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Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Words: 502 / Pages: 2 .... the good news about salvation. Heedless of the destination of his immortal soul, he charges off into the unknown.
However, chargin off without being prepared, usually brings trouble.
And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong;
He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
And chased us south along.
With sloping masts and dipping prow,
As who pursued with yell and blow
Still treads the shadow of his foe,
And forward bends his head .....
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Julus Caesar - Analysis Of Cae
Words: 494 / Pages: 2 .... not by the face of men, the sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse-If these motives be weak, break off betimes, and every men hence to his idle bed; So let high sighted tyranny rage on, till each man drop by lottery" (Shakespeare 399). Brutus said that if the conspirators do not join for a common cause, then there is no need for an oath because the conspirators are self-righteous, and they are serving the romans. If the conspirators don't bind together, then each man will go his own way, become a weakling, and die when it suits the tyrants caprice. Brutus is advocates peace, freedom and liberty, for all romans, which shows that Brutus is an altru .....
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Lifetime Of Choices
Words: 324 / Pages: 2 .... than teachers are.
Teachers have a better work schedule than lawyers do. They habitually get off by four and have a two and a half-month vacation for the summer. Teaching would give me more leisure time and more stable working hours than a lawyer would provide. Teaching would allow me to spend more time with my children, which is definitely a positive aspect to this job. Lawyers generally have a very unpredictable work schedule. They are often required to put in long hours of overtime on cases making it harder to raise a family.
My mother wants me to be a lawyer. She wanted to be a lawyer, but her parents persuaded her to be a teacher. She has recentl .....
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Julius Caesar - Flattery Will Get You Everywhere
Words: 538 / Pages: 2 .... well when he responds to Brutus with "I am glad/That my weak words have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus" (I, ii, 175-177). By this, he means that his words have lit a flame, or triggered a though in "the great" Brutus's head.
Decius uses flattery and persuasion when speaking to Brutus. Decius is an active member of the Conspirators so he is very motivated into getting Caesar to go to the Senate House. The first thing that Decius says when he walks into Caesar's house is "Caesar, all hail! Good morrow, worthy Caesar" (II, ii, 58). Decius also goes on and calls Caesar "most mighty". Decius is already on Caesar's good side. A .....
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The Way We Live Now
Words: 372 / Pages: 2 .... of modern community life. News travels among them like an electric current, carrying shock waves of fear and pain. Their pooling of medical lore results in an eclectic mix of remedies that reach from chicken soup to the patient's favorite jelly beans.
By the end, several of the characters, represented only by voices in the conversation, have had to come to terms not only with the impending loss of their friend, but with their own various and
unsettling responses. The disease, clearly AIDS, is never mentioned by name.
The person at the center of the story serves as a mirror and sign of his friends' own vulnerability. They don't really know how t .....
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Traditions In "A Moment Before The Gun Went Off" And "The Lottery"
Words: 785 / Pages: 3 .... is to hold a lottery on a
specific summer day, but instead of winning a cash prize or some other good
thing, the winner gets to be stoned to death by the members of the
community. The character that is mentioned most in this story is one by the
name of Mrs. Hutchinson. Mrs. Hutchinson is a devoted mother and housewife.
She is the one who eventually gets singled out to win the lottery. So it is
Mrs. Hutchinson who is impacted the most brutally by the lottery. However
the other people of the village are affected differently by the lottery. It
is very unlikely that the people of the village kill people for the sake of
killing people. More likely t .....
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Daddy
Words: 1203 / Pages: 5 .... anguish and how she tried to compensate for his death. The poem itself bares no metaphorical reading, only a literal reading which is broken up into three parts.
A common technique that Plath uses in her poetry is the metaphor. An example of one lies within the first stanza of .
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
Here the persona uses the simile "like a foot" to compare herself to a foot. Metaphorically she is describing how she has had to live her life without her father, entrapped in black sadness like how a foot is tightly enclosed within a shoe. The .....
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Put Myself In My Shoes
Words: 1334 / Pages: 5 .... writer. In many ways, "Put Yourself in My Shoes" can be seen as Carver's comment on his own career, on storytelling itself.
Myers is a writer, although he hasn't sold anything yet and is currently not writing. He has quit his job to pursue his muse, but with little success. As the story opens he is depressed, " between stories and [feeling] despicable", when his wife calls to invite him to the office Christmas party. But he doesn't want to go, mainly because the textbook publishing company where she works is also his former place of employment. Like Marston in "What Do You Do in San Francisco?" Myers is feeling the guilt of the
unemployed, .....
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I Am The Cheese
Words: 578 / Pages: 3 .... BUDS they got sent over to Vietnam. During their four years in the Navy SEALs they had to do two nine month tours overseas.
Jesse's hero was the pro wrestler "Superstar" Billy Graham, so when he got discharged from the Navy he trained to become a pro wrestler and dyed his hair to look like Billy Graham. He started working for regional promotions down South then moved around into all different territories in the United States. Then Vince McMahon lured him to the WWF up north. A few months after Jesse went with the WWF most of the regional promotions were put out of business by the WWF. The end of Jesse's career came soon after he was hospi .....
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Bless Me Ultima - Tony
Words: 802 / Pages: 3 .... people he love. He shows that he is a "man of the llano" when he "does[n't] run from a fight" even when confronted with Horse, the notorious bully (37). Tony also stands up against a mob for Florence; everyone wants to punish Florence for "not believing in God" (214) and Tony pushes the crowd away and refuses to give Florence the penance that Florence does not deserve. Although Tony knows that he will be given the "Indian torture" (214), he still speaks up for his friend. Anaya often presents Tony as a dependent character, never wanting to "be away from the protection of [his] mother" (51); in fact, he's so close to his mother that it seems that he's .....
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