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- 3991: Hawthornes Life Versus Life In
- ... sections. I. The Salem Custom-House and Hawthorne s doom to it. II. The Custom-House inmates. III. Surveyor Pue on his manuscript. IV. Hawthorne s escape as a citizen of somewhere else to the world of the artist (Berner 273). The first section explains the Salem House s appearance, its employees and visitors. . . the larger community of Salem, which in Hawthorne s case means his stern, disapproving ancestors. . . (Berner 273 ... to seek revenge against Hester but tells her he wants to know who she committed her crime with. Chillingsworth then requests that she not tell anyone their relation so he is not humiliated in his new surroundings. Later Hester is freed and she moves to the outskirts of town and earns a living as a seamstress and makes a fairly good living doing this. Although her work is popular with the ... for those who cannot accept their own culture and it s ideas they are left alone and must struggle to find out where they really belong. Works Cited Cantwell, Robert. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Years. New York: Rinehart,1908. Donohue, Agnes McNiell. A Casebook On The Hawthorne Question. Ed. Agnes Donohue. New York: Crowell, 1963. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Portable Hawthorne. Ed. Malcom Cowley. New York: Penguin, 1976. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The ...
- 3992: Investigating The Style And Te
- ... is a fresh and captivating novel which follows the life of Sal Paradise as he sets to the roads of America to escape the repetition of every day life. His journeys become a quest for new experiences and a new way of living, crossing both moral and legal boundaries in search for true freedom. Kerouac uses many techniques to attempt to convey the theme of personal freedom as well as to achieve freedom of expression ... Sal Paradise, as he thinks of his old friend, Dean Moriarty: So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old-broken down river pier watching the long, long skies over new New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going...all the people dreaming in the immensity of it...and tonight ...
- 3993: A Working Alternative To Capital Punishment
- ... penalty has been debated since the beginning of humankind. Today a total of 94 countries and territories use the death penalty for ordinary crime, including the United States. In the other 57 countries in the world, the death penalty no longer exists. In some of the 57 countries, capital punishment is only banned for ordinary crimes and still effective for military crimes or crimes committed in exceptional circumstances such as wartime (Doan, 2). Currently 34 of the states in the U.S. exercise capital punishment. The most recent to abolish capital punishment was Massachusetts, in 1984, and New York, in 1995, was the most recent to reinstate it, according to the NAACP. During 1977 and 1994, Texas executed the highest number of prisoners, a total of 85. As of 1996 there were 3 ... not, families of murder victims do not experience the relief they expected to feel at the execution, says Lula Redmond, a Florida therapist. (qtd. Brownlee 28). The United States is the execution capital of the world. Now isnt that something to be proud of? Katie Kondrat asks sarcastically in The Death Penalty a Just Punishment?. A killer who is killed can not kill again, but a killer in jail ...
- 3994: Birches
- ... of learning through experience. The clever choice of words in "with the same pains you use to fill a cup" he prompts the reader to remember the pain of growing up with all of the new challenges and tasks associated with growing up. Because of Frost's commitment to using nature to help people explore them, it is not surprising that the most frequent methods in his attempt to deal with ... upward, or he could refer to belief that one-day he will be reincarnated. In any case, he wished he could escape the pressures of everyday life by living or at least visiting the fantasy world he/she has created. This fantasy world is one which children in every day life create, and in which the speaker cane remember creating several years ago. The personal aspect of the poem starts in line forty-one. The speaker takes ...
- 3995: The Death Of A Criminal
- ... that approximately 1,143 prison bed spaces are needed per week due to overcrowding. To put this in an economic prospective, on the average each prisoner cost $22,000 per year, and the cost of new construction averages almost $54,000 per bed (AAE "Prison"). The 883,593 prisoners are costing the American taxpayers approximately $19.4 billion plus another $61.7 million for the construction of the 1,143 spaces ... 000) and Amount B equals the cost of the execution (negligible). We are talking about paying Amount A times the nine years spent in jail plus Amount B for the execution plus the cost for new construction during the nine years (total is approx. $690,000), as opposed to paying Amount A times an average of 60 years the prisoner would spend in jail plus the cost of new construction during an average of 60 years (total is approx. $4,560,000). Even if the prisoner spent 20 years in prison the cost would be approx. $1,520,000. How is the death ...
- 3996: Freedom of Speech: Censorship on the Internet
- ... warning labels like those on records this may serve to whet appetites. Warning labels involve some sort of judging and then the question is raised as to who shall be the judge. The Internet is world-wide so would the First Amendment apply in Germany? The material on the Internet which is grossly offensive by any standards, such as paedophile material, is extremely difficult to find because of its small amounts ... informal network of networks spanning the globe, with almost 4 million hosts, each of which may be serving anywhere between one and 2 million users. Theorists believe that by the year 2003 everyone in the world could be connected to the Internet (Treese, 1994). Alongside this growth that is aided by availability of low-cost computers, free software and inexpensive telecommunications, is the most important fact that the Internet is not ... to find a common denominator that everyone could agree upon that should be censored. Even at an individual level what is offensive to one person may not be offensive to another. This debate is not new, it is just a new medium that it is taking place over. Internet dissemination is fast, less agreeable to control by governments, it is almost global and the actual potential audience is huge. It ...
- 3997: Great Expectations 3
- A Whole New Perspective She walked toward the light. She felt a slight tug on the leash and realized that she had to stop. She guessed that the light was red and that was the reason the dog ... to read braille and getting to know her seeing eye dog, Niagara. Teaching her every pull, every tug and every sound. Niagara was her best friend and he enabled her to go out into the world with some confidence and pride. She felt that was important. The next morning she awoke, gathered her thoughts about what was happening that day and went about her normal morning routine. She made a cup ... this type of news for her entire life. She lay awake in bed that night; she couldn t fall asleep. She didn t want too. She imagined herself opening her eyes and looking at the world. She wanted to see the colour red, her mother s face, her own face. She had very mixed feelings though. She tried not to think about the repercussions of surgery. She got up and ...
- 3998: Eaters Of The Dead
- ... ones culture alive. A good proof of this is the lack of knowledge of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, the narrator of the story. He is an Arab who "knows nothing of the ways of the world" (p. 77) because he has never truly experienced the world before that day, since he does not care for adventure. Having no experience with the world and having no knowledge, Ibn Fadlan slowly learns the Northmens way of life. In the end, felt he "had been born a Northman" (p. 152), having spent much time in their company and ...
- 3999: Ethan Frome
- ... girl's beauty he thinks, "But hitherto the emotion had remained in him as silent ache, veiling with sadness the beauty that evoked it. He did not even know whether any one else in the world felt as he did, or whether any one else in the world felt as he did, or whether he was the sole victim of this mournful privilege"(17). Ethan lives in his own world of silence, where he replaces his scarcity of words with imaginations and fantasies. For years Ethan and his wife live in silence and seclusion. Ultimately, the total lack of communication between the silent couple ...
- 4000: Herman Melville
- ... greatest and most influential novelists; known primarily as the author of Moby Dick. He belonged to a group of eminent pre-Civil War writers-American Romantics or members of the American Renaissance-who created a new and vigorous national literature. He is one of the notable examples of an American author whose work went largely unrecognized in his own time and died in obscurity. American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized. Melville was born August 1, 1819, in New York City, into a family that had declined in the world. The Gansevoorts were solid, stable, eminent, prosperous people; the (Hermans Fathers side) Melvilles were somewhat less successful materially, possessing an unpredictable. erratic, mercurial strain. (Edinger 6). This difference between the Melvilles and Gansevoorts was ...
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