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The Joy Luck Club - Culture Di
Number of words: 241 - Number of pages: 1.... life and must overcome them in order to survive. In the end, these women demonstrate tenacity and confidence in themselves.
The four main mothers in the novel are shown to be excessively strict, and to put extreme pressure of expectations on their daughters. As the mothers raise their daughters, they are reminded of their childhood, and earlier days. They seem to have had some similar feelings of hoplessness when it came to their own mother's expectations.
There is an immense emphasis on honor, obedience and loyalty. Another emphasis is competition, the mothers using their daughter's ac .....
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3 Lessons Learned Bird Sings
Number of words: 408 - Number of pages: 2.... is being very mean, you could say to a person who wants to be her friend. But of course she won’t let him/her be her friend because she can’t tolerate any stranger. It is not right to take out your anger on somebody else, but we all understand why.
The 3rd thing that the assault had changed her life with was “mother wit.” Mother wit is common sense. Marguerite of course did not have any common sense because she never used to talk. But if she had talked, she first would not have learned any lesson from Mrs. Flower, because each of them tie in to each other. An other pe .....
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Casablanca Movie Review
Number of words: 1117 - Number of pages: 5.... Secondary characters were: Sydney Greenstreet as Mr. Ferrari, Peter Lorré as Ugaté, and Conrad Viedt as Major Estassa. The lighting and camera work in the movie could be described as
nothing short of amazing. Because it was a black and white film, it was extremly important, because It set the mood so well. I believe that because of the filming of the movie being so close to the events in Casablanca during the war the costuming was dead on. The time period in the film was the same as the time period it was actually filmed in. The amazing thing about the sound was that it was .....
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Beowulf
Number of words: 586 - Number of pages: 3.... think fitting", and also, "…the Lord wove the webs of destiny." These certain passages show that the people of those times had a lot of belief in God, not only as the creator of everything, but also as the person who controls things such as destiny, and mankind itself. Paganism also existed during the same time period, and it was believed and practiced by the Romans. They believed in many Gods like the Greeks, they believed that spirits lived in and controlled all things. Christianity and Paganism can exist during the same time period, because there was the Christians who believed .....
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Hamlet Claudius
Number of words: 1253 - Number of pages: 5.... that did sting thy father’s life
Now wears his crown." (Act I, Sc. V, Lines 42-46)
Claudius not only wanted to be the king of Denmark, he also wanted the queen that came with it. In Act I Sc. II Lines 8-14, Claudius has just recently been crowned king and is addressing the court. He shows in his words how happy he is to be married to Gertrude, the Queen.
"herefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
The imperial jointress to this warlike state,
Have we, as ‘twere with a defeated joy,
With an auspicious, and dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral, and .....
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Lip Gloss
Number of words: 457 - Number of pages: 2.... natural, hypoallergenic, and non-animal tested; it is pretty hard to find the “perfect” product. Lip Smackers got a nine out of ten, because it doesn’t quite use all natural products.
When liking your lips, wouldn’t you want to have a spectacular taste come out of it? That is why taste also plays an important part in picking the right product. The taste must be appealing, non-greasy, and have a candy (not waxy) like taste to it. Lip Smackers received a rating of ten out of ten. There are tons of different flavors of lip-gloss that has been produced by Lip Smackers, such as cinnamon .....
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"And Thus While I Listened, Th
Number of words: 1540 - Number of pages: 6.... before, and immediately ridiculed his methods. He felt that he was too good to be taught by Herr Keller, when in fact it was because he felt belittled by him. This arrogance is shown when herr Keller finally lets him play the piano on their 8th lesson.
"He fossicked among his own music for a few moments, finally emerging with a copy of "The Children's Bach".
"I played that years ago," I protested.
"You are too proud to play it again?"
"It's easy."
"...Bach is never easy."
The fact that Paul felt that Bach was "too easy" shos his arrogance, but with Herr Keller's response, he i .....
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Young Goodman Brown - Symbolism
Number of words: 742 - Number of pages: 3.... has a name that is indicative of her nature. The story directly supports this point in the phrase "Faith, as the wife was aptly named . . . " (184). Faith is persistent in trying to keep goodman Brown off the path of sin in the first part of the story: " . . . pr'y thee, put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed to-night" (184). Hawthorne does an excellent job of turning the main characters into symbols that are prominent throughout the story.
Nathaniel Hawthorne also uses different objects in the story as symbols. One of these is the staff of the devil : .....
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Grapes Of Wrath - Jim Casy Chracter Analysis
Number of words: 2490 - Number of pages: 10.... for was supposed to be , Casy was hailed and respected by many for simply being a preacher. Casy and Jesus both saw a common goodness in the average man and saw every person as holy. Both Christ and Casy faced struggles between their ideals versus the real world. (Despite Casy's honesty, goodness, and loyalty to all men, he would not earn a meal or warm place to stay. Although Jesus had many followers, still others opposed his preaching until the very end. ) These prophets attempted to disengage man from the cares of the world and create a high spiritualism that stemmed joy from misery. (All .....
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Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 1
Number of words: 1039 - Number of pages: 4.... asking each other to identify themselves. Everyone seems to be on edge from the start, as if anticipating something. Another factor that reveals a mood of wariness and caution is how the night is dark, the air is chilling, and the characters speak of "the bitter cold," (p. 9, ln.8). This evokes a mood of foreboding and mystery. At one point, Fransisco ends his watch thankfully because, "he is sick at heart," (p.9, Ln. 10). Shortly after the atmosphere is created, the reader is introduced to the idea of a ghost, which sets a mood of dread and eerieness. The men speak of the ghost wit .....
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