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The Scarlet Letter: Ways People Are Punished
<view this essay>.... Dimmesdale on the other hand, has to live
with his guilt. He is mentally troubled and his guilt lasts the rest of
his life.
People today have no fear about what might happen to them if they
commit a crime. They serve their time and jail and are then set free.
That is why there is so much crime where we live. For example many people
in the mafia are caught and go to jail. Most of them do not go for their
full life but for a couple of years. When they do get out of prison they
are still in the mafia. The only thing they learn from being in prison is
to cover their tracks up better. People should pay for what they do and be
punished properly. For exa .....
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Ways How Huckleberry Finn Tries To Help Jim
<view this essay>.... to get his
freedom. This was the social values of Huck.
2nd, He tries to pray but its morally wrong to pray a lie. He believes
he has committed a lot of sins, at jim's case when he had to tell where
jim was but didn't do it. so he writes a note to Miss Watson to tell
where jim was and wanted her to get back jim. And so he feels free from
sin , but then remembers all the good times he had with jim , jim was
huck's " friend ". Then he decides to rip up the letter and says he's
going to help jimeven though he's going to go to hell for doing it.
The final solution , is that he decides to help jim out of slavery.
He's emotional values comes in at .....
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Things Fall Apart A Tragedy
<view this essay>.... 3. Wisdom gained - realized he must adapt, but cannot--so he hangs himself
III. The pity aroused by Achebe
A. The people do not like Okonkwo for his treatment of less successful men (26).
B. Death of Ikemefuna (87)
C. Okonkwo beats Nwoye, due to his attraction to the Christian faith.(148-153)
IV. The fear aroused by Achebe
A. When Okonkwo learns that Ikemefuna must die, the reader fears that he will die, and how he will end up dying. (87)
B. When the priestess says that Agbala wishes to speak to Enzima, we wonder (also due to Ekwefi’s fear)
C. Fear is aroused when the conflict develops between Okonkwo and Nwoye over the argument of NwoyeR .....
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The Godfather: Did The Author Present An Accurate Portrayal Of Narcotics As A Major Part Of The Mafia Business
<view this essay>.... within the syndicates and most favor drugs.
My purpose of this paper will be to analyze whether Mario Puzo the author of The Godfather , represents an accurate portrayal of narcotics as a major part of Mafia business.
As the demand for illegal narcotics rose in the United States, it was the Mafia who would jump on it as they did all other illegal activities, such as gambling operations, prostitution, extortion, and loan sharking. The whole drawback to this was, from where could they get it. Depending on what it was, it had to be found and brought in from over-seas. From Ecuador they could obtain opium poppies with which to make heroin, and virtually unlimited .....
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A Review Of "The Cay" By Theodore Taylor
<view this essay>.... black peoples'
accents and the way they throw fruit at them from their boats . His friends
like them too, but for some reason his mother thinks they are dirty and
unpleasant. Throughout the novel Phillip begins to recognise that Negroes
are ordinary people who should have the same rights as whites and he
decides to ignore his mother's predujices and respect the people with
dignity.
Plot
Phillip lives in Williamsted with his mother and father.They had lived
in the United States but they moved there when Phillip's father was offered
a job in an oil refinery nearby. Williamsted is very quaint and the harbour
is always full of black people on their fishing b .....
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Character Analysis: Catherine Morland
<view this essay>.... Unlike most girls, her thumb is far from green. She can be found in a garden only when picking forbidden flowers. Catherine is never able to figure something out on her own. She needs to be taught something before she knows it. Sometimes she still doesn't learn because her mind tends to wander a bit.
Catherine is quite fond as books so long as they are far from educational. She has a high amount of creativity however learning is not something she is fond of. She loves books that have a mystery to them. Along with fantasy novels, Catherine (at age eight) feels she would be fond of music lessons. She tries them for one year and of course does not like them. Her .....
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Crime And Punishment: Is There Or Is There Not Such A Thing As Crime?
<view this essay>.... by elected officials who act as leaders in the
society. From the input of the citizens, they make laws to run the society
by. And when a person breaks the law, that is defined as a ‘crime'. For
example, purposeful and alleged manslaughter is a crime, because it is a
law to not kill others; people are not allowed to go cavorting around
killing whomever they please, if they did, civilization would fall. Laws
and rules hold us to civilization.
Another way to define crime is through ethics and morals. Each
person on this Earth possesses a conscience; when we do something wrong,
our conscience makes us feel guilty, although some people feel less or more
gu .....
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The Power And The Glory
<view this essay>.... roams the desolate plains of southern Mexico, on the run from the law, as the only priest left who has not denounced his fatherhood. The surrounding communities in southern Mexico refuse to harbor the priest because of the drastic repercussions from the police. The priest feels guilty about his pride in being an inadequate priest and a sinner, but has come to terms with the eternal damnation he will face in the afterlife. The physical and cultural settings in The Power and Glory guide the reader through an odyssey of one man's struggle to find meaning in the world, as it parallels the priest's internal perspective, and symbolizes his redemptive conversion and .....
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