Tom Clancy's Genius
.... a potential enemy. This was a time when America’s finest tank and infantry units went on exercises in Germany fully armed with the expectation that the Russians could attack them at any time. This was also a time when the Soviets did the same exercises with the same amount of live ammunition. Therefore there was reason enough to worry about potential conflicts. Deep within the ocean waters, submarines played similar cat and mouse games with other submarines and surface ships. However some of these submar .....
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Moby Dick: Moral Ambiguity
.... of semicolons. By ending the book so curtly, Melville makes a virtually negligible attempt at denouement, leaving what value judgements exist to the reader.
Ultimately, it is the dichotomy between the respective fortunes of Ishmael and Ahab that the reader is left with. Herein lies a greater moral ambiguity than is previously suggested. Although Ishmael is the sole survivor of the Pequod, it is notable that in his own way, Ahab fulfills his desire for revenge by ensuring the destruction of the White W .....
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Voltaire's Writing Techniques In Candide
.... of the sort. I find that everything goes wrong in our world; that nobody knows his place in society or his duty, what he's doing or what he ought to be doing, and that outside of mealtimes...the rest of the day is spent in useless quarrels...-it's one unending warfare. By having this character take on such a pessimistic tone, he directly contradicts the obviously over-optimistic tone of Candide. In the conclusion (page 1617) an old turk instructs Candide in the futility of needless philosophizing by s .....
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The Theme Of Unity In Siddhartha
.... and comes to a stop. From here, Siddhartha meets the elegant and beautiful, Kamala, gets caught "off track" and entangles himself in a "senseless cycle" of acquiring and squandering wealth.
In the final chapters, Siddhartha proves that achieving or over-coming obstacles do lead to better Unity. Prior to making a leap forward in reaching his goal, Siddhartha finds himself in despair. He speaks to Vasudeva, the ferryman. The ferryman smiles and says very little, allowing the River to speak for him. Si .....
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Cue For Treason
.... Sir Philip Morton. The night before he had arrived in Penrith, Peter, his father, his brother Tom and his neighbors plan to throw down Sir Philip’s wall. They were angry at Sir Philip for his threat to repossess their land. During this siege, Peter was tolled to stand on guard. He fell asleep while he stood on guard and awoke only to see Sir Philip and his army approaching the house. He alerted the others that Sir Philip was headed their way. To stall Sir Philip and his army, Peter threw a rock at .....
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The Crucible: Abigail Is Selfish And Evil
.... a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you... And you know I can do it... I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down." She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these things she could no longer control herse .....
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Dimmsdale's Redemption
.... at a soul already in turmoil from guilt and fear. Pearl was meant to be a symbol of Hester and Dimmsdale's sin, and as Hester's punishment. What is overlooked is that Pearl offers salvation to Dimmsdale for the first time.
Dimmsdale's second chance for salvation comes from Pearl at the second scaffold scene. While Dimmsdale walks with Pearl, she asks him, "Will you stand with mother and me to-morrow noon-tide?" That sterling moment is disrupted by Dimmsdale's refusal to join Hester and Pearl .....
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Plato's Simile Of The Cave: Artist's Work Is Based On Illusion
.... reality). Because of this, Plato believes that art can increase psychological harm. As stated in The Fire and the Sun, Art or imitation may be dismissed as ‘play’, but when artists imitate what is bad they are adding to the sum of badness in the world; and it is easier to copy a bad man than a good man, because the bad man is various and entertaining and extreme, while the good man is quiet and always the same.
Artists are interested in what is base and complex, not in what is simple and good. They .....
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The Crucible
.... speakin’ of witchcraft. Betty’s not witched"(8). At that time she did not want the issue to get blown out of proportion so that life could return to normal. Peer pressure and her lust for revenge caused her to change her mind about starting the witch hunts.
Grace played a key role in the disintegration of Salem Village. Characters’ feelings often changed . For example, Abigail decided that she was going to go ahead with the witch hunt, feeling compelled to after the town was talking witchcraft. .....
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Neighborhood Shock
.... up a new pizza parlor in our own neighborhood? Barnlund further explores this surcumstance when he says; "It is a feeling of helplessness, even of terror or anger, that accompanies working in an alien society. One feels trapped in an absurd and indecipherable nightmare" (72). I also think this is a great example of what Barnlund refers to as "interpersonal understanding" (68), the desire of people to associate with others that share the same views as themselves and who express themselves in similar way .....
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The Bluest Eye
.... as possible. If people could just look closer, they might see the beauty in the dandelions and in Pecola. However, Pecola knew that this was not likely because of society's hate for her and she knew that, "Nobody loves the head of a dandelion" (Morrison 47). Pecola soon realizes that she will never be beautiful just how she is. As she looks affectionately at the dandelions, "they do not look at her and do not send love back" (Morrison 51). Pecola realizes that the dandelions are ugly and like them, .....
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The Sign Of The Moonbow
.... only be brought to an end by a crowned woman, a queen of her land. There was believed to be no such person, but Cormac's quest was to find one so he could rid the world of his eight thousand year old enemy.
Cormac's first development occurred when he had witnessed a young girl get raped by four very large men. Cormac had never hurt the defenseless before, let alone rape a young woman. He felt a slight tinge of compassion and rescued the girl, slaying her attackers. The next time Cormac felt emoti .....
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Brave New World
.... is then bottled, labelled and sent down the conveyor belt to the "Social Predestination Room". It is here that they are given a caste designation (Alpha, Beta, Delta, Epsilon), carded into the main card index and stored. It is here that they are "sexed". Thirty percent of the female embryos are allowed to progress normally (to maintain the supply of initial ova). The rest of the female embryos are given a large dose of male hormone that renders them physically female in all ways, but sterile.
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Deliverance: The Establishment Of "Masculinity"
.... devoted to his son and his job. Drew is the character who represents the middle-aged man's desire for talent and attention. Drew plays the guitar and his music is his true companion.
Without having any talent, as he would be the
first to tell you, Drew played mighty well, through
sheer devotion.
(Dickey, 11)
For Drew the highlight of this trip is his duo with Lonnie, an uneducated banjo player. Drew obviously finds this the most exhilarating part of the adventure in that he is the ce .....
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Billy Budd
.... that he was special and pure. A jewel in the midst of average seamen. He was the best. Not only was Billy the best, but he also was physically perfect. Even his shipmates had noticed his flawless appearance. In the following text, Billy is appropriately named for his attributes by the narrator: "The moral nature was seldom out of keeping with the physical make. Indeed, except as toned by the former, the comeliness and power, always attractive in masculine conjunction, hardly could have drawn t .....
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