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» English Essays and Papers
“Home Is”
<view this essay>.... your personal place of safety and comfort. It is a loving environment. I believe home is defined in three words: love, family, and trust. Family is love, love is trust, and trust is home.
In a sentence, home is love. This is because home is where your heart is. Your home should be filled with love. It should be filled with people you love and people that love you.
One may feel that home is a place where their family is. A person may feel most comfortable with their family, some may not. Your family is not always your relations. It can be anyone that you care about, and that care about you. I, myself, feel most comfortable with my family and frie .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Character Analysis
<view this essay>.... himself came from the acceptance of his peers. He had a fair nature as he was willing to listen to Piggy. He became increasingly dependent on Piggy's wisdom and became lost in the confusion around him. Towards the end of the story his rejection from their society of savage boys forced him to fend for himself. Piggy was an educated boy who had grown up as an outcast. Due to his academic childhood, he was more mature than the others and retained his civilized behaviour. But his experiences on the island gave him a more realistic understanding of the cruelty possessed by some people. The ordeals of the three boys on the island made them more aware of the evil insi .....
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Berger's "Ways Of Seeing"
<view this essay>.... an image is portrayed (i.e. TV, magazines, books) may force you to see only portion of the idea minimizing the scope of your understanding.
When looking at an object your mind automatically processes an interpretation of its significance. "The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe." When an image is presented one reflects on their beliefs or prior knowledge causing a sudden blindness to occur. You only see what you choose to look at. By referring to your ideals you ultimately lose the reality of the entire image. For example a person walking down the street sees a homeless person begging for money to get food. He walks away without .....
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12th Night Explication
<view this essay>.... is the cause, not we,
For such as we are made of, such we be.
How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly.
And I, poor monster, fond as much on him;
And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.
What will become of this? As I am man,
My state is desperate for my master's love.
As I am woman -now, alas the day!-
What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!
O time, thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a not for me t' untie.
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" is a comedy of mixed signals and romance. Viola is the character who is at the very heart of this confusion. She has taken on the disguise of a gentleman in order to perpetuate her survi .....
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Great Expectations
<view this essay>.... the difference between appearance and reality through Pip's expectations of something better, social status, and settings in the book.
The most important illusion is Pip's confident expectations of a better life. Pip began the book out poor, and was sent for to spend time every week with an upper-middle-class crazy woman and her heartless adopted daughter, Estella. From the moment he met Estella, he was in love with her. Later on in the book, he was provided with financial support from an un-named benefactor that should be used to go to London and become a gentleman. Pip assumed that Ms. Havisham, Estella's adoptive mother, was the benefactress. "My d .....
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Tolstoy
<view this essay>.... detail on everything is found in a realist novel. For a specific character there was a life history, time, and setting. This type of detail gives a reader the sense of being there and looking at a real situation.
“The Death of Ivan Ilych” is a great story. It is written to interpret what death and life really mean to us. “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” dove deep into the realities of the death of Ivan. can make us, the reader, see ourselves in one of these characters. The character named Ivan realizes that his life is going to be cut short. He feels that his life has no meaning or value and no one cares that he is dying. Those around him, even try to .....
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Ordinary People
<view this essay>.... forward to everything, including having a productive day at work. He tries to take care of Conrad by giving sending him to a psychiatrist. The mother, Beth, a strong working woman, is also like Calvin; she is responsible to the family as well. Obviously, the parents have no personal problems, but ironically they create conflicts with each other. Although these conflicts are very minor, they eventually build up to separate the family later on throughout their marriage. An example of this was seen while the parents had troubles deciding where and when to go on vacation during their night out at dinner, because both their times conflicted with each other. The .....
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Fahrenheit 451 - Symbolism
<view this essay>.... to censorship, and book burning in Germany, and McCarthyism in America. That is what he is speaking out against. Bradbury is also a very symbolic writer, he incorporates symbolism into his book. Bradbury's use of symbolism throughout the novel makes the book moving and powerful by using symbolism to reinforce the ideas of anti-censorship.
The Hearth and the Salamander, the title of part one, is the first example of symbolism. The title suggests two things having to do with fire, the hearth is a source of warmth and goodness, showing the positive, non-destructive side of fire. Whereas a salamander is a small lizard-like amphibian, and also in mythology, is know .....
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