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Beowulf
Number of words: 585 | Number of pages: 3.... of 's men who he let be devoured by Grendel. When Grendel came to he immediately saw who he was and before Grendel could grab him got hold of him. fought honestly without weapon because Grendel did not have a weapon either therefore would be shamed if he slew Grendel with a sword. After pulverizing Grendel he finished him off by tearing off his arm which Grendel then fled and died. The great arm of Grendel was hung above the mead hall. This lesson teaches us that if you fight fair you are destined to win.
A second moral taught in this poem is that good must always triumph over evil. For example when and one of his friends spe .....
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Jane Eyre - Critical Evaluation
Number of words: 1823 | Number of pages: 7.... Jane ‘hears’ Mr Rochester’s voice calling for her, and decides to return to Thornfield immediately. On her return, she finds Thornfield to be a "blackened ruin" due to a fire which has left Rochester blind with only one arm and killed his wife. Jane goes to Rochester’s new home, and they are married.
Jane’s ‘physical’ journeys contribute significantly to plot development and to the idea that the novel is a ‘journey’ through Jane’s life. "Jane Eyre’s" chronological structure also emphasises this idea, the journey progresses as time goes on. Each journey causes her to experience new emotions and an eventual ch .....
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Socrates And Gorgias
Number of words: 1521 | Number of pages: 6.... their original meaning.
Rhetoric is assumed to be the dealing of persuasive speech about politics and question of just and unjust actions. Right away this definition of rhetoric assumes a connection to democracy in the political sense. Politics deal with questions about just and unjust things. This is essentially what rhetoric is. In Gorgias PP 38-39 Gorgias speaks of the power of rhetoric in this way, "the power of art, then is so great and of such sort; one must, however, use rhetoric, Socrates, just as every other competitive skill. For one has learned boxing and pankration and fighting in heavy armor, so as to be stronger th .....
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Gullivers Travels 3
Number of words: 1024 | Number of pages: 4.... his liberty hath been granted when he could have easily crushed
and killed these little people. Gulliver is also very eager to
be able to interact with the creatures and this is evident when
in a few weeks he “made a great progress in learning their
language” (68). He is also quite helpful and there are two
definitive cases of Gulliver displaying this helpfulness in the
country of Lilliput. The first occurs when he obeys the orders
of the king to destroy his opposition’s navy and ends up
stringing up the navy of Blefuscu rendering them helpless. Then
he saves the fiery palace by relieving himself .....
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Hob
Number of words: 633 | Number of pages: 3.... with the dwarfs and others that he encounters along the way. Also, Bilbo enjoys near death experiences and thrills that accompany the quest for the mountain. Although, from Bilbo’s words, he makes it seem as if the only reason he does not take the treasure home is that his pony will only carry two chests. Bilbo also thinks he did enough harm and becomes weary. He just wants to be back in his bit-hole. What use would Bilbo have for the whole treasure? Bilbo was content without the riches which is why he declines the treasure.
Thorin changes drastically by the end of the book. Now, Thorin’s quest is now fulfilled since he retu .....
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The Crucible Summary
Number of words: 1142 | Number of pages: 5.... rationalist, shows that when people like Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth
Proctor who are the saintliest of people are accused of being witches,
something must be wrong. Mary Warren has a difficult decision to make.
She has realized that her whole way of life has been based on
injustice. However, how can she extricate herself from Abigail and her
friends, not to mention her new feelings of confidence. Mary
decides to speak out against Abigail and the others for their false
accusations and said that she " tried to kill me numerous times"(57).
Yet as she does this heroic act of overcoming her old reality, Abigail
pretends that .....
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The Author To Her Book
Number of words: 1033 | Number of pages: 4.... emotions she experienced. No doubt, many women read her poetry, and the majority of women during that time were, or would one day be mothers. This similarity opened a door for understanding. By comparing her writing to a child, Bradstreet is able to win the compassion of her readers and help them understand the feelings that she experiences. Bradstreet sees herself s the "mother" (line 23) of this work, which she calls an "ill-formed offspring" (line 1) and she gives the work many human characteristics to enhance the effect of the conceit. She says that the "child" had been by her side until "sn .....
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Rituals
Number of words: 668 | Number of pages: 3.... About and hour later my aunt shows up. She is always late and her time is an hour difference from the regular time. She brings all her kids and her husband (whom wants nothing more than to go home) inside and tries to perk them up. Well after a while every body decides to eat and we all grab a plate and dig in. It’s not fancy at all- all plastic silverware and usually we just find a chair to sit down on and eat there.
After dinner and several long minutes of boredom the card table gets pulled out. My uncle tries to think that he knows what he’s doing and dumps a ton of baby powder on it. He said is makes the t .....
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I Am The Cheese
Number of words: 1080 | Number of pages: 4.... not much is known about who these people are, and what are their real motives. This novel exposes the fact that we are surrounded by secrets and lies, and because there are so many layers of reality, we are never sure what is the ultimate truth. A situation which describes this arises when Adam's father changes his identity after discovering a conspiracy, and keeps this secret away from Adam to protect him. The outstanding theme of is slowly revealed through the puzzling story of a bicycle ride, the interview tapes, and particularly in the last pages in the book. The author's purpose is to get inside each individual reader and .....
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Huckleberry Finn - Racism Deba
Number of words: 720 | Number of pages: 3.... description of Jim. The reader is told that Jim is illiterate,
childlike, not very bright and extremely superstitious. However, it is
important not to lose sight of who is giving this description and of
whom it is being given. Although Huck is not a racist child, he has
been raised by extremely racist individuals who have, even if only
subconsciously, ingrained some feelings of bigotry into his mind. It
is also important to remember that this description, although it is
quite saddening, was probably accurate. Jim and the millions of other
slaves in the South were not permitted any formal edu .....
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