The Great Gatsby And The American Dream
.... tries to escape the American dream in favor of
the soft values in life. Daisy becomes his obsession in life and the
disappointment when he realizes her lack of affection for him is fatal.
By introducing Nick as a narrator, who is also partially supporting
Gatsby's principles regarding the pursuit of happiness, Fitzgerald lets the
reader start out with a biased mind. However, throughout the book, his
opinions become less influential on the development of the plot. This way,
the criticism of the American dream is allowed to evolve chronologically
and the final impression of its faults is amplified.
The Great Gatsby systemati .....
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The Stone Angel By Margaret Laurence
.... The name of the main character, Hagar, is also the
name of a hand maid in a biblical story. Many parallels are made between
Margaret Laurence's Hagar and the biblical Hagar. The Hagar in the bible
was to conceive a son with the husband of her owner, Sarah, who, herself,
was unable to conceive. Hagar did bear a son but Sarah became very jealous
of Hagar and had her thrown out into the wilderness. Hagar's son was born
and they both returned to the place where Sarah and her husband, Abraham
(Laurence's husband to Hagar was named Brampton to echo Abraham), lived.
Hagar and her son were cast into the wilderness once again when .....
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Hank Morgan's Use Of Technology In King Arthur's Camelot
.... soon as Hank got his power back from blowing Merlin's tower, he
developed a patents office, iron missionaries, and steel missionaries.
During this time he also created a teacher factory, Sunday Schools, Grade
Schools, variety of Protestant Congregations, mines, Branch Schools, Naval
Academies, Military Academies, and established a remote seaport.
Morgan also invented soap, which he wanted people to use. In the
sixth century, no one believed in properly bathing so Hank made squires
where Slogans on their armor to encourage people to wash. One slogan about
soap is “Persimmon's Soap – All the Prime Donne use it.” Morgan crea .....
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Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes: Hardships Of Tracy Whitney
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changes, which lead to her eternal happiness. Tracy's character is
different from most other characters, because instead of going through one
change she goes through two. As the story begins, Tracy is loving and
compassionate. She has everything that she needs a rich lover, a great job
and happiness. Every thing is great until she goes down to New Orleans to
attend her mother's funeral. Soon after she arrives in New Orleans, her
entire world turns in to utter chaos, when someone frames her for a crime
that she did not commit. Her attorney tricks her and she ends up going to
jail for 15 years. While Tracy is in prison she chang .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird - The Maturing Of Jem Finch
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at this point and he would appear to anyone as one child playing with his
sister. Lastly, Jem has childhood fears like most any child does. All
children have their fears or monsters. In Jem's case it i rthur Radley,
commonly known as Boo:
" Let's try and make him come out..."
Jem said if he wanted to get himself killed, all he had to do was go up
and knock on the front door...
" It's just I can't think of a way to make him come out without him
gettin' us."... When he said that I knew he was afraid. (17-18)
Often, during his first summer with Dill, Jem talks of Boo and his
house much like a child discus .....
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Cheever's "The Nanny Dilemma": Personal Reflection
.... yet others are treated with respect. There is no certain job security
for a nanny, one day you may work and the next you may not.
In conclusion I think it is important that we make time for family,
yes you can have a nanny, there is no crime for that, but don't make that
person fill your shoes and your responsibilities. Make your family a true
family and not one you think it really isn't. When more time is spent
worrying about work and money, and not on raising kids-our family
infrastructure will crumble.
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To Kill A Mocking Bird: The Ewell Residence
.... bit about the Ewells themselves. From
this we can infer that the Ewells took very little (if any at all) pride in
their home and it's appearance. Later in the passage Lee adds, "What
passed for a fence was bits of tree limbs, broomsticks and tool shafts, all
tipped with rusty hammer heads, shovels, axes and grubbing hoes, held on
with pieces of barbed wire." By now it is apparent that the only household
repairs the Ewells make are with things they find at the dump. The image
Lee is trying to form of these people is made very obvious by her use of
details.
The passage also gives quite a bit of insight into Mr.Ewell himself. .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird - Tom Robinson
.... off balance, but it was not from the way he
was standing. His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right,
and hung dead at his side. It ended in a small shrivelled hand, and from
as far away as the balcony I could see that is was no use to him." Tom
Robinson couldn't have done the crime with the evidence provided, but still
racism decided the verdict.
The children just as much as Atticus believed in Tom's innocence. Just
by looking at Tom, they knew he couldn't have done it ""Scout," breathed
Jem. "Scout, look! Reverend, he's crippled!". Jem and Scout had been
brought up by Atticus to believe in fairness to .....
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Revenge In The Crucible And The Scarlet Letter
.... Abigail Williams once had an affair. John was lonely and
in need of human comfort, comfort his wife was unable to give in her dying
state. However when she regained her health, John left Abigail and went
back to his wife. Abigail was furious at his decision; she would love to
get back at the hurt he caused. Abigail found her opening once the witch
trials transpired. She knew that to John Proctor, losing his wife meant
losing his life. Abigail saw this as the way to get him back, so she
screamed “witch” upon Elizabeth, saying “ Proctor. Abigail was willing to
kill a woman just to get back at John Proctor.
Since both of the .....
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The Odyssey: Odysseus
.... He takes on the very
human roles of athlete, warrior, sailor, storyteller, carpenter, beggar,
and lover. He vividly displays human qualities like brutality and boldness,
while being sensitive and shy at the same time. It is these human
qualities that people can relate to. While he is no doubt a hero, Odysseus
is also viewed as a modern man, the pragmatic survivor. He must struggle,
suffer, and deal with the inescapable fate handed down to him from the
great beings atop Mt. Olympus. The average human can relate to Odysseus'
human qualities, while admiring him for the heroic traits they can only
hope to attain, making him so popu .....
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An Analysis Of The Wretched Of The Earth
.... recognition of the colonized's humanity, his
subjecthood, by the colonizer in order to justify his exploitation.
Fanon's next novel, "The Wretched Of The ` ``Earth" views the
colonized world from the perspective of the colonized. Like Foucault's
questioning of a disciplinary society Fanon questions the basic assumptions
of colonialism. He questions whether violence is a tactic that should be
employed to eliminate colonialism. He questions whether native
intellectuals who have adopted western methods of thought and urge slow
decolonization are in fact part of the same technology of control that the
white world employs to exp .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird - Man Versus Society
.... Therefore she tells us how she is getting educated.
Jim was a very active boy, He has manners. He was the son of atticus.
Scott was the daughter and narrator of Atticus. Atticus was a well known
man. He was brave because he shot the dog. He was a lawyer. Calpurnia was
the housekeeper of atticus, always helping out the kids when they needed
them. Boo Radley was given a monster image by the kids. He is one of the
true mocking birds in this story. He said Scott at the end. Tom Robinson,
He was another Mockingbird. He used to help out people. He felt pity for a
white woman. He was charged for rape -- That he never committed .....
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