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To Kill A Mockingbird: Summary
<view this essay>.... be a
boy by doing boy things). And you can't forget their black maid. Her name is
Calpurnia.
Miss Rachael is Dill's aunt that lives in Maycomb. Dill is a friends
with Jem and Scout. According to Scout they are married. (Boo) Arthur Radley is
the person that takes Jem back to his house after Jem gets hurt by Bob Ewell.
Tom Robinson is a black man that was accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Bob Ewell
is Mayella's father. He is out for revenge on Atticus for what he did to him and
his daughter. Mayella is Bob's daughter who supposedly got raped by Tom Robinson.
Judge Taylor is the Judge of Maycomb County. Heck Tate is the county law
official.
I think the prota .....
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The Concubine's Children: An Analysis
<view this essay>.... with the outside world. However, Winnie, one of the
daughters, decides to immerse herself in nothing but schoolwork all the
time to distract herself from the men and alcohol with which her mother is
involved. She eventually marries and has a child, Denise, the author of
the book.
This book has the author recount the story as an omniscient
narrator. The author has told the story in a detached fashion, with the
narrator rarely reacting personally to the events, even when they recount
horrific events. This style of writing often cheapens the content of the
story, making it seems rather impersonal, even for nonfiction. The book
itself was written r .....
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The Pearl: Material Society, Material Thoughts
<view this essay>.... Beginning to pray for her
son's endangered life. The doctor who had resided in the upper-class
section of the town, refused to assistant the child, turning them away when
they arrived at the door. Lastly they turned to the sea to seek their
fortune. When Juana set sight on the "Pearl of The World." she felt as
though all her prayers had been answered, if she could have foreseen the
future what she would have seen would have been a mirror image of her
reality. Juana's husband was caught in a twisted realm of mirrors, and
they were all shattering one by one. In the night he heard a "sound so
soft that it might have been simply a thought..." and quickly a .....
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A Study Of The Negro Policeman: Book Review
<view this essay>.... to problem of
inequality in an assertedly democratic society. He drawn heavily on the
reflections of forty-one Negro policemen who made plain to me the difficulties
involved in being black in blue. Alex was concerned with the ways in which the
men were recruited into the police, the nature of their relations in regard to
their immediate clientele, their counterparts, and the rest of society. In the
broadest terms, the book examines the special problems that Negro policemen face
in their efforts to reconcile their race with their work in the present
framework of American values and beliefs.
The research for the study was based on intensive inte .....
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The Killer Angels (Gettysburg)
<view this essay>.... the battle began, Sergeant Tom Chamberlain asked a group of prisoners why they were fighting. They gave no answer, but asked him the same question. Sergeant Chamberlain answered, “To free the slaves, of course.” The South, however, was against freeing the slaves. The entire Civil War, whether the people were for or against the idea, was about freedom. The Killer Angels was informative, very fascinating and I liked it. I liked the book because I learned many things from it. I’d never thought much about the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg until I read The Killer Angels. From this book I learned many things. I learned that the Battle of Gettysburg was the t .....
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The Fifth Child
<view this essay>.... she began feeling ill. She had been keeping herself
very busy in order not to feel the "demands" from the new being. It was unlike
anything she had known before. At five months the pain was so intense that
Harriet began taking tranquilizers. Even during her pregnancy, Harriet began
referring to Ben as the "monster." During a conversation with Dr. Brett after
he refused to induce the baby, she is quoted as saying, "It's because you don't
want to. It's not you who is carrying this" (She cut off monster afraid of
antagonizing him.) (p. 47) At eight months she went into labor. Although she
had never gone to the hospital before for her other deliveries, this .....
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Foreshadowing Of Death And Symbolism Of Heaven
<view this essay>.... Wesley are the men that the grandmother is referring to in the title of the story, but as the story unfolds, and the family continues on their journey, every man ion the story displays a considerable fault but the ultimate sin is committed by a man nicknamed the "misfit" in the end. This paper explains the character of the grandmother, and irony, symbolism and foreshadowing displayed by the author, Flannery O'Connor.
There are several sitruational ironies dispersed in the story. At the begininning, the grandmother is opposed to go to Florida on vacation, but when the stime arrives to depart, she is the first passenger seated in the car. Another example is .....
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Candide 2
<view this essay>.... through that same use of sarcasm and irony, this proposal is actually written to entertain the upper-class. Therefore the true irony in this story lies not in the analyzation of minute details in the story, but rather in the context of the story as it is written. One of the voices that is present throughout the story is that of irony. The story itself is ironic since no one can take Swifts proposal seriously. This irony is clearly demonstrated at the end of the story; Swift makes it clear that this proposal would not affect him since his children were grown and his wife unable to have any more children. It would be rather absurd to think that a rational man .....
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