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Frankenstein: Good And Bad Choices
<view this essay>.... today for a choice that Adam and Eve made. Prometheus
and Frankenstein had similar choices to Adam and Eve.
Prometheus was a semi-god and his job or task was to create man.
After creating the man, Prometheus felt it his job to protect his creation.
In doing so, he gave fire to man that he had stolen from Zeus. From
Prometheus's actions he suffered for the rest of eternity. When Victor
Frankenstein made his being, he made a choice to "animate lifeless clay and
body-parts", to become a being. The choice he made would haunt him for the
rest of his life. When Zeus finds out that Prometheus has stolen his fire,
he took Prometheus to a top of a mounta .....
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Short Story - Red Dress: How A Girl's Home And School Environment Determined Her Attitude Towards The Dance
<view this essay>.... was obscene in the house; the description that is given would make
one sick. It is said that she did not take care of herself in the house,
and exposed her lumpy veins to the in-house public. This probably made the
narrator think that she is also ugly because she came from this disgusting
creature. This makes her attitude towards the dance understandable. When
Mason Williams comes to dance with her, she describes dancing with a
`nobody' like her was "as offensive to him as having to memorize
Shakespeare."
The narrator's school life was just as bad if not worse. She would never
be sure of herself when she is called up to the blackboard. Her "hands .....
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Harrison Bergeron
<view this essay>.... equal looks fantastic in planning but it would never work
out that way. If the government was allowed to impose handicaps on the
naturally gifted, how could civilization ever make advancements? The great
thinkers would not be able to envision new ideas because of the mental handicap
radios they had to wear in their ears. Technology would come to a stand still
with the gifted not being able to finish a complete thought because of the sharp
sounds produced by the mental handicaps. With the handicaps imposed there would
not the breakthroughs that are needed to improve the population's way of life.
Suppose someone did not have the ability to invent the auto .....
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Black Like Me
<view this essay>.... to be a temporary African American. Being an African American brought him many unfair encounters. However, after he changed back to a Caucasian, the attitude of everyone had immediately turned, and they treated him well. Mr. Griffin felt bad, and he told everyone about his experiences by writing books and attending press interviews. Throughout these hard times, one can read this book and find out the characteristics of the author, how he saw the light bulb, and the truth that he wanted people to understand. Mr. Griffin was a middle age white man who lived with his wife and children. He was not oriented to his family. He decided to pass his own society to the .....
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Pride In The Crucible
<view this essay>.... full swing between Elizabeth and John Proctor.
Elizabeth Proctor is first founds singing to her children in her kitchen in the opening of act two. This is in contrasts with frenzy at the end of act one. Elizabeth is trying to make her husband turn in Abigail as a witch. She seems sly about it and this exposes her pride. She has pride that she is able to punish Abigail for hurting her. Not this is an unjustifiable pride, but Elizabeth picks on john to do her dirty work to the point John says, “You will not judge me more, Elizabeth….Let you look to your own improvement before you judge your husband anymore”(act 2). The act of the accusation will prove to E .....
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Deliverance: The Establishment Of "Masculinity"
<view this essay>.... than their peers.
The character Drew Ballinger in Deliverance is a sales supervisor at a soft-drink company who is very devoted to his son and his job. Drew is the character who represents the middle-aged man's desire for talent and attention. Drew plays the guitar and his music is his true companion.
Without having any talent, as he would be the
first to tell you, Drew played mig .....
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The Adventures Of Huck
<view this essay>.... became a controlling theme in the novel as it developed. In the book, Huck mentioned that the Widow Douglass was on a mission to "sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time…and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out…and I was free and satisfied (Twain 11)." The restriction of living with Widow Douglass introduced the idea of Huck’s quest for freedom. Widow Douglas wanted to "sivilize" him. In contrast, Huck wanted to be "free and satisfied." Freedom not only in the beginning of the novel in this point was evident, but the end reinstated Huck’s desire for sovereignty. The novel ended with H .....
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The Lottery Winner
<view this essay>.... Globe news paper had asked her to write about all of her different adventures. 2. Willy Meehan is around his sixties, he has blue eyes with white hair. Willy is a former plumber who quit his job after wining the lottery with his wife Alvirah. Willy enjoys traveling with Alvirah to all the different places. He is very supportive and help full to Alvirah in her interest of helping others with there crimes. He also enjoys helping the poor or just those people that can't afford to hire a plumber so he dose the job for free. 3. Brian who is somewhere around his twenties, he is an up and coming famous play writer. Brian is the nephew of Willy. Brian is first intro .....
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