Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer
.... the wild.” Chris almost knew that he would not make it out of the wild alive. Chris was seeking adventure. His trip to Alaska was the “drug” that made him high. “I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”-Leo Tolstoy-highlighted in one of the books found with McCandless’s remains. Krakauer wastes no time getting into the s .....
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Ion
.... as the agitator of all the problems.
Creusa marries Xuthus and they find themselves unable to have children. While she longs to have a child, she can only regret the loss of her son years ago. Because they desire to have children, they go to Delphi to consult the gods. Creusa goes to Delphi feeling betrayed by the gods. She is wondering how she can possibly find justice in gods who are unjust themselves. She thinks her situation can not get any worse but does not know what awaits. As the play con .....
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Indian Camp
.... but as a doctor maybe he wanted his son to learn biologically what went on. After the baby is born Nick’s father finds out that the Indian womans husband had committed suicide. The quotes, “ Take Nick out of the shanty, George” and “I’m terribly sorry I brought you along, Nickie. It was an awful mess to put you through.” also help show how in some senses Nick’s father has compassion for his son. The fact that he feels bad that his son had to witness the dead man means that he is sensitive towards hi .....
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Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre An
.... mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations. Her mother, the Creole, was both a madwoman and a drunkard!’ She is further described as having a ‘discoloured face’, ‘a savage face’ with ‘fearful blackened
inflation’ of the features, ‘the lips were swelled and dark’; described as a demon, witch, vampire, beast and hyena1. But nowhere in the novel does Bronte allow ‘the madwoman in the attic’ to have a
voice, to explain what may .....
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Independent Study Project
.... death. Miss. Gedge was a young woman in the prime of her life loved by everyone, while Mrs. Boynton was a grouchy old shrew whom even her family couldn’t stand. It was because of the differences between the victims that the police inspector’s investigations were completely different. In the case of Miss. Gedge inspectors Tait and Quantrill could not find any substantial evidence pointing towards a motive. Tait compared the fate of the
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young woman to that of Shakespeares’s Ophelia. Ophelia .....
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Ideas And Reality (thoreau)
.... support his own ideas when he says that he spent two years “alone, in the woods,”(Economy pg. 7, 1st sentence). He did not spend two years “alone” and a great period of the time which he was there was not “in the woods.” In fact, he had as many as thirty guests at a time (Visitors pg. 97 last line). He tries to show how he had few visitors in the winter saying, “…no visitor ventured near my house for a week or a fortnight at a time,” (Winter Visitors pg. 177, last line) making this to be a large number .....
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Choices And Consequences In Fr
.... hangs over the traveler like a heavy cloud. He realizes that at the end of his life, "somewhere ages and ages hence," he will have regrets about having never gone back and traveling down the roads he did not take. Yet he remains proud of his decision and he recognizes that it was this path that he chose that made him turn out the way and he did and live his life the way in which he lived it. To the speaker, what was most important about his choices in life is that he did what he wanted, even if it mean .....
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Into The Wild By John Krakauer
.... him.
While Chris traveled the country he stopped in different towns and tried to work for some extra traveling cash. He came across a town in South Dakota called Carthage. He worked for a man by the name of Wayne Westerburg. Chris went by his new name Alex and Westerburg comes to find out, Alex’s real name is Chris McCandless. Westerburg says, “He never explained why he changed his name…From the things he said, you could tell that something wasn’t right between him and his family…” By Westerburg statin .....
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Into The Wild
.... all of his mail to the sender. He decided to go and live of the land for a while. He met many different people along the way and almost everyone he meet liked him. They gave him a ride, clothes, money, job, or a place to stay. During his journey he had at least the necessities he needed to survive but not much more. He had a book that told him what plants were edible when he journeyed into the wilderness, and when in the city he had a map to help get around.
When he was in Alaska he was able to qui .....
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In Search Of Our Mothers Garde
.... beings, and
the only form of artistic expression available to them is their daily life. In the ordinary tasks of cooking, sewing, and growing food, tasks on which their survival depended, these women found a way to express the yearnings of the soul for hope and beauty, as well as the desire to be remembered. Unable to read and to write their own stories, these generations of mothers and grandmothers, their own lives became their greatest work of art.
Walker explores the theories and practices .....
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Clytaemnestra And Penelope - A
.... possessions is expressed clearly when one of Penelope's suitors suggests what he thinks should happen with her and the estate: (Homer, page 24, lines 204-207) 'Before the whole assembly I advise Telemakhos/ to send his mother to her father's house;/ let them arrange her wedding there, and fix/ a portion suitable for a valued daughter.' She began as the property of her father, became the property of Odysseus; when Odysseus left she devolved onto her son who was urged to send her back to her original owner, .....
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I Am A Man (The Elephant Man)
.... go back to Bytes. While in the hospital, John has wealthy, prominent, fame-crazed people come to see him everyday. Mrs. Madge Kendal starts these visits from London's high society, simply with respectable intentions. Mrs. Kendal, as well known as she is, has a group of followers. What John does not know is that "wherever Mrs. Kendal goes, others inevitably follow" (182-183). With all of these ritzy visitors, John believes that people want to see him for who he is, not just to make themselves appear mo .....
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Importance Of Being Earnest
.... the idea of any man being allowed to vote as simply disgraceful. The Victorian era saw legislation concerning labour and industry, which began to intrude on the power of the Upper class over the working class labourers. In fact by the late 1880’s Lower classes were working less hours, while their wages continued to increase. This allowed many to enjoy luxuries that until then were considered only possible by the Upper Classes.
Women, even the ones of the Upper Class were still considered unequal of me .....
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing
.... to love the language of the church, a language that spills over into her writing to this day.
The work in which Angelou most successfully utilizes the African-American traditions in her writing is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first in a series of autobiographical novels. Caged Bird chronicles Maya's life from the time she is sent to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas until she becomes a single mother at age 18. The plot of the book is advanced through a series of stories, each det .....
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Comapre Great Gatsby And Cats
.... The Great Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson is the woman with whom Tom Buchanan is having an affair. Myrtle want to be a part of Tom's life because he has a lot of money. She lets Tom push her around and treat her however he wants. She always thought she should have done better than her current husband and having an affair with Tom reinforces this belief of hers. Her current husband, George Wilson, is just a poor gas station owner. Myrtle would rather be treated like a dog by someone who has money instead of being c .....
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