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- 13001: Johnny Got His Gun
- ... heaven is an index of creative, imaginative limitation, whereas the conceivability of earth circumscribes the ordinary scope of the human imagination" (Contemporary Vol. 5 451). Man believes that through religion and worship they will one day reach the greatest truth and the greatest extent of existence. Religion, immortality, and morality are all issues that John Updike addresses in his writings. He shows that they are all intricately connected to mankind’s ...
- 13002: January Chance
- ... time, and train. The first stanza of the poem begins talking about the relationship between the two passengers. "All afternoon before them, father and boy" tells a reader that they are together early in the day or, metaphorically, early in their lives. Also, as stated above, the father and son do not share a closeness, and maybe this is why it is so important for the father to try and start ...
- 13003: Jane Eyre - Setting
- ... combed from their faces, not a curl visible; in brown dresses, made high, and surrounded by a narrow tucker about the throat" (79). The food was bad and did not smell much better, but, one day, Miss Temple took it upon herself to treat the girls to cheese and bread. This was against school policy because the school was funded through charity and did not have a lot of money to ...
- 13004: Depression 5
- ... feeling tired and stop eating Acts self-confident and express optimism even when the situation doesn’t warrant it affected individuals may experience delusions of grandeur such as connections with a political figure or G-d, or may believe the laws of nature do not apply to them. Begin many projects at once without the wherewithal to complete them. They may become highly distracted by insignificant details. Buy impulsively and excessively ...
- 13005: Jane Eyre - Critical Evaluation
- ... at Lowood. At the age of eighteen she seeks independence and becomes governess at Thornfield Hall. Over time, Jane falls in love with its master, Edward Rochester, who eventually proposes to her. On their wedding day, the sermon is abruptly halted by the announcement that Rochester’s insane wife is kept locked up in the attic of Thornfield. Jane runs away. Penniless and almost starving, Jane roams the countryside in search ...
- 13006: Jane Eyre
- ... an independence of mind, another quality that Jane wishes to acquire. The extent of Miss Temple’s influence on Jane can be seen by the way she reacts to Miss Temple’s departure, "from the day she left I was no longer the same: with her was gone every settled feeling that made Lowood in some degree a home to me" and without the presence of Miss Temple there to guide ...
- 13007: Jamestown
- ... he could only commit them to God's mercies and leave it at that. The sadness of this letter have remained his testament from its publication in the new "Principal Navigations" in 1600 to this day. For White the colony was lost indeed. Assuming that the party awaiting White's return left and went to Croatoan, they probably would not have made anymore contact with the rest of the colony. So ...
- 13008: Jack London’s Apparent Conflic
- ... child, London passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. (Walcutt 8) At the age of 17, he ventured to sea on a sealing ship. The turning point of his life was a thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it made him decide to turn to education and pursue a career in writing. His years in the Klondike searching for gold left their mark in his best short stories ...
- 13009: Macbeth And Fear
- ... see what fear can do to a person, it made Macbeth mad for power which he ended up getting. But after the first of his crimes the rest became easier for him, pretty soon he'd just order it and not think twice. That was not the case when he first murdered Duncan. All though the play his fear of being caught, and the witches prophecies coming true make him do ...
- 13010: Invisible Man
- ... stands in line in the post office for hours with people continually pushing in front of her, and when she finally reaches the window, the clerk looks about, and seeing no one, closes for the day. Certified hypno-therapist (possibly a pseudo-scientist, possibly a doctor – strictly a judgement call) Donna Higbee wrote a web paper entitled "Human Spontaneous Involuntary Invisibility" in which she related the above story and others. She ...
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