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- 15261: The Great Gatsby: Morality and Gatsby
- ... me that she wanted to speak to us, thought we were somebody she knew." (Fitzgerald 151) Daisy and Gatsby tried to hide the fact that they hit and killed Myrtle Wilson while driving home from New York. Nick Carraway, however, knew the truth and had to decide if he was going to help hide the truth or let Daisy and Gatsby suffer the consequences. “I don't think that anybody saw ... However, there is one thing that is the same. Morality is a judgment call determined by each person, there are no set rules. WORKS CITED 1. Fitzgerald, Scott F. The Great Gatsby. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1925
- 15262: The Bluest Eyes - A Search For Identity
- ... that is never there for her daughters. Pacola is a little black girl has a hard time finding herself. Brought up as a poor unwanted girl, she desires the acceptance and love of society. The world has led her to believe that she is ugly and that the epitome of "beautiful" requires blue eyes. Every night before she goes to sleep, she prays that may she wake up with blue eyes ... and love on her white charges. However she fails to realize that by committing herself to a servant's life that's all she will ever amount to be - a black servant in a white world. Pecola's search for identity was defined by her everlasting desire to be loved. Her purpose in life was to be beautiful and as a result of that to be loved. Her family and community ...
- 15263: Free Will Vs. Fate In The Open
- ... where we are is a product of our past. Another view that is commonly suggested is fate. Fate can be considered your destiny, what you are going to become. It is a predetermined future. The world can be looked at like it is a giant play and everyone is here to just act out their part and then die. There are many arguments that can be used to ratify both of ... to (1) accomplish great things and proving that a persons free will decides there future. In The Open Boat naturalism comes into play as, once again, humans are shown insignificant to the forces of their world. As their first attempt at getting to shore fails they begin to feel they are not going to make it. They are asking why fate has allowed them to come so close before their lives ...
- 15264: Character Analysis Of Anse Bun
- ... oblivious to other people and the way they feel. Anse is very selfish and greedy but he uses his own justifications for it. An example is when he stole Dewey Dell s money for his new false teeth. He says that he deserves teeth to eat god s own victuals and this is his reasoning for being a penny pincher and taking advantage of other people. He wouldn t even by ... to help him, just as he does when he wants a shovel. The most self-centered thing that Anse does is remarry immediately. Addie wasn t even buried for a day before Anse found a new replacement for her. He doesn t even grieve. This proves that Anse Bundren is all words just as Addie said. If he meant that he loved her, he would have at least waited before remarrying ...
- 15265: Secret Addiction
- ... and this was on school nights as well. I never really realized how serious this was, until one day my best friend Trevor called me up on the phone. He told me about a hot new movie that was out, and I found myself making an excuse as to why I could not make it. But of course, the real reason was because I had work to do on the computer. However, the only work I had to do was to play that incredible new video game that was just released. It wasn't until that situation where I finally woke up out of my trance, and discovered something that completely blew me away -- I really did not have a ...
- 15266: The Differences in Fathers
- ... father. The word immaculate may seem positive at first glance, but this also can refer to something that is beyond the touch. A thing that is immaculate is set apart from the rest of the world. The entire family may have viewed her father in this manner. He was a man that was his own individual, set apart from his own family. Cofer uses language that portrays her father as some ... symbol you put on a pedestal and never relate to. Cofer also uses words that reflect how little she may have seen this man. For example "he was an apparition on leave from a shadow-world"(4) and "for the flash of white....". (12) The words such as apparition, shadow, and flash bring to mind a man that is seen only for very brief periods. An apparition is a ghost that ...
- 15267: Crucible
- ... Two Mondays, Incident at Vichy, and The Price. He wrote these plays in a period of twenty-one years. It was from 1947 to 1968. Arther Miller was born on October 17, 1915 in Harlem, New York City. He is the second son of Isadore Miller who manufacture of women's clothing and Augusta Barnett Miller. Many characters in Arther Miller's plays are modeled after his older brother Kermit Miller ... interested in literature after reading dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamaou". Then he was refused admission to the University of Michigan because he had too low of grades. Then he went and worked on his families new garment business. That's when he wrote his fist piece of work "In Memoriam" which was never published. Then in1934 he was admitted into the University of Michigan after he wrote a persuasive letter to ...
- 15268: Shakespeare's Definition of a Ghost
- ... identity and played off of the confusion, making the question of identity a key theme to his play. Throughout Hamlet Shakespeare explores each of the possible identities of the ghost with each one adding a new twist to Hamlet's plight. When news of the ghost's presence first reaches Hamlet and Horatio, they declare it an omen of forthcoming evil. Hamlet's reaction indicates that he is not surprised, "My ... to see it as the devil disguised as his dead father. Within a relatively short period of time, Hamlet emotionally changes from extreme trust to extreme distrust. While at first he anxiously seeks revenge, his new view of the ghost causes him to ask questions and doubt the necessity of such an attack on Claudius. Hamlet starts to consider the consequences of his actions and the possibility of damnation: . . . The spirit ...
- 15269: Memory
- ... those are all forms of memory , long term or short. If you do not remember anything from the past , you would never learn; thus unable to process. Without memory you would simply be exposed to new and unfamiliar things . Life would be absent and bare of the richness of it happy or sorrow. Many scientists are still unsure of all that happens and what and how memory works. They are certain , though , that it is involvement of chemical changes in the brain which changes the physical structure (Loftus p. 392). It has been found after many research , that new memory is stored in a section of the brain called the hippocampus (Loftus p. 392). Memory is acquired by a series of solidifying events , but more research is still needed to discover and fully understand ...
- 15270: Livvie
- ... Baby Marie and Cash shine a little light on the story. They both kind of persuade Livvie to go out and explore life a little more. Marie does so by showing Livvie what the outer world has to offer. Example about cosmetics, Livvie gets so excited about the color of the lipstick. It must remind her of something in life. Cash’s youth attracts Livvie. The setting also plays a significant ... have looked so closely at him, but the time people come makes a difference" (519). Cash shows up at the time. Solomon is dying and Livvie is ready to go out and see what the world has to offer. Welty uses great symbols to support the theme. One example of symbolism that Welty provides is the bottle trees. The bottle trees were suppose to keep evil spirits Watt 3 way. In ...
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