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Papers on English
More Than Magic - The Sword In
Number of words: 1031 | Number of pages: 4.... believe that this statement was true. He was unaccustomed to such “petty” things as love, in which he was blind to, so in the beginning, he was hesitant on Merlin’s teachings on the topic of love and trust.
In his earlier years of his life, growing up for Arthur consisted of constant difficult hardships and inexplicable hate solely targeted at him by family members. He couldn’t understand the reason why he received less attention and acclaim by his father, Sir Ector. Kay, his older brother was rude and annoyingly impatient with the Wart and often attended to him with foul language. He acted in such hate .....
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The Crucible 3
Number of words: 382 | Number of pages: 2.... insanity of the town, for himself and for God,
and using that as a last resort to make people aware of what
was happening. This last stand for righteousness is an
example of proctor's great character and rationale.
Arthur Miller wrote his play, The Crucible, a story about
the Salem witch trials, and the panic resulting from it, as
an allegory to show people the insanity of the McCarthy
hearings. He wrote it as an allegory so that, if tried by
McCarthy, he could say, "it's just a play about the witch
trials in Salem. How do you get this communist idea from
it?" The story illustrates how people react to ma .....
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Quests Not Dreams - A Raisin I
Number of words: 1087 | Number of pages: 4.... I am looking for my identity." Asagai became a link to Africa for Beneatha, a guide to her ancestry/roots. In Act II, Beneatha shows how she has connected with her African roots by doing a ceremonial dance and by cutting her hair so that it would "natural." In Act III, Beneatha has the opportunity to connect more with her roots when Asagai proposes to her. He wants her to go with him back to Africa so that she can practice medicine over there. This would be the fulfillment of Beneatha's quest, not only does she bring out her African culture, but she also will go back and live it. Beneatha also brought out the "African" in o .....
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Hamlet - Enstragement In Hamlet
Number of words: 1590 | Number of pages: 6.... is suicidal and risks himself being estranged from his religious principals as he begins to think of suicide. If Hamlet were to kill Claudius, he would be violating a central religious principle against murdering another human being. Both suicide and murdering King Claudius would make him feel guilt at having violated religious coda, thus representing estrangement at the level of his religious consciousness (Knight 14). As Hamlet has the duty to avenge his father’s death by killing his father’s murderer, the King, Hamlet risks estrangement at the religious level.
Hamlet is also principled in a moral sense. To kill a king w .....
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Fork Of A Road
Number of words: 754 | Number of pages: 3.... in the road, but without hesitation he takes the more traveled by. This is the first contrast between the two literatures. "And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black." the leaves had covered the ground and since the time they had fallen no one had yet to pass by on this road. Perhaps Frost does this because each time a person comes to the point where they have to make a choice, it is new to them, somewhere they have never been and they tend to feel as though no one else had ever been there either. The persona took the road less traveled by. The road he chooses makes him the man he is. MacLeod mak .....
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The Odysseus: The Theme Of Love
Number of words: 552 | Number of pages: 3.... most emphasized in the Odyssey is the father -
son relationship. These relationships clearly support the issue of love in
the Odyssey.
The father - son relationship between Odysseus and Telemachos is a little
awkward because they both never really got to know each other but they
still care for each other's well being. When Odysseus hears of all the
suitors devouring Telemachos's future fortune and mistreating him, he wants
to return and revenge the misuse of his family and property. Odysseus,
like any parent, also misses his only child while he is at war. Telemachos
on the contrary also displays a lot of love for his father. .....
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Solo
Number of words: 885 | Number of pages: 4.... he had left were his nanny and his aunt. The book gives an accurate description of his life and times before his incredible hobby. After the book describes Mikali's background, which itself is filled with death, the book goes into the current life of Mikali and how he got to where he is. Mikali discovered his great talent in music at a very early age. His grand-father, who is the only blood relative he has left, is committed to his grand-son. He gives his son the best schooling in the form of music he loves the most: the Piano. The book after it has dealt with the past then goes into the present. Using this method, it resemble .....
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The Snow Walker
Number of words: 832 | Number of pages: 4.... are most fearful of. "Anger is something we fear since an angry man may do foolish and dangerous things. when I saw the anger in the man's face, I backed to the door" (138). Eskimo's are also very kind people. The take in a wondering stranger and treat him as their own. Some of the stories in the book tell of how a white man wonders into an Eskimo camp and ends up spending his whole life there. Eskimo's offer everything to white men, even their women. " The captain took the Eskimo girl as his wife, in the same manner the rest of his crew did the same" (70). This peaceful nature that the Eskimo's have is entirly diffrent from .....
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Emerson's “Self-Reliance”: Optimistic But Unrealistic For The 21st Century
Number of words: 843 | Number of pages: 4.... I think we need to put things into perspective and realize that kids
aren’t going to stay kids forever. They will grow up to be adults and we
have to teach them now to make good decisions because they will be running
the world in the near future.
The unrealistic side to Emerson’s philosophy is that now-a-days we
all want to be appreciated. We don’t look towards the future and what our
actions now will lead to. We think about the present. Emerson says that
Pythagoras, Socrates, Jesus, Luther, Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton were
all misunderstood. And every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh was
mis .....
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Diversity Within English
Number of words: 1409 | Number of pages: 6.... a
person is from just by knowing whether a person carries groceries home
from the supermarket in a paper bag or from the grocery store in a paper
sack (Yule 184). And the person who comes home from the supermarket with
a paper sack serves to remind us that language variation is not a discrete,
but rather a continuous variable. Characteristics of the dialect are more
pronounced in the center of the speech community and tend to be less
discernible at the outer boundaries, where they often overlap other
regional dialects.
Within, and between, these regional variations we find the social
dialects. The primary social factors .....
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