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Herman Melville- Moby Dick
<view this essay>.... a business house in New York City,
Herman determined he needed to go to sea.
He spent years traveling on a variety of ships, including
whaling ships.
C1. Melville's perspective on life is that God created the
universe with an infinite number of
meanings and man is always trying to determine one specific
meaning.
D2. The "lessons" that Melville is likely to weave into
his writing are 1. An exposition on
whales and the whaling industry. 2. A commentary on the
universe and human destiny. 3.
Thoughts about God and Nature.
III. Characters
B. The protagonist in this book is Ishmael, a Christian,
schoolteach .....
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Doll House 2
<view this essay>.... little faith in a person and at least not in one’s wife. One more thing that you should think about Mr. Helmer are these names that you call Mrs. Helmer. It is cute to call someone this kind of names, but it is not the kind of names that you call a grown up human being. So, give your wife more responsibilities, this will increase her self-esteem, she will be much happier and feel more zest for life.
And now over to you Mrs. Helmer. You are going to have to stop lying for your husband and be more open to him. You have to talk to him about your problems and explain them to him. Stop hiding your cookies for him and stop lying about them, that just make the .....
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Hemingways For Whom The Bell T
<view this essay>.... of adventure. He had garnered his father's passion for hunting and fishing in the north woods of Michigan, a period of his childhood which left important impressions later reflected in several of his short stories such as "Up in Michigan" and "Big Two Hearted River."
In high school, Ernest edited the school newspaper, excelled in football and boxing, and ran away from home twice. Upon his graduation, seventeen year old Hemingway headed to Kansas City to enlist in World War I, in outright defiance of his parents objections. However the army rejected Hemingway, despite his repeated efforts, due to permanent eye damage incurred from his years of boxing. .....
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The Grapes Of Success
<view this essay>.... the government. He is specifically concerned with the way the migrants are treated by the farm-owners in California, and to communicate these concerns he uses two things, a family and their story to strike a personal chord, and intercalary chapters, to further develop his social and moral concerns.
The Grapes of Wrath is based around a fictional sharecropper family called the Joads, though their story is nearly identical to many of the true migrants of the great depression. The Joad's struggle to maintain some sort of dignity and pride is broken by the tragedies they must witness and experience: the murder of their former preacher and good friend Casy, the c .....
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Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Hero
<view this essay>.... the good of others. He truly is a prime example of an epic hero.
First of all, Beowulf is a hero in the eyes of his fellow men
through his amazing physical strength. Through out the epic he fought in
numerous battles and returned victorious from all but his last. For
example, in one of Beowulf’s battles, he fights an unbelievably ferocious
dragon. Any other man of the time will be defeated by the deathly dragon,
but Beowulf’s unique strength and his warrior like mentality overcome the
dragon and he is once again victorious. Another example of Beowulf’s
strength is his defeat of Grendel, a beastly monster. Beowulf not only
kills Grendel but rips the .....
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The Stand
<view this essay>.... Main be her recently deceased best friend's weird brother
Harold Lauder. Fran puts aside her personal feelings for Harold
aside, and goes with him to the place in her dreams, to Boulder,
Colorado.
On their way, they meet up with six people from various states
in the United States who joined them on their journey. Fran is
disturbed by her dreams, as all of them are by their own. She
dreams of an old lady named Abigail, in Colorado. This lady is
kind and loving and promises to protect them from the evil. In the
dreams there is also a "Dark Man". He is always there lurking,
waiting to attack.
Harold admits to himself t .....
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Hamlet - Appearance Vs. Reality
<view this essay>.... behind this mask they give the impression of a person who is sincere and genuine, in reality they are plagued with lies and evil. There appearance will make it very difficult for Hamlet to uncover the truth, the characters hide behind. Polonius the kings royal assistant has a preoccupation with appearance. He always wants to keep up the appearance of loving and caring person. Polonius appears like a man who loves and cares about his son, Laertes. Polonius speaks to his son with advice that sounds sincere but in reality it is rehearsed, hollow and without feeling. Polonius gives his advice only to appear to be the loving caring father. The reality is he only s .....
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A Rose For Emily 4
<view this essay>.... was the only real person in her life. She had relatives in Alabama but they were pushed away by her father over some land that was left behind by a crazy aunt. The relatives in Alabama were the only were all she had but the old wound inflicted by her father was not going to heal. Then the worst thing happens after her father is gone. The man that she was engaged to runs off and leaves her all alone. She didn’t ever recover form this, she isolated her self in her house. The only person that saw her on a regular basis was a black man that brought her food when she needed it. The only man that her father must of approved of ran out on her. This m .....
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