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- 5731: Red Badge Of Courage
- ... is a support system that Henry has, then loses throughout this time period in his life. All through the war Henry questions his courage and bravery. He wonders if he will turn and run when death is looking him in the eyes, or if he will decide to stay and do what he came to do; prove that he is a man and can handle even death itself. During battle several soldiers are wounded earning their "red badge of courage" and Henry's confident, Jim Conklin, dies. Here is where Henry's second isolation, the isolation from his regiment, occurs. The soldiers ...
- 5732: Rebecca
- ... probably loved her most of them all. She devoted all her life to raise and help and make her the woman she knew she would never become herself. She and Rebecka were very close. Rebeckas death was an extremly hard crush to Mrs Danvers. Like a mother who loses her one and only child who was her everything. But she always feels Rebeckas presence and therefore keeps the house as it ... everything so perfect and then this? But there was something else. She had a deadly disease wich would take her life in six months with pain. That changed things. She was no longer afraid of death. Her smile was a sign of her gain, the aftermaths was a token that showed who won the game. Rebecka
X) Who set the fire? I think that that Mrs Danvers set the fire but ...
- 5733: How To Play Asshole
- ... worst cards. There is no requirement that this must be done if the President chooses to do so. The Asshole, on the other hand, must cough up his two most prized possessions or face a penalty including but not limited to consuming unusually large amounts of alcohol, public humiliation, and/or the honor of retaining the position of Asshole, not only for the remainder of the game but, in some cases ... passing cards back and forth between players during a game. Really good cheaters can pick up cards from the pile that has been swept. Even the Asshole can catch the President on this, and the penalty is election to the Asshole position for the next round. Cheating can be dealt with in other ways and it is up to the creativity of the players involved to see that the punishment fits ...
- 5734: How Richard Selzer Is A Philos
- ... the needle (281) trying to get away from it. He observed that the needle inside the womans stomach was moving and believed that to be the fetus fighting against what it instinctively knew as death. These observations, in my eyes, make him a philosopher. He not only thinks about the woman having the abortion but also the fetus that is being aborted. He links the physical act with emotions and ... will not be able to have children at all in the future or she will have complications becoming pregnant because of her weak uterus not being able to hold the baby. This may cause the death of the child as well as her life while having the baby. Maybe it was the way my family raised me when I was a child that causes this to be such a sensitive subject ...
- 5735: Pride And Prejudice - Marriage
- ... the City of London. Elizabeth looks up to Mrs Gardiner, not to Mrs Bennet. Mr Collins is a distant cousin to the Bennets and he is the one to inherit Longbourn after Mr Bennets death. He is a clergyman who has recently been made vicar of a parish on the estate of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, in Kent. Charlotte is the eldest daughter of the Lucases. She is 27 years ... paying too much attention to her. Elizabeth still is prejudiced, but she seems to enjoy the challenge of talking to him. Wickhams story that Darcy refused to keep his fathers promise after his death affects her opinion on Darcy. At the Netherfield Ball Darcy asks Elizabeth to dance. They talk about heir respective characters. They meet again in Kent when Elizabeth goes to visit Charlotte and are sometimes invited ...
- 5736: Pride And Prejudice
- ... by Mr Collins' proposal in Chapter 19, and it passes with flying colours. With great many advantages to be had by marrying Mr Collins, such as security for her sisters and mother after their fathers' death, she still chooses to reject him rather then humble herself before him. Mr Collins's manner in which he proposes to Elizabeth is very matter-of-fact; the proposal itself is more of a business ... may be the only chance she has to marry. She also realizes that due to an entail in a will, the Estate on which her family lives will go to Mr Collins after her fathers death, leaving herself and her sisters almost destitute. This opportunity to please her mother and guarantee security for her sisters is not lost on a woman of Elizabeth's intelligence however concern for her families welfare ...
- 5737: Hobbes Philosophy
- ... organism analogous to a large person (p.42). He advises that people should look into themselves to see the nature of humanity. In his quote, The passions that incline men to peace, are fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a hope by their industry to obtain them, Hobbes view of the motivations for moral behavior becomes valid because of his use of examples ... of perpetual war of all against all, where no morality exists, and everyone lives in constant fear (p.45). He believes that humans have three motivations for ending this state of war: the fear of death, the desire to have an adequate living and the hope to attain this through ones labor (p.47). These beliefs become valid because of the use of his examples. One example suggests that people ...
- 5738: Pigeon Feather
- ... church services: these are the accidents of his subject-matter, of the Olinger that he remembers. But a religious sense of the sacredness of life itself, with its accompanying sense of the absolute horror of death, is at the very center of his perception. As he says in the almost too brilliant story, "Lifeguard," "Young as I am, I can hear in myself the protein acids ticking; I wake at odd hours and in the shuddering darkness and silence feel my death rushing toward me like an express train." The lifeguard of this story is concerned with the life of the spirit, and what he knows is that "every seduction is a conversion." "Someday," he believes, "my ...
- 5739: Perfect Day For A Bananafish
- ... Well, I hate to tell you, Sybil. They die." This discussion is Seymour describing himself and the effects of the war. He went to war as an ordinary man, then he engorged on so much death, destruction, and horror during the war that he is unable to escape his emotions. He is unable to leave behind all of the memories and return to life, as he know it before leaving. He ... room with Muriel as a message to her that her shallow, pretentious attitude will not save her from society. Seymour has struggled with his life in a callous society, now Muriel will struggle with his death.
- 5740: Paralytic - Sylvia Plath
- ... are sleeping. In another, she could be talking about eyes of people looking in on her in her room. The fourth stanza continues the night symbolization. Lights are turned on. Darkness and night often symbolize death. If we take it as intended to mean this then when people turn on lights, it would be to keep death out and an attempt to keep Plath alive. The "soft anonymous talkers" are the doctors and nurses who come in and out of her room asking if she is alright, which is part of their ...
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