Images From The Dhammapada
.... mind,
As he continually seeks more and more
Of life's fleeting pleasures."
Once again the image of water was used, but in a much different
context. Here The Dhammapada refers to water not as drops filling a bucket,
but it shows a more forceful side of water. A raging flood engulfing a
sleepy village. This is a rather violent image think that really
emphasizes the Buddha's teachings; that one should seek wisdom and purity
of character, instead of simple pleasures. The third quotation that I
selected, deals with the search for pleasure and also uses a water
metaphor.
"As rain pours through bad .....
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Critical Review Of 1984 By George Orwell
.... of the controling government.
The government itself was very mysterious and had several parts that were
very suspicious to the main character, Winston, who worked in one part of
the government. It was divided up into four parts. The Ministry of Truth,
where Winston worked, was incharge of education and the arts. The Ministry
of Peace, which was in command of war. The Ministry of plenty, which
controlled economic affairs. And finally the Ministry of Love, which
concerned itself with law and order.
Orwell also uses description of technology to show how the government
controlled it's citizens. He constantly refers to telescreens .....
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King Authur And The Knights Of The Round Table
.... he keeps the lady's scarf. The reason he does this
is obviously for its protective properties. This seems like a good idea,
but this violates his promise to give everything he gets back to the lord
of the manor. It also violates his faith in God's ability to save him from
being decapitated. Sir Gawain isn't as good at following the code of honor
in this story as in the other stories.
The final example I will point out is when he faces the Green
Knight. He is confident that the Green Knight can't kill him, just like he
couldn't kill the Green Knight a year ago. However, he gets impatient with
the Green Knight's childish trick .....
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Sir Launcelot
.... admired, he
ceaselessly fulfilled each aspect of the code. Throughout the book, he
exhibits both honor and loyalty to King Arthur and all his fellow knights.
Courtly love is another part of the code of Chivalry. Courtly love is love
often between one man and another man's wife. By having an affair with
King Arthur's wife, although still abiding by the code of chivalry, his
loyalty was put into question.
Sir Launcelot had one dominant flaw; he was hopelessly in love with
King Arthur's wife. Merlin once prophesied, "Gwynevere is destined to love
Sir Launcelot and he her, and many disasters will result from their love."
Unfort .....
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The Madness Of King George
.... condition. George was taken away to a private dwelling
where Dr. Willis treated him. Dr. Willis has a rather unorthodox method of
treatment, but they are believed to help King George. While George is gone
the Prince tries to take over the throne. William Pitt has the doctor
write encouraging letters updating the King's condition so that the
Parliament doesn't lose hope. Given a certain amount of time to return to
the throne before his son takes over, Dr. Willis continues aggressively
treating King George. While growing impatient the Prince tries to convince
Dr. Willis to write that the King will be unable to return, but .....
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Wright's Black Boy: Intolerance
.... his childhood, and correspondingly, the inhumane
ethnic critique that was intimidating to his innocent intellect. And beyond
reasons, affiliated both interpretations in a rationalized manner by
utilizing the environmental factors as a part of growing up and indirectly
criticized the acrimonious racism.
As an underage individual with an inner-directed influence by means
of the absence of his father and lack of food, it became an interchangeable
outburst of agony. Wright expressed his wound: "As the days slid past the
image of my father became associated with my pangs of hunger, and whenever
I felt hunger I thought of him wit .....
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Flowers For Algernon: Charlie Becoming Smart
.... felt sick the next morning. Frank
did not listen to Charlie. Instead, he spiked Charlie's drink to make him
look like a fool. Charlie did not know this and thought that the drink
just let a funny taste in his mouth. He started tripping over people's
feet and Frank says, "I have not laughed so much after we ditched him at
Muggsy's". Charlie started to blush and Joe called out to one of the other
girls that were there, "What did you do to Charlie? He never acted this way
before". Charlie was embarrassed and he ran out and became extremely sick.
Charlie says, "I guess Frank and Joe were not my real friends after all".
All .....
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The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby Is Set Apart From The Common Man
.... color with
nickel and has a three-noted horn.” (64) It has a “monstrous length with
triumphant hat-boxes, supper-boxes, tool-boxes, and terraced with a
labyrinth of windshields and a green leather conservatory.” (64)
Amidst Gatsby's possessions, he develops his personal self. His
physical self appearance sets him apart form the other characters. His
smile is the type “that comes across four or five times in life. One of
those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it.” (48) He
has a collection of tailored shirts from England. They are described as “
shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel.” .....
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1984
.... divided into three parts. In the first part the
main character and his conflicts with the world he lives in are revealed.
Winston Smith is a bureaucrat who works for the government by altering
history at the Ministry of Truth. He begins to ponder the reason things
are so bad and commits a terrible crime. In the second part, he falls in
love with Julia, and is taken in by a man named O'Brien, a member of the
anti-party society called the Brotherhood. O'Brien turns out to be a true
member of The Inner Party. Winston and Julia are captured and hauled off
to the Ministry of Love (Minilove in Newspeak). Here, during the final
par .....
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Fiction Analysis Question # 1: Love And Acceptance
.... She Fahning -2-speaks of the fire that burned and scarred
Maggie. She tells us how Maggie is not bright, how she shuffles when she
walks. Comparing her with Dee whose feet vwere always neat-looking, as if
God himself had shaped them." We also learn of Dee's "style" and the way
she awes the other girls at school with it.
The mother in I Stand Here Ironing speaks of Susan, "quick and articulate
and assured, everything in appearance and manner Emily was not." Emily
"thin and dark and foreign-looking at a time when every little girl was
supposed to look or thought she should look a chubby blonde replica of
Shirley Temple." Like .....
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Alice In Wonderland
.... is very well mannered in Victorian ways to the creatures of
Wonderland. Alice shows her good manners when she enters the white rabbits
house and the rabbit tells Alice to go fetch his gloves and fan, "I'd
better take his fan and gloves- that is if I can find them", since Alice is
a guest, uninvited, she follows the owners orders. When Alice runs into
caterpillar she calls him "Sir", here is an excerpt from the book , " I
can't explain myself myself, I'm afraid, Sir", this shows that she respects
the creatures of Wonderland. When Alice enters the Duchesses house and the
Duchess throws the baby to Alice, Alice starts to ta .....
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Animal Farm
.... main animal who got the rebellion started even
though he died before it actually began. Old Major's role compares to
Lenin and Marx whose ideas would spark the communist revolution. Lenin
became the leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their
determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and
Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The
working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal
Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their
work. Old major tells the animals that the source of the problem is man,
they must overthr .....
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