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Papers on English
English Is A Crazy Language...
Number of words: 494 | Number of pages: 2.... and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another.
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage (as compared to a horseless one) or a strapful gown (as opposed to a strapless)? Met a sung hero ("unsung") or experienc .....
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The Love Song Of J. Alfred Pru
Number of words: 727 | Number of pages: 3.... will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet:” (lines 26-27) indicating to the reader that he is afraid of showing his real self to these participants. He further indicates his hesitation by stating, “Time for you and time for me. / And time yet for a hundred indecisions, / And for a hundred visions and revisions, / Before the taking of a toast and tea” (lines 31-34). He is clearly incapacitated to act, trapped by his own fear that he will be unable to garner any interaction from the women with whom he wants to converse. Prufrock plans his approach and reminds himsel .....
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Things Fall Apart By Chinua Ac
Number of words: 1022 | Number of pages: 4.... and Akunna, a member of Umuofia, explains the Ibo religion very well. Akunna said that the Ibo believe in one supreme God also, but they call him Chukwu because “he made all the world and the other gods.” Mr. Brown made the comment that the Ibo worship carved wood and Akunna replied by saying,”The tree from which it came was made by Chukwu, as indeed all the minor gods were.” Akunna also said that the Ibo “make sacrifices to the little gods, but when they fail and there is no one else to turn to they go to Chukwu.” (179-180).
Another god, besides carved wood, that the Ibo worship is the Oracle of the Hills and the .....
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Canterbury Tales -- Role Of Wo
Number of words: 1602 | Number of pages: 6.... I am but dead, there is no more to say."
(p. 49, l. 24-28).
The knights believe that one man may love and worship Emily from afar and each vehemently contends that he should be this man. The knights' emotions for a woman of whom they know absolutely nothing, save that she is beautiful, reduces her to an object to be won and an occasion for adventure and courtship.
Years later, after Palamon and Arcite are no longer in prison, they meet and agree to fight to the death for the right to love Emily. She still does not know that these men exist, let alone that they both love her and are willing to die for that .....
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Beowulf And Jesus: Sacrifice And Inspiration
Number of words: 1570 | Number of pages: 6.... snubbed, mocked and abused by people he met along the way. However, He overcame these attacks by people and reached Jerusalem where his real struggle, the fight for Christianity and for life, would take place. He performed miracles and had many superhuman-like qualities. He once brought a dead girl back to life. Many people told the girl’s father that she was dead, but Jesus said "don’t be afraid, just believe"(Mark 5:36). His superhuman powers were amazing. There was a sick woman that had been bleeding for 12 years, she merle touched Him, "immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from .....
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Tenets Of Wordsworth In Resolution And Independence
Number of words: 1975 | Number of pages: 8.... a child, Wordsworth never understood life, because he never looked to nature for inspiration or guidance. Presently, Wordsworth feels he that he is "a happy Child of earth," because he walks "far from the world. . . far from all care" (31, 33). He begins a search to find a way to live in harmony with himself, God, and nature. During his search, he finds an old man, the leech-gatherer, who is one with himself, God, and nature. Upon seeing this man, Wordsworth is immediately amazed by the mien of this old man. Wordsworth admires this man's insight on life, that Wordsworth decides that he wants to become the same way. Thus, in Wordswo .....
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John Steinbeck The Pearl
Number of words: 552 | Number of pages: 3.... by three men with guns. They run up a mountain and hide in a cave. The people following them camp right below the cave that Kino and his family are hiding in. Kino decides that the only way to survive is to kill the person on guard, take his gun, and kill the other two. Kino goes to the camp and is about to attack them when Coyotito makes loud noise. Kino knows that he has to kill the bad guys quickly, but he is a second too late and one of them shoots toward the cave. Kino and the three men fight and Kino ends up killing all of them. The very first shot that was fired killed the baby. The next day Kino and Juana go h .....
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The Tatyana Caste
Number of words: 1844 | Number of pages: 7.... scale, masterpieces of the early 1830's – Balzac's "Eugenie Grandet" and, even more notably, Pushkin's "Onegin" –, each dealing with the same kind of pastoral, embowered, dreamy, grave and generally misunderstood girls or young women. This 'caste' sticks out of its rustic environment like a sore thumb, often being regarded by their own relatives and acquaintances as hopeless misfits, spinsters or nuns to be; being highly sensitive, imaginative and deep-feeling, they find it exceptionally hard, even actually impossible, to become accepted and understood within their immediate environment made up of generally cruder .....
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Catcher In The Rye
Number of words: 960 | Number of pages: 4.... they’re both dead he feels, in the back of his mind, that he should also be dead which makes him depressed.
Another example of a fall for Holden is when he realizes he can’t erase even half the "fuck you’s" in the world. This doesn’t sound very important, but it is symbolic because he realizes that he can not be the . His dream of shielding all the innocent children from society’s harsh elements has been ruined by this one statement. Now because of this realization he comes to the conclusion that he can not shield everybody, not even half of everybody. An example of Holden trying to be the is w .....
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Death Of A Salesman 3
Number of words: 679 | Number of pages: 3.... Biff, along with happy try to conjure up a crazy idea of putting on a sporting goods exhibition. The problem with Willy is that he never grows up and deals with his obstacles.
Willy is also a very stubborn man. He is like a little child
that wants to do something their way even though they know that
another option would be the wiser choice. Charley practically sets a
potential job into Willy’s lap and he refuses it. Willy just was
fired and needed a job. He refuses one. Willy is too stubborn to let go of his old job and take a new one. He still believes that he is at the top of his profession. Wh .....
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