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Karshish By Robert Browning
<view this essay>.... of him listening to everything. This can be seen in the hang between “here I end” and “yet stay;” it is as if Abib were getting up to leave (61-2). There is a distinct critical moment, when Karshish decides to write about his original concern: “Yet stay. . . I half resolve to tell thee, yet I blush/ What set me off a-writing first of all” (62, 65-6). “Karshish” has all the basics to a dramatic monologue. It also contains a character study in which the speaker speaks from an extraordinary perspective. Karshish is a humble doctor from one of the most civilized nations of the time, he has seen most of the civilized world, and he is still amazed by the miracle tha .....
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Vronsky And Anna's Struggle With Love
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In the beginning I feel that Vronsky's love really was not love at all.
She was just an attractive girl who he wanted. The fact that she was
married and she was something he wanted and could not have probably only
made what he felt for her infatuation than love. As the book continues,
though, I felt that Vronsky changed and became closer to Anna. He seemed
to care for her and not just in a sexual way but, in a way that he would do
anything for her to make her happy. I felt that before he had met Anna it
was hard for him to feel love, yet did he try.
The first time you meet Vronsky you get the feeling that he is someone
who does not take lo .....
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Moby Dick
<view this essay>.... "Pequod" was done with a specific purpose in mind. Through the wide range of characters, Melville was able to represent the American society, possibly even the world, and furnish it with contrasting figures that would set the scene for all the episodes that Melville will create in "" to set forth his ideas. Basically, the "Pequod" is a miniature of all sections of society and civilization. It is actually broken down based on social stature, race, ethnicity, as well as on personal values.
It is obvious that whatever "" is, it is not a mere adventure story. It is a representation, but even more importantly, - a challenge to American virtues and ideas. In chapter .....
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Black Like Me
<view this essay>.... he could be killed, starve, get sick, etc. I say this because Griffin was going down into the deep South as a black man but he didn't know anything about how the black behaved. Griffin could look like a black man but he may not have been able to act like a black man or have the mindset of a black man at that time. Griffin could get food or shelter as a white man anywhere by paying money, but as a black man he could be cold, starving in a rich area of town, and wouldn't be able to get food or shelter. Griffin also didn't know how to respond to white people of the time, so he would probably have to talk to black people to learn that. I also after his .....
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The Sanctity Of The Heart
<view this essay>.... it will not be fully conveyed. Leaving out the truth creates a margin of error in communication. No matter how meager in size that margin is, it creates gaps which can later become canyons. These canyons carry affect to all that try to cross, a lie can wound anyone whether they are involved directly or simply watching.
Roger Chillingworth begins a chain of self-denying which soon travels to the other characters. He is an old and lonely scholar in England dehumanized by a life of abstruse studying. He makes the mistake of marrying a young wife. He sends his wife to America, to the Puritan colony of Massachusetts, with instructions to live quietly until .....
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The Hypocrisy Of The Media
<view this essay>.... “ Mr. Bush’s failure to disclose can’t square with his position that whether he used drugs is irrelevant to his candidacy.” He claims that because Bush was instrumental in expanding the list of crimes for which juveniles as young as fourteen can be tried and imprisoned as adults in Texas provides strong journalistic justification for confronting any drug use in Bush’s past. He uses James Madison’s writing in the Federalist Papers to support his position, specifically, “one of the Constitution’s safeguards against oppressive measures is that Congress can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the gre .....
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Animal Farm By George Orwell
<view this essay>.... under the original rulers. I will compare the animals from top of the social class to the bottom. At the top were the pigs. Each pig represented someone different in the revolution. Old Major is compared to Lenin. He was an ideologist who dreamed up a wonderful government where all the animals were equal and the humans, or the czars, were pushed out. Unfortunately his dream would never materialize. Then we are left with his predecessors. The first is Snowball. Snowball believed one hundred percent in Old Majors ideals. He wanted all the things Old Major wanted, such as the welfare of the animals. In the Russian Revolution his counterpart would be Trotsky. Tro .....
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Dinner At The Homesick Restaur
<view this essay>.... could make-up for her bursts of anger now and then. For example when Pearl sees Jenny staring at a nice dress on a girl when they were at church, which undoubtedly Pearl could not afford. Pearl at the dinner table starts blasting Jenny then Cody jumps into it.
This shows that Pearl is victimised but at the same time shows strength so is heroic. The burdens of three children without the support of her husband, Beck, constitutes to her heroism. Pearl has moved from place to place losing friends and relatives, only to come to an unfamiliar town where her husband decides to leave. Pearl refuses help from anyone, this depicts her strong points and still thinks .....
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