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The Influences Parents Have On
Words: 974 - Pages: 4.... very influential on the mental growth of their children.
Parents can influence how their children behave, feel, and act towards the outside world. If a child is brought up with hatred, anger and even violence, they can learn to view the world in a highly negative way, by being dangerous and prejudice towards others. However if a child is brought up with caring and nourishment, they can learn to see the world from all different points of views and angles. Atticus raises his children with love and care, and teaches them to consider all angles of a situation before they judge someone; "You never really understand a person until you consider .....
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Exiles
Words: 767 - Pages: 3.... had broken with a recently established tradition and on leaving school in 1927 didn't go into the sheds. She lied to me though when, at about the age of eight, I asked her what she'd done, and she said she'd worked in an office, done clerical work.
Steedman then goes on to say how she had sought out and verified that this lie was true:
. . .I talked to my grandmother and she, puzzled, told me that Edna had never worked in any office, had in fact been apprenticed to a dry-cleaning firm that did tailoring and mending.
Steedman later on sought additional opportunities to reveal her mother's evasion of the truth. From the top of page 650: .....
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The Character Of Macbeth
Words: 1826 - Pages: 7.... and his evident joy in
it is traceable in art to the natural pleasure which
accompanies the explosive expenditure of prodigious physical
energy and the euphoria which follows. He also rejoices no
doubt in the success which crowns his efforts in battle - and
so on. He may even conceived of the proper motive which
should energize back of his great deed:
The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself.
But while he destroys the king's enemies, such motives work
but dimly at best and are obscured in his consciousness by
more vigorous urges. In the main, as we have said, his nature
violently demands rewards: he fights valiantly .....
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Heart Of Darkness - Colonization
Words: 1849 - Pages: 7.... Two of the most significant works in this area are Joseph Conrad’s "Heart of Darkness" and Jonathan Swift’s "A Modest Proposal." Although these pieces of literature both criticize colonization, they have different themes. The theme of "A Modest Proposal" could be described as the negative effects of colonization on the colonized, while the central idea in "Heart of Darkness" is the negative effects of colonization on both the colonized and the colonizers. The differences in these themes are significant to the strategies used by the authors to explore the adverse effects of colonization. Swift makes great use of irony and imagery, .....
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The Picture
Words: 4741 - Pages: 18.... moments of pain when you are set aside,
understandable though it may be, for things important in her life. That
leads to a rebirth of fantasizing that you perfected in your youth, where
she is an innocent passive party to your feasts of imagination. Then, the
final straw is when the fantasy becomes reality. And as your Love and her
lover scale those endless heights, sadly, you, with tear-misted eyes are
left far below, alone, with that wilted imperfect image clutched in your
hands.
The one I love has always, well, I suppose the term is "humored" me. I
have nothing to offer her that would mean anything to her, except my love,
an exce .....
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Macbeth Character Analysis Of
Words: 315 - Pages: 2.... The superego is the selfless force inside that does things
for others, and sometimes shows guilt. One’s conscience is them feeling their superego inside. Her superego is almost non-existent, but it is evident at one point in the play. The only time that it is
shown is when she can’t actually kill King Duncan herself because he looks too much like her father. She said, “Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it.”
The fact that Lady MacBeth does not have a balance eventually leads to her downfall. The id, ego, and superego are supposed to be at balance in a peron, but in Lady MacBeth’s case, t .....
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Great Gatsby - Morals
Words: 900 - Pages: 4.... She enters the affair with Tom, hoping to adopt his way of life and be accepted into his class to escape from her own. Her class is that of the middle class. Her husband, Wilson, owns a gas station, making an honest living and trying his best to succeed in a world where everything revolves around material possessions. With her involvement in Tom's class, she only becomes vulgar and corrupt like the rich. She loses all sense of morality by hurting others in her futile attempt to join the ranks of Tom's social class. In doing so, she is leaving behind her husband who loves her. Myrtle believes he is no longer good enough for her. "'I married h .....
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Ethan Frome
Words: 892 - Pages: 4.... her by boasting his skill at sledding, and how he could coast down the dangerous hill and miss the big elm tree that was in the path right around a sharp bend. Mattie fell in love with Ethan too, after a picnic on a summer afternoon.
One day, Zeena left Starkfield to see a new doctor in Bettsbridge. Her trip would keep her over night so Ethan and Mattie had the night alone together. Zeena asked Ethan to take her down to the Flats to catch the train, but Ethan said that Jotham Powel would have to do it because he had to drive a bunch of lumber over to Mr. Hale’s and collect the cash for it. But he knew he was not going to be paid for .....
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Global Tales - Stories From Many Cultures
Words: 1631 - Pages: 6.... between the lines to catch the joke. He is very descriptive in his writing and his world comes alive with the mood through the informative and colourful description, the characteristics and the internal thinkings of the characters, the suspense and the dialogues used. I especially admire the way he brings the story to a close, not too dramatic, yet satisfactory. Some writers often leave an unfinished ending where it is up to the reader to decide, treating this as their style and adding a sense of mystery to the story. However, these are sometimes the most horrible kind of ending, not only irritating, but also annoying. The ending is the e .....
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Symbolism In Dreams, From The
Words: 1311 - Pages: 5.... lake. “There was a howling wind as the moon rose and it’s powers pulled at the still waters of the lake.”(Anaya 120) The wind here is used to represent forces of disturbance caused by nuclear testing taking place south of the town, just as wind kicks up dust and blurs the view. Another element of storms is thunder and lightning. In Tony’s dream he sees, “.....a flash of lightning struck and out of the thunder a dark figure stepped forth. It was Ultima......I sought more answers, but she was gone, evaporated into a loud noise.”(Anaya 71) Lightning can offer glimpses of illumination, but then darkness re .....
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