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Cathedral
Words: 1168 / Pages: 5 .... jealous and demeaning. He describes the blind man’s situation with short, terse sentences; "He didn’t have any money, either. But she was in love with the guy, and he was in love with her, etc." He almost seems to balk at their relationship as his use of "etc." depicts. However, the narrator’s ignorance and his perception of the blind man’s life is obvious. Because the narrator cannot understand life without vision, he assumes that the blind man cannot either, and that anyone that is affected by blindness is unsatisfied.
Shortly after the narrator sets the initial tone, he cites an example that plays an important rol .....
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House On Mango Street
Words: 1096 / Pages: 4 .... gets it. She says, "I am too strong for her [Mango Street] to keep me here" (110). Esperanza learned from all of these women that she was not going to be tied down. She said, "I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain" (88). **Especially after seeing that Sally was suffering so much. Sally’s father is making her want to leave home by beating her. Sally "said her mother rubs lard on the places were it hurts" (93). There is not enough lard in the world to be able to cure the pain within Sally’s heart. Sally, "met a marshmallow salesman at a school .....
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The Hobbit Book Report
Words: 1445 / Pages: 6 .... He was born a Hobbit but had the ring too long. It made him into a slimey little creature who only lives to possess the ring.
BARD: The archer who killed Smaug. He shot the dragon in the one
spot it had no protection. The towns people later considered him a
hero. What the people didn't know it was Bilbo who discovered the weak spot in the dragon's iron scales.
BEORN: An enemy of orcs, he becomes friends with Bilbo and
Gandalf. He has th e ability to change forms from human to bear. It
is he who determines the outco me of the battle of five Armies.
STORY SUMMARY
The book begins with Bilbo Baggin .....
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Somersby
Words: 797 / Pages: 3 .... have both committed the sin of adultery. Jack Sommersby is much like Elizabeth Proctor because they both have their reasons to believe their spouse is cheating on them, but don’t have the concrete evidence to confront their spouse. And the relationship between the two couples can be described in the same way; they are very uncomfortable around each other. Orin is similar to Abigail Williams because they are the ones that are having the affair with either Laurel or John. Both of them also try very desperately, with no success, to maintain their relationship with the person they are committing adultery with. Some of the characters in these two st .....
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Descartes Vs. Pascal
Words: 1163 / Pages: 5 .... astonished when I
consider [the great feebleness of mind] and its proneness to fall [insensibly]
into error” (K&B, p. 409). But it is possible to avoid falling into error if we
use the valuable tool of reason correctly. In order to do this and find
certainty, we must find something that we cannot doubt. This is impossible, as
we can logically doubt anything. A certain truth must be something that is not
logically possible to be false.
We must doubt, as that is the only way to find certain truth. It is the
only way to wipe the slate clean of all of the uncertain assumptions which are
believed and taught in the universities today. Just a .....
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The Cookie Conspiracy
Words: 773 / Pages: 3 .... been happening recently in Cookieland. Keebler Elves have been on strike, Oreo's
aren't just fun to twist, and Little Debbie has been on the rise and is taking away a majority
of business from these wonderful people. So, like immigrants back in the 1800's, the
cookies want to get out of their homeland and onto a better place. So, this is where the
Cookieland Government comes into play. They have proposed a "plan" which reads as
follows...
"All cookies wanting to move away from Cookieland at this time of hardship are to
apply at the Central Government agencies. Upon approval, your cookie family (3
generations) Will be .....
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Hedda Gabler
Words: 527 / Pages: 2 .... only man to ask for her hand, and was stuck in a loveless relationship. Whereas Nora married Torvald, because she fell in love with him when they were younger.
Hedda is living in an apollonian society, but has a great dionysian side to her personality. She wants Eilert Loveborg to come back with vine leaves in his hair, and fantasizes of romantic deaths.
HEDDA. What do you intend to do?
LOVEBORG. Nothing! Just put an end to it all. The sooner the better.
HEDDA (coming a step closer). Eilet Loveborg - listen to me. Couldn't you arrange that - that it's done beautifully?
LOVEBORG. Beautifully? (Smiles.) With vine leaves in my hair, as you .....
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Minor Charactors
Words: 725 / Pages: 3 .... a very important character because of what he represents to Kate Keller. To Kate, Frank is one of the few reasons to believe her son Larry is alive. Larry was reported MIA during World War II, which was three years ago according to the play. Frank Lubey believes in the stars and fate and favorable days. He tells Kate through out the play that a man can not die on his favorable day. Frank sets out to find out if November 25th (the date Larry was reported MIA) was one of Larry’s favorable days.
By the end of the play Frank figures out that November 25th was one of Larry’s favorable days. When Kate hears that the stars are telling .....
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Greek Gods
Words: 549 / Pages: 2 .... contained many human flaws such as envy and greed, and were where the Greek God’s importance lay. Greek religion was more concentrated on the way an individual dealt with situations that popped up in the world around him than on understanding the world itself. In other words the Greeks were more interested in the workings of the mind than in the workings of the environment around them.
This was so because unlike us, the Greeks believed that they already had explanations for trivial questions such as, "Where the world came from?" "Who are we?" and "Who controls the world around us?" To them all these questions could sim .....
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Macbeth 3
Words: 625 / Pages: 3 .... prestige with promising prophecies and giving him confidence with the apparitions, the witches lure him to commit evil deeds and to continue doing so endlessly. Their tempting prophecies bait Macbeth into their deceitful plot. Banquo, a fellow nobleman, warns him about the prophecies, “But ‘tis strange: and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence” (I, 3, 122-127). Banquo is a smart man, and it is unfortunate that Macbeth ignores his advice. To be sure that Macbeth self-destructs by his own sinful behavior, the sorceresses cr .....
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