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Rasin In The Sun Two Influence
Number of words: 315 | Number of pages: 2.... He likes to toil too though, such as when he calls Walter prometheus as they walk out the door to the theater. (86) Also another example of Asagai's return to his youth was when he had the conversation with Beneatha after her brother had lost the remaining of their father's money. His theory on the matter, saying that the money basically should not have been relied on, would probably differ than George's relative to what we know. Both men have different views of their world but both are valid influences on Beneatha. .....
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Walking The Tight Rope
Number of words: 1150 | Number of pages: 5.... 1980sÑas gangsta
rap moved from the margins of hip-hop culture to the centerÑhas
already been transformed. Despite the various changes in the rap
industry over the last six years, there has been at least one constant:
rap artists who have enjoyed international fame and platinum sales due
to their ability to shock with Black pathological horror stories and
thereby entertain. Although some advance a musical art form whose
artistic, political and social implications have yet to be thoroughly
critiqued or completely understood, rap music's firmly entrenched dual
role as a corporate business and cultural artform de .....
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The Caine Mutiny: Willie Keith - A Life Changed
Number of words: 759 | Number of pages: 3.... he had received
48 demerits and was almost expelled. Willie then had to push himself to be
on top of everything. The 48 demerits were not just going to go away and
he couldn't have his mother do something about it. Willie had to be the
one to get himself out of the mess he had created. Even when his father
came to tell Willie that he could probably get him transferred to the army
Willie said, "Will you do me a favor, Dad?….Tell Mom, as nicely as you can,
to call off Uncle Lloyd." His Uncle Lloyd was in the army and could have
gotten Willie transferred but Willie decided to say with the navy. Little
by little he was learn .....
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Animal Farm: Satirical Techniques Such As Irony, Fable, And Allegory
Number of words: 998 | Number of pages: 4.... to be a good leader, he is eventually overcome by greed and soon becomes power-hungry. Of course Stalin did too in Russia, leaving the original equality of socialism behind, giving him all the power and living in luxury while the common pheasant suffered. Orwell explains: “Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer - except of course for the pigs and the dogs.” The perennial topic of satire is to point out the frailties of the human condition, and this is one of Orwell’s central themes in Animal Farm . That it’s not necessarily the system that is corrupt or faul .....
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Moby Dick
Number of words: 10442 | Number of pages: 38.... dramatists or Racine or even the poet of Job could count on an audience culturally predisposed through myth, theater, or racial view to accept at once a drama of direness. Hawthorne had to make his own audience, to lead it by easy stages, as it were, into the dark idea. Hence the familiar, reassuring tone of the Custom House introduction, where the only dire events involve a certain goose of tragic toughness and the routine political loss of a job not worth holding. Hence the whimsical apology, in advance, for the "stern and sombre aspect" of Hester's story--- "too much ungladdened by genial sunshine; to little relieved by the te .....
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Macbeth Theme-one Thing Leads
Number of words: 1162 | Number of pages: 5.... to assassin King Duncan or to sit down calmly and do nothing about it. Macbeth's final decision was to kill the king and thus fulfilling the second prophecy of the three weird sisters. Macbeth's decision of treason is the consequential beginning of the chain of events.
As a result of becoming King of Scotland, Macbeth became very cautious and suspicious in order to secure his well being. Macbeth's friend and fellow comrade, Banquo, is a righteous and honorable man. In this quote "He hath wisdom that doth guide his valor to act in safety. There is none but he whose being I do fear (Act 3, Scene 1)", Macbeth is afraid of Banq .....
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Beloved: We All Look The Same In The Dark
Number of words: 743 | Number of pages: 3.... to escape (unsuccessfully) from the plantation. Sethe was breaking, but not yet broken. The emptiness of Sethe’s relationship with her mother only increased Sethe’s motherly obsession for her own children. As a parent with two kids and another one on the way, Sethe needed to escape slavery. She felt she had to place her children outside the horror of slavery, even if it meant taking their lives.
A life was lost. Sethe refused to allow herself and her children to be dragged back into the evil of slavery. Like the woman in Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, Sethe wanted “out of the huts of history’s shame” and “up from a pas .....
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Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, And Pessimism
Number of words: 643 | Number of pages: 3.... to the
natural forces controlling his fate. “When it occurs to man that nature
does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the
universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the
temple, and he hates deeply that there are no bricks and no temples.”
(pg156) The one character who perishes, the oiler, is of course a victim of
determinism. Even as he was so close to land and no longer out in the open
sea, nature still takes its role in determining his fate.
Objectivity refers to how the author describes reality as it exists,
that is, not glorifying something, but rather simply .....
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Yanomamo
Number of words: 1351 | Number of pages: 5.... his power and masculinity. As polygamy in American Culture is referred to as bigamy which is against the law.
Besides, polygamy, the practice of infanticide plays a role in the lack of women in their society. prefer to parent a male child rather than a female child, so in case a female is born she is killed at birth. This again proved their sexist beliefs that women are inferior. Many women fearing their husbands kill a female infant to avoid disappointing their so-called “better half”.
To the people of American culture certain procedures of murdering a new born baby would be considered brutal, horrific and mu .....
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Pride And Prejudice: Summary
Number of words: 2351 | Number of pages: 9.... At the ball,
acquaintances between the families are made, and all find both Mr.Bingley and
his cousin Fitzwilliam Darcy to be exceedingly handsome, however Darcy's pride
is so irritating and repulsive, it makes his character almost totally
disagreeable. It is at this ball, however, that the oldest Bennet daughter,
Jane, becomes involved with Mr.Bennet; her younger sister Elizabeth, however,
falls victim to Mr. Darcy's pride and is shunned by him during the entire ball.
Beginning with this event, Elizabeth forms a prejudice towards Mr. Darcy that
will prevent her future involvement with him. It is here then that the two main
the .....
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