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Mosquito Coast
Number of words: 621 | Number of pages: 3.... uprooted his family from their pastoral home home and lugged them off to a primitive jungle coast. He's filled with cockeyed, romantic notions on building a jungle utopia for himself and his family.
In this decision, as in all other decisions, the family, including his dutiful supportive wife (Helen Mirren), two sons (River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts) and twin daughers (Hilary Gordon, Rebecca Gordon) don't have any choice. Despite his sometimes brilliant and idiosyncratic observations on society, Ford's a complete dolt with people. For him, the pulleys, ropes and levers he ingeniously rigs up for his numerous inventions are the stu .....
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Morality In A Clockwork Orange
Number of words: 756 | Number of pages: 3.... jailed. While in jail new character traits arise from a “conditioned” (Burgess, 80) Alex. It is evident that the rigorous conditioning and oppression against Alex, sensitized him against violence, thus curbing him towards a moral outlook on life. “But, sir, sirs, I see that it’s wrong. It’s wrong because it’s against like society, it’s wrong because every veck on earth has the right to live and be happy without being beaten and tolchocked and knifed.” (Burgess, 92). However this plea was seen as a façade of the actuality the situation. Alex’s harsh rebellion against society has shown the doctors that thi .....
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Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Number of words: 593 | Number of pages: 3.... time when a black family’s house was burned down just because the father of the house believed that a store owner was cheating him with his money. Another example of racism shown in the story is the white children being able to attend better schools and take buses to school, while black children walk. The readers may become very interested in what this entire book is about and what it was like back then. People may have always wondered how bad the prejudice and racism was. The theme was one of my two favorite reasons I enjoyed this book so much and I think a friend would think the same.
Another reason why I believe a friend woul .....
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Drunken Boat
Number of words: 1216 | Number of pages: 5.... refer to some subjective consciousness or some objective, material world. The symbol is used as a point of convergence for these unspoken things and remains deliberately ambiguous but resonant. The images created through the poet's retelling of experiences use symbols to convey their emotions.
It is in the closing stanzas of Rimbaud's poem, however, that the utter hopelessness of 19th century life seems to overcome the poet, and his tone shifts from one of casual nostalgia to despair. Rimbaud's boat has seen many wonderful and exciting things, from "the low sun... Lighting with far flung violet arms," to "fantastic Floridas" (Rimba .....
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Our Secret
Number of words: 584 | Number of pages: 3.... can go with the stories of Heinrich Himmler, Gebhard (Dad of Himmler), Laura (story in beginning), Heinz, Wernher von Braun (rocket scientist), Helene (author met at Metro station), and Leo. The author also uses examples of homosexuality, torture, child-rearing practices, parents/family, and also relates it with the stories and the fragments. Knowing that this essay has a lot of subjects that the author writes on, can make this piece seem confusing. Knowing that all of the issues will be tied together in some way, makes the essay more understandable. To use an example to tie together the fragments one can see that V-1 rockets .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper An Inside
Number of words: 665 | Number of pages: 3.... she is still swayed by her husband's direction with the following passage, "I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus--but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad." Her husband seems to be the one who can change her thoughts because of the fact that he is her husband. Never the less, a member of the opposite sex is still suppressing her.
The narrator also speaks many times in a manner, which suggests that because a man speaks she has no means by which to oppose with him because she is a woman, yet another f .....
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Dead Poets Society And Transce
Number of words: 1828 | Number of pages: 7.... that the movie Dead Poet’s Society echoes Transcendentalist notions in content in that self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to custom or tradition, intuition is superior to deliberate intellectualism and rationality and in structure through the idea that one can find truth and beauty in nature.
One of the main ideas of Transcendentalism is that one’s own opinions should prevail over deliberate conformity. Emerson wrote concerning that notion saying, “Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist” (“Self-Reliance” 15). Emerson tightly rela .....
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Chances
Number of words: 789 | Number of pages: 3.... she needed. She was afraid to try love, because she knew in the end there wouldn’t be anyone to pick up the broken pieces of her heart. Yet, she couldn’t help but fall in love.
Her mind was racing and her heart was pounding. All her life she thought it would never happen. Until one day a boy walked into her world, and changed the way she perceived love. She tried to fight these peculiar feelings, but every time she’d look into the depth of his eyes these impalpable feelings would subjugate her mind and win. Love found it’s way to her, and wouldn’t pass her by.
He was shy, known to keep to himself, and never went wi .....
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Confronting Death In Poetry
Number of words: 1092 | Number of pages: 4.... our unconscious mind we are all immortal, so it is almost inconceivable to be openly confronted with the reality of death. For children, this thought is especially implausible because of their youth. It is much easier to turn our attention to less frightening possibilities. The boy states this to his sister after crying out in a rueful laugh, "Don't let him cut my hand off / The doctor. When he comes. Don't let him sister!" (Frost 25, 26)
Step two and three of the grieving processes when confronting impending death are anger and depression. Anger is present because humans are the only species with an awareness of past, presen .....
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Analysis Of The Works Of Herman Melville And Nathaniel Hawthorne
Number of words: 1273 | Number of pages: 5.... for him to write. However, the most important impact on
Moby-Dick was the correspondence between the two writers. Hawthorne's
influence proved to be a factor in Melville's decision to write a novel
exploring the "meaning of life." The experiences of both writers helped
them realize that individuals have to figure out their purpose in life for
themselves and that individuality is implicit for a meaningful and
successful one.
Hawthorne wrote in The Scarlet Letter of a tragic "phase of
humanity," the idea that reality must not be ignored but rather accepted in
order to pursue happiness. Hester was a woman who acted on her own .....
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