The Fish (poem)
.... "I saw that from his lower lip...hung five old pieces of fish-line...with all their five big hooks grown firmly in his mouth...Like medals...a five-haired beard of wisdom trailing from his aching jaw." Elizabeth Bishop is able to depict the fish's victories in a way that you feel "deeply sympathetic." You start to pity and have compassion for the fish.
In lines 74-75, the speaker says "-until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!" Everything for the speaker went into place. "Victory filled up" for th .....
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The Forgotten Door
.... thing he knew he was lying down in the middle of the road. A family named the Beans drove down the road and picked him up. They took him back to their house and fed him and took care of him until he was better. Eventually Jon remembered his name, but he didn’t know anything else.
Later the Gilbys came over to the Beans house and asked if they knew where Jon was, but the Beans hid him and the Gilbys never knew. Jon was kept in hiding until the Gilbys found a pair of boots that they thought they .....
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The Formal Essay
.... neutral words. So we can guard ourselves from ever being so enslaved by emotional words and phrases that they prevent us from thinking objectively when we need to do so- that is, whenever we have to come to a decision on any debatable manner."(61) This essay then, guides the reader in the direction of properly translating emotionally toned words into their true objective meanings, and understanding words for what they truly mean instead of for what they imply. It teaches how and when the use of o .....
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The Hobbit Book Report
.... dragon in the one
spot it had no protection. The towns people later considered him a
hero. What the people didn't know it was Bilbo who discovered the weak spot in the dragon's iron scales.
BEORN: An enemy of orcs, he becomes friends with Bilbo and
Gandalf. He has th e ability to change forms from human to bear. It
is he who determines the outco me of the battle of five Armies.
STORY SUMMARY
The book begins with Bilbo Baggins enjoying a pipe after
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The Hot Zone
.... but a new strain
of Ebola, which they named Ebola Reston. This was added to the list of
strains: Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, and now, Reston. These are all
level-four hot viruses. That means there are no vaccines and there
are no cures for these killers.
In 1976 Ebola climbed out of its primordial hiding place in
the jungles of Africa, and in two outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan wiped
out six hundred people. But the virus had never been seen outside of
Africa and the co .....
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The House Of The Seven Gables
.... for killing his uncle and is sent to prison for 30 years. The only Pyncheon left living in the house is Hepzibah, who is forced to put aside her pride and open a 1-cent shop on the first floor.
The 1-cent shop in itself is a symbol if irony due to the fact that Hepzibah was once rich and now, though she is living in a mansion, she sells penny goods on the bottom floor. Townspeople come in usually just to see her work and to mock her but a few townspeople come to buy goods.
The old house has .....
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The House On Mango Street
.... is the trust she
has in others. This is one of Esperanza's weaknesses as an individual
because it allows her to be gullible and vulnerable. In 'Cathy Queen
of Cats' Esperanza's gullibility is obvious when Cathy tells Esperanza
that "...[her] father will have to fly to France one day and find
her...cousin...and inherit the family house. How do I know this is so?
She told me so.". Another error in trusting others is that Esperanza
is susceptible to betrayal. In 'Red Clowns' .....
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The Hundred Secret Senses By A
.... our normal sense, Olivia remembers she can use the hundred secret senses to find Kwan anytime she needed to.
Tan includes the spiritual world of ghosts and superstitions as she does with many of her other books. This was quite believable to me because in my family we still have a day to honor the dead. My parents would cook as feast and my sister and I would have to set the table with wine and many bowl as well as chairs as if we were having many guests over. We were also not allowed to eat the foo .....
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The Iliad
.... and anoint it all over; but take it first aside, since otherwise Priam might see his son and in the heart’s sorrow not hold his anger at the sight…”” (from the Iliad Book XXIV). They “Anointed it with olive oil, they threw a fair great cloak and tunic about him, and Achilleus himself lifted him and laid him on a litter and his friends helped him lift it to the smooth-polished mule wagon” (from the Iliad Book XXIV). This was an honorable feat, for Achilleus to recogn .....
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The Impact Of Stalinism In 198
.... (Shelden 19).
In 1911 Orwell was sent to St. Cyprian's, a preparatory school, on the Sussex
coast. Known for his intelligence, Orwell was "distinguished among the other boys by his poverty and intellectual brilliance" ("Orwell, George." 1020). After attending St. Cyprian's he attended Wellington college for nine weeks in 1917 (Shelden 59). He won several scholarships and decided upon attending Eton from 1917 to 1921. His first writings appeared in the college periodicals at Eton. After leaving E .....
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The Imperial Woman
.... the heir and the two Empresses as Regents. As a supreme ruler and more dominant than Sakota, Tzu Hsi ordered the Three Traitors to die. The Grand Councilor Su Shun was sliced into one thousand pieces and his whole family was killed. Prince Yi and Prince Kung were ordered to hang themselves in order to save face, or die with dignaty. Other than protect herself from power greedy politicians, the Chinese distrusted female rulers, specially the females from Manchu race, so there were many rebels ready t .....
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The Intention (motivation) Of
.... Oedipus solved the riddle, and the Sphinx killed herself. In reward, he received the throne of Thebes and the hand of the widowed queen, his mother, Jocasta. They had four children: Eteocles, Polyneices, Antigone, and Ismene. Later, when the truth became known, Jocasta committed suicide, and Oedipus, after blinding himself, went into exile, leaving his brother-in-law Creon as regent. The central theme in this work is that one cannot control his/her fate, whether the intentions are good or bad. .....
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The Invisible Man 2
.... tries to buy a drink to take outside to Mr. Norton, but the bartender won't let him. The narrator is forced to carry the now unconscious Mr. Norton into the bar. When Mr. Norton awakes, he is harassed by several mental health patients, and leaves in utter disgust. When Dr. Bledsoe, the head of the narrator's college finds out what happened, he expels the narrator. When the narrator threatens to fight him, Dr. Bledsoe explains to the the narrator the true nature of his power. He tells the narrator that he d .....
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The Invisible Man 3
.... ran into the room without knocking and was then hit in the chest and pushed out of the room. Later Mrs. Hall saw that the man had unpacked his bags and had some strange apparatus put together. The man also had his glasses off and his eyes looked sunken.
During the next couple of weeks, the townspeople were making up stories of the mysterious man. Some thought he had some kind of disease. Other weird things were happening in town as well. One night in one of the houses in town they heard something .....
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The Invisible Man 4
.... ran into the room without knocking and was then hit in the chest and pushed out of the room. Later Mrs. Hall saw that the man had unpacked his bags and had some strange apparatus put together. The man also had his glasses off and his eyes looked sunken.
During the next couple of weeks, the townspeople were making up stories of the mysterious man. Some thought he had some kind of disease. Other weird things were happening in town as well. One night in one of the houses in town they heard something .....
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