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Pericles
<view this essay>.... in his language and serene and calm in his movements. Nothing could shake his majestic composure.
One day, was in the marketplace of Athens doing business, and all day long some noisy pest kept following him around, yelling vituperation. He even followed home. Throughout the ordeal, maintained his composure. It was dark by the time arrived home, so he gave orders for one of his servants to take a torch and guide this critic safely back to wherever he lived.
Some people said that was only trying to fool the public with a false front of virtue. But Zeno replied that if were faking virtue, his detractors should do the same, because even pretending t .....
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Rebecka
<view this essay>.... were some persons who had a more special relationship with and therefore liked her diffrently.
To begin with, the housekeeper, Mrs Danvers. She probably loved her most of them all. She devoted all her life to raise and help and make her the woman she knew she would never become herself. She and were very close. s death was an extremly hard crush to Mrs Danvers. Like a mother who loses her one and only child who was her everything. But she always feels s presence and therefore keeps the house as it always was. When the new Mrs de Winter came to take s place Mrs Danvers went furious. Not only could she not stand with the thought that someone was going to take .....
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Colerdige’s Use Of Imagery In The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
<view this essay>.... the physical horror that is the Mariner, a frightful and compounding image which is continued throughout.
"I fear thee, ancient Mariner!
I fear thy skinny hand!
And thou art long and lank, and brown
As is the ribbed sea-sand"
This terrifying portrayal of the Mariner, adds to the highly-charged emotional intensity of the poem by adding colour to the mental picture, whilst at the same time stressing the unnatural and mysteries nature of the ballad.
"With throats unslacked, with black lips baked,
We could nor laugh nor wail"
The disturbing physical image the Mariner presents is a result of the severe and unrelenting punishment he has sustained due to .....
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Convicts And Australia
<view this essay>.... economic contribution they also played an extended role in becoming the founders of Australian society and culture.
There is much postulation about the motives for convict transportation to Australia. Some view transportation as part of a global system of forced migration, while others argue resettlement was carried out for commercial advantage, defence strategy or simply as a genuine response to penal dilemmas . The majority of convicts were sent from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and comprised mainly working class men and women . The typical age of the British convict sent to Australia was 26, and single . The proportion of females transporte .....
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Love And Acceptance
<view this essay>.... the quilts from Dee and gave them to Maggie. In I Stand Here Ironing the mother tells us she feels guilty for the way her daughter Emily is, for the things she (the mother) did and did not do. The mother's neighbor even tells her she should "smile at Emily more when you look at her." Again towards the end of the story Emily's mother admits "my wisdom came too late." The mothers unknowingly gave Emily and Maggie second best.
Both mothers compare their two daughters to each other. In Everyday Use the mother tells us that "Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure." She Fahning -2-speaks of the fire that burned and scarred Maggie. She tells .....
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The Amateur Scientist
<view this essay>.... in a simple way makes science enjoyable and understandable, even to the average reader.
I enjoyed reading the essay entitled "," by Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988). I found it to be very interesting and felt that Mr. Feynman was very thoughtful. Rather than explain in technical detail about his work in physics, Feynman instead related interesting anecdotes throughout his life, as a college student and graduate student at Princeton University, that gave to the reader an understanding of his work as a scientist.
The writing won my attention because his stories about his youth and his days at Princeton fascinated me. He was always exp .....
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Existentialism 2
<view this essay>.... do this though. Toward the end of the story however, the fasting by the artist is done solely for himself. When confronted about why he was doing such, the artist says that he hasn't found any food that is enjoyable. His fasting is done then just because he can't find anything good to eat, but also because he was finally given the opportunity to test his limits of how long he can go without eating. Throughout the entire story the artist is kept inside a cage, and toward the ending of the story, he is treated less and less like a human being.
Out of all three of these stories, the hunger artist is the most in control of his life and what he is doing. In .....
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Images Of Light And Darkness I
<view this essay>.... It’s when he opens the door. It’s when she does the laundry. It’s that thing that causes insanity. It doesn’t exist. It existed only in the middle ages. It’s what everyone is hunting for and no one can find. Forget about it.
Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition) defines it as: 1. (1): strong affection for another rising out of kinship or personal ties. 2: warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion. 3: unselfish loyal and benevolet concern for the good of another. 4: to thrive on.
Spiritual masters say that love is all there is. They also say in order to truly know something, one must know it’s opposite. To know hot, one must .....
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