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- 10461: The Sky Is Gray
- ... medical care, which is why he must go to the worst dentist (of the two in town) to get his sore tooth pulled. Prejudice against James’ family (because they are poor and black) also creates great sadness for them. This story takes place before the Civil Rights Movement, which is quite obvious when you see how James and his mother are treated when they go into town. As James said, “When ...
- 10462: Stoutenburg's Reel One: An Analysis
- ... portrayed that long after he is out of the movie theater he can still hear the sound track, and that only now does it start to fade away. Stoutenburg's passion leads to a few great things, one, thought that explores the ideas of reality on different levels, but also metaphors that could only get across perceptions of what he saw and heard, with images and sounds that we can relate ...
- 10463: Romanticism, Poe, and "The Raven"
- ... of his life, the bird will leave. The man's imagination rebukes the bird. The man calls the bird a “ thing of evil”. The reader imagines a lonely, frightened, old man who has suffered a great loss. “The Raven is a poem written during the Romantic Era. Romanticism doesn't mean that a literary work has to be about love. Ironically, “The Raven” is both “romantic” and from the “Romantic” period ...
- 10464: Essay Interpreting "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
- ... her. Language and verse form show in "One Art" how the losses increase in importance as the poem progresses, with the losses in lines 1-15 being mostly trivial or not very important to the great loss in lines 16-19 or a beloved person. Elizabeth Bishop suggests then that mastering the art of losing objects, such as car keys, does not prepare one for the loss of a person, which ...
- 10465: The Lottery
- ... yet the “feeling of liberty sits uneasily” with the children- which is strange, for no normal kid would be anything less than ecstatic over summer break. Finally, the children are said to be building “a great pile of stones in one corner of the square,” which is a very strange “game” for children to playing. All of these hints indicate that something strange and unexpected is going to happen, and they ...
- 10466: "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodor Roethke
- ... in marrige one promises to love to death, to never leave even if what is left is just a memory - as happens in this poem. The boy will love his father to end; although, a great bitterness remains in the memory - the drunkness, failure ( "every step you missed"), and the beating deriving from these failure and drunkness. For each failure " My right ear scraped a buckle " - The boy is acused for ...
- 10467: To Kill A Mockingbird Notes
- ... tells her to never mention the trial to him again; Scout, upset, runs to Atticus for comfort. In the first two months of fall, Bob Ewell gets a job with the WPA, one of the Depression job programs, and loses it a few days later. He blames Atticus for getting "his" job. A few weeks later, Judge Taylor is home alone and hears someone prowling around; when he goes to investigate ...
- 10468: History in Langston Hughes's "Negro"
- ... as dark as night (2). "Black like the depths of my Africa.", creates a mysterious, fictionalized character of blacks (3). Hughes allows the reader to recognize the accomplishments of blacks by saying blacks built the Great Pyramids of Africa and the "Woolworth Building" here in America (8 and 9). "They lynch me still in Mississippi.", portrays how the blacks were still victims in 1922. The enslavement period is referred to when ...
- 10469: Nuclear Powernuclear Power
- ... world s electricity is generated by either thermal or hydroelectric power plants. Thermal power plants use fuel to boil water which makes steam. The steam turns turbines that generate electricity. Hydroelectric power plants use the great force of rushing water from a dam or a waterfall to turn the turbines. The majority of thermal power plants burn fossil fuels because thermal power plants are cheaper to maintain and have to meet ...
- 10470: Death Penalty
- ... for no reason. If one is going to break the law, they must be prepared to face that same law down the road. Why should any citizen be allowed to wrong the laws of this great country and not have to face the same fate as their victim? By not imposing the death penalty it is an insult to society and the victim. By not administering the death penalty, the victim ...
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