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Power Of One
<view this essay>.... and two minutes later he does not care, he's already off singing and
dancing. The same happens with the boxer friend. He loses an eye. Who cares? I
mean it's only an eye , we've got so many of those that we can manage to lose
one or two.
What would happen to Pk is he would he would be caught by the Afrikaaners
police and probably be tortured and killed ; same thing with the boxer friend.
Than it would not an american movie anymore, it would be too realistic,
something the american public, and too a lesser extent the general public does
not appreciate.
I believe this ending is not realistic as Pk loses his greatest love(or
so they make .....
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Citizen Kane: Charles Foster Kane - Who Was He?
<view this essay>.... words we see Kane as a boy playing with his sled on a snow-swept
Colorado farm. Through his mother, the boy has just inherited a great fortune.
Unable to settle his bill, a prospector who boarded with the Kanes left behind
stock certificates that make Mrs. Kane the sole owner of one of the world's
great silver mines. She then makes her son the ward of the bank that administers
her estate, and Thatcher, whom the angry young Kane bashes with a sled, takes
the boy East to be raised. The movie then shows Kane growing up, making life
miserable for Thatcher. The mature Kane decides to take direct control of a
small, struggling newspaper, and immediately begins u .....
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Creative Writing Of Hamlet
<view this essay>.... He was away a lot, fighting wars, signing treaties,
and being king. He was a busy guy. He always told me to keep things in order
when he was away. I guess I screwed up. I remember one incident in particular.
I was must have been eight years old at the time. Dad was going to
fight in Norway. We had a talk before he left. We sat down in the courtyard.
It was a beautiful day and dad's presence was like another sun. He seemed to
glow as he spoke to me. He said, "Hammy, I will be away for a while. I want
you to watch mommy, and guard our fortress from invaders. Take this. It will
help you be strong." He gave me a small gold dagger. He left that .....
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Trifles: Summary
<view this essay>.... potatoes and decided to stop by the farmhouse so that he could talk to Mr. Wright. When he knocked on the door, he wasn’t sure if he had heard a voice inviting him in or not. He went ahead and opened the door to see Mrs. Wright sitting in her rocking chair. Mr. Hale asked her if he could see Mr. Wright. She replied that he was lying upstairs, dead, with a rope around his neck. Mr. Hale didn’t know how to react to her statement, so he just asked her who had killed him. Mrs. Wright said she didn’t know. Thinking that he may need help, Mr. Hale called in Harry from outside and they both went upstairs. After seeing Mr. Wight dead, Harry went down the .....
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Julius Caesar: Jealousy
<view this essay>.... / Endure the winter's cold as well as he" (Act I,
sc. II, 97-99). Cassius is also enraged because Caesar doesn't like him.
Caesar suggests, "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; / He thinks too much:
such men are dangerous" (Act I, sc. II, 194-195). Cassius thinks that Caesar's
temper is dangerous. He declares, "Ye gods! It doth amaze me, / A man of such a
feeble temper should / So get the start of the majestic world, / And bear the
palm alone" (Act I, sc. II, 128-131).
Casca also is jealous of Caesar. He is disgusted by Caesar's
manipulation of the commoners. He describes it as "mere foolery" (Act I, sc. II,
235). Casca agrees with Cassi .....
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Death Of A Salesman : A Social Criticism
<view this essay>.... the plot, the theme, even the genre. As with all great literature, the opinions continue to grow and change with each generation so that the book will never be closed on Death of a Salesman. Because it would take a short tome to discuss all the classic arguments on Miller's excellent work, the focus of this theme will be on Salesman's value as a comment on society. Willy does not meet America's twentieth century economic standards of success, therefore he is seen as a failure; he absolutely will not entertain the possibility of finding a job more suitable to his talents, even though perhaps he could function as a member of society if he did; and he lives in .....
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Animal Farm: The Danger Of Ignorance
<view this essay>.... when the pigs and their closest
follower changed the law of the farm, and the rest of the community did not
say anything, because they could neither read nor write, and had no
possible way of realizing that the law as being changed without their
consent. In other words, because the animals were ignorant and could not
read, the pigs (government) were able to change the law whenever they
wanted to, and the animals did not even realize what was going on. This
basic idea of ignorance can be proven in the real world by simply looking
back at Hitler. Since the common in Germany was too ignorant to see past
Hitler's ideas, he easily became dictator of Germany.
M .....
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Oedpius: Justice...
<view this essay>.... a sphinx was terrorizing
the city with a riddle. It killed every man that answered the riddle
incorrectly. Oedipus arrived at the solution and saves the city. He is
immediately proclaimed King. He does not know he has killed the former
King nor do the people. He marries the queen which just happens to be his
biological mother and has children by her. " ...child of impurity,
begetter in the same seed that created my wretched self."
Oedipus does not try to defend his actions. In fact he blames
himself as quoted from the story "Light of the sun, let me look upon you no
more after today! I who first saw you the light bred of a match accursed,
and accurse .....
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