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To Kill A Mockingbird: Analysis Of The Title
Words: 1072 / Pages: 4 .... don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their
hearts out for us" (94). Boo is exactly that. Boo is the person who put
a blanket around Scout and Jem when it was cold. Boo was the one putting
"gifts" in the tree. Boo even sewed up Jem's pant that tore on Dill's
last night. Boo was the one who saved their lives. On the contrary to
Scout's primary belief, Boo never harms anyone. Scout also realizes that
she wrongfully treated Boo when she thinks about the gifts in the tree.
She never gave anything back to Boo, except love at the end. When Scout
escorts Arthur home and stands on his front porch, she sees the same
street she s .....
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“A Rose For Emily”: Changing Of Values And Attitudes In Southern Society
Words: 346 / Pages: 2 .... being who she was. She was so secure in her own identity that she faced down and “vanquished” the city authorities on the issue of having to pay taxes, referring them to a man who had been dead ten years as the person who had knowledge of her situation.
To avoid being “poor Emily” after her lover apparently refused to marry, she took matters into her own hands purchasing Arsenic. She offered no explanation for its use even though the druggist explained to her that the explanation was required by law. When an unbearable stench emanated from her property, the men sprinkled lime around the property to contain the smell but asked no quest .....
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Linda McQuaig's Shooting The Hippo: Causes And Results Of Debt
Words: 1092 / Pages: 4 .... and
educate ourselves, our friends, our families and neighbours in the difficult
days ahead.
To explain McQuaig's title I'll briefly describe the beginning of the "mystery."
A baby hippo, born in a zoo, is to be shot because of recent government
cutbacks which leave nothing to feed or care for the hippo. This image grabs the
attention of the reader and leads to numerous other examples which McQuaig uses
to break down the popular myths about the deficit. McQuaig, determined to
expose one by one, several of the current myths about the state of the Canadian
economy, backs up her arguments with interviews and publications. These include:
a chief sta .....
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Ways How Huckleberry Finn Tries To Help Jim
Words: 313 / Pages: 2 .... where
jim was but didn't do it. so he writes a note to Miss Watson to tell
where jim was and wanted her to get back jim. And so he feels free from
sin , but then remembers all the good times he had with jim , jim was
huck's " friend ". Then he decides to rip up the letter and says he's
going to help jimeven though he's going to go to hell for doing it.
The final solution , is that he decides to help jim out of slavery.
He's emotional values comes in at this point also. He feels very weird
having to do this but he decides to do it anyway. He doesn't care if he's
going to hell since he believes that he has done unpleasant things before
in .....
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The Old Man And The Sea: An Analysis
Words: 309 / Pages: 2 .... he can from his weathered body. He has lived so much that he does
not need to dwell on the past events or people he shared it with and is
perfectly happy reading about baseball and dreaming about lions on the beach in
Africa.
The struggle between the marlin is a beautiful depiction of courage and
resilience, but I begin to wonder who is hooked into who. The old man and the
fish are one and their lives become connected through that line as they live
each moment according to the other's actions. Even the old man is not sure who
is better, him or the marlin, and he mentions several times they are not that
different. And whether or not the sharks ate .....
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Walking The Tight Rope
Words: 1150 / Pages: 5 .... young Black men that has
largely been produced by mass media? Tupac Shakur's life and death
is a microcosm of the larger picture. Do we dare peer into it?
Rap music is no longer simply the local, communal form of
entertainment that it was at its inception in the early 1970s. And even
the thriving commercial entity it became by the late 1980sÑas gangsta
rap moved from the margins of hip-hop culture to the centerÑhas
already been transformed. Despite the various changes in the rap
industry over the last six years, there has been at least one constant:
rap artists who have enjoyed international fame and platinum sales due
to the .....
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Ethan Frome: Ethan Lost Control Of His Life
Words: 355 / Pages: 2 .... his mother died. Since Zeena is why Ethan does not have control of his
life, and Ethan married her because his mother died, the point in time when
Ethan lost control of his life is when his mother died.
I believe Ethan could have changed the direction of his life if he had
gone away from the farm to marry Mattie. The reason he did not have control of
his life was because he was married to Zeena. If he would have married Mattie
and left Zeena, he would not have been in the sled accident, and consequently,
he would have lived a much happier life with Mattie.
The second way Ethan could have changed the direction of his life is if he
would hav .....
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Animal Farm Comparison
Words: 962 / Pages: 4 .... produce of our labour would be our own. Almost overnight we could be rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades. Rebellion!”
The simple, but emotional appeal, gets trough to the uneducated and plain animals and, as in all revolutions, the planning begins in euphoria and idealism. No voice is raised to ask relevant question or call for a considered debate.
The appearance of rats at the meeting raises a question: ”Are rats comrades?” A democratic vote results in a ringing ”Yes!”. And Old Major proclaims, ”No .....
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Huckleberry Finn Essay
Words: 713 / Pages: 3 .... he is on the river, he lays back and relaxes all the time. Whenever he goes back into society, he finds that he can not live within its limits so he always denies who he really is and makes up some false identity all the time. When he finally runs from society at the end, one last time, it was clear that he believed that society was too much for him. Also that they would try to make him civilized again, which he didn't want, so he goes off alone to finally be truly free of his troubles and restraints.
This is also seen in the character Jim. While Jim is with Miss Watson, he is a slave. She isn't the one who made him that way, it was society. She was g .....
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The Killing Floor
Words: 620 / Pages: 3 .... positions boil just barely beneath the surface on the “killing floor.” Conditions at the meatpacking plant are considerably less then favorable. The hours are long, the work is backbreaking, and the position in which he works does not pay very well. However, Frank’s compensation for these conditions are his relationships with the other men whom he lives near and works around. Spending his evenings playing cards and talking with the men introduces Frank to more then just a little relaxation; issues about politics, race relations, and especially the “white man’s union” dominate the colorful conversations. During this time I’m amazed at how .....
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