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- 24851: A Fantasy
- A Fantasy Have you ever seen the commercial were a woman loses 50 pounds on a miracle diet? At the end of the commercial she says, "my fantasy finally came true." Many people's fantasies do not come true. Webster's dictionary defines a fantasy as a pleasant mental image fulfilling a wish. Some fantasies are as far-fetched as winning the lottery or some could be more down to earth like getting a new car ... was a little girl I had a fantasy about having a horse because my parents would never buy me one. Throughout this eassy I am going to tell you about my fantasy horse. My horse's name was Lighting because he was the fastest horse ever. He was a beautiful he had a black mane that shinned when the sun hit it. I keep his tail braided. He was a ...
- 24852: Edgar Allan Poe 2
- ... the terror and tragedy of the loss of his own life. In his stories he illustrates how the absence of beauty is the essence of evil. In The Tell Tale Heart when the old man s eyes is closed he would not be killed because his eye is not considered ugly. That is why each night the man goes into his room to see if the eye is open. but I ... me, but his Evil Eye. (139) The eye when open represents the ugliness of the old man. When that ugliness is present, beauty is gone and evil is present. The ugliness of the old man s open eye is the cause for his killer to kill him because evil is present and beauty is no where to be found. In The Fall of the House of Usher Madeline is beautiful once she gets sick her brother, Roderick, gets sick and everything seems to fall apart. Madeline s beauty had kept the evil down and covered up. As Madeline gets sicker and sicker it gets worse and worse. Finally when Madeline dies beauty no longer exists Roderick goes crazy and everything is ...
- 24853: Mother Nature Strikes Fear and Excitement
- Mother Nature Strikes Fear and Excitement Annie Dillard writes about the natural world and has won a Pulitzer Prize for her first book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Annie Dillard's style is very descriptive. Dillard uses similes to show her fear of the flood. She also uses diction to show her excitement about the flood. In "Flood", an excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard gives the impression that she is afraid, yet excited about the flood. The tone of Dillard's essay is set by her use of similes to show her fear of the flood. She uses a simile to describe the flooded creek, "It looks like somebody else's creek that has usurped or eaten our creek and is roving frantically to escape, big and ugly, like a black snake caught in a kitchen drawer" (314). Her fear gets worse when she describes ...
- 24854: Helen Of Troy Willing Resident
- ... friends! But that was not to be; and so I pine away in sorrow.'" In the battle between Alexandros and Menelaos, Alexandros is almost killed but Aphroditę saves him and carries him off to Helen's room. Aphroditę then disguises herself and goes to look for Helen on the battlements. She tells Helen to go to her room because that is where Alexandros is and he wants her with him. Helen recognizes the goddess Aphroditę under the disguise and she becomes very angry. "These words stirred Helen's temper. Now she knew the goddess by her beautiful throat and lovely breast and shining eyes! She was amazed, and cried out: 'This is strange indeed! Why do you wish to befool me? Will you ... city of Phrygia or Meionia, where you have another friend among the sons of men! I suppose Menelaos has killed him, and wants to take me home, the woman whom he hates. I suppose that's why you are here with more of your tricks and schemes. Go and sit by him yourself." Aphroditę is outraged that Helen would speak to her in such a manner and threatens Helen with ...
- 24855: A Man For All Seasons 2
- ... be based on his beliefs. If he were to sign the oath he would lose all self respect. The audience learns this when he says " I neither could nor would rule my King. But there's a little...little, area...where I must rule myself. It's very little-less to him than a tennis court."(Bolt, p 59). More is a man of principles and he will not compromise these principles. According to Sir Thomas if a man is prepared to ... oath. However, in this case the signing of the oath would compromise these principles and therefore he can not sign. He displays this view when he says, " When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water..." (Bolt, p 140) More goes on to explain that he can not doubt his soul. If he were to go against his moral conscience, ...
- 24856: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... William Shakespeare, Tobias Smollet, and Henry Fielding. However, most of the knowledge he later used as an author came from his environment around him. Dickens became a newspaper writer and reporter in the late 1820's. He specialized in covering debates in Parliament, and also wrote feature articles. His work as a reporter sharpened his naturally keen ear for conversation and helped develop his skill in portraying his characters speach realistically ... humorous adventure and misadventures of the English Countryside. After a slow start, The Pickwick Papers as the book was usually called gained a popularity seldom matched in the history of literature. Then in 1837, Catherine's sister Mary, died. Because of her death Dickens' suffered a lot of grief. This led some scholars to believe that Dickens loved Mary more than Catherine. Catherine was a good woman but she lacked intelligence ... schools for poor children and a loan society to enable the poor to prove to Australia. Then about 1865 his health started to decline and he died of a stroke on June 9, 1870. Dicken's Work The Great Expectations This story talks about a guy who is in love with a girl. It is the theme of a youths discovery of the realities of life. An unknown person provides ...
- 24857: My Antonia
- ... Gardner, And Lena Lingard are excellent examples of such women. Frances Harling is one of the vast examples of what a strong woman can be. She is very responsible. She takes care of her father's business when he goes out of town, and on Sundays she would go to the office just to read the mail. Frances is very talented. She could play the piano with out a light and ... and a little white-and-gold sleigh."(Page 117) Molly liked to have the best meterial goods in the town, and she liked to show them off. Mollys personality was the reason that her husband’s and her business did so well. Jim also said "…he knew that without her he would hardly be more that a clerk in some other man’s hotel."(Page 122) Molly would also go on all the business trips because she was the smarter one between her and her husband. Lena Lingard was not one of the most respected people in ...
- 24858: Into The Wild
- ... disappears. He had instructed his family that he was not interested in giving or receiving gifts. When his father offered to buy him a new car he became enraged. He had a car and couldn t understand why his father would buy him a new one. Chris took the money that his family had left him for college and donated it to Oxfam which gives food to the hungry. This is ... his parents feelings. McCandless was living his life for himself. He wanted to be happy and it happened to upset his parents. Wanting your own happiness is not selfish it is your right. I don t think that McCandless was trying to upset his family, he was just trying to make himself happy by doing what he wanted to do. One of the reasons that I believe McCandless did not keep ... with his parents while he kept in touch with those he met along the way is because he was afraid of disapproval. His parents had never been to find of his adventures so he didn t want to hear them voice their disapproval. The people he met along the way may not have approved of his travels but they weren t going to tell him not to do it. McCandless ...
- 24859: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 21, 1685. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented violinist, and taught his son the basic skills for string playing; another relation, the organist at Eisenach's most important church, instructed the young boy on the organ. In 1695 his parents died and he was only 10 years old. He went to go stay with his older brother, Johann Christoph, who was a professional organist at Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph was a professional organist, and continued his younger brother's education on that instrument, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother's tutelage. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court orchestra in Weimar; soon after, ...
- 24860: King Lear - Good Vs. Evil
- In the King Lear play, Shakespeare creates many conditions in which humans live in the world. The main characters in the play are used to portray Shakespeare's ideas. One of these ideas which Shakespeare is trying to portray is evil between the characters and in the world which are emphasized throughout the play. The evil, created by humans, is outweighed by good ... must have given everything to his daughters as well (ACT III, iv, 62ff). Since he believes that Edgar gave everything to evil Lear must believe that people are the cause of evil. It were Lear's daughters who decided to do wrong to Lear and it was Lear's fault in giving away all of his land. Si ughters are the humans in the play, it is the humans who caused the evil and Lear believes that humans were the ones who created ...
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