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Rituals
<view this essay>.... turkey cooked the day before, for what reason I have absolutely no idea, and has all the so called specialty dips prepared. My uncle is a bit dingy so not to many people eat his specialty dips, excluding me. I think they are good. They are made up of anything and everything he can get his hands on. Well after my grandpa gets done worrying and everything finally set up it is about 5:30 at night.
Around this time our family gets pumped for another one of our shindigs. We all load up and head to his house and just sit down and watch television. About and hour later my aunt shows up. She is always late and her time is an hour difference from the regular ti .....
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Dead Boy, By John Ransom
<view this essay>.... first paragraph of the poem discusses the feelings of his kin. They feel uncomfortable with his death of "foul subtraction". Also there are others that do not like the child's unnecessary death. These are the people who did not ever meet or see the child but realize what kind of a tragedy this death was. Ransom makes a statement at the end of the first paragraph "Nor some of the world of outer dark, like me". This is a strong statement for the simple fact that this shows how much of the town, city, world is affected by one child's death.
This next paragraph is by far the harshest. The voices are that of the town's people who say this child wa .....
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Great Expectations 3
<view this essay>.... and so, when the novel begins, Huck is not used to following any rules. The book's opening finds Huck living with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. Both women are fairly old and are really somewhat incapable of raising a rebellious boy like Huck Finn. Nevertheless, they attempt to make Huck into what they believe will be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize" him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women place upon hi .....
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Quartet Behind Teh Scarlet Let
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town beatle for punishment upon the scaffold. She resents this treatment, and this sets up the conflict between her and the
Puritan society (Brodhead 45). She was spared the gripe about the head and neck, yet she and her daughter, Pearl, must
endure public humility for the next three hours in the burning June sun (Gordon 26). Her crime was adultery against her
husband, known as Roger Chillingworth, who had went out into the world to seek his fortune in medicine. It is really
shocking that she could do this, seeing that she lived in the Puritanical village of Salem. In fact, she seems to be a feminist
in this aspect, daring to rise up and challenge the .....
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East Of Eden
<view this essay>.... "I believe there are monsters born
in the world... It is my belief that Cathy Ames was born with the
tendencies, or lack of them, which drove and forced her all of her
life," said Steinbeck. Cathy used this to her advantage by making
people uneasy, but not so uneasy that they would not run away from
her. Cathy was born with an innocent look that fooled many; she had
golden blond hair, hazel eyes, a thin and delicate nose, and a small
chin to make her face look heart shaped. According to the town Cathy
lived, Cathy had a scent of sweetness, but that is just what Cathy
wanted
the town to see and think when Cathy planned her kill. On p .....
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All My Sons- Arthur Miller
<view this essay>.... theme in the exposition, once set, the main themes develop into powerful messages that hold meaning for all: if one cannot look beyond their personal circle, they are condemned to an ignorant existence ended by a tragic moment of realization. Joe Keller goes through this slow, and painful, process of realization. It has been hard work for Keller to maintain his blind ignorance toward his crime, and his guilt; however, despite his efforts, his tainted past is continually creeping into his sacred inner circle, the only world that Keller allows himself to recognize. When Keller sees that his inner circle is only a tiny speck in the greater outer circle - an .....
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Romeo And Juliet - Comparisson To West Side Story
<view this essay>.... most beloved plays of all time from the Elizabethan Age to the present. Romeo and Juliet have attained the role as the quintessential lovers, and the noun, "a Romeo," is synonymous with " lover." Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is closely based on Arthur Brooke's tale, The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet. The language, attitudes, and customs detailed in the play are generally English, in spite of Brooke’s original Italian setting. In 1949, choreographer Jerome Robbins decided to retell Brooke and Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy using song and dance, elements of racism and nationalism, and a modern vernacular. Robbins called upon the musical talents .....
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
<view this essay>.... around on his horse. A And no birds sing. @ In this sentence he describes his sadness because the singing of birds is associated with happiness and the birds are not singing.
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel=s granary is full,
And the harvest=s done.
In this quote the knight is troubled because everything is going as it is supposed to, the granary is full and the harvest is done. This is why the knight is also sad and roaming around on his horse. In the next stanza, the knight is described as exhausted in appearance and afflicted. "And on thy cheeks a fading rose fast withereth too." The colour of his skin is fading away, an .....
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