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High Fidelity
Words: 961 - Pages: 4.... upon aspects of his life, such as loneliness, abandonment and anger. The title, which is repeated throughout the song, relates strongly to Rob due to the fact that it contains the word “cross” in it. Having just broken up with his girlfriend, coming to grips with his fear of commitment and finding unhappiness with his occupation, Rob has just crossed many boundaries in his life. He has taken on a sense of depression, which leads him to resort to anger all the time. The word “cross” in the title can also relate to Rob’s anger. He is constantly “cross” with his coworkers: If I have to listen to one more word of his useless, .....
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Night
Words: 839 - Pages: 4.... nonbelievers or people that were not know well. If you would have at least taken a couple minutes or even in hour to hear a these people had say, then maybe you would have realized, that these girls are just lying. Have you even taken into consideration how many children's mothers will hang? Or how much pain the families of the victims will have to endur? I'm telling you as a friend and a villager, Please stop all these murders! These people do not have to die. I know that in some of these cases the evidence was leading towards witch craft, and I agree that those girls were very believable, but if you would have looked very closely, y .....
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Kennewick Man
Words: 1232 - Pages: 5.... century artifacts were recovered. The Archaeological Resources Protection Act required Chatters to obtain a permit to excavate on federal land, so before he could go back to excavate he had to get a permit from the Army Core of Engineers (Lee). After receiving his permit he returned to the site several times and recovered a near complete skeleton. At first the nineteenth century artifacts led him to believe that the skeleton was from the same time period, but then he noticed that the bones were discolored and there was soil adhering to them. This indicated that they were not as recent as the late nineteenth century (Slayman).
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A Farewell To Arms
Words: 795 - Pages: 3.... from from his lengthy stay in the hospital he returns to front. When the two part it is very rainy, cloudy, and gloomy. Hemingway makes good use of weather in pursuit of verisimilitude. There is so much violence and death in the war Fredrick no longer wants to be a apart of it and deserts the army to return to Catherine. When they reunite the rain stops and there is light. They then escape to Switzerland by boat and begin to live happily. When Catherine goes into labor there is complications. The baby dies and later Catherine dies from hemorrhaging. What is love? Love is difficult to explain but, it involves a deep affection for a person or .....
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The Metamorphosis: Shape And Form
Words: 1218 - Pages: 5.... welfare. At first he was the
only working member of the family, and his job was very important; the whole
future of Gregor and his family depended on it (p.84). For so long he wanted
to quit his work, because he wasn't happy with it. But he said to himself, "
Besides, I have to provide for my parents and my sister. (pp. 82-83)." He felt
that his family was too dependent of him. When Gregor wouldnt let anyone in his
room in fear that they would be horrified by his condition, he thought that his
family was harassing him because he was in danger of losing his job, and
because the chief would begin harassing his parents again for the old .....
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The Great Gatsby 3
Words: 786 - Pages: 3.... his life, and why he fails to live out his American dream.
Willy Loman has lived his life in a quest for the American dream. Harold Clurman states that, "Death of a Salesman is a challenge to the American dream."
"The American dream has become distorted to the dream of business success." Willy Loman is looking for an easy way to become rich and successful. Conventionally the American dream meant freedom and prosperity for everyone and Willy is a firm believer of this. But working hard could not get him everything that he wanted or thought he deserved. He seems to measure himself as well as others by the material things they own. Un .....
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The Theme Of Brave New World
Words: 659 - Pages: 3.... much of their rejection from the reservation comes to light. It apparently started with Linda having relations with many of the native men and then being beaten by native women for doing so. This is one reason for John's dislike of his mother and shows one of the stronger conflicts between the old and new worlds. Another time where the conflict of promiscuity comes up is between John and Lenina who tries to have relations with John. Though John is attracted is to her he strictly believes that marriage must come before sex and when he finally gets the nerve up to suggest such a proposition to Lenina she is appalled and laughs at .....
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Beowulf
Words: 1834 - Pages: 7.... of the world around them. Although the stories themselves may differ considerably from region to region, the basic underlying theme has always been identical. With the coming into being of written word, these stories could now be put down for people to read and serve as a reminder of their folklore. Not only to them, but to future people who come to read these documents. We have been lucky in the fact that over the last few hundred years, we have recovered many works from all over the world, dating back through years that had been long forgotten to many of us. In a great many of these works we have come into contact with many tale .....
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Madame Bovary 2
Words: 2087 - Pages: 8.... 1844, Flaubert was struck with a then strange illness, that was later assumed to be related to epilepsy, which was a much feared, mysterious illness considered to be a connected to a divine curse.(1)
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For health reasons, he gladly retired to his family's home in Le
Croisset, France. He happily took the opportunity to give up law and dedicate most of his time to his writing.(2)
Flaubert was frequently characterized by his sullen attitude and pessimism, which had been caused by his illness. He possessed deep hatred and contempt for middle-class society, feelings that originated from his childhood experiences. He was often b .....
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Antigone 2
Words: 622 - Pages: 3.... learns that one of the brothers, Polynices, has been left out to die without a proper burial. At this time the reader begins to feel pity for the two sisters. They have lost their father and their two brothers all at the same time.
Later in the conversation the reader learns that Antigone has a plan to bury here brother Polynices and that she wants Ismene to help her. Ismene is scared to do this because the new king, Creon, has issued a decree that says that any person that attempts to bury the body will be sentenced to death. The fact that Antigone is going to attempt to bury the body creates fear in the reader. They are fearful as t .....
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