Call Of The Wild
.... on the trip up north, lastly and most imoptant --the wilderness. The many settings helped develope the theme. First of all, Buck is in Santa Clara Valley. He starts out in civilization and he likes it. Then laterhe learns to deal with what people give him. For example, he had to stay in the cages and learn the law of club and fang. when the people slept in tents, Buck had to suffer in the freezing cold. Finally, he found his wolf relativesin the wilderness. He loves the wilderness so much that h .....
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Call Of The Wild Book Report
.... Buck away from his home. Buck was then sold, and
thrown in a baggage car. This would be the beginning of a new,
cruel life for Buck. On his ride to wherever he was going, Buck's
pride was severely damaged, if not completely wiped out by men who
used tools to restrain him. No matter how many times Buck tried to
lunge, he would just be choked into submission at the end. When
Buck arrived at his destination, there was snow everywhere, not to
mention the masses of Husky and wolf dogs. Buck was .....
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Call Of The Wild: Character Sketch Of Buck
.... a club. This is where Buck would learn one of the two most important laws that a dog could know in the Klondike. The law of club is quite simple, if there is a man with a club, a dog would be better off not to challenge that man. Buck learned this law after he was beaten half to death by the man who had the club. no matter what he tried, he just couldn't win.
Buck was sold off to a man who put him in a harness connected to many other dogs. Buck was bad at first, but eventually, he learned the way of tra .....
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Campaign
.... it would be worthless. But, now that the slaves were free, they were no longer property and were worthless so why not get rid of them?
After much political and emotional interest in lynching, Ida B. Wells launched her anti-lynching campaign in 1892 in which 241 people were lynched. Through her hard work and determination she made a great mark in history. With the distribution of her pamphlets she was able to help people realize that the information that was out there was not necessarily true. S .....
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Candide
.... off their personal responsibility. Voltaire believes that people should not allow themselves to be victims. He sneers at naive, accepting types, informing us that people must work to reach their utopia (Bottiglia 93).
In Candide, reality and "the real world" are portrayed as being disappointing. Within the Baron's castle, Candide is able to lead a Utopian life. After his banishment, though, he recognizes the evil of the world, seeing man's sufferings. The only thing that keeps Candide alive is hi .....
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Candide
.... One moment Candide murders the brother of the woman he loves, the next moment he travels to a land where he sees women mating with monkeys. In instances like these, it doesn't seem like Voltaire is serious about tragic events. During the course of Candide's journey, an earthquake strikes, murdering thirty thousand men, women, and children. In reality, this is a horrible predicament to be involved with. In Pangloss' world, " It is impossible for things not to be where they are, because everything is .....
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Candide
.... in your life you will be protected and cared for. Equality and happiness among every single person in a society may lead to one’s desire to escape to another society where they would differ. Here in El Dorado Cacambo and Candide had the chance to be rich and happy alongside everyone else in their society, but this was not what they wanted. In societies where everyone seems to be equal, one may at times feel the want to escape to a place where they would be in some sense different, special, and superior. I .....
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Candide - A Contrast To Optimism
.... convey
the message that Leibniz's philosophy should not be dealt with any
seriousness.
Leibniz, sometimes regarded as a Stoic or Fatalist because his
philosophies were based on the idea that everything in the world
was determined by fate, theorized that God, having the ability to pick
from an infinite number of worlds, chose this world, "the best of all
possible worlds." Although Voltaire chose that simple quality of
Leibniz's philosophy to satirize, Leibniz meant a .....
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Candide-Purposeful Satire
.... world as well as the moral universe. The man replies:
...I believe nothing 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 Candid .....
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Canterbury Tales
.... his work. Alison and Nicholas climb down and go into the carpenter’s bed. Absalom appears at the window at midnight. Absalom demands a kiss from Alison, and Alison says she will kiss him if he leaves immediately. Then,"…she thrust her ass out the window. Absalom, knowing no better kissed it enthusiastically before realizing the trick."(Canterbury Tales 71). Absalom then goes back into the town and gets a hot colter and returns to the house, and again he demands a kiss from Alison. This tim .....
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Canterbury Tales - Analysis Of Wife Of Bath
.... who is half of her age beats her. To anger her fifth husband, the wife of Bath tore three pages from his book. After this he beat her again. She pretended to be dead and he felt so guilty that he threw his whole book in the fire. This gave her the upper hand for the rest of his life.
The wife of Bath is a very envious women, who desires only a few simple things in life. She likes to make mirror images of herself, through her stories, which in some way reflects the person who she really is. This is .....
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Canterbury Tales - Courtly Love In Chaucer
.... has little time to progress beyond the preliminary stages of lusty, physical attraction before the marriage is instated.
Framing the already bleak portrayal of this "accord," (69) a word typically used to refer to business agreements or compromises, is the contractual terminology of their agreement which further downplays the emotional foundation of the relationship. Instead, the negotiated terms that "frendes everich other moot obeye" (171) indicate that the lovers are settling for amicable co .....
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Canterbury Tales - The Evil Rooted In Women
.... a very delicate and elegant picture of the Prioress. Her manners of eating are far from the brutish festivals of the time. Chaucer describes her table manners as very graceful, not a drop of anything would fall from her mouth, and she was very polite when taking thing at the table. (lines 131-4). Chaucer's last description of Prioress - the letter "A" around her neck that stood for "Amor vincit omnia" meaning "Love conquers all." The brooch symbolizes love with which her rosaries are adorned is a comm .....
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Canterbury Tales
.... by a woman. The scenario is about an older carpenter, married to eighteen-year-old Alison, who takes in a young, handsome lodger named Nicholas. Nicholas falls in love with the man’s wife and wants to pursue an affair with her. Due to the jealous nature of the husband, they try to hide it from him. Although the plot is not at all innocent, the details of the adulterous couple’s actions makes the story even more scandalous. In order to be alone for a night, Nicholas tells the carpenter that he envisions .....
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Canterbury Tales - Humour
.... The same sins are causing the phony "flood" even though the plan this time isn't God's. Chanticleer is also easily doped by the fox. The fox asks Chaunticleer if he could sing as well as his father did "Let see conne ye you fader countirefete?" (Oxford, line 166). It is ironic that his downfall is his very pride and joy - his voice. An instance where Nicholas tells Alison his plan will work because a clerk can fool a carpenter any day is funny because this class distinction is humorous in the circ .....
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