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The Fall Of House Usher Analysis
921 wordsThe mind is a complicated thing. Not many stories are able to portray this in such an interesting manner as in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." The haunting story of a man and his sister, living in the old family mansion. But as all should know, much symbolism can be found in most of Poe's works. "The Fall of the House of Usher" is no exception. First of all, we have the symbolism of Roderick Ushers mind and the House of Usher coinciding. Both can be seem as one and the same. ...
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Anthem By Ayn Rand
1,648 wordsImagine a world where the individual has been repressed to the point that the word I no longer exists. Now, as hellish as that sounds, imagine that you are the only one who has the capability to break free from the iron fists that are choking you and your brothers. This is the life of Equality 7 - 2521, the principal character and narrator of Ayn Rands Anthem. Anthem takes place in the dark ages of the future, in a totally collectivized world. This culture has regressed to conditions reminiscent...
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House Of Usher Fall Of The House
558 wordsBefore I read The Fall of the House of Usher, I had a dreary experience of my at my great grand-mothers house. Just as there are several causes and effects of horror in The Fall of the House of Usher, I have experienced a frightening event which was due to a variety of causes and which had specific unpleasant effects. The story and my venture to my great grandmothers are similar. The story puts many aspects in your mind of scary and eerie surroundings. Still, both the story and my incident cause...
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Choice Of Wording Mud Puddle Crane
1,260 wordsToday in modern America, it has become almost impossible to avoid the tales of horror that surround us almost anywhere we go. Scandals, murders, theft, corruption, extortion, abuse, prostitution, all common occurrences in this day in age. A hundred years ago however, people did not see the world in quite such an open manner despite the fact that in many ways, similarities were abundant. Peoples lives were, in their views, free of all evil and pollution. They assumed they lived peaceful lives and...
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Moby Dick White Whale
440 wordsCaptain Ahab in the novel Moby Dick is quite a character. He is the Captain of the whaling ship the Pequod and is out on a voyage to kill the great white whale named Moby Dick. Throughout his journey on sea, Ahab maintains focus on one thing, and only one thing, killing Moby Dick. It comes to show throughout the story that a close-minded man is blind to his surroundings. On a whaling mission before, Ahab's leg was bitten off by the white whale, and ever since then, Ahab has focused only on the r...
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Adam And Eve First Act
590 wordsA Summary of The Diaries of Adam and Eve This play takes place in a beautiful, mysterious garden. Two characters make up this play, Adam and Eve. These two characters are totally unaware of their surroundings, neither one of them knows who the other one is. They know that it is their job to name everything they see. The only way they share their feelings is through their diaries. The play is brought forth through the writings in their diaries. We learn that Eve is very full of herself. She think...
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Loss Of Home Hope
393 wordsDeath is a fact of life and everyone has to deal with it. There is no way around death but there are ways to die happy. In the essay "Death with Dignity, " the author, Dr. Kubler-Ross interviewed many people that were dying. Eighty percent of the people interviewed wanted to die at home so they could die with dignity. Before you die in a hospital, you go through many types of loss. Loss of home, loved ones and hope are just a few of the losses you go through in Norma Richman's poem uses personif...
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Theory Of Evolution Origin Of Species
887 wordsBefore November 24, 1859, many people simply believed that species were created by God in their present forms, or that it was possible for organic matter to be spawned from inorganic matter. However, Charles Darwin used these ideas to create his thesis, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. The first true theories on evolution arise during the classical Greek period. On a handful of Greek philosophers believed in the theory of evolution and natural selection. Unfortunately, the...
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Differential Association Theory Police Officers
1,391 wordsWilson and Kelling's article Broken Windows is an interesting take on crime prevention and the psychology surrounding it. There take on crime preventions strays from the idea of police allocation based on crime rate and the use of foot patrol versus the use of squad car patrol. The thesis offered by Wilson and Kelling in the article Broken Windows is that we must return to our long-abandoned view that the police ought to protect communities as well as individuals (Wilson 15). Wilson and Kelling ...
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Ghost Story Main Character
737 wordsThis novel was, surprisingly, in a way that was not all too completely unaware to me for I could discern my own thoughts concerning the book interesting. The intensely complex and intricate (if not confusing! ) sentences, upon first thought, made me expect an experience of complete, utter, and total confusion; however, they served not only to keep my interest in the novel for I had to concentrate to grasp the full, rich meaning of his thoughts but also to create in me a sense of enjoyment, that ...
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Hard Rock Second Year India
1,027 wordsApril, 1985 and we were driving away from civilization towards the untamed, natural and beautiful; wearied of chaos, dangers and blood-spills of our own rioted country an aftermath of post Indira Gandhi era. My father was driving his 1969 model Fiat until we were right in the middle of an Adivasi congregation, wondering to see what this four wheeled object was. I was in class two then. Initially I was ashamed to watch the near naked fellow boys, only to grow-up and be a little shyer to watch nea...
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Dramatic Effect Good Idea
777 wordsIf you were directing Act 2 Scene 2, how would you do it? This is how Act Two Scene Two may be directed in an excellent, effective way. Including some different usages of facial expressions, speech expressions and including the set design. A good set design would be a dark forest at night. There would be a full moon. It would be good to use nightly sounds like crickets. This would not just make this scene work but it adds a good effect to the whole play. In this scene, Titania is a very calm cha...
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Boys Realize Simon Story
627 wordsIn Lord of the Files the story is in piling you are up lifted with compassion and concern for the children. The boys realize they are no longer in a place they would call home but in area that would seemly be described has the wilderness. The reason is because they were engulfed in sand that surrounded them, which lead to the mouth of the forest. These very boys realize they have some growing up to do, in the way they are going to encounter many obstacles ahead that other wise would seem in poss...
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Brother And Sister Physical Intellectual
1,527 wordsMy five selves are physical, intellectual, social, emotional, and spiritual. My physical self is quite healthy because I fulfill the requirements of the FITT principle. The letters of FITT represent frequency, intensity, time and type. My intellectual self is interesting because I am mainly right-brained which means that I tend to use my creativity more than my mathematical skills. I am also a visual learned which is connected to me being right-brained. My social self consist of friends, family,...
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Environmental Conflicts In Literature
449 wordsConflicts are a very prominent element in literature. If you were to look up the dictionary definition of conflict, you would find that it is a struggle, controversy, or fight. Conflicts can take many forms, and each has its own place in literature. Environmental conflicts are certainly one of the more recognized and appreciated types of conflicts. They are easy to identify, understand, and analyze. An environment can be described as ones surroundings, so logically, an environmental conflict is ...
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Thousands Of Years People Of Africa
1,241 wordsAfrica is a continent laden with diversity. Diversity in climate, vegetation and people. A land of potential beyond imagination, yet ruined by mans wrecking influence. Not all man however is to blame, primarily those who arrived as settlers from Europe to colonize Africa about 200 years ago. These settlers caused radical change in Africa. This change spoilt the delicate natural balance, which had evolved over thousands of years. Today the economies of Africa are the weakest in the world, and the...
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Goneril And Regan Regan And Goneril
1,861 wordsKing Lear I am a man more sinned against than sinning To what extent do you agree with Lears statement above? Discuss Lears role in the play and explore his journey from tyrant to humility and death. A question that is often asked in relation to King Lear, Is Lear a man more sinned against than sinning? Firstly, there can be little doubt in anyones mind that Lear is a man with many flaws. It is also important to consider that the entire predisposition of the play is to cause the reader to discou...
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Billy Pilgrim Slaughterhouse Five
1,296 words... ending quarters. This comes as a shock to the reader, because of the torturous intentions the Nazis invented for the showers, thus creating the reader's surprise to find the victims in a German camp, unharmed. Vonnegut uses the setting to play upon the nerves of the reader by setting up a terrible death that the fatigued Americans are prepared to walk right into. Billy recalls, The Americans halted. They stood there quietly in the cold. The sheds they were among were outwardly like thousands...
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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
997 wordsContrary to what the title implies, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T. S. Eliot, is anything but a love song. It is instead quite the opposite. Although the poem is open to several interpretations, after careful reading of the poem, the several underlying themes can be expressed by one central idea. In the poem, the narrator, J. Alfred Prufrock, portrays his disappointment with the society he lives in. By interpreting aspects of imagery, speaker and intended audience, one can easily asse...
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Canadian Identity National Identity
1,647 wordsBeing Canadian I love to live in Canada and I am proud of being Canadian. There are many reasons for this. Canada is civilized country where people live happily and have strong national unity and identity. Many people around the world compare Canada to the United States, but there are some differences between these two countries. As for me, Canada has several advantages over the United States; even though Americans are have some skeptical opinions about our wonderful country. When mentioning Can...
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