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Conch Shell Moral Authority
726 words
Humanity centers around the moral authority in
which the people build a structured society. With
the absence of moral authority the structured
society degrades to a point where anarchy and
disorder rein. When man represses his noble
instincts and embraces a life of savagery, it
results in the break down of moral authority. In
William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Golding
portrays a group of young boys marooned on a
Utopian world and their struggle to survive;
ultimately, the bestial instinct of t...
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2 Nd Ed Paradise Lost
1,250 words
... om which she comes. The narrator, the French
tutor and the other whites have come largely from
England, though Oroonoko's owner, is Cornish and
Banister, his barbarous executioner, is "a wild
Irish Man." Here Behn sets the opposition of
savage and British rule by a reference to the
first colony as well as the symbolic
representation of superior and inferior classes.
The slave trade was an economic necessity for the
continuance of class differentiation in England at
that point in time. Along ...
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Society At Large Bruce Dawe
1,168 words
Consumerism has been unfairly portrayed as an evil
that is destroying our society. People often
neglect its positive features. Do you agree or
disagree? The rise of consumerism has brought upon
many satirical responses, however, people often
attempt to neglect its positive features which is
disseminated in every aspect of modern existence.
The reality for most is determined by the impact
of mass media and the influences of
commercialization. Dawes poetry does not purely
focus on consumerism, the...
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Uncle Toms Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
2,083 words
Writers differ in the purpose for which they
write. Some aim to entertain, but the more serious
and skilled writers usually have the goal of
expressing a serious idea. Writers such as Harriet
Beecher Stowe and Alex Haley are writers who write
for more than mere entertainment. Uncle Toms
Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, had a
political purpose. Stowe intended to help America
realize the inhumanity of slavery and the pain it
brought upon African-Americans by writing a
melodramatic novel. S...
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Late Nineteenth Century Importance Of Being Earnest
902 words
The society presented by Wilde in the first act of
The Importance of Being Earnest is the late
Victorian society within which he lived. This
society was highly influenced by the nouveau riche
and aristocracy. Wilde's play focuses upon this
sphere of social society with its drawing room
setting. The late nineteenth century society was
very much based upon rigid class distinctions and
this comedy of the same period holds this same
ideal. Evidence of the society this literature was
drawn from can b...
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Indigenous Australians Substance Abuse
1,952 words
Indigenous Australians by examining the portrayal
of Aboriginality by Indigenous and Non-Indigenous
peoples through the use of Films. The films that
were used for this study were Stephen Johnsons
Yolngu Boy, Bruce Beresford's Fringe Dwellers and
Rachel Perkins Radiance. Throughout the years many
Australian films have been made depicting
Aboriginal people and their Aboriginality. Three
such films are Stephen Johnsons Yolngu Boy, Rachel
Perkins, who is an Indigenous person, Radiance and
Bruce Bere...
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Start Of The Play End Of The Play
874 words
A readers initial view of A Doll House is
extremely conventional. In the nineteenth century,
a women was expected to be a stereotypical
subservient house wife. The play portrays Nora as
this from the beginning until her awakening.
Nora's unconventional free and wild thinking allow
the reader to value the work for its encouragement
for women to be less of the stereotype and break
away from the norm. Nora begins the play as
Torvalds doll but ends as an individual thinker by
leaving her husband and...
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Victorian Era Sister Carrie
1,352 words
... after. Angel is hansom and easy on the eye. He
gives off a un-sabbatarian aspect due to the fact
that he is a dogmatic parsons son (Hardy 181).
Claire's character is a direct challenge to
religious traditions as he preferred sermons in
stones to sermons in churches and chapels (181).
Angel and Tess become married even though they
both hold secrets from each other. The night of
their wedding each take turns in confessing past
sins! Angel did not mention it because (He) was
afraid of endangeri...
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Existentialism As A Theme Of The Stranger
1,156 words
Existentialism as a Theme of The Stranger The new
approach to the philosophical thinking of
humankind being has been developed recently by
many trends in the cultural development. A very
popular now belief that the meaning of life is
meaningless resembles the written works of the
last century. Many people argue that the ignorance
of socially accepted principles can lead a person
to the freedom of his perception and eventually
behavior. However, the real life is often far away
from that what thes...
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Virginia Woolf Patriarchal Society
1,211 words
World Literature Both Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia
Woolf and The Hours based on the novel of Michael
Cunningham are two brilliant masterpieces that
narrate against the oppression of the human soul
and for the celebration of diversity. Both works
carry a nostalgic mood, heavily overlaid with the
sense of memory. Mrs. Dalloway mostly takes place
before World War I, and the rest of the novel
focuses on vivid moments in memory that define
lives and relationships. The Hours, although it
takes place in t...
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Historical Figures Modern Drama
1,995 words
Amadeus-Accuracy of the Film The film Amadeus that
was based on the play of the same name by Peter
Shaffer has some wonderful moments unmatched
anywhere else on film. However, there are some
things to keep in mind while you are watching this
film. First, while the characters are two actual
musical figures-Mozart and Salieri-Amadeus is a
work of fiction. In spite of its title, the film
is more about Antonio Salieri-and really more
still about the elusive gift of creativity, a gift
that seems to c...
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Rap And Soul Music
635 words
Rap and Soul Music Music has always been around
from the beginning of time. It has grown from
stage to stage over the past decades. Different
decades carry along their different memories of
music. The type of music listened to in the
seventies, eighties and nineties, have their
obvious differences. Nowadays, in the 21 st
century, the two most popular forms of music are
Rap and Soul. Although rap and soul both require a
lot of time, money and talent to create, soul
music is more complicated, infl...
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Stepping Stone Real Life
1,069 words
Up Close and Personal The Movie Up Close and
Personal, is a modern-day story about a young
reporter, Tally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer), who
is determined to make a place for herself in the
broadcasting field as a news reporter. At a Miami,
Florida based station, where she is given her
first chance at making it, Atwater meets Warren
Justice (Robert Redford), a well known reporter
who has irritated some important people in his
career. Justice shows Atwater the ropes of
becoming a successful news r...
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Edgar Allen Poe Cask Of Amontillado
1,162 words
Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allen Poe. The name evokes
morbid and quite psychotic imagery just from the
mere sight of it. That is, from the few stories I
have read in his name. He is a man of great
intelligence that cannot be denied and sadly, a
man of great madness that can also not be denied.
He describes feelings of innate and morbid
tendencies within the human psyche, that are
completely realistic, yet unfathomable to human
ethics. In the few stories I have read, which
include: The Cask of Amontil...
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Good And Evil Victor Hugo
835 words
How Society Effects Human Nature (Examples From
How Society Effects Human Nature (Examples From
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables) How Society Affects
Human Nature In Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
portrays human nature in a neutral state. Humans
are born with neither good nor bad instincts, but
rather society affects our actions and thoughts.
Hugo portrays the neutral state of mind through
Jean Valjean and Cosette. The two extremes of good
and evil are represented through Th napier and the
bishop. Good...
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Whites And Blacks Mr And Mrs
2,163 words
Richard Wrights novel, Native Son, consisted of
various main and supporting character to deliver
an effective array of personalities and
expression. Each characters actions defines their
individual personalities and belief systems. The
main character of Native Son, Bigger Thomas has
personality traits spanning various aspect of
human nature including actions motivated by fear,
quick temper, and a high degree of intelligence.
Bigger, whom the novel revolves around, portrays
various personality el...
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Paul Auster Second Half
1,435 words
The book Portrait of an Invisible Man, is a
response by the brilliant Paul Auster to his
father s death. His father dropped dead one day,
unexpectedly, after being in perfect health.
Despite the abruptness of his demise, Auster did
not grieve and was ready to move on following the
news. But, something troubled him and this concern
would ultimately lead to the creation of this
piece. He writes, What disturbed me was something
else, something unrelated to death or my response
to it: the realizatio...
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Huck Finn Twain
1,421 words
Stories have existed since the beginning of
mankind. Going back as far as ancient Greece in
history, or even further back, one can examine the
many different types of stories that have been
passed down to us. The ancient Greeks wrote about
gods and developed drama; the Romans passed down
biographies of Caesars containing their life
achievements as well as their failures; numerous
stories questioning the institution of slavery
were produced here in America; and finally, due to
the development of ...
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Red Badge Of Courage Local Color
783 words
Realism is the depiction of life as most people
live and know it. Regionalism is a characteristic
of Realism that portrays the customs, habits and
characteristics of a particular place. Part of
regionalism is local color. Local color is defined
as a particular example of regional
characteristics. Local color can be shown in a
particular dialect, dress, and occupations. In
Realism life is depicted as most people live and
know it. Local color helps the true appearance of
a place seem more believab...
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House On Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
781 words
It Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros It was a cold
and windy day, a perfect day to uncover secrets
and truths about writers I had heard of, but new
little about. I entered the library to escape the
weather and lose myself in books about Sandra
Cisneros and the characters she creates in her
poems and stories. I began my search at a computer
resource station, and then absorbed myself in the
materials it provided, which were biographies,
criticisms, and the works of Cisneros. Initially,
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