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Shoot The Elephant George Orwell
1,409 wordsThe story that my evaluation will be based on is Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College, which introduced him to England's middle and upper classes. He was denied a scholarship, which led him to become a police officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack of respect for the justice of British Imperialism in Burma and India. He w...
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Early Twentieth Century Jerry Dingleman Duddy
510 wordsThe novel is based in Montreal, Canada of the early twentieth century, where teachers believed in strapping and immigrants travelling to Canada to start a new life. Duddy Kravitz, a student of Fletcher Field High in the class of Mr. Macpherson, one of the few teachers who are against strapping. Many students took advantage of him, and even gambled with Jerry Dingleman to win tickets, which were given by Mr. Macpherson to good students. Duddy is a boy, who always wants to be someone he is not. Hi...
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Mrs De Winter Maxim De Winter
1,269 wordsRebecca, a classic suspense novel written by Daphne Du Maurier is considered one of the finest Gothic romance of the 20 th century. It was first published in 1938, and became immediate best seller. Alfred Hitchcock gave it a yet wider audience when he made it into a memorable motion picture. Starring Laurence Oliver as Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as Mrs. de Winter, the black and white version of the movie, was based on the book. The book and the movie are not very much alike, in fact, they...
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Make The Audience Stock Price
1,270 wordsAt what cost does a company deserve to be taken off of life-support? While Gregory Peck would say that a surviving, long-lived company is worth saving, Danny Divito sees it differently. "Who cares?" he asks. The company is actually an investment, and no investment in need of life-support is worth saving. Not only do Peck and Divito see the company differently, they also relate to their audience on different levels. In their speeches in Other People's Money, Peck and Divito use ethos, pathos and ...
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Strict Gun Control Violent Crime
1,242 words... handgun killings per 100, 000 people compared to 4108 in the U. S. over the period of 1977 - 1983 ." They also noted that the "American murder rates for handguns are higher than the total Canadian homicide rate" (249). According to Sproule and Kennett, "Canada's favourable situation regarding murder relative to the United States is to a large measure the result of Canadian gun control, and Canadians must be vigilant against any erosion of our gun control The works cited above are based on re...
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Moral Education Learning Environment
1,430 wordsThe concept of excellence in education is one that, on the surface, seems to be unquestionable. After all, who would not accede that students within our schools should, in fact, excel? Certainly teachers, parents, and administrators can agree on excellence as an aim to shoot for. The interpretation of the term excellence is, however, less obvious. How do we regard excellence? Is it the college bound student with a broad liberal arts education? Is it the student who graduates high school trained ...
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Fugitive Slave Facial Expressions
478 wordsA man can say a lot through his face. For the human race, facial expressions are perhaps the most expressive and universal communication we can use. One does not usually notice the facial expressions of animals, but there is a look. A look you notice in the eyes of two alley cats as they fight over the most generous trash cans. And the look that flashes across the face of the buck just as it turns its head and its eyes focus on the pursuer, to be pursued no more. I would imagine this same look o...
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End Of The Movie Beginning Of The Movie
1,331 wordsI was not really interested in seeing LA Confidential since everyone I knew who went to see it had bad things to say-too long, too boring, too confusing. After watching the movie, I became very interested in the movie. Its rare to see a movie with great acting and a story that keeps me wondering whats going to happen next. LA Confidential is a crime-drama adapted from an infamous novel written by James Ellroy. Curtis Hanson directs the movie. The film looks and feels like what you might imagine ...
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Modest Proposal Twenty Thousand
1,078 wordsJonathan Swifts A Modest Proposal (1729) is one of the greatest satires written in history. It deals with overpopulation and undernourishment problems in Ireland. Swift makes a very interesting proposal, to put an end to all this problems. As the reader starts reading several questions pop into his mind. What exactly is the narrators so called modest proposal? What is Swifts real purpose in his essay? What changes does he hope for Ireland? Whose hearts and minds does Swift hope to influence? And...
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Dickens Marx And Freud
1,454 words... ub sequent guilt and remorse we feel from our super ego. Tom is the son of Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. , a factual man only interested with pure facts. Therefore, Tom is brought up in a utilitarian environment: taught never to wonder, doubt facts or entertain any kind of fancy. In the novel Hard Times he is part of the middle class and only has love for one person, his sister, Louisa. His sisters husband employs him in the bank but Tom interests himself more with rebellion since he is finally away...
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Lemon Juice Rape Fantasies
1,066 wordsThe plot of Rape Fantasies by Margaret Atwood is all within the mind of Estelle, who talks to the reader as she might to a new friend. Estelle's personality becomes exposed to us through the narration of her fantasies and lunchtime work experiences. We are told of Estelle's workplace where she is with her friends discussing their rape fantasies. Examining Estelle's world through her perspective of the conversation, we find she is a game player both outwardly in playing bridge and in her relation...
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Crying Of Lot 49 De Familiarization
1,062 wordsIn his Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure differentiates language and speech by explaining language to be social and speech to be individual. (Rivkin 76) That is, language is the means through which communication and convention are established, while speech is the way in which the individual utilizes language as a means of expression of thought. By presenting linguistics as related to semiology, Saussure provides an effectively systematic method with which to view social scienc...
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Brilliantly Illuminated Louis Xiv History
1,594 wordsVoltaire: A history that never moved By Boy Kampmark Why should history move? Consider it a frozen tableau, an unchanging picture. There are only emotions rather than causation. Even if there is historical causation, Voltaire (Francois Marie About) (1694 - 1778) wrote in his works History of Charles XII, History of Louis XIV and his Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations against its usefulness. This is largely because Voltaire, through his desire to write a history freed from a chronology,...
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Ibsen And Strindberg Hedda Gabler Miss Julie
1,085 words... error to Jean, which is a direct result of Strindbergs personal attitudes. She needs Jean to tell her to kill herself and even goes so far as to thank him for giving her the permission. Strindbergs Miss Julie is a direct depiction of his own thoughts. It is, in a sense, displaying Darwin's Survival of the fittest theory, The fittest being the male species according to Strindberg. It shows the dramatic rise of Jean, a servant, and its corresponding effects on Her Ladyship Miss Julie, Who was ...
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Charles Dickens Attempts Dickens Attempts Scrooge
636 wordsThe true description of Scrooge first appears about quarter way through the book, before then there are only a few minor references to his character. The description begins metaphorically as it features the words A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone. Its metaphorical because it is trying to portray that Scrooge is literally as tight as the hand to the grindstone. Then soon after this seven adjectives follow, Squeezing, Wrenching, Grasping, Scraping, Clutching, Covetous, Old sinner. They are use...
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Act Ii Scene Act Iii Scene Ii
1,520 wordster> Compare and contrast Portia's three suitors, examining their characters Shakespeare highlights three of Portia's suitors, the Prince of Morocco, the Prince of Arragon and Bassanio. He does this to heighten dramatic tension, as these three men are the most important candidates to win Portia's hand in marriage. They reveal the contents of the three caskets and their different characters as exposed as being proud, vain and humble. They also emphasise the racial prejudices of Venice a...
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The Clerk Tale Biblical Paradox
1,311 wordsTo formulate any type of argument using the Bible as a reference is challenging, since the Bible is diversely perceived from person to person. These varied perceptions can be results of different translations of the Bible, the cultural background of the reader, or quite simply, a vagueness with which the Bible can lend itself to multiple interpretations. Nevertheless, there are certain topics which are void of much gray area, which are explicitly and consistently outlined by the authors of the v...
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The Hollow Men Ts Eliot And Society
1,101 words... right to vote. The Portrait of a Lady, Aunt Helen, and Cousin Nancy are among various poems written by T. S. Eliot that has themes dealing with women and their advancement in society. In the poem Cousin Nancy, Eliot writes: Miss Nancy Ellicott Strode across the hills and broke them, Rode across the hills and broke them -- The barren New England hills -- Riding to hounds Over the cow-pasture. Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked And danced all the modern dances; And her aunts were not quite sure how th...
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Homer Barron Miss Emily
1,165 wordsA Rose for Emily by William Faulkner tells the story of an unconventional spinster; Emily Grierson and her eccentric relationships with her father, lover, and the town of Jefferson. The story is told by an unknown Narrator who is clearly a town resident (when Miss Emily died, our whole town went to her funeral... ), and the story unfurls in a non-chronological order. We are given the ending first, we know Miss Emily Grierson is already dead when the story begins, but we also know the story is ab...
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1,167 wordsIn the Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Knight and the Wife of Bath are similar and also different. The Knight represents the nobility and military estate while the Wife of Bath represents the middle status. Both the Knight and the Wife of Bath are fearless. The Knight was a fearless worthy man who fought in the crusades while the Wife of Bath was fearless about her opinions on love, she was outspoken. The Knight and the Wife of Bath were similar in many ways. They both were bes...
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