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Rescue Of Susanna
<view this essay>.... They later developed a plan so that they could lie with her, sneaking into the garden when she was bathing, they threatened to testify that there was a young man in there with her if she did not lie with them. Being the self respecting woman that she was she answered, "I am hemmed in on every side. For if I do this thing, it is death for me; and if I do not, I shall not escape your hands. I choose not to do it and to fall into your hands, rather than to sin in the sight of the Lord." When the servants hear about this they are very surprised because nothing like this has ever been said of her before however they trust their elders and listen to them. As S .....
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Lord Of The Flies
<view this essay>.... black hair and black choirboy attire, he was a dark and terrible person. "He was not noticeably darker than when he dropped in, but the shock of black hair, down his nape and low on his forehead, seemed to suit his gloomy face and made what had seemed at first an unsociable remoteness into something forbidding." Roger was an authoritative big'un that didn't seem to care about the consequences of his actions. Not only was his appearance gloomy, but his personality tended to be as well. "Roger, uncommunicative by nature, said nothing." His physical appearance led the reader to believe that Roger was a completely corrupt character, inside and out.
Roger seemed c .....
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
<view this essay>.... of war by discussing how there are no real winners in war, that war is equal. What goes around comes around. That whereas one man may kill another, another man will come to kill the first man and so on, in a never-ending cycle of stupidity and futility. The setting of this book can be analyzed here; the Spanish Civil War in the 1920-30 time period is the setting for the book, on the battlefields in the Spanish countryside. The whole fascist/communist aspect is brought up since both sides are against one another. Here again, Hemingway doesn’t idealize either side, not referring to their political beliefs but to the fact that each side is very much the sa .....
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Simone Debeauvoir The Second S
<view this essay>.... common property, or had any children; and both had many separate affairs and relationships. Simone de Beauvoir's existential views, such as, "One is not born, but rather becomes a woman(de Beauvoir 301)," was a major point of her philosophies. In the The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir explains, how each female creates and re-creates her "essence" through her own choices and actions.
Overall, there are several major themes that are focused on in The Second Sex. The destiny, history, myths, and situations of women's life today, are the principal subjects of the book. In The Second Sex, Part IV called, "The Formative Years," the information within chapter .....
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Scars Of War
<view this essay>.... Who really witnesses the effect and the price a city pays years after the bombs stop falling? As you walk around the once beautiful city, five years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords ended the war, the physical, damage cannot be ignored.
On April 5, 1992 Sarajevo, the capital of the Republic of Bosnia- Herzegovina, was attacked. The city lies in the valley of the Miljacka River and is surrounded by mountains. The 260 tanks and many other weapons placed on these mountains could destroy the city. On May 2, 1992 Serbs completely blockaded the city. The parts of the city that could not be occupied by the Serbs were exposed to a barrage of
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The Stranger: Quote Analysis Expansion
<view this essay>.... This upholder of truth forces his client to swear to essentially not tell the truth and to not express how he feels about the world and how he feels about the socially required love of one’s mother. These actions of the lawyer are symbolic of the restraining actions of the society, the religion, and the super ego from which Meursault has freed himself. Meursault has taken on an image of a bare and innocent society shackled by the honesty it inspires, or, better stated, Meursault is the only honest man in a society that says more than it feels and much more than it believes. In direct parry to this social thrust, Meursault’s lawyer is given an extremel .....
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Lysistrata
<view this essay>.... the flash of wine symbolizes the male sex organ, and the black bowl the female genitalia. Dionysus, as god of both fertility and wine, functions here in both aspects. The action of pouring wine into the bowl signifies the ejaculation of sperm into the womb and contrasts with the sterility of the oath. Their oath promises them to not enjoy intercourse. The burning torches brought by the men’s chorus are an ironic symbol of the passions raging in men's loins. Their attempt to batter through the gate is nothing else than a sexual penetration, and foreshadows the attempts of Cinesias later in the play.
Within , the pouring of water on the men to douse thei .....
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Huckelberry Finn- Censorship
<view this essay>.... but violence, child abuse, alcoholism, and many other problems still relevant to American society. At the same time, it is an inventory of essential values, such as kindness, courage, and the need through moral choices" (Koster pg.159). Collier pg.2 Throughout the book Clemens compares and contrasts many of the social groups. Throughout the novel Clemens portrays Caucasians as a more educated group that is higher in society compared to the African Americans portrayed in the novel. The way that Clemens portrays African Americans as foul is through the conversations that he assigns them. Their dialogue is composed of nothing but broken English. One example in th .....
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