“All Summer In A Day”: Selfish And Hateful Of The Human Race
.... wants to go back to her former life on Earth. Before the sun comes out, the teacher leaves and the children lock Margot in a closet. When the sun comes out, they forget about Margot and go outside to play for the one hour they can spend in the sun. When the sun leaves and the rain returns, they come back inside and remember Margot is still in the closet. They let her out and she leaves in silence.
Margot is a nine-year-old girl who lived in Ohio. When she was four years old her family decided to move to Venus. She hates living there and won’t associate with any of the other children. Margot is a round and static character. .....
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Eveline: Fear Of Happiness
.... from happiness and respect. With all the aspects Eveline feels respect in unattainable.
Eveline, a woman who wants only to please her family, is unhappy with her life, however she promised her mother she would keep the family together. “Strange that it should come that very night to remind her of the very promise to her mother, her promise to keep the home together as long as she could.” Eveline struggles to keep the family together, although her father is an alcoholic and abuses her. She finds comfort in the simple task of dusting her house everyday. “Her time was running out but she continued to sit by the window, leani .....
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Staples' “Just Walk On By”: Prejudice And Intimidation
.... Don’t get me wrong, my Grandfather was never violent toward black people (they actually scared him) and he was never a “white supremacist,” but words were constantly said.
My teenage years changed how I viewed the world. I can wholeheartedly agree with the Staples essay when in it he describes what makes a thug. My family and I had moved into a different neighborhood by the time I started high school. This fact proved very helpful in aiding me to pick out the thugs of the world. The thugs I grew up near were known as “power junkies.” A power junky is a person who lives for the thrill of having power over another human be .....
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A Doll's House And Tess Of The D'Urbevilles
.... it brings him honor. Torvald is viewed as a true hypocrite. Torvald also believes the most important thing is to "save the . . . appearance."(65)
He follows his mind, only interested in what is best for society. Ibsen illustrates him as a truly weak human. In contrast to Ibsen, Hardy takes an intellectually free thinker, Angel, who shows a very close minded perspective on events instead of opening himself to his true inner feelings. When Angel’s bride reveals to him that she has committed the sin of pre-marital sex as did Angel, he begins to reveal to the reader his ignorance. In her sin, "forgiveness does not apply."(244) Ange .....
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Iliad/Odyssey Summary
.... fought the Trojans, they realized they were no match, and knew that without godlike Achilles, they would be defeated. So Agamemnon’s advisers counseled him to apologize to Achilles. Gifts of land, gold, and women were offered to Achilles but he refused. He believed he was dishonored to greatly to rejoin the Greeks.
Achilles’ friend Patroclus convinced Achilles to let him wear his armor and lead the Myrmidons into battle. The armor intimidated the Trojans because they thought it was godlike Achilles they were fighting. Patroclus and the Greeks were able to push the Trojans away from the Greek ships they were planning on burn .....
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Odysseus? A Hero?
.... decisions.
Odysseus endangered his men. Odysseus said, "Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman… no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends" (Homer 900). Refusing to ignore the Cyclops, showed how Odysseus didn’t care about possible dangers that would affect his men. As a leader, Odysseus should have considered what may be good for his men. Odysseus said to his men, "I’ll make the crossing… with my own company…for they be wild savages…" (Homer 898). Even though Odysseus knew that there would be possible dangers, he still made the crossing. I’ve never known of a hero who endangered their own men. Knowing that danger was ahea .....
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Beowulf: What Makes A Hero?
.... able to succeed. All Beowulf needed was his “fiendish strength” (544) to slay the demon. He escaped this fight and the one with Grendel’s mother with “no harm to his body”(998). Realistically, no hero is able to fight without getting wounded. Beowulf eventually gets eternally wounded while fighting the dragon. Nevertheless, during the fight, he was still able to swing a sword “with all his might”(1605). Using his inner-strength, he slayed the beast and returned home a hero. Beowulf possessed a great deal of strength, which would make him an ideal Anglo Saxon hero.
Beowulf was loyal to God, which was an admirable quality to the A .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Theme Of Nature In His Works
.... but in the end they end up equal. In the poem Water, Emerson compared water to life, “Well used, it decketh joy,... Ill used it will destroy,...” (lines 7 and 9). Water well used, like rain, nourishing a farmer’s crop would bring joy, a flash flood would destroy his crop and cause great sadness. The same goes for human beings, if someone spends time doing nice things for pe .....
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The Use Of Characters By Hawthorne And O'Connor To Teach Morality
.... was a real fear, to think that they would be corrupted by these demonic beings and they would be kept from heaven.
Goodman Brown was a church going man and most people would have thought him to be good. He came from a lineage of good Christian people, who the old stranger says, “I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem: and it was I that brought your father a pitch-pine knot, kindled at my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian village”. This statement represents what it meant to be a good Christian person at the time. Persecution was normal to this societ .....
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Thoreau's View Of Civil Disobedience
.... that you could be one with God by tapping into nature and its oversoul (which ran through all of life and we could learn from it to better ourselves). While our government has committed wrongs in the past, it is the individuals job to correct those wrongs and the State needs to respect those individuals' rights. Thoreau spoke of the Mexican war and slavery, not homosexuality. Thoreau's use of morality was based on equal treatment of people (so attacks on homosexuals would be seen as negative by Thoreau); however, morality would also say (according to word of God), that homosexuality is wrong. Thoreau would probably agree wi .....
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Gender Testing In The Odyssey
.... Penelope is portrayed as a strong, smart, cunning, faithful, and virtuous woman. Odysseus and she are very much alike in this way. He is a well-respected, honorable “hero” admired for his strength and courage. Both Penelope and Odysseus are heroes in their devotion to each other and in their smart and cunning ways of finding their way back together. Odysseus had to overcome many trials and tribulations to return home to her. His wit is shown in Book 9 when he tricks the Cyclops by saying his name is Nobody and when he comes up with the plan to get himself and his crew out of the cave by hiding within the rams. This can .....
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The Influence Of Thoreau On Gandhi And Martin Luther King Jr.
.... different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” Thoreau always did march to a different drummer. “The Con-cord community, already scandalized by Thoreau’s unconven-tional way of life, ridiculed his lack of ambition and material success. However, Thoreau flourished with Emerson as his mentor. He kept an extensive journal and became an avid reader of Hindu scripture.” (Twentieth p346) Gandhi would later say that he “received back from America what was fundamentally the philosophy of India after it had been distilled and crystallized in the mind of Thoreau.” (Miller 238-239)
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