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- 20971: Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry...
- In the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry many characters took risks the two that stick out in my head the most is of papa and TJ. TJ didn t study for a test so he wondered his eyes about until he saw some answers on a nearby classmates answer sheet. He could of suffered the consequence of failing the test and only getting into ... with his parents but he got caught cheating, since he was a colored child he was thrown out of school. Throughout this, whole novel TJ has made dozens of enemies, a lot of people wouldn t mind to see him dead. When TJ was younger his siblings and him always got mud splashed on them by their racist bus driver, so one day during lunch the children went into the bus ... TJ because RW and Melvin framed him for robbing a store. Out of love for TJ Papa set the cotton field on fire to set up a distraction. The distraction worked but the novel isn t clear on saying exactly if he lives or dies, but I think it leads more towards to TJ dying. Many risks were taken in this novel. Almost every character took a risk some of ...
- 20972: Streetcar Named Desire
- The Street Car Named Desire In the Street Car Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This classical play is about Blanche Dubois s visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister s brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley Kowalski, and the reveling truth of why Blanche really came. Stanley Kowalski is a very brutal and barbaric person who always has to feel that no one is better than him. His brutish and ferocious actions during the play leave the reader with a bad taste in their mouths. Stanley s brutality is shown in several places during the duration of The Street Car Named Desire . For example, his first array of brutality is evident at the poker night when he gets so angry and ...
- 20973: The Parable
- ... she is to get across this river, so she decides to turn to people, she knows, for help. The first person she turns to is Sven for he owns a boat. Sven listens to Rosemary's problem and tells her he will take her across the river if she spends the night with him. Rosemary, surprised and shocked at hearing such an offer, declines and turns to another acquaintance, Lee Pai, for help. Lee Pai tells Rosemary he is sorry but he can't help her. Not knowing what else she can do, Rosemary goes back to Sven for help. She spends the night with him and the next day he takes her across the river. Rosemary and Hernando ... The Parable, whose behaviors I approve of. Sven and John are two characters in the story whose behaviors I do not approve of. There are several reasons why I approve of Lee Pai and Hernando's behaviors and do not approve of Sven and John's behaviors. All these reasons I have based on my interpretation of the story.
- 20974: Polio
- ... which produce some kind of pollution. Maybe air, water, and even noise pollution are cause by these machines. Efforts to improve the standard of living for humans have resulted in pollution. Much of the world's air, water, and land are now partially poisoned by chemical wastes. Some places have become uninhabitable. This pollution exposes people all around the globe to new risks from disease. Many species of plants and animals ... become endangered or are now extinct. As a result of developments, governments have passed laws to limit or reverse the threat of environmental pollution. Even though people are trying to help this problem time can’t be turned back and much damaged has already occur. Air Pollution Factories and transportation (like cars or planes) depend on huge amounts of fuel every year. When these fuels burn they introduce smoke and other ... members of their audiences. There is some evidence that extreme levels of noise can produce other deleterious effects on human health and on work performance. For instance loud music or the honking of horns doesn’t let the brain work as well because the person can’t concentrate.
- 20975: The Heart Of Darkness
- ... River to meet Kurtz, a reportedly idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job with the Company piloting a steamship in the Belgian Congo. Marlow encounters widespread idiocy and absurd inefficiency in the Company's stations. The native inhabitants of the region have been impressed into service for the Company, and they suffer terribly from overwork and ill treatment at the hands of the Company's agents. When Marlow arrives at the Central Station, under the control of the general manager, an unwholesome, conspiratorial character, he finds that his steamship has been sunk and spends several months waiting for parts to ... stacked and a note saying it is for them but to approach cautiously. Natives attack them and the helmsman is killed before Marlow frightens the natives away with the steam whistle. They come to Kurtz's Inner Station, expecting to find him dead, but a Russian trader there assures them everything is all right and reveals that he is the one who left the wood. The Russian claims Kurtz has ...
- 20976: The Mississippi River (huckleb
- Throughout the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Mississippi River plays a highly significant role. The American landmark represents freedom, in many cases, to the runaway slave Jim. A cornerstone of Huck s maturity during the novel was the Mississippi River. This body of water reveals all that is wrong and ignorant in American society. The ignorance ranges anywhere from slavery to something as petty as a couple of small town swindlers. The Mississippi River was as routine as slavery and cotton plantations in this country s infancy;however, the significance of the Mississippi River cannot be measured, but it can be revealed. The majority of Americans take freedom for granted, and the only way to be appreciative is to have that ... Finn is a very unruly, uncivilized boy that heeds more to Tom Sawyer, a dreamer/adventurer, than to the polite, civilized manner of Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. Pap was an influential adult in Huck s life. Pap controlled Huck not with security, but with fear. A short time after Huck escapes from Pap s cabin, Huck realizes that the correct action would be to turn Jim into the authorities. ...
- 20977: The Truth About The Big Two He
- While reading Ernest Hemingway s short story Big Two Hearted River, one might think that it is just about a man named Nick Adams returning to Seney, to go camping and fishing. It may not be clear to some readers why the town of Seney is burned down or why Hemingway talks about each of Nick s action in great amount of detail. While first reading the story one might not notice that Hemingway has many symbolic parts, so that he can get the true meaning of the story across to the ... way for Nick to heal his soul and to move on happily with his life. The trout that were swimming in the beginning of the story symbolize what he wants to be, since they don t let anything stop them from getting upstream, but Nick s emotions kept him from moving on. Also the grasshopper that he hooked to his hook showed that Nick should not give up just because ...
- 20978: The Role of Minor Conspirators
- The Role of Minor Conspirators In the course of time, the world has seen an abundance of influential men. Oftentimes, however, the forces behind these men remain unseen. This is shown in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar by the supporting role the minor conspirators have on the major conspirators. Just as women often embolden powerful men of society, the minor conspirators embolden the major conspirators greatly affecting the outcome of ... was responsible for bringing Caesar to the capitol on the day of the assassination. The entire conspiracy almost failed because on the night before the assassination was to be carried out, during the storm, Caesar's wife Calpurnia had a dream about Caesar being killed, and she had convinced him to remain home the next day. When Decius arrived at Caesar's home in the morning to take him to the capitol he realized that he must convince Caesar that he had misinterpreted his wife's dream so Caesar would go as planned. Decius needed to ...
- 20979: You Belong To Me By Mary Higgi
- You Belong to Me is Mary Higgins Clark's fifteenth novel. It is about a young clinical psychologist named Dr. Susan Chandler who hosts a radio talk show. One day the topic of the show is lonely women who disappear and who are later ... starts following the case, but every time she goes to talk to someone that might be able to give her some information, they are already dead. In the end, Susan is hot on the murderer's trail, but does not realize that she is going to be the next victim. The murderer turns out to be a guy Susan has been dating. He tries to suffocate her and leaves her to die. Another doctor friend of Susan's has also been paying attention to the case though, and he is worried about something happening to Susan. He finds her in her office before she suffocates, and they are able to have the ...
- 20980: Macbeth Essay
- ... king of almost divine excellence. Macbeth has a vision of the heavenly powers horrified by this murder; he sees Pity personified as a “naked new born babe” which is nevertheless “striding the blast” while “heaven’s cherubin” are mounted on the winds. The speech builds to a mighty climax then suddenly the power is lost, when Macbeth turns to his own wretched motive for committing such a crime. He can find ... and bear the punishment. In this speech we also learn that Macbeth had the ethics and morals to know that killing the king was wrong, and that there were plenty of reasons why he shouldn’t. This paragraph helps a lot to build a character profile in this way. The text is split into five main parts. The five points develop his thoughts, leading to his decision to kill the king ... metaphor in him killing the rightful king. Over View Macbeth does not respond to the excitement: he has lost the capacity for feeling either fear or, as we see when he hears of his wife’s death, grief. He speaks the most disillusioned words that Shakespeare ever wrote when he contemplates life’s “petty pace from day to day” He still hopes that the witches’ promises will protect him, but ...
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