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Ways Of Handling A Situation
Number of words: 617 | Number of pages: 3.... have an instinctive drive to belong, in the same sort of way species reproduce. It is possible that his theory of instinctive necessity is accurate, and humans are as a whole are week and scared when they are faced with solitude. The old adage "there is safety in numbers" is appropriate in this topic. Often in this world terrible things happen because people group up and commit unspeakable acts, then take shelter in the numbers of those involved. The Annual Freaknik "celebration" is the perfect example. Thousands of individuals crowd the streets of Atlanta and pillage the city for a weekend, all the while they show no respect fo .....
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Macbeth And Lord Jim
Number of words: 1828 | Number of pages: 7.... honor. The similarity between the two works emphasizes the effect of lies on the way an individual lives, and further stresses the internal struggle that Jim faced after he had jumped from the Patna. In their respective stories, Jim and Macbeth face the lies that dictated their lives and, consequentially, die with some of the dignity and honor that they had once experienced in their lives. This process is described as each man realizes and confronts his lies, faces the fatal consequences, and eventually dies.
The most significant point in Lord Jim and Macbeth is the respective main character’s realization of his lies. The .....
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Great Expectations Charcters G
Number of words: 606 | Number of pages: 3.... Her hatred towards men is easily visible. She manipulates people to her advantage without a thought to their heart and feelings. Her treatment of those around her stays very much the same until before her death, when she shows extreme remorse and pain for her actions. It is at that moment in the novel when the reader begins to feel some sort of sympathy for her. Even though she was an villainous character, it's easy to sympathize with someone who is dying with so many unresolved issues. She expressed her good intentions towards Estella's upbringing, which shows that, while she may have lacked the inner strength to carry through .....
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Stephen King
Number of words: 2002 | Number of pages: 8.... leaving had a big indirect impact on King’s life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, recalls how his family life was altered: “After my father took off, my mother, struggled, and then landed on her feet.” My brother and I didn’t see a great deal of her over the next nine years. She worked a succession of continuous low paying jobs.” Stephen’s first outlooks on life were influenced by his older brother and what he figured out on his own. While young Stephen and his family moved around the North Eastern and Central United States. When he was seven years old, they moved to Stratford, Conn .....
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Eating Gilbert Grape - Respons
Number of words: 892 | Number of pages: 4.... have continued 'wanting' for other people, had Becky not interrupted.
Gilbert's good nature is apparent from the very start when he and Arnie are waiting for the caravans to pass through Endora. We can hear Gilbert describe the scene as a 'yearly ritual' in a very tired voice. Yet, we know he is doing it for Arnie. It pleases Arnie so much to see the caravans along the road, and Gilbert feels satisfaction that his brother is happy. To make someone else happy creates a warm feeling inside. From Gilbert's facial expressions and body language, the audience knows he gets this feeling an awful lot.
There is an impression creat .....
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An Exploration Of Femininity I
Number of words: 3482 | Number of pages: 13.... relationship with Horatio. Hamlet, at first, distances himself from Horatio, and is wary of placing too much trust in his friend. Indeed, Horatio recognises the individual nature of the Ghost's plight, and implicitly, therein, Hamlet's task:
It beckons you to go away with it,
As if it some impartment did desire
To you alone.
(1.4.58-60)
Hamlet also refuses to confide in his friend, believing that Horatio would not be able to comprehend his predicament, that the dilemma presented by the Ghost would not adequately fit into Horatio's "philosophy" (1.6.166-7). However, Horatio has numerous characteristics .....
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Shampoo Planets - Book Report
Number of words: 413 | Number of pages: 2.... but the two Canadian National Awards for Excellence in Industrial Design stand out from the rest.
Mr. Coupland has written five novels. He started out with Generation X, and then came Life After God and then came Microserfs. His last book was Poaroids From the Dead, but before that was Shampoo Planet. Life After God and Polaroid From the Dead are not really novels but just compilations of short stories and anecdotes, some from his own life.
I think that this book, about a guys life. The cover has a picture of the top part of a person’s head, forehead and up, with messy hair. By looking at the cover, I feel th .....
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Myths
Number of words: 573 | Number of pages: 3.... revealed at the end of each story. Campbell developed a theory that all are linked in that they are cultural manifestations of the universal human need to explain social, cosmological, and spiritual realities.
Products of ancient cultures, express and explain such serious concerns as the creation of the universe and of humanity, the evolution of society, and the cycle of agricultural fertility such as Campbell's story of how buffalo came to be instinct. are differentiated from folktales such as Cinderella, by being more serious, less entertaining, more supernatural, and less rational and logical. Legends and sagas, by contrast .....
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Kubla Khan
Number of words: 831 | Number of pages: 4.... Cordelia's turn, whom which was Lear's favorite daughter, she spoke the truth. She told him that she loved him only the way that a daughter could. If she was to marry then she would love him half and her husband half. Lear was angry with this, even though it was the truth, it might have been that he didn't expect an answer of that type. After this, Cordelia was disowned by her father and banned from her homeland. This decision made by Lear was foolish, Cordelia was the only daughter that was pure and loyal to him. She shows this by admitting her true amount of love for him, she did not follow he sister's and lie. Even though .....
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Lord Of The Flies 13
Number of words: 749 | Number of pages: 3.... everything she does. Jake’s willingness to endure and forgive Brett¹s promiscuity and infidelity is an indication of the skewed values of the age. It was an ³anything goes² era right after the first war, and Jake¹s message to Brett seems to be the same: anything goes as long as you eventually come back to me. Jake is forced to accept living in this seemingly terrible way for more than one reason. He a weak person socially, but he is also physically disabled because of an injury that he suffered during the war. He suffered an injury that caused him to be castrated. The first hint of this is when he says to Georgeette ³I .....
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