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Death Of A Salesman - American Dream
Words: 516 / Pages: 2 .... I believe Willy Loman was not successful in anything he did because he lived in his own world.
A big indicator to one's success is their performance on the job. If a person is doing well, generally, they are successful. In the beginning of the play Willy Loman comments on how he was "vital to New England". This is a great example of how Willy's distortion compromised his obtainment of success. In all reality he was not "vital to New England", but a hindrance to his company. This is one reason why Willy Loman never obtained the American Dream.
Another indicator to success is wealth. Although you cannot attribute happiness to wealth, you ca .....
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Lost Generation
Words: 763 / Pages: 3 .... the antithesis of a Code Hero.
Jake Barnes, the narrator and main character of The Sun Also Rises, is left impotent by an ambiguous accident during World War I. Jake's wound is the first of many code hero traits that he features. This physical wound, however, transcends into an emotional one by preventing Jake from ever consummating his love with Lady Brett Ashley. Emotional suffering can take its toll on the Code Hero as it did with Jake Barnes. Despite the deep love between Jake and Lady Brett, Jake is forced to keep the relationship strictly platonic and stand watch as different men float in and out of Lady Ashley's life and bed. No one other .....
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Antigone
Words: 1106 / Pages: 5 .... she knew that the law said not to.
We ran and took her at once. She was not afraid,
Not even when we charged her with what she had done.
She denied nothing.
Creon. And you, ,
You with your head hanging- do you confess this thing?
. I do. I deny nothing. -pg. 502, lines 43-52
She didn't lie to get her out of trouble nor blame her accused actions on someone else. I think that this would show and tell people not to be afraid to say or do what you think is right. Antigone would be a good role model for many people. She wanted to do the right thing for her dead brother. Yet her idea of the right thing to do didn't agree with some people such a .....
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The Fall Of Satan
Words: 558 / Pages: 3 .... looks now, but before Satan was an Angel. He is not the same being that he was before.
Satan’s actions also are shown on Milton’s writings. It starts out as early as the beginning of the earth. When Satan attracted Adam
and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. In his speech to Beelzebub he said that “ good will never be their task, but ever to do ill our sole delight and out of good still find means of evil.” This shows us that Satan tempts us to do evil actions and like it, and how most of us get pleasure or amusement out of it. Milton also writes that Satan with “the force of subterranean wind transport a dill torn fro .....
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The Color Purple - Childhood
Words: 1304 / Pages: 5 .... which causes Caddy and Celie to have emotion difficulties in their adult life. Caddy's parents never beat her or sexually molest her; she suffers from psychological neglect, which many people do not see as a type of abuse. Psychological neglect includes the lack of emotional support and love, or the parents never attend to the child. Neither Mr. Compson nor Mrs. Compson says, "I love you" to Caddy; they do not show any type of emotional support. The father is a booze-drinking-could-care-less-life-is-a-bitch-then-you-die type of person, and the mother is a neurotic, whining bitch. Guilty as charged. No personal relationship exists between Cad .....
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The End Of Affluence
Words: 3914 / Pages: 15 .... an abundant amount of shortcuts in the area labor and labor saving devices. The introduction of these devices meant that a company could now save on salaries, but still increase productivity. The results of this new way of business were evident, the years between 1790 and 1807 showed American exports rising from 20 million to 108 million exported goods a year. The increase in exported goods was not only due to the new inventions, but also the high tariffs placed on imports, giving America a trade surplus. This increase in trade not only brought about wealth and economic growth, but also revolutionized inventions.
One of the largest examples .....
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Lady Macbeth An Essay On Macbe
Words: 1037 / Pages: 4 .... out. I would think that a regular human being, male or female, would be more concerned about how the event in question would come into play. However, Lady Macbeth (and Macbeth) seems quite impatient and instead starts to think of ways that she could bring this event out herself. At about this time Macbeth is also thinking of killing Duncan in order to become the king. This is an example of the similarity between Macbeth and his wife. Its like they say, “great minds think alike”. It’s scary when the great minds belong to devious people.
When Macbeth arrives at his castle Lady Macbeth tells him to wear a friendly face and leave the plotting .....
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Making Decisons In The Road No
Words: 456 / Pages: 2 .... everyone because it seems that the other people take the more popular one. “And both that morning equally lay/ In leaves no step had trodden black” (line 11). No one had yet to pass by on this road since the leaves have fallen. “I kept the first for another day” (line 13). The desire to travel down both paths is expressed and is not unusual, but “knowing how way leads onto way” (line 14). The speaker of this poem realizes that the decision is not just a temporary one, and he “doubted if I should ever come back”
(line 15). This is his common sense speaking and acknowledging that what he chooses now will affect every other choic .....
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The Cask Of Amontillado
Words: 2303 / Pages: 9 .... we know right in the beginning what the story will be about, and what the reader is in for. In this case, Poe lets the reader know right away and throughout the story, that the probable outcome, will be Montresor getting revenge on Fortunato.
2)How readable and interesting is the style?
Poe's style is interesting, but somewhat difficult to read in the beginning. At the start of the story, Poe develops the plot of the story in a difficult manner. For example, Poe writes, "It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong." He could have just said in simpler terms, the revenge has to make to .....
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