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Property Of
Words: 810 / Pages: 3 .... unlike so many of the Orphan's, was unscarred.....The letters red and gold,glowed on his back, President Of the Orphans" (12). The Dolphin was known for his tattoos that covered his entire body. He was very close to McKay, and this made the narrator jealous. Starry was The Number One Property. She is very little, and looked no more than fourteen, but the way she drank from a bottle of tequila made it evident she was no child.
The narrator convinces Danny the Sweet to let her come with him to the secret meeting before the Night of the Wolf, in hopes of catching McKay's eye. The Night of the Wolf is a fight between the Pack and the Orphans, which .....
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Othello - The Ambivalence Of H
Words: 1112 / Pages: 5 .... Cassio and suspects that Othello has wronged his honor; but his malignancy is all out of proportion to even his alleged motives through which he shows his ambivalence of nature. His goodness of nature is not pure but simply good in appearence to the other characters. The reader sees the true evil of Iago and how he fools the other characters into believing he is an honorable man. His false displays begin with him and Roderego informing Brabantio of Desedemona's marriage to Othello, a Moor. The reader knows from the conversation between Iago and Roderego in Act I scene 1 that the two men are upset that Iago is not Lieutenant and Roderego canno .....
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The Natural
Words: 2432 / Pages: 9 .... meets on a train on his way to Chicago to try out for the Chicago Cubs. Roy is extremely attracted to her, but a major league ballplayer on the train named Whammer Wambold has already caught her eye. Roy becomes jealous and begins to do things to try to get her attention. At a stop in the route, the passengers get off for a break and go to a local carnival where Roy and the big leaguer clash in a contest of talent, a David-and-Goliath-type confrontation (Solotaroff 9). Roy strikes out the batter with three blistering pitches, each of which make Harriet pay more and more attention to him. As they arrive in Chicago, Harriet stays at the hotel at .....
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Machismo In One Hundred Years
Words: 1131 / Pages: 5 .... be Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In using the tainted image of the Latin American male as their vehicle, this essay will deal with specific ills Marquez was concerned about in his respective country: the tragic results of machismo.
Authoritarianism, or perhaps one of its greatest bi-products, machismo, is omnipresent throughout "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Machismo is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as: "exaggeratedly assertive manliness; a show of masculinity." Colonel Aureliano Buendia best exemplifies this definition. Marquez uses the Colonel's amoral, irrational actions and behaviour to reveal the terrible consequences of machismo.
Aurelia .....
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Awakening
Words: 600 / Pages: 3 .... 179, fifth paragraph). Edna often doesn’t understand her emotions and what is going on in her head, and she also frequently misinterprets them. Because of this she is a very unpredictable character, her actions and words are inconsistent in their messages. “Edna Pontellier could not have told why, wishing to go to the beach with Robert, she should in the first place have declined, and in the second place have followed in obedience to one of the two contradictory impulses which impelled her." “Yes,” she said. “The years that are gone seem like dreams- if one might go on sleeping and dreaming- but to wake up and find- oh! well! perhaps it .....
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Salamandastron
Words: 481 / Pages: 2 .... are captured by cannibal toads, and are rescued by a band of shrews. They become good friends with the shrew leader, Log-a-Log, and decide to help him on a dangerous quest for the tribe's Blackstone, which will completely restore Log-a-Log's control over his tribe.
They travel in shrew logboats across the bottomless lake, and encounter the Deepcoiler (A huge sea serpent). They reach an island where the Blackstone is supposed to have been left. However, danger and mystery await them on the island.
Meanwhile, at the massive Redwall Abbey, two searats have come to stay. The brothers and sisters think they will only bring trouble, but the Abbess is slo .....
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The Old Gringo, By Carlos Fuen
Words: 2618 / Pages: 10 .... characters in the story. Death is the most popular choice taken in the novel, especially for two of the main characters. It all begins when Harriet Winslow, an American schoolteacher, decides to come to Mexico in 1912 to teach English to the children of a wealthy landowner. What she finds is a general in Pancho Villa’s Revolutionary Army and an old American journalist, on a quest for adventure and death. The climax is reached at the death of the old gringo and the Mexican general. The story then ends with the return to the United States made by Harriet Winslow.
This story reminds me very much with the story of Pocahontas. The old .....
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Subject: Joseph Conrad's-Heart Of Darkness
Words: 590 / Pages: 3 .... are of Kurtz. He wonders
how he will measure up to the standards that the company set for him, what
Kurtz¦s personality is like, and what Kurtz would think of him. The more
obsessed he becomes with Kurtz, the more he sets himself up for the
horrible reality of what his new idol was truly made of.
Upon reaching Kurtz's station, Marlow¦s disillusion begins to set in. He
is greeted by an English-speaking Russian whom he takes for a man who on
the surface is deceant level-headed person, but after short conversation
it is apparent to Marlow that he is talking with a disturbed individual,
but that was not what bothered Marlow. Hearing of and seeing the .....
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Streetcar Named Desire
Words: 692 / Pages: 3 .... beats his wife, Stella. Lastly, his arrogance and ferocious actions
are most apparent when he rapes Blanche, while his wife is in labor in
the hospital.
Stanley Kowalski’s first exhibition of his brutal actions
occurs at poker night. Blanche turns on the radio, but Stanley
demands her to turn it off. Blanche refuses and so Stanley gets up
himself and turns it off himself. When Stanley’s friend, Mitch, drops
out of the game to talk to Blanche, Stanley gets upset and he
even gets more upset when Blanche flicks on the radio. Due to the
music being on, Stanley, in a rage, stalks in the room and grabs the
radio and throw .....
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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Words: 833 / Pages: 4 .... and we'll settle this affair once and for all, libidos a-blazin'." Harding tries to drawl like McMurphy; it sounds funny with his high, breathy voice. (21-22)
A further linkage of McMurphy with the heroic (male) American past is forged by the fact that he wears a pair of shorts decorated with "big white whales" which recall Melville's Moby Dick.
Indeed, so that the reader does not miss the allusion, Kesey has McMurphy relate that the person who gave him the shorts was "'a co-ed at Oregon State, Chief, a Literary major'" who made him the present "'because she said I was a symbol'" (69). Melville is a by no means unambiguous writer. Indeed, in Moby .....
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