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Hester Prynne: Learning And Changing
<view this essay>.... [a] woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of particular severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die." (163)
As her crime is revealed to the community and she is subsequently punished as a direct result of her pregnancy, the learnings of motherhood and of wearing the scarlet letter as a permanent reminder of her sin are inextricably linked. Also related are her thoughts and changes of perspective in regard to women in society, love, sexuality, and relationships between men and women. These are particularly illustrated in her thoughts and feelings toward her husband, known in the time frame of the novel as Roger Chillingworth, and to h .....
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Prime Of Miss Jean Broadie
<view this essay>.... their parents would ever have a problem or make complaints about her unorthidoxed method of teaching. Mary was the stupid character of the set. Miss Broadie, along with the other girls, treated Mary as their scapegoat. They blamed everything on her stupidity. Miss Broadie harshly accused her and blamed her for faults belonging to everyone, using her to make an example. Monica was known by all for her quick temper and her mind for mathematics. She was chosen, most likely, for little more than the fact that Miss Broadie knew that her parents would not have any problems. Miss Broadie never seemed to have an underlying scheme planed out for her, as she did with so .....
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Animal Farm: Notes
<view this essay>.... was Snowball the
pig. Snowball and Napoleon had opposite ideas on everything. Snowball
acted like he was the good guy (or pig in this case) until the time that
the animals supposedly found secret documents that said that Snowball was
incohutes with Jones. Snowball also spread a lot of lies around about
Napoleon.
Events in Summary:
What happened first: The first thing that happened in my book
Animal Farm was that the animals over took the Manor Farm. The
"revolution," as they called it, was achieved with great ease. Jones had
gotten so drunk at a bar that he did not get home until noon and then went
to sleep until late that evening. The animal .....
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The Adventures Of Huck Finn: Satire
<view this essay>.... happened so long ago, that they forgot what they were fighting about:
"‘What was the trouble about, Buck, - land,' ‘I reckon maybe - I don't know,' ‘Well, who done the shootin, Was it a Grangerford or a Sheperdson?' "Laws, how do I know, It was so long ago,' ‘Don't anybody know,' ‘Oh, yes, pa knows, I reckon, and some of the other old people; but they don't know what the row was about in the first place."' (108)
Another demonstration of satire is played in superstition. Here, Jim and Huck are very superstitious with a rattlesnake skin. Earlier in the book, Huck touches a rattlesnake skin, and Jim stops him from handling it before he gets bad luck: "And he .....
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Examine The Character And The
<view this essay>.... The relationship between The Nurse and Juliet is like a mother daughter relationship, she is like Juliet surrogate mother towards Juliet.
The Nurse possesses many qualities. For example, she is very hearty towards Juliet, kind, protective, compassionate and a loving lady. In some parts of the play The Nurse can be long-winded, insensitive, arrogant, insecure and stupid at times but she loves Juliet very much, partially as she imagines that Juliet is a substitute for her own daughter Susan. She has a bawdy sense of humor, which brings out the naturalness of sex and childbearing. This is seen when she tells Juliet to look for love, - “Go girl, seek .....
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Civil Disobedience
<view this essay>.... justified.
For Thoreau’s arrest to be an act of , it has to be publicized. Being publicized distinguishes his arrest as rather than being criminal (7). Thoreau had many people offering to pay his taxes but refused to take them. His refusal made his arrest publicized enough for someone to pay his taxes to release him from jail. Civil disobedient acts need to be publicized to show the participant is against the political system. Thoreau showed he was against paying taxes by wanting to stay in jail and arguing that he should be the only person to pay his own taxes. This indicates he wanted his disobedience justified.
For acts of to be justified, those acts need .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath: Rose Of Sharon And The Starving Man
<view this essay>.... often in the early chapters is a whining, selfish, immature girl, grows into a woman like her mother and cares for others first, no matter the cost. In fact, at the novel's end, each of the major characters has changed. As Warren French puts it, each has received an "education of the heart," resulting "in a change from the family's jealously regarding itself as an isolated and self-important clan to its envisioning itself as part of one vast family." Most begin like Tom, "jus' puttin' one foot in front of the other" (Chapter 16). Uncle John lives in the past, harboring guilt over his wife's death. Al lives for girls and cars. Pa is so broken at the loss .....
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Visions Of The Future
<view this essay>.... the future. Still only one hundred years ago, people were
blindly optimistic about science. All work and products were created by
man. People were not so concerned about making their work more efficient,
easier, or better productive.
The Scientific Revolution began to change many opinion of views of the
people. The Scientific Revolution shaped the modern world by introducing
mathematical and scientific theories. The formation of the empirical
method , reason, and the laws of nature such as mathematical formulas,
brought about more sense of thinking. Great thinkers and mathematicians
such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Newton, etc., are .....
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