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To Kill A Mockingbird: Stereotypes
<view this essay>.... often obscured. "You'll get
killed if you touch that tree"(pg 38) This quote reveals that the two siblings
felt that Boo was a harmful person because of false rumors. Stereotypes are
easily picked up, and used to horrible extreme when a large majority of people
use them. This was the case with Scout and Jem when they picked up on the
stereotypes going around the neighborhood about Boo. “When I got there, my
breeches were all folded and sewn up”(pg 63) When Boo sewed Jem's breeches
together, this was a sign from Boo to let the children realize what a kind and
pleasant man he really was. Also, Boo was considerate enough to save Jem from a
couple of whippi .....
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Beat Movement
<view this essay>.... a method of escape from the
stultifying, unimaginative world we live in, through the exploration of one's
intellect. Beat has had many different contemporary implications in music,
poetry and literature. Literature has been liberated considerably. The poetic
form has been changed to inaugurate a new poetic form, an American form.
"There was less emphasis on tradition and more emphasis on the individual
talent. (www.rohan.sdsu.edu)" One of the most important contributions to
contemporary verse was to take poetry out of the classrooms and into
non-academic setting—coffee houses, jazz clubs, large public auditoriums and
even athletic stadiums. Poetry is more po .....
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The Crossing
<view this essay>.... twenty times. This amount is 150% higher than the amount of times the author chose to include the word “and” in sentences which did not mention the wolf. There are times in which it would be just as
easy, if not easier, for the author to leave out the word “and”. For example, McCormac could have said: “he touched the cold, perfect teeth”. However, “and” was again squeezed in for the purpose of repetition. A possible reason for this is that the author wanted to give the reader the same feeling the narrator had: one of total mental exasperation and exhaustion. When discussing the wolf, the author uses run-on .....
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All Around The Town By Mary Hi
<view this essay>.... character had her abduction and her multiple personalities started to form.
The main character in this story was Laurie Kenyon, a four year old girl in the beginning of the story who eventually grows up to be a twenty-one year old woman. She has blond hair, green eyes and a fragile little body. Sarah Kenyon is present throughout the story. She is Laurie's sister and helps Laurie deal with all her problems as best she can. Bic and Opal were Laurie's abductors. Bic had a beard and his arms had a lot of curly hair. He was a very domineering person towards Opal and Laurie. Opal had long stringy hair and had a plain face. She was passive and did whateve .....
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Animal Farm: Struggle For Power
<view this essay>.... Old Major continues to say that all animals should never come to resemble man. All the animals live in harmony with this ideals system, until the pigs on the farm grow greedy, and change the rules so that they are not “breaking them” but in all actuality, they are breaking the concept of Animalism. This leads to problems with the whole society. In the end, there is the inevitable struggle for power that results in many different changes.
The story takes place on what was originally called Manor Farm, but the animals rename it to Animal Farm, and when the pigs take over, they change the name back to Manor Farm. The time setting for this story is some poin .....
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The Devil's Shadow
<view this essay>.... in the late seventeenth century was a small puritan community that
was largely uneducated and very superstitious. Since many lacked education,
they did not understand many events that happened in their daily lives. Many
things that went wrong in their daily lives would be blamed on witchcraft or
sorcery. Such common things as burnt bread or broken plates would be blamed on
the supernatural. Many people, especially the uneducated, firmly believed in
the existence of witches and warlocks. They believed that such individuals had
the power to perform "black magic" that caused some kind of trouble. Every time
something bad happened they would .....
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Summary: Jurassic Park
<view this essay>.... The second section ties in with the first one, but now the reader is
presented with scientific evidence of living dinosaurs. Here the reader is
given a little insight of the background to the situation, as Bob Morris,
part of the EPA, reveals information that InGen had three Cray XMP's
shipped to Costa Rica, which were very powerful supercomputers, and 24
Hoods, which were automated gene sequencers. Later on, the carcass of a
dinosaur, which was found near the sight where the young girl was bit, was
sent to a lab to be examined, and it was identified as a Procompsognathus,
thought to be extinct for millions of years. The scientists who witnessed
the e .....
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Alice Walker
<view this essay>.... for spiritual wholeness and sexual, political, and racial equality.
Much of Walker's fiction is informed by her Southern background. She was born in Eatonton, Georgia, a rural town where most blacks worked as tenant farmers. At the age eight she was blinded in the right eye when an older brother accidentally shot her with a BB gun, after which she fell into somewhat of a depression. She secluded herself from the other children, and as she explained, "I no longer felt like the little girl I was. I felt old, and because I felt I was unpleasant to look at, filled with shame. I retreated into solitude, and read stories and began to write poems." In 1961 Walk .....
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