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Bananafish
<view this essay>.... basic components: the spiritual depravity of the world around him, and his struggle with his own spiritual shortcomings. The spiritual problem of the outside world is mostly a matter of material greed, especially in the west, and materialism. On the other hand, his own spiritual problem is more a matter of intellectual greed and true spiritualism. In addressing the suicide, the difference should be distinguished between the "See More Glass" that we see through little Sybil’s eyes, and the Seymour Glass that we see through the eyes of the adult world. Even though these two characters are in theory the same man, they are slightly different in some ways. You could .....
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Tale Of Two Cities Charictariz
<view this essay>.... that her centrality and influence are greatest. Even her
physical attributes promote domestic happiness: her blonde hair is a
"golden thread" binding her father to health and sanity, weaving a
fulfilling life for her eventual husband, Charles Darnay, and their
daughter.
Lucie is central, too, in the sense that she's caught in several
triangles--the most obvious one involving Carton and Darnay. Lucie
marries Darnay (he's upcoming and handsome, the romantic lead) and
exerts great influence on Carton.
A second, subtler triangle involves Lucie, her father, and Charles
Darnay. The two men share an ambiguous relationship. Because Lucie
loves Darn .....
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find
<view this essay>.... pickaninny!" she said and pointed to a Negro child standing in the door of a shack. "Wouldn’t that make a picture, now?" she asked and they all turned and looked at the little Negro out of the back window. He waved.
"He didn’t have any britches on," June Star said.
"He probably didn’t have any," the grandmother explained. "Little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do."
The language that is shown in this section of the story clearly demonstrates the difference between what is acceptable, and what is racist. O’Connor clearly provides us that she never has the intent to be racist herself, .....
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Robert Frost 2
<view this essay>.... in “Birches”, lines 48-59, it shows that the poem is about being carefree. Frost wishes he could be like the boy swinging from the birch trees. The poem sets the picture of a boy swinging from the tree branches, but he really is talking about being carefree. He says that earth is the right place for love. He says that he doesn’t know where he would like to go better, but he would like to go swinging from the birches.
Another example of symbolic description comes from the poem, “Desert Places”; he talks about how he will not be scared of the desert places, but of the loneliness. He is scared of his own loneliness, his own desert pla .....
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing
<view this essay>.... the fact that she was not going to get anywhere because of her status. She always tried to be the best in whatever she did, and always felt that she was just as good as or even better than many of the white people. It was not until she went to live with her mother that she really put action behind her feelings.
After Bailey’s departure, Maya felt that “it was going to be impossible to stay where she was, but leaving held no attraction for her either.” (Chap 34, pg 264, line 2)
Eventually she decided to go to work. She had her mind set on becoming a streetcar driver. Even though her mother warned her that they didn’t hire coloreds, sh .....
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Building A Space Station
<view this essay>.... what the final cost could end up being if it keeps changing so much?
The building of the space station seems to me to be a contest with the other countries. Richard Truly states, “They need to build the space station Freedom with our other foreign partners to keep the leadership position the U.S. holds in space.” Richard Truly believes that we as a country need to keep this position as number one. He thinks it is a matter of both world leadership and economics. I don’t think that building the space station should be considered a contest of which country can do it faster and better. It should only be built to be helpful to sciences, not to be a cont .....
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The Midwestern Farm
<view this essay>.... article. Some parts I like and others I did not.
The author starts off the essay talking about how immigrants are making the population increase in dramatic numbers. He then proceeds on talking about how farming technology is improving. The technology that he talks about is still used today, but it is much improved. The immigrants that came over did not have the new and could not afford the technology that was being used by the bigger farmers. They still had to use the basics: shovel and hoe. This new technology also led to being able to take care of more land at one time and debt. The bankers realized that farmers could not afford the new techn .....
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Antaeus
<view this essay>.... T.J.’s idea to build a roof garden, and he figures out how to build it. He knew how to speak to other people, persuading them to do what he wanted them to do. For example, he informed the other boys to find sand and carry it up to the roof. The narrator stated, “T.J. was smart enough to start in one corner of the building, heaping up the carried earth two or three feel thick, so that we had an immediate result to look at…” He did not want to plant grass, but the other boys kept on telling him how great it would be to play on it and to have picnics. T.J. still wanted to plant crops, but he was smart to give in. “He always knew when to give in” the narrator .....
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