have commented that
the structure of the novel helps you understand
Holden's unstable stat...
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Appearance Versus Reality Live Her Life
1,108 words
A Joyous Death 1. In "The Story of an Hour, " Kate
Chopin suggests that in certain situations, the
death of a loved one may be a blessing. Such
situations may include an abusive relationship, or
an unhappy marriage, as this story suggests. In
Chopin's story although the circumstances might
lead the reader to believe that Louise's husband's
death would cause her great pain, ironically, when
she hears the news, she feels a great sense of
relief. This suggests that death may not always
cause grief....
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End Of The World Cats Cradle
970 words
In questioning the value of literary realism,
Flannery OConnor has written, I am interested in
making a good case for distortion because it is
the only way to make people see. Kurt Vonnegut
writes pessimistic novels, or at least he did back
in the sixties. Between Slaughterhouse Five,
Mother Night, and Cats Cradle, Vonnegut paints a
cynical and satirical picture of the degradation
of society using distortion as the primary means
to express himself. In Cats Cradle, the reader is
confronted with t...
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Alcohol Syndrome Birth Defects
855 words
Born Poisoned The most disgusting thing in this
world in my opinion, is when a pregnant woman
drinks or smokes. Women who drink during their
pregnancy dont know that alcohol can fatally harm
the unborn baby. Most of these women drink during
their pregnancy with out any knowledge of the
consequences. An estimated 40, 000 babies are born
each year in the United States with
alcohol-related birth defects. The actual figures
may be higher. (Poisoned in the womb, p. 53) The
baby can be born with a lot...
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Merchant Of Venice Main Characters
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Dumb jocks! , Women dont belong there, doing that!
, He must be a criminal, just look at his clothes.
How often have we heard somebody mention these
things, yet, how often have we said something
similar? Our society is based on face values where
we categorize people because of a few actions. All
of the above statements are prejudicial notions
used to define members of a social or an ethnic
group, and are called stereotypes. Stereotypes are
explored greatly in the Shakespeare play The
Merchant Of...
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Ten Women One Society
328 words
Our capitalistic nation has produced the ultimate
insult to injury this week with the new television
game show, Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?
This contest involves a male (whose only known
attributes are that he is single and extremely
wealthy) and 50 single women. The women paraded
around in bathing suits and were asked to answer
questions that they had obviously already prepared
answers to, as if they were in a Miss Teen USA
beauty pageant. Then cuts were made: the man chose
ten wome...
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Don T Do Drugs T Do Drugs Vargas
574 words
By pure mischance a high school student named
Vargas happens to walk by smokers corner on his
way home. Unlucky for him, his friend Johnny
Bluejean is one the corner smoking a blunt. Johnny
stops Vargas and offers him a smoke. Vargas
tempted with all Johnny? s endorsements, and peer
pressure collapses and takes the blunt. 20 years
later Vargas is in the hospital breathing off a
respirator. This all occurred because of one
unlucky? YES? ruined Vargas? life. This scenario
transpires millions of ti...
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Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Father
1,101 words
Dave Dunphy Integrity in Hamlet Hamlet Drama
Assignment Due: April 26, 2000 Passed In: April
26, 2000 Corruption in Denmark In the play?
Hamlet? by Shakespeare, the integrity of some
characters are all challenged with honesty and
deceit. The King of Denmark is deteriorating and
rotting the state and its people. Many images of
corruption, spying, and decay compound as the play
moves on, because Claudius is trying to find out
what his nephew, Hamlet, is planning. A
description of some of the point...
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Seven Chicks Big Dipper Mother
305 words
Creative Writing: Origin of the Big Dipper Once
their was a old couple who lived in a village near
the country-side. The village they lived in didnt
have a lot of food. The couple had a chicken who
had just had seven baby chicks. One day a monk
came to the village to teach the people there
because they had very poor or no education. The
monk had not eaten all day and said that he was
very hungry. The people in the village panicked
because they were so poor and barely had enough
food to support t...
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Live His Life Life And Death
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Death and life are intertwined in such a way that
one cannot come without the other. Richard Wilbur
uses graphic description to clearly express this
in his work The Pardon, through a series of events
that ultimately bring a man to learn to mourn,
after causing him a lifetime without love. As a
young boy, the speaker is traumatized by the death
of his dog, and is thus lead to pursue a life that
lacks both love and the recognition of death. As
an older man, the speaker comes to terms with his
loss...
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Cult Leaders Military Base
685 words
Today there are many dangerous groups one should
try to avoid. One of the popular groups today is a
cult. Some cults can be completely harmless where
others can lead a person (or many) to suicide.
Many cults are formed by a fraud and just for the
benefit of the leader. Here is a look at how some
cults attract new members, how the members are
treated, what they are trained to do, and what you
should do before committing to any group. Cult
leaders look for people who are not feeling good
about the...
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Givin Dis Speech Night Tripping Fairy One
1,076 words
Da Local Style of Henry da For As da direct of dis
play, da kine, Henry da for, I jus like say dat
get some real kine significant passage and
character. You guys read da one by da king
himself, Act 1, Scene 1, where he stay talkin to
Westmoreland? For one ting, the relationship
between him and Hal, Hal and Hotspur, and lastly,
of him and Hotspur is expressamized. And we all
know dat date peoples and their relationmaship's
are choke important so ho olo he real good. Try
wait, let me read you da p...
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Love And Humor Great Expectations Pip
581 words
In Great Expectations Great Expectations In the
novel Great Expectations, written in 1860 by
Charles Dickens, there is an underlying theme of
disillusionment, but it is not a melancholy book.
The main character, named Pip, has many great
expectations in his life, but over the course of
time these illusions are slowly shattered. This
would make one think that this narrative would be
a tale of sadness and misery, it is not glum at
all because of the friendships, love, and humor
that Pip experience...
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Provide For His Family Providing For His Family Shimerda
1,255 words
The Inability to Provide for His Family, and Why
it Drove Mr. Shimerda to Suicide My Antonia, by
Willa Cather, is a novel about Jim Burden and his
relationship and experiences growing up with
Antonia Shimerda in Nebraska. Throughout the book
Jim reflects on his memories of Nebraska and the
Shimerda family, often times in a sad and
depressing tone. One of the main ways Cather is
able to provoke these sad emotions within the
reader is through the suicide of Antonia's father,
Mr. Shimerda. His deat...
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Red Rover Time Sitting
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From the warped mind of Nick DeCamp, we bring you
Chocolate Covered Musings, candy for your brain.
new musings! Send Nick feedback! I try to be calm
with people who frighten very easily, because
patience is a virtue. For example, once I had to
wait patiently under this girls bed for eight
hours before she finally came home. I find that
little kids are just ungrateful. You try to do
something fun for them and they repay you by
vomiting on your shoes or something. Hey, werent
you just laughing hys...
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Rung On The Ladder Nicks Father Nick
644 words
There comes a point in every persons life when
they gain a profound realization about growing up.
Both Ernest Hemingway and Stephen King describe
situations in their stories where this is intended
to happen. In Indian camp and The Last Rung on the
Ladder the main characters encounter incidents
that help them grow and mature. In Indian Camp,
Nick undergoes several significant experiences,
but he fails to reach an epiphany. Nick is brought
to the Indian camp and he witnesses a baby being
born (2)....
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Acting Is Hippolytus End Of The Play Aphrodite
550 words
The acting is Hippolytus HIPPOLYTUS The acting is
Hippolytus was very good. In particular, Caitlin
Bopp, who played Aphrodite, and Keith Hale, who
played Theseus, stood out. Caitlin did a great job
in playing a seductive, vengeful Goddess. She fell
into the role perfectly and I noticed little
things such as eyes movements that made it seem
like her character was in control of the scene.
Keith did an excellent job playing Theseus. The
audience really picked up on his characters pain
when he found...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
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How I Compare To Huckleberry In a desperate
attempt to create an essay like no other, and a
lack of detail in what was already complete, I
have decided to compare myself with Huckleberry
Finn. Huckleberry Finn is one of Americas favorite
fictional characters. He is the focus of many
interpretations; completely changing what Twain
intended for him to be. In the same way, many lack
understanding for me through misinterpretation. In
various ways, I am similar to Huckleberry but in
several others, w...
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Scarlet Letter Prison Door
533 words
Hyatt Waggoner, a noted Hawthorne scholar, says,
The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne's most widely read
and admired novel and is also the one that has
inspired the most inconclusive debate... (Waggoner
118). Much of the trouble in interpreting The
Scarlet Letter stems from the fact that the story
is highly symbolic. The Scarlet Letter opens with
the stark image of the throng of people
surrounding the prison door. Hawthorne creates a
mood by using the, sad colored, garment and, gray,
steeple crowned ...
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Moral Of The Story Giant Bug Gregor
817 words
Metamorphosis, written by Franz Kafka, is a story
that deals with the transformation of a human
being, Gregor Same, into a giant bug. Whether this
transformation is a literal transformation, or a
transformation only in the mind of Gregor, is a
mystery to the reader. Even if the transformation
is the main element in the story, there are other
themes that arise from the story. One of those
themes could be considered as a moral of the
story. That moral of the story could be that some
humans, in thi...
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