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Chaplin's, The Kid
Number of words: 905 - Number of pages: 4.... the cavalier panache of a gentleman of leisure with a dozen other pairs of handwear at his immediate disposal. Just as he is about to surrender himself to the joys of his first smoke of the day, his tranquillity is shattered by earsplitting distress signals from the squalling infant who has been abandoned on the garbage heap, plaintively demanding to be heard by someone, anyone.
Taking one glance at that miserable child, streetwise Charlie instinctively looks up as if to quiz both the refuse-throwing householders and the heavens above as to just exactly where this baby has come from. But .....
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A Separate Peace, Symbolism Wi
Number of words: 559 - Number of pages: 3.... by the Assembly Hall. Finny's anger toward the events of the trial eventually leads to his own death as he storms out into the corridor.
As Finny runs down the corridor, the marble staircase that he approaches is symbolic. Finny storms out of the Assembly Hall in which Gene's trial is being held and begins running down the corridor. At this point, Finny fully realizes that Gene intentionally shook the limb, which made Finny fall out of the tree. Finny is in denial, thus causing him to storm out of the room. When Finny reaches the marble staircase, he falls, breaking his leg once again. .....
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Macbeth - Supernatural Theme
Number of words: 786 - Number of pages: 3.... of Banquo’s successful assassination he is elated. His vaulting ambition was driving him to extreme measures and he could do nothing to abate it. Macbeth had risked his life to attain the throne and he had no choice but to employ Machiavellian practices to retain it. The appearance of Banquo’s ghost at the royal banquet horrifies Macbeth. Shakespeare brilliantly uses irony to make Banquo’s emergence very dramatic:
Macbeth: Fail not our feast.
Banquo: My lord, I will not.
(III, i, ll 28-29)
Banquo’s appearance provides insight into the character of Macbeth. .....
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Addison And Steele
Number of words: 1527 - Number of pages: 6.... Book Steele) Addison gladly excepted and the two men would go out and view the world around them. The two men would write about any occasion, but whenever they wrote they were really in depth of their feelings and thoughts. Their was one topic in particular that fashioned their writings and that was the topic of love. Love was portrayed as being good and bad throughout the writings.
Love was used repetitively due to it is a constant in every bodies life and they could easily relate to the characters. Allowing others to relate to their writings helped make them popular. gave love a good .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol Of The Scarlet Letter
Number of words: 1371 - Number of pages: 5.... Though it was ordered for Hester to wear the letter, it
was still her own choice to make it in a vivid scarlet, "so fantastically
embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom." Hester chose red as the color
of her brand of shame, to declare to the rest of the townspeople that she
is prepared to acknowledge her sin, instead of denying it; she could have
chosen to wear her "A" in a plain and nondistinct color, to escape the
townspeople's disdain. By displaying her guilt however, she is granted the
opportunity to face her punishment bravely, thus through her public
humiliation, she achiev .....
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The Red Badge Of Courage
Number of words: 1120 - Number of pages: 5.... a men is by experiencing new, unpredictable environments and adjusting to unfamiliar smells, sounds, and emotions. Think about it, being there on a battlefield witnessing deaths of friends and comrades would have to have an effect on a human being. Being in a war and to be around new faces, new personalities, confusion, and trauma would force one to adapt to an environment faster than you usually would. Just imagine leaving your country home and entering a new and frightening world on a battlefield. What can make one a hero or a coward? Fears, emotions, thoughts, and feelings can be th .....
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Candide 2
Number of words: 1603 - Number of pages: 6.... at the end of the story; Swift makes it clear that this proposal would not affect him since his children were grown and his wife unable to have any more children. It would be rather absurd to think that a rational man would want to both propose this and partake in the eating of another human being. Therefore, before an analyzation can continue, one has to make the assumption that this is strictly a fictional work and Swift had no intention of pursuing his proposal any further. One of the other voices that is present throughout the entire story is that of sarcasm. In order to understand this .....
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Kennewick Man
Number of words: 1232 - Number of pages: 5.... get a permit from the Army Core of Engineers (Lee). After receiving his permit he returned to the site several times and recovered a near complete skeleton. At first the nineteenth century artifacts led him to believe that the skeleton was from the same time period, but then he noticed that the bones were discolored and there was soil adhering to them. This indicated that they were not as recent as the late nineteenth century (Slayman).
Chatters began to clean and study the skeleton to try to learn as much as he could about it. As he did this he noted that it appeared that this person wa .....
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Beyond The Horizon And Diff'rent By Eugene O'Neill
Number of words: 1708 - Number of pages: 7.... life farming. "One constructs the world out of fact, the other out
of pure imagination." Rob's quest is strange to Andy; it goes beyond anything he
can comprehend. Andrew, who is "A Mayo through and through." does not think in
the imaginative terms Rob does. "It's just beauty that's calling me-the beauty
of the far off and unknown...in quest of the secret which is hidden over there,
beyond the horizon." (Horizon, 85) Andy does understand, that his brother could
never be happy living on the farm, because his heart is elsewhere. Emma is like
Rob in a few ways. Both characters have ideali .....
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Edna's Suicide In The Awakening
Number of words: 1707 - Number of pages: 7.... neither of their
lifestyles were suitable and lacking the ability to create a model of her
own, Edna in the closing of The Awakening commits suicide by walking into
the ocean. Perhaps if there had been a more well rounded woman figure in
Edna’s life, she wouldn’t have felt the life she craved was, “...an
undefined, unexpressed, ineffable life that she cannot articulate or shape”
(Spangler). In witnessing other women achieve the articulation of a
complexly spirited life, she may have found a new life easier to attain.
Adele serves as the perfect "mother-woman" in The Awakening, be .....
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