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A Review Of Lessing's "Flight"
Number of words: 598 | Number of pages: 3.... all the `conflict' the character is experiencing and feeling.
The characters's point of view are important in revealing the main theme of this
story which is learning to let go. By understanding the characters's point of
view, we are able to decide what main theme is about.
Firstly, the story have taken us a `tour' in the old man's position which
enabled us to understands what he is feeling. Even seeing that his grand-
daughter is no longer the cute little girl anymore, he still couldn't accpet the
fact that she has grown up and is starting a family of her own. He feels alone,
and hopeless. He believe that after she gets married, .....
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The Fifty-First Dragon: Analysis
Number of words: 1396 | Number of pages: 6.... steps in front of the microphone to sing Ickey-Ickey-Oo” “
In “The Fifty-First Dragon” the Headmaster, much like Wilson, came up with the idea that if you give the uneducated a slogan and some basic training the natural end product is a powerful killing machine. The protection that the magical word Rumplesnitz gave Gawaine very much paralleled the strong, forceful, and unbeatable war cult Wilson had created. Instead of a single word being magical, Wilson became a modern-day Hephaestus while using slogans like “Rivets and Bayonets, Drive them home” to magically forge a nation of iummigrants into a fighting whole. Acc .....
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Lord Of The Flies
Number of words: 1713 | Number of pages: 7.... should be kept going at all times on the mountain on the island, so that they have a better chance of being rescued. They seem to be unable to accomplish this task, for many of the boys do not care about keeping the fire going and would rather go and play. They use Piggy's glasses to accomplish the task to lighting the fire, and the glasses become a very important symbol of power later in the book. Jack and his choir group, who are now known as "the hunters"
become increasingly obsessed with hunting and killing pigs. To them, it is the most important task on the island. All the young children are preoccupied with the Beast, w .....
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Joesph Campbells Hero Journey
Number of words: 2269 | Number of pages: 9.... with their own subcategories, should pertain to almost all hero quests in ancient writing. But, does it pertain to modern literature, particularly Heart of Darkness?
The first stage of the Hero Journey is the Departure and consists of 5 steps; The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, Supernatural Aid, The Crossing of the First Threshold and the Belly of the Whale. The first step, The Call of the Adventure, is the point in the hero's life in which a notice is given that something is to change. Campbell says that "This first stage of the mythological journey signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his s .....
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Sonnet 72
Number of words: 1091 | Number of pages: 4.... dear
Lease the term during which possession is guaranteed
Date the time during which something lasts
Complexion colour, visible aspect, appearance
To decline to diminish, decrease, deteriorate
Untrimmed not carefully or neatly arranged or attired
Fair beauty, fairness, good looks
Eternal infinite in past and future duration,
without beginning or end
To brag to declare or ass .....
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The Evolution Of Modern Englis
Number of words: 704 | Number of pages: 3.... a metaphor that is commonly used without any knowledge of it's meaning. In another article, metaphors like "His voice thunders..." and "...taken the theater scene by storm" are too frequently used just because the author lacks the imagination to make one up for himself, a common problem in Modern English. The use of dying metaphors could be avoided if writers would just take the time and trouble to make up a new metaphor for themselves.
The use of pretentious diction is probably the most prevalent mental vice used in writings today. Author feel the need to dress up simple statements with unnecessary words to make their sent .....
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Julius Caesar - Flattery Will Get You Everywhere
Number of words: 538 | Number of pages: 2.... so he is very motivated into getting Caesar to go to the Senate House. The first thing that Decius says when he walks into Caesar's house is "Caesar, all hail! Good morrow, worthy Caesar" (II, ii, 58). Decius also goes on and calls Caesar "most mighty". Decius is already on Caesar's good side. After catching up on Calphurnia's dream, he uses his quick wit to distort Calphurnia's foreshadowing dream by saying it is "mis-interpreted". He explains that the dream "Signifies that from (Caesar) Rome shall suck/Reviving blood, and that great men shall press/for tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance" (II, ii, 87-89). .....
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A Bird Came Down The Walk.
Number of words: 474 | Number of pages: 2.... a convenient Grass–
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass–
When the bird finally flies away the poem's flow mimics that of a flying bird, very calm and free "And he unrolled his feathers / And rowed him softer home–". She describes a birds flight like rowing in an ocean, but without all the splashing of the oars.
In the first two stanza of the poem she rhymes the second and fourth lines of the quatrain.
A Bird came down the Walk–
He did not know I saw–
He bit an Angleworm in halves
And ate th .....
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The Orestia
Number of words: 730 | Number of pages: 3.... difficult to imagine that this action was in the interest of fairness, the applied perspective that the outcome was more important the means, supplied the burden of proof for this acquittal.
Many parallels between modern American juris prudence and that applied in Orestes case can be illustrated, with a primary focus on circumstances creating a reasonable doubt. To better understand this concept one should apply the conditions of this case in a modern setting. If Orestes were called forward, on the same charges under the jurisdiction of a United States court of law, would he have been acquitted? Furthermore, would similar circums .....
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Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place": The Concept Of Nada
Number of words: 1308 | Number of pages: 5.... real idea of nada. If one has
the internal qualities, cleanliness and inner vision, they can cope with
the nothingness even outside of the cafe. The old waiter is a prime example.
At times the old man lacks these qualities thus not being able to cope
with the darkness. On the other hand, the young waiter has no concept of
this idea thus making him not even realize how powerful it can be.
The old waiter is the most important character in “A Clean Well-
Lighted Place.” The old waiter has completely grasped the concept of nada
and is able to deal with it. Hemingway says,” What did he fear? It was
not fear or dread. It w .....
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