For Whom The Bell Tolls
.... or originating during the same time 8 Echelon; p. 344 A formation of units resembling a series of steps (as troops) 9 Decadent; p. 263 marked by decay or decline 10 devaluate; p. 417 Part VI "’What have you to justify your identity", Asked the man in the carbine"(p.12) ‘"Very practical,"He explained’ (p.22) ‘"I’ll get a tank,’"The gypsy told him"(p.22) ‘"Ta! Ta!Ta…"He exulted"(p.33) ‘"The barracks,"Pilar began"(p.110) "’Are there m .....
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
.... maybe the sadness and disgusting malice may not have occurred, for if you don’t start a fight you cannot get beaten up, and also, if one hides instead of shouting, he can usually get away. Regardless, Robert Jordan must do both of the following two acts in order to cope inside this story: build up his life to apex at one final showdown, and to trap himself in a never-ending tunnel of beatings and ultimately destruction (Frohock 167). Robert Jordan must make a final stand in For Whom the Bell Tolls if for n .....
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
.... people of Spain. They were known as the rebels. Robert Jordan fights on the side of the Loyalists in this novel, as did many Americans and other foreign volunteers, known as the International Brigades. As well as support from the people, the Second Republic had support from Germany and Italy. In the end these forces proved too much to handle for the weary Loyalists, and the war was lost to the Second Republic. For Whom the Bell Tolls is the story of Robert Jordan, an American college Spanish professor, .....
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
.... countryside. The whole fascist/communist aspect is brought up since both sides are against one another. Here again, Hemingway doesn’t idealize either side, not referring to their political beliefs but to the fact that each side is very much the same. Both sides consist of sad, depressed fools who have been shipped off to war, content to live in peace and harmony with each other. It is here that Hemingway’s first satirical punch at war comes in, when he makes it clear that both sides are human, with .....
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
.... he added a year to his age and was hired as a reporter for the Kansas City Star, a national newspaper. While working at the Star, Hemingway continued his efforts to participate in the war, and finally succeeded when he joined a volunteer Red Cross ambulance unit as a driver. In 1918 he was very seriously injured at Fossalta on the Piave River. Hemingway received twelve operations on his knee, an aluminum kneecap and two Italian Decorations. After a long period of painful recuperation in Milan, .....
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Forest People
.... quickly. This is extremely important because communication in any kind of society is essential to making and keeping a functioning relationship. Also, the BaMbuti accepted him as one of the forest people because he was not an animal like the negroe villagers. Simply put, he was able to keep up and run with the BaMbuti through the forest which meant a great deal to the tribe. This meant that he was part of the forest and not an "outsider".
Based on the fact that he could move through the forest with e .....
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Frankenstein
.... was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him." Dr. Frankenstein had a responsibility to be his creation's parental figure. It was molded and worked on solely by him and when "born", it should have been looked after as well. Dr. Frankenstein was unhappy with the results of his experiment and he treated the monster in a way that displayed that disgust. If this was the way he dealt with all failures, he should have stuck with chemicals. With every task that we take on in l .....
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Frankenstein
.... secret of nature. By the end of the novel Walton has become aware of the ominous aspect of the Arctic. Certainly, the cruelty of the Arctic has not been lost on the crew of his ship who threaten mutiny. Their human spirit, in striving for forbidden knowledge, when confronted with the terrifying and mysterious abyss of nature, prefers to retreat trembling from the inhuman and seemingly infinite icy wilds. On his deathbed, Victor asks them, "Did you not call this a glorious expedition? "..... &quo .....
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Frankenstein
.... when the creature is shunned by society simply because he looked different from them and they did not understand him. People are scared of what they do not understand, which is why they were frightened by Victor’s creature. The desire to understand death leads to the desire to control it. Even though death is something that is out of the control of humans, human nature has the urge to be in control of everything. The novel Frankenstein fascinates people because death has been overcome, at least that i .....
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Frankenstein
.... whom I
had created," (pg.152) says Victor upon looking back at his work. If
there is another monster there will be twice the power and possibly
twice the evil, which could hurt or kill his family. When and if
Frankenstein commits the moral sin of creating another monster he may
be rid of both monsters forever. "With the companion you bestow I
will quit the neighbourhood of man,"(pg 142) promises the morally
corrupt monster to the doctor upon the completion of his partner. .....
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Frankenstein
.... make another creature, a companion for the original. But haunting images of his creation (from the monster's first moment of life) gave him an instinctive feeling that the monster would do menacing acts with his companion, wreaking twice the havoc! Reoccurring images of painful events originating from a first encounter could fill a person with hate and destruction.
We as a society are the ones responsible for the transformation of the once childlike creature into the monster we all know. The publi .....
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Frankenstein - Every One Needs A Family
.... and surviving. The monster is very intelligent and can learn at a exceedingly rapid rate. The family that he crosses is the De Lacey family. This family is also incomplete because they are also missing a mother figure here. Yet they have a substitute as does the Frankenstein family has. For the De Lacey family, Agatha, the sister, plays the womanly role here. Felix her brother always takes care of her and tries to make life as easiest as possible even though they have gone through many hardships. The prob .....
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Frankenstein - Rejection By Society
.... to make another creature, a companion for the original. But haunting images of his creation (from the monster's first moment of life) gave him an instinctive feeling that the monster would do menacing acts with his companion, wreaking twice the havoc! Reoccurring images of painful events originating from a first encounter could fill a person with hate and destruction.
We as a society are the ones responsible for the transformation of the once childlike creature into the monster we all know. The pub .....
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Frederick Douglass
.... whites to lash out against these heartless monsters and abolish slavery, thereby ending the callous practices associated with slavery. Another example of how Douglass used family values as propaganda against southern slaveholders was in the treatment of his grandmother. When Douglass’s master decided that his grandmother was too old and no longer useful, "they took her to the woods, built her a little hut…and then made her welcome to the privilege of supporting herself in perfect loneliness; t .....
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Freya Goddess Of Love
.... the Aesir and Vanir. In return Loki, the god who always knew when trouble was taking place, would give the giant the sun, the moon and the goddess Freya. Loki gave him from the first day of winter to the first day of summer to finish the wall or else he will not get his reward. The stranger asked if he could use his stallion to rebuild the wall and Loki agreed, not knowing that it was the stallion that helped speed up the work. Time passed, until there was three days left until summer and the stranger wa .....
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