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Arthurian Romances
Number of words: 758 | Number of pages: 3.... a girl named Enide, who is at his side throughout the story. Together
they adventure through the countryside and Erec fights his battles as they go on.
The knight will give up on nothing ever, it is his duty to serve his King and
God to the best of his ability. “Sire, I have no wound from which I am
suffering so much that I want to interrupt my journey. No one could detain me;
tomorrow- I shall tarry no more- I want to leave in the morning, when I see the
day is dawning.” (1) He is extremely fair when dealing with other knights, that
is he doesn't take cheap shots or kill the other off; he is polite and courteous.
To hi .....
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Character Sketch For Shiloh
Number of words: 730 | Number of pages: 3.... her as a strong character by explaining
how she works out and would like to become stronger. She may become stronger
physically, but nothing can overcome the emptiness which she feels. Norma Jean tries to
help her husband get a job, and she gives him a variety of ideas for this. She does not
enjoy being around him because their relationship makes her feel uncomfortable. Mason
presents Norma Jean and Leroy as having many differences. The two do not know how
to discuss their problems, therefore Norma Jean conceals all of the emptiness she feels
inside her. Norma Jean feels an emptiness towards her husband because he has .....
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Dulce Et Decorum Est 3
Number of words: 577 | Number of pages: 3.... at every jolt, the blood/ Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs/ Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud,"(21-23) shows us that so many men were brutally killed during this war. Also, when the gas bomb was dropped, "[s]omeone still yelling out and stumbling/ [a]nd flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.../ [h]e plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning."(11-12,16) These compelling lines indicate that men drowned helplessly in the toxic gasses. These graphic images are very disturbing but play a very effective role in the development of the poem.
Another tool in developing the effectiveness of the poem is the excellent u .....
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Exiles 2
Number of words: 677 | Number of pages: 3.... she remembers exactly from her parents. "If it wasn't for you two, my mother told us, I could be off somewhere else" (653). The quote obviously shows that this is what she remembers her mom saying. The author puts voices in the essay by using memories of her past.
Steedman uses voices in her essay so that the reader can get a background and see perceptions or feelings. "She was a good weaver; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen"(647). This paragraph of a story was told about her great-grandmother and as an eleven-year-old and how she was exploited. The author uses this as a voice because it tells how her mother also .....
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Shame
Number of words: 705 | Number of pages: 3.... and teasing an ironic and brutal all at once. . .[Rushdie’s work] is responsive to the world rather than removed from it, and it is because of this responsiveness that the mode in which he work represents the continued life of the novel. . . and one wants something better to describe it that the term ‘magical realism’— is an assertion of individual freedom in a world where freedom is strangle. . . "(360, Editor) Christopher Lehmann-Haupt boldly asserts, "If Mr. Rushdie had followed [the logic of realistic psychology] in , he would have robbed his novel of its spectral magic, its breakdown of narrative logic that allows time .....
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Lord Of The Flies
Number of words: 1551 | Number of pages: 6.... that Ralph offers isn’t as stable and organized because he isn’t able to control the “littluns” and the others after a certain point. This is when the society that Ralph tries to create starts to break apart and Jack takes control.
Then immediately comes Piggy, a chubby asthmatic but intelligent kid, who becomes “friends” with Ralph. He is teased relentlessly by the other boys but is highly respected by Ralph for his ability to think. Piggy is considered the adult voice on the island, which often spoils the fun for the other boys. He also becomes Ralph’s right-hand man. Whenever Ralph can’t think straigh .....
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Canterbury Tales - Medieval Church
Number of words: 3100 | Number of pages: 12.... of people who
hedged their bets by practicing both Christian and Pagan rites at the
same time, and in the number of people who promptly apostatized when a
Christian king died. There is certainly no evidence for a large-scale
conversion of the common people to Christianity at this time.
Augustine was not the most diplomatic of men, and managed to
antagonize many people of power and influence in Britain, not least
among them the native British churchmen, who had never been
particularly eager to save the souls of the Anglo-Saxons who had
brought such bitter times to their people. In th .....
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Heros
Number of words: 896 | Number of pages: 4.... was so impressive, even the head of the town was impressed. She made a mark for all women in Chinese culture.
Another type of hero is one who does it to be a role model. In the story of “King Arthur” King Arthur himself is the true hero. He is this great king that is loved by his whole kingdom and all it’s servants and people. He was a valiant fighter and a fair King. Going along with the English culture, “he was a man of honor, to live in such a way that the other members of the nobility held him in high esteem” (Rosenberg 420). In the story, King Arthur’s wife Guinevere has an affair with one of his knights S .....
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Myth Of Rock
Number of words: 992 | Number of pages: 4.... reality. In his book 1984, George Orwell created a society in which the ministry of information controlled the masses by controlling the information they received. The government even went so far as to rewrite history by changing old newspaper and film files to support the ideological goals of the current regime. They created a world very far removed from the truth but also gave the public a unified, single, consistent vision (however untrue). The mythology of rock is very firmly rooted. Many of us grew up believing that if we learned to play well we would find success, or even more specifically, success would just natur .....
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The Characterization Of Arthur
Number of words: 421 | Number of pages: 2.... You may often find Mr. Dimmesdale with his hand over his chest. This may be because of the “A” on his chest, who knows? Or maybe it is because his soul has been injured and he feels pain from this.
Some good has come from this affair. Due to this affair, they have produced a
Beautiful little girl named Pearl. On the other hand, the bad that has happened was that
Dimmesdale didn’t confess about the affair, which made him sort of a liar. Since he didn’t confess, Hester and Pearl have to live in seclusion. Another bad thing that has
happened is vengence by the chilling husband of Hester Prynn .....
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