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Book Report On Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"
<view this essay>.... In him Dostoevsky
creates such perversity and depravity that one can feel no positive
emotions for the man. His physical appearance--he is "flabby" with "small,
suspicious eyes" and a "long, cavernous mouth with puffy lips, behind which
could be glimpsed small fragments of black teeth"--accurately reflects his
foul, disgusting character. He has no respect for himself; he enjoys
playing the part of the shameless "buffoon" for attention, even though the
attention he receives is negative. Because he has no respect for himself,
he can have no respect for others, either. He has no respect for women,
for example; he is a despicable "voluptuary," and he .....
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A Sword In The Stone
<view this essay>.... in an a way very different.
I believe an education should be like Arthur's in the way that he learns by getting different experiences from Merlyn, his tutor, that include exactly what he needs to learn. An example of the kind of experiences given to Arthur is when Merlyn turns him into a fish in order to let him explore. From this experience with the fish, Arthur learns that size and physical strength didn't really matter and instead, it was more important to have intelligence and to know how and when to use it. Merlyn had a very interesting philosophy, which I agree with, he told Arthur "The way to learn it's by listening to the experts." This quote l .....
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A Night To Remember
<view this essay>.... Voyage carrying 1316 passengers and 891 crew. All was calm cruising along the Atlantic at 221/2 knots and the ocean looked like glass. The watchman in the crows nest accounted for an iceberg but since the ship was unsinkable there was no need to worry right? All was calm on the ship as well some were playing cards, looking out at the night sky, listening to the band play, and some people decided to sleep. Until that "grinding" noise came, at around 11:40 that night some people heard a grinding noise that seemed to be coming from the inside of the ship. All but a few cared about it - if they even heard it. The ship's reputation would hold up to some grinding .....
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The Gradual Development Of Cha
<view this essay>.... In this essay it will be shown that the boys on the island move from civilization to total anarchy, through the examples of their use of face paint, the death of Simon and the destruction of the conch.
In Lord of the Flies, an example of their move from civilization to anarchy lies the use of face paint among the boys on the island. Some of the boys, like Ralph and Piggy, never wear face paint. This shows that they stay civilized throughout the story, while the other kids do not. Early in the story, when the hunters chase after a pig, they all where mud, clay, and charcoal as face paint to be “like things trying to look like something else-” .....
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Character Development In Dead Poets Society
<view this essay>.... is because the movie was released before the novel was ever written, leaving plenty of room for differences in the character development of each work in many quintessential aspects.
In life people are very judgmental of others due to their actions and appearances. Such is so in Hollywood?s entertainment industry. However, in written literature, judgement is not as prevalent because the reader is permitted to invent his own opinions and use his imagination based on what the author has previously bestowed. For example, with the character of Charlie Dalton, the reader assumes that he is handsome and ?preppy?. The reader creates a picture in his (or her) .....
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Summary Of Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
<view this essay>.... in the most precarious
moral and social dilemmas. It is through these characters and their
dilemmas that Thomas Hardy displays the social issues found in Tess of the
D'Urbervilles.
Hardy's protagonist seems to have been born in a dilemma. Tess was
the oldest of a very large family and she had the responsibility of caring
for her younger siblings. Young Tess had many concerns to cope with in her
life. Her father who drank too much came to understand that the Durbeyfield
family could very well be the descendants of a royal family known as
D'Urberville. Motivated by greed of becoming part of a higher class, with
no thought for Tess, her mother and father made th .....
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Everyday Use
<view this essay>.... destroyed. "A look of concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house fall in toward the red-hot brick chimney. Why don't you do a dance around the ashes? I'd wanted to ask her. She hated the house that much." The destruction of this symbol of poverty gave her a spark of hope that she and her family would move up in the world, that eventually snowballed into a much larger hatred. She was always ashamed of her past and did everything in her power to improve her status. Even when she was sixteen years old, her mother recalls the urge Dee had to improve everything she could. Her mother said, "Dee wanted nice things. A ye .....
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As I Lay Dying: Anse's Laziness
<view this essay>.... all the work. Addie is inbittered by this, and is never the same. Anse is begrudging of everything. Even the cost of a doctor for his dying wife seems money better spent on false teeth to him. "I never sent for you" Anse says "I take you to witness I never sent for you" (37) he repeats trying to avoid a doctor's fee.
Before she dies Addie requests to be buried in Jefferson. When she does, Anse appears obsessed with burying her there. Even after Addie had been dead over a week, and all of the bridges to Jefferson are washed out, he is still determined to get to Jefferson.
Is Anse sincere in wanting to fulfill his promise to Addie, or is he driven by anothe .....
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