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- 20401: The Scarlet Letter 7
- ... display their own honesty and sins. Hester Prynne exhibits the essence of truth and pride when she bravely faces the humiliation of the scaffold. In chapter 17, when Hester apologizes to Dimmesdale about concealing Chillingworth s identity, she says, In all things else, I have striven to be true! Truth was the one virtue which I might have held, and did hold fast, through all extremity A lie is never good, even though death threaten on the other side (pg. 202)! It is Hester s pride, which sustains her from the beginning of the novel to the end, when she dies, still sporting the scarlet A on her bosom. Hester s sin is the sin which gives the book its title and around which the action of the book resolves. Adultery, which was prohibited by the Seventh Amendment, was usually punished by death. A woman ...
- 20402: Mission Days Report
- ... Diego, Portola would search for Monterey Bay. Meanwhile one of the ships by the name of San Antonio sailed to Baja California for supplies. After they left, Father Serra began the construction of Alta California’s first mission: San Diego de Alcala. Six months after the founding of the Mission San Diego, Portola had returned and supplies were scarce. Portola decided that if the San Antonio did not return, the group ... mission: San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo. Portola also established a presido (fort) nearby for the soldiers. The original mission was moved to Carmel Bay several years later because Father Serra was displeased by the soldier's actions at the presidio near the mission. The Carmel mission became Father Serra’s headquarters and favorite mission. Portola second expedition was successful as Monterey Bay became a center of early California activity. Throughout California, Father Serra industriously continued establishing missions. Other padres followed his footsteps. Twenty-one ...
- 20403: The History of Stonehenge
- ... early civilization. One of the most exceptional megaliths in Europe today is Stonehenge. Stonehenge is in a part of the Western Downs called the Salisbury Plains in Wiltshire England. Encircled by a discontinuous ditch, Stonehenge's vast array of smooth, gray colored, 30-foot high stones are spread over 320 feet in diameter. It took over 1200 years to build Stonehenge, a life span of 50 generations. This magnificent monument was ... use of crude instruments such as bones and stones. This ditch was built with an earth bank inside it. A ring of holes, known as the Aubrey Holes, were excavated inside the bank(The World's Last Mysteries). The holes were shallow and carefully spaced, and almost immediately filled in after being dug. Archaeological studies have shown the Aubrey Holes never contained stones or wooden posts; however there were a few instances where bones had been inserted after the holes had been filled(The World's Last Mysteries). Scientists have yet to find the meaning of the Aubrey Holes even after excavation. Other features of the Stonehenge I phase have puzzled researchers such as; the Heel Stone and several irregular ...
- 20404: The American Dream - Great Gat
- ... marry a women from the Valley of Ashes, and Myrtle is too naïve to realize that. Myrtle is another person who puts all of her hope of the American Dream in material items and doesn't emphasis the importance of the ideas behind the items. Toms wife, Daisy, is given an opportunity to achieve the American Dream, despite her chance she places her class and power before her true love. Daisy ... Daisy. For her, he sacrificed everything he had and forged a new life. By bootlegging and illegally selling alcohol, Gatsby becomes as rich as he deems necessary to get Daisy. Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy's voice is "full of money" (127), along with his obsession of money this shows that his love of Daisy and his greed with money are one of the same. Despite his reason for loving Daisy, Gatsby still has the purest quest of every other character in the novel. He put his hopes of the American Dream in love, not a material item. The green light at Daisy's house is a symbol of Daisy, and Gatsby's love towards her, "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future" (189). With a corrupt view on things, Gatsby makes everything ok by having ...
- 20405: The Crucibles Verbal Irony
- Arthur Miller, one of America s greatest playwrights, living or dead, is a master of verbal irony. An examination of three strong examples of verbal irony in Millers play, The Crucible, will prove this out. While Miller started the genre of ... his brilliant use of language generally, and his use of verbal irony in particular. Amidst the drama of the court scene in Act III, Proctor and Mary Warren are being questioned in relation to Elizabeth s possession of poppets. Parris is trying to prove the fact that maybe they were unaware of her possession of these, that she could have hidden her poppets. In a response to Proctor, Parris sites that ... know the unjust and misled court system that was used to accuse the witches. The words uttered from Parris mouth at that instance are so contradictory of the court and ironic that from a reader s standpoint, one is mixed between the emotion of laughter and tears. For the knowledge of the witch trials would allow one to know that they were nothing but a hoax. The court is out ...
- 20406: Ancient Greece: A Time Of Great Cities And Lives
- ... possibly the time in which people now live. Down in the streets of there was always someone willing to buy, trade or sell anything that you had or desired. With Ancient Greeks booming economy it's no wonder that it attracted almost one quarter of the worlds businesses and various smiths. These included bronze smiths, tanners and potters. It is no wonder that Ancient Greece was in its time considered the ... their rights and how they deserve to be equal in everything that they do and receive, it was not a problem to Greeks in their society which has been described as a place where women's freedom was restricted and their lives were restricted to that of a slave in some cases but was really no different than a women's freedom in today's society. In Greece it was a mans world in which a man could do what he pleased to a certain extent of the law. Which is better than today due ...
- 20407: The Crying Of Lot 49
- Names in The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 is a very deep, complex, and demanding novel, requiring the wide breadth of knowledge. One of the most fascinating aspects of the novel is Pynchon's choice -- or rather, invention -- of the names he gives the characters and organizations described in the novel. These names function as metaphors for the people and things they represent, thus enabling us to understand the hidden meaning of the novel. The protagonist of The Crying of Lot 49 is a woman named Oedipa Maas. Oedipa's first name, obviously, derives from Oedipus, the hero of Sophocles' famous play. According to the legend, Oedipus' parents found out that he was fated to kill his father and marry his mother. Therefore, they ...
- 20408: The Joy Luck Club 4
- The Joy Luck Club The Joy luck club was a book written by Amy Tan. The story is set here in America and in China and is set in the 1940 s and also takes place now. The book is about four Asian women who fled china and their Americanized daughters. There are eight main characters four of which were mothers and four of which were daughters ... an American but still have her Chinese heritage. But in the end her daughter turns out to be as Americanized as they come not realizing her Chinese heritage. This makes it so that they don t communicate very well and makes it so they don t know very much about each other. This book shows that now days the traditions of the older generations are slowly being filtered out by the younger generations. An example in the book is when ...
- 20409: Warfare Technology
- In today’s world war plays a very important role in people’s lives. Some of these wars date as far back as the Roman Empire and Alexander the Great, while others are just being born and brought to the doorstep of the world. In 1939 this world ... States of America made many technological advancements to their weaponry, armed forces, and the types of warfare crucial to the allied victory in World War II. The advancements to weaponry in America during the 1930’s to 1940’s greatly influenced the tides of battle for the allies. The firearms of the time were becoming faster, increased accuracy, and more lethal. The M-1 Carbine was the standard semi-automatic ...
- 20410: The Sanctity Of Oaths In Medea
- Medea The Sanctity of Oaths Through the play Medea, Euripides shows us the importance of keeping a promise given. At the beginning of the story, we see the play s two opposing views of promise keeping represented by the Nurse and the Tutor. As she stands outside of Medea s house and laments the way Jason has slighted Medea by taking another wife, the Nurse speaks of the eternal promise Jason and Medea made to each other on their wedding day (17-21). The Nurse ... the way he has abandoned his wife and children, so strongly does she feel vows should not be broken (83). When the Tutor enters the scene, he expresses a much more cynical view regarding Jason s decision to leave his wife. He asks the nurse, Have you only just discovered / That everyone loves himself more than his neighbor? / Some have good reason, others get something out of it. / So Jason ...
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