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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight: Test Of One Knight's Chivalric Attributes
<view this essay>.... of a story, or in establishing a theme.
Through the use of symbols, the author of Sir Gawain is able to show that Gawain
possesses the necessary attributes to make him worthy of being tested. He also
uses symbols throughout the tests of each individual attribute, and in revealing
where Gawain's fault lies. The effective use of these symbols enables the
author to integrate the test of each individual attribute into a central theme,
or rather one overall test, the test of chivalry.
To establish the knight as worthy, the author first shows Gawain's
loyalty to his king. The Green Knight challenges anyone in the hall to the
beheading game and no one takes him .....
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Do You Have A Voice
<view this essay>.... you can make a difference.
During the story, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck plays a trick on Jim. Jim is Huck’s runaway slave friend. So, as the story goes, Huck plays a trick on Jim and Jim thinks that Huck is dead. When Jim finally realizes that Huck is not dead, he gets really angry at Huck. Jim says, “ Dat truck dah is trash; en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren’s em makes ‘em ashamed.” That line, from the story, is basically saying that Huck is trash for doing that to Jim. Then fifteen minutes later Huck goes into Jim’s wigwam and apologizes. This is showing that Huck does have a .....
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Frankenstein: Victor
<view this essay>.... had been murdered. He began his miserable trip back home. On
the way home he saw a giant beast running from a barn. He realized this was his
creation and he was the murderer. An innocent woman (framed by the Monster) and
a great friend of Elizabeth (Victor's cousin and future wife), was executed for
the murder. This devastated the family (especially Victor, who accused himself).
He set of to put an end to this creation.
Victor finally met up with his monster in the mountains near a glacier.
Here he listened to the monster's story. How he studied and grew to love this
family living in a cottage. He wanted so immensely to be a part of their love
an .....
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Who Am I This Time
<view this essay>.... are perfect for each other.
Harry and Helene are each, in their own ways, wanders of life. They seem to keep moving aimlessly through their days. It's the same boring routine every day; there is no excitement in their lives. They seem to avoid doing anything new because they are complacent in their narrow views of reality. They only feel comfortable with each other. Harry roams in and out of acting rolls and Helene wanders from city to city. They are never able to sit still long enough to decide who they are. Once they are done with a job, it is on to the next, with a chance of finding themselves anew. Harry would always leave right after he was done .....
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Justifying The Ways Of God To Man: Paradise Lost, Book III
<view this essay>.... to do. In Book III, we are taken up to Heaven by Milton, who opens the book by mourning his loss of sight. It is through this loss of physical vision, however, that Milton is able to more clearly portray Heaven:
So much the rather thou Celestial Light
Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers
Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence
Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell
Of things invisible to mortal sight (Hughes, 51-55).
Milton's lack of sight is an asset here. We are forced as readers to look upon this scene with the same physical blindness that Milton had. He makes it clear that we could not see it anyway. Instead we must .....
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Philip Tompkins' Organizational Communicatin Imperatives
<view this essay>.... of communication throughout NASA. The idea that a
crucial element of the space shuttle, O-Rings, would pass inspection, although
many scientists doubted the success of these, would be the ultimate cause of the
crew's demise shortly after lift off. It seems these scientists' doubts were
overlooked by a higher authority who gave the go ahead knowing the risk at
stake.
The United States Army, well known for its maintaining of order and
conduct, has fallen into a most peculiar and shameful predicament due to lack of
communication. The New York Times brought its readers to the attention that all
was not right in the military. An organization that shares a s .....
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Satires In Huckleberry Finn
<view this essay>.... people is wrong. Huck sees that there is no difference between Jim and any white man he knows except for skin color. Risking his life and overcoming many difficulties on the way, Huck succeeds in freeing Jim. Focusing on racism, alcoholism and mob mentality, Mark Twain uses his ardent style of writing and satirizes the three traits throughout the novel.
Many words the book contains are full of vivid abhorrence towards black slaves. Every single line talks about how white people despise and refuse to accept the black race. Answering Aunt Sally's question about whether or not anyone is hurt Huck answers, "no mum, just killed a nigger."(Twain 213) This is the o .....
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Red Badge Of Courage - Henry Fleming
<view this essay>.... After enlisting he finds himself just sitting around with nothing to
do. He manages to make friends with two other soldiers, John wilson and Jim
Conklin. Wilson was as exited about going to war as Henry, while Jim was
confident about the success of the new regiment. Henry started to realize
after a few days of marching, that their regiment was just wandering
aimlessly, going in circles, like a vast blue demonstration. They kept
marching on without purpose, direction, or fighting. Through time Henry
started to think about the battles in a different way, a more close and
experienced way, he started to become afraid that he might run from battle
when duty calls .....
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