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Flowers For Algernon

.... The only positive effects of the intellectual growth that one can gain is to be able to experience what the concrete definition was like in one’s own personal experience. Yet the negative effects of the operation, which were great, was the intellectual and emotional growth colliding. As a human that was born with the intellectual potential and without a disability, would have experienced this over a normal human life span, and the emotional growth would increase along side of the intellectual- set by soci .....

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Fate Of Oedipus

.... his father. Oedipus led by fate, reaches Thebes. The city of Thebes was then tormented by the mythological monster - the Sphinx. Only Oedipus was able to solve the riddle. He uses his intelligence to defeats the Sphinx, and saves Thebes. Then he fulfills his tragic fate. He becomes the king of Thebes, and marries his mother - Jocasta. If there was no Sphinx or Oedipus failed to solve the riddle, his fate would be totally different. Even though he kills his own father, he would never become the Kin .....

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Far From The Madding Crowd

.... had become entangled with her, one of his first questions was ‘Are you a woman?’, to which Bathsheba replied, ‘Yes.’ His immediate reaction was to compliment her by calling her a lady, illustrating his natural tendency to see most young ladies he comes across as merely objects for personal conquest. Flattery is of course his chief weapon in charming and conquering the female heart. One of the main reasons that Bathsheba fell for him in the first place is her own vulnerability to flattery, as she is such a .....

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Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomat

.... Fannie Flagg, (as she later changed her name to), was quite good at acting and comedy, but when she decided to take up writing in her late thirties, she never knew that her book would be such a success. The novel, received rave reviews, high praise and gained more serious recognition by critics and the public eye overall. Being so, producer Jon Avnet turned it into a movie, starring Mary Stuart Masterson. There is a striking resemblance between Fannie Flagg's young life as Patricia Ne .....

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Forest People

.... 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 ease an .....

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Queen Mab In Romeo And Juliet

.... 1.4.74). 11. To add to it, Queen Mab can be a woman of grave viciousness. 12. The queen can burden great distress upon an innocent being, allowing us to see the more evil side of Queen Mab. 13. Prototypes for her evil projects may have, "Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes/And thus being frighted, swears a prayer or two/And sleeps again" (Shakespeare 1.4.85). 14. Nightmares are terrible, and to inflict nightmares upon someone when able to is a terrible thing. 15. But that is Queen Mab, .....

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Notre Dame

.... he really wants her. He also used Quasimodo to try and kidnap her, knowing that Quasimodo would do anything right or wrong for him. He wanted her so badly that he came into her room one night and tried to rape her. He was touching her in ways that she did not find appealing "She felt a lascivious hand wandering over her body"(215), but Quasimodo would not let him rape her. He wanted Esmeralda hanged because he could not control his own passions. The schemes of Claude Frollo were as stupid and chil .....

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No Mans An Island

.... care of them, giving back what they took. Then the Europeans ‘Like a crushing wave’ came and used and abused this splendor, all in the name of progress. They pushed away the people who lived and worked these lands, ignorantly believing they were uncivilized and unable to contribute anything worthwhile because they were different. They abused the people like they abused the land, taking everything but giving nothing back. The natives tried to befriend the white man and in the end were conquered and l .....

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Nick From The Great Gatsby

.... and becomes more comfortable and important throughout the novel. Despite living in a horribly corrupt society full of careless rich people, he does not turn out like his acquaintances and the corruption fails to influence his middle-class personality. For example, Daisy Buchanan was born into corruption and it shows through her immorality and superficiality. As for her husband Tom, Nick is a total opposite of him for Tom isn't responsible, he is conceited, filthy rich, dishonest, and careless. Nick does t .....

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Night Essay- The Dehumanizatio

.... friends, running to the Jewish council to see if the edict had not been revoked in the meantime" (13). However, just as their physical and mental states deteriorate, so will this unified feeling of friendship and love. It does not take long for the newly captured Jews to begin turning on each other; denying all that they have ever been taught about love and equality. However, this change of personality is induced by their savage treatment at the hands of the police. "They went by, fallen, draggin .....

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Nine Guardians

.... due to the Indian necromancers prophesizing her only son’s death. The death of the property was caused when an Indian committed arson on a mill building, which created an out of control fire throughout the ranch. This fire destroyed the cane harvest and most of the livestock. Murder, Arson, Mental Abuse, these are a result of oppression and the attempt of liberation from oppression. When people are oppressed for a length of time a pure hatred for the oppressor and his or her acquaintances develop .....

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No Sugar

.... faced by the Aborigines in terms of power and freedom by the use of the Nyoongah language and manipulation of other theatrical and narrative elements. The opening scene attempts to establish setting by making clear reference to the poverty the Millumara family lives in (a run down camp e.g.. of poverty, a soak where they must wash their clothes and themselves time after time) however the family appears to be cheerful and under the circumstances act much like a normal white family. This is done by D .....

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No Exit

.... with a biological and social past. He can transcend beyond that to nothingness, the realm of the etre pour soi (the “being-for-itself”). At this point he is, according to Sartre, clearheaded and in good faith. Because he is acting in good faith, he is not pursuing a fundamental project in an attempt to circumvent the possibility of anguish. The outcome of this path of good faith is that man manifests his freedom authenticates and ultimately this freedom is real. Those who do not act cle .....

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Nightmarish Themes In Edgar Al

.... way to show how Roderick Usher’s mind is cracking and how he is slowly going mad. As the story ends, the “fissure rapidly widened”(172) and the house crumbles to the ground. Also, the setting and setting add to the terror of the story. The House of Usher is a very gloomy, moss-covered house that is large and gothic looking. The weather throughout the story is gloomy and, toward the end of the story, a storm arrives. As Poe describes it, it is a “dull, dark soundless day”(p.160). The bad weather adds .....

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Never Lose Hope

.... author has two meanings in these lines. The obvious is that he can’t have hair for the fact that his hair would be full of soot. The tone change comes in where the meaning is not so obvious. The tone up to line six is mournful. Lines seven and eight also have a mournful tone in the obvious state. They connote that Tom needs to keep his head up and not let his job get to him, or simply to keep hope alive. This changes the tone to sound like he has something to look forward to in life. In line nine, there .....

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