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Review Of The Red Lantern
Words: 425 / Pages: 2 .... burned the fourth mistress’s flute that her deceased father gave to her. The film evokes feelings of sorrow and disgust, but it manages to fill in humorous bits that alleviate the tense mood.
The film revolves around the master’s polygamist lifestyle and his utter dominance over his wives. When one mistress was good to him, he would decide to sleep with her that night. At the beginning of the film you get the notion that the forth mistress doesn’t want to sleep with the master, but that changes as the film goes on. Sleeping with the master that night meant the lanterns outside your room were lit up and, an added incentive, was .....
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“Homeless Veterans: Perspectives On Social Services Use”
Words: 726 / Pages: 3 .... what are the main things that contribute to their homelessness. In the discussions with the veterans, three types of problems were revealed: health and mental health, resource related, and public perception problems. The article states that homelessness in America has been well documented since the mid-1980. It really surprises me that it took to the 1980’s until homelessness was documented, or at least “well” documented. I believe homelessness has been a problem for hundreds of years. The article also states that between 567,000 and 600,000 individuals are homeless and on any given day 200,000 of them are veterans.
When I talk about .....
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Julius Caesae
Words: 292 / Pages: 2 .... Caesar will be killed of the Ides of March. Caesar, who studies the man and his words, exercises poor judgement in dismissing both.
In Act I, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar, a Soothsayer calls out from the crowd to Julius Caesar, warning him to “Beware of the Ides of March!” (Line 21). Caesar asks the Soothsayer to come forward and repeat the warning again and decides, “He is a dreamer, let us leave him” (Line 29). Caesar’s extreme vanity leads him to believe that he is absolutely secure from attack by mere humans. Brutus repeats the fortuneteller’s warning, but Caesar ignores him as well. The Soothsayer’s warning to Caesar is one of the fir .....
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Hamlet - He Loves Her? He Loves Her Not?
Words: 924 / Pages: 4 .... had not fixed His cannon ‘gainst self-slaughter … how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world." (14 Act 1 Scene 2 Line 131). It is through his soliloquy’s that the audience learns the depths of Hamlet’s depression. Hamlet not only regards the world with pessimism, but he also has suicidal feelings. The main reason at this point for his anger and frustration, is his mother’s abrupt marriage to Claudius. The actions of his mother seem to be what disgusts him most as he yells, "frailty thy name is woman!" (14 Act 1 Scene 2 Line 146). It is this attitude that Hamlet has developed towards hi .....
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The Great Gatsby By Fitzgerald
Words: 988 / Pages: 4 .... life into what all Americans wish to attain. Only through hard work and an adventurous nature, though, can these goals usually be accomplished. An object that helps support the idea that Gatsby represents the "American dream" is his childhood "schedule" kept on a blank page in a copy of The Adventures of Hopalong Cassidy.
"Rise from bed ……………………………….6:00 AM
Dumbbell exercise and wall-scaling ……..….6:15-6:30 "
Study electricity, etc. …….………………….7:15-8:15 "
Work …………………………………………8:30-4:30 PM
Baseball and sports ………………………….4:30-5:00 "
Practice elocution, p .....
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People Of The Mist
Words: 760 / Pages: 3 .... about a specific clan, the Greenstone clan and their village, Flat Pearl Village.
The Algonquins were a materlinial society with all property and children belonging to the women. Flat Pearl Village and the Greenstone clan is ruled by an old woman named Hunting Hawk, Her grand daughter, Red Knot, is murdered is murdered in the early morning of the day of her arranged marriage to Copper Thunder. He is a powerful chief of a different tribe. Red Knot loves a young warrior named High Fox, from a neighboring village, Three Myrtle. High Fox is the son of the Weroance of Three Myrtle Village, Black Spike.
Red Knot and High Fox hatch a plot to .....
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Nine Guardians
Words: 299 / Pages: 2 .... revolt. In The when the Indians revolt it causes death, degradation of a family, mental strain to the point of insanity and property damage, just as revolts before it.
Death is caused by a revolting Indian, attempting to stop a “help letter” from arriving at it’s destination. Ernesto was the messenger and the indian killed him thinking it would send a strong message to Cesar that the Indians meant business and wanted their share of Chactajal. This show of lack of authority expresses their disrespect for Cesar and his family thus putting them lower than the Indians which humiliates the family name. The Indians also put so much strain on Mati .....
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Romeo And Juliet
Words: 607 / Pages: 3 .... this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households rancour to pure love.\"(Act 2, Scene 3), he is saying that the only reason he will marry is because he hopes that the marriage will end the hostilities between the two houses. When he says \"Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, and hither shall he come; and he and I shall watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee to Mantua.\" (Act 4, Scene 1), he tells Juliet how everything will be all right. Unfortunately, for all his good intentions the play still ends in tragedy.
Friar Lawrence is a man who is not afraid to take risks when he feels it is neccesary to help so .....
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A Separate Peace
Words: 735 / Pages: 3 .... Finny demonstrates his superior agility to Gene when he grabs Gene’s hand, lending him support when he loses his balance during one of their routine jumps from a towering tree. Gene feels that he should not feel any “rush of gratitude toward Phineas,” because he does not like feeling clumsier than Finny. Instead, he blames his presence in the tree on Phineas. Finny also has the role of being the leader in their friendship. They sustain the balance of the friendship when Phineas thinks of something to do, and Gene supports him. The problem with this is that Gene only trails Finny so that he would not “lose face with [him].” Gene nev .....
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The Bluest Eye
Words: 1177 / Pages: 5 .... her limp existence. The community’s anger with it’s own insecurities is taken out on this poor, ugly, black, non-ideal, young girl. She shields herself from this sorrow behind her obsessive plea for blue eyes. But her eyes do not replace the pain of carrying her fleeing father’s baby. Nor do they protect her from the shady eyes of her neighbors. Though this book discuses negative and disturbing situations, it teaches a very positive lesson.
The theme of is that of depending on outside influences to become aware of one’s own beauty and to fabricate one’s own self image can be extremely damaging. I feel that Toni Morrison showed this thr .....
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