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Its The Earps Vs. The Clantons
Words: 2096 / Pages: 8 .... straighter, and more-distinguished man. Through an exploration of the Earps (mostly Wyatt), the Clanton family (mostly Old Man), and eventually Doc Holliday we will be able to better understand the building tension that occurs in Ford’s “My Darling Clementine”.
From the very beginning, it is easy to see that the Earp brothers, especially Wyatt, are pure, brave, and good-natured boys that fit the law-abiding ideal. This is important, because the West was (or, at least, represented) an unregulated area where the law could be bent at virtually any time. For people to be as pure as the Earps seemed very unique, and their name w .....
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Analysis Of Poe's "A Tell Tale Heart"
Words: 660 / Pages: 3 .... find the
eye always closed, he would still stare. It was hard for him to overcome
this obsession. This continued for seven nights straight, but on the eighth
night the obsession would become a killer.
On the eighth night the narrator, full of confidence, would enter
the room and awaken the old man. At this point the old man's eyes open and
the protagonist sees the evil eye. The narrator's obsession is becoming
more furious. Then, already furious the protagonist hears a heartbeat. It
was a sound that, "a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." This was the
old man's heartbeat and it increased the protagonist's fury. Now the
narrator is full of fury. H .....
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Jane Eyre
Words: 873 / Pages: 4 .... entirely different relationships both men are noticeably selfish and disregard Jane’s feelings to some degree. Both men are strong-willed, powerful, and stubborn about their ways of thinking and living. This is especially seen in St. John as Jane describes her cousin as being "as stiff about urging his point" as possible. They believe that want they do is in the best interest of Jane and use unfair methods to tempt Jane into going against her own morals. Rochester tries to convince Jane to run away with him by using the tragic story of his marriage to Bertha Mason. His story makes Jane feel sympathetic and only makes her "work more di .....
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Young Goodman Brown
Words: 2319 / Pages: 9 .... skirts and follow her to Heaven." This is an example of the excessive pride because he feels that he can sin and meet with the Devil because of this promise that he made to himself. There is a tremendous irony to this promise because when Goodman Brown comes back at dawn; he can no longer look at his wife with the same faith he had before.
When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that the reason he was late was because "Faith kept me back awhile." This statement has a double meaning because his wife physically prevented him from being on time for his meeting with the devil, but his faith to God i psychologically delayed his meet .....
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Emilia And Desdemona In Othell
Words: 1017 / Pages: 4 .... husbands in such gross kind?”
Emilia replies “ There be some such, no question”
Through this we see a form of ‘education’ going on; with Emilia as the tutor and Desdemona the student. Emilia is portrayed as Desdemona’s ‘teacher’ in the ways of the world/men.
The relationship between Desdemona and Emilia is shown to be quite close, as the following quote from the play shows, Desdemona is willing to share a part of her past with Emilia; a song that one of her mothers maids (Barbary) sang to her mother, and then her mother sang to her,
“The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,
S .....
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“A Sudden Turn Of Events”
Words: 680 / Pages: 3 .... in silence for about five minuets until a sudden event turned our lives around.
As we pulled up to a stop sign, he looked both ways before turning left on to the main street. Without a worry in his head he pressed on the gas pedal and began a left turn. Unfortunately the darkness of the evening prevented him from seeing a huge limousine which was slowly approaching our car. In a matter of seconds, the limousine was in our car. We were pushed to the middle of the road and the car made a half turn. The windows blew up and pieces of glass landed on our faces. The driver’s door was smashed and he flew on top of me, as I hit my head on the doo .....
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A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The
Words: 1478 / Pages: 6 .... amateur productions of Candles to the Sun and Fugitive Kind were well received by audiences in St. Louis. By 1945 he had completed and opened on Broadway The Glass Menagerie, which won that year's New York Critics Circle, Donaldson, and Sidney Howard Memorial awards. Before his death in 1983, Williams accumulated four New York Drama Critics Awards; three Donaldson Awards; a Tony Award for his 1951 screenplay, The Rose Tattoo; a New York Film Critics
Award for the 1953 film screenplay, A Streetcar Named Desire; the Brandeis University Creative Arts Award (1965); a Medal of Honor from the National Arts Club (1975); the $11,000 Commonwealth Award (1 .....
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Creative Writing
Words: 2820 / Pages: 11 .... to. When he gets here he reports to me that the girl he likes, Anna, will be spending the night at Lisa’s house. Isn’t it amazing how things work out sometimes. I took this to be an omen that I would never get caught if I broke house arrest tonight. I need to tell you that Anna has never really showed any interest in short, chubby Martin, but I can’t break that news to him. I lie and tell him that we’re in, when what I mean is, I’m in. Really, Anna with her tall beanpole-like figure isn’t anything to get too excited about. Her shoulder length brown hair is always pulled back so tightly it looks as if her forehea .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Symbols
Words: 659 / Pages: 3 .... be a good chief and make them listen with a wave of a hand. "Ralph smiled and held up the conch for silence(#23)." Lastly, when Ralph blows the conch, as though a force is pulling them nearer, the children go to him. "By the time Ralph had finished blowing the conch the platform was crowded(#32)."
Next, one of the bigger symbols is the fire. Enforcing the rules is one thing, but the children would rather play than keep the fire going. Ralph gives the idea for the fire, but can they keep it going? " There's another thing. We can help them to find us. If a ship comes near the island they might not notice us. We must make a fire(#38)." Jack has a great .....
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War Engenders Many Journeys In
Words: 484 / Pages: 2 .... Complex or simple, regret accompanies the wrong choice. One fine example from the novel A Separate Peace comes when Gene made the decision to jounce the limb and make Finny fall from the tree. This, in the end, caused much of Gene’s regret and ignorance because it finished Finny’s athletic career and later causes Finny to die. Another decision in the novel came when Finny forgave Gene. Even though Gene ruined Finny’s life, Finny made the hard choice to forgive and forget what Gene had done.
The human mind is a cave swarming with a multifarious amount of emotions, from love to misery. Of all the emotions, misery becomes the .....
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