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Candide
Words: 1098 - Pages: 4.... Baron's daughter, Cunegonde. Devastated by the separation from Cunegonde, his true love, sets out to different places in the hope of finding her and achieving total happiness. On his journey, he faces a number of misfortunes, among them being tortured during army training, yet he continues to believe that there is a "cause and effect" for everything. is reunited with Cunegonde, and regains a life of prosperity, but soon all is taken away, including his beloved Cunegonde. He travels on, and years later he finds her again, but she is now fat and ugly. His wealth is all gone and so is his love for the Baron's daughter. Throughout , we see h .....
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Elli 2
Words: 950 - Pages: 4.... the German soldier due to her beautiful hair as well as when she admitted that "If mother were to died, I won't be able to maintain my will to survive".
Without Ellis continual enthusiasm towards the observance of Jewish festivals, she would have had absolutely nothing to look forward to and in-turn it would have eventuated in a loss of faith and maybe even death. Without a doubt, this characteristic of hers was imperative for her survival. Elli and some fellow room- mates, went to great lengths to create an atmosphere which was even remotely related to Chanukah. A look out person was assigned in the room as well as one outside the corrido .....
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A Description Of Winter
Words: 288 - Pages: 2.... gone. Dirt covers
the wet snow that lays uneven over the yard, or piled on the side of the driveway.
Yet, there are the days of magic, when fresh, fluffy snow bursts through the
clouds and surrounds everything. The flakes lightly touch your face, attaching to your
lashes and tickling your nose. The snow covers the dirt, and piles upon the ground. The
bare driveway made of dirt and rocks is covered with a blanket of cold, smooth white.
These fluffy flakes grasp onto the branches of the bare trees, giving them back their
beauty. This surrounding snow brings silence, enchantment and wonder with it. One
stands outside in awe, head lifted .....
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The Tempest
Words: 1036 - Pages: 4.... North-east, which swelling, and roaring as it were by fits, some houres with more violence than others, at length did beate all light from heaven; which like an hell of darkenesse turned blacke upon us, so much the more fuller of horror." The "Sea Adventure" was rebuilt on the island, which was not as menacing as the storm itself, and nearly a year later the ship rejoined the fleet in Virginia. By many, this was deemed a miracle.
Some believe it was this shipwreck that prompted Shakespeare to write this political, yet comic play which involves usurpation, mockery, love, reconciliation and forgiveness.
It all starts with Prosper .....
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Elizabeth Bishop
Words: 535 - Pages: 2.... American poets of this century. One reason it's taken so long may be Bishop's low profile: she lived in Brazil for almost half her productive life, published a slim new book of poems only once a decade, disliked giving public readings, and participated in none of the "movements" of her time. Bishop's masterly descriptive powers were the energy she invested in an attempt to found a poetry not on what had happened to its author, but on what its author saw and felt and shared with others in the present, whether what was shared was a set of friends, a series of real or imagined travels, books read, or sights seen. Bishop, besides being an awar .....
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The Sanctity Of Oaths In Medea
Words: 367 - Pages: 2.... his children for the new bride” (85-88). The Tutor feels that Jason’s leaving Medea is only a part of life, as “Old ties give place to new ones”. Jason "No longer has a feeling” for his family with Medea, so he leaves her to marry the princess who will bring him greater power (76-77).
Medea is outraged that she sacrificed so much to help Jason, only to have him revoke his pledge to her for his own selfish gain. She asks him whether he thinks the gods whose names he swore by have ceased to rule, thereby allowing him to break his promise to her. Medea vows to avenge her suffering by destroying Jason’s .....
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Alicia My Story, Book Summary
Words: 1345 - Pages: 5.... things at the marketplace, and even there, Jews were
forbidden. Alicia went anyway and sold what she could for food and money.
One day her brother Bunio disappeared from the ghetto. Alicia and her family
found out later that he had been taken to a work camp, but that they could send food
packages to him. Shortly after this, Alicia was taken into custody by German officials and
put on a train to another work camp. Alicia managed to escape from this train by jumping
through a small window. She found her way to a river which led her back to the ghetto.
By this time several people in the ghetto had been feeling the effects of the i .....
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Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Words: 892 - Pages: 4.... the store and told Kaleb Wallace that Miz Logan failed him on purpose and that she was destroying school property.
“...I got fired...Harlen Granger came to the school with Kaleb Wallace and one of the school board members. Somebody told them about those books I’d pasted over...but that was only an excuse.” (Pg 151)
This highlights some of the themes by TJ’s total lack of loyalty and personal integrity.
One of TJ’s biggest mistakes in the book is befriending two white boys, R.W. and Melvin Simms (Jeremy’s brothers). He thinks they are his friends and he doesn’t know that they are just using h .....
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John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans
Words: 901 - Pages: 4.... in which people can be affected by sound reasoning. He is very honorable but he still is not prepared for the corruption in the world. He can’t believe that anyone would take action without reasoning the effects that could take place. Brutus can’t see motives that are less noble then is own, “Well, Brutus, though art noble; yet I see thy honorable mettle may be wrought from that it is disposed; therefore it is meet tat noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so from that cannot be seduced?” Brutus makes two very grave mistakes because of his high principles, he lets Antony live and worse yet he lets him sp .....
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Great Gatsby 10
Words: 1425 - Pages: 6.... failed as a manufacturer of wicker furniture in St. Paul, and he became a salesman for Procter & Gamble in upstate New York. After he was dismissed in 1908, when his son was twelve, the family returned to St. Paul and lived comfortably on Mollie Fitzgerald's inheritance. Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy; his first writing to appear in print was a detective story in the school newspaper when he was thirteen.
From St. Paul Academy Fitzgerald went on to a higher education at Princeton University.
At Princeton, Fitzgerald neglected his studies for his literary apprenticeship. He wrote the scripts and lyrics for the Princeton Triangle C .....
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