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Great Expectations - Chapter Summaries
Words: 4553 - Pages: 17.... again; Pip delivers the stolen goods Pip approached a man who was dressed in coarse grey, and had a great iron on his leg, but this was a different man Pip saw the right convict hugging himself and limping. He had the chills and the fever The convict asked Pip if he brought anyone and he said no, and the man believed him The convict asked Pip where the man w/ the bruised face went. Pip pointed and handed him the file Chapter 4 Setting: At home; Christmas dinner we meet Mr. Pumblechook, Mr. Wopsle, and the Hubbles Pip was fearful on his return that there would be a police officer waiting for him a .....
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A Comparison Between The Dysto
Words: 1391 - Pages: 6.... is a rebel and resists the controlling power. In addition, the dystopian environments in which the protagonists dwell are similar. In both worlds, the protagonists have very few luxuries: the main meal consist of very little besides a nameless bowl of tasteless artificial slop. The only available source of alcoholic beverage is, in 1984, a "sickly, oily smell[ing]" Victory Gin, and in The Matrix, an anonymous liquid used for degreasing engines (Orwell 8). The clothing and furniture is equally unappealing, being old, ragged, and looking as if it was salvaged from a junk yard. Moreover, not only do the protagonists have to eat unsatisfact .....
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Gatsby S Sacrifice
Words: 1758 - Pages: 7.... here as an incarnation of man and the divine, "the perfect word entering the imperfect world-- and yet remaining perfect"
(Christensen, 154-155), Gatsby is referred to as "a son of God" because through his invention of Jay Gatsby, James Gatz tried to incarnate his ideal dream with reality. Daisy becomes the embodiment of that dream because she is the personification of his romantic ideals. For him she represents his youth and is the epitomy of beauty. Gatsby, "with the religious conviction peculiar to saints, pursues an ideal, a mystical union, not with God, but with the life embodied in Daisy Fay" (Allen, 104). He becomes disillusioned int .....
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The Color Purple
Words: 1153 - Pages: 5.... the reality was that blacks had to work for whites on whatever terms were available. When using manners and customs to depict the real world of the novel, it is evident we are examining an external world based in a society where the white oppressor governs the oppressed black populace. The economic realities of white land ownership, near-monopoly of technical and business skills and control of financial institutions was in fact the accepted norm (Sowell 48).
When presenting the term fact - we must account for the introduction of a second model, "historical and empirical data" in representing the real world of .
As illustrated in the pa .....
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A Three Generation Comparison Of Discipline
Words: 1763 - Pages: 7.... of misbehavior would you rationalize a spanking?
8. Do you believe physical punishment should be permitted in other environments, such as school, or preserved primarily for parents?
9. Do you feel children today are more or less inapt to responsibility compared to your own generation?
10. Do you feel your opinion on spanking is based on how you were disciplined as a child?
I chose to interview my mom and her father, mainly because I thought they’d show the most character and audacity when answering my questions. I will be the third generation view regarding spanking. My mom was the disciplinarian in our household, and her mom wa .....
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Langauge In Hamlets Soliloquy
Words: 312 - Pages: 2.... hyperbole of 'drown the stage with tears'. This last point he applies to his own situation in the shortline 'Yet I' which forces the actor speaking pause before launching into the self condemnation of the next section.
Here the alliteration of 'muddy, mettled' adds to the impression of confusion with vivid verbs such as 'breaks,' 'plucks'and 'tweaks' supply metaphorical assaults suffered by Hamlet.
In describing claudius, Hamlet uses twowords, 'bloody'and 'bawdy',which sum up the king's evil nature as he is both a murderer and the seducer of Hamlet's mother. The repetition of 'villian' and the assonance of 'remorseless,treacherous,lecherous, .....
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Analyzing Shakespears Sonnet 5
Words: 346 - Pages: 2.... attitudes of Shakespear and Fletcher are also similar. Both are in awe of the power and perseverance of love. They mention things that they think of as extremely powerful and say that love will outlast them; unlike them, love will not even fade. They make love seem to be like a rock that does not decay or move; it is ever-present with the lovers and it is never forgotten.
Both sonnets are Elizabethan sonnets. Their rhyme scheme is a, b, a, b, c, d, c, d, e, f, e, f, g, g. They build up the subject until the last two lines, where they reach the conclusion that love is eternal. Both are in imabic pentameter.
Shakespear uses more word p .....
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A Days Time
Words: 405 - Pages: 2.... only so an hour,”(989) also symbolizes the fleeting time of youth. In the beginning, a flower and youth are filled with vitality, but in a short amount of time the flower will wilt and die, and the youth will be an adult on a passage to death.
The second symbol used by Herrick and Frost is the day: youth is dawn, adulthood is midday, and death is the setting of the sun. From the day man is born, he is dying. In the second stanza, Herrick illustrates the shortness of a day; the higher in the sky the sun gets, the closer to setting it gets. In line 7, “So dawn goes down to day,” (990) Frost also addresses the limited ti .....
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Nicolet Minerals Company And Wisconsin
Words: 1188 - Pages: 5.... Half of the waste would be used to fill the empty mine shaft and the other half would be put in a waste “pond”. The pond would be a ninety foot-tall building that covered almost 355 acres, making it the largest toxic waste dump in Wisconsin history. Even if the mine plan were safe, the pond would only hold the waste for 140 years. After that time the lining would dissolve and set twenty-two million tons of toxic waste into the ground (Gedicks).
Many local individuals and organizations are becoming extremely angry with the mining companies. They are upset because they fear that the Wolf River and the surrounding environment will be da .....
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Jane Eyre
Words: 946 - Pages: 4.... a governess. She gets one reply, from Mrs. Fairfax at Thornfield Hall.
Jane becomes a governess there for Adele a little orphan and ward of Mr. Rochester, the master of the house. Mr. Rochester isn't home and there are strange things going on in the house. Many days pass away. One day when Jane goes out to the village to post a letter, she meets a horseman with his dog.
The horse falls and the man is hurt and Jane helps him on his feet. When she is back home she recognizes the dog and understands that the horseman is Mr. Rochester.
She meets Mr. Rochester many times and they have interesting conversations and she starts to like .....
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