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- 19981: Giver
- Short plot summary of Giver The story Giver takes place in a place that where it's perfect and there is no fear and pain. It takes place in the future from now. Jonas is a kid that is different from other people in the novel, he has fear sometimes and he does experience pain. At his ceremony of 12 (that's what they do every year to show that the kid grew up, but only exist from the age of 1 - 12), he was selected to be the receiver of memories, since the people from there doesn't know any history about the past. And so after a year of following Giver (his instructor) he learns a lot of things about the past and a lot of new feelings and emotion that ...
- 19982: To The Snake By Denise Leverto
- ... were uneven. This syntax structure gives the reader the feeling of something hard to catch or control. The author did this because money, as it is depicted in the poem, is something this person can t handle. In other words this person can t get control of money, instead the want of money is controlling them. This introduces the idea of gambling into the poem. In the poem it says, I swore to my companions that certainly you were ... was still there, which is why this person continues to gamble. ` Sound imagery is another writing technique put to use by Levertov in the poem. When reading the poem out loud, the reader notices the S sound. The misleading S or hissing sound could be interpreted, by some readers, to be the sound of a snake. It is instead the sound of money. When gambling, it is often necessary when ...
- 19983: Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
- ... sole direction in which to head. Regardless of the original message that Robert Frost had intended to convey, his poem, "The Road Not Taken", has left its readers with many different interpretations. It is one's past, present and the attitude with which he looks upon his future that determines the shade of the light that he will see the poem in. In any case however, this poem clearly demonstrates Frost's belief that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. "And sorry I could not travel both..." It is always difficult to make a decision because it is ... made all the difference." To this man, what was most important, what really made the difference, is that he did what he wanted, even if it meant taking the road less traveled. If he hadn't, he wouldn't be the same man he is now. There are many equally valid meanings to this poem and Robert Frost may have intended this. He may have been trying to achieve a ...
- 19984: The Development of Ancient Systems of Writing in Iraq and Egypt
- ... tokens were of varying shapes for various things, two to three centimetres in size, and used for enumeration and keeping track of goods and labour. These tokens eventually had to be stored so they wouldn't be misplaced or lost. To secure them, they were placed in opaque clay envelopes. To indicate what was inside the envelope markings were made on it, eventually someone realized that all you had to do ... the region. When the Akkadians conquered Sumer they adopted the cuneiform writing system for their own language. First attempts at using the cuneiform script for writing Akkadian started sometime during the third millennium but wasn't used extensively till the reign of Sargon I, then Akkadian was written till about 100AD. With the adaption of cuneiform to write Akkadian, the number of different types of symbols shifted from pictograms in Sumerian ... of Avestan and Sanskirt, copied a trilingual text of King Darius from a mountainside in Behistun in what is now western Iran. The trilingual text, written in Old Persian, Babylonian and Elamite, described King Darius's victories in the 6th century B.C., gave Rawlinson a large corpus of material to work with. In 1847 he translated the Old Persian and was working on the Elamite, and in 1851 he ...
- 19985: Olaudah Equiano
- ... home. A lot of the whites would just go into villages and start taking African Americans to be their slaves or to trade them for goods. They treated it like a business. The slaves weren t seen as a whole person. They brought the white people a lot of profit at their painful expense like Olaudah Equiano. In Conclusion, you can see how badly the African American slaves were treated. This is exactly how Olaudah Equiano suffered. Millions of slaves could relate to Equiano s lifestyle. He was given no rights and didn t have a say in anything he did. Slavery was a horrible event that took place in history and many men and women s lives were sacrificed for everyday things we buy at the store ...
- 19986: Death of a Salesman Review
- ... felt insecure about how he should be conducting his life. Most of the time he covers up his feeling "kinda temporary" about himself with boasts of "hot air" (as Biff calls it). Only when he's deeply in trouble does he ask advice- "what's the secret?"- From Ben, from Charley, from Bernard, all of who have achieved the financial success he longs for. If Willy could have accepted and made the most of his good qualities, he might not ... that Willy forced this mold not only onto himself but also onto his sons, causing them the same confusion over identity. Willy Loman is a perfect example of someone who feels betrayed because he can't achieve the financial goal that society has conditioned him to strive for. He worships the goddess of success, but he doesn't have the talent or the temperament to be a salesman, his chosen ...
- 19987: The Drinking Age: 21 For Everyone?
- ... had liquor licenses and reportedly to sell alcoholic beverages to minors. It was proven that each business in question had indeed been guilty of the charges. What would one suspect happen to the business? Wouldn't one expect for them to lose their liquor license? On the contrary, these businesses were given probation without so much as a fine. Also, even if the person under 21 cannot go buy the alcohol ... purchase the alcohol for the underage drinker. If a person did not want to go through the hassle of asking an older person, they could go someone skilled in the art of making fake ID's. This is a burgeoning business among the different campuses I visited. Spending two weeks at Ohio State, one had the offer of three different authentic looking Ohio driver's licenses. So, as one can see it is quite easy for an underage drinker to obtain alcohol. One may think that the penalties for underage drinking would be severe while in fact they are ...
- 19988: The Scarlet Letter: Admitted, Hidden & No Guilt
- The Scarlet Letter: Admitted, Hidden & No Guilt Puritans believe that confession is a means of purifying the soul. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story, The Scarlet Letter, admitted guilt, such as that of Hester Prynne, who wore a scarlet letter pinned on her shirt, cleanses the soul, whereas hidden guilt, such as that of Dimmesdale, who kept his ... suffering, whereas no guilt, such as that of Chillingworth, whose mission in life is to seek revenge, causes a sense of coldness. Guilt that is openly admitted is eventually cleansed out of the system. Hester’s daily wearing of her scarlet symbol is a daily confession. Hester suffers a physical alienation. She moves to the edge of the town and has to raise Pearl alone, which is how she chooses to ... A. He covers his guilt even more by placing his hand over his chest. The “red stigma” represents his deep regret for the sin, but is not a proper substitute for public confession. He doesn’t want to be seen anywhere with Pearl, which is why he refuses to hold her hand on the scaffold at noon. When there is no guilt, the person becomes cold-hearted and crazed. Chillingworth ...
- 19989: Mrs. Dalloway By Virginia Wool
- In Virginia Woolf’s book, Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith grow up under the same social institutions although social classes are drawn upon wealth; it can be conceived that two people may have very similar opinions ... time she gave a party she had this feeling of being something not herself, and that everyone was unreal in one way; much more real in another. …it was possible to say things you couldn’t say anyhow else, things that needed an effort; possible to go much deeper. But not for her; not yet anyhow. (Woolf 171) Kramer 2 With Septimus, seeing his best friend Evans die at war has ... belief in reincarnation. She believes if her true self is not revealed in this life, it will be revealed in the next. She has the belief that everything will work out, eventually. Thinking of Septimus’s death, Clarissa remembers thinking before a party, “If it were to now die, ‘twere now to be most happy”(Woolf 184). She felt if she was to die, it was a good point in ...
- 19990: Martin Luther King Jr. 5
- ... that year when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public transportation. This was his first victory and alone made Dr. King a highly respected leader. When he went to India in 1959, he studied Gandhi's principle of "Satyagraha" or nonviolent persuasion, which he planned to use for his social protests. In the following year he decided to move back to Atlanta to become copastor with his father. In 1963 he ... Sadly, the following day he was shot to death in Memphis Tennessee. Nearly 500,000 of his loyal admirers attended his funeral. It was the end of his civil rights crusade. "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live" he had once said. That day he died for civil rights, he died for his dream. Prejudices have always and will always exist among people. The prejudices this nation faces now, and has faced for years is racial oppression and segregation. Martin Luther King had a dream. He didn't want people to be "judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character." He was determined that the dream would become a reality, and in most ways it did. The ...
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