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Regeneration
Number of words: 916 | Number of pages: 4.... morals. In the novel the so-called "insane" patients are sent to an institute called Craiglockhart. It is one of the top schools in the country, at that time, for curing insanity.
Officer Prior is inevitably an outcast in society because he is dubbed insane. Prior suffered from mutism and reoccurring nightmares. At a time when he was at the institute he leaves to go to a bar and pick up women. One needs to understand that when the patients leave the institute they are advised to wear a red ribbon around their arm so that society knows that they are "mad" patients at the institute. Wearing that ribbon on their sleeve .....
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Emma - Romantic Imagination
Number of words: 1213 | Number of pages: 5.... realistic. However, both rely on the fact that "[t]he correspondence of world and subject is at the center of any sensibility story, yet that correspondence is often twisted in unusual and terrifying shapes," (Edward Young, 1741). The heroine of Austen’s novel, Emma Woodhouse, a girl of immense imagination, maintains it by keeping up with her reading and art because, as Young contends, these are the mediums through which imagination is chiefly expressed by manipulating the relationships between the world and the subject at hand. However, even in this, Emma’s imagination falls short. "The soul might have the capacity to take in .....
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Scripting
Number of words: 1714 | Number of pages: 7.... operators and arguments that create a result. Expressions can be used as values in any command. Examples of expressions include arithmetic, relational comparisons, and string concatenations.
The basic form of a script for Dial-Up Networking follows:
;
; A comment begins with a semi-colon and extends to
; the end of the line.
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proc main
; A script can have any number of variables
; and commands
variable declarations
command block
endproc
A script must have a main procedure, specified by the proc keyword, and a matching endproc keyword, indicating the end of the procedure.
You must declare variables before you add .....
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Money Is The Root Of All Evil
Number of words: 603 | Number of pages: 3.... evilest of the evil isn’t rooted in money then how can it be stated that money is the cause of all evil.
By definition, evil is causing harm, injurious, or a cause of suffering. Tom was subject to an evil that is ever present in today’s society, loving someone that cannot cross economic boundaries for love. Daisy originally loved Tom, but she was so infatuated with money that she could not see past Tom’s lack thereof. A love that seemed to be eternal ruined by money. Daisy is, by the above definition of it, evil. She causes great suffering on Tom’s behalf, therefore evil. Daisy is one case that proves the questioned sta .....
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Hercules
Number of words: 3120 | Number of pages: 12.... Hera sent two serpents to destroy him in his cradle. However, strangled them, one in each hand, before they could bite him.
When grew up and had become a great warrior, he married a young woman named Megara. They had two children together and lived very happily. However, things didn’t turn out as they do in the movie. One day, Hera sent a fit of madness to that put him into so great a rage, that he murdered his wife and both children. When regained his senses and realized what he had done, he asked the god Apollo to rid him of his sins. Apollo commanded that do certain tasks as punishment for his wrongs, so th .....
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Cry, The Beloved Country
Number of words: 1804 | Number of pages: 7.... symbolized by the figure of Arthur Jarvis. He is a white reformer who fights for rights of blacks. Like Christ, he is very altruistic and wants to pursue his aims at all costs. His friend, Harrison, says: "Here [Arthur Jarvis] was, day to day, on a kind of mission." (173) Arthur Jarvis and his wife Mary "agree that it's more important to speak the truth than to make money." (172) Arthur Jarvis is killed in his house by Absalom, a black youth who gets entangled in crime. Absalom only intends to rob Arthur Jarvis, and the homicide is unintentional. Absalom thinks that Arthur Jarvis is out and comes into the house with two friends. .....
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Gatsby S Sacrifice
Number of words: 1758 | Number of pages: 7.... the embodiment of that dream because she is the personification of his romantic ideals. For him she represents his youth and is the epitomy of beauty. Gatsby, "with the religious conviction peculiar to saints, pursues an ideal, a mystical union, not with God, but with the life embodied in Daisy Fay" (Allen, 104). He becomes disillusioned into thinking the ideal is actually obtainable, and the realization that he will never be able to obtain his dream is what destroys him in the end. Gatsby realizes that Daisy isn't all he thought she was, and with this his dream collapses. The symbolic implications of this can be realized whe .....
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Huckleberry Finn 8
Number of words: 326 | Number of pages: 2.... continue to raise difficult questions today. When Huckleberry Finn was banned in 1885, officials at the Concord Public Library thought it
was "rough, coarse and inelegant,... the whole book being more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people." Written in the voice of its young narrator -- who rejects becoming "sivilized" on its first page -- and full of various dialects throughout, the book offended the literary sensibilities of the time. Twain redoubled the insult to the literary
establishment by insisting that his books be sold door to door by subscription instead of through book stores. He appealed to the mas .....
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Frankenstein 2
Number of words: 996 | Number of pages: 4.... took this into consideration, but broke his promise and ate the apple. This is similar to Victor and the monster because, in the book, Victor represented God and the monster represented Adam. Victor like God, created human life "not following the law of nature", the difference was that the monster did not have his creator there to tell him what he should or should not do and that Adam was made with mud and the monster by chemicals and materials. Victor was a normal person and became ill after his creation because he became mad (unlike God). It took Victor a long time to make his creation and during that period of time, he "went .....
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The Lottery
Number of words: 529 | Number of pages: 2.... The People who were stoned to death represented values and good being as the townspeople, who represented society, cold-heartedly destroyed them ( Jackson 79 ). Immediately after reading , one can compare the ritual, in the story, to some of today’s barbaric traditions in a new point of view. Hazing is a tradition that has been around forever. Some people do not see anything wrong with giving a new person a hard time; however, this ritual has caused numerous deaths and countless injuries all over the world. Hazing is a ritual performed in high schools, gangs, colleges, and even your own best friend can be in on it. Per .....
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