THE GRAPES OF WRATH
.... of these farms were relatively small
(Reische 51). Technological advances in the 1920's brought a variety of effects. The
use of machinery increased productivity while reducing the need for as many farm laborers.
The industrial boom of the 1920s drew many workers off the farm and into the cities.
Machinery, while increasing productivity, was very expensive. Demand for food, though,
stayed relatively constant (Long 85). As a result of this, food prices went down. The
small farmer was no l .....
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The Innocent Adventure
.... and it correlates with any time period and any situation.
The Call to Adventure is the first of the Cosmogonic Cycle. It is the actual "call to adventure" that one receives to begin the cycle. In The Adventures of Huck Finn, Huck is forced with the dilemma of whether to stay with his father and continue to be abused or to leave. Huck goes because he desires to begin his journey. In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden mentally is torn between experience and innocence, it would seem to him that an .....
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Walt Whitmen
.... that Leaves of Grass had grown with his
own intellectual development. Calamus, a section of poems
in Leaves of Grass is a section talking about love and
friendship. Poems in Calamus have been put in and taken out
through the years with the revisions of the book. Two poems
that can be found in Calamus today are “I Saw in Louisiana a
Live-Oak Growing” and “To a Stranger.” These two poems have
not been Calamus together since the beginning of the book,
but now they are together and very simi .....
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Oppression
.... and makes it nonexistent. Oppression is what makes life hard. It tests you to see if you will make the stand for freedom, or be oppressed. African-Americans were oppressed for hundreds of years, and when it couldn’t get any worse, they found and fought with their leaders for what they believed in, freedom. Both the Egyptians and Hitler oppressed Jews for 5000 years, when he decided to wipe out their entire race. Women were oppressed for many years until they decided to fight for equality. Oppression .....
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Archetypes
.... and in a way at war with himself. He shows a great deal of distress throughout the whole play.
When the ghost first appears to him, he is shocked. He does not know weather or not to believe what he is told. He is very weary about the whole situation. Hamlet constantly shows signs of tension with himself.
The famous “to be or not to be” soliloquy is a prime example of how Hamlet is at war with himself. He is so much troubled that he thinks about ending his own life. Thus showing a sign of violence. .....
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The Power And The Glory
.... priest…I know from experience-how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell.”(p.130) When he is arrested the priest says to a soldier, “You mustn’t think they are like me…It’s just that I’m a bad priest.”(p.191).
In addition to recognizing their betrayal of God, they believe that a sacred life is the ultimate victory. The speaker confesses, “Yet dearly I love you and would be loved fain.”(ln.9) The priest also desires to love God above all, “He knew now at the end there was only one thing .....
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Dress Code
.... sneakers or jewelry.
There are many clothes in fashion for boys and girls which are not appropriate for school
dress. Good taste and common sense should dictate parental and student choice of school
clothes. The school will determine what is not appropriate dress, even if it conforms to
current fashion. Also, school dress should not be viewed as a daily fashion show.
In this essay I had many compelling reason why there should be dress codes for
students. I think that schools should have dress cod .....
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ENGLISH
.... and and did other thi8ngs to make himself look tough.
"Boy, I sat at that goddam bar till around one o'clock or so, getting drunk
as a bastard. I could hardly see straight." Holden tried all he
could to try to be cool he was faking it just to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life l to make it
seem he was like he knew of his habits. I myself have found me doing this
at times, also. I, at times, feel the need to fit in to a group and do
things similar to what others do in order .....
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Macbeth, Act 4 Scene 2 Importa
.... and kill all of Macduff's family leaving no one alive. When Macduff receives the message he gets raged and swore to kill Macbeth. This is how the fate of Macbeth is written and how Macbeth kind of wrote his own death warrant by doing a point less evil act of greed and lust of power. Macbeths power went so high into his head, which he couldn't keep control of it and finally ended with his life.
This scene is the one where the fate of Macbeth's life is written. Also shows how paranoid and ins .....
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Signifigance Of Disease And Pl
.... friend Horaito. Ophelia does not know he is only
acting for the possible spies, and takes everything Hamlet says seriously. “Ophelia says I
was the more deceived”[III.i.118]. After a while of this, including Hamlet yelling at her,
the death of her father Polonious by the hands of Hamlet, Ophelia goes insane. This is very
noticeable because she is constantly singing and her appearance is also more ragged and
dirty. She does not even notice her own brother, Laertes, when he returns from school. .....
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Lord Of The Flies Summary Of C
.... is the only boy who sees the truth. Roger (German for “spear”) represents the
worst that develops in people when there is no civilization to keep them in line. Roger
despises civilization and sees it as a hindrance to what he wants. Sam and Eric represent
loss of identity through fear of the beast. They slowly stop acting independently and begin
to act as one entity.
Key Passage of the Chapter:
pg. 108 “The clamor broke out...” about 1/3 down the page
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Two Works By Anton Chekhov
.... In “A Visit to Friends,” Podgorin desires to be left alone, so he goes to the garden. Here, he feels peace and comfort. Chekhov shows the impact of nature and uses it to develop strong natural imagery.
In conclusion, Chekhov’s interpretation of family and nature can be found in both “A Visit to Friends” and The Cherry Orchard. Also, the settings in both stories are similar. Furthermore, one could even say that the plot itself is almost identical. “A Visit to Friends” and The Cherry Orchard .....
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The Beckhams
.... months. They did not make it fair and square –not through their own hard work and dedication. The Beckhams did not sponge off anyone or wait for a parent to die or trade off a famous name or good connections. This is why Victoria gets so much more attention drawn to her than say Palmer Tomkinson the sort of person who would be a nobody if they had not been related to a somebody.
It’s hard to believe that two young successful people who are completely devoted to each other anger so many people much mo .....
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The Aeneid
.... they are to women by making Dido
forget about her duties just for Aeneas.
We can also see a lack of confidence by the people of Carthage. The people of
Carthage feel like they don’t have a leader and are being left to fend for themselves.
They feel Dido is not paying any attention to her city, only Aeneas. The effect of this is
that the reader feels that Dido should stop goofing around and pay attention to her city. It
makes the characters look down on the queen, and begin to loose fait .....
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Clockwork Orange
.... and conditions of the local jail, " So I was kicked and punched and bullied off to the cells and put in with about ten or twelve other plennies, a lot of them drunk"(Burgess 81). Unlike the fair treatment of most juveniles Alex was finally getting the taste of adult corrections, being held in a drunk tank along with other felons. Faced with the reality of prison life, Alex is introduced to prisonization by the same system which incarcerated him. Showing him one must be tough and violent to survive .....
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