"Schlesinger's Canon Vs. My High School's Canon"
.... importance of teaching Americans the history of other cultures—East Asia,
Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Polynesia." Since we live in a
multicultural society, we should be teaching a multicultural curriculum.
At my high school, I feel as if I received this type of education. The
teachers encourage students to read not only standard English literature, but
also to study the great writers of other ethnicities. My high school is a
private college preparatory institution in San Francisco. Some .....
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Comparison Of Karl Marx And Matthew Arnold
.... be versed in both religion and classic literature. Although
Arnold's culture sought the advancement of the human mind; he did not want
people to get wrapped up in technology. "Faith in machinery is, I said, our
besetting danger; often in machinery most absurdly disproportioned to the end
which this machinery" (23). Arnold believes his culture is "more interesting
and more far-reaching than that other, which is founded solely on the scientific
passion for knowing" (21). Arnold believed that culture d .....
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Why Are American Afraid Of Dragons?
.... has to keep in mind that we
live in a mediatic world. Among the many different forms of media including
books, radio, theatre and television, writing is and has been proven to be the
oldest and the slowest. It is even considered sometimes the most boring form
of home entertainment. In only five hours, a telespectator can go through about
four stories while reading them would take on average four to six days. Because
it only takes a mere couple of hours to view a film on television, one is left
with .....
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The Trip To Halawa Valley
.... parents, and that is the
very obvious example. A few other examples are not as clear, but they do show
how decisions are an important factor in life and once made are very hard to
turn around. Using Paul's brother Anthony, Schwartz shows that once he made the
decision to join the Hare Krishnas there was no turning back, even if that meant
not communicating with his parents anymore. Schwartz also uses Paul's other
brother Eric. When Eric announced that he was gay, his parents had to make the
tough dec .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper - Journey Into Insanity
.... a slight
hysterical tendency -- what is one to do?" (Gilman 193). These two men -- both
doctors -- seem completely unable to admit that there might be more to her
condition than than just stress and a slight nervous condition. Even when a
summer in the country and weeks of bed-rest don't help, her husband refuses to
accept that she may have a real problem.
Throughout the story there are examples of the dominant - submissive
relationship. She is virtually imprisoned in her bedroom, supposedly to a .....
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African Literature: In The Cutting Of A Drink And The Return
.... but husky call." In the last section the speaker talks about how kind his
aunt is to take care of his brothers and sisters while his parents "strayed to
the copper mines."
This poem makes me think about my grandma and all the wonderful things she
has done for me. The speakers aunt is an old fragile woman, "hoe-broken palms"
and "scrawny ribs." But she is also a very hard worker and loving person. Both
these things remind me of my grandma. My grandma may be old and fragile but she
is still .....
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Ah, Woe Is Me
.... of what to do, the narrator hands her a
handkerchief.
B) An Essay About the Text: The setting in this story is South Africa in the
1950's. Apartheid and segregation are words that describe the conditions under
which the blacks (the native Africans) live perfectly. The blacks nearly have no
rights and must accept being oppressed by the whites. Sarah is only one of many
poor blacks who only just manages to earn a living by working as a servant for a
rich white family (the narrator). Slavery does not ex .....
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Analysis Of The Astronomer's Wife
.... noticed that
the plumber has a few physical characteristics that match her own (such as
blond hair), and she is talking to him as he descends into the earth. The scene
begins immediately after the plumber says "I think something has stopped the
elbow", because this phrase was one of the few things that a man has ever said
that Mrs. Ames has understood. After the plumber has descended into the ground
before the scene, Mrs. Ames is the only one left. She spends the entire
duration of this scene sitting o .....
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April Morning
.... and Solomon Chandler even though their good friendship
only lasted for a brief time
like his brother Levi.
He was growing up, and if he told Adam not to fight in the war he probably would
have anyway. Quote "If I had forbade him to sign that muster book then and
there, I would have lost a son. Is that what you want? But I saw him there so
tall and strong I could have wept. You can't shelter him. There comes a time,
and this is that time" (page 75.)
I think that Moses had to die in order for the story to continue because
if he had lived I don't think that the Battle would have been such .....
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Beowulf And His Pride
.... having fun and proving himself to the spectators.
When Beowulf fought with Grendel, the demon who was terrorizing Herot
Hall, he came there boasting about how worthy he was to fight for Denmark. The
people accepted him as a deserving warrior and permitted him to do what ever he
needed to rid them of Grendel. Beowulf wanted to fool Grendel into thinking
that he was sleeping so that Grendel would try to kill him, but instead Beowulf
would terminate him. That night Grendel did come and fell righ .....
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Beowulf
.... has been terrorizing Herot.
Before his confrontation with Grendel, he did many other things to
assist his people. An example of him doing this is when he speaks of himself
killing the giants and wiping them off the earth. He says, "They have seen my
strength for themselves,/have watched me rise from the darkness/of war, dripping
of my enemies' blood/I drove five great giants into chairs, chased/all of that
race from the Earth." (246-250) Beowolf proves his strength to others and to
himself.
In his .....
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Beowulf: Short Story
.... to give him all their precious valuables. The
Filth-Sammich allowed the Ventarians to eat enough to stay healthy, but nothing
more. Before the Filth-Sammich arrived, the people were loyal and faithfully
devoted to their respected ruler. The monster lived in a gigantic cave which
was a ten-minute walk to the edge of town. It was rumored that when the Filth-
Sammich swallowed you, you were slowly digested over a week or two. The beast
also made it clear that it had powers beyond the forces of nature th .....
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Character Analysis For The Portable Phonograph
.... pleasure of the
group. He is very proud of this treasure. It has sustained through these hard
times just as he has and he limits his use of it to make it last. He owns only
three steel needles and he gets one out to use because on this particular
occasion, their is a musician visitor with them. The other men act as excited as
children. They listen to the record and then leave the doctor's house.
Doctor Jenkins is nervous and suspicious at the end of the story when
the other men leave. "With nervous hand .....
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Characterization Of Uncle Henry
.... by his family and friends, and no one
ever disobeys him. Uncle Henry thinks that everything has to have a specific
purpose. For example, he thinks that his old dog, Dan, is ". . . not much good
even for a watchdog now," and is ". . . no good for hunting either." The
narrator's description of Henry is so well done that one can picture him in
one's mind or even compare him to someone in one's day to day life.
The second main way that Henry is portrayed throughout "Luke Baldwin's Vow"
is what .....
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Comparison And Contrast Of The Lottery And The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
.... occasions. However, I believe the
major similarity lies in the fact that these many pleasant details create a
facade within each story. The reader is then left ill-prepared when the
shocking, brutally violent, ritualistic traditions are exposed.
Children are an important focus in both stories. Jackson makes it easy
for us to imagine their "boisterous play"(para 2), and Le Guin writes "their
high calls rising like swallows' crossing flights over the music and the
singing"(para1). I see these children .....
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