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Katherine Anne Porter Holy Spirit
1,063 wordsBorn May 15, 1890, in Indian Creek, Texas; Katherine Anne Porter has written numerous short stories and a novel. Katherine Anne Porter uses autobiographical information and symbolism to relate the story of Miranda's maturation into adulthood in her short story The Grave. In The Grave, Miranda discovers her feminine side (West 28), and although she is only a child, Miranda understands a few of the events that shape a person into adulthood (Mooney 20). Porters genius as a writer is most evident in...
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Katherine Anne Porter Studies In Short Fiction
1,017 words... for her offspring (3320). The scene horrifies yet excites Miranda, and she refuses to accept the fur from the rabbit for her dolls. The sight of the young rabbits forces Miranda to realize the knowledge of the complexities of life and the birth process. Having seen, she felt at once as if she had known all along. The very memory of her former ignorance faded, she had always known just this (76). The meaning of life and fertility and of her own body begin to take shape in the little girls min...
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Committed A Crime Searches And Seizures
1,728 wordsThe overall issue is whether the offered evidence obtained by the State in the robbery trial of Andy and Bob should be suppressed. The first issue is whether Officer Short had probable cause to stop the VW bug. When a police officer has probable cause to believe that a suspect has committed a crime, the officer makes an arrest. An arrest may occur either with or without a warrant (most are made without a warrant). Arrest usually involves taking the suspect into custody and transporting him to th...
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Doors Opened Five Dollars
2,758 words... expect. " She sat up on the bed and scooted back until she could lean against the headboard. "I've never heard that tone of voice out of my father before and I think he would have been here by now but he has court tomorrow morning. I know that he won't sleep tonight while he calls on his contacts and gets everything ready. Ever since last week he has been researching Tom and finding out things that he can nail the man on. This isn't just about the contract, Miranda. Tom is going to have so m...
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United States Of America Santa Fe
5,267 words/> [The following is an earlier version of the essay published under the title "Begetting the Mexican American" in Seeds of Struggle, Harvest of Fair, LPD Press, c. 1998, pp. 345 - 72. Permission from Publisher and my own as author to use for educational purposes. ] PADRE ANTONIO JOSE MARTINEZ: BROKER FOR NON VIOLENT CONQUEST AND THE TAOS UPRISING OF 1847 by Rev. Juan Romero INTRODUCTION The year 1998 will mark the fourth centennial of the founding in northern New Mexico of the second oldest Eur...
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Reasons Why Prospero Prospero Is Protective Miranda
650 wordsWilliam Shakespeare's last play The Tempest is a story about Prospero (the rightful duke of Milan). He is betrayed by his brother Antonio and left on a ship with his daughter Miranda to die. Only things are not going according to plan and Prospero and Miranda arrive on an island. Prospero is seeking his revenge. Coming back from a wedding in Africa a ship containing Prospero's enemies is attacked by the tempest and scatters its passengers about the island. Prospero uses three major character tra...
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Comic Relief Modern Audience
1,579 wordster> As an actor, select one character from The Tempest and discuss how you would create the role, bearing in mind its function in the plot and its relationship to other characters. I have chosen Caliban to discuss, since, as an actor, I find him the most interesting character and thus the most enjoyable to discuss. Caliban's function in the plot is one that is difficult to define. He is not the key protagonist, since this title belongs to the treacherous Alonso in his usurpation of Pr...
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Style Of Writing Pursuit Of Knowledge
1,835 wordsThe Tempest by William Shakespeare Plot Summary The Tempest takes place on an enthralled island somewhere between Africa and Italy, that has been inhabited by a benevolent magician named Prospero, his daughter, Miranda, a misshapen monster who is a servant of theirs, Caliban, an airy spirit, Ariel, and several other spirits and nymphs. Prospero was the Duke of Milan, until his traitor brother, Antonio, scheming with the King of Naples, Alonso, detained his position. With the help of an honest ol...
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Supreme Court Judicial Activism Vs Restraint
548 wordsThe primary responsibility of the Supreme Court is to discuss and settle all matters that warrant federal attention. As a result, the Supreme Court is an essential entity in influencing public policy. To do this, the Court can govern in a manner that can be described as either judicial activism or judicial restraint. Miranda v Arizona (1966) is a case pertaining to the area of public policy that regards the rights of the accused, wherein the Court followed a policy of judicial activism. Similarl...
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Mistaken Identity External Appearance
781 wordsOften without realizing it people judge other people by how they look and not who they are. In the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare many of the characters poorly judged one another due to their appearance. Miranda's first sighting of Ferdinand, Caliban's mistaken identity as a monster, and Prospero's pretending Miranda is marrying for love, and pretending he doesnt want the marriage are all examples of how people are manipulated by their perceptions. Often when people are attracted to the...
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Picnic At Hanging Rock
1,208 wordsThe shadow of the Rock has grown darker and longer. At the beginning of the book, on St. Valentines Day, nineteen girls and their two school mistresses from the Appleyard College leave for a picnic to Hanging Rock. The girls are all wearing white and clean clothes. That symbolizes purity, cleanness, properness and virginity. Thereby author, Joan Lindsay, tries to show, the contrast between these girls and the hard, brutal and ruthless nature. The atmosphere is very positive- everything and every...
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Supreme Court Miranda V
307 wordsMiranda v. Arizona Name of Case: Miranda v. Arizona. The case is one of the most cited cases in the U. S. history Details of issue in Question: Miranda v. Arizona was an appeal from the conviction for kidnapping and rape. The accused Ernesto Miranda was arrested, questioned by the police officers, signed a confession, and was convicted of attempted rape, kidnapping and robbery. The officers claimed his confession was made voluntarily and Miranda had full knowledge of his legal rights. As the cas...
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Fashion Industry York Times
1,843 words... when femininity realizes itself in position of exercising dominance over manliness, it begins to derive a sadistic pleasure out of such situation. This is the reason why women bosses and feminized men (girlish, lacking physical strength, short, sexually impotent) are much more likely to terrorize their subordinates, as compared to men bosses, fully confident in their manliness. Why do Saudi kings rule Saudi Arabia as despots, while being obsessed with accumulation of excessive luxuries? Beca...
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Ariel To Carry Prospero And Ariel Caliban
1,466 wordsBegining with I would like to say that the topic Colonialism in Shakespeare's work The Tempest, is can be seen very vividly. One of the main characters Prospero is a true example of a colonies. Prospero is a colonist seizing the land of the natives and imposing European values, attitudes and the rule of European society upon them. This interpretation has been increasingly popular in North America. Although Prospero himself was forced onto the island, he was quick to impose both his beliefs and h...
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Fifth Amendment Supreme Court
782 wordsSupreme Court Unlike many other kinds of history, legal history often requires the disentangling of long chronological strands. Although commentators on the Fifth Amendment have tended to treat the privilege as a basic human right, slowly unfolding over the centuries, there are, in fact, a number of different principles, most of which have long been controversial, and still are, on both sides of the Atlantic. The old common-law rule was one of competence. No party to legal proceedings (civil or ...
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Find His Identity Diana A Resident Clegg
1,351 wordsIn the novels of John Fowles, the primary character is usually a thirty to forty year old male who is searching for his identity in some way. In this journey that the protagonist takes in his search for identity, he often accompanied by a female and only through his relationship with the woman can he become closer to finishing his journey for self-awareness. In The Collector, Frederick Clegg searches for his place in society and for something that will turn him into the loving prince (Ferdinand)...
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Caribbean Islands African American
1,904 wordsA major source of concern affecting many African Americans today is the loss of their heritage. Gloria Naylor has written a novel about a timeless society where African roots and heritage are celebrated, even in a modern world that smothers cultural identity rather than encouraging or celebrating diversity. Mama Day, a 1988 novel written by Gloria Naylor details the lives and customs of a colony of former slaves who are far closer to their African roots and cultural traditions than any blacks li...
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Percent Of All Criminal Voluntary Confessions Miranda
439 wordsMiranda vs. the State of Arizona Such cases as Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) and Miranda v. Arizona (1966) considered the rights of defendants in criminal cases and initiated a continuing debate on the rights of the individual in relation to the necessary powers of the government. The Miranda decision declared incriminating statements by a prisoner to be inadmissible as evidence when the prisoner had not been warned of his or her rights. In Harris v. New York (1971), however, the Court ruled that ...
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Act 4 Scene 1 Fall In Love
983 wordsHow does Prospero use magic in The Tempest and how does he use it to try and create an ideal society? Through the use of his magic, Prospero seeks to surpass worldly values and create a utopia, or ideal society. This becomes evident in how Shakespeare portrays the innocence of Ferdinand and Miranda. He insists that Ferdinand not Break her virgin knot before All sanctimonious ceremonies may. (Act 4, Scene 1) Prospero s seeking to create an ideal society also becomes evident in his attempts at mak...
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Life And Death Give Birth
1,075 wordsThe short story, The Grave, by Katherine Anne Porter began in a secluded area that had once been the family cemetery. The cemetery was owned by the grandmother who had just passed away. In her will she had requested the land be sold and this required the family cemetery to be moved. Two children had come across the empty graves while they were hunting. Their hunting excitement is lost when they kill a rabbit and discover the rabbit was about to give birth. The central idea is about life and deat...
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