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- 13021: Iliad By Homer
- ... lost. Considering the ability to affect feelings with similes, and the one-sided view of history, Homer could be using similes to guide the reader in the direction of his personal views, ashappens with modern day political "spin". These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor Troy. It could easily be imagined that throughout time, only great things were heard about the Greeks mettle ...
- 13022: Crucible Character Analysis On
- ... is accused of being the chief devil helper (114-120). Once again, Proctor tries to do good but is falsely accused and is represented as a tragic hero. Proctor denies being a witch until the day of his death. He comes close to confessing to witchcraft but realizes that it disgraces his good name and it’s all that he will leave his children. Proctor says, “ I have three children—how ...
- 13023: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- 1. What Does Marguerite observe about the cotton pickers? She notices that their attitudes depend on the time of day. She says in the morning they are full of life and in the evening they are tired out and dismal from all the work. 2. Why do white people seem un-real to Marguerite? She ...
- 13024: I Am The Cheese
- ... The Farmer in the Dell," which contains the lyrics from the title, is a meaningful song for Adam, who often reminisces about his father. "‘It's our song,' he says. I can remember how he'd pick me up when I was just a kid and swing me almost to the ceiling, singing..."(P29) The title of this novel, I am the Cheese, is associated intriguingly to the complex story. The ...
- 13025: Snowmachines: How It Started
- ... east who would brave the cold found a new kind of recreation. (SnowGoer,dec,98) The first snowmachines were a very crude track and engine over forty years the snowmachine has evolved into what to day is very populare and profitable sport. The queation that I asked was why are so many people out there doing this sport. The weather is cold and the machines are not cheap. (www.snowwest.com ...
- 13026: Huckleberry Finn - Superstition
- ... ve lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep of bad luck when you'd killed a spider."(Twain 5). In chapter four Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. So Huck goes to Jim to ask him why Pap is here. Jim gets a hair-ball that is ...
- 13027: Huckleberry Finn - Satirical Plot
- ... anyway just because the government let one very intelligent black professor vote. Even if Mark Twain is to compare Pap to black Jim who literally thinks about and mentions his family and children every single day. Pap doesn't even deserve to be compared to a kind and warm-hearted slave. The only time a Pap feel it is necessary to visit Huck is when he needs money, which leads to ...
- 13028: Huckleberry Finn - Life On The River
- ... up’ and ‘smiling in the sun’ particularly emphasise the freshness of the scene. Huck’s use of personification ‘everything smiling in the sun’ depicts the contentment that everything around him is experiencing as a new day begins and the sun comes out. A direct contrast to the first paragraph is the second, describing the disgusting nature of a town along the river and the streets within it. The paragraph begins with ...
- 13029: Farmers' Discontent in the 1800s
- ... the facts refute many of Weaver's charges against the monopolies. While it is true that many used questionable means to achieve their monopoly, many were not out to crush competitors. To the contrary, John D. Rockefeller, head of Standard Oil, competed ruthlessly not to crush other refiners but to persuade them to join Standard Oil and share the business so all could profit. Furthermore, the fear that the monopolies would ...
- 13030: Huckleberry Finn - Freedom
- ... 19-23 Huck confronts his father who spends some time with the judge and stops drinking, but begins again. So, as his freedom isn’t taken. Ch.: 24 "So he watched out for me one day and catched me and took me up over the river." Hucks father once again takes his freedom away, but he gets it back by living the good life in the woods, for a while. Ch ...
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