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The Crucible
<view this essay>.... play. At the outset of the play she is perceived to be
a very shy girl who will never speak her mind as shown when Proctor
sends her home and she responds with " I'm just going home" (21). As
the play continues and as she is influenced by Abigail, Mary begins to
break this self induced mold and does what she wants. Mary Warren,
along with many other girls gets caught up in the hype of getting all
the attention and exercising power via initiating and adamantly
continuing these "witch trials". Finally John Proctor, the
rationalist, shows that when people like Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth
Proctor who are the saintliest of people are accused of .....
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Charles Dickins
<view this essay>.... the forms and styles of classical art.
As these new styles of linear and aerial perspective and pyramid structures came into use by Alberti, paintings were able to carry better-recognized religious ideas because the paintings became more transparent and more vivid in detail. Finally, artists in the high Renaissance such as Da Vinci, and Raphael developed paintings in the narrative style that demonstrated the "body in a more scientific and natural manner," thus demonstrating the various aspects of every day life.
Claude Monet is perhaps one of the most world renowned impressionist painters. Born in Paris in 1840, he entered the world just as te .....
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The Forgotten Door
<view this essay>.... Mr. and Mrs. Gilby pulled Jon up to their truck and yelled at him for being on their property, but they would not let Jon talk and tell his part of the story. Jon squirmed away, ran like the wind, and jumped over a high fence; Mr. and Mrs. Gilby were amazed. He ran for awhile until he came to a cliff that went down to a road. When he started going down the cliff he slipped and the next thing he knew he was lying down in the middle of the road. A family named the Beans drove down the road and picked him up. They took him back to their house and fed him and took care of him until he was better. Eventually Jon remembered his name, but he didn’t know an .....
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Alice Munro's "Boys And Girls"
<view this essay>.... not equal. Mothers had traditional roles, which usually left them in
the house, while men also had their roles, outside of the house. The male
was the dominant figure in the house, while the woman had to be subservient.
It was an off thing to see my mother down at the barn. She did not
often come out of the house unless it was to do something - hang out the
wash or dig potatoes in the garden. She looked out of place, with her bare
lumpy legs, not touched by the sun, her apron still on and damp across the
stomach from the supper dishes.1
The narrator had problems coming to terms with the role in life
that she was expected to lead. She wa .....
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Casablanca Movie Review
<view this essay>.... and won for best Picture in 1943.
At the time, it had an all-star cast, and I suppose it still is. Some of the actors are even considered legendary. The main stars of the film were Ingrid Berman as Elsa Laslow, Humphry Bogart as Rick, and Paul Henreid as Victor Laslow. Another major character was not listed as an actor in the credits at the time because he was an African-American. His name was Dooley Wilson, who played Sam, the piano player. Secondary characters were: Sydney Greenstreet as Mr. Ferrari, Peter Lorré as Ugaté, and Conrad Viedt as Major Estassa. The lighting and camera work in the movie could be described as
nothing short of amazing. .....
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Young Goodman Brown 5
<view this essay>.... "Faith," and in Hawthorne's visual description, "...thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap..." (pg. 75). The image of this woman's "pretty head" being "thrust" out into the street after goodman Brown, as the wind, an unforgiving element of nature, fondles her pink ribbons, sets up the dynamic relationship between nature and the home symbolically. Nature, specifically the wind, the forest, and the darkness symbolize evil and sinfulness. As Brown enters the woods he comments on the gloominess, loneliness, and mystery of the forest (pg. 75). The home, namely Faith and her ribbons, symbolizes the perce .....
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A Rose For Emily 6
<view this essay>.... left only to dream of the love missing from her life. The rose from the title symbolizes this absent love. It symbolizes the roses and flowers that Emily never received, the lovers that overlooked her.
The domineering attitude of Emily's father keeps her to himself, inside the house, and alone until his death. In his own way, Emily's father shows her how to love. Through a forced obligation to love only him, as he drives off young male callers, he teaches his daughter lessons of love. It is this dysfunctional love that resurfaces later, because it is the only way Emily knows how to love.
When Homer Baron, a construction worker, comes into Emily's life h .....
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True Beliefs
<view this essay>.... which serves as their property line. The first character is the speaker, who seems to be kind and has an education, or at least much so than his neighbor. His intelligence is shown through his open-mindedness toward other people’s opinions, although he knows that changing his neighbor’s beliefs may be impossible. Also he is able to place himself inside his neighbors’ point of view and this may be where the speaker comes up with the question why fences make good neighbors. The speaker does not believe there is a purpose for a wall between him and his neighbor, the speaker believes that fences, or walls in this case, will create barriers betw .....
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