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- 971: Great Expectations - Estella
- ... the paper. We will see this now, with the analysis of Estella. The first time which Estella appears in the novel is in chapter 8, in the first visit of Pip to Miss Havisham's house. The first impression Pip has about Estella is also characterized by ambiguity: he thinks she is pretty but she is proud. Miss Havisham obliges Estella to play cards with Pip. The first time which appears ... to the battle of sexes again since during the game Miss Havisham advises Estella to break men's heart and because it takes place before Estella's departure. When Pip goes to Miss Havisham's house for a new visit, Estella has gone abroad for her education. We have to give a jump to chapter 29 for the following appearance of Estella. Nevertheless, in the previous chapter, when Pip is said ... of the way of life she was leading. But it's in the last chapter of the novel when we see the consequence of Estella's decision. Eleven years later Pip meets Estella in Satis House. Pip thinks Estella has lost part of her beauty. Both of them talk and Estella recognizes she has thought about Pip. Due to Drummle's bad treatment, Estella has learnt to value what she ...
- 972: Ethan Frome
- ... of Ethan and his wife. He married her because she had tried to help his mother recover from an illness, and once his mother died he could not bear the thought of living in the house alone. His wife was seven years his senior and always seemed to have some kind of illness. It seemed all she ever did was complain, and he resented this because it stifled his growing soul. Since his wife was continuously ill, and her cousin needed a place to stay, they took her in to help around the house. Ethan took an immediate propensity to her cousin, Mattie, because she brought a bright light upon his dismal day. He seemed to have found someone that cared for him, was always happy and could share ... first failure. Ethan's second failure was not being able to stand up against his wife. His wife claimed that a new doctor said that she was extremely sick, and needed more help around the house. She told him without any discussion that Mattie had to go. Ethan could not find the words to make her alter her decision. His wife also decided that Mattie had to leave the next ...
- 973: Creative Writing: The Miller's Tale
- ... trots. He, he the ol' hag almost released her load of dung on one of my customers, so I had to get her and take her back home. When I got to the man's house I entered in grand fashion by showing how I could open the door with my head. Oh well, that didn't go over as planned but it scared my woman so bad she finally did ... on her face. We soon departed from the castle, she said nothing the whole way home. I kept asking her if something happened in there that she wanted to tell me. Once, we reached my house she began to laugh. I was intrigued by this so I said, " What is wrong with you?" She began to tell about the King's short comings. I soon also began to laugh at this ... of it. The night pushed on and finally, I was so drunk I stole the money off the man beside me to pay for some of my drinks and then staggered out and to my house which was a few blocks down the road. The next morning I awoke to the sound of a rooster and a man laughing wildly outside my door. It was ol' Jethrow and his pet ...
- 974: The Constitution
- ... government. Nearly every colony had a government with elected representatives in a legislature, which usually made laws largely without interference from Parliament or the king. Jamestown, the earliest of the colonies, had an assembly, the House of Burgesses, which was elected by the property owners of the colony. Maryland developed a system of government much like Britain's, with a representative assembly, the House of Delegates, and the governor sharing power. The Puritan colony in Massachusetts originally had a government similar to a corporate board of directors with the first eight stockholders, called freemen" holding power. Later, the definition ... First, the Constitution specifies a federal system of government, which gives each individual state the right to a government. Second, it specifies that each state shall be represented in both houses of Congress. The lower house, the House of Representative, furthermore, is to be directly elected by the people. If the Bill of Rights is considered, the religious aspect of the tradition becomes apparent. The First Amendment states, "Congress may ...
- 975: Film Review (The Money Pit)
- ... The Man with One Red Shoe, Splash, Bachlor and etc. Tom Hanks and Shelley Long play Anna and Walter, a young couple just married. They spend most of their time dealing with managing their new house. The performed the unstable love of the couple clearly. Alexander Godunov plays Mac, the antagonist who interests in Anna and created conflict between the young couple by lying or saying that Anna slept with him when she was drunk. The plot of the story is not very special, but the actors use funny expressions and skill to deal with the unstable house to make the movie more interesting. Sometimes Tom Hanks is over acting and they exaggerate to make the house look very unstable. For example, the house when the main character Walter runs through the stairs to the second floor, all of the stairs collapse. They also put special sounds to go with amusing ...
- 976: Belove Analysis
- ... understand why she killed her child. This was a man that she could share herself with. In the stage when the ghost is still in its intangible form and Paul D presents himself at the house, Sethe almost lets the "responsibility for her breasts, at last [be] in somebody else's hands" (22). As soon as she has this thought, the ghost attacks and wreaks havoc. Sethe's conscience, manifested in ... So, as life begins to get better for Sethe and Denver again because of Paul D, Beloved shows up, and when she gains some strength she promptly begins to move Paul D out of the house, systematically further and further away from Sethe. This is consistent with the masochistic pattern exhibited by Sethe's conscience, because Paul D is the only individual who shows potential (at this stage in the plot ... to some fun. Sethe also takes things into her own hands again when "she solved everything with one blow," and suggests to Paul D that he would rather sleep inside than out in the cold-house (161). At this point, Beloved sends "threads of malice" (161) across the table, because she is indignant that her position of power is being undermined; she recognizes that Sethe is taking matters into her ...
- 977: King Solomon
- ... in the construction of the magnificent temple at Jerusalem. One other note of wisdom comes from the Biblical story of two women struggling for the rights to a child. They both lived in the same house and both bore a child on the same day. When one mother lost her child, she claimed that the other child was hers. They went to Solomon to resolve the situation, and he told them ... old, may contain the oldest reference to King Solomon's Temple aside from the Bible. NEW YORK -- Talk about holding on to a receipt. A recently discovered piece of pottery recording a donation to the "House of Yahweh" may contain the oldest mention outside the Bible of King Solomon's Temple. The 3 1/2-by-4-inch artifact is nearly 3,000 years old; dating to a time when kings ... built sometime in the 10th century BC, and to have lasted for some four centuries until it was destroyed by Babylonian soldiers. The Bible frequently refers to the temple by the Hebrew term for "the house of the Lord." But that term has been found complete in only one inscription other than the Bible: a faded shard of sixth-century BC pottery from Arad, an ancient town now in modern- ...
- 978: Identity In Sula
- ... the other hand, comes from a totally different background. She is her own person as she has "none of her mother's slackness" (p.29) and, unlike the "oppressive neatness"(p.29) of Nel's house, lives in a woolly house, where a pot of something was always cooking on the stove; where the mother, Hannah, never scolded or gave directions; where all sorts of people dropped in; where newspapers were stacked in the hallway, and ... Sula is free. Where Nel has been raised to be an extension of her mother, Sula has surprisingly few ties to hers. Nel's imagination has been so restricted that the messiness of Sula's house along with its strange inhabitants and many visitors must seem like an absolute dream world. Similarly, the tidiness of Nel's house compared with the disorderliness of her own allows Sula to "sit still ...
- 979: "The Yellow Wallpaper": The Main Character and Cry for Freedom
- ... times. The main character had absolutely no freedom, for her husband would let nothing happen unless he was there to supervise. An example of this treatment is when she wanted to get out of the house and visit some cousins, but John insisted she really did not want to go. "Dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest reasonable ... say what I feel
It is such a relief!"(511), this woman is actually wanting independence even if she must defy her husband. The main character's oppression is due to her husband, but the house and specifically the room she stayed in helped her realize who she really was, and helped her find the freedom she looked for. The yellow wallpaper which covered the room disturbed her greatly. At the ... revolting, ..Dull
I should hate it myself I had to live in this room long."(508) Through this the woman expresses her feelings towards the room, but specifically the wallpaper. Throughout her stay at the house and as the oppression sets in even greater, she begins to see patterns in the wallpaper. The woman is engrossed in finding what this pattern is all about, what meaning it holds. She states: "
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- 980: A Rose Of The South
- ... She never told the druggist what the poison was for, though he assumed that it was for rats. A few days after her cousins had left, Homer was seen coming into the Miss Emily's house. Neither one of them would be seen for quite some time afterwards. When Miss Emily was finally seen again, the town's people assumed that Homer had left; not realizing that she had killed him so that she could be with him life. A short time later the town began to complain of the smell coming from Miss Emily's house. They had no idea what the smell was really from, and just wanted to order her to clean it. Four men eventually went into her cellar with cleaning products and cleaned the cellar. The town ... about 50 years old when the people decided that it was time for Miss Emily to pay taxes. They sent her letters, but she would not acknowledge them. When they finally approached her at her house she would just repeat to them "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes.4" The years would go on and no one would see much of Miss Emily until they finally found her dead ...
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