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Gas Station License Plate
1,900 wordsMary and Peter Jackson were driving down highway 50 in the middle of Nevada when Collie Entragian, the Desperation police officer, pulled them over for having a missing rear license plate. He told Peter that he could take the front license plate off and put it on the back and they should be ok. Peter went to the trunk of the car to get a tool kit under the spare tire. When he lifted up the tire to get the tools, Entragian and Peter found a bag of marijuana. Entragian started to get violent and h...
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1,317 wordsAn Analysis of the Presence of Alcohol in Ernest Hemingway's Short Stories Alcohol and Desperation: An Analysis of the Presence of Alcohol in Ernest Hemingway's Short Stories Throughout the short stories of Ernest Hemingway, alcohol inevitably lends its company to situations in which desperation already resides. In an examination of his earlier works, such as In Our Time, a comparison to later collections reveals the constant presence of alcohol where hopelessness prevails. The nature of the hop...
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Clean Well Lighted Place Snows Of Kilimanjaro
1,312 words... voice, with its many insights and subtleties, has the wisdom of one who has experienced the loss of hope. In Our Time does offer some pieces that afford a view of the lament of failure and of the inability to fulfill potential. In the vignette that precedes Chapter XI, Hemingway describes a youth in his lament over failure as a bullfighter. The young age of the torero is implied, since bullfighters rarely fought into middle-age, and it serves as an interesting bridge to Hemingway's later sto...
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Fire Escape Glass Menagerie
798 wordsIn The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams uses the theme of escape to portray the inutility and disparity of each of the characters dreams. The Glass Menagerie takes place in the small, ghetto apartment of the Wingfield family. Poverty is what has trapped them in their meager living quarters. The escape from this apartment, these relationships, and this way of life is an imperative theme throughout the play. The fire escape, the dance hall, the absence of Mr. Wingfield and the unavoidable depar...
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Romeo Juliet Marry Paris
509 wordsOne of the recurring themes throughout most of playwright William Shakespeare's plays are people in unusual circumstances. These plays show the true nature of human beings and their behavior. An example of this is the story Romeo & Juliet. Here, two typical teenagers of that time are dealing with themes of behavior emotions many people deal with today, such as desperation, conflicts with loved ones, and rebellion. Romeo Montague, a well to do young man from an esteemed house in Verona, Italy, is...
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Desperation By Stephen King
1,419 wordsDesperation, a recent Stephen King novel, is not just a book, but an experience that leaves the reader frightened, paranoid, and questioning his moral beliefs. Picture, if you will, a lone, crazed Nevada policeman who pulls over vehicles on a lonely desert highway and forcefully takes away their occupants. Whichever of them he doesnt kill immediately, he locks up in the jail of the small desolate town of Desperation. Among those captured are the vacationing Carver family, whose RV is sabotaged o...
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2,325 wordster> Reasons for the increasing support given to NSDAP by the German people in the period 1923 - 1936. The NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), who were in the early 1920 s, a small and not particularly distinctive element in the multifarious and fragmented German volkisch movement had become by 1936 the ruling organisation of German society. There were many factors influencing the German mass support to swing towards the party during 1923 - 36. In the face of econom...
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Petty Her Lies Position In Society Helmer
945 wordster> What does this scene reveal about Nora? What is its importance in the whole play? In Ibsen's A Dolls House, in Act Two Scene 6, Nora's deceptive behaviour and desperation reaches its climax due to the arrival of the letter. This is because the letter contains the means she used to get hold of the money. During the time when the play took place, society frowned upon women asserting themselves. Women were supposed to play the role in which they supported their husbands, took care of...
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Pompey And Crassus Political Career
1,119 wordsThe formation of the First Triumvirate took place because of the political motives and the personal motives of the three ruthlessly ambitious power brokers in Rome. These men required the co-operation of the other two in order to further their political careers. During the time of the First Triumvirate many extraordinary powers where obtained and in some cases these where unprecedented. There are some key factors that have to be considered towards the break down of the Triumvirate. The most powe...
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Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams
777 wordsA 26 year-old woman kneels on the floor, childlike, playing with glass figurines upon a living room table. Too plagued by her own humility, Laura contemplates only one future for herself; seclusion from the outside world where bad encounters prevail the desire for good experiences. A lack of positive growth for Laura, along with the rest of her family, is the pitfall for Tennessee Williams where he pressurizes kindred desperation in The Glass Menagerie only to produce hopelessness as the ultimat...
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Hemingway Hero Older Waiter
696 wordsThe author shows us the desperate emptiness of the old mans life near finished without the success of its labor. The aggravation of the old mans restless mind that cannot find peace, which is unlimited burden. Throughout the story images of desperation show the old mans existence at a position when he has realized the pointlessness of life and finds himself the lonely object of contempt. Instantly after one has read this story one can see the religious relations from the beginning of the story. ...
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2,574 wordsHemingway's Works Ernest Hemingway was a very talented writer of short stories. He is even thought by many to be better at writing short stories than at writing his novels. He portrays the philosophy of existentialism. A philosophy that is centered upon the analysis of existence and of the way man finds himself existing in the world. He combines this with a code that Hemingway expects his characters to adhere to. They are, a person must be responsible for their actions, a near death experience i...
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Grand Canyon Final Scene
844 wordsHailey Thomas April 6, 2001 Feeder 3. 2 Thelma and Louise In the final scene from Thelma and Louise the cinematographic effects are astounding. Panning, reaction shot, and dissolve are all used in the last section of the movie clip extensively. These three cinematographic terms are perfect for this clip because of the intensity they add to the scene. Through the use of panning, reaction shot, and dissolve the actresses portray two extreme emotions of desperation and the tranquility of freedom. D...
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Tomorrow And Tomorrow Macbeth Ambition
446 wordsTomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Sometimes tomorrow never comes and as for Macbeth, tomorrow meant another day of inner torment and guilt. This victorious Thane literally got the better of himself as soon as he started to believe in the witches. After the prophesies, Macbeth s popularity seems to take a turn for the worst as well as his mental state. Even though the witches did tempt him with the idea of becoming king, and Lady Macbeth helped him with his natural hesitation of committing mur...
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Leaves The Reader Harley Davidson
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Guilty Conscience Paul D
2,359 wordsDesperation Misery (King) And Beloved (Morrison) Essay, Research Desperation Misery (King) And Beloved (Morrison) True desperation, even when unobserved by the desperate, is never a comfortable experience. Acts of desperation appear in both Misery, by Stephen King, and Beloved, by Toni Morrison. Characters in both novels reach several levels of desperation throughout the narratives. There are both similarities and differences in the desperation shown by Sethe and Paul. One of the first things on...
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Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
886 wordsEverybody has tragic flaws. Some of the decisions that we make in life have an everlasting impact. Edith Wharton, author of Ethan Frome, writes about Ethan Frome, a man troubled by his own decisions. Ethan, married to Zeena Frome, has an affair with Zeena s cousin, Mattie Silver, leaving him stranded between the two. In his effort to have his clandestine affair with Mattie and cover up so Zeena would not find out, Ethan manifests qualities of fear, desperation, and impracticality. Ethan has many...
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2,680 wordsAn Analysis of the Presence of Alcohol in Ernest Hemingway s Short Stories Alcohol and Desperation: An Analysis of the Presence of Alcohol in Ernest Hemingway s Short Stories Throughout the short stories of Ernest Hemingway, alcohol inevitably lends its company to situations in which desperation already resides. In an examination of his earlier works, such as In Our Time, a comparison to later collections reveals the constant presence of alcohol where hopelessness prevails. The nature of the hop...
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781 wordsThick as thieves In books and journalism, if were honest, everyone steals a little. Originality is literatures most testing requirement, as Shakespeare acknowledged in sonnet 76: So all my best is dressing old words new/ Spending again what is already spent. The flipside of imitation and theft, deliberate or unconscious, is that plagiarism lurks in the bloodstream of the book world like the unappeasable strain of some deadly virus. Damaging accusations can erupt at any moment. Last month, Doris ...
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