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Assassination At Sarajevo
Number of words: 581 | Number of pages: 3.... and his son had either committed suicide or was murdered along with his mistress. As if this wasn’t enough on Sunday June 28,1914 Francis Joseph’s nephew and heir was assassinated along with his wife in Sarajevo. The assassin at Sarajevo was a 19-year-old man named Gavrilo Princip, a member of Narodna Obrandna, which was a secret Serbian patriotic-terrorist group. This groups goal was to restore Serbia back to the way it used to be and becoming free of Austrian rule. In April of 1914 Narodna Obrandna received a piece of paper saying that Francis Ferdinand will be coming to Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The Serbs saw this event a .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Dimmersdale Is A Coward And A Hypocrite
Number of words: 1215 | Number of pages: 5.... the
society treats sexuality with ill grace. But his problem is enormously
complicated by the fact of Hester's marriage (for him no technicality), and
by his own image of himself as a cleric devoted to higher things. Unlike
other young men, Dimmesdale cannot accept his loss of innocence and go on
from there. He must struggle futilely to get back to where he was. Torn
between the desire to confess and atone the cowardice which holds him back,
Dimmesdale goes slightly mad. He takes up some morbid forms of penance_
fasts and scourgings_but he can neither whip nor starve the sin from his
soul. In his agony, he staggers to the pul .....
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The Crucible: John Proctor
Number of words: 453 | Number of pages: 2.... "I say - I say - God is dead!"(Pg. 119), and that he will see all
of them burn in hell. That statement implied to the court that Proctor
worshipped the Devil and committed perjury. When Proctor tore the warrant
issued for the arrest of Elizabeth showed his ability to defy the court and
in a way his religion because the court was controlled by religion. Keeping
Mary Warren from court was extreme because he was keeping her from doing
her duty and from feeling important for the first time.
Even if one is brave or extreme, doesn't mean that they cannot be
dignified too. Proctor acted dignified when he tries to please his wife .....
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Song Of Solomon Interpretation
Number of words: 1672 | Number of pages: 7.... he cannot act independently (120). The first lesson his father teaches him is that ownership is everything, and that women's knowledge (specifically, Pilate's knowledge) is not useful "in this world" (55). He is blind to the Pilate's wisdom. When Pilate tell Reba's lover that women's love is to be respected, he learns nothing (94).
In the same episode, he begins his incestuous affair with Hagar, leaving her 14 years later when his desire for her wanes. Milkman's experience with Hagar is analogous to his experience with his mother, and serves to "[stretch] his carefree boyhood out for thrifty-one years" (98). Hagar calls him int .....
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Wuthering Heights 4
Number of words: 1106 | Number of pages: 5.... his candle and not make a noise” since Heathcliff would not willingly approve of his staying in that room. Just after Mr. Lockwood enters the room, he discovers three names carved over and over onto the ledge near the window, Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, and Catherine Linton. Mr. Lockwood begins paging through and examining the collection of books he determines to be Catherine’s. The books, he notices, have been well used judging from their
dilapidation and “scarcely one chapter had escaped a pen-and-ink commentary at least, the appearance of one covering every morsel of blank that the prin .....
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Mythic Heros: Sinbad The Sailor
Number of words: 517 | Number of pages: 2.... adventure. These
amazing things just seemed to always happen to him. He normally set out as a
merchant, carrying goods from one exotic land to another. Yet, on each of these
trips, something incredible happened to him and his crew, resulting in a dead
crew and a fantastic story for Sinbad the sailor.
Secondly, all of Sinbad's great adventures occurred sequentially. In
other words, he went immediately from one adventure to another without so much
as a nap in between. This man never had a quiet boat ride in the entire span of
time in which his adventures took place.
Another interesting point is the manner in which Sinbad alwa .....
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Red Badge Of Courage - Henry Fleming
Number of words: 768 | Number of pages: 3.... way, a more close and
experienced way, he started to become afraid that he might run from battle
when duty calls. He felt like a servent doing whatever his superiors told
him.
When the regement finally discovers a battle taking place, Jim gives
Henry a little packet in a yellow envelope, telling Henry that this will be
his first and last battle. The regiment managed to hold off the rebels for
the first charge, but then the rebels came back like machines of steel with
re-enforcements, driving the regement back. One man started to flee, then
another, and another still. Henry was scared, confused, and in a trance as
he sa .....
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Lord Of The Flies; A Review
Number of words: 620 | Number of pages: 3.... going home. Ralph constantly shows his obsession with
getting home and uses all of his power and knowledge to find a way home.
Ralph knows he has to light a fire on the top of the mountain to be used as
a signal to flag down a passing boat or plane, so that they can be rescued
and go home to their families. When Jack lets the fire go out Ralph is
enraged and does not know what to do. He can hardly control himself and
makes the realization that he has just possibly lost his only chance to go
home. Ralph hopes of one day going home and this is the one thing that
keeps him alive and willing to go on each day while on the island .....
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War Of The Worlds
Number of words: 956 | Number of pages: 4.... system and the rules wich Indian people
live by. Suki and her sister will not tolerate the rules and live by the normal
traditions. Therefor you can say that the two twins are revulutionary. The twins
want to speak in the Gurudwara, so they can tell the other women and children to
fight for their rights. After normal indian traditions women don't have anything
to say. It is the men who make the decitions and therfor decides over the women
and children. The two sisters want to help other women and children and on a
sunday in the Gurudwara they say that almost all men who is present should be
ashamed, but this couses a conflikt be .....
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Biblical Symbolism In East Of
Number of words: 1288 | Number of pages: 5.... the story. Abel, Adam and Aron, is the opposite of his brother and naturally good and pure. The purpose of Adam and Aron in East of Eden is to clarify the belief that purity must know wickedness (Marks, Jay Lester. p.122). Steinbeck illustrates the need for both good and bad with the actions and beliefs of these supposed “good” characters. The representations of Abel, Adam and Aron are both described as unloving. Adam has not treated his children fairly and his treatment is caused by his innate goodness. Aron grows as an ignorant selfish person because he is naturally good (Fonterose, Joseph. p. 3382). Steinbe .....
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