The Outsiders
.... They both worked at a gas station. They always were the busiest. Maybe it was because Steve knew so much about cars or maybe because Soda could have any girl he wanted. Steve Randle was seventeen years old. He was tall and thin.
Then there was Two-Bit Mathews. His real name was Keith and he couldn’t remember Two-Bit was the oldest of the Greasers. He is six feet tall and was very proud of his long sideburns. Two-Bit never stopped making wisecracks or funny remarks. He wasn’t big with the cops. .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
.... flicks the spider from his shoulder into the fire. I am curious why this is bad luck, and why turning three times and tying a lock of hair with thread was thought to prevent the bad luck. I also wondered how a hair ball became a way to read fortunes. I thought it was interesting when they decided the snake skin represented good luck and bad luck. They received good luck by finding the eight dollars in the pocket of an overcoat, which was a considerable find for the time. Later the bad came, when Huck .....
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On As I Lay Dying
.... no better than Anse," page 23. Cora's husband, Vernon, is directly the opposite of her, he is a simple, honest, and credible person. His section isn't littered with side comments and thoughts like Cora's, he just simply stated the events as he viewed them. Previously Anse Bundren said "We be beholden to no man ...never yet been, " page 19. However, Tull says "Like most folks around here I done holp him so much already I can't quit now," page 32. So from Tull the fact that Anse is total dependant on .....
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Of Mice And Men: Loneliness
.... like Curley's wife and Crooks are unmistakably lonely, but they show how their lonliness is the opposite of the two main characters, George and Lennie. Crooks actually states that George and Lennie have got each other but he hasn't got anyone. Curley's wife portrays the same message but under different circumstances. There are really no other main characters besides George and Lennie. From reading the novel and watching the film it is clearly evident in most cases that all of the support characters .....
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How Do Elizabeth Bennet’s Relationships Show Her Process Of Moral Growth?
.... manages to take her in with transparent deception. Elizabeth is tied to Wickham by her intellectual commitment to objectivity, which translates into superficial bindings. Not at all silly like her ditzy sisters, Elizabeth is simply disengaged and she wishes to see and understand excitement. She finds her wish in Wickham, who provides her with a strange tale that is both shocking and appealing to Elizabeth.
Elizabeth perceptiveness fails her in the situation with her friend Charlotte Lucas: she ma .....
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Edna's Suicide
.... Therefore, all options involving a lover fall short of fulfilling the meaning of her awakening. If she remains married or marries another, this would put her back (in terms of Webb) at the start of her circle: all the learning and struggling would be for naught. She would once again be a man's possession. Before rejecting the idea that marriage is equivalent to ownership in the world of the novel, remember how Robert speaks to her about their future together. He does not see her living an awakened li .....
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The Chrysalids: The Importance Of Telepathy
.... to runaway to the fringes, and they established some kind of contact with a woman from Sealant (Zealand, On page 134). The help that the sealant woman promised is on their way to the fringes. The plot is greatly influenced, David learns more things as the time goes on. He discovers who is the Spiderman(Gordon) and where is Sophie. He meets them and learn what it is like to live in the fringes. When the sealant woman rescues David, Rosalind and Petra they are brought to a big, developed city like the .....
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12 Angry Men Contrast Paper
.... black man. The black man wouldn’t let the white man talk so they almost got into a fight.
Another example of the differences is the disrespect that occurred at the wrong times. In the 1957 version, ever though they were an all-white jury, they still treated each other with disrespect. If one wanted to discuss something the other didn’t want to because that one was so stubborn to change his vote. He stood alone. He didn’t want to change his vote for a thing he always thought he knew everything. In t .....
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Types Of Monsters
.... from the storybook monsters. Almost all real life monsters are created from some problem from their home life. In some cases it can be caused by some problem with how they were treated as a child or it can even be caused by a fight with friends or family that causes them to leash out on the people around them. Basically, a real life monster is someone who, for any unjustified reason, goes and commits a serious wrong against any number of people. These are the people that pose a serious threat to socie .....
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A Review Of Lawrence E. Walsh’s Iran/Contra
.... and Nixon administrations. Lawrence Walsh is a former Federal District Court judge, has practiced law on Wall Street and is the former president of the American Bar Association. Since Iran/Contra he has since gone on and wrote several more books on varying subjects. As the Independent Counsel investigating Iran/Contra, Walsh comes up with two distinct issues that Iran/Contra revolved around.
Two secret Reagan Administration policies that were coordinated by the National Security Council staff .....
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Homeric Simile In Paradise Lost
.... style of his early poems -- notably, Lycidas and certain passages of Comus -- which critics like to call Shakespearean (MacCaffrey, 119). Both Homer (the originator of the extended/epic simile) and Milton found it necessary to stop short of the complex metaphors that served the dramatists as instruments for psychological exploration and symbolic statement.
Homer’s similes provide a respite from the steady surge of heroic action, and broaden the scope of his poems. Into the simile could be in .....
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A Rose For Emily
.... longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment," (40-41). Miss Emily was convinced that she had no taxes in Jefferson because before the Civil War the South didn't have to pay. This change occurred when the North took over the South. "After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all," (41). Miss Emily might have stayed out of the public eye after these two deaths because she was finally alone, something she in her pet .....
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
.... viewpoints. And although Julian's criticisms of his mother do have merit, she is not the oblivious southern racist he makes her out to be. And either is he the free-thinking poet he struggles so hard to make his mother believe he is. In reality, Julian's mother has sacrificed a great deal for her son's well-being. She's allowed her own teeth to rot to afford him braces, has worked hard so that he might attend college, and makes excuses for his unemployment. Although she talks only through a string .....
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Alienation In "The Minister’s Black Veil"
.... 256). The minister might have committed a secret sin, or he could have used the veil to make a silent statement. Whatever his reason for his odd clothing, Reverend Hooper’s veil caused more than a physical separation from the people of his town. The people felt the veil was "the symbol of a fearful secret between him and them" (Hawthorne 256). Their fear and confusion of the minister’s motives caused strange behavior and unnatural withdrawal from their spiritual leader.
After the initial .....
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The Hanging Of Billy Budd
.... Lack of punishment can lead to severe problems; today, for example, the actions of Bill Clinton are comprable to what might have happened if Billy would not have been hanged. This is because society tends to follow the examples others set for them.
Because Billy was so well liked by everyone, Captain Vere was in a very difficult situation. It was very unlike Billy to ever do something so rash; he brought out the best in everyone. ‘A virtue went out of him, sugaring the sour ones” (pg. 5). Cap .....
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