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Hester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale
1,271 wordsAlthough Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter is primarily the story of an adulteress atoning for her sin and conquering the insignia which brings torment to her spirit, the quest of the partner in her sin, Arthur Dimmesdale, is no less important and even more painful. His quest, simply phrased, is to glorify God through his priesthood and expiate his sin of adultery to save his soul while protecting his reputation. To do so, he tries to continue day by day to do the work of the Lord which h...
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Pulmonary Artery Heart Failure
884 wordsHeart Murmur, Atherosclerosis, &# 038; Heart Failure A heart murmur is a sound caused by blood flowing through a childs heart or through blood vessels entering or leaving the heart. More that 50 percent of all people will be diagnosed with a heart murmur sometime in their lives. When a childs doctor or nurse practitioner detects a heart murmur, this causes many parents quite a bit of anxiety, especially if they have relatives with heart disease. Luckily, in most children a heart murmur does not ...
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Decides To Leave Power To Make
1,459 wordsHolden's Red Hunting Hat and its Symbolism Can a hat really provide a person with emotion, or for that matter, can a hat ever protect a person from their own emotions? In the book The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger the image of the main characters red hunting hat comes up many times. Holden, the main character buys a hat while he is in New York with his school fencing team. Holden has just been kicked out of his school because for academic reasons, he decides to leave his school before the...
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Acute Father Figure
1,546 wordsHow Does The Immigrant Italian Setting Add How Does The Immigrant Italian Setting Add To The Tragedy Of The A View From A Bridge? A view from the Bridge´ is set in Brooklyn, amongst an immigrant community who are poor and struggling, most working as longshoremen when the work is available. Eddie is of Italian ancestry, his father emigrated from Italy to America, and therefore he has been brought up with the strong, passionate Italian/Sicilian codes of honour and loyalty. Marco and Rodolfo ...
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Esther Greenwood Shock Therapy
706 wordsSylvia Plath? s novel, The Bell Jar is often considered a literary classic for its description of the protagonist? s angst ridden journey through depression. In the autobiographical novel, Esther Greenwood, Plath? s protagonist, sinks into a profound depression after her third year at college during the 1950? s. Esther battles not only a deteriorating mental stability, but also a lack of a sense of individuality, which leads to her major depressive disorder. Esther is a sensitive and intelligent...
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Foster Homes Social Worker
723 wordsA strong and proud young girl grows. She experiences life only to end with a spirit diminished to a shadow, and a life she can barely recognize as her own. In the novel In Search of April Raintree the character of Cheryl Raintree is bombarded with challenging tasks and situations. In the end her life and death are summed up in a letter to her sister, April Raintree. We all have the instinct to survive. If that instinct is gone, then we die. (pp. 207). Through so many trying experiences Cheryl lo...
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Pull Out His Eyes Coming Down Along The Road Stephen
567 wordsIn the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce creates a deeply personal and emotional portrait to every man. Joyce's main character, Stephen Dedalus, encounters universal feelings of detachment, guilt, and awakening. Rather than stepping back and remembering the characteristics of infancy and childhood from and adult perspective, Joyce uses the language the infant was enveloped in. Joyce also uses baby Stephens viewpoint to reproduce features of infancy. In Joyce's first chapter, cru...
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Charlotte Bronte Young Girl
386 wordsJane Eyre, a novel written by Charlotte Bronte, is about a young girl named Jane that struggles to discover her identity. Janes a girl who is unhappy, very unhappy (23). She grows up with relatives that treat her unfairly because her diseased family was not wealthy. Janes uncle Mr. Reed had reminded his wife and family to consider Jane as their own, but in contrast she experienced physical abuse by her aunt and cousin John. John Reed knocked me down and my aunt shut me up in the red-room (23), t...
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000 Square Miles Rain Forest
1,266 wordsIn 1980, the estimated amount of rain forests in the world was 40, 000 square miles. This number decreases each year by roughly 1, 000 square miles due to construction and the resources being used for profit. It is too bad, because the rain forest is one of the most beautiful places on earth. It is the most diverse, containing the most species of living things, much more than anywhere else, and most have yet to be identified. All rain forests are located on earths green belt, that is, the area r...
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Lord Of The Flies Kill The Pig
642 wordsLord of The Flies: Jack and Roger Jack and Roger are two allegorical characters in the story: Lord of the Flies by William Golding. They are both characterized as killers but they are very different from one another. The two young boys start off with the same intentions but as the story progresses we begin to see the differences in their personalities. While Jacks power hunger grows, Rogers sadistic nature also grows as well. The character of Jack is an obvious id, he is a power hungry ruthless ...
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Type Of Love Theme Of Revenge
1,251 wordsIn the novel, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte has created one of the most controversial novel in the 19 th century. Bronte has written a novel that contains many views of complex ideas. Revenge and love revenge are examples of such. The main theme of revenge is prepared through the character of Heathcliff. Heathcliff is also part of the theme of love accompanied by that of Cathy. The other half of the love theme is shown throught the actions of Hearton and Catherine. The intertwining of the idea...
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Born Of A Woman Killing Duncan
566 wordsThe Decline of Macbeth In William Shakespeare s Macbeth, the title character s decisions lead to his downfall. After he meets the witches, he makes the noble decision not to kill Duncan to become the King. Later in the play, he makes tragic decisions to kill not once but many times. As the play progresses, all of Scotland views Macbeth as a tyrant. Hence, Macbeth proves himself to be a dynamic character (C. I. ). Initially, Macbeth is a honorable man, worthy of admiration (T. S. ). Macbeth makes...
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Lady Macbeth Evil Acts
353 wordsIn the play Macbeth, the character Macbeth did many evil things, which lead to his downfall. These things effected not only himself, but his relationships with Lady Macbeth and his fellow countrymen. Macbeth was a good and brave man in the beginning of the play. He fought heroically for Scotland and recieved an honor, a title, as a reward. His mental health was good also. When he hears the three greetings of the three witches, however, his mental health starts to fade. At first, he is alright. H...
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Cerebral Palsy Left Foot
1,052 wordsThe story My Left Foot, by Christy Brown, is a very courageous and touching story. This story is about Christy s life as he struggled with cerebral palsy. Christy has to learn to write, read, paint and type with his left foot. Though Christy fights with this disease, he manages to become a great writer. Because Christy has cerebral palsy he encounters many negative changes in his life which all changes when he finds the clinic. Life would be very difficult not being able to do most daily functio...
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Dramatic Monologue Dramatic Tension
881 wordsRegret: A Hopeless Quality Tenets of Tennyson in Tithonus? Tithonus? was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The poem? s setting is the ancient story of Tithonus. Tithonus fell in love with Eos, goddess of the dawn, and asked her for immortality. Unfortunately for Tithonus he did not ask for eternal youth, only eternal life. He, therefore, grows old but never dies while Eos not only never dies but also never grows old. What makes Tithonus? s situation worse is that? the gods themselves cannot reca...
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Artist As A Young Man Begins To Question
1,902 wordsPortrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces the growth and development of Stephen Dedalus from infancy to young manhood in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, and his gradual decision to cast off all his social, national, and religious constraints and live a life devoted to artistic pursuits. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is one of the earliest examples in English literature of a novel that makes extensive use of stream of consciousness, which is a narrative technique throug...
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Space Station Figure 2
771 wordsThe International Space Station will be the size of a city block and one of the brightest objects in the sky. The work and expense will be shared by 16 nations; it will be dangerous and expensive. This is the largest peacetime engineering project in history. The international space station will orbit the Earth every 90 minutes. Its permanent population will be six or seven at a time. It will have solar wings and radiators spanning 356 feet and a width will be 262 feet. The station will have a ma...
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Norton Anthology Childhood Experiences
1,504 wordsStevie and Marriage: Preface Florence Stevie Smith grew up in unstable family conditions. Her family was falling apart, and she observed every moment with hushed censure. These repressed feelings can be seen in her poetry. Her unfortunate childhood experiences attribute to a mistrustful, cynical tone in her poem Marriage I Think. For sources I have consulted three separate levels of libraries. At the high school library I found a series called Critical Survey Of Poetry that has been most helpful...
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Unlike Other Rays Member Of The Ray Family Fins
639 wordsStingrays Rays and their close relatives skates are common in Australian waters; there are at least 50 species that are found all around the Australian coastline. Rays are broad flat fish with a thin tail and have many characteristics of sharks, as they are related to them. For example they have no scales, swim bladder or bones; their skeleton is made up of cartilage. Unlike sharks they have blunt teeth, which allows them to crush the shells of shellfish. Stingrays usually live on the seabed whe...
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Penelope And Ithaca Odysseus Grows Life
794 wordsThe Strength in Mortality During his monumental journey, Odysseus grows from a gallant young warrior to a wise and mature adult. Odysseus initially finds himself fighting for a name, this is equivalent, for humans, to the immortality of the gods. Odysseus concludes that the death-defying mortal life, with its danger and relationships of love, is far superior to a purposeless and shallow immortality. Every courageous attempt towards his ultimate goal of returning to Ithaca and Penelope is tempere...
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