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Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism Alice In Wonderland
508 words"In Lewis Carroll's nonsense world, of Alice in Wonderland, we are privileged to see our familiar adult society (somewhat exaggerated, so that we are sure to get the joke) through the thought of the wise child Alice" (Hubbell). The criticisms show how Carroll depicts Alice in this work. Carroll shows Alice as the frustrated child in a world of adult nonsense, the heroine, and reveals his own inner-view of women. Alice is everything that Victorian children, of this time, are not. Hubbell gives us...
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U S Government Drug Trafficking
1,606 wordsApproaching and addressing international drug issues in 1999 is not a simple task due to numerous contradictions that involve the inherent nature of economics, politics, culture, and individual ideologies. The normal attributes of drugs, as well as the changing characteristics of these mind-altering substances, makes them the center of complex studies that end up producing contradictory and inconclusive reports. Furthermore, confusion results from the study of available literature due to moral p...
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Opium Poppy Blood Flow
1,589 wordsMany different drugs have different effects on the body. This paper focuses on the effects caused by three widely used drugs opium, cocaine, and cannabis. They have many common effects between them. Some characteristics of the effects of those drugs are those of stimulants and others are those of depressants. We will describe the chemical effects of each drug on the body. Opium is a drug produced from the capsules of the opium poppy. When fresh from the plant it is a gooey light brown mass ("Opi...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Criminal Justice System
1,520 words... ve and deadly drugs is cocaine. It can be injected, snorted, or smoked. It carries the risk of HIV if it is injected. Cocaine significantly speeds up the neuro transmissions in the nervous system. It accelerates the heart rate while simultaneously constricting the blood vessels, which are trying to adjust to the heightened blood flow. Temperature and blood pressure rise. Pupils dilate. A stroke, respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest, or seizures may accompany the physical changes induced by the...
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Zora Neale Hurston Eyes Were Watching God
1,879 wordsI have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral does in his shroud... " -Walt Whitman, Song of Myself Zora Neale Hurston, in dealing with the female search for self-awareness in Their Eyes Were Watching God, has created a heroine in Janie Crawford. In fact, the female perspective is introduced immediately: ...
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Merchant Of Venice Love And Friendship
1,655 wordsWe can trace the origin of Comedy to Dionysius- the Greek God of Wine who was hilarious, satirical and irreverent in spirit. Ben Jonson in Volpone (1605) that is considered to be the greatest comedy in English epitomized the classical spirit of comedy. Shakespeare was aware of the classical tradition by the chose to follow the Roman tradition of Petrarch and Boccacio. Shakespeare's early comedies were classical in spirit but the later ones were more emotional, fanciful and humorous. The Merchant...
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The Role Of Portia In Merchant Venice
656 wordsPortia is one of the main character roles in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, and is often related to as the heroine of the play. Unlike the business city of Venice, her home is set in the contrasting city of Belmont, which represents love and harmony within the play. We are introduced to Portia in Act 1 Scene 1, when Bassanio describes her as a fair lady, richly left, but we do not see her until Act 1 Scene 2. We learn that she has a close relationship with her waiting-woman, Nerissa, and she ...
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Merchant Of Venice Female Characters
1,771 wordsThroughout Mans history, women have always been at a disadvantage socially, economically, and politically. Shakespeare realized this and sought to bring the controversy that comes with Androgynous issues to life. Through strong female characters and the implications of disguises, Shakespeare exposes gender issues. Many critics believe Shakespeare poorly represents women in his plays through intentional exploiting of women with his boy-girl-boy disguises. When in fact, I see Shakespeare as exploi...
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Girl Of The Streets Sister Carrie
1,360 wordsThings are not always as they seem. For instance, take Thomas Hardy's Tess of the dUrbervilles: A Pure Woman, Stephen Cranes Maggie: Girl of the Streets, and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. At the surface they appear to be quite different. Tess written in 1871 by a British man by the name of Hardy, Maggie written by an American in 1893, and Carrie being written by an American in 1900. All disparate. Or are they? Hardy, Crane, and Dreiser's writings share an important relationship, the heroine....
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Jane Austen Pride Modern Critical Interpretations
1,680 words... zing the falsehood of personal power in the material world. The ability to do so is shown to be the ability to deviate. Authority is achieved by counteracting in revisions. In Austen's novels, characters who gain authority are able to modify themselves (Bloom 25 - 6). The title of a French translation of Sense and Sensibility sums up the novel's theme. The two ways of loving, although the contrast is wider than that. Austen provides closely paralleling experiences for her heroines. The Dashw...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Make Them Feel
2,377 wordsWinter Dreams Many times when reading Scott Fitzgeralds novels, one can notice that he is not just describing a certain character, but he is rather describing himself. Fitzgerald is so strongly involved into his novels that sometimes it is difficult to differentiate between the real life story and fiction. The characters of Fitzgerald really do mirror the events of his own life. In his work Winter Dreams we can also see a great parallel with his own life. This story is called "Winter Dreams" bec...
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Greek Mythology Tragic Ending
1,189 wordsThere is no doubt that Eustacia Vie is the Heroine of the tragedy Return of the native. Without the majestic air that Miss Vie adds to the novel we are left with a typical period soap drama. Eustacia vie is on more then one occasion compared to classical characters of Greek mythology, and even in her death the nobility of her figure evokes images of classical sculpture. Pallor did not include all the quality of her complexion, which seemed More the whiteness; it was almost light. The expression ...
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Frankenstein Father
1,312 wordsFrankenstein: The Letters And Chapters 1 &# 038; Frankenstein: The Letters And Chapters 1 &# 038; 2 A first impression of Walton would be to say that he is extremely ambitious. He desires to go to the North Pole to? accomplish some great purpose? . He has his own theories on what should be there, and will not rest until he has proved them. This is somewhat a? Godlike? ambition, in that he wishes to be praised for discovering something new which will benefit everyone else in the world. The langua...
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Pride And Prejudice Sense And Sensibility
1,773 wordsThe late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries were eras of momentous change. Diversity became increasingly evident in municipal and social issues as well as in literature. This period marked the cease of the romantic era and the birth of the Victorian era in literature. Such a transition period allowed for a whole new breed of authors and style of writing. One such author who is especially acclaimed for writing during this time is Jane Austen. All six of her illustrious novels craftily comb...
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Male Dominated Society Place In Society
4,388 wordsAlthough Charlotte Bronte uses Jane Eyre to represent a modern woman, she fails to do so for Jane is forced to accept her role as a woman in the Victorian patriarchal society, which defines her character and determines the outcome of her life. Jane lives in a world and in a time where society thought women were too fragile to ponder. Women at the time have barely any rights at all and are not allowed prominent positions. Male dominance is the biggest obstruction at each stop of Janes journey thr...
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Jerry Garcia Pied Piper
2,143 wordsJerry Jerry Garcia Alex Walker Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead Rock Legends of the 60 s and 70 s Walker 2 Jerry Garcia s life was filled with wonderful things, many of which he never expected in the first place. After an almost fatal heroin overdose in 1986, Garcia philosophically stated, I m 45 years old, I m ready for anything, I didn t even plan on living this long so all this shit is just add-on stuff. (Garcia) This attitude shows why Garcia did all of the things he did and even how some ...
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False Memory Social Order
1,823 wordsA Reason To Kill Margaret Atwood's Surfacing is an intensely symbolic novel about an artist whose weekend trip home to search for her missing father turns into a journey of self discovery. The main character in the story is also the narrator and is not given a name probably because readers will be able to identify with her as the storys heroine. Early in the story, she talks about being married, divorced, and having a child. Later it is made known that she was never married, but has had an affai...
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Patriarchal Society Society Set Medea
492 wordsIn Euripides Medea, the main character of the same name is a controversial heroine. Medea takes whatever steps necessary to achieve what she believes is right and fair. She lived in a time when women were expected to sit in the shadows and take the hand that life dealt them without a blink of their eye. Medea took very radical steps to liberate herself and destroys the life of the man who ruined hers. She refused to accept the boundaries that a patriarchal society set upon her. Medea was a very ...
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Late Nineteenth Century Portrait Of A Lady
3,563 wordsIt is an unquestionable fact of life that human nature is flawed. Human beings have a variety of weaknesses that may differ from one person to the next. How one deals with this ultimately determines whether it will or will not destroy the person. The faults that humans possess stem from an open field of possibilities that they are able to choose from as they build their own character. However, as much as individual free will is desirable, as all other parts of the natural world, it can include n...
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Madame Bovary Emma Bovary
2,803 wordsScenes from a provincial life She was a bourgeois narcissist in 19 th-century France who was destroyed by her daydreams. But the brilliantly observed tragedy of Flaubert's Madame Bovary still resonates today Reading Madame Bovary for the first time was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life at least up to that point. I was a very young woman not even eighteen. I was au pair in the French provinces in the 1950 s, and I read Madame Bovary in French, sitting in the furrow of a vineyard. ...
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