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The Eleventh Commandment
Words: 1094 / Pages: 4 .... process of societies masses. Mustapha Mond, Resident Controller for Western Europe, and the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, oversee the conditioning of embryos. Their powers and control over these particular jurisdictions gave them great power, and with that the ability to manipulate others. "'You ass'... said the Director,... 'Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity'"(Huxley 23). Through a hierarchy of Alaphas and Betas down to the lower cast Epsilon, everyone was suited for their job. The Director however, through his position of authority, was able to "... con .....
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Only The Heart
Words: 916 / Pages: 4 .... to say and what was not. It was hard for them because they didn't know why they couldn’t act in a certain way nor do a certain thing. These children just had to rely on their parents until they got older. They left because the war had brought communism; they were scared and didn’t know what to expect. They didn’t know weather they could live close to like they lived before or if everything would change, there were many answerable questions and they wanted to get away from it. And after their Grandfather got an assimilation speaker put on his shop roof that was the last straw. They had a big trip ahead of them.
So the families e .....
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Jonathan Swifts A Modest Propo
Words: 1518 / Pages: 6 .... at the end of the story; Swift makes it clear that this proposal would not affect him since his children were grown and his wife unable to have any more children. It would be rather absurd to think that a rational man would want to both propose this and partake in the eating of another human being. Therefore, before you can continue to analyze, one has to make the assumption that this is strictly a fictional work and Swift had no intention of pursuing his proposal any further.
One of the other voices that is present throughout the entire story is that of sarcasm. In order to understand this further, a reader has to comprehend that Swift, becoming infa .....
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Staples' “Just Walk On By”: Prejudice And Intimidation
Words: 833 / Pages: 4 .... the ever growing torrent of racial slurs to come out of my Grandfather’s mouth. Other items that just popped out during conversations were names, such as, Porch Monkey, Lackey, Jigaboo, or even calling Brazil nuts “nigger toes.” All this was a common day to day occurrence for me while growing up in my predominantly white neighborhood. As a matter of fact, there were only about five black kids in my grade school. Don’t get me wrong, my Grandfather was never violent toward black people (they actually scared him) and he was never a “white supremacist,” but words were constantly said.
My teenage years changed how I viewed the world. I ca .....
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Touch Wood By Renée Roth-Hano
Words: 847 / Pages: 4 .... in Paris. Eventually, her new neighborhood becomes more of a home and helps Renée to miss Alsace a little less.
Renée¹s parents had left Poland and then Hungary to find a freer, better life. They settled in France and thought they¹d be safe. Then Adolf Hitler, a German man who hated Jewish people, started trouble all over again. First, seven synagogues were blown up. Then, the Germans created a curfew prohibiting Jews to go during certain hours. Any Jew caught in the street after curfew would be taken as hostage. Also, all Jewish people must wear a Star of David on their shirts. An ordinance is created requiring all Jewish firms to be regist .....
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Short Story Essay
Words: 606 / Pages: 3 .... The reader is plunged into the plot by being forced to start in the middle of the action. For instance: 'A Glorious morning, comrade', by Maurice Gee, and 'The hole that Jack dug', by Frank Sargeson. Much less detail is provided to us about the characters, so again we imagine the aspects which are not given to us. Take for example the second paragraph in Frank Sargeson's 'The hole that Jack dug'. The narrator takes less than one paragraph to describe Jack. However, using special wording, the narrator can describe him in much detail using little words to emphasize a few of Jack's unique physical aspects: "The trouble with Jack's grin is tha .....
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A Streetcar Named Desire 2
Words: 989 / Pages: 4 .... of savagery are all on different levels. Throughout the play Williams symbolically relates these three characters to animals, 'savages,' by the use of their attitudes, beliefs, appearances and desires.
1"For such characters, no hope can be offered, for they can only react, not act."
The most obvious 'savage' character of A Streetcar Named Desire is Stanley Kowalski. He is a large well-toned, territorial male with simple beliefs and a short temper. He feels threatened by Blanche because she moves in on his territory and wants Stella to leave him. At first, Stanley acts physically dominant over both Blanche and Stella; by rifling through Blanches poss .....
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Spoon River
Words: 366 / Pages: 2 .... blown about by erratic currents tumbling into air pockets, you Margaret Fuller Slacks, Petits, and Tennessee Claflin Shopes, you found... how hard at the last it is to keep the soul from splitting into cellular atoms." The quotes are metaphors of the people who are always changing their minds because of what other people say and end up doing something they regret so badly, they begin to fall apart emotionally and financially. "While we seekers of earth's treasure, getters and hoarders of gold are self-contained, compact and harmonized." That quote is a metaphor for people who are always trying to find news ways to make more money and those who .....
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The Sword In The Stone
Words: 886 / Pages: 4 .... their lives. Wart experiences this firsthand when the fish-king tells him to leave. He has grown bored of Wart, and if Wart does not leave he will eat him. The king uses his size as his claim to power, therefore his subjects follow him out of fear.
In Wart's next transformation into a hawk, he soars into the castle's mews. All the birds in the mews have a military rank. Their leader is an old falcon, who Sir Ector keeps for show. The birds who rank below the falcon, hold her in highest regard because of her age. She applies her power over the other birds with no concern for their lives. In one instance, Wart is ordered to stand next to the cage of .....
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Romeo And Juliet 2
Words: 541 / Pages: 2 .... Tybalt kills Mercutio. Also, in Act
five Scene three, Tybalt challenges Romeo to fight and Romeo kills
him. Which lead to prejudice between the families.
The street in Verona, a public place, is where the prejudice
starts between the two families. In Act one Scene one, Sampson and
Gregory servants for the Capulets, insulted the Montagues servants
Balthasar and Abraham by biting his thumb at him. This leads to a
fight, which involves the Lord’s of both families and the Prince. No
death occurred, but the families attitudes against each other were
worse then before. Which caused a lot of prejudice against .....
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