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Savage Inequalities: Conditions Of Poor Schools
<view this essay>.... rooms without heat, few supplies or text, labs with no equipment, sewer backups, and toxic fumes. Schools from New York to California where not only are books rationed, but also toilet paper and crayons. Many school buildings turn into swamps when it rains and must be closed because sewage often backs up into kitchens and cafeterias.
Kozol’s descriptions of the schools help to instill the feeling of hopelessness and destitution that the children in these areas not only feel in their education but in their everyday lives as well. By describing the deteriorating conditions of the schools in the selected areas against those in the more affluent districts, he .....
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Ancient Mariner
<view this essay>.... physical suffering, the power of nature shows us forgiveness many ways. In the story, the mariner betrays nature: "I shot the Albatross!" This action against nature is rather extreme, for he takes lightly to this thought of death. The Albatross, as a representative of nature, means nothing to the Mariner. These thoughts are quickly changed, though, as Nature begins to start the penance leading towards forgiveness - "Water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink." When "the mariner begins to find his salvation when he begins to look on the 'slimy things' as creatures of strange beauty" (Fraser 203), he understands the Albatross was a symbol of nature and h .....
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
<view this essay>.... somewhere. A large crowd had gathered around and they saw the man, Edward Hyde. The crowd forced the man to give money to this girl for trampling over her. Hyde did not run over her for any reason. He just did it out of spite and evil. He represents all the evil in the world. The reaction of others to him is one of horror because while looking at him, others feel a desire to strike out at him and kill him. His physical appearance brings out the worst evil in other people. Since Hyde represents evil, he is symbolically represented as being much smaller than Dr. Jekyll.
I believe Dr. Jekyll created Hyde because he had a theory that man has a good side and .....
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Cats Cradle
<view this essay>.... religion people believe.
An example of satire that Kurt Vonnegut uses is when he designs the government of San Lorenzo. San Lorenzo is a small island somewhere in the Caribbean. The people in San Lorenzo are doomed to failure no matter what leader they have, and they have always been this way. San Lorenzo, in the novel, is pictured as one of the most unsuccessful and useless places on earth. The people there are very poor, do not have much to eat, and do not have any motivation left at all, "Johnson and McCabe had failed to raise the people from the misery and muck" (Achebe 133). Thus, that is why they do not care anymore who there leader is going to be, .....
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Literary Approach Paper On The Death Of A Salesman
<view this essay>.... without even realizing it. "Willy:...[Biff] Go right over to where they're building the apartment house and get some sand...Charley: Listen, if they steal any more from that building the watchman'll put the cops on them!...Willy: You shoulda seen the lumber they brought home last week..."(50). As one can see, Willy is almost encouraging Biff to steal in order to make a new stoop. However, when Willy finds out Biff has been stealing other things, like the school's football, he seems shocked. "Willy: What is he stealing?...Why is he stealing? What did I tell him? I never in my life told him anything but decent things."(40). Because of the lack of morals, W .....
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The Great Gatsby - Daisy's Role
<view this essay>.... dress appeals to Nick in
this way. She grew up as "the most popular of all the young girls in
Louisville." Even then she dressed in white. Daisy also keeps a daughter
around as a show toy. Whenever company comes over, she beckons for the
little girl to come and put on a little act for everyone. This is
signifies her life. She is kept in the closet until it's time to show off
for company. Daisy becomes radiant and personable. When everyone has gone,
she is a bored housewife, of no importance to the world wondering aloud
what she is going to do with the rest of her life. She appears to be bored
yet innocent and harmless. Yet her innocense is false. .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Physical And Psychological Effects And Consequences Of Adultry
<view this essay>.... effects and consequences of adultery in all of the novel’s characters.
Hester Prynne suffers many consequences of committing adultery. First of all, she becomes pregnant. She has to go through all the pain of childbirth. A symbolic name that means purchased at a great price. Hester is also left out in the social point of view. All of the citizens of Boston look down and condemn her for the sin she committed. Although Hester is clearly a Puritan, she does fully acknowledge her sin and boldly displays it to the world. She dresses Pearl in scarlet as a second symbol, and wears the scarlet A long after she could have removed it. All these things .....
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A Summary Of A Christmas Carol
<view this essay>.... The four main characters in the book are Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim,
Bob Cratchit, and Ebenezer Scrooge's nephew, Fred.
First, lets examine Ebenezer Scrooge, since he is the main character of
the story, All 3 ghosts visit him. Through him, the lesson of the story is
to be learned. In the book, he is made out to be Anti-Christmas and he is
constantly commented about by characters in the book, some feeling pity,
others feeling hostility.
"External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could
warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he…
Nobody ever stopped in the street to say, with gladsome looks, ‘My dea .....
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