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Looking For Alibrandi
<view this essay>.... have to know what they want. In reference to "" Josephine had trouble taking her responsibilities seriously. Either being a school captain for example, on school sports day Josephine was supposed to look after a group of students but instead went to the city with her friends. Her goal in life was to become a lawyer and after getting a scholarship she tried everything to get good marks. However she did not know how to be mature in front of adults. She kept proving that she was immature by the way she acted with her parents, Sister Gregory, grandmother and her boyfriend. By the end of the novel Josephine reflects on the way she has acted th .....
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The Red Badge Of Courage 2
<view this essay>.... battle. Against a
background of battlefield trauma, Crane sets a very important battle:
the battle going on in Henry's mind. Henry believes he is faced with
imminent death, and throws down his rifle and flees during the second
skirmish on the first day. He attempts to rationalize his actions and
becomes increasingly ashamed of himself. As he wanders in the rear of
the fighting, he encounters a dead soldier. Eventually he falls in
with some wounded men and witnesses the death of his close friend, Jim
Conklin. As a result of that, he deserts another friend dying and
runs. He wants to make a wound for himself so that he is removed from
the battle, an .....
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Macbeth: Tragedy Or Satire
<view this essay>.... Macbeth is acting on the impulses stimulated by the prophecies of his fate, is this Shakespearean work of art really a Tragedy?
Aristotle, one of the greatest men in the history of human thought, interpreted Tragedy as a genre aimed to present a heightened and harmonious imitation of nature, and, in particular, those aspects of nature that touch most closely upon human life. This I think Macbeth attains. However, Aristotle adds a few conditions.
According to Aristotle, a tragedy must have six parts: plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song. Most important is the plot, the structure of the incidents. Tragedy is not an imitation of men, but of a .....
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King Lear - The Role Of The Fool
<view this essay>.... with the King of France. The Fool knows that Lear has done wrong by giving all his land away to his to evil daughters, Goneril and Regan, and tells him so in act one, scene four, when he says, "All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with." The Fool also warns Lear about Goneril and Regan stating that Lear is now a lap dog to Goneril and Regan, "Truth’s a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out when the Lady Brach may stand by the fire and stink." The Fool disappears in act three, when Lear goes mad. This shows that the Fool is Lear’s view of reasoning because when a person goes insane they cannot think straight .....
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The Chosen
<view this essay>.... and must be, broken when the boy has to become a man.
The novel starts out in the 1940's, in the Willaimsburg neighborhood of Brookline. Two boy who have grown up within a few blocks of eachother, but live in two entirley different worlds, meet for hte very first time in a bizarre fashion, a baseball game between two Jewish parochial schools that turns into a holy war.
the assailant is a young boy name Danny Saunders, a moody, but brilliant boy who is driven to anger by his pent-up torment, who feels imprisoned by the tradition that destines him to succees his father in an unbroken line of great Hasidic rabbis, while his own intelligence is leading him towards .....
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Hiroshima (book Report)
<view this essay>.... the halls carrying a blood specimen. Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist was carrying some of his possessions to a rich man’s house in fear of the massive B-29 raid, which everyone expected Hiroshima to suffer.
Reverend Mr. Tanimoto
Mr. Tanimoto was a small man, quick to talk, laugh, and cry. His hair parted in the middle and rather long; the prominence of the frontal bones just above his eyebrows and the smallness of hi mustache, mouth, and chin gave him a strange, old-young look, boyish and yet wise, weak and yet fiery. He woke up a 5:00 because he could not sleep. He was worrying about his wife and kids, and a massive ra .....
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Bloody Merdian
<view this essay>.... Throughout the whole book beginning on pp.14 and ending with his death, the Kid seems to have had his life manipulated in someway or other by the Judge. Like the dancing bear on pp.326, the Kid dances to the beat of the Judge’s “fiddle.” What does the dance mean to the judge though? Its seems as though the “dance” represents life and life is only good for one thing, war. If one does not “offer up himself to the blood of war (pp.331),” then that man cannot dance and thus cannot live. Is this why the Kid must die in the end of the book? Because he had chosen to stray away from the fate the Judge had set for him .....
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A Utopian Society
<view this essay>.... simply move away. The
only people that would be in favor of it all would be the poor. They would
like the idea of having a worry free life. Worry free when it comes to
food, money and shelter. But it would never work with the rich. The rich
would never give up their land for the poor. They would also never give up
their money. They would resist it to their fullest. All of their
resources would be used to combat all of those in favor of a Utopian
society, and would eventually win. The poor probably would not fight for
it, for they are afraid of the rich, and know all of the power they hold.
Teaching children while they are young is the key to a succes .....
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