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Ernest Hemingway
Words: 2997 - Pages: 11.... not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always.
Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspe .....
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The Scarlet Letter 2
Words: 401 - Pages: 2.... try to take Pearl away but Hester will not allow them to.
Dimmesdale has also committed adultery with Hester. As a result he is forced to keep this secret deep with in. His punishments are for it to eat him alive and slowly tear away at his heart until he is actually dead. He knew what he did is wrong he just could not tell anyone because he was ashamed of it, but this is not saying that he’s not in love with Hester because that’s why it happened. That is his second punishment being denied the wish of spending the rest of their lives together.
Chillingworth committed the worst sin out of all of them. He wanted to get back at Dimm .....
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The Pearl
Words: 709 - Pages: 3.... that day, while Kino and Juana are fishing in the Gulf, Kino finds an enormous pearl and cries out in joy. He believes will make him rich and enable him to provide security for his family. But Kino discovers otherwise. stirs envy in the villagers, and that night Kino is attacked in his hut by a thief. The following day, he tries to sell to buyers in town, but he is offered only a small amount of money for it. The buyers all work for the same man. They know is worth a fortune but hope to buy it cheaply by pretending that it is worth little.
Kino says he will sell his pearl in the capital city, where he believes he will get a fair pri .....
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Jumping Mouse
Words: 753 - Pages: 3.... don’t accept or understand things because they are out of the ordinary, so they shun it. It happens every day; with racism and conflicts over human sexuality. Most people don’t understand that there is no way to define normal. All around the world things are different, and one needs to be open minded enough to understand it. Now look what being open minded did for the mouse. His willingness to listen and his faith in the frog allowed him to see into the rest of the world, even deeper into his own mind. There is a fine line between being open-minded and being gullible. Both will listen to anything to try to understand it, but .....
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Do Androids Dream Of Electric
Words: 1046 - Pages: 4.... other than earth. A common place to colonize in these times was Mars. A company by the name of the Rosen Association, makes humanoid androids. These androids are made to perform undesirable labor. Occasionally these androids escape and attempt to blend in with human societies. Hence, bounty hunters such as Rick Deckard, are employed by the San Francisco police department. Rick and his wife Iran, are not satisfied with there lives and relationship. They have not achieved what they sought for in life, and it seems they both feel, at least partially, that the other is holding them back.
In the year 2021, the simple possession of a l .....
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A Fantasy Story
Words: 1974 - Pages: 8.... the number of creatures. It looked like the creatures where hostile because they were fighting with themselves and with one another. We turned around and walked the other way to a canyon that we had seen as we landed on the planet. This planet was weird, it was very dry and there looked like there was no source of water because of how dry it was. As we looked over the canyon I told my brother Jack, “Look how deep the canyon is, and how steep.” He replied, “Yea dude, it looks pretty nasty down there. I think we should just go and tell mom and dad that this place it pretty weird and we can’t live here.” I agreed with him for once i .....
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The Romanticism Movement
Words: 219 - Pages: 1.... and forms of classicism, and
rebellion against established social rules and conventions.
Romantic writers usually involve one or more of 7 different ideas
associated with Romanticism in their writings. These ideas are: a profound
love of nature; focus on the self and the individual; stress on emotion and
not reason; fascination with the supernatural, mysterious and gothic;
yearning for the picturesque, the exotic, and the misty past; deep-rooted
idealism; passionate nationalism, or love of country. The stories and poems
of Poe, Irving, Cooper, and Bryant involve these characteristics.
In "The Fall of the House of Usher" an exa .....
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Rose Schneiderman And The Triangle Fire
Words: 3954 - Pages: 15.... the public indifference to the deplorable working conditions and the pleas for safety reform. One irony of the fire was that a massive strike of garment workers had taken place during the winter of 1909-1910. The reason for the strike was grievous working conditions faced by garment workers. The thousands of women and young girls striking were asking for safety and sanitary reforms in the industry's workplaces. The result of the strike had been a shorter workweek equaling 52 hours, minimal increases wages, and some safety reforms. However, the instrument that would have given the workers the power to enforce the promised changes was den .....
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Fire And Ice
Words: 839 - Pages: 4.... to virtually anything within seconds. It could also represent just a violent ending. Either way, it would be nice to have things over with fast, but the intense pain might not make it worth it. For the world to end in ice, seems to present the image of a slower, numbing effect. I feel he uses ice to represent a slow, almost unnoticeable change that eventually causes the destruction of mankind.
Fire, instantaneous combustion of an object. Frost uses fire to represent an ending with incredible speed and unimaginable pain. The quote, "From what I’ve tasted of desire" seems to represent the tendency of people t .....
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The Old Man And The Sea- From
Words: 906 - Pages: 4.... in the ocean” (29.) It was that the ocean was just like him, lonely and isolated. It was a comforting thought that these animals were always there with him, as if they were guiding him throughout his quest. These fish were companions to Santiago, they made him feel as if there was always someone there, always watching. He watched the flying fish burst out again and again and the ineffectual movements of the bird. “That school has gotten away from me, he thought. They are moving too fast and too far. But perhaps I will pick up a stray and perhaps my big fish is around them. My big fish must be somewhere” (34- .....
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