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- 861: Fuch's "The American Way of Families": Is the Dream Really as Sweet as Apple Pie?
- ... role of parent, were faced with a child (that they brought up with all of their values and good intentions) that suddenly decides that he or she wants to move to Hollywood to become a rock star. It is almost by instinct that these parents will not approve of their child's decision. They do not want to lie about what their child is doing when their friends(who coincidentally all ...
- 862: Symbolism Use In: "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Lottery"
- ... symbolic act of Satanism, although Satanism is never mentioned by the author. Jackson uses symbolic acts to stress the evil in mankind. An example is Mrs. Delacroix, a friend of Tessie's, chooses a large rock to throw "Mrs. Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands" (254). Additionally evil in people is clearly proven in the statement "The children had stones already, and ...
- 863: African Literature: In The Cutting of A Drink and The Return
- ... named Karanja. Muthoni did this because Karanja lied and told the village that Kamau had died. At the end of the story Kamau lets a small bundle, filled with things that reminded him of Muthoni, roll down a bank and float down the river. Then he talks about the relief he felt after this happened. "Why should she have waited for me? Why should all the changes have waited for my ...
- 864: Words on "To His Coy Mistress"
- ... Then he talks about birds of prey, Schmidt3 hurrying, and devouring to really twist the proverbial knife and to convince her. After adoring her body for ages and wading through innuendo, he says let us roll all our strength and all our sweetness into one ball and says he wants to spend the rest of time with her making the sun run. Although the message in this poem is universal, throughout ...
- 865: Sorrow
- ... complain, or I can focus on the more important things in life. Why waste away the days feeling gloomy and depressed? What good is it serving me to feel this way? Sorrow is like a rock being thrown at you. You can choose to watch it approach you until it hits you right between the eyes, or you can out of the way and let it pass you by. Of course ...
- 866: Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place": The Concept of Nada
- ... what his wife is doing. He is so confident that there is no darkness in his life that he totally ignores the idea of his wife cheating on him. Hoffman sums up this character's roll when he says, The ability to extend outward to others from a firmly established self is once again in direct contrast to the narrow, selfish pride of the young waiter, who is unmoved by the ...
- 867: Jonathan Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
- ... analogy in his application, the same understanding rules: "your righteousness would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a falling rock." This time, however, the spider and sinner are depicted as equals. Jonathan Edwards uses every talent he possesses to persuade listeners and readers alike. His knowledge of biblical verse, skillful use of visual imagery, and ...
- 868: The Function of Profanity in Modern English
- ... of the 19th century. Consisting of two words, sometimes connected by and, these phrases ended in a word that rhymed with the disguised term. Using examples only for our six words, some phrases were: Almond rock (cock), Berkshire Hunt (cunt), Friar Tuck (fuck), Hit and miss (piss) and Tom tit (shit). It became so popular and useful as a disguise mechanism that it eventually stretched to include perfectly civil words, at ...
- 869: Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"
- ... evil Bower of Bliss Guyon and the Palmer encounter a whole range of those forward temptations to which Cymochles and his kind are prey. They pass the gulf which gorges itself on the greedy, the Rock of Reproach which wrecks those who spend their substance on wanton joys and intemperate lusts, the delectable wandering islands where Phaedria makes her home, an isle inhabited by a maiden who tries to affect Guyon ...
- 870: The Theme of Isolation in Various Literature
- ... dealt with by good machines in the hands of skilled men. Charles was an expert pilot, and carried many years of flying charter jobs in almost every part of the arctic. The monochromatic wilderness of rock and tundra, snow and ice, existed outside his experience and comprehension, as did the native people whose world it was. Lavery, on one of his expeditions, managed to latch onto a deathly ill woman named ...
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