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Modernistic Aspects In Kiplings A Wayside Comedy
1,010 wordsRudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. He was sent to England to go to school and returned to India in 1882. He worked as a journalist in Lahore for the Civil and Military Gazette. He also worked on Pioneer in Allahabad later (web). Kipling returned to England in 1889 and met his wife, Carrie Balestier. They moved to the United States in the mid- 1890 s where he wrote many of his poems. They returned to England in 1896 (web). Kipling began to be regarded as? the People?...
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Havisham House Years Ago
1,067 wordsPip is orphaned at childbirth and is raised by his sister and her husband, Mr. & Mrs. Joe Gallery. He lives a pretty normal, happy life considering the circumstances. He sneaks around like a normal kid and one time he steals stuff to help an escaped convict. Anyway, one day he is called to Miss. Havisham's house to play. There he meets Estella and she is like the only lively, pretty thing in that house. Pip loves her but she constantly points out his faults. Now he realizes what a common, uneduc...
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Catcher In The Rye Elkton Hills
1,295 wordsHolden Caulfield's monologue in The Catcher in the Rye is an examination of one boy's struggle of entering into adulthood. He is a classic screw up with no goals, just as Stradlater, his roommate at Percent, states; "you don't do one damn thing the way you " re supposed to" (Salinger 41). It is really Holden's avoidance of having to grow up and his fears related to it. It is because of Holden's fears the he becomes so full of despair and loneliness and is often nauseated by the world around him ...
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Catcher In The Rye Committing Suicide
1,247 words... be, especially to him. He says, I started thinking how old Phoebe would feel if I got Pneumonia and died. It was a childish way to think but I couldnt stop myself. Shed feel pretty bad if something like that happened. She likes me a lot. I mean shes quite fond of me. Holden does not want kids to grow-up into the world that he sees as so horrible. He wants to keep children the way they are, and be the only adult to watch over them. Holden comments, Certain things should stay the way they are....
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Kurt Cobain Courtney Love
1,098 wordsOn April 9 th the world woke up to the news of Kurt Cobain's suicide. Those who followed the grudge music of Cobain's band, Nirvana, were angry, but not surprised. With songs such as "I Hate Myself and Want to Die" and constant references to suicide and drugs, suicide was the obvious explanation for his death. Kurt put it best when he said, "I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time. " (Buzz) To many people, Cobain just joined the...
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Stone Angel Social Standing
1,652 wordsSelf-Inflicted Isolation and Loneliness I never realized until this moment how cut off I am. (Laurence, 1988, 294) In the novel The Stone Angel, author Margaret Laurence portrays a lonely old woman by the name of Hagar. Over the course of the novel, Hagar reflects back on the memories that have created the story of her life. Hagar is a deeply lonely woman, and much of that loneliness is self-inflicted. This mental isolation is caused by her stubbornness, her pride, and the blindness that she has...
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Significance Of Social Status In The Great Gatsby
1,455 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby may appear to be a simple tragic romance; however, within the text, Fitzgerald identifies and defines social gaps and importance of wealth. He also presents women within a very separate space as the men. The Great Gatsby allows the reader to enter into the world of wealth and experience the joys and tragedies of being within this certain class. In the novel, Fitzgerald criticizes American society in the 1920 's for its emphasis on money, superficial ...
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Inside The Mind And Music Of Kurt Cobain
1,410 wordsPeace, love, and empathy, were strangely enough the last words written on the late Kurt Cobain's suicide note before pointed his six pound. 20 gauge Remington shotgun into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Cobain ended his own life on April 5, 1994 after taking enough heroin to kill three people. The big question is how could a person of such creativity and talent, not to mention fame and fortune, want to end their life? Kurt Cobain was a voice of a generation and has widely been hailed as the J...
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Anti Defamation League Civil Rights Movement
947 wordsThe sixties and seventies were a turbulent time in this nations history; the very framework of the government was throbbing with injustice. We were a nation at war both abroad and with ourselves. Biased people filled streets throughout the country, determined to succeed at their task of ridding the United States from the evils that the Jews, blacks, homosexuals, and handicapped created. These acts still continue today, there are thousands of instances of verbal, physical, and emotional abuse eac...
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San Francisco One Day
1,014 wordsGo Ask Alice! Alice is fifteen, white, middle, class. She diets, she dates. She loves Roger but the most time he doesn't notice her. If she would ever sleep with a boy she would sleep with him. Alice hates her look. She wants to be pretty and slim. Lately she loses fascination about all things. School is boring and she doesn't even go to parties. Her parents want to move. Her Dad is invited to become the Dean of the Political Science at -. Alice is happy and is not hard for her to leave the old ...
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Heathcliff Has No Love Shedding A Tear One
1,259 wordsBronte's describes the young boy, Heathcliff, as " dark, almost as if he came from the devil, " immediately spurring the reader to view the character as evil and immoral. His actions from thence forward largely tend to enhance this notion. From the very get go he hates Hindley, and although the feeling is mutual, Heathcliff certainly does his just portion of cruel deeds. In one incident Mr Earnshaw has given both Hindley and Heathcliff a colt. When Heathcliff's colt goes lame, he threatens to bl...
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Beginning Of The Story Bilbo Baggins
942 wordsThis hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Baggins had lived in the neighborhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most or them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures of did anything unexpected; you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether u...
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Thousands Of People West Indies
1,336 words... urns to Gottlieb and meets Terry Wickett. For a while everything goes well until Tubbs learns about Martin's research and tries to get him to publish. Martin is researching and experimenting with what could possibly be the cure to many of the deadly diseases at the time, such as tuberculosis and the Black Death. He refuses to publish because he has not finished the research and to publish right away would be straying away from pure science and towards commercialism again. Tubbs wants Martin ...
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The Bluest Eye By Toni Part 1
2,013 words"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison Tony Morrison became the prominent American writer of the second half of the 20 th century mainly because of her novel The Bluest Eye published in 1970. The family relations, beauty and ugliness cruelty and love are in the focus of the novel. The novel is written by a black writer and though formally the novel is about the family relations, its essence is much more complicated than just a story about family relations. The novel The Bluest Eye raises a question o...
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Amount Of People Fire Protection
962 wordsCity services Quality of services is imperial in any type of work. At present, living in a global village where our companies, cities and workers have to compete for customers, citizen and clients on the global arena. The amount of lawyers makes it rather hard at present to cheat on the customers and In the following essay I am going to speak about the cities services. In order to assess the quality of city services, the quality services in each city department must be measured. I am going to co...
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Mistaken Identity Star Wars
1,206 wordsCharacteristics of Comedy There are many characteristics that make up a comedy. Characteristics such as mistaken identity, battle of the sexes, and jumping to conclusions are what set the comedic story apart from the tragedy. Within a comedy, no matter how much fault, and dismay may appear within the story, there always seems to be the classic ending of and they all lived happily ever after Comedies capture the viewer with a sense of compassion and love for the characters in the story. Each char...
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Merchant Of Venice Shylock
1,091 wordsIn the Dukes opinion (Act iv, Sc. 1) Shylock is? ? an inhuman wretch. ? Do you agree? Do you feel that Shylock receives, ? justice? at the end of the play? The Merchant Of Venice was written by William Shakespeare, between 1596 and 1598. It was first published in 1600. Although this play is described as a romantic comedy, there is an underlying plot of moral dimension in the development of Shylock's character. Shylock is a Jew and at this time Jews were the focus of much racial prejudice and rep...
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Robert E Lee Killer Angels
2,606 wordsThe Killer Angels The Battle of Gettysburg brought the dueling North and South together to the small town of Gettysburg and on the threshold of splitting the Union. Gettysburg was as close as the United States got to Armageddon and The Killer Angels gives the full day-to-day account of the battle that shaped America? s future. Michael Shaara tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of the generals and men involved in the action of the battle. The historical account of the Bat...
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Kurt Cobain Courtney Love
2,172 wordsOn April 9 th the world woke up to the news of Kurt Cobain's suicide. Those who followed the grudge music of Cobain's band, Nirvana, were angry, but not surprised. With songs such as I Hate Myself and Want to Die and constant references to suicide and drugs, suicide was the obvious explanation for his death. Kurt put it best when he said, Im thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time. (Bozza) To many people, Cobain just joined the club...
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Hath Not A Jew Merchant Of Venice
1,007 wordsThe Merchant of Venice In The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, there appears Shylock. He is a Jew, that much we are told in the cast list. But, as the play unfolds Shylock is seen to be the villian. He is protracted as being cold, unbending, and evil. But is he? Is Shylock really the antagonist in this play or can he also be viewed as persecuted individual who resorts to revenge only after he has been pushed too far. To fully understand the character of Shylock we must first look at E...
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