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- 6661: A Night To Remember
- ... that seemed to be coming from the inside of the ship. All but a few cared about it - if they even heard it. The ship's reputation would hold up to some grinding noise any day. So after a while the word got around that they had, in fact, stuck an iceberg. Surprisingly no one cared and everyone went back to bed. The captain of the Titanic could if in emergency ... One person took a Bible that was given to him by his brother. But almost all of the people (being of the upper class) took jewelry and money. At 12:15 A.M. the next day, the first wireless call for help was made. The water was getting higher and higher. The departing said their final good-byes. Soon the Titanic would be under the great Atlantic Ocean. So they would ...
- 6662: The Effect of Major Symbolic Elements in The Yellow Wallpaper
- ... while she is there. In this way the house still is the cocoon for her major change that will take place. The house does not take the form of the conventional symbol of security for day to day activities of a woman, but it does allow for and contain her transformation. The house also facilitates her release, accommodating her, her writing, and her thoughts. These two activities evolve because of the fact that ...
- 6663: Portfolio Piece
- ... and son in a hunting accident many years ago. Every night she sets the table and makes dinner for them, expecting them to walk through the door after coming back from a hard and successful day of hunting. Every night ends disappointment for the character, as they never come home. Through her actions she shows this quote. Not in the same way as Atticus but she shows it by keeping faith. Long ago she probably accepted that they weren't coming back but every day she continues to keep faith that they will. This is how she's courageous. To be courageous you have to be able to accept something or keep faith in something. I feel these stories's ...
- 6664: Young Goodman Brown - Symbolism
- ... heart. This was a dreadful revelation that caused Brown to grow bitter and distrustful. Puritan communities, secured by their orthodox faith, dealt with the ungodly wilderness around them. Set in Salem during the early witchcraft day of then, Young Goodman Browns experience in the dark, evil forest correlated and would have been recognized by Puritans as a symbol of mistrust of their own corrupt hearts and faculties. Just as man ... its roots from the protestant work ethic. The ethic, in general, says that you must work hard to please God and compete for a place in heaven. This story is about such people. The modern day person has taken this work ethic and given it a greedy twist. People of today fight for position, status or power just as much as the pioneer puritans worshipped and studied the bible. Hawthorne uses ...
- 6665: Analysis Of Platos Simile Of T
- ... speaking. In comparison of this to our government today, many similarities can be seen. Citizens of our nation today are often blinded from the truths that are presented before them. They live their lives from day to day just knowing and accepting what is being presented to them blindly and have no concept of the reality that lies behind what they are presented. Unless these people are freed and allowed to find the ...
- 6666: Anderson I Want To Know Why
- ... racial boundaries. The introductory paragraph with its masterly structure accounts for the story's gripping power. The narrator brings us vividly into the story as "we got up at four in the morning, that first day in the east". He and his friends "with the true instinct of Kentucky boys had found our way across town and to the race tracks and stables at once". The love of horses, as the ... beauty can rescue ordinary lives. The narrator convinces himself that he can always pick a winner, "It's in my blood like in the blood of race track niggers and trainers." The excitement of race day dawns and "then the bugle blows for post and the boys that ride come running out with their silk clothes on and you run to get a place by the fence with the niggers." The ...
- 6667: Macbeth
- ... respect in the beginning of "Macbeth". The Sergeant described Macbeth's honor and bravery to king Duncan in act I, scene 2. "For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name- Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave;..." Macbeth defended his king's honor as well as his own, as Shakespeare showed a good ... warrior. Macbeth's last words are those of a good man who faces his own problems. To Macduff he shouts his last words, "Before my bodyI throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!" Like a bear, Macbeth regains his seat of honor, and becomes in his last breath, a good man.
- 6668: The Black Plague
- ... to stay out of the port for forty days. This stopped plague infested individuals from bringing the plague ashore, and if the plague was present on the ship, it would die out during the forty day quarantine. Doctors wore protective gear to prevent themselves from being infected (Nardor 53). Among the most vivid accounts of the Black Plague's origins and symptoms are those of its earliest survivors. The early symptoms ... after death. Severe hemorrhage takes place under the skin after death causing the body to look black. This is where the plague received one of its many names, The Black Death (Platt 101). To this day, there is a popular nursery rhyme that arose from the plague. Ring around the rosy, Pocket full of poseys, Ashes, ashes, We all fall down. "Ring around the rosy" refers to the rosary beads that ...
- 6669: Dont Get Too Close Ordinary Pe
- ... not to get to close to them. Slowly through the novel Conrad seems to start to get closer to people but the has his lapses hear and there. On pg. 110 after having a great day going to get the Christmas tree he comes home and is torn apart by his mother. Beth makes such a big deal about Conrad quitting the swim team that a shouting match starts. In response ... effort into his relationships and seems as if he wants to be intimate now. Everything seems to be going well, his relationship with his dad, relationship with Jeannine and his relationship with Burger until one day while reading the newspaper he finds that Karen had killed herself. At that he seems to lose hope. This makes him think about Buck again and seems to bring him back to the way he ...
- 6670: Miss Massey
- ... London. This may not be correct, but I know of no other English city with an Underground). Miss Massey and her situation is not unusual in London. There are many destitute people living on a day-to-day basis just like herself. We Danes are not used to seeing homeless people walking around in the streets here in Denmark, but in London this is a normal sight. Some of them have chosen to ...
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