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Black Pawn: White Pawn
Words: 938 / Pages: 4 .... feigned a powerful lokking illness to avoid having to say anything about the incident. She played the vulnerable child until Abigail had embarked upon her plan. Tituba was present and the girls had been dancing to conjure up the dead of Goody Proctor. When Tituba entered the scene, Abigail made her move. She accused Tituba of making them do bad things such as drink blood, and why Betty was sick. Tituba, however, did not subject herself as a helpless victim of Abigail's sick game. Tituba twisted the lie aroun so it was for her benefit, if she confessed she would be forgiven. She saw her opportunity for a counter move and took it. Abigail had the finge .....
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And Then There Were None
Words: 892 / Pages: 4 .... furniture." (pg 155) After the death of Miss Brent, Justice Wargrave advised that all items that may cause danger be place in a safely locked place and that the keys be given to two people so that the stuff will be safe. " By the judge's direction, the various drugs were placed in the box and it was locked. The judge then gave the key of the chest to Philip Lombard and the key of the cupboard to Blore." (pg 141) The final way that the guests protected themselves was to keep close together as much as possible. "By all means. But in doing so let us be careful to keep together, if we separate, the murderer gets his chance." (pg 142) " I think, my dear .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
Words: 315 / Pages: 2 .... # 193). No wonder Huck hated the land and civilization! Many of Huck’s bad experiences are on land and involve civilization. Jim being sold and that whole incident was almost really bad. Huck almost lost his best friend throughout the trip. “I was a thinking and Jim was real good to me.”(Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn). Huck called up Tom and they had a scheme to get Jim back. It worked but just barely. Because of this reason, Huck is rejecting civilization. Most of these things would make any of us reject civilization, too. Huck had all the reason in the world to reject civilization. He proved that he didn’t need it. He was .....
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Edgar Allen Poe's "Hop Frog": The Transcendence Of Frogs And Ourang-Outangs
Words: 1270 / Pages: 5 .... or lack there of.
Each of these of these three points coalesce to bring the significance of the
transcendence of man, or the lack there of, into a focused view.
Hop-Frog, the title character in Edgar Allen Poe's "Hop-Frog," is able
to transcend the limitations of his physical body. Biologically Hop-Frog is
nothing more than a freak of nature. Hop-Frog is a dwarf. His means of
locomotion was that of an "interjectional gait---- something between a leap and
a wiggle,"(482) and this motion was only afforded to him through "great pain
and difficulty." Hop-frog's teeth are "large, powerful, and repulsive."(484)
His arms, not in balan .....
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African Literature: In The Cutting Of A Drink And The Return
Words: 1230 / Pages: 5 .... the second section of the poem the speaker talks about waking up "out of the
nagging nightmare." Then the speaker describes his aunt a little bit more, "her
soft but husky call." In the last section the speaker talks about how kind his
aunt is to take care of his brothers and sisters while his parents "strayed to
the copper mines."
This poem makes me think about my grandma and all the wonderful things she
has done for me. The speakers aunt is an old fragile woman, "hoe-broken palms"
and "scrawny ribs." But she is also a very hard worker and loving person. Both
these things remind me of my grandma. My grandma may be old and fragile .....
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Descartes First Meditation
Words: 910 / Pages: 4 .... he believes to be an omnipotent supremely good being, not capable of deceiving him or imposing falsehoods upon him. Out of the three skeptical arguments that Descartes proposes in the first meditation, it is the evil demon argument that is the most important. Both of Descartes other two arguments succeeded in their goal to establish doubt upon the existence of the outside world, which were the sensory illusion and dreaming arguments. However, people such as Descartes who believe in an omnipotent supremely good being, called God, could easily refute these arguments. Therefore, in order for Descartes to start from the very beginning, in terms of kn .....
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Frankenstein 5
Words: 519 / Pages: 2 .... powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world of its own shadows"(47).
Frankenstein sees these innovations as overpowering and substantially giving humans the power of god. Frankenstein believes that through these new scientific powers human kind would be served with a positive effect. Disease could be banished and self glory could result. "what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death"(40)!
Shelley characterizes Frankenstein as a modern a mad scientist. One who fails to look at the moral .....
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On The Road
Words: 879 / Pages: 4 .... married, comes to New York and meets Sal Paradise, a young writer with a sharp group of friends. Dean fascinates Sal, and this friendship begins three years of journeys back and forth across the country.
Sal had heard all about Dean from Chad King, who Dean used to write to from jail, and was intrigued. Dean spoke formally, in long rambling sentences and Sal's first impression of Dean is that he was like a young Gene Autry.
He likes Dean because of his exuberance, eagerness, uneducated intelligence, and what he sees as Dean's Western spirit, which is much different from Sal's other friends, "intellectuals" or criminals.
On the Road is a novel c .....
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Respect And Responsibility
Words: 613 / Pages: 3 .... is a very important part of everyday life,
we use them in school and in work.
A good example of respect is a poet named Alan Burns. He has won
many Art Council awards for his writings (Madden,192). Alan Burns has a
lot of respect for his writing foundation. In most all of Burns writings
he tries to use people's lives (Madden, 194). Burns has dedicated his life
to his writings that is why he is a good example of respect for something.
A poem in a Literature book named "To an Athlete Dying Young" the
people of the town show respect by caring the athlete down the main street
in there town. People loved the athlete so much they had to shu .....
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Free Will Vs. Fate In The Open
Words: 1036 / Pages: 4 .... that can be used to ratify both of these ideologies. A person being born into poverty in the middle city, in most cases, has certain limitations placed on his future. They will not have the same opportunities that many of have such as a good education, strong ethics and family upbringing. That a person is not able to decide his future, but it has already been chosen for him. The idea of free will can argue that “ in most cases”, in the above statement, is a key. There are people who have developed very successfully out of these urban areas to
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accomplish great things and proving that a persons free will decides there futur .....
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