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Foucault And Truffaut: Power And Social Control In French Society
Number of words: 715 | Number of pages: 3.... coercive tools of the modern world. In fact the success of these
technologies stems from their ability to appear unobtrusive and humane. These
prisons Foucault goes on to explain like many institutions in post 1700th
century society isolate those that society deems abnormal. This isolation seeks
to attack the souls of people in order to dominate them similar to how the
torture and brutality of pre 1700th century society sought to dominate the
physical bodies of prisoners. In Foucault's interpretation freedom from the
pervasive influence of "power" is impossible. Because his conception of "power"
exists not just in individual inst .....
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Samuel Johnson: Greed In The World
Number of words: 371 | Number of pages: 2.... they are not. If one guy makes a little more another wants to top that and so on this cycle continues to the astronomical salaries that some athletes are now making. They are not happy with what they have and in turn, thus all they can think about is the fact that they want more because someone else is making that much more than they are.
Samuel Johnson is so very right in his opinion-based statement. Many people do not even see their own greed as being so. Eventually, greed leads to one’s downfall, and the blindness to see what is in front of them will carry on to their children; thereby, breeding a new, more self-cent .....
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Fantasy Author Charles De Lint
Number of words: 2184 | Number of pages: 8.... and Dreams, as well as in the short story collection titled The Ivory and the Horn.
Charles de Lint was born in the Netherlands. He moved with his family to Canada only three months later. He confessed to Clinton Somerton in the article Charles de Lint takes readers Someplace to be Flying that he never planned to be a writer growing up. "For a long, long time, I was just going to be a musician" he said. Music does, in fact, play a large role in almost all his work. Along with his love for music, de Lint also "developed a large affinity to reading books" at a very young age. "He particularly enjoyed books on mythology and folk tal .....
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A Bird Came Down The Walk
Number of words: 474 | Number of pages: 2.... a convenient Grass–
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass–
When the bird finally flies away the poem's flow mimics that of a flying bird, very calm and free "And he unrolled his feathers / And rowed him softer home–". She describes a birds flight like rowing in an ocean, but without all the splashing of the oars.
In the first two stanza of the poem she rhymes the second and fourth lines of the quatrain.
A Bird came down the Walk–
He did not know I saw–
He bit an Angleworm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,
She uses this rhyme schem .....
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Its Not Over Till Its Over
Number of words: 343 | Number of pages: 2.... close friends are correct, and that everything is not what it seems to be. Up until this point, the reader had no idea that of all people, Jenna was not only responsible for the murder of Molly’s husband, but quite possibly the murder of Molly as well. Jenna only cares enough to cover up the truth about her affair with Molly’s husband and the murder, doing whatever it takes no matter who is involved. This scene was not only dramatic, but incredibly surprising. The reader can only hope that someone will come to the Molly’s aide before it is too late, so that she can expose Jenna and the other characters in .....
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The Bean Trees, By Barbara Kin
Number of words: 704 | Number of pages: 3.... coffee and giving Turtle some juice Mattie came up with the idea that Taylor could work for her. Taylor being the one who doesn't like tires in the first place accepted the generous offer, but went almost nuts with the huge tire wall that surrounded her. Taylor was a good worker and didn't have any real complaints about her position, but she still had a fear of exploding tires. This fear was noticeable to Mattie. Mattie being the rough-tough but nice person, asked Taylor nicely to follow her, when suddenly Mattie threw a 5-gallon Jerry can at her. "Knocked the wind out of you, but it didn't kill you, right?" "That's twenty-eig .....
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Contrast Between The Lesson An
Number of words: 500 | Number of pages: 2.... narrator angry that Some people are able to afford a toy like that, when her family can barely take care of her. We see this When she notices a toy clown that does somersaults and pull-ups which cost thirty-five dollars. She tells us that thirty five dollars would pay the rent, and the piano bill, by her cousins bunk beds and Pay for a trip to the country to visits her grand father (112). At the end when the leave the store the narrator’s friend, Sugar, is the only one to get the point of the trip when she says: “Imagine for a minute What kind of society it is in which some people can spend on a toy what it would .....
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Great Gatsby 9
Number of words: 358 | Number of pages: 2.... expresses her vanity in the words she says. For example, she once said, "I've been everywhere and seen everything and love everything," implying that she has been around the globe and seen everything there is to offer. She thinks that she can solve the problems of the world because she has gone to a few more places than other people have and that she knows more than other people do. Her wealth has given her the opportunity to visit extraordinary places, but it has also given her boredom. She has taken her money for granted and now she has too much free time.
Money has given the Buchanans and Miss Baker everything they had ever .....
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The Awakening
Number of words: 830 | Number of pages: 4.... fighting against in this novel. She feels that, though many women agree with this "known" rule, it isn't fair. For six years Edna conforms to these ideas by being a "proper" wife and mother, holding Tuesday socials and going to operas, following the same enduring schedule. It is only after her summer spent at Grand Isle that her "mechanical" lifestyle becomes apparent to her. She sees how much she is unhappy with the expectations, held by society, of her life and she wishes to erase them and live her life as she wants. Edna has an independent, almost self centered, nature about her.
Her need for an uncontrolled lifestyle is .....
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Animal Farm 3
Number of words: 738 | Number of pages: 3.... from the rest. The old boar tells them that the source of all their problems is man, and that they must remove man from their midst to abolish tyranny and hunger.
Days later Major dies, but the hope and pride which he gave the other animals does not die. Under the leadership of the pigs, the most intelligent of the animals, they rebel against their human master managing to overthrow him. After the rebellion, under the direction of Napoleon, the most outspoken pig, and Snowball, the most eloquent pig, the animals continue to work the farm successfully.
As with all societies, the animals have laws which must be obeyed. Their .....
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