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A Rose For Emily
Number of words: 608 | Number of pages: 3.... love with anyone but her father because he chased all of Miss Emily’s suitors away from their house when they came calling. When her father died, she was at a loss for what to do. She had no idea how to take care of things, like paying bills, etc., so in order to make the transition smooth for Miss Emily, Colonial Satoris made Emily exempt from taxes. In this time that was the right, and gentlemanly thing to do, especially since she had just lost her father, and source of income. Many years later, the modern town of Jefferson could find no proper paper work excusing Miss Emily from taxes, and confronted her with this. .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Light And Dark Imagery
Number of words: 1113 | Number of pages: 5.... refers to him as a dark person. When speaking to her mother,
she says, "Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will
catch you" (Hawthorne 123)! The "black" in "black man" refers to
Chillingworth's evil, which is clearly acknowledged by even a small child.
Guilt is also acknowledged by others through the dark imagery. It is shown
through the Puritan's clothing, which is "the blackest shade of Puritanism
"and through the lighting on certain characters, mainly Dimmesdale, in the
novel. Dimmesdale's guilt is caused by the sin he commits. Many people
see Dimmesdale's guilt through his eyes. They d .....
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A Review Of "The Cay" By Theodore Taylor
Number of words: 843 | Number of pages: 4.... in an oil refinery nearby. Williamsted is very quaint and the harbour
is always full of black people on their fishing boats, called schooners.
One day a German U-boat is spotted near the harbour. The whole harbour is
on edge . When everyone calms down, the first tanker in a week sets sail
with gallons of crude oil on board. The whole population is shocked when
the tanker blows into pieces and scatters shrapnel all over the sea.
Phillip's mother becomes anxious and she brings Phillip on a small cargo
ship back to Central America. Phillip's father thinks that they will be
alright. The ship is torpedoed the next morning, and when P .....
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Flatland: Social Satire Of Victorian English Society
Number of words: 767 | Number of pages: 3.... the sides increases, a polygon approximates to circle; and, when the number is very great indeed, say for example three or four hundred, it is the most difficult for any delicate touch to feel a polygonal angle." It is also safe to say that ii is very improper to feel another shape in the higher classes, so it is almost never done except in some cases of disrespect and rudeness. The average perimeter of the circumference of a circle is three feet, or in a polygon three hundred sides, and it is assumed that the Chief Circle has ten thousand sides.
Circles were considered perfect because all their sides were equal and if they did .....
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The Role Revenge Played In The
Number of words: 338 | Number of pages: 2.... The alleged witchery was utterly their own doing and yet they continuously tried to take revenge against the innocent men and women of Salem.
Revenge was leveled against neighbors because of greedy self-interests. With all the bad things that were happening people began to quarrel over material things. Thomas Putnam was the worst at this. “This man is killing his neighbors for their land” (96). Putnam was promoting the accusations of neighbors so that if they were hung he would collect all their land. He was letting his friends die for the benefit himself.
The assault of friends, enemies and neighbors occurs .....
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Different Strokes For Different Folks
Number of words: 1179 | Number of pages: 5.... a
beautiful little fool’” (Fitzgerald 21). These statements explain her
opinion on how females should be, and also shows the insincerity in her
personality.
Daisy is also very confused about what she wants. When she is
faced with having to make a decision between Jay Gatsby, her old love, and
Tom Buchanan, her husband, she is not sure whom to choose. It is a choice
that is based upon remaining materialistic, “old money,” with Tom or being
torn apart from her once true love, “new money,” Gatsby. When Gatsby
asks her to deny her love for Tom Daisy states, “‘I did love him once - but
I loved you too’” (Fitzge .....
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Analysis Of The Ending Of "Death Of A Salesman"
Number of words: 1228 | Number of pages: 5.... while having a
conversation with a ghost from the past, he continues to lie to himself by
saying that his funeral will be a big event [2], and that there will be
guests from all over his former working territory in attendance. Yet as was
to be expected, this is not what happens, none of the people he sold to
come. Although perhaps this wrong foretelling could be attributed to
senility, rather than his typical self-deception [5]. Maybe he has
forgotten that the "old buyers" have already died of old age. His imagined
dialogue partner tells him that Biff will consider the impending act one of
cowardice. This obviously indicates that .....
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The Sixth Extinction
Number of words: 1156 | Number of pages: 5.... the next 50 years from 6 billion to approximately 10 billion.
Now, with the use of satellite imagery of much of the world's surface, doubts have been laid to rest about whether such alarming statistics are of real concern. The answer is beyond a reasonable doubt that at the current rate of destruction, tropical forests for example, will be reduced to 10 percent of their original cover in the next 50 years. The ultimate implication to all this, as Leakey attests is that the world is facing a sort of cataclysm, a crash with many consequences. Leakey successfully establishes that consideration must be made that if the further de .....
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The Ingenu
Number of words: 1185 | Number of pages: 5.... worldly knowledge of his own or beliefs. He is a spontaneous, curious young Huron and is viewed as quite naive. The French feel that they can easily mold him into their society. All he has are his youthful charming looks, "HE was hatless, and hoseless, and wore little sandals; his head was graced with long plaits of hair; and a short doublet clung to a trim and supple figure. He had a look about him that was at once martial and gentle" (Voltaire, 190) and an awkward manner of being courteous to the Kerkabons "all with such a simple, natural air that brother and sister both were charmed" (Voltaire, 190). When asked countless questi .....
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Silko's "Ceremony": Summary
Number of words: 1873 | Number of pages: 7.... be
looked at as an outsider even amongst his own family members.
It was a private understanding between the two of them.
When Josiah or old Grandma or Robert was there, the agreement
was suspended, and she pretended to treat him the same as she
treated Rocky, but they both knew it was only temporary.... She
was careful that Rocky did not share these things with Tayo, that
they kept a distance between themselves and him. But she would
not let Tayo go outside or play in another room alone. She wanted
him close enough to feel excluded..(67)
This however did not af .....
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