“All Quiet On The Western Front”: Effects Of War
.... man’s life apart. Paul began to think when he was in the shell-hole with the French soldier. This is significant because he realized that “the Enemy” were just men much like himself, with family, friends and most of all, life This also shows great insight because Paul feels the tremendous guilt for taking a man’s life, and attempts to fight against the idea of war. In war, men, who might otherwise be brothers, fight each other without knowing that the other side is human as well.
The author describes t .....
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“The Prince Of Hate”
.... gargoyles and one of the two had dropped to the ground dead. What they found on the gargoyle was a key that will help there travels to get to Innoruuks inner sanctum. After they took out the other gargoyle they had then moved on to the Castle of Undead. In the castle they had gone around different corridors and found out they were just walking in circles.
The sun was starting to go down and the night was creeping upon the group. It was cold, dark and damp in the castle. The undead were starting to .....
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All Ouiet On The Western Front: What Opinion Of War Does This Book Present
.... leaving those old lives behind for years at a time. They suffer knowing they are in a sense trapped. Paul Baumer says, “Beyond this our life did not extend. And of this nothing remains” (20). The army became the most important thing now. Nothing else counts. Nothing else can count. By enlisting in the army, they chose to give up everyday pleasures. No matter how bad they want out, they’ve made a commitment and must stick to it. It doesn’t mean the soldier’s are treated badly or even that they didn’t .....
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Moby Dick And The Scarlet Letter: Unpardonable Sin
.... sin is, derived, in part, from social influences of the industrialization of society. That the theme of the unpardonable sin conveys feelings and attitudes of a pre-industrial society which are carried by individual members of the same society a hundred years later. This gives the theme of the unpardonable sin personal importance and understanding of the social causes that happened over a lifetime before the effects that still linger.
Reading Hawthorne’s Ethan Brand, Rappaccinni’s Daughter, and Youn .....
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A Room Of One’s Own: Cranial Spelunking
.... operating. Then you would have to take this information and record it. This is no simple task. But someone like Virginia Woolf would have no problem doing this at all. It would simply be a matter of giving her a pen and paper. By placing your stream of thoughts on paper, you can easily explore how the human mind processes information. The flow from one thought to another is like a stream (thus the name). More often than not, visual stimuli are what form the current that directs the stream. This is especi .....
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“Pearl: The Scarlet Letter Endowed With Life”
.... nature, she is a living daily punishment to Hester, and a living conscience for Dimmesdale. Yet, Pearl is the one who saves Hester from death and Dimmesdale from eternal sorrow. It was Pearl who acts as a guardian angel to Hester and Dimmesdale. She both guides them and teaches them the true lessons of life.
In the beginning of The Scarlet Letter, the infant Pearl represents the immoral love affair between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. The whole town recognizes the fact that Hester had com .....
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The Great Gatsby: Characters Show The Deterioration Of The American Dream
.... culture and is very concerned about her appearance making her out to be a superficial character.
James Gatsby shows no hard work yet has gained wealth illegally. Although he has wealth he does not attain anything else. He has no respect, power, or success. Gatsby realized that the life of the higher class requires wealth to become their priority and he realizes that is the only way which will allow him to be with Daisy. When Gatsby fails to reach his dream all he has left to show for is his weal .....
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Broken Wigwag
.... more she is bombarded with new situations and people, the more closed off and confused she becomes. For example, when her sister, Rie, comes to visit from Japan, Satomi sees how maladjusted she is. While sitting at the dinner table at a chic Soho restaurant, Satomi recounts in her mind, “The age I live in, at this place, I was ill at ease. I felt I didn’t belong here at all. I could never act like I was accustomed to this type of demure place like some other people . . . I felt myself starting to h .....
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The Killer Angels
.... The book instills in one's mind what a battle fought during the Civil War was actu-ally like to be apart of for the soldiers.
The setting for the book takes place in Pennsylvania, where the Battle of Gettys-burg is fought. The author provides many detailed maps of both army's positions.
Throughout the book, the reader is shown the pain, difficulty, anguish, and other dilemmas the armies face leading up to the final confrontation. In the beginning of the book we learn about the North from a spy for th .....
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Shaping A Nation
.... how to cope with controversy. He was born into poverty, failed in business, and suffered a nervous breakdown. Also, he lost eight elections before becoming president. The Civil War had the power to divide this nation. Lincoln pulled these two sides together and helped them unite. He abolished slavery with the thirteenth amendment and managed to keep the southern states from seceding from the Union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president that brought the United States out of the great depression .....
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The Great Gatsby: America's Era Of Disdain
.... “The Truth was that Jay Gatsby, of west Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself.”(pages 104, 15-16)
Distorting his name, inventing a seventeen-year-old self-conception, he masked his counterfeit wealth from bootlegging with an image he wore with the help of Dan Cody. He was the man that gave Gatsby the opportunity. After Cody’s death Gatsby “was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man”, an .....
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Theocracy And Guilt And Punishment In The Scarlet Letter
.... comes from the violation of the laws of its religion and the punishment of these transgressions. Puritan society was one such theocracy. It based its ideals on the bible and used fear of sin to dominate the minds and lives of its people. This concept of theocratic domination is presented in the novel in several different forms. It is shown in the actions of town officials, enforcing the laws of the bible and punishing those who go against biblical law. This is shown when they punish Hester Pryne for .....
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Jane Eyre
.... him by calling him sir, even after they begin to have an intimate relationship. At one point, she even goes so far as to excuse herself for thinking. She says, "I was thinking, sir (you will excuse the idea; it was involuntary), I was thinking of Hercules and Samson with their charmers" (p.289). This statement possibly begins to suggests Janes unsatisfaction with Rochester's position of complete dominance in their relationship. To Jane, Rochester embodies the idea of love which she has so long been denied .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Escape From The Truth
.... liar. He lies, some times for no reason. Holden says his name is Rudolf Schmidt, who is acutely the janitor, to Mrs. Morrow on the train. He continues to lie throughout the conversation and avoids getting together by saying he has a tumor in his brain. This is the type of lies Holden tells. One reason for this might be that he is trying to hide his true identity. He does not want people to know who he really is or that he was kicked out of his fourth school. Holden is always using fake names and .....
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A Rose For Emily: Emily’s Disbelief In The Truth
.... of townspeople represented the simplemindedness of the past and the fact that they were okay with the Colonel’s decision.
The present was expressed through the narrator, the new generation of townspeople, and Homer Barron. The narrator was representative of the pas mainly through their words and description of what was going on. Homer Barron along with the townspeople represented the “next generation, with its modern ideas” (p. 120) in the present.
Miss Emily was characterized as a “fallen monume .....
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