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Great Gatsby And Winter Dreams Comparative
1,355 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams" and his book The Great Gatsby, it could be argued that there were many similarities between the two stories. In "Winter Dreams", a youthful caddie named Dexter meets a beautiful rich girl whom he had met many years before. Dexter exaggerates is wealth in order to impress her. However, she marries a very rich and abusive husband. She became abused and unattractive, Dexter looses all hope in gaining her back. The Great Gatsby is a story about Jay G...
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Day After Day Dark Green
1,427 words"The sun flared down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along the edge of each green bayonet, so the earth became pale, pink in the red country and white in the gray country. In the water-cut gullies the earth dusted down in dry little streams. Gophers and ant lions started small avalanches. And as the sharp sun struck day after day, the leaves of the young corn became less stiff and erect; they bent in a curve at first, and then, as the central ribs of strength grew ...
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Cultural Values Open Window
871 wordsThere are a lot of specific cultural values that have been taught to women by society since birth. The three essays, I Want a Wife by Judy Syfers, How the Superwoman Myth Puts Women Down by Sylvia Rabiner, and An Open Window On My Private World by Jane Elizabeth Lemke are all written by women who share their experiences with us. The three essays explore the value of self, power, control, and life. First of all, in the essay, I Want a Wife, Judy Syfers exposes the meaning of wife presently in our...
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History And Literature Native Americans America
476 wordswhat do us history and literature teach us about sacrifice and values worth dying for From nursery school to senior year of high school, I have been taught that America is a country that is governed by one of the greatest constitutions in the world. We are the true symbolism of freedom, and equality. I was always told to take pride in the fact that I am a national of the U. S. With leaders such as Harriet Tubman, to JFK, we are a country filled with courage, ambition, and intelligence. It is no ...
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Tessie Hutchinson Man Warner
1,418 wordsThere are many stories in which the author purposely makes the story vague until the end, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson is a great example of this. Around ten o' clock, June 27 th was a very vivid day in the lives of the villagers, It was a beautiful summer day, the wind was slight and the flowers in full bloom. This was in fact an odd setting for the events that will take place in the future. The lottery actually started on the 26 th, but this was a rather large town so the actual drawing too...
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People Like Plato Youth Of Athens Socrates
1,298 words... arctic, he drew forth information from his students by pursuing a series of questions and examining their answers. Socrates integrity with the knowledge of one's true self, holding that no one knowingly does wrong (Hooker. 1996). Socrates beliefs can not be studied firsthand because Socrates did not keep any written record of his thoughts. Socrates wrote nothing because he felt that knowledge was a living, interactive thing (Hooker, 1996). We do know that Plato copied from Socrates the metho...
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Capitalistic Society Lower Class
1,544 wordsIn "Mary French, " Dos Passos draws a definitive line between his feelings on capitalism and socialism, as well as the rich and the poor. The parallel lives of Eveline Johnson and Mary French reveal Dos Passos's distinct attitudes in regards to the upper and lower classes of society. As a member of high society, Eveline Johnson exemplifies Dos Passos's attitudes of the rich. These attitudes begin to take shape as Mary French enters the party, "Eveline Johnson was ushering them through some slidi...
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Jean Paul Sartre Falls In Love
1,393 wordsThis essay is on setting differences using the works of Dante's The Inferno and Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit. Adam looks about spotting all the important people that will influence the rest of his life. He takes a deep breath and prepares to make this his last and final addition to life. Quietly he draws back from the church as if to stop time, this moment may define him as a man. He turns to look at the priest as if to reply his answer, but suddenly he realizes the hand he is holding is as cold a...
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Tale Heart Pale Blue
1,258 wordsImagine the sight of an old man's eye, vulturous, pale blue, with a film covering it. Could this drive one's self so insane that one would murder a man because of it? This is the event that occurs in Edgar Allen Poe's vivid tale "The Tell-Tale Heart", from the book Designs For Reading: Short Stories. Every night at precisely midnight, the narrator, who remains nameless and sexless, but for the sake of this essay I will refer to as he, ventured into the old man's room without making a sound, to o...
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Literary Elements Of Chaucer The Wife Baths Tale
717 wordsFairy tales have been around for centuries. There are many elements of a fairy-tale: characters, setting, plot, problem, events, solution, and tone through illustrations. There are also purposes of fairy tales: pass time and messages and subtle rebellion. Chaucer's view of the Wife of Baths Tale centers on fairy tale and its structure, and ending with the fact that woman should have devoted husbands. A highlight of a fairy tale is the events that lead to the happy ending. The queen sending the k...
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Pride And Prejudice Jane Austen
834 wordsIn Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, the emphasis is on irony, in its exposure of foolishness and the importance of social values. Jane Austen's irony is devastating in its exposure of foolishness. There are various forms of exquisite irony in Pride and Prejudice, sometimes the characters are unconsciously ironic, as when Mrs. Bennet seriously asserts that she would never accept any entailed property, though Mr. Collins is willing to. Often Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth serve to directly express th...
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Good Country People True Meaning
635 wordsGood Country People The short story, Good Country People, written by Flannery OConnor, is a story that captivates one by usage of symbolism and theme. The story centers on the meaning of being a good person, in the sense of leading a Christian, pious life, worthy of salvation. OConnor contrasts mindless chatter about good country people with questions about the true meaning of religious faith. There is also a class hierarchy formed that includes stereotypes about good country people and literal ...
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Meaning To Their Lives Ironic Cycles Hemingway
745 wordsIn Ironic Cycles Ironic Cycles In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway uses irony and symbolism to illustrate how a group of Americans and English expatriates lived life. They try to forget the war and restore a sense of meaning to their lives, which he would have liked to do. Hemingway s attitudes are expressed in the book, including his idea of, emphasize the optimistic idea of progress of life s cycle. When Hemingway was growing up, he would perfect his fishing during his family s summer vaca...
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Lottery Ticket John
629 wordsDavid Harris 10 S 14 / 02 / 97? ISN? T IT IRONIC? An imaginative response to the song? Ironic? by Alanis Morisette. ? An old man turned 98, he won the lottery and died the next day? John woke up around eight in the morning, he looked out of his window as he lay there in his hospital bed. He had got used to the pain, the digging in his side, it was as if he was repeatedly being hit with a baseball bat. He would lye there staring out of the same window, looking at the same buildings, thinking the ...
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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
857 wordsSeveral of Joyce's stories in Dubliners can read as lamentations. They are showing the frustrated inability of man to represent meaning by external means, including written word. When characters in ^Araby^, and ^A Painful Case^ attempt to represent or signify themselves, other characters or abstract spiritual entities with or through words, they not only fail, but end up emotionally ruined. In T. S. Eliot's^ poem, ^ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, ^ the feeling relates to one overall issue ...
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Lady Catherine De Bourgh Pride And Prejudice
1,166 wordsIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife X. (pg. 1) The first sentence of Jane Austen+s Pride and Prejudice is perhaps the most famous opening of all English comedies concerning social manners. It encapsulates the ambitions of the empty headed Mrs. Bennet, and her desire to find a good match for each of her five daughters from the middle-class young men of the family+s acquaintance: |The business of her life was to get h...
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Reading This Book Writing This Book
1,573 wordsIn the book Things Fall Apart, China Achebe is trying to give an explanation of what it is like to live in an African society. The story is about a man named Okonkwo who is a member of the Ibo tribe. Achebe is telling the story of Okonkwo from his childhood till his death. Before I read this book I did not have a very good idea of how people lived in Africa, and the ideas of I did have about life in traditional African societies turned out to be untrue. Achebe did a very good job of illustrating...
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Edmund Father
440 wordsGood v. Evil In William Shakespeare? s King Lear, both good and evil meet with ironic demises. The very brother whom Edmund betrayed is the one who destroys him. Regan? s vanity and pretense bring about her downfall. His own good and trusting nature shatter the life of King Lear. These three characters? faults and virtues lead to their utter annihilation. First of all, the downfall of Edmund is ironic in that its instigator is Edgar, the brother Edmund sought to betray. Edmund believed that thos...
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Light In August Joe Christmas
1,029 wordsA Critical analysis on the life of Joe Christmas in William Faulkner s Light in August Chris Clark English 11 Honors In William Faulkner s Light in August, religion plays a large part of the story, but an even larger part in the traits of the main characters and their actions and appearances. One of, if not the main characters of the novel is Joe Christmas, also known as Joe Mceachern. Part of the book tells of his childhood and young adult years. This paper will be based on the life of Joe Chri...
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Wuthering Heights Bronte
1,336 wordsIn Bronte? s novel Wuthering Heights the idea compensation for love lost is discussed. Wuthering Heights is a quiet house in the country where the Earnshaw? s and Heathcliff live. Heathcliff loves Catherine Earnshaw very much but, she decides to marry another man, Edgar. Heathcliff marries Edgar? s sister just to make Catherine jealous. At the end Heathcliff abandons his plan for vengeance and professes his love for Catherine only to see her die soon after. In the novel Wuthering Heights Bronte ...
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