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Midsummer Nights Dream
Number of words: 1857 | Number of pages: 7.... can't stand up for himself, likewise, this lack of speech displays his lack of self-confidence and image: Relent, sweet Hermia, and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. (Demetrius, 1.1.93-94) Demetrius believes that since he has Egeus' approval, that Hermia should relinquish to him and states that Lysander is going against his privilege. B. Demetrius takes advantage of his stature by claiming Hermia as a right, which truly portrays his instability, but, at the same time shows that in true he loves Hermia. It is absolutely obvious that he is well supported by Egeus: Scornful Lysander, true, he hath my love; And wha .....
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1984 Thematic Essay
Number of words: 638 | Number of pages: 3.... the party, but luckily has never been caught by the “thought police”. He keeps on seeing some woman and eventually they meet and he finds out her name is Julia. They differ in their view of how best to oppose the party. He believes in a widespread rebellion while she believes in just going against the party when it is safe. Eventually, they come to follow a man named O’Brien who is the leader of an opposition party to the brotherhood. He gives the couple a book by a man named Goldstein that is against the brother hood. He reads the book but soon after is arrested by the thought police because there was a hidden camera .....
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Satire At It's Best In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Number of words: 652 | Number of pages: 3.... crime to let a man drown than to just plain kill him
Twain a lot of the time makes fun of how whites perceived blacks or how blacks thought of whites. "He judged it was all up with him any way it could be fixed; for if he didn't get saved he would get drownded; and if he did get saved, whoever saved him would send him back home so as to get the reward, and then Miss Watson would sell him South, sure. Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon level headed for a nigger."(81) This shows a point that Huck and the rest of the world will believe into the fact that blacks are less intelligent than
Whites, but H .....
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I Am . . . ?
Number of words: 1100 | Number of pages: 4.... Japanese-Americans were forced to make a choice at this time: Fight and possibly die for a country that would show them no respect anyway, or choose not to fight and be hated and despised, as well as unrespected. This choice given to the Japanese-American’s was in essence a “catch 22.” Although Ichiro was an American by blood, to him, “it [was] not enough to be American only in the eyes of the law” (Okada 16). In other words, being considered American simply because he was born there was not enough to satisfy Ichiro’s search for his identity. It was merely words on paper with no solid meaning. Ichiro chose not to fi .....
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The Fountain Head: Individualism
Number of words: 821 | Number of pages: 3.... Toohey
new what he was talking about on all subjects. His plan to manipulate the
public and gather them as a whole was directly countered with every move that
Howard made. One of these major moves was the building of the Stoddard Temple.
With the temple, Roark had the freedom to build whatsoever he choose. This gave
him a medium to express his viewpoint without having any restrictions. After
the delayed unveiling of the temple, it was condemned by the public. At the
head of this group was no other than Toohey. He wrote articles in the newspaper
on how the temple in no way represented the human spirit. The temple allowed
H .....
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Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes Of George Orwell
Number of words: 2473 | Number of pages: 9.... Fascism, and Totalitarianism, and by
the revolts, wars, and revolutions going on in Europe and Russia at the
time of his writings.
George Orwell was a Socialist2 himself, and he despised Russian
Communism3, and what it stood for. Orwell shows this hatred towards
Communist Russia in a letter he wrote to Victor Gollancz saying, "For quite
fifteen years I have regarded that regime with plain horror."4 Orwell
wrote this letter in 1947, ten years after announcing his dislike of
Communism. However, he had thought a great deal about Communism and what
he disliked about if for a long time before he announced it to the publi .....
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A Separate Peace: Three Symbols
Number of words: 703 | Number of pages: 3.... from the Naguamsett
feeling grimy, dirty and in desperate need of a bath (71). Much like the
clean, refreshing water of the Devon and the ugly saline water of the
Naguamsett, Gene's carefree attitude of the summer session vastly differs
from the angry, confused attitude of the winter session.
Likewise, the two sessions, the summer and winter, give a different
sense of feeling toward school and life at Devon School. The summer
session allows Finny to use his creativity. Finny invents blitzball and
founds the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. The students let
their carefree attitudes flow during the summer. Finn .....
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The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer: Twain Revealing His Own Childhood
Number of words: 1514 | Number of pages: 6.... toward life is when the author reveals his philosophy, “that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
The other characters in the story revolve around Tom’s character. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly because of the death of his mother. She tries to keep Tom in line, but she struggles because she has such a soft spot in her heart for Tom. When she does discipline Tom, she feels terrible, and in a way, she punishes herself.
Sidney is Tom’s half brother who seems to always be making Tom look bad. While Tom is the so-called bad boy who is always get .....
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Raising In The Sun: Walter Younger
Number of words: 192 | Number of pages: 1.... have been shot down by his family. No one believes in him. Only he does.
This is wny he is the way he is. He is selfish. Always me me me. He lost
all the money his family and his mother had intrusted him with. He was always
thinking about himself and he lost all his money by giving it to a man who he
trusted. But the man ran off with the money.
But Walter finally changes. Luckily his mother and saved enough money for a
house. But they were going to live in a white neighborhood and the whites did
not like that. They offered him a great deal of money not to move there. But
Walter, who finally thought about his famil .....
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Lord Of The Flies
Number of words: 2319 | Number of pages: 9.... people. The ordeals of the three boys on
the island made them more aware of the evil inside themselves and in some
cases, made the false politeness that had clothed them dissipate. However,
the changes experienced by one boy differed from those endured by another.
This is attributable to the physical and mental dissimilarities between
them.
Jack was first described with an ugly sense of cruelty that made him
naturally unlikeable. As leader of the choir and one of the tallest boys
on the island, Jack's physical height and authority matched his arrogant
personality. His desire to be Chief was clearly evident in his fi .....
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