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Jem And Scout Boo Radley
917 wordsTo Kill a Mocking Bird explores the exuberant humour and the irrational attitudes towards race and class, through the young eyes of two Maycomb County children, Jem and Scout Finch. Jem and Scout endure the pressure to comprehend the prejudice, violence and hypocrisy of Maycomb County. The children are influenced by many different characters, their father, the great Atticus Finch being the more prominent. Ironically Boo Radley, a Maycomb county resident who has been burdened by the majority of f...
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Play The Piano Piano Lessons
657 wordsIn Two Kinds, Amy Tan explores a theme of independence. Jing-me is an impressionable nine year old girl living in an apartment with her parents. She struggles with the high expectations of her mother, to become a prodigy. The conflict results in a rebellious independence. Tan develops Jing-mes character as willful, defiant, and insecure. To begin, Tan demonstrates that Jing-mes willfulness stands in the way of her success. For example, after failing many of her mothers prodigy tests, she begins ...
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Seamus Heaney Short Stories
600 wordsA lot of works of poetry and or short stories demonstrate the sad but interesting topic of aging or growing old. Four works that illustrate and show the topic of old age are, "Old Age", by Elisha Port, "The Mirror", by Sylvia Path, "The Follower", by Seamus Heaney, and "When I Am Very Old", by Arthur O. Roberts. These selected works show and present the topic of aging or growing old in many different ways. The first work I chose, "Old Age" by Elisha Port, shows how it is to age and to go "over t...
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Faith In God Elie Wiesel
1,089 words... il in the universe, and about whether God exists, but the very fact that he asks the questions reflects his commitment to God and to religious belief. Discussing his own experience, Elie Wiesel once wrote, "My anger rises up within faith and not outside it, " and Eliezer's struggle reflects such a sentiment. Only in the lowest moments of his faith does he turn his back on God, but even when he says that he has given up on God completely, Wiesel's constant use of religious metaphors belies El...
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Young Boy James Joyce
983 wordsThe story, 'Araby' by James Joyce, is a short story about a young boy's life and his quest to impress the young girl for whom he has feelings. The protagonists to the young boy, including the young girl, are the boy's uncle, and the people at the Bazaar booth. The initial point of conflict occurs when the girl informs the boy that she cannot attend the bazaar, as she has every other year. 'She could not go, she said, because there would be a retreat that week in her convent' (Joyce 106). The plo...
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Amount Of Water Air Pressure
1,183 words... horizontally through the water like true swimmers, instead of being lowered vertically in a diving bell or in hard-hat gear. The later use of a single-lens face mask, which allowed better visibility as well as pressure equalization, also increased the comfort and depth range of diving equipment (Tillman, 27). Thus the development of scuba added a major working tool to the systems available to divers. The new mode allowed divers greater freedom of movement and access to greater depths for ext...
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Kill A Mockingbird Scout And Jem
652 wordsTo Kill a Mockingbird For me To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee is the clear demonstration of a moralistic literature. It seems to me that the plot is not as important for the reader as the moral values advertised are. From this book we learn to be honest to people by avoiding biases and prejudices. I want to describe the book plot, its characters, and major themes in combination with the expression of my own opinion about different situations depicted in the book. As far as I know, the plot o...
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Picture Of Dorian Gray Basil Hallward
1,463 wordsThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is the story of moral corruption by the means of aestheticism. In the novel, the well meaning artist Basil Hallward presets young Dorian Gray with a portrait of himself. After conversing with cynical Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian makes a wish which dreadfully affects his life forever. " If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not giv...
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Role Reversal Short Stories
875 wordsDysfunctional family relationships form the basis of many Canadian short stories. Often, tragedy is the end result of severe family breakdown. In other cases, personality defects are directly traceable to poor family dynamics. In the stories Hurt, Fall of a City, and The Sound of Hollyhocks there were very profound family problems. The difficulty in the father / son relationship in Hurt reflects a role reversal. Even though Stevie is only a young boy, he took care of himself and his father. Stev...
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Epic Of Gilgamesh Bhagavad Gita
498 wordsHeros and Their Human Traits Who is the noblest hero? The man who conquers his senses a quote from Bhartrihara. Heros is what is seen throughout ancient epics. Heros are, to many, seen like gods. Many heros are two parts god or have a father who is a god. Although there is god in their blood they are still human. Throughout the epics, The Iliad, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Bhagavad-Gita, the epic heros contain a characteristic that makes them more human. Achilles, the hero of The Iliad, is fl...
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Huck Finn Huckleberry Finn
865 wordsThe Battle of Huck In Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Huck faces the dilemma of embracing the discriminatory ideology of the South as he simultaneously combats his inner consciousness. Searching for a better way of life, both Huck, a freedom seeking youth, and Jim, a runaway slave, set off downriver. Along the way they encounter many obstacles. Their initial association eventually blossoms into a steadfast friendship, bypassing the practices of a racist society, leading Huck to support Jims escap...
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Boy Doing A Mans Job Boy Doing A Mans Theme
761 wordsIn all poems there is a theme, whether the theme be obvious from the start or it be one that is difficult to find. No matter how long or short a poem or how complicated or simple every poem that you read will have a theme. In Beale Street Love by Langston Hughes, the poem illustrates a theme that would be along the lines of a dangerous love. Hughes demonstrates this quality over and over again by depicting an abusive love with his powerful words. Even though the poem is short in length, the word...
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Separate But Equal Animals On The Farm
1,110 wordsDerrick Robicheaux Auditing 11: 00 - 11: 50 Integration of Education in the United States Throughout history, education is recognized as one of the key components of any civilized society. It is a natural instinct for man to learn, and feel the need to pass on that knowledge to their young and to all those who come behind them. People have a passion for education, and will fight for the opportunity to gain the valuable knowledge that education provides. The importance of education in a society i...
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Lesson Before Dying Black Man
650 wordsJefferson Dies, But Is Not Defeated Jefferson, a black man condemned to die by the electric chair in the novel A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, is perhaps the strongest character in African-American literature today. Jefferson is a courageous young black man that a jury of all white men convicts of a murder he has not committed; yet he still does not let this defeat destroy his personal character. Ernest Gaines portrays Jefferson this way to illustrate the fundamental belief that manki...
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Jason Tragic Play
602 wordsThe tragic play Medea, originally written by Euripides then later translated by Philip Vellacott, describes the intense love that Medea expresses towards Jason, a prince on a quest for the Golden Fleece. In an attempt to become closer to the throne, Jason marries Medea, and they parent two children together. However, Jason divorces Medea and marries a young princess. Many themes present themselves throughout this tragic play, but three offer the strongest topics of discussion; one, the greatest ...
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Live His Life Robert Jordan
1,473 wordsErnest Hemmingway uses his characters to invoke a variety of thoughts and ideas in the readers mind. Each characters action defines their individual personalities and belief systems. The main focus of For Whom the Bell Tolls center upon the life of Robert Jordan, a military explosives specialist, whose sole purpose in the Spanish Revolution is the demolition of strategic bridges, trains, and various other targets. His interactions with various characters help to define his personality and belief...
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Male Domination Love Potion
931 wordsThe dynamics of man s dominance over women are examined in a variety of ways in A Midsummer Night s Dream. Frequent allusions to rape provide strong evidence in support of this theme. Lions, bulls, donkeys, and other animals symbolic of masculinity and virility surface as examples of male power. The moon becomes symbolic for women and all-female societies such as the Amazons, nuns, and Helena and Hermia and in its symbol provides a contrast with the dominance of man. The play s final act, howeve...
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Douglass Narrative Slave Holders
1,036 wordsModern America HS 1100 In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, there are two prominent motives for why Douglass wrote the story of his life. The primary reason for writing his story is targeted at the slaveholders and powerful people of New England, where the abolitionist movement was strongest. Douglass wanted the people in power to realize how barbaric slavery is and how cruel the slaveholders were. His secondary motive was geared towards the literate slaves of America that were ab...
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Langston Hughes George Orwell
720 wordsMany peopleSythesis, Orwell, Hughes, Milgrim Decisions Many people find it difficult, if not impossible, to defy the unspoken tradition of modern authority. Stanley Milgrim s Perils of disobedience shows that an otherwise sensitive, good-natured citizen can easily be transformed into a tool, and perform actions that one would never do if given enough time to reflect. Milgrim s study suggests that an individual s need to conform to authority overrides the sense of responsibility to sort right fro...
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Fitzgerald Daisy
1,317 wordsSymbolism is a finicky thing. Symbolism is like looking at a painting and seeing how the direction of the brush strokes depicts the path of the wind. Often searching for symbolism or noticing its presence makes a story more complete. Without noticing it one can mistake a literary masterpiece as? dumb. ? A reader can completely miss the actual point. Careless reading and careless living are both common events that have happened in literary history. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald cleverl...
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