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Feminism In Jane Eyre
Words: 1399 / Pages: 6 .... of them felt
uncomfortable when attempting to enter many parts of society. The absence
of advanced educational opportunities for women and their alienation from
almost all fields of work gave them little option in life: either become a
house wife or a governess. Although today a tutor may be considered a
fairly high class and intellectual job, in the Victorian era a governess
was little more than a servant who was paid to share her scarce amount of
knowledge in limited fields to a child. With little respect, security, or
class one may certainly feel that an intelligent, passionate and
opinionated young woman such as Jane Eyre should deserve and be .....
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Fahrenheit 451: Criticizing The Modern World
Words: 612 / Pages: 3 .... on for it. It follows through. It targets itself, homes itself, and cuts off. Its only copper wire, storage batteries, and electricity” (20), and “It doesn’t think anything we don’t want it to think” (27). That society was programmed to not think, wonder or ask why. They didn’t do anything that they weren’t supposed to do. Today, everything is happening just as The Hound is controlled. Programming is happening in our very world. Take schools for example. Consider Pavlov’s experiment with ringing bells to provoke an automatic response in dogs. He rang a bell; the dogs salivated expecting food. The school board rings a bell, and stu .....
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The Outsiders: Character Changes
Words: 243 / Pages: 1 .... and a good athlete in track.
Pony also thought that his older brother Darry hated him because he was
too strict with him. But when Pony's best friend Johnny died of injury from
the church fire, Pony began to be in denial about Johnny's death. He started to
drop grades and fail classes, He became scatter minded. When he read Johnny's
note to him, he got over it and wrote a book for an English essay, and he found
out that Darry really did love him.
Johnny was a quiet, scared and abandoned teenager, yet when he
was with the gang he felt happiness and forgot all his troubles. But when he
saved the five children from the burning church, for the first .....
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Moby Dick 2
Words: 3474 / Pages: 13 .... aboard the ship, and he would sail across the Atlantic Ocean to Liverpool and then back to America. However, this voyage would not be his last. Melville decided to join the crew of a whaling ship named the Acushnet. But Melville did not like his treatment on board this vessel, and would soon abandon them at an island of the Marquesas with another member of the crew. On this island they ran into a group of cannibals that, instead of harming them, would take them in. None the less, both the men would grow tired of the tribe and would escape, although Melville did remain slightly longer than is counterpart. When Melville did escape, however, he .....
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A Case Of Needing: Serious Revisions
Words: 1996 / Pages: 8 .... remains a hot-
button issue, the debate has shifted. For the time being, at least, the
argument centers on whether or not the act should be legal, not on whether
or not doctors are currently breaking the law by performing them.
The antiquated plot line is not the story's main flaw. The biggest
drawback here is a one-two punch of highly technical prose employed to
relate a thoroughly dull story. Karen Randall, the daughter of an eminent
physician, dies as the result of a botched abortion. Art Lee, a Chinese
obstetrician, is accused of performing the D & C that has resulted in her
death. Though Lee is known to be an abortionist, he vehemently denies a .....
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A Separate Peace: An Analysis
Words: 499 / Pages: 2 .... of it. He knew he broke the record. That's all that mattered. He proved his accomplishment. What an insane way to act. I would want the world to know of my great accomplishment. I believe this made Gene crazy. That is was so easy for Finney to decide to break the swim record and not really care. Personally this was hard for me to understand. I think this concept requires and older persons maturity to understand.
Jumping off a tree into the river once is an adventure, continually attempting this act is crazy. Finney was in control of this situation. Gene hated this ritual. He continued to do it because Finney said so. It seems that Gene disliked the fa .....
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The Mill On The Floss: Summary
Words: 1956 / Pages: 8 .... that he cares for his sister Maggie deeply, and that Tom's opinion is very
important to Maggie. In the sixth chapter the Tulliver's are getting ready for
the aunts and uncles to arrive. In the seventh chapter the family arrives and
you are introduced to Mrs. Glegg, Mrs. Pullet, Mrs. Deane and Maggie's cousin
Lucy. Mr. Tulliver states his intention to send Tom to school and it is met
with opposition. In the eighth chapter he goes to his brother-in-laws house to
demand the money that he owes him so that he can pay his wife's sister Mrs.
Glegg. In chapter nine you read about the Tullivers going to visit the Pullets.
In the tenth chapter Mag .....
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A Dolls House 3
Words: 683 / Pages: 3 .... you turn and sway in the tarantella-my blood was pounding till I couldn't stand it", showing how he is more interested in Nora physically than emotionally. When Nora responds by saying, "Go away, Torvald! Leave me alone. I don't want all this", Torvald asks, "Aren't I your husband?" By saying this, he is implying that one of Nora's duties, as his wife is to physically pleasure him at his command.
Torvald also does not trust Nora with money, which exemplifies Torvald's treating Nora as a child. Sometimes, Torvald gives Nora some money; he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and pastry. Nora's duties are restricted to caring for the children .....
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
Words: 607 / Pages: 3 .... grain so shrewd and knowing, all made a bad impression
on Uncle Benjy." (p. 61) Benjy supported Lennie, giving him money for his
education. With the exception of Simcha, he had no other parental support
which is the reason why Simcha words had such a great effect on him.
Duddy gains what he had wanted in its acquisition, respect. Everyone except
Simcha, Mr. MacPherson, and Uncle Benjy thought he was going to be a nobody.
He wanted so much to prove them wrong and he has. We may say he has
gained self assurance, restating the fact he was a somebody important.
Since his days at Fletcher's Field High School, he ran a gang based on
respe .....
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Lord Of The Flies
Words: 1068 / Pages: 4 .... into the “rational (the fire-watchers) pitted against the irrational (the hunters) (Dick 121).” The fear of a mythological “beast” is perpetuated by the younger members of the groups and they are forced to do something about it. During one of the hunters’ celebrations around the kill of an animal a fire-watcher stumbles in to try and disband the idea of the monster. Caught of in the rabid frenzy of the dance, this fire-watcher suddenly becomes the monster and is brutally slaughtered by the other members of the group. The climax of the novel is when the hunters are confronted by the fire-watchers. The hunters had stole Piggy’s (one of the .....
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