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Papers on English
Comparing Two Poems
Number of words: 701 | Number of pages: 3.... the readers.
Great whale, crying for your life
Crying for your kind
The poem Package for the Distant Future produces images of desperation new generations and the history and evolution of old civilisation being held on a scrap of paper.
We had a lot of things we did not like
And could have lived without
Do not invent gods
I hope the earth is nearly clean again.
This image could be seen to be rather disturbing, so to can the pictures produced by The Song of the Whale, which depict image of cruelty, sadness and the absolute ignorance of society towards topics such as this. The two poems obviously speak di .....
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Compare And Contrast: Aneas And Turnus
Number of words: 1105 | Number of pages: 5.... life to the establishment of Latium. As the greatest of all
warriors, Aneas displays his superb strength and his leadership
capabilities, by guiding the Trojans to victory over the latins and
establishing Latium. The selflessness of Aneas and his devotion to the
Gods, enables him to leap over and break through any obstacles that
obstruct his destiny. Patterned after Homer's Hector, Virgil's Turnus is
also a courageous and devout hero. As the most handsome of Rutilians,
Turnus' nobility reflects his physical appearance; he is a god-fearing,
libation-bearing soldier. Turnus was greatly admired and respected by his
subjects: "by .....
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Number of words: 715 | Number of pages: 3.... "...Jim running slower to stay with Will, Will running faster to stay with Jim"(18).
This comes towards the beginning when the two are sprinting home, one running slower
than his normal pace and the other faster. Obviously running faster is an opposite of
running slower, and it is understood that the two are running together. Therefore, when
the two opposites (running faster and running slower) are applied together, they fit
perfectly since the boys are running with each other. Another example is "The wind flew
Jim away. A similar kite, Will swooped to follow"(16). This quotation comes ea .....
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Images Of Light And Darkness I
Number of words: 2223 | Number of pages: 9.... masters say that love is all there is. They also say in order to truly know something, one must know it’s opposite. To know hot, one must experience cold. To know sorrow, one must have known joy. To love, one must hate. (Or at least come pretty damned close to it.) Without darkness, one cannot appreciate light.
Professors of English say that the greatest writers are those who can “hook” their readers. Those who can propel a story forward. Divide and contrast. Divide and contrast, they say. Friction produced by opposing forces creates great drama. Shakespeare is a great dramatist.
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare o .....
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The Importance Of Being Earnes
Number of words: 547 | Number of pages: 2.... what was on the outside of a person, such as their name or wealth, rather than their character.
Another such example of this situation is when Algernon is speaking to Cecily in regards to their engagement. Cecily knows Algernon to be Jack’s brother, Ernest, and is in love with the name the same as Gwendolyn. Algernon tries to inquire, in a similar manner whether Cecily could love him if he bore another name, such as Algernon. Cecily responds in a similar manner. Wilde found one piece to be humorous, and as a result included it into the first Act. He then decided to repeat a similar situation in the second Act of the pla .....
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Calculated Captivity
Number of words: 1840 | Number of pages: 7.... despite the previous opinion of the reader, Burgess reveals the outcome in a way that causes a sense of relief and is pleased to see Alex back to ‘normal’.
It is fascinating to consider that Burgess may have written A Clockwork Orange as a prophetic view of warning to future societies. He was a peaceful person who didn’t want the stark consequences of the fictional Alex to become a grim reality. Through the first of three parts in the novel Burgess displays Alex as the embodiment of all that society would like to ignore or eliminate - but can’t. This first person narrative is told by Alex a youth of fifteen, who spends .....
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Heart Of Darkness
Number of words: 1272 | Number of pages: 5.... an orator, writer, poet, musician, artist, politician, ivory producer, and chief agent of the ivory company's Inner Station. yet, he was also a "hollow man," a man without basic integrity or any sense of social responsibility. "Kurtz issues the feeble cry, 'The horror! The horror!' and the man of vision, of poetry, the 'emissary of pity, and science, and progress' is gone. The jungle closes' round" (Labrasca 290). Kurtz being cut off from civilization reveals his dark side. Once he entered within his "" he was shielded from the light. Kurtz turned into a thief, murderer, raider, persecutor, and to climax all of his other shady p .....
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Beloved: The Human Condition
Number of words: 986 | Number of pages: 4.... exposes the internal conflicts that encumber her characters. By contrasting those individuals, she shows tragedy in the human condition. Both Sethe and Beloved suffer the devastating emotional effects of that one fateful event: while the guilty mother who lived refuses to passionately love again, the daughter who was betrayed fights heaven and hell- in the name of love- just to live again. Sethe was a woman who knew how to love, and ultimately fell to ruin because of her "too-thick love" (164). Within Sethe was the power of unconditional love for her children-- she had "milk enough for all" (201). Morrison uses breast milk to sy .....
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Having Our Say
Number of words: 364 | Number of pages: 2.... (101 years old) and is much more aggressive. A self-made dentist who was the only colored female at Columbia University when she attended dentistry school there, "Bessie" is the W.E.B. Dubois of the sisters, never backing down from any type of confrontation.
As the sisters tell the stories of their ancestors and then of themselves, and how they have endured over 150 years of racism in America, they tend focus mainly on the struggles that they encountered as colored women.
"Bessie brings laughter to the book with her honest, frank, and sometimes, confrontational take on life. Much of the humor arises from the interactions betwe .....
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Shakespeare - Authorship
Number of words: 1821 | Number of pages: 7.... 13). During this time, De Vere also began writing several poems and plays. Much like Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the name of Mark Twain, Oxford adopted the pseudonym Shakespeare. Soon after plays appeared under the name of "Shakespeare," poems by de Vere ceased (Russell 5). Coincidently, the coat of arms of Lord Bulbeck, a third title of Edward de Vere, is a lion shaking a spear (Ogburn 10). De Vere was also known by the people as the "spear-shaker" because of excellence at the tilts and at jousting (Russell 5).
Many believe this pen name was for protection. Many of the plays said to have been .....
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