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Ethan Brand
<view this essay>.... eyes. Over come with the urge to seek knowledge, he falls to temptation. Adam and Eve's downfall was in knowledge, as was 's fall. His sin is best described as, "The sin of intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God and sacrificed everything to its own mighty claims" (357). Upon leaving for his twenty-year journey, Brand becomes deranged in the eyes of the townsfolk. His peers see him as a man who has spent too long a time alone in front of the kiln. Stories arise; such as he "conversed with Satan himself in the lurid blaze of thus very kiln."(356) His search for self-gain leaves him detached from the world of morta .....
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Atticus Finch
<view this essay>.... not, he would not only lose the respect of his children and the townspeople, but himself as well.
In addition to being a lawyer, Atticus enjoys being a father to Jem and Scout. When Jem and Scout found out that their father would be defending a black person, they knew immediately that there would be much controversy, humiliation from the people of Maycomb and great difficulty keeping Tom alive for the trial. It was not long when Atticus had to leave the house very late to go to jail, where Tom was kept because many white people wanted to kill him. Worrying about their father, Jem and Scout sneak out of the house to find him. A self-appointed lynch mob has gathe .....
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The Interesting Narrative Of Olaudah Equiano
<view this essay>.... from what he experienced as an adult. First, a man could not be kidnapped and made into a slave within the African community. In fact, a man could become a slave as a punishment for kidnapping or other crimes such as adultery. One could also become a slave if he/she was a captured enemy. The Europeans, however, rounded up slaves with no thought of any African’s personal lives and captured them for the sole purpose of enslaving them. When they did not “round up” the Africans themselves they would trade goods for slaves which caused tribes to attack other tribes for more slaves to increase their own wealth and status. These two factors left damage to the Afri .....
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The Wretched Of The Earth: A Review
<view this essay>.... as being the white colonists of the
third world. Fanon at first was a assimilationist thinking colonists and
colonized should try to build a future together. But quickly Fanon's
assimilationist illusions were destroyed by the gaze of metropolitan racism both
in France and in the colonized world. He responded to the shattering of his neo-
colonial identity, his white mask, with his first book, Black Skin, White Mask,
written in 1952 at the age of twenty-seven and originally titled "An Essay for
the Disalienation of Blacks." Fanon defined the colonial relationship as one of
the non recognition of the colonized's humanity, his subjecthood, by the
colonizer in o .....
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The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
<view this essay>.... and won't accept the process of time. His most famous statement would probably have to be "'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!'" Gatsby is the American self-made, or self- invented man. He believes in and wants the American Dream of success, which Nick also refers to as "the orgastic future." Over the course of this novel, he temporarily realizes this dream with Daisy Buchanan. This temporary realization occurs over the period of time when Daisy is visiting him at his home. He confuses it with her, because as time goes on, Gatsby is in love with the idea of being with Daisy, not actually in love with Daisy. .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Sin
<view this essay>.... new roles are not necessarily apparent to
all in town.However, even though the townspeople do not know of thesinners,
God does. And in God's eyes, whose sin was greater?That, I cannot answer.
But in this mere mortal's opinion, the sin of Chillingsworth far outdid the
sin of Dimmesdale or Hester Prynne, for Chillingsworth's sin was one of
revengeand one of secrecy. He was not driven by an anger at his ownsin, but
by the sin of others. He used deception andmanipulation to make the life of
another miserable. He wasnot flung from society's view as if he were a
dirty secretlike Hester was; he was embraced by it. However, his sin
didtake it's toll. He wa .....
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Brave New World: All Things Are Relative
<view this essay>.... to their Gods, in which they torn out
their victims heart with a knife, and their priests and warriors proceeded to
eat the victims flesh. Yet, the Aztec were considered to be one of the most
civilized group of Indians in the western hemisphere. The Anasazi, commonly
called cave-dwellers, who from birth, used wood and bindings to elongate the
head. Even today in Japan, tradition says that women are supposed to walk ten
feet behind their husbands. This may seem like demeaning women to us but who
are we to judge when the United States has had a long history of racial and
ethnic discrimination and only now are we changing.
The society in Brave New Worl .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Racism
<view this essay>.... themes is racism.
Racism is defined in the dictionary as the belief that one race is
superior to another. That is also the way that To Kill a Mockingbird
defines it. However, the dictionary does not give an indication on whether
racism is a fair and just belief, and yet we allow them in all schools. To
Kill a Mockingbird is spoken through the eyes of a seven year old who comes
to the conclusion through the trial of Tom Robinson that racism is unjust.
As the story progresses you learn the hate put onto a man solely due to his
color. Through a wise, just, man, Atticus, you learn that hate should
never be brought onto anyone. Prejudice is another example .....
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