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- 5681: Wuthering Heights
- ... main characters involved are residents of two opposing households: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Wuthering Heights is a tale of a powerful love between two people, which transcends all boundaries, including that between life and death. The author, Emily Bronte, uses parallelism in this novel. Much of what happens in the first half of the story corresponds to events in the second half. This parallelism also extends to the characters; the ... Heathcliff, Cathy was transformed from a bright, cheerful young girl into the sullen, foul-tempered person Lockwood meets during his first visit to the Heights. Heathcliff saw Cathy as the cause of her mother’s death and she represented Catherine’s betrayal of their love. Cathy inspired many feelings of rage from Heathcliff. For instance, when she accused him of stealing her property he burst out, "[D]amnable witch! Off with ...
- 5682: Wiseblood
- ... confronted would invoke both fear and embarassment within most ten-year-olds. Not only was the body nude, but it was inside a casket as well. The author parallels this vulgar display of sexuality with death itself. But Hazel reacted to more than just the sight of the object. He at once realizes that he was not supposed to watch the naked lady, that it was sinful to do so. He ... who is surprisingly similar to Hazel’s one-time mistress, Leora Watts. Sexuality comes in the form of a corpse, an allusion not to be missed. The narrator depicts Sexuality as being analogous to spiritual death. In this episode, however, one sees more than just the grotesque. Enoch Emery introduces us to the grimmer side of sexuality, a side in which a predator spies on an unknowing woman, and gains pleasure ...
- 5683: Wild Meat And The Bully Burgers
- ... s as if the rest of the students expect her to be smart just because she is Japanese. Lovey is supposed to write her own obituary for her English class. It gets her thinking about death, and consequently she thinks about it all the time. Lovey dreams and fantasizes about being haole. She thinks up of the perfect house with all the trimmings. She wants to marry a haole so she ... person that keeps Lovey happy and together. He has a brother names Larry that always picks on them and hurts them physically. Jerry and Lovey are the best of friends, they love each other to death. Hubert (Inky) Nariyoshi- Lovey's father. He is her inspiration, and what she tries to imitate. She always tries to please him, and be just like him. Hubert loses his eyesight and becomes depressed. Lovey ...
- 5684: White Fang
- ... ever-growing underground slavery prison camps. The greed for money and profit is the only need for this "prison camp"; the dog-fighting gambling is their prison cell. A comparison between the bulldog Cherokee and death itself can be made. Once death has you, there is no way of escaping. When Cherokee had White Fang gripped between his jaws, "There was no escaping that grip. It was like Fate itself, and was inexorable," (London 139). Surely enough ...
- 5685: West Side Story
- ... Side Story that had to do with the types of people, their races and sex. Sometimes prejudice can be in small doses and can be meaningless, other times prejudice can be very serious and cause death. Prejudice was the theme of this story, there are many examples. For instance, an act of prejudice in West Side Story was the Puerto Ricans disliking the Americans and vice versa. The PR's diskliked ... was fumbling with something in the dark. This was clearly an act of prejudice against African Americans. Then the fact that white cops were beating on the blacks at the rally because of that mans death. People are allowed to have their opinions, but to act out in a violent way and to get away with it, now that is a disgrace.
- 5686: Aristotles Life
- ... his followers were called peripatetic, which is Greek for walking. The reason for this name was because Aristotle did most of his teaching while he was walking with his students. After Alexander the Great s death in 323 BC, Aristotle was charge with impiety by the Athenians, which was a similar crime that was brought upon another philosopher, Socrates. Worried that he would be set to death for this charge, Aristotle fled to the city of Chalcis. A year after his arrival in Chalcis, Aristotle died (World Book 663). Aristotle s Physics Aristotle work on basically all of the basic known subjects ...
- 5687: Depression 2
- ... amounts of what society believes to be “cool” can lead to low self esteem for those who do not fit the profile (Koltsov 2). Other external triggers include a fear of failure, separation from family, death of a parent or lover, divorce, or a life altering illness. It is also important to know that in some cases depression can strike for no obvious reason (deprression-net.com 2). Depression is often ... com 5). The World Health Organization predicts that depression will be the greatest burden of ill health to the developing world by the year 2020. It is predicted to be the second largest cause of death and disability (depression-net 1). Will the new millennium spawn a new breed of ill mannered, drug intoxicated, depressed individuals? Depression is the most common mental disorder in the world today, and yet there are ...
- 5688: The Crucible - Conscience
- ... by the Court is now directly opposite to the inner, the organic conscience that John Proctor feels. John Proctor seeks to serve his own conscience rather than that of the Court, and pays the penance: death. Is conscience an organic part of the human being? Elizabeth Proctor exclaims, fittingly, "I am not your judge, I cannot be." John Proctor has paid the penance for rejecting the conscience of the state, death, but he can perceive himself as a good and righteous person according to his own vision of decent conduct. The transition is complete. Whilst the witch–hunt has destroyed the theocratic, absolute–morality conscience Salem ...
- 5689: Upton Sinclair
- ... to his heart, believing that it is only political things that can save his kind. "Springtime and Harvest" was one of Upton’s best writings besides "The Jungle." This story was written right after the death of his wife. This is a very sorrowful and mourning story. It was not Upton’s usual type of writing. This story was based on a family’s struggle to get things ready for harvesting ... about the struggles and trials they went through in the spring so they could have a good crop. These stories are totally different in style and in form. Upton’s writing changed dramatically after the death of his wife. "The Jungle" was written to inform and to teach people about what was happening with their daily food products. "Springtime and Harvest" was written to show struggles and trials people go through ...
- 5690: Infectious Diseases
- ... is not able too naturally fight off. STDS can be very serious and painful and may have long term health consequences including sterility, chronic infection, scarring of a woman's fallopian tubes, cancer, and even death. These diseases affect men and women of all backgrounds and economic levels. A conservative estimate predicts that STDS will affect one in four sexually active Americans and Canadians at some time during their life. Nearly ... carriers of the disease. It is then years later that the symptoms of the disease appear, often after doing much damage to the liver. It is through these means that Chronic HB can lead to death through cirrhosis or cancer of the liver. What adds to the growing public concern is that a Chronic HB carrier does not show symptoms and may easily pass along the disease without any knowledge of ...
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