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A Rose For Emily 2
Number of words: 579 | Number of pages: 3.... wasn’t able to function without him. Since she wasn’t able to function without his presence Emily chose to live her life as if her father was still with her. She spent the majority of her time inside of her house because that was where she could best feel her father’s comforting dominance.
Emily was extremely resistant to modern changes in the outside world affecting her own world because she was determined to live in the past with the ghost of her father. When the new age of city authorities in the town visited her to collect taxes they felt she owed, she sent them away explaining that she didn’t have a .....
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Animal Farm
Number of words: 1088 | Number of pages: 4.... shall be o'erthrown,
And the fruitful fields of England,
Shall be trod by beasts alone.
Rings shall vanish from our noses,
And the harness from our back,
Bit and spur shall rust forever,
Cruel whips no more shall crack.
Riches more than mind can picture,
Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels
Shall be ours upon the day...(p.22-23)
After the song the animals were even more excited. They sing the song so loud it wakes Mr. Jones up. Mr. Jones starts firing his gun into the darkness. This quickly scatters the animals.
Three days later Old Major dies so Snowball and Napoleon take over but Napoleon wants .....
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An Analysis Of James Joyce's Eveline
Number of words: 785 | Number of pages: 3.... These good memories about her father look insignificant compared
to what she has to do for him. Eveline also has to support the
mistreatments of her abusive father even when she is asking him for money
to buy groceries. Especially on Saturday nights when he is “usually
fairly bad,” meaning he is drunk. Eveline alone asks herself if it is
wise to leave. She thinks that at her home she has “shelter and food; she
had those whom she had known all her life.” We know she does not feel
quite at home in her father's house. For example, after all these years,
she does not even know the name of the priest on a photograph i .....
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Importance Of Being Earnest
Number of words: 1424 | Number of pages: 6.... to make a Marxist critique about the way the class structure influences the play. He leaves room for these critiques when he writes about the servants, the nobles, and the middle class. His view on society and class is very evident on the way the servants are portrayed.
"‘I don't know that I am much interested in your family life, Lane'"
"‘No sir; it's not a very interesting subject. I never think of it myself.'"
In this passage from the play it is very clear that Wilde likes to give his characters some life, but however it seemed that he was giving the servants a bit too much, but nevertheless it does establish .....
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Huckleberry Finn
Number of words: 2948 | Number of pages: 11.... she had never tried it, but approved of snuff since she used it herself. Her slim sister who wears glasses, Miss Watson, tried to give him spelling lessons. Meanwhile, Huck was going stir-crazy, made especially restless by the sisters' constant reminders to improve his behavior. When Miss Watson told him about the "bad place," Hell, he burst out that he would like to go there, as a change of scenery. Secretly, Huck really does not see the point in going to "the good place" and resolved then not to bother trying to get there. When Huck asked, Miss Watson told him there was no chance Tom Sawyer would end up in Heaven. Huck was gla .....
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Virginia Woolf
Number of words: 421 | Number of pages: 2.... many more examples of imagery, more than can be expressed. I am beginning to believe she is as remarkable as people say. The more and more I read her writing, the more I began to believe this. She grabs my attention faster and more intensely than any other essayist.
Many people believe her writing style is hard to comprehend, which I can understand why. This allows her examples of imagery to go far beyond other great essayists. Her vocabulary is exceedingly more advanced and at a higher pace than of my own. It gives me the opportunity to learn such vocabulary and to use in oral communication.
This paper has given me the .....
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Young Goodman Brown 3
Number of words: 2330 | Number of pages: 9.... at his wife with the same faith he had before.
When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that the reason he was late was because "Faith kept me back awhile." This statement has a double meaning because his wife physically prevented him from being on time for his meeting with the devil, but his faith to God psychologically delayed his meeting with the devil.
The Devil had with him a staff that "bore the likeness of a great black snake". The staff which looked like a snake is a reference to the snake in the story of Adam and Eve. The snake led Adam and Eve to their destruction by leading them to the Tree of Knowl .....
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The Western Formula
Number of words: 1326 | Number of pages: 5.... white of the West. There is an unequivocal struggle between good and evil—and guns and violence can only solve that. Jane Tompkins standpoint on a Western seems to be a middle ground between Cawelti and Crane. She recognizes that violence is a central theme to a Western, but as well explains how we think of violence. In this day of age, we as a society have prohibited violence as a means of solving problems—Crane does not directly follow this in his stories, but definitely questions it. Cawelti on the other hand marks violence as the only answer—another black and white circumstance.
“This radical disc .....
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Into The Wild
Number of words: 967 | Number of pages: 4.... Krakauer the author views this boy’s challenge as an adventure to discover nature on his own without the help of anyone or anything. He wanted to go on his own journey . What I think this book is saying is that there are people in our world who rebel against modern human civilization. These people don’t feel comfortable in modern society and feel that isolation is their only way to feel at home. This book is showing how a person uses their stubbornness and free will to go against society and try to take on nature. The message that this book is trying to get across is that everyone does not want to be a part of society. .....
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Psalm 96
Number of words: 558 | Number of pages: 3.... all others.
Direction of Focus-Keeping in accordance with Ryken's text, the author of gets the reader to focus all of his attention on God and the grace of God and the workings of God. When looking at :7-10 it gets the reader to really see the power and grace of God, and that he really is all powerful, everlasting, and omnipotent.
Declarative Vs Descriptive Praise
According to the Ryken text these are the two main types of praise. When reading for the first time, one might believe that it does incorporate both descriptive and declarative praise. After reading a few more times, it became very evident that it definitely was .....
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