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Similarities In "Miss Jean Brodie", "Dead Poets Society", And "The Trial And Death Of Socrates"
Number of words: 461 | Number of pages: 2.... He knew that if it were ever
uncovered by the faculty higher-ups his job would be, at least, in serious
jeopardy. This is another case of needless persecution of someone with the best
of intentions. It is ridiculous to think that he could have been implicated in
any way to the suicide of one of his students. Firing Professor Keating was the
biggest disservice that the administration could have done to the student body.
The most extreme case of this senseless persecution is that of Socrates.
Here is a man of little means. His only desire was to try to enlighten others,
as well as himself. Was this not a noble cause? His dem .....
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Poems By Robert Frost And Leon
Number of words: 623 | Number of pages: 3.... by there obligations to the world. In “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night” Frost’s character is honouring his responsibilities and obligations by leaving the wood to go home to his family. In “The Bus” the character wants run away from them.In both poems the author escapes into nature. At on point in “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night” Frost’s character notices the beauty of the forest around him: “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep” (pg 127). This shows that the character has a deep feelings for the nature around him.Leonard Cohen also escapes into nature in his poem. When his character is riding the .....
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The Count Of Monte Cristo
Number of words: 1270 | Number of pages: 5.... a Bonapartist, therefore it is the basis for his arrest
and inevitable captivity in the Chateau D'If..
Basic Plot:
The Count of Monte Cristo is a story about a sailor,
Edmond Dantes, who was betrayed during the prime of his
life and career by the jealousy of his friends. His
shipmate, Danglars, coveted his designation as the captain
of the mighty Pharon. Ferdinand Mondego wished to wed
Mercedes, who was affianced to Edmond.
Danglars and Ferdinand wrote a letter accusing
Edmond of carrying a letter from Elba to the Bonapartist
committee in Paris. Caderousse, a neighbor, learned of .....
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The Greeks Versus Their Gods I
Number of words: 1814 | Number of pages: 7.... Aphrodite (10-16). This is important because it sets in motion the actions of the play when Aphrodite decides to get revenge on Hippolytus. The divine relationship between the gods is a bit different, however. Over the course of the play, Artemis does not interfere in the actions of Aphrodite, which shows that the gods, while divine, do have restrictions; in this case, it shows the gods cannot interfere with each other. (1328-1330) The gods are sometimes evil and revengeful, though, as can seen by what Artemis has to say about Aphrodite: "I’ll wait till she loves a mortal next time, and with this hand - with these uner .....
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Flowers For Algernon 2
Number of words: 372 | Number of pages: 2.... One has to achieve this intelligence thoughtlessly; Charlie shows this before he has his operation. By reaching this type of intelligence a person does not have to have a lot knowledge or a high I.Q, but you may reach peace in life by being a spiritually kind person that is previously show in the abstract definition.
The only positive effects of the intellectual growth that one can gain is to be able to experience what the concrete definition was like in one’s own personal experience. Yet the negative effects of the operation, which were great, was the intellectual and emotional growth colliding. As a human that was born .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities
Number of words: 335 | Number of pages: 2.... The fear within Lucie Manette on that tevening foreshadowed the threat of aa revolution. The footsteps are the first example of foreshadowing.
Gaspard wrote outside of the winehsop with the spilled wine "blood," which is the second example of foreshadowing. " The fellow pointed to his joke with immense significacance" (27). Defarge quickly took mud and smeared it over, for the idea of revolution was fresh in everyone's mind "For, the time was to come, when the gaunt scarecrows of that region should have watched the lamplighter, in their idleness and hunger, so long, as to conceive the idea of improving on his method, and hauli .....
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My Antonia And Landsacpe
Number of words: 752 | Number of pages: 3.... fascinating--their stories, their vitality, their dignity. The land which at first seemed flat and monotonous proved to furnish endless variations on the theme of fertility. “No matter how far she wandered across the globe, she wasalways drawn back to the Nebraska prairies and those best days of her youth which were the first to flee.” (Internet #3)
The West is also a particularly difficult target for the kind of ``country life'' Cather seeks to describe. The first description we get of the landscape depicts it as alive, but with none of the human activity of, say, urban life or even developed rural life.
Per .....
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Humanity And Politics In Gullivers Travels
Number of words: 584 | Number of pages: 3.... they can control with power of their laws, a fault shared with the europeans. Lilliputians do not question their cultural norms because they don\'t believe in any other living things exist on earth except them. and also they want to set free gulliver because they want to get rid of the symbol (gulliver) which reminds their smallness and they again want to think only abaut their greatness and being the most powerfull creature
ýn his second voyage to giants land, Gulliver shocked with the treatment he face to face. ýn giants land women look upon him as an animal, not a man and ignore his sexuality. He is undressed before them, p .....
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MacBeth-The Transformation Of
Number of words: 1066 | Number of pages: 4.... And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' th' adage? (I, vii, 40-46).
"She feels in an instant that everything is at stake, and ignoring the point, overwhelms him with indignant and contemptuous personal reproach." (Bradley, 81.) She seems to welcome the darkness into her when she says, "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts / Unsex me here, and fill me, from crown to toe / Top-full of direst cruelty." (I, v, 44). Lady MacBeth takes control of the situation involving Duncan by pushing her husband into wanting to commit the murder. The plan i .....
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Rescue Of Susanna
Number of words: 835 | Number of pages: 4.... about this they are very surprised because nothing like this has ever been said of her before however they trust their elders and listen to them. As Susanna is being carried to her death God hears her prayers and aroused the hold spirit of a young lad named Daniel. Daniel pointed out the weaknesses in the two elder’s stories and the Jews rose against them.
This story is memorable for several reasons. One is the fact that Susanna doesn’t give in to the elders’ requests even when they threatened her life and her reputation. She has impressive faith in God and trusts him to make everything right. Another reason this story .....
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