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“All Summer In A Day”: Selfish And Hateful Of The Human Race
<view this essay>.... filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers, and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves that come over the islands.” On Venus, there is no sunlight. It rains everyday and the people live in underground cities. As the story begins, Margot and her classmates are nine years old. Scientists have predicted that every seven years the sun will come out for one hour. None of the other children every remember seeing the sun. Margot does and because of this they despise her. She hates living on Venus and wants to go back to her former life on Earth. Before the sun comes ou .....
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The Fires Of Jubilee
<view this essay>.... at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Some of his best novels have been “With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln,” “Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King. Jr.,” and “Rip Ford’s Texas.” His writing is riveting as well as courageous. His willingness to get to such length to capture the mind of the reader and hold them in suspense has earned him several awards throughout his lustrous career. Some of the awards that Oates has received are the Christopher Award and the Barondess/Lincoln Award of the New York Civil War Round Table. His work has gained worldwide notoriety and is curre .....
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Androcentricty In Things Fall
<view this essay>.... the clan"(18). The men controlled the children and women by treating them like slaves. Their only role in the man’s life was to help him achieve a higher stature by working for him. The Ibo tribe’s definition of family was much different than it was in many other parts of the world in the eighteen-hundreds.
Okonkwo’s "whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and weakness" (13). The way Achebe described Okonkwo’s family and his tribe showed that in Ibo society, anything strong was related to man, and anything weak was related to woman. As a child, Okonkwo was teased by other kids when they called his father "Agbala". "Agbala" is a Ibo word used .....
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Tom Swayer
<view this essay>.... how Tom would have enjoyed some particularly difficult feat that he himself has just pulled off. Huck is the son of the town drunkard, a man who goes away for long stretches and beats his son when he is home. Huck is a kind of boy who cares about himself. He lives with a charitable woman named Widow Douglas. When Huck is in trouble he can be a first class liar. He is very sensitive about other people’s feelings. He even sometimes has feelings of guilt over troubles he hasn’t caused.
Tom Sawyer skipped school and went swimming. When he got back Aunt Polly asked him “ Didn’t you want to go swimming?” Tom tried to get out of thi .....
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One Evil Summer
<view this essay>.... the next morning she was sent to a mental hospital nearby her home. She then came out of the mental hospital a month later and went back to school. The bad thing was tat she didn’t know any of the stuff they were studying and there was only one week left of school. She was doing terrible in school and on last day of school she got her report card and it was terrible. When she came home he showed it to her mother and it was recommended that she should go to summer school.
So the summer that Amanda thought would be the greatest summer yet was turned into the worst. Amanda’s family decided to move the family to a nearby beach in Seahaven. In Saehaven .....
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The Merchant Of Venice
<view this essay>.... Drones hive not with me..
..His borrowed purse." 1
Shylock also acts villainous towards Launcelot by acting belligerent towards him.
"Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call." 2
Shylock mistreats this man because of his poverty, and because Launcelot is socially beneath him. You also start to wonder about how fair Shylock is, when Launcelot is deciding whether or not to leave him.
Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, Jessica. He mistreats her by keeping her as a captive in her own house, not letting her out, and not letting her hear the Christian music around her. He orders her to:
"Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum...
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Farewell My Concubine -- Inter
<view this essay>.... who couldn’t afford to keep him anymore abandons him at the acting academy. The tough tyrant of the academy, Master Guan and the other boys ridicule Douzi because of his prostitute mother. He does, however, find comfort with a tough yet kind student, Shitou. This is the beginning of a special and very close relationship that both Douzi and Shitou will endure for the rest of their careers as actors and life. In the Beijing Opera, actors are trained in certain types of roles, in which they specialize for life. Douzi, with a natural feminine beauty, is trained for female roles, while Shitou is given masculine military parts. Douzi, however, has difficul .....
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Hamlet 2
<view this essay>.... of his brother Claudius. By this time Claudius has already ascended the throne, and married Hamlet's mother Queen Gertrude. Hamlet decides to take a passive approach to avenge his father. Hamlet first decides to act abnormal which does not
accomplish much besides warning his uncle that he might know he killed his father. Later in the play a troop of actors come to act out a play, and Hamlet has them reenact the murder of is father in front of his uncle Claudius. The actors murder scene also make Hamlet question himself about the fact that he has done nothing yet to avenge his father. Hamlet says " But am I Pigeon-livered and lack gall / To make oppression bit .....
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