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- 8911: Power
- ... and how her family disowned her and refused to even utter her name for the rest of time. The first sentence of the story shows that a person of the Chinese culture holds a very high respect for their family’s rules and wishes. Kingston’s mother tells her the story as a warning. “’Now that you have started to menstruate, what happened to her could happen to you. Don’t ...
- 8912: Pygmalion
- ... even realize it. Henry jumps into the conversation and stops her and she finally realizes what happens. The Eynsford Hills still seem a little bit puzzled because they have never heard a person of such “high class” speak in such a manner. Henry goes on to explain that she is just talking the new small talk and that everybody who is anybody is doing it. The Eynsford Hills being the rocket ...
- 8913: Phyllis Wheatley
- ... to Christianity, she sees a future, possibly marked by salvation.. Similarly, after Bradstreet loses all of her material possessions, she immediately wishes to replace them with the promise of part of God’s “house on high erect.” Within the last several lines of the poem, she explains how she “needs no more,” despite the requests she is making to have part of eternity. From this, it appears that Bradstreet must replace ...
- 8914: PORONO IN THE MEDIA
- ... legally obscene (hence crime) material, are operating illegally. It is obvious why pornography is attractive to criminals; just as anything that is banned or is made illegal, there is always someone who will pay the high black-market price for it. Having considered the issues at hand, it can be said that since there is no concrete evidence to support otherwise, pornography in the media does not cause undesirable social behaviour ...
- 8915: Piano Lesson
- ... that I found confusing and paradoxical was Berniece's attitude towards her daughter, Maretha, playing the family piano and yet will not tell her of it's past. Berniece also sends her to a private school often chastising her not to show her color there. According to Berniece, she didn't want to burden her daughter with the past. I got Maretha playing on it. She don't know nothing about ...
- 8916: Pride And Prejudice
- ... to Elizabeth. This chapter is significant because it is one of the few times where the characters acknowledge that the sole purpose of a person's life is to get a large salary and a high social stature. Throughout the entire novel it seems evident that all the people care about is marrying into a higher social class. And for those who are already wealthy and in a comfortable position in ...
- 8917: Penalty Of Death-Analysis
- ... penalty is effective -Saying it is commonly called revenge, he borrows a better word from Aristotle…catharsis -The meaning is stated in paragraph 3 as "a salubrious discharge of emotions" -Followed by an example: "A school boy, disliking his teacher, deposits a tack upon the pedagogical chair; the teacher jumps and the boy laughs. This is catharsis. -He states that victims of murders crave, more than anything, to see the perpetrator ...
- 8918: Prisoners Dilemma
- ... to attempt to return the money and wallet instead of pocketing the money. One must think of it from the other guy’s point of view. Statistically the chance of loosing your wallet is very high and every person, egoist or not, may lose their wallet someday. In the event that your wallet is lost it would be in your best interest to get it back. Your thoughts would be in ...
- 8919: Pocahontas
- ... Any one of the “white man’s diseases” could be at fault in her fate, but unfortunately, it will remain a mystery. John Rolfe returned to Virginia where he developed a popular sweet variety of high-grade tobacco. The export of his crop enabled the colonists to support themselves. Thomas Rolfe remained in England where he was educated. Twenty years later, he returned to the colonies and married an English woman ...
- 8920: Pride And Predjudice
- ... being married, and that Wickham was forced into marrying her. Mrs. Bennet's strong desire to marry off her children and her unsatisfactory attempts at matchmaking show that in her society, marriage is held in high regard. It is a person's personal worth and the transfer of family fortunes that occurs during a marriage in this time that is probably the most important factor, not how the couple gets along ...
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