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Tomorrow When The War Began
<view this essay>.... This foreign force wants to take over Australia because of the wide open space which Australia has an their Country doesn’t. They want to bring people from their country and give them a home each and manage a farm and have the Australians as slaves to them. Through Ellie's eyes you find out information you never thought possible. The information you find out from Ellie is about what the group is going to do to try and stop this force and other various things like bringing live stock into their camp site which is named “hell”. Issues from whom to take camping, to find out how to blow the towns main bridge apart. Issues were the main part .....
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Oedipus The King
<view this essay>.... a tragic hero according to Aristotle's ideas about tragedy, and a narcissist according to Alice Miller's The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self. Using Oedipus as an ideal model, Aristotle says that a tragic hero must be an important or influential man who makes an error in judgment, and who must then suffer the consequences of his actions. Those actions are seen when Oedipus forces Teiresias to reveal his destiny and his father's name. When Teiresias tries to warn him by saying "This day will give you parents and destroy you" (Sophocles line 428), Oedipus still does not care and proceeds with his questioning. The tragic hero must lear .....
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Lord Of The Flies 5 -----
<view this essay>.... presidents, kings, all good leaders whereas Jack leads to gain power, thus representing emperors, tyrants and a dictatorship. "Ralph looked at [Jack], eager to offer something." (Page 24) This shows how Ralph wants to be fair and generous, and he is willing to let other people be leaders as well.
" '[Jack's] going to beat Wilfred.'
'What for?'
'I don't know. He didn't say. He got angry and made us tie Wilfred up.' " (Page 176)
Jack beat up a kid, Wilfred, without a valid reason, because he had done something Jack did not like. Other comparisons are Simon, who represents heroes and philanthropists because he wanted to always help others, and Piggy .....
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A Fantasy
<view this essay>.... Lighting because he was the fastest horse ever. He was a beautiful he had a black mane that shinned when the sun hit it. I keep his tail braided. He was a kind and gentle horse who loved apples. But there is one thing that sat him apart from all the other horses he could talk, like Mr. Ed on Nick at Night. Lighting was as real to me as the next door neighbor's dogs.
Lighting was like my source of salvation when I was in trouble. When I got into trouble and was sent to my room he always came and rescued me. He would take me to places like Disney World and Six Flags and of course he got to ride the rides to. He would even go with me to school some times. Thank .....
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Lord Of The Flies As A Religio
<view this essay>.... and Pagan values. The character that more than anyone represetns Christianity in the book is Simon. The first time you read through the story, he is probably the character that is the hardest to describe and find a purpose for. He is different and does not fit in among the other boys,But if you go deeper into the book, it becomes more and more obvious that Simon's life on the island is strikingly similar to the life of another person that did not fit in. A person that lived some 2000 years ago in Israel. Just like Jesus Christ Simon cared about the small and vulnerable, he loved nature and all living. Simon is also a prophet. He knows that Ralp .....
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Analysis Of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
<view this essay>.... the offical of the lottery used to stand
just so..... others belived that he was supposed to walk among the people,
but years and years ago this part of the ritual had been allowed to laspe
(511)." With this in mind, the audience wonders why the lottery has
continued. The author uses this question to emphasis her theam for the
story. Great evil can be masked by mindless adherence to tradition. For
example, the author states, "Although the villagers had forgotten the
ritual, and lost the original black box, they remembered to use stones
(514)."
Although some are beginning to question the continuation of the
lottery, the old-timers continue to cling rigid .....
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The Forgotten Process
<view this essay>.... I sit down and look at the assignment and figure out what kind of essay it is. Then I just sit down and think in the silence. It is nice quiet and I can relax. I make up a graphic organizer weather that be writing down notes on a blank piece of paper or I just make a web organizer. Then I write my first draft, I read it to myself and make my necessary changes. Then I have a friend read it because sometimes you can understands the essay you wrote because you where there and you know what you are trying to say but the person who has to read your essay has absolutely no idea what you are trying to say. Then I take my feedback and consider the other p .....
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Skunk Hour
<view this essay>.... by everyone because of their reputation for spraying unwelcome visitors with a noxious vapor. Here, the reason for Robert Lowell’s choice in animals becomes obvious. Utilizing such an isolated animal to parallel the thoughts of the speaker, Lowell considerably strengthens the distance between the speaker of the poem and the "love-cars" (Lowell 11) being watched. Even if the occupants of those cars knew they were being observed, chances are they would not associate themselves with the speaker.
In addition, Robert Lowell portrays his character as something akin to a stalker, illustrated in the following excerpt.
One dark night,
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Number of words: 819 | Number of pages: 3 |
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