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Crime Of Passion By Barbara Hu

... nurse with so much love and so much knowledge relieved him of his pain and let him die. The public and the hospital then scolded her. She was labeled a murderer. The author’s use of description was very detailed and very real. Reading this essay was like watching it on television. Every sentence was described with so much depth; there was no need to imagine the scenery or the excitement of the hospital. The healthy police officer was described as a young, witty macho cop with thirty-two pounds of attack equipment. When reading this, the visi ...

Number of words: 426 | Number of pages: 2

Macbeth- Tragic Hero

... not by vice or depravity but by some error or human frailty." -Aristotle The play follows Aristotle’s five-act pattern. In Act I, the Act of Introduction, the setting, characters, and plot are introduced to the reader. The background and setting of the play are introduced in order for the reader to fully understand it. In Act II, the Act of Development, the plot develops, the conflict intensifies, and signs of character’s flaws appear. Act III is the Act of Tragic Decision. Characters usually act under the influence of a tragic ...

Number of words: 1300 | Number of pages: 5

Significance Of Dewey Decimal System With To Kill A Mockingbird

... of life. Melvil Dewey established the Dewey Decimal System as a logical way of classifying books in a library. His system classified books using the decimal system of notation. For example, a book about Buddhism would be labeled and classified with a number between 200 and 290 and a book on Hinduism would have a different number, but would also have a number between 200 and 290. As a result of his system, which is widely used in libraries still today, each book has its place making it “easy for the librarian and the user to understand” (Ga ...

Number of words: 615 | Number of pages: 3

Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clark: No More Laughing For Paddy

... From taking over construction sites to receiving polio check-ups. However not everything is a game to Paddy. His parents lack of compatibility troubles Paddy and his brother Sinbad greatly. The intensity of his parents arguments accelerate as the book goes on. At times Paddy feels he can stop them, at one point he considers himself a "referee" in the fights. "I didn't know what I'd do. If I was there he wouldn't do it again, that was all."(p.191) He ends up contemplating who he would want to win. He comes to the conclusion that he woul ...

Number of words: 924 | Number of pages: 4

Thier Eyes Were Watching God

... This made her try harder to accomplish her goals. When her grandmother insisted that she marry Logan she did not want to. Janie married him to fulfill her grandmother’s dreams. Even though Janie did not love him she struggled till she could not stand it and left with Joe.” It had always been his wish and desire to be a big voice and he had to live nearly thirty years to find a chance.” (28) While, Janie was with Joe in Eaton Vile she had a higher status then the rest of the towns people. Janie tried to interact with them, but Joe would n ...

Number of words: 487 | Number of pages: 2

Good And Evil In The Crucible

... to the tragedy in Salem. The isolation of the Puritan society created a rigid social system that did not allow for any variation in lifestyle. The strict society that was employed at this time had a detrimental effect on the Proctor family. John Proctor, a hard working farmer who had a bad season the year before and struggling this year was occasionally absent at Sunday service. This was due to the fact he needed to tend to his crops. Also, Proctor did not agree with the appointment of Mr. Parris as the newest minister, and therefore did not ...

Number of words: 829 | Number of pages: 4

Catcher In The Rye And Of Mice And Men: Go West Young Man

... own a piece of land that he can run as his own. All his life he spent traveling from ranch to ranch, working in other people’s fields. He is tired of working for someone else, for their reasons, for their crops and their money. He wants to grow his own crops, work in his own fields, and make a better living. “Someday---we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and……… ‘An’ live off the fatta the lan’.”(Steinbeck 14) What George wanted m ...

Number of words: 847 | Number of pages: 4

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

... could defie science and do something that no one has ever done before. He dosen't give the monster any love or help and just ignores it and runs away from it. If the monster would have had some kind of a father figure or a mother figure his violent nature might have not come out so prominent. The absence of good in the monsters life has an affect that could never be reversed and never helped. If a child has no guidance how can he or she grow in love and learn how to live responsibly and adapt to the rapid changes of the world and life. ...

Number of words: 311 | Number of pages: 2

Candide

... one can prove that through that same use of sarcasm and irony, this proposal is actually written to entertain the upper-class. Therefore the true irony in this story lies not in the analyzation of minute details in the story, but rather in the context of the story as it is written. One of the voices that is present throughout the story is that of irony. The story itself is ironic since no one can take Swifts proposal seriously. This irony is clearly demonstrated at the end of the story; Swift makes it clear that this proposal would not ...

Number of words: 1595 | Number of pages: 6

Building Blocks Of A Family

... (Schwiebert 286). Times changed, and so did Donny. "As he grew older, his hair grew darker, and he wore it longer - past his collar even" (Schwiebert 286). Danny is having some problems at school. It seems that he does not concentrate, or put forth the right amount of effort. Daisy learns from Donny's principal that"… Donny was noisy, lazy, and disruptive…" (Schwiebert 287). Daisy explains to the principal that her and her husband, Matt, have tried what they can. "We don't let him watch TV on school nights. We don't let him talk on th ...

Number of words: 865 | Number of pages: 4

Dandelion Wine

... He was never in the way of his older brother, in fact they liked being together. Tom took every day slowly, writing most everything down, the first day of summer, the first this, his first that. Dandelion Wine took place in a small town called Green Town, Illinois. In Green Town the Spauldings owned a patch of land that they grew dandelions on. Every summer, Douglas, Tom, and their grandfather would pick the dandelions and bottle it for wine. Summers in Green Town were very hot and winters cold. It was a town where almost ...

Number of words: 540 | Number of pages: 2

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

... life was the death of her mother. Only ten days after Shelley's birth, Mary Wollstonecraft, died of an acute fever. Soon after her father Charles Godwin remarried and Shelley entered a battle as the victim of a fight for love. In her novel the emphasis of isolation and rejection are demonstrated in her "deformed child." Victor Frankenstein's mother dies of a fever but this is a mere representation of her life. What is most significant is the abandonment the monster feels throughout the story. He expresses it by telling Walton "...I, th ...

Number of words: 1063 | Number of pages: 4

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