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The Awakening 2
Number of words: 1791 | Number of pages: 7.... degree then Anglo-Americans, lived a life of sensation and careless enjoyment. They loved to dance, gamble, fish, attend feasts, play on the fiddle and to live without much thought of the morrow.” Eaton 252
Creoles were very lively outgoing people because of their comfortable tight society. Activities such as Mardi Gras and Sunday afternoon Mass holiday spirits contribute the liveliness of these people (Walker 252). A large reason for their comfort and “live for the moment” attitude was that Creoles did not move west like most other colonists to claim land. Instead .....
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Fahrenheit51 4 8
Number of words: 701 | Number of pages: 3.... than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority...feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse." To Bradbury ripping a page or even a paragraph from a book was one of the worst sins imaginable.
One of the main characters in this book was named Faber, he was an elderly man who loved books but was too cowardly to join the underground movement of the book people. At one point in time Faber had been an English Professor, so he had read many books and was a very knowledgeable man. Faber knew what it was that had caused books to be ban .....
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Great Expectations - Mrs. Joe
Number of words: 1118 | Number of pages: 5.... out the dustpan -- which was always a very bad sign -- put on her coarse apron, and began cleaning up to a terrible extent. Not satisfied with a dry cleaning, she took to a pail and scrubbing-brush, and cleaned us out of house and home,..." Truly, a frightening creature is that that may destroy a household by cleaning when anger besets her. Third, the comedy also has a serious side, though, as we remember our mothers exerting their great frustrations upon the household tasks of cleanliness. So, Mrs. Joe serves very well as a mother to Pip. Besides the age difference and the motherly duties of housekeeping for Pip and Joe, the atti .....
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Oedipus Rex
Number of words: 993 | Number of pages: 4.... killed Laius might - who knows? - Lay violent hands even on me -and soon. I act for the murdered king in my own interest." (33.141)
The rising action begins when the blind man, Teiresias, who is a prophet arrives. He is praised by Oedipus for his vast knowledge and then is requested the name of the murderer in order to rid the country of the plague. Tieresias professes to know nothing, which angers the king. Oedipus warns the blind man about remaining silent and even speculates whether Tieresias had a hand in the murder. This angers the old man and he states that it is indeed Oedipus who is the murderer. "I say that you are .....
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Lord Of The Dead
Number of words: 2432 | Number of pages: 9.... women, by men, who “with their foot on women’s throats” do not allow them to speak for themselves. MacKinnon also has a crude, instrumental conception of power, especially in her view of the state as monolithic and fundamentally insensitive to women’s concerns (as she says, “the state is male”3). As a result, her view of politics is strategic and somewhat opportunistic: she appears willing to forge single-issue coalitions with any group to advance her cause, as she has with right-wing groups in her antipornography crusade. MacKinnon’s expressed sympathy for Clarence Thomas in the Hill-Thomas case is rather stunning, .....
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Much Ado About Nothing Summary
Number of words: 1446 | Number of pages: 6.... occasion to cause some mischief.
Act II, scene I
Leonato and his daughter and niece are ready for the party to begin. While Beatrice complains that there is no man who can match her spirit, Hero obediently consents to her father's counsel to accept the Prince when he woos. All wear masks for the dance which leads to confusion and fun. Don Pedro talks to Hero privately while Benedick and Beatrice exchange insults. Meanwhile, Don John tries to cause trouble by telling Claudio that Pedro plans to wed Hero himself. Claudio thinks he has lost Hero and becomes very angry with Pedro. However, Pedro comes in to announce that he has complet .....
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Death On Demand Reaction Paper
Number of words: 594 | Number of pages: 3.... to help determine many purchases I have made. And buy doing so the benefits of the purchases I made came out higher than I expected. The concept of Psychic Income, from now on, will continue to influence what I will purchase or invest in.
I am sure that I, along with just about all of my acquaintances, have experienced the Crowding out Effect. This is mainly why I chose to react to it. I also chose it to see if there was anything that I could do to somehow control this act. But apparently the only thing that I can do is vote for candidates that won't borrow huge amounts from the financial market therefore, keeping interest rates .....
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Siddhartha 4
Number of words: 721 | Number of pages: 3.... like ten thousand others of their kind. He wanted to follow Siddhartha, the beloved, the magnificent. And if he ever became a god, if he ever entered the All-Radiant, the Govinda wanted to follow him as a friend, his companion, his servant, his lance bearer, his shadow.” (2)
He finds the sensuality of love from the beautiful Kamala. She teaches him everything that he knows about love. She is his first experience with a woman. “He learned many things from her wise red lips. Her smooth gentle hand taught him many things. He, who was still a boy as regards love and was inclined to plunge to the depths of it blindly and i .....
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Twelfth Night 3
Number of words: 832 | Number of pages: 4.... pretentious nature. So being the gangleader of the other four, he gets everyone involved in his plan.
Sir Andrew Aguecheek is a companion of Belch. he is not very intellegent and often times quite ludicrous. He is definitely not someone to Olivia's liking, and his hopeless pursuit of her, subjects him to many indignities. Becuae of his nature, Sir Toby finds it very easy to take advantage of Sir Andrew and does so whenever it suits him. A perfect example of this type of foolery occurs in Act 3,Scene 2. In this scene Sir Andrew is beginnig to realize that Olivia is out of his reach and in love with Cesario but Sir Toby wants him t .....
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Killer Angels 2
Number of words: 747 | Number of pages: 3.... the war and army life. He showed the true sorrow and terror. "Yet you learn to love it. Isn't that amazing? Long marches and no rest., up very early in the morning, and asleep late in the rain, and there's a marvelous excitement to it, a joy to wake in the morning, and feel the army all around you and see the campfires in the morning and smell the coffee…"[pg.125] Leadership in those days, was all about character, and conducting your self as a gentlemen. Shaara wrote of Gen. Armistead, "He was one of the men who would hold ground if it could be held; he would die for a word. He was a man to depend on, and there was this t .....
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