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Moll Flanders
Words: 793 - Pages: 3.... life as a prostitute. She states on page 138:
"Well, let her life have been the way it would then,
it was certain that my life was very uneasy to me; for
I liv'd, as I have said, but in the worst sort of whoredom,
and as I cou'd expect no Good of it, so really no good issue
came and all my seeming prosperity wore off and ended in misery
and destruction;..."
Whenever Moll would have kids she would sell them or give them away. Moll saw children as a biprouduct of having sex. The choice of going to whoredom, however, was only because she felt the need to survive. Most animals have this instinct to survive. Whene .....
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Zane Grey
Words: 1468 - Pages: 6.... of the "rite of passage".
This idea involves an eastern person, usually of a higher class moving to
the west, for whatever reason (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 173).
Gradually the character comes to be one with their surroundings and is able
to cope with the problems the west posses. They gain inner peace and
become one with nature. In the novel The Vanishing American Marian is an
eastern girl who moves out west to be with her true love Nophie. Nophie is
an Indian she met and fell in love with. At first Marian struggles with
the harsh conditions and hot weather. She almost gives up but continues to
push on. Gradually she become .....
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Ernist Hemingway
Words: 1476 - Pages: 6.... he would like to have salt on. This part of the story tells of a cold and harsh sea, that is, one that has value and mystery as well as death and danger. It has commercial value as well as the population of life in it. It is dark and treacherous though, and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'. This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin, his helper, co .....
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Kafka's Metamorphosis: Existentialism
Words: 409 - Pages: 2.... he is
also alienating himself from society. Gregor goes on many trips for his
job, and instead of going out to meet people, he stays at the motel and
does nothing. For this reason Gregor doesn't have a friend or a girlfriend
that he can find support in. He follows the same routine everyday of his
life and fails to look ahead into the future. By secluding himself like
this, Gregor's life becomes like the life of a cockroach. It is for this
reason that he transforms into this creature.
Gregor's life as a cockroach is no different than his life as a
human. Whenever Gregor tries to communicate with someone, the only thing
that comes out o .....
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Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six
Words: 1476 - Pages: 6.... character introduced, Clark's wife Sandy and his daughter Patsy, who is married to Ding. Patsy is pregnant. The other main character is Dmitriy Arkadeyevich Popov, he is an ex-KGB agent who is now working as a ‘special consultant'. He will become very important later on in the book.
Clark is the commander and in charge of starting a new European anti-terrorist group called Rainbow Six. Rainbow Six is split into two teams; Team 1 and Team 2. These teams are the best there is. They are based in Hereford, England, but any European country can call on them at any time. They run 3 miles in 20 minutes every morning at 6:00 am. Only one tea .....
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How Napoleon Obtains And Maint
Words: 2369 - Pages: 9.... to convey simply the message of the Russian Revolution. Orwell is also trying to convey a warning about propaganda, and a warning about absolute power through the ways in which Napoleon obtained and maintained power.
Napoleon obtains power primarily by elimination. He believes that if he eliminates all the people standing in between him and ultimate domination, then he can govern the animals in any way that he sees fit. His first step of eliminating is to divide the animals into two classes. Napoleon, along with the other pigs, became of a privileged class, while the rest of the animals were inferior. This division of the animals is fir .....
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Civil Disobedience
Words: 493 - Pages: 2.... arrest publicized enough for someone to pay his taxes to release him from jail. Civil disobedient acts need to be publicized to show the participant is against the political system. Thoreau showed he was against paying taxes by wanting to stay in jail and arguing that he should be the only person to pay his own taxes. This indicates he wanted his disobedience justified.
For acts of to be justified, those acts need to be acts of protest. Thoreau desired a change in the law and the political system, so he attempted to change a flaw in the governmental law. He demanded to stay arrested and protest in hopes of a change in the law. He was not .....
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The Pearl Greed And Its Abunda
Words: 775 - Pages: 3.... lifestyle, unfortunately for them. Kino’s destiny was much demoralizing, in the actuality that his whole life was contaminated by the meager existence of the treasure.
The decease of his son, and the tension between Juana, his wife, and him, triggered Kino’s breakdown. Because Kino was exceedingly possessed by the prosperity the pearl might possibly produce for him, he even assaulted Juana, as a result of her recognizing that the pearl and the greed it caused was gradually diminishing Kino and her community’s lucidness. Although Kino assumed that selling the pearl would improve his family’s level of affluence; .....
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Black Rain
Words: 1357 - Pages: 5.... bomb.” ( 282)
The importance of the name of the bomb may seem ineffectual, but he seems to dwell on finding out what caused this type of destruction. Something else that Mr. Shizuma wants to do is remember every little detail about what happens to everything from what angle the house was on after the bomb to what his wife cooked for dinner with the food rationing. He even likes to write how people cured themselves of radiation sickness and what the burns and other injuries look and act like. These things are like myself in the fact that he does not like to forget what things are like, wants to see first hand what the effects are, a .....
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To His Coy Mistress
Words: 435 - Pages: 2.... frustrated the speaker’s arguments become more graphic and less genteel as the poem progresses, as he appears to become increasingly desperate. “…then worms shall try that long preserved virginity.” This man is trying to convince her that if she were to die a virgin, her virginity would go to the worms. The point he is trying to make here is that why should she wait to have sex. That she should give it up to him since saving it could end up a waste.
At the end of the poem he tries to reason with her. Being still alive and young, the speaker is saying that they should put all their feeling and love together, to strengthen .....
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