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Death Of A Salesman - Biff Character Profile
<view this essay>.... reveals to Happy, after their double date, that all he wants is to work on a farm, without a shirt, doing manual labor. He wants Happy to come out west with him, to open a ranch, but Happy won't. To make his father happy, he says he will open a sporting goods store.
Biff is an interesting character. He seems to adore his father, but he really doesn't. He finds out that his father has an affaire, and he looses all respect for him. He ends up forgetting everything Willy said, and steals something from every job that makes him loose it. He wants to change his father, and will do this by shockingly awakening him to the reality that something is wrong with him, .....
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Antigone Greek Ideals
<view this essay>.... the play, Antigone and Creon battle a
philosophical war dealing with the controversy of the Greek ideals.
They both based their actions on their beliefs of what is right and
wrong. The conflict arose when the ideals that backed up their actions
clashed with each other, making it contradiction between morals.
Antigone's side of the conflict held a much more heavenly
approach, as opposed to the mundane road that Creon chose to follow.
Antigone feels that Creon is disregarding the laws of heaven through
his edict. After she is captured and brought to Creon, she tells him
"I do not think your edicts strong enough to overrule the unw .....
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Oedipus As An Epic Poem By Ari
<view this essay>.... the play should inspire the audience to live better lives; 2. The hero must be of high importance in his society (king, god, etc.), and possess a tragic flaw; 3.There must be a change of fortune involving a reversal; 4. The plays must be written in the formal language of poetry; 5. The plot must bring together the three unites of, Action, Time, and Place. Also, it is
generally accepted that most tragedies end unhappily and contain a significant amount of dramatic irony.
Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles in the 400’s BC, is about a young Greek who was fated to murder his father, marry his mother, and while in the process become the king of Thebes. .....
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Huck Finn
<view this essay>.... His mother is deceased, while his father customarily "sleeps with the pigs" in a drunken state. Huck grows up following his own rules until he moves in with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. Together, the women attempt to "sivilize" Huck by making him attend school, study religion, and act in a way the women find socially acceptable. However, Huck's free-spirited soul keeps him from joining the constraining and lonely life the two women have in store for him. The freedom Huck seeks in Tom Sawyer's gang is nothing more than romantic child's-play. Raiding a caravan of Arabs really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday School picnic, and the s .....
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Dress Code
<view this essay>.... Schools
are now even taking away the privilege of those clothes for the reason that weapons and
other dangerous, illegal items may be smuggled in under loose pants, hats, shirts and
jackets.
The cost of maintaining a stylish wardrobe can be expensive. Many families have
more important things to spend their money on than the image of school children. The
dress code may be a way to keep the costs of school down for those families. In some
schools, there has even been fighting or stealing based on expensive sneakers or jewelry.
There are many clothes in fashion for boys and girls which are not appropriate for school
dress. Good taste and common sense shoul .....
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The Conflict
<view this essay>.... as pressure builds up, such as the precipitation in clouds, '…the storm-cocks sing…' to forewarn of the storm approaching. Before the thunder and lightning arrive, we feel peace when we are just '… outside the ring…' Like a child unaware of the complications his parents face in their relationship until they decided to separate or file for divorce. All of a sudden he is caught in the storm and looking for answers as to what caused this, in his perspective, sudden clash of ideas. Living '…between two massing powers…' often causes feelings of despair and loneliness where we just want to be alone and when bystanders such as fami .....
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Shakespearean Comedy 2
<view this essay>.... and contrasting these three plays will help us to understand what Shakespeare thought comedy was in the 1600's and to see if our views on comedy are the same today.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a festive comedy. The play takes place in June and this is a bewitched time. In the spring the custom is to celebrate the return of fertility to the earth. During this time the young people spend the night in the woods to celebrate. Shakespeare uses the greenworld pattern in this play. The play begins in the city, moves out to the country and then back to the city. Being in the country makes things better because there is tranquility, freedom and people can become unci .....
Number of words: 2325 | Number of pages: 9 |
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The Theory Of Property
<view this essay>.... owned which has planted the seed of its
own destruction in modern society. Morgan, in an attempt to study the role
property has played in shaping social structures throughout history, has
concluded that the influences property has had on reshaping societies and vice
versa can teach the historian many things about both the society being studied
and the environment in which it strove to survive. To Morgan, the "germ" of the
institution of property slowly infected many different societies in many
different parts of the world. His teleological approach states that due to the
"unity of mankind" various technological innovations, which gave rise to the
ever-g .....
Number of words: 2781 | Number of pages: 11 |
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