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Slavery In The Tempest
Number of words: 480 | Number of pages: 2.... bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded and with him there lie mudded." He is telling us that Prospero is in control of him.
Prospero, Trinculo, and Stephano are in control of Caliban, the deformed son of Sycorax, and therefore Caliban is their slave. "Monster lay-to your fingers; help to bear this away where my hogstead of wine is, or I'll turn you out of my kingdom. Go to, carry this. In act 4, scene 1, lines 250-253, Stephano told Caliban to carry something for him, or he would be out of his kingdom. He treats Caliban like dirt because he is their slave.
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Inherit The Wind: Creationism And Evolution
Number of words: 714 | Number of pages: 3.... apes, and modern humans have been compared. It is that over millions of years the skull for example has more then tripled in size. The earliest tracing back of a human fossil is called austalopithecines; it dates back to about 5 million years ago. Evolution is a slow process and one could learn a lot from it. Evolution is connectable with creationism.
Creationism is the belief that the universe was created in seven days, by G-d. There is a strong belief in the bible if one follows this. G-d created the heaven and earth, then there was light. That was the first day. On the second day G-d created the sky and the waters. On the .....
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Gorbachev: Analysis Of Three Books About Gorbachev
Number of words: 3743 | Number of pages: 14.... years after Gorbachev came to power and why were these changes
necessary.
The first book "Gorbachev" was written by Zhores A. Medvedev in 1986 and hence
the author is concentrating on the first year of the new course in Soviet
history. The book itself basically consists of two parts: the first part where
the author describes the "making of a General Secretary", and the second part
entitled "Gorbachev in power" which describes Gorbachev's first year in the
office. The first part of the book gives a lot of background information which
allows the reader to see the stages in development of the Soviet leader from
childhood and y .....
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Grapes Of Wrath: Ma Joad The Leader
Number of words: 723 | Number of pages: 3.... may be just as frightened as the rest of
the family, but she always maintains a front for the rest of the family.
When Ma had fears, "She had practiced denying them in herself." This
extraordinary self-control helps to keep the Joad unit together and alive.
Ma, like all leaders, must be forceful for things to work in her
favor. Numerous situations occur in which Ma must be forceful or
relinquish her role as the head of the family. Her forceful leadership
occurs once when the family, without Ma's consent, agrees to leave Tom and
Casey behind to fix the Wilson's car. Ma feels this will break up the
family and uses a jack handl .....
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Quinn's Ishmael: Mistakes Of Mankind And Their Affect On The Human History
Number of words: 1286 | Number of pages: 5.... Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person”(4).
This rather awkward request appeared in the personals section of the
newspaper. Because the bulk of the novel is narrated through the first-
person perspective of the man who answers this ad and becomes the
enlightened student, the reader never learns his name. However, he/she is
exposed to many important aspects of the student and his motivations. One
learns that decades ago he had actually been looking for such a teacher
during the children's revolt of the sixties and seventies but finally
concluded that no ne existed and that the new era was never going to beg .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Comparison Of Holden And Me
Number of words: 921 | Number of pages: 4.... straight." (pg. 150) Holden tried all he
could to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life in general to make it
seem he was very knowing of these habits. I myself have found me doing this
at times, also. I, at times, feel the need to fit in to a group and do
things similar to what others do in order to gain acceptance by them. I
smoked a cigar once with two friends of mine because they kept going on and
on about how great cigars were, but that was only once. Holden and I both
place people on levels other than our own for amount of knowledge and
likeness to ourselves.
Holden used the term 'phonies' to describe more t .....
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The River Of Freedom
Number of words: 986 | Number of pages: 4.... and beliefs of the so-called “civilized” people of the society around him. Huck likes to be free from the restrictions of others and just be himself, living by his own rules. He disbelieves the societal beliefs that have been embedded in his mind since birth, which is shown by his brother-like relationship with Jim, a runaway slave. Only on the raft do they have the chance to practice the idea of brotherhood which they are so devoted to. When
on the raft, peacefully wading down the river, skin color plays no major part in the way that they interact and outright racist perception is nonexistent. The river is t .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Character
Number of words: 876 | Number of pages: 4.... like this before. He is struggling to be a hunter, because right now he still has not made his decent into primitive savagery , which is the way he ends up at the end of the story. But Jack is shown to have primitive urges early. The author says, "He [Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up." (p.51) So we see how Jack does have a certain urge to hunt and kill as one of his primitive desires.
After a few tries, Jack and the hunters finally catch a pig. The boys and Jack brutally attack it and kill it. This is the first step of Jack's transaction into savage living. We see the loss of .....
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The Metamorphosis: Society Split Into Different Sections
Number of words: 1101 | Number of pages: 5.... an uneasy, labored
life by quitting it all. His transformation could mean how society can
compare him to a cockroach for his giving up on them and treat him as if
he was less than human.
Gregor has obviously had a life of hard labor at a job that he
finds to be unbearable; as he states "Oh, God what an exhausting job I've
picked" (P862 Ph4). He feels that he must work though. He feels that his
family is incapable of supporting themselves. His mother has asthma, his
father is old, and his sister is very young. As it turns out though, in
the end, his family was perfectly capable of supporting themselves; In
fact his father h .....
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The Great Gatsby And The American Dream
Number of words: 538 | Number of pages: 2.... doesn't happen, he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Soon he meets Nick Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over (83)." Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want.
Later, as we see in the Plaza Hotel, Jay still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of this as is shown when he takes the blame for Myrtle's death. "Was Daisy driving?" "Yes...but of course I'll say I was." (151) He also watches and protects Daisy as she returns .....
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