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Voltaire's Candide: One Man's Search For True Happiness And Acceptance Of Life's Disappointments
Number of words: 891 | Number of pages: 4.... and humiliations and is almost beaten to death. Candide escapes
and, after being degraded by good Christians for being an anti-Christ, meets a
diseased beggar who turns out to be Dr. Pangloss. Dr. Pangloss informs him
that Bulgarian soldiers attacked the castle of Westfalia and killed Cunegonde -
more misery!
A charitable Anabaptist gives both Candide and Dr. Pangloss money and
assistance. Dr. Pangloss is cured of his disease, losing one of his eyes and
one of his ears. The Anabaptist takes them with him on a journey to Lisbon.
While aboard the ship, the Anabaptist falls overboard in the process of
rescuing a crew member. Can .....
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Essay On The Shining Houses By
Number of words: 711 | Number of pages: 3.... through characterization. The character who contains the prevailing amount of hope in "The Shining Houses" is Mary. Mary is the only character in the story that has a personal relationship with Mrs. Fullerton. Mary Would "sit on the back steps of Mrs. Fullerton's house, talking - or really listening - to Mrs. Fullerton" (16). This detail creates a tone of hope for the reader. Because the reader soon finds out that the other members of the community consider Mrs. Fullerton an outcast, Mary is considered as an inspiration, because she ignores the community's thoughts of Mrs. Fullerton, and continues to have a relationship with her. .....
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The Merchant Of Venice
Number of words: 967 | Number of pages: 4.... by Elizabeathan audiences. Old stories portrayed them as "blood-thirsty murders" that poisoned wells and killed Christian children for their bizarre Passover ritu! als. (Stirling 2:1) These were the stereotypes which Shakespeare's audience held in regard to Jews. Shakespeare himself had never seen a Jew but he goes to great lengths to humanize Shylock even while perpetuating the stereotype.
In Act 1:3, before Shylock ever says a word to Antonio, he lets the audience know in an aside that he hates Antonio. He hates him for having hindered him in business and for having humiliated him in public by spitting on him and calling him n .....
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Exile 2
Number of words: 1758 | Number of pages: 7.... that some underground guerrilla forces were also left in Judah as they assassinated Gedaliah and fled to Egypt. Other than this, we know nothing from 2 Kings 25 about life in Judah during the Exile. The articles, however, give us much more light into life in Judah during these times. Graham illustrates that the people that worked in Jerusalem, Mozah, and Gibeon during the Exile were primarily vinedressers and plowmen. 2 Kings 25 does not give us enough information to have known that people worked in these three cities. Their work, however, was not for themselves, but for the greater power of Babylon, as can be illustrated i .....
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The Brothers K
Number of words: 546 | Number of pages: 2.... 358
The dramatic realization of the fact that the war will affect a member of the Chance family is apparent in this quote. The amount of sorrow and emotions felt by the Chance family, and for that matter, all families who had children, brothers, husbands, or fathers, drafted into what many felt was a needless war. The novel brings to life what heartache many Americans had to face during the Vietnam era, a heartache that few in my generation have had the ability to realize.
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“Problem #1: War” Page 371
The novel illuminates light on the situation not just during the Vietnam era, but also rather throughou .....
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Robin Hood Summary
Number of words: 812 | Number of pages: 3.... movie. For one he is very set on taking from the wealth of Nottingham and giving back to the poorer community so they can live well. His main idea here is to get as much taken from the Sheriff of Nottingham and his sympathizers so they can easily attack and take the kingdom back. In the end his plan works and Robin kills the Sheriff and the Kingdom is once again his, as well as Maid Marion. His goals are reached because he is persistent in what he wants, and will stop at nothing to get back all the things that the people had lost, and all the things he had lost. Robin Hood seemed almost charismatic in some ways in the story and t .....
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Comparison Of Roger Chillingwo
Number of words: 796 | Number of pages: 3.... of adultery. Throughout the 7 years Arthur has been suffering continually, and he always keeps his hand over his heart as a symbol of his love towards Hester and Pearl. Dimmesdale knows intellectually what the moral thing is to do, and he even tries good works, but the darkness in his soul supercedes the goodness in his head.
Roger Chillingworth, shunning his wife for the crime she committed becomes a respected individual and a physician to Arthur Dimmesdale, whose health is failing. During the treatment Chillingworth sees some wound or trouble in Dimmesdale’s soul that is contributing to his declining health. One morning .....
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A Voice Of The Future
Number of words: 557 | Number of pages: 3.... of times you see our names in the “arrest made” section?
It’s bad when children aren’t fortunate enough to be praised for
their actions in their own home but they can’t even get it at school
anymore. I was recently in a pageant and one of the questions asked was, “
How will your generation be remembered?” According to society we are
trouble makers. We are categorized as once again, Alcoholics, druggy’s, and
a threat as far as pregnancies are concerned. I would like to say that we
are the key to tomorrow’s technology. With the knowledge we have we can do
anything. We can do things that were never possible .....
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Number of words: 757 | Number of pages: 3.... afflicted. "And on thy cheeks a fading rose fast withereth too." The colour of his skin is fading away, and he is dying.
I met a lady in the meads
Full beautiful - a faery=s child.
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
In this stanza, the knight meets a woman in the meadows. He falls in love with her immediately. He describes her as being a small being with magic powers ( faery ). He makes a
wreath of flowers to decorate her head and also he made her bracelets to show his love for her.
He put the woman on his horse and watched her ride all day because the sight of her is so beautif .....
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The Black Cat - Symbolism
Number of words: 897 | Number of pages: 4.... started out in the story as the narrator’s favorite pet and playmate named Pluto,which is the name of the God of the Underworld. And one night, after returning home much intoxicated the narrator’s love for the pet seem to fade away. That night in which the narrator is intoxicated, black cat one avoided him. This bothered the narrator to the
point where he would pick up the cat and frighten it. Afraid of his master, the cat slightly wounded the narrator on the hand with his teeth. Because of the cats reaction to his picking him up, the narrator pokes out one of the cat’s eye. The eye of the cat which is
poked out by .....
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