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Alex's Analysis Of Any Abject Abuse

... light-hearted, and therefore his choice of form purposefully geared toward the smooth, natural rhythm of the heroic couplet. The caesura, the end-stopped lines, and the perfect rhymes lend the exact amount of manners and gaiety to his work. Writing for a society that values appearances and social frivolities, he uses these various modes of behavior to call attention to the behavior itself. Pope compares and contrasts. He places significant life factors (i.e., survival, death, etc.) side by side with the trivial (although no ...

Number of words: 1660 | Number of pages: 7

Oroonoko: Heroism

... resemble the average black man in his physical characteristics. “His nose was rising and Roman, instead of African and flat.”(pg. 8) This infatuation might have led to her embellishing the facts. Another point is that the literate and seemingly intelligent Black at that time was a rarity. This rarity would also have led to speculation, and speculation often leads to embellishment. “…(T)he most illustrious of Courts could not have produced a braver Man, both for Greatness of Courage and Mind, a Judgement more solid, a Wit more qu ...

Number of words: 374 | Number of pages: 2

Hemmingway-hills Like White El

... was one of the best users of symbols and images. In the story Hills Like White Elephants, he has hidden symbols behind almost everything in the story. The main symbol in this story is the abortion. This is known in the story as the “simple operation.” The whole story is about this couple that is considering an abortion. Each little part of the abortion is another symbol. The “white elephants” showed something they didn’t want, in this case the baby. Even the smallest things, like the alcohol ...

Number of words: 728 | Number of pages: 3

Kennewick Man

... a murder victim and notified the police. The police contacted the coroner who in turn contacted anthropologist James Chatters to assist with the investigation (Slayman). The police, coroner and Chatters then went to the river where they recovered more bones. Along with the bones, some late nineteenth century artifacts were recovered. The Archaeological Resources Protection Act required Chatters to obtain a permit to excavate on federal land, so before he could go back to excavate he had to get a permit from the Army Core of Engineers (Lee ...

Number of words: 1232 | Number of pages: 5

The Great Gatsby

... ‘20’s. He showed this when he said, “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” All along, I felt sorry for Nick being dragged into more and more tragedy, but I especially felt bad for him during one instance. His friend Daisy was married to Tom, but Tom was having an affair with Mrs. Wilson and Daisy had a thing for Gatsby. Daisy and Gatsby were driving home from town after an argument amongst the group of friends when th ...

Number of words: 743 | Number of pages: 3

Summary Of Aycliffe's The Lost

... from personal journal entries, letters to other people, and letters to them from other people. The evil beings in The Lost are not vampires, but strigoi, free-floating shades of an ancient family of lords. They die and don't decay. The other characters Aycliffe has in the book start out having an attractive sense of humor but, humor fades as the creepy crawlies take over. A prep-school teacher in Cambridge, Michael Feraru, inherits Castle Vliacu, his family's fortress in the Transylvanian Alps and hopes to turn it into an orphanage fo ...

Number of words: 604 | Number of pages: 3

The Heart Of Darkness

... conspiratorial character, he finds that his steamship has been sunk and spends several months waiting for parts to repair it. His interest in Kurtz grows during this period. The manager and his favorite, the brick maker, seem to fear Kurtz as a threat to their position. Kurtz is rumored to be ill, making the delays all the more costly. Marlow eventually gets the parts he needs to repair his ship, and he and the manager set out with a few agents (whom Marlow calls pilgrims because of their strange habit of carrying long, wooden staves ...

Number of words: 648 | Number of pages: 3

Gulliver's Travels

... within, but he also encounters peoples and places which truly diusgust him in their manner of operation and civility. Overall, Swift gives Gulliver a generally negative and cynical attitude towards the manner in which his current day English counterparts behaved cleverly disguised in the subtext of his encounters with other nations that either contrasted the way they lived, or mirrored unflatteringly his contemporaries lifestyles. In Gulliver's first voyage to Lilliput, his role as the town giant not only put into perspective the selfishnes ...

Number of words: 1303 | Number of pages: 5

A View From The Bridge By Arth

... resembles the Sicilian stereotype, with dark skin and dark hair. He is also very strong and he could easily "load the whole ship by himself."(pg.541) In this play, the author uses plot, dialog, actions and symbolism to emphasize Marco's honor which, in my opinion, is his prominent characteristic. Throughout the play, we can clearly see that the plot helps us develop Marco's character in our imagination. For example, he is an illegal alien, and this might give the reader a less honorable view of him, and it might justify Eddie's action. But t ...

Number of words: 828 | Number of pages: 4

Enduring, Endearing Nonsense Of Fairy Tales

... a host of other absurd and captivating creatures sprung from the mind of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy, stammering Oxford mathematics professor. Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an inventor, and a noted children's photographer. Wonderland, and thus the seeds of his unanticipated success as a writer, appeared quite casually one day as he spun an impromptu tale to amuse the daughters of a colleague during a picnic. One of these girls was Alice Liddell, who insisted that he write the story down for her, and who served as the model ...

Number of words: 668 | Number of pages: 3

The Chosen By Chaim Potok

... of “Danny’s choice of going with the family dynasty or to what his heart leads him.” The most developing character from the novel is Reuven Malter. One of the ways that he developes in the novel is in hus understanding of friendship. His friendship with Dfanny Saunders is encouraged by his father, but he is wary of it at first because Danny is a Hasid, and regards regular Orthodox Jews as apikorsim because of the teachings of his father. Reuven goes from not being able to have a civil conversation with Danny to becoming his best friend ...

Number of words: 767 | Number of pages: 3

Zimbabwe 2

... nationalists that had fought for a different kind of independence from that declared by Ian Smith's white regime in 1965”(TIME). Robert Mugabe, ZANU-PF's former leader, became the first head of Zimbabwe, calling for "a new spirit that must unite and not divide." Although while Zimbabwe had a fresh name and a fresh leader, it still had its former problems.The racial inequalities induced by white rule continued in the feud between black and white incomes and black Zimbabweans wanted their fair share of the chief farming territory t ...

Number of words: 522 | Number of pages: 2

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