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Thier Eyes Were Watching God
Number of words: 487 - Number of pages: 2.... tried to interact with them, but Joe would not let her. He thought of Janie as being better then all of them. This led to the way she was treated in society. All of the women in the town thought Janie had everything, but Janie did not. She wanted to be excepted as part of them. When Joe died people in the town expected Janie to be mournful, so she put on an act for them. “She sent her face to Joe’s funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.” (88) After, Joe’s death Janie still ran the store. While working she meet Tea Cake, he showed her how to pla .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities - Charact
Number of words: 951 - Number of pages: 4.... was, “Tell the wind and fire where to stop; not me”. In it she evidently expresses how she will never forget what was done to her family and how the D’Evermondes are deserving of what they will receive. The actions she performs in her daily life demonstrate her evilness. In the novel it seems as though she is the “bad guy” who is starting up all the trouble. It is her need for revenge, in the book, that starts the revolution.
While Dickens presents Sydney Carton as a worthless drunk, in contrast to Madame Defarge, he is the Christ-like noble figure of the novel. He appears to the .....
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Guy De Maupassant's "The Jewels": Consequences Of The Desire To Be Wealthy
Number of words: 692 - Number of pages: 3.... are right, but I can't change
my character. I just adore jewels.'"(8) We know that she gives in to her
vice and has what can be inferred to be as an affair. She deceives her
husband in order to satisfy her desires. The wife is also dynamic because
she always gives in to her love of wealth; she never changes.
The wife's death is implied to be caused by her desire to obtain
wealth. "When she had been to the opera one evening in the winter, she
returned home shivering with cold. The next day she began to cough. Eight
days later she died from an inflammation of the lungs."(9) The .....
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Red Badge Of Courage
Number of words: 764 - Number of pages: 3.... Through time Henry started to think about the battles in a different way, a more close and experienced way, he started to become afraid that he might run from battle when duty calls. He felt like a servent doing whatever his superiors told him.
When the regement finally discovers a battle taking place, Jim gives Henry a little packet in a yellow envelope, telling Henry that this will be his first and last battle. The regiment managed to hold off the rebels for the first charge, but then the rebels came back like machines of steel with re-enforcements, driving the regement back. One man s .....
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The Stone Angel And The Fifth Business: Analysis Of The Main Characters
Number of words: 1532 - Number of pages: 6.... same
time gets hit on the head, causing her great pain. Dunny is just reaching
puberty and listening to his mother's reports on the premature birth of
Paul Dempster gave him the sense that he is directly involved in it.
Furthermore, he has been raised in a strict Presbyterian household that has
encouraged him to feel guilty about almost every lapse of duty.
So at the beginning of the two novels the reader learns that the
first feeling of guilt that the two main characters share is a birth of one
of the characters presented in the novels. In The Stone Angel Hagar blamed
herself for .....
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Delsohn's The Emmitt Zone: Summary
Number of words: 328 - Number of pages: 2.... about the draft choice that Johnson was quietly pursuing.
Emmitt proved to coach Jimmy Johnson that he had made the right pick by
setting a record, three straight NFL rushing titles. Not even the great Walter
Payton or Jim Brown had ever done this. This is what labeled Emmitt Smith as
one of the best football players ever to step onto a turf or grass field. He
was quoted by Jimmy Johnson saying, "Emmitt makes everyone around him a better
player just by his presence."
All in all, this was a good book. I learned all about the kind of
records Emmitt Smith set. I learned that n .....
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Antony And Cleopatra
Number of words: 872 - Number of pages: 4.... winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report. This cannot be cunning in her; if it be
she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove. (I, ii, 147-152) After Antony reveals that he has just heard news of his wife's death, we are once again offered an
example of Enobarbus' freedom to speak his mind, in that he tells Antony to "give the gods a thankful sacrifice" (I.ii.162), essentially saying that Fulvia's death is a
good thing. Obviously, someone would never say something like this unless they were in very close company. While acting as a friend a .....
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The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
Number of words: 728 - Number of pages: 3.... and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and
I, were all westerners and and
perhaps we possessed some deficiency
in common which made us subtly
unadaptable to eastern life.
In other words, after finding out what the east was really like, Nick lost
his interest in being in the east and returned to the west.
Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy.
Gatsby and Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when
they were dating. Then Gatsby had to go to war. While he was away in war,
Daisy met Tom and then married Tom. Daisy had always been rich .....
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Epstein’s Welfare In America
Number of words: 1776 - Number of pages: 7.... to those in the greatest need. He quotes, “family dissolution and non-marital births account for a large amount of the reliance upon Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)…forty-two percent of all new spells on AFDC are associated with an unmarried mother becoming a head of household.” (Epstein 111) To prove that inequality exists in society we need to define the conflict theory and compare and contrast it to the problems of welfare.
The conflict theory or perspective is the view of society that focuses on social processes of tension, competition, and change. (Robertson, .....
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The Pardoner's Tale: Irony
Number of words: 310 - Number of pages: 2.... evil ways, can still cheat the people out of their
money.
The Pardoner begins his story by condemning the common sins of society
such as drinking and gluttony. The irony of his criticism lies in the fact
that he has been drinking himself, and that he is an admitted glutton. There
are also many ironic elements of the stor itself. The rioters in his story,
vow to set out and slay Death. In doing so, they promise to fight and die for
each other. There are two ironies in their mission. First, Death is hardly a
being that can be killed. Second, the three drunken fighters pledge to die .....
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