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A Thousand Acres: The Monopoly Game
<view this essay>.... setting, one would interpret that their lives revolve solely around the farm and that they have no other life. The scene is that of the "Million-Dollar Monopoly Tournament."
If the reader reads through the monopoly scenes narrowly and doesn't give them any critical thought, it seems as though there is no correlation to them and the book. While the game may have only lasted for two weeks for a couple of hours each night, it didn't stop them from playing in spite of all the work that had to be done (81). The tournament is significant to the book in that it illustrates the another aspect of their lives that Smiley left out.
The infamous monopoly tournamen .....
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Rand's "Anthem"
<view this essay>.... they will live in for the remainder of
their lives.
One day while Equality was tending to his job as street sweeper, he came
across a beautiful young woman taking care of the fields. Even though it is
forbidden, he decides to go over and talk to her. While they were talking, we
see the first sign of emotions when "Their face did not move and they did not
avert their eyes. Only their eyes grew wider, and there was triumph in their
eyes, and it was not triumph over us, but over things we could not guess."
Later, Liberty follows Equality into the forest, and the first sign of
forbidden love is shown when "we bent to raise the Golden One to their feet, .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Symbol Of The Scarlet Letter
<view this essay>.... a blessing to Hester Prynne, more than
the curse she believes it to be.
The scarlet symbol of ignominy may have defiled Hester's public image,
yet it has been a benefit rather than a bane to her soul, for by admitting her
crime to the crowd, her soul is freed from two hells: first, the fiery pit
where she would otherwise go after death, and second, the own personal hell
Hester will create for herself if she had chosen to hide her sin in her heart.
Though it was ordered for Hester to wear the letter, it was still her own choice
to make it in a vivid scarlet, "so fantastically embroidered and illuminated
upon her bosom." Hester chose red as the color of her .....
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The Cask Of Amontillado: Irony And Foreshadowing
<view this essay>.... I vowed revenge,” (1178). Montresor preys Fortunato’s weakness, priding himself on his connoisseurship in wine, to get his revenge.
At dusk, Montresor approached Fortunato during the supreme madness of the carnival they were attending. Knowing that Fortunato is drunk, he asks him to come and taste his pipe of Amontillado. Of course Fortunato could not refuse. Montresor takes him to his catacombs and leads him down to where the pipe is supposed to be. As they are walking, you notice more foreshadowing to the death of Fortunato when he say’s, “ the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough,” and Montresor replies, “ True – tru .....
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Antov Chekhov's "Misery": All Gray
<view this essay>.... lamps, which have just been lighted, and lying in a thin
soft layer on the roofs, horses' backs, shoulders, caps." (30) The picture
portrayed is that of dull, gloomy, sludge and gray ash covering all of the
surrounding areas. " The familiar gray landscape." (30)
The dis-pair and loneliness that Iona feels are sorrow. "May it do you
good . . . But my son is dead, mate . . . Do you hear?" (33). Iona
desperately wants to tell about his sons' death, and how it is affecting him.
"He wants to tell how his son was taken ill, how he suffered, what he said
before he died, how he died"(34). Ionas' son has died, and he feels as though it
should have been he to the .....
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Othello - Injustice As A Theme
<view this essay>.... the mold for many other villains in many other works. He is cunning, decisive, and able to take advantage of any set of circumstances. He molds the people around him and his surroundings to suit his own “peculiar” ends. And best of all, Iago appears to be a good and honest person to all involved parties until just before the close of the play. Everyone is his willing dupe. Every master villain attempts his level of excellency.
Iago, to achieve his revenge, makes Othello wrongfully suspect his wife of infidelity, and makes him insane with jealousy, enough to kill her in his rage. Othello is the general of the city of Venice, and a foreigner, a dark- .....
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Significance Of Dewey Decimal System With To Kill A Mockingbird
<view this essay>.... System as a logical way of classifying books in a library. His system classified books using the decimal system of notation. For example, a book about Buddhism would be labeled and classified with a number between 200 and 290 and a book on Hinduism would have a different number, but would also have a number between 200 and 290. As a result of his system, which is widely used in libraries still today, each book has its place making it “easy for the librarian and the user to understand” (Gale Research, 1).
Like the Dewey Decimal System Maycomb also had its classification system. In the book, Jem confused the Dewey Decimal System with John Dewey’s philosophy of .....
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Frankenstein: Effects Of Alienation And Isolation
<view this essay>.... his last six years in preparation for his sea voyage. During the years, Walton isolated himself from friends and loved ones. He often writes letters to his sister describing things that happen to him along his way and express his feelings of loneliness. The effects of his separation from loved ones are seen clearly in his letters. Walton explains that he “desires the company of a man who could sympathise with me”(Shelley 4). When Walton rescues Victor Frankenstein, his hopes of a new friendship become reality. He writes to his sister that his “affection for my guest increases every day” and his guest “excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astoni .....
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