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First Knight And The Ox-Bow Incident
Words: 642 - Pages: 3.... that they wanted to pursue.
Most of them felt that the law was wrong and too slow, so they often decided to
take law into their own hands and form posses. If the majority of the people
believed that a certain person is guilty or not, they would act upon him/her
without a fair trial. Their view of the law was that it "just gets in the way"
and should be abolished all together. The Knights believed that the law was
good and is there for a reason, while the cowboys felt the law was wrong and
took action into their own hands.
The two groups both showed a special friendship for each other, yet their
friendships were based on different .....
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The Mill On The Floss: Summary
Words: 1956 - Pages: 8.... and that Tom's opinion is very
important to Maggie. In the sixth chapter the Tulliver's are getting ready for
the aunts and uncles to arrive. In the seventh chapter the family arrives and
you are introduced to Mrs. Glegg, Mrs. Pullet, Mrs. Deane and Maggie's cousin
Lucy. Mr. Tulliver states his intention to send Tom to school and it is met
with opposition. In the eighth chapter he goes to his brother-in-laws house to
demand the money that he owes him so that he can pay his wife's sister Mrs.
Glegg. In chapter nine you read about the Tullivers going to visit the Pullets.
In the tenth chapter Maggie pushed Lucy in the mud because she i .....
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Willa Cather's "O Pioneers"
Words: 1095 - Pages: 4.... 7 , 1873 in a town west of
Winchester, Virginia.2 In 1884, the Cather's moved their four children to
a town called Red Cloud in Nebraska where they arrived to a place
uninhabited, but with much fortune and hard work ahead of them. 3 In 1890,
Willa attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she gained the
knowledge and creativity to write such beautiful work. In her first works,
Willa's animosity towards Nebraska was relevant in her work. 4 After she
went east in 1896 and became editor of McClure's Magazine and gained
success, her feeling toward Nebraska changed, which was evident in "The
Bohemian Girl," in 1912. 5
When she pu .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Words: 11345 - Pages: 42.... when they were recruits. Now, they are a pleasure. Every soldier is intimately acquainted with his stomach and intestines. "Latrine humor" offers the most succinct expression for joy, indignation, and anger. The men settle down to rest, smoke, and play cards. They do not talk about their narrow survival during their last trip to the front. Kemmerich, one of Paul's classmates and a member of the Second Company, is in the hospital with a thigh wound.
Paul and his classmates' schoolmaster, Kantorek, urged them to enlist as volunteers to prove their patriotism. Joseph Behm did not want to go, but eventually he gave in to Kantorek's unrel .....
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The Black Cat: Deranged Narrator
Words: 736 - Pages: 3.... lead to his
irrational state of mind. His alcoholism was the root of his downfall. While
intoxicated, the narrator mutilated his favourite pet, Pluto, causing the cat to
become terrified of his master. The alienation of his cat gave the narrator
even more cause to become mentally unstable.
The hanging of his cat shows how the narrator has become obsessed with
doing evil things for the sake of their evilness. This evilness is linked to
his alcoholism. The narrator was most-likely in a drunken state when he hung
his cat, which only infuriated his temper. This separation of friends had a
huge effect on the narrator's deadly temper. .....
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Macbeth And Lady Macbeth
Words: 645 - Pages: 3.... fears" (Shakespeare 136) "Are less than horrible imaginings" (Shakespeare 137). Lady Macbeth falls in with Macbeth's plot with greater energy than Macbeth himself. She vows adamantly that, "He that's coming / Must be provided for" (Shakespeare 62-63), implying that Duncan must be killed.
Driven by fear of suspicion by day, and terrible dreams by night, Macbeth becomes completely paranoid with everyone, including Banquo, his right hand man. At this time Macbeth takes control and realizes that he must kill Banquo. He decides that Banquo must die tonight, and says, " Banquo, thy soul's flight, / If it find heaven, must find it out tonight" (S .....
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The Hidden Life Of Dogs: Book Review
Words: 729 - Pages: 3.... very little about dogs and their patterns. After intense observations on
Misha, some ideas were brought up. How did the dog know how to cross a highway
on its own? How did its navigational skills work? How was it that this dog knew
exactly where it was and could travel through different cities without becoming
lost and other dogs couldn't? Continuing on to bringing in other dogs Elizabeth
was studying, she pointed out that some had skills that others did not. Misha
was clearly able to navigate himself but when with another dog, he would become
lost. After careful observation it was seen that the other dog could easily
loose track of where .....
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The Jordan Rules By Sam Smith
Words: 395 - Pages: 2.... the way such as Jordan's inability to get
along with all of the teammates. It is recorded that in one practice
session Bill Cartwright was hit in the face by Micheal Jordan. They were
in a disagreement as to if Micheal distributes the ball to the "bigmen"
enough. Sam Smith also says that Jordan is known throughout the Bull's
organization for not getting along very good with fellow players. Even
with all of the problems inside the club they still looked good on the
court and were good enough to win. The Jordan Rules did a very good job of
describing a whole year of basketball in one book. It had good, in depth,
logs of exactly what .....
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Escaping Harlem
Words: 987 - Pages: 4.... took the time to actually listen to his brother and take him seriously. In the end Sonny’s brother realizes how important the music is. He sees it not as notes and sounds but an expression of their past and his emotions. It becomes a way to celebrate their struggle in an unforgiving world.
The protagonist in the story is Sonny’s brother. He is a dynamic character that learns how important it is to respect other people’s philosophies. “Freedom lurked around us around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us to be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we would.” The narrator uses a limited omn .....
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Stanley Renshons' High Hopes: Clinton's Actions
Words: 2325 - Pages: 9.... distinctive part of his
character. As Renshon states, "Character shapes beliefs, information processing,
and, ultimately, styles of behavior. It is therefore deeply embedded in the
foundation of psychological functioning" (38). The three elements of character
that Renshon states as being the "core" factors of a persons character are:
ambition, character integrity, and relatedness.
Ambition is a strong element is one's character which can be defined as;
a persons achievement and self regard. I tend to disagree with Renshon, when he
states that their is a danger with ambition, it "reinforces their sense of being
special… it .....
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