The House On Bluestone Road
.... they see a mysterious figure sleeping on a tree stump close to their home. The girl sleeping on the stump looked very tired and in need of help. When Sethe asks the girl what her name is, she replies by saying it is Beloved. This comes as great shock, because that is what Sethe had wrote on her dead child’s tombstone.
Beloved soon ends up staying with the family for months. Mysteriously Paul D leaves the house. Beloved becomes strongly attached to Sethe. Soon peculiar things start to occur. Thin .....
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Foreshadowing
.... family will meet up with the Misfit. This is a writing technique that some writer’s use to give the reader small clues of who they might meet up with in the later part of there stories.
Another thing forshadowing can add to a story can clue the reader in on what will happen to the characters. A good example from O’Conners story is when she is describing what the grandmother is wearing then adds this line, “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lad .....
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The Iliad
.... shares of the loot and a woman. The woman King Agamemnon was awarded was the daughter of Chryses, a priest of Apollo. Chryses came to the tents of the Grecians bringing a great ransom and asked for his daughter, Chrysies, back. Agamemnon ignored his pleas and sent him away. Chryses left and went down to the ocean and prayed to Apollo to avenge his tears. Apollo heard his prayer and, furious, came down from Mt. Olympus. He sat upon a hill and started to attack the Grecians with his arrows. This went on fo .....
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Zeus’ Authoritative Determination
.... two most powerful kings are set in opposition and by using the word claims, Achilles implies that he himself is the greatest Achian, not Agamemnon. To punish Achilles, Agamemnon takes away his prize, Briseis, and makes an example of Achilles so that, “another man may shrink back/ from likening himself to me and contending against me” ( 1. 186-7). At this point Achilles’ heart is filled with menis (divine anger or wrath), and he vows to punish all of the Achains. This total anger is part of Zeus’ plan .....
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Metaphors, Exaggeration, And Alliteration In Beowulf
.... "The Geatish hero", and "The Lord of the Seamen". These kennings describe Beowulf to us in a more interesting way than just stating the hard facts. Without these kennings Beowulf would be less interesting and we would learn less about him. Anybody would say that describing or referring to a person by his or her name over and over again is boring. So the use of kennings and metaphors is very important in this long epic poem.
Exaggeration is another device to make Beowulf a more interesting, entertaining, .....
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Types Of Learning
.... is when an event or stimuli triggers a conditioned response. Let me give you an example. Let’s say you eat everyday at twelve o’clock. You look at your watch and then go eat. After awhile you can just look at your watch, know that you’re hungry and start to salivate. Without seeing any food. This is classical conditioning. There is a way to reverse this but it is quite extensive.
Observable learning is a very good way to learn for many people. Have you ever been sitting in a class and been stuc .....
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Humiliation For Humbleness?
.... Severally to be laid upon her naked back at the Common Whipping post."
These were several examples Jacoby provided. Currently, we as a society, read about these situations and we are appalled. Even if he or she is guilty, the citizens of this country cannot stand for this kind of punishment. This type of punishment is believed to be barbaric. We are civilized and mature, we are able to correct these criminals with other non-violent processes. "We now practice a more enlightened, more humane way of .....
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Winter
.... sang a somber song. I heard the icicles falling into the slow-moving river as Canadian Geese made their presence known. Their honking voices made my spine shiver with the reality of the dreary season upon me. From afar I heard the faint whisper of car engines driving slowly on the slippery roads. The silence of the fields immediately surrounding me was broken with the roaring of snowmobiles making trails and children’s laughter as their sleds neared where I was standing. The laughter ceased as the sl .....
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Different Ideologies And What I Believe In
.... used for. A helicopter saw the weed growing and reported it; police officers went there and arrested the man and his son. To make a long story short the man told his side of the story to the judge and the judge purposefully gave him just probation knowing that he would smoke and still grow weed.
When asking me "What do you believe in," I found it pretty hard to narrow down my strongest beliefs. I think my parents did a fantastic job of raising me and showing me how to get along with everybody re .....
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Transformation Power Of Love
.... affair. Then, when the vacation is over, they return to their homes and unhappy marriages. Love that started between them changed their lives forever. They returned to their homes as different persons, with new aspirations, attitudes, hopes and goals.
In the story the person who undergoes the major change is Dmitri Gurov. When Dmitri first saw Anna, all he wanted was to have fun. His first thought was “If she’s here without her husband, and without any friends, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make her .....
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"To Build A Fire"
.... things that eventually lead to his death. It affects his ability to think clearly, his awareness and his memory.
The first area which is affected by the cold is the mans memory. This is shown when the man sits down for lunch, removes his mittens and unzipped his jacket. "The action consumed no more than a quater of a minute, yet in that brief moment the numbness laid hold of the exposed fingers" (p.227). Then the man strikes his fingers against his leg and is immediately met with a sharp pain. He t .....
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Patriarchy In 1001 Nights And A Midsummer Night’s Dream
.... never given a choice in the matter, but another common motif in fairy tales is when the princess conveniently falls in love with the man her father has chosen for her. In other stories, the supposedly patriarchal social structure in the land, is really held by a female; however, in most of these stories, the female wielding the power is usually using that social power for evil against the underdog daughter.
In 1001 Nights, the original power rested with the king of the land, since he was the one .....
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An Analysis Of Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”
.... log and opens her eyes when she is across. Along her journey she comes upon a barbed-wire fence. She crawls and creeps through to only come across a field of dead corn. There she comes before a scarecrow that she mistakes for death. She laughs at herself for thinking that the scarecrow was a ghost. Continuing on her path she bends down to drink from a spring of water. Being unaware a dog jumps on top of her and she lands in a ditch. A white hunter encounters her and helps her out. As they converse .....
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Analysis Of A Worn Path
.... strength and bravery. She knows her mission is to get to town, and she does not let anything discourage her.
As Phoenix arrives in town, she realizes that her eyesight alone is not good enough to lead her through the streets. Instead of giving up and turning back, however, she decides to rely on her feet to get her where she needs to go. Before she starts on her walk through town, Phoenix discovers that her shoe lace is untied and politely asks a lady on the street if she could tie it for her. She sh .....
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I Pledge Allegiance To The Flag...
.... to me is very hard to answer. The flag stood for freedom, liberty, and justice for all. Battles that had ensured our freedom had been fought over the star spangled banner. Victory as a nation over the English, the Spanish, and the Southerners who wanted to keep their slaves, the Axis who wanted to take over the world, and the Germans who were burning the Jews. Each time we fought we emerged victorious, each time the flag was still there -- a symbol of those who had fought for us, and those who ha .....
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