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Response Paper On Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily"
Number of words: 306 | Number of pages: 2.... die but we did not know who. I thought, just as the others thought,that she would kill herself but it ended up that she killed H.B. and she died of natural causes at the age of seventy-four.
I think, the story was titled "A Rose for Emily" because at the end of the story it describes the room furnished for a bridal in rose color and rose is a symbol for love. .....
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Affirmative Action
Number of words: 2698 | Number of pages: 10.... My key understanding is that of a definition, which I can hardly recall. I don’t know whether is a law or if it is a subset of a bunch of different laws that were passed during the civil rights movement. I am also unaware if people protected under this program like the special treatment if there is any.
My attempts to answer the question of what I think I know start with the idea that since evolved from the civil rights movement, its aim is to protect certain minority groups as well as women. I think that the idea is used in a business context because there are other discriminatory laws in place to protect outside of work .....
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A Typical Novel Hero (charlie
Number of words: 1113 | Number of pages: 5.... one morning, he said to his wife, “My physique isn’t what it once was.” (A Question of Murder pg.24). Immediately after saying this Salter made a vow to himself to get back into the physical condition he once had during his early years on the force. Salter is showing a strong demonstration of mental strength by his motivation to lose weight and get back into shape.
In this manner, Salter was unsure as to how he was going to do all this. Losing weight and getting into shape is no easy task. It wasn’t until he had a scheduled interview at a squash club, that he came to devise a method of doing all thi .....
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The Problem Of War And Peace
Number of words: 743 | Number of pages: 3.... world."
In contrast to the several books I read for my research that detailed the
cost and carnage of war, this one simple story moved me to want to add my
voice for world peace and to think that maybe one person can make a
difference for peace to come to the world.
My generation may well be the generation that brings total destruction or
total peace to the world. Therefore, the United Nations should think about
working together with government and educational cabinet members to put
together a unified educational program in the schools of every country in
the world to teach constructive approaches to resolve conflicts peacefully .....
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Little Women
Number of words: 1604 | Number of pages: 6.... anything that Chang, their guide and host at Shangri-La, said and was suspicious of him for not giving straight answers and being so serene. Conway, on the other hand, was the one who most enjoyed staying at Shangri-La, and was actually told by the ruler of the valley, the High Lama, that he was to inherit the position of High Lama. Conway and Mallison were excellent friends and thus, their differing opinions about Shangri-La created a dilemma for Conway. Not only did he have a dissension with Mallison but he was also dealing with an internal conflict.
Mallison wanted to leave Shangri-La, but he didn't want to traverse the trea .....
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The Lottery As An Allegory
Number of words: 567 | Number of pages: 3.... be associated with the word testy or tizzy. Which means someone who is in an angry or rebellious state. The name Warner can be seen as a literal warning against ceasing the tradition of the lottery. "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon." (236) Mr. Warner says this after Mr. Adams speaks of a neighboring village who has given up the lottery.
The objects depicted in the story are another good representation of the death associated with the lottery. All of the blackness makes the reader think of death and evil. The family which draws the black dot on the paper is the family marked for death. The slips of paper are held in a black box .....
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Pride And Prejudice
Number of words: 761 | Number of pages: 3.... in the story to be proposed to, and she did a very peculiar thing. She is proposed to by Mr. Collins, the very man who is going to inherit her father's estate. She refuses his offer even though his "situation in life...[his] connections....and [his] relationship to [Elizabeth], are circumstances highly in [his] favor." Elizabeth simply says that "[he] could never make [her]happy...and [she] is the last woman in the world that could make [him] so." What makes her decision so peculiar is that in marrying this man she could keep her father's estate in the family and become financially sound for the rest of her life.
Being a w .....
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The Red Badge Of Courage 2
Number of words: 1738 | Number of pages: 7.... deserts another friend dying and
runs. He wants to make a wound for himself so that he is removed from
the battle, and by accident is hit on the head by a deserter. He's
discovered by another soldier, who helps him return to his regiment.
There he lies and says he was wounded in battle. The next day he goes
to the front again, and actually retrieves his army's colors from the
dying flag bearer. He urges his comrads on, and is proclaimed a hero.
Crane wrote this book when he was twenty three years old, in
ten days. He had never been in battle and critics through the United
States and England could not believe that he had .....
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The Love Song Of J. Alfred Pul
Number of words: 1339 | Number of pages: 5.... character. He will not find happiness until he finds self-assurance within himself. The repetition of words like vision and revision, show his feelings of inadequacy in communicating with the people around him.
J. Alfred Prufrock's self esteem affects his love life greatly. The woman he is in love with is younger than he is and this distresses him. He does not believe that some younger women could possibly accept him or find him attractive. Expressing any kind of affection to her is awkward and difficult. Prufrock knows what he must say but cannot bring himself to say it. "Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the streng .....
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Number of words: 545 | Number of pages: 2.... and the union until it, towards the end of the book due to heavy rainfall, turns into an uncivilized town again before it´s destroyed in a heavy storm. The cycle of the town starts and ends on the same point just as the development of the family and all actions, they all turn in cycles just as Ùrsula thanks to her old age found out. The way in which the story is written, with magic realism and the story evolving both forwards and sideways is one of the more unusual characteristics when, as a european, reading the book. The story gives the impression of moving sideways as the same incidents are retold from the view of differ .....
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