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The Odyssey: Telemachus
<view this essay>.... the reader. The
Old man told Telemachus of the sorrowful tale of Agamemnon's Murder. The story
tells of how Aegisthus paid a man to watch for Agamemnon's return from the sea.
After a year of waiting, the King returned in what he thought to be secrecy.
The lookout man relayed the information to Aegisthus and he had Agamemnon's
finest warriors become preoccupied with a small confrontation in one end of the
castle. In the other end of the castle, Aegisthus had a banquet and feast
prepared for Agamemnon. Aegisthus took a chariot to the sea and picked up
Agamemnon. Agamemnon was very happy and he believed that Aegisthus was his
friend. He returned to the palac .....
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Grapes Of Wrath Character Journal
<view this essay>.... I chased 'em and hit them. Then this big girl, this stupid big girl, she hit me hard, an' I telled her, my brother, he killed two men, and he'd kill her if she didn't gimme my Cracker Jack. An' then she laughed at me an' calls me a liar. If only Tom were here then I'd show her! I wist' there weren't no kids, jus' me and Winfiel'... I tell ya, them kids at camp ain't no good, they stoled my Cracker Jack. I worked all day pickin' cotton to get that box, it ain't fair! One day, I will get that stupid girl....
Ruthie
Lil' Ruthie got in a fight with some kids today. She tol' em 'bout Tom an' how he kil't two men an' how he's a-hidin'. It fri'ened me, and I .....
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Witches In Macbeth
<view this essay>.... right after he met with the witches.
It is however, more realistic to believe that Macbeth was responsible for his own actions throughout the play and in the end it was he who made the final decisions.
The witches could foretell the future, they can add temptation, and influence Macbeth, but they can not control his destiny. Macbeth creates his own misery when he is driven by his own sense of guilt. This causes him to become insecure as to the reasons for his actions which in turn causes him to commit more murders. The witches offer great enticement, but it is in the end, each individuals decision to fall for the temptation, or to be strong enough to resist t .....
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The Dual Qualities Of Nature (
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A Critique Of Inside The Brain
<view this essay>.... this book, and if they were to actually read it, the future of our country, and our world for that matter, would be a much brighter one. Some of the points made, including the need for children to be stimulated mentally beginning at an early age, are crucial. Armed with this information, any parent would be likely to spend more time with their children in an effort to ensure their ultimate success in life. It is a parent's responsibility and obligation to provide their children with the strongest mental armament available in order to enter the intellectual battlefield that will be their future. Those who are not properly intellectually prepared for life w .....
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Robert Frost
<view this essay>.... to make decisions like the one listed above. I would say all in all, he did a pretty damn good job of it. But in order to understand his poetry, you need to know about the man.
Robert Lee Frost, born in San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical dimensions transcend any region. Although his verse forms are traditional--he often said, in a dig at archival Carl Sandburg, that he would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse--he was a pioneer in the interplay .....
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Social Criticism In Literature
<view this essay>.... their human masters. It is an
example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized
the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He
anthropomorphises the animals, and alludes each one to a counterpart
in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of
literature. Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent
theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately,
human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly
ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how,
even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of
us. Both autho .....
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Poe Vs. King
<view this essay>.... about sex and swears in his story. For example King writes how Susie is such a bitch. Poe describes his characters in different words. He uses simple words to describe them.
Poe uses long sentences with very little dialogue. One of his sentences make up almost a whole paragraph. Like in the second paragraph. There is only three sentences in the paragraph and no dialogue. King on the other hand, has very short sentences and almost every paragraph has a couple sets of dialogue. King tells the story through the characters speech. Poe tells the story through the explanations not through speech.
Even though they have differences, they also have some sim .....
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