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“William’s Wife”
Words: 521 - Pages: 2.... hair, an aquiline nose and thin lips. He was of smart stature, very thin and stooped slightly. He was beastly, cold inside and hellish. He was much older then Mary and he didn’t love her and during their marriage he always had a lover.
The story begins with the description of Mary’s family. When she was turning 15, she had to get married with Prince of Orange-William, and had left her family, moving to Hague. Mary wasn’t happy with her husband, she was afraid of him, their relationship didn’t include any trust and understanding, and she always felt unloved. Her sister and stepmother came to visit her very often and the father also. .....
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A Farewell To Arms
Words: 572 - Pages: 3.... with Rinaldi to meet her. When they first meet, Catherine speaks of her finance killed in war. Frederick starts going to visit Catherine everyday. Frederick is not in love with Catherine, but he wants to have an affair with her. He tries to kiss her, but she slaps him. Frederick has to go to war so she gives him Saint Anthony on a necklace. While fighting, Frederick gets wounded very badly. Rinaldi and the priest visit him at the hospital. Catherine visits him later and they have an affair in the hospital room. After this Frederick realizes that he is really, truely in love with her; that he isn't just attacted to her physically anymore. C .....
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The Flies: Ideal Of Authority
Words: 849 - Pages: 4.... govern a person’s free will.
In the beginning of the play, Electra, daughter of Clytemnestra and the late Agamemnon, is introduced. At this point, Electra is leading a life of servitude, brought about by the death of her father, and the acquired power of gisthus. Electra has many dreams and wishes that she is unable to fulfill due to her low status in society. One of these dreams includes the reappearance of her brother Orestes, who disappeared from the city and their father was killed. Orestes does in fact return to Argos, and at one point offers to take Electra and leave town, yet Electra refuses to go. Possibly, Electra h .....
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The Great Gatsby: Moral Decline Through The Interpersonal Relationships
Words: 408 - Pages: 2.... from Gatsby's and therefore more attractive
because it is out of reach so he changes himself. (Fitzgerald, -page 54)
Myrtle and Gatsby both want to be part of the same elite crowd. They play a
reflection of each other in the book by wanting the same thing but they
have different methods of achieving it. Gatsby wants Daisy, and Myrtle just
wants to be higher in society. Gatsby plays the god-like character in this
book so his means are good but both him and Myrtle do bad things to get
higher in a crowd that will never take them in. To make themselves appear
better to the other crowd, they lose some of the moral fiber that was there
to begi .....
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Hank Morgan's Use Of Technology In King Arthur's Camelot
Words: 618 - Pages: 3.... Arthur witnessed this and believed Morgan so they let him
free and from then on Morgan became King Arthur's sidekick.
The first use of technology was when people came to see the great
magician known as Morgan. Hank told the people he was going to blow up
Merlin's tower. When Morgan did this he used dynamite and the people stood
in awe.
As soon as Hank got his power back from blowing Merlin's tower, he
developed a patents office, iron missionaries, and steel missionaries.
During this time he also created a teacher factory, Sunday Schools, Grade
Schools, variety of Protestant Congregations, mines, Branch Schools, Naval
Academies, Military .....
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Deliverance
Words: 1390 - Pages: 6.... thoughts. Then
there is Bobby. Most men do not want to be linked with Bobby because he can not
live without help from civilization. Even though these characters posses many
of the same traits, their main differences are in their ability to survive life.
They also have different views on life. Lewis sees life as a game that you must
constantly challenge if you are to survive. Drew sees life as a struggle that
should never be challenged. Then there is Bobby who sees life as something he
does not have to worry about because their will always be someone their to help
him through it. All three of these characters possess traits that can b .....
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Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" And His Life
Words: 967 - Pages: 4.... he was 19 Hemingway enlisted in the army. He was rejected due
to a defective left eye. He then turned to the Red Cross in which he
became a second lieutenant. The Red Cross brought him to the front lines
of the war in Italy. It was here where he saw many disturbing sights which
probably had a hand in shaping his character.
After extensive injuries from the war, Hemingway returned unhappily
to Oak Park. The impression left on him by his participation in the war
had greatly changed him. He began living at home again but refused to get
a job, even when his mother ordered him to. Soon she kicked him out and he
moved to Chicago. .....
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Famous Mathematicians: A Book Review
Words: 825 - Pages: 3.... figures, such as rectangles and triangles, in a book called "On the Division of Figures." Euclid's name will be known throughout mathematical history because of his work on the Elements, which has been and will continue to be an important part of mathematics.
Archimedes was born in Syracuse in 287 BC and is thought of as the greatest mathematician, engineer, and physicist of ancient times. He was often asked by King Hieron to solve problems or assist in the safekeeping of Syracuse by developing different defense mechanisms. His mathematical works are concerned with many topics including plane geometry, cylinders, solid geometry, .....
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Lord Of The Flies: A Symbolic Microcosm Of Society
Words: 1923 - Pages: 7.... basic human need to be gratified. In much the
same way, Golding's portrayal of a hunt as a rape, with the boys ravenously
jumping atop the pig and brutalizing it, alludes to Freud's basis of the
pleasure drive in the libido, the term serving a double Lntendre in its
psychodynamic and physically sensual sense.
Jack's unwillingness to acknowledge the conch as the source of centrality
on the island and Ralph as the seat of power is consistent with the
portrayal of his particular self-importance. Freud also linked the id to
what he called the destructive drive, the aggressiveness of self-ruin.
Jack's antithetical lack of compassion for nature .....
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King Solomons Mines
Words: 1257 - Pages: 5.... the rest of the world to nothing more than a means to meet their desires. And with these precepts in mind, Haggard creates a fantastical tale, taking heed of what is socially acceptable and what is not, all the while maintaining western superiority over the rest of the world.
“The fact of the matter is, that I thought that the best plan would be to tell the story in a plain straightforward manner…I cannot help thinking that simple things are always the most impressive, books are easier to understand when they are written in plain language, though I have perhaps no right to set up an opinion on such a matter.” (Haggar .....
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