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Cheap Amusements
<view this essay>.... penny pleasures such as organ grinders and buskers, acrobats performed tricks and vendors and soda dispensers competed for customers.
Evidence suggests that families often enjoyed everyday leisure but in reality working class social life was divided by gender. Married women’s leisure tended to be separate from the public domain and was not very different from work, but was linked with domestic duties and family relations. It was during this period that to survive families had to send their sons and daughters into the labor force to supplement the earnings of the father, while the mother cooked, cleaned, cared for the children and manufactured goods in the ho .....
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Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
<view this essay>.... use of sarcasm and irony, this proposal is actually
written to entertain the upper-class. Therefore the true irony in this
story lies not in the analyzation of minute details in the story, but
rather in the context of the story as it is written.
One of the voices that is present throughout the story is that of irony.
The story itself is ironic since no one can take Swifts proposal seriously.
This irony is clearly demonstrated at the end of the story; Swift makes it
clear that this proposal would not affect him since his children were grown
and his wife unable to have any more children. It would be rather absurd to
think that a rational man would want to both .....
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Julius Caesar - Tragic Hero
<view this essay>.... was a noble man of high rank. Every Roman followed his leadership and Caesar also defeated the great Pompey. First of all, At the Feast of Lupercal Caesar manipulated the commoners and made himself look noble to the commoners. Casca said, "Why there was a crown offered to him;...people fell a-shouting" (I,ii,221-223). Next, To show how noble and great Caesar was, the Romans would stand along the street sides to watch him pass by. "Madam not yet, I go to take my stand; /To see him pass on to the Capitol," said the soothsayer (II,iv,25-26). Finally, Caesar had the greatest rank possible as he would have been crowned king if it wasn’t f .....
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Hamlet - Ghost
<view this essay>.... to question the death of their former king, and
makes the metaphysics of the play dark. The ghost says nothing despite the valiant efforts on the parts of Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo. Suspense is created when the audience is ignorant as to the purpose of the ghost. Later in the play the ghost is utilized to allow Hamlet and the audience knowledge of the vile murder of the king by Claudius, the kings own brother. When the ghost finally speaks, he tells Hamlet,
“Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.”(I.v.25-28)
These quotes let Hamlet as well as t .....
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Funny Short Story
<view this essay>.... back a small moan, but failed utterly, as she stepped cautiously across the floor strewn with garbage. The scourge was reclined in a La-Z-Boy, his face cloaked in shadow. He spoke again, and the girlish voice was a shock.
“Have a seat, beautiful. I suppose you’re that girl from the brothel that I called for three months ago. I’d almost given up on you, baby.” Wendy quickly decided not to contradict the huge man. She figured that it’d be more interesting for her paper, if she let him think she was a prostitute. She could always run out, she reasoned. She nodded quickly, and he shifted in his recliner, sending vibrations resounding around the hovel. “Sweet thing .....
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The Outcasts Of Poker Flat - J
<view this essay>.... thoughts about it. Those two things to me, show that John Oakhurst is a extremely calm person.
John, the gambler, is an extremely courageous person. He has proven this by a number of actions in this story. First of all he shows tons of courage by not getting scared when the travelers and him get snowed in. If it where me I probably would have run off like Uncle Billy did. Another example of when Mr. Oakhurst showed courage was when he kicked Uncle Billy to stop him from laughing. Most people would have just told him to stop laughing. But not Mr. Oakhurst, he just gave him a swift kick in the stomach. That to me shows the utmost courage in the world.
Anothe .....
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Macbeth
<view this essay>.... is portrayed to be physically strong he is mentally quite weak, and this is shown when he believes every word that the witches say, and he ends up resting, thinking that no one can take him off the throne.
is shown to be timid quite a few times in the book, in that he lacks the mental strength to do things, so his wife questions his manhood and calls him weak. After she insulted him, he thinks that he is wrong and she is right, so he go against his own conscience, in the end he was right and Lady wrong. Lady tells when the king is in their castle to
“Your hand, your tongue: look like th’ innocent flower, but be serpent under’t.”
What this meant wa .....
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Sexuality And Gender Role
<view this essay>.... the science foundation and finally there was a baby. Scientists started their experiment.
They called the baby as "X" because if they call the baby as common name, everybody could know the baby's gender. To reduce the stereotype of the gender was a very important factor to their experiment. They prepared some toys - both for boys and girls - for X. X liked both of them. X liked to play with the robots, a truck or small cars. Also, X liked to play with a doll, too. Whenever somebody asked the gender of X to X's parents, they said just "X'. No one could know X's gender except X's parents and some scientists. About 5 years later, X became the age for sch .....
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