.... movie. Her exuberant disposition caused the townspeople to believe she was a “mysterious little elf”. One could tell at times she was the exact opposite of the Puritanical ways. Pearl’s taunting and malicious character sometimes caused Hester to make unwise remarks such as, “Thou art not my child! Thou art no Pearl of mine!” I have also head some say the scarlet letter “A” stood for anti-puritan. This may seem far fetched, but not to far away from the truth. Obviously Pearls’ wild soul could never be confined by the rules of the conservative Puritan Society. As symbolic as that may be, Pearl’s name also hel .....

.... in prison is to cover their tracks up better. People should pay for what they do and be punished properly. For example, if a man rapes a woman he should be castrated. This way people would have fear and not commit crimes. Torture is also a better punishment rather then death. When a person dies they don't pay for what they have done, they simply die. When they live with pain, they pay for it. For example, a person whose havds were cut off for stealing something would suffer much more that a person who was quickly killed. The only upside of being sent to prison is that people are tortured there. Many of the men who a .....

.... ways keeps his spirit confined, unlike the free energy of his ancestors. He wants his son to sieze the day, sharing in the same expieriences he had during his earlier years. "We lived two different lives, your mother and I. I came from a people who held the wind as brother, because he is free, and the horse as companion because he is the living fleeting wind -- and your mother, well she came from the men who hold the earth steady as a brother. They are steady, settled people. We have been at odds all of our lives. Perhaps it is time we give up the old differences." Switching positions to understand a conflictin point of view .....

.... or sugar. Metals became the preferred common commodity because they were non-perishable and could be divided. Metals were first used as crude bars of iron or copper with richer nations using gold and silver. Eventually, the bars evolved into money as we know it today, stamped by public office known as mint. This first portion of Wealth of Nations struck me as a mini course in basic economics. However, given the time period it was written, it did give me an insight into how our own country prospered so greatly in such a short time using natural resources, division of labor, and machinery. Also, as I read about t .....

.... had a long history of racial and ethnic discrimination and only now are we changing. The society in Brave New World has not lost their values but has simple changed their idea of what is right and wrong. After all, how much have we changed in the past 600 years. Six-hundred years ago in England, we killed people for conducting scientific experiments and believed this was against the teachings of the church. The society in Brave New World is a mirror to our own when we view the past. If a person from the present were to see the sacrifices and eating of the human flesh by the Aztec Indians, that person would see it as barba .....

.... than his own. "To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." He has always done what he was socially supposed to do, instead of yielding to his own natural feelings. He wrestles with his desires to change his world and with his fear of their rejection. He imagines how foolish he would feel if he were to make his proposal only to discover that the woman had never thought of him as a possible lover; he imagines her brisk, cruel response; "That is not what I meant, at all." He imagines that she will want his head on a platter and they did with the prophet John the Baptist. He also fears the ridicule and snickers of othe .....

.... by the people of Thebes, resulting in his marriage to Jocasta, Queen of Thebes. Oedipus also shows his determination when in search of Laius’ murderer. He stated that he would avenge the King’s death as if Laius were his own father. He cursed the murderer, announcing “May he drag out an evil death-in-life in misery.” These characteristics of pride and determination, which Oedipus emanates throughout the play, may appear to be positive attributes to one’s personality. However, Oedipus’ actions, based on these characteristics, are what led him to his eventual downfall and suffrage. If Oedipu .....

.... saying, "the sky is less grand when it shuts down over less worth in the population." They are both saying that if something happened and nobody was around would it have the same affect as it would if many people saw it. Thoreau was saying that the sunset is not as beautiful when only a few people see it. I think that a person would have to question things like that, because nobody really knows. In conclusion, I agree with many of the writers of the transcendentalist period. They believed that you don't need anything except water, clothing, and shelter to live life, which is true. If people lived life simply, as Emerson an .....

.... constitution of their nature. Or - can we not suppose it - guilty as they may be, retaining, nevertheless, a zeal for God's glory and man's welfare, they shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy in the view of men; because, thenceforward, no good can be achieved by them; no evil or the past be redeemed by better service." Dimmesdale also has another reason for his concealing, he wants to remain silent so that he can continue to do God's work as a minister. Hester Prynne handles her guilt in another way. Instead of worrying about it day after day and letting to fester, she makes it outward. At the beginning of the b .....

.... age eight) feels she would be fond of music lessons. She tries them for one year and of course does not like them. Her mother is not one to hold her child to something they do not like, so she allows Catherine to quit. The day that Catherine left her music teacher was "the happiest day of her life" (22). It is not that Catherine despises music, she just does not prefer the lessons. She does, however, enjoy drawing, although it does not rank the highest of her fancies. Her supply of paper is not plentiful, so she draws on "any other odd pieces of paper" (22) that she can get her hands on. She is taught lessons by each of her parent .....