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The Red Badge Of Courage 4
Number of words: 882 - Number of pages: 4.... before the battle is over.
After the battle, Henry finds his friend Jim. He walks and talks with Jim about the war until Jim dies. Henry, sad about losing one of his good friends, begins to wander around in the forest. While he is there, he meets up with another member of the Union army and begins to fight with him. During the battle, Henry gets hit with the but end of his opponents gun and starts to bleed. When it gets dark, he finds another soldier of the Union and that soldier helps him back to the rest of the regiment. Wilson comes in and helps take care of the gash on Henry's head .....
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Number of words: 580 - Number of pages: 3.... life and death as the stanzas’ last lines switched back and forth. In the end, the two last lines join together as the old man and his son accept that death is a part of life.
Next, the references to "good men," "wild men," and "grave men" display the three basic stages of life: birth, life, and death. In stanza three, the stanza pertaining to "good men," the portion "the last wave by" depicts the old man’s generation as fewer and fewer still live. The color symbolism of the "green bay" lets us know that the speaker .....
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Gatsby 17
Number of words: 613 - Number of pages: 3.... lead us to infer Fitzgerald's view of the "American Dream.” Near the beginning of the story, Nick drops the first hints that lead us to infer Fitzgerald's view of the "American Dream.”
Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquak .....
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Contender
Number of words: 520 - Number of pages: 2.... In Alfred's last fight against Hubbard, Mr. Donatelli didn't want Alfred to fight because he feared that Alfred would get hurt; but Alfred wanted to fight Hubbard to feel that he'd accomplished something "' Remember what you said Mr. Donatelli, about quitting before you've really tried? I've got to finish… so I can know too'" Boxing not only taught Alfred skill but helped him reach deep down and bring out the real inside.
Another influential person was Alfred's Aunt Pearl. Aunt Pearl always wanted the best for Alfred. She was proud when she found out he was finally interested in .....
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The Chrysanthemums
Number of words: 1009 - Number of pages: 4.... to hold the snips, the trowel and scratcher, the seeds and the knife she worked with." As evidenced by this excerpt you can see that she has covered up her hair with a "man's hat" and has thrown an apron over her dress in attempts to cover up her femininity. This apron also takes on a similar role as a man's tool belt as he works the land. Other phrases used by Steinbeck further the above points. He mentions that her face was "handsome," her work with the scissors was "over-powerful," and her fingers "destroyed such pests." She hints to the reader that she would like to .....
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Analysis Of Brooks And Red (Sh
Number of words: 90 - Number of pages: 1.... Both Brooks and Red had gone through its final stage, but Red’s friendship with Andy gave Red a glimmer of hope. Brooks and Red, although slightly different, were essentially the same in every way. It’s just that hope had set Red free. .....
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Into The Wild
Number of words: 1673 - Number of pages: 7.... he refused to write lab reports a certain way (an F was something that was never on McCandless report card) or not listening to advice from his parents to the extreme of leaving society to go erness, McCandless definitely was not a follower. His parents were told by one of his teachers at an early age that Chris "marched to the beat of his own drummer". Chris never lost his ability to do things the way he wanted and when he wanted to do them. After receiving his diploma from Emory in 1990 he set off on a two-year escapade that would eventually end his life but in my opinion, .....
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The Good Corn & Turned: Cultural Circumstances And Its Effect On A Character's Reaction To Certain Situations
Number of words: 687 - Number of pages: 3.... Good corn Mr. Mortimer was
the dominant partner.
In The Good Corn when Mrs. Mortimer discovered that Elsie was pregnant she
was at first upset but later realised what a blessing the whole situation
was, she had been longing for a child for so long and was hoping that Elsie
would give the baby to her. Mrs. Mortimer was not overly upset with Mr.
Mortimer because she felt that because she was in a depressed state
concerning her infertility that she pushed him away and also the fact that
if she didn't forgive her husband she would be left stranded with no-money,
no possessions and not knowing a .....
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British Literature Women Of Lo
Number of words: 2595 - Number of pages: 10.... they were involved in sex, deceit, and adultery had nothing to do with my decision. And as Oscar Wilde said, “The world is packed with good and evil women. To know them is a middle class education.” I’m certainly a believer in that philosophy! After all, that’s why I’m in school.
In beginning to compare and contrast the role of women the The Wife of Bath’s Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Second Shepherd’s Play, by Wakefield Master, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Sir Gawain, one needs to look closely at the stories.
The Wife of Ba .....
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Bladerunner
Number of words: 1217 - Number of pages: 5.... of our future" (Timberman 3). Blade Runner offers a futuristic look of how Earth will be infested with drugs, sex, and violence. After every assignment, will Rick Deckard have empathy on androids and lose his touch in "retiring" them.
In the novel, Rick Deckard differentiated an android with a human through an empathy test, also known as the Voight Kampff Test. The inspection analyzed the subject's empathy level when asked a series of questions that are carried out by Rick Deckard. If the subject receives a high reading on his needles, then it proves that he/she is human. Luckily, for .....
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