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The Significance Of Food In "Like Water For Chocolate"

... chocolate: Water is used rather than milk, and must be brought to a vigorous boil. Therefore, an extremely agitated person is said to be "like water for chocolate," so is a person in a state of sexual arousal. A recurring symbol in Like Water for Chocolate is food (the title is a good tip-off of that). Hardly a scene goes by without someone eating or preparing a meal and some of the more hilarious sequences surround a pair of banquets. Each of these scenes has a meaning beyond the obvious, however. Food is equated with life and excitement, ...

Number of words: 690 | Number of pages: 3

The Role Of Women In The Odyss

... of his time concerning women by treating the female characters unequally and differently compared to the male characters in The Odyssey. By examining the women of The Odyssey one comes to one conclusion about women in Homer’s epic. Homer’s male characters in The Odyssey consistently treated women differently and unequally throughout The Odyssey. Concurrent with the time’s belief that women held a subservient position in society to men, the male characters in The Odyssey often expected certain traits and actions that they did ...

Number of words: 1230 | Number of pages: 5

THe Catcher In The Rye: Summary

... and evil), in their daily life and work. These innocents include Sally Hayes and Phoebe. Sally belies the world is a big party (or a social occasion), everyone likes her, and that the fun will never end. Phoebe, Holden's younger sister, is innocent just not quite as naive as Sally. It is clear that she is young and innocent, because of the odd things she does like constantly changing her middle name or paying for belching lessons, this she states towards the end of their conversation. One who is harden by and to the world would not take lesson ...

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Comparison Of "Queen Of Diamonds" And "Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters"

... both caused by pessimistic attitudes towards life. "Queen of Diamonds" paints the perfect picture of how a bad attitude in everything makes everything worse. The story starts off in a hospital where a lady named Christine is in bed, sick. They make it clear to the reader that Christine was not in the hospital just for this one occasion, but has spent a lot of time there in the past as well. Christine was not one of those people who were sick all the time, but she was someone who had gone out a lot of the time with her friends and drank. ...

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A Changed Man

... which will prove to permanently change himself and his attitudes. When he receives word that his beloved sister, Gertrude, has fallen ill, Kumalo’s false hopes that his family might someday return are evident. Although it has been proven that “when people go to Johannesburg, they do not come back” (Paton 4), he is still reluctant to dip into the money he and his wife were saving to send their son, Absalom, to St. Chad’s for further education, much less take it all for his trip. A sensible man, Kumalo realizes that it is necessary t ...

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Courage, Intelligence And Strength In The Client, Dragon, And Beowulf

... woman the baby carriage, intelligent to act quickly and actually catch up to it, and his strength is shown by his ability to outrun a racing carriage down a deep hill. Different books use different characters to display heroism within their characters. Mark Sway of The Client is a story of a young boy's heroic battle against the Mafia and the FBI. The story of Dirk Pitt of Dragon is a story of how a older man of the ninetee -hundredths can overcome evil. Beowulf of the story Beowulf is an example of how even hundreds of years ago, heroes u ...

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Aphrodite Versus Athena

... myth. The two female divinities Aphrodite and Athena share many similarities between their traits. They were both “born” from a male figure being gods in particular. The father of Aphrodite is Uranus and the father of Athena is the omnipotent Zeus. Not only were they both brought into existence from the males but specifically and indirectly through male body parts. Cronus, son of Gaia and Uranus, despised his father to a vast degree that “with his right (hand) he swung/the fiendishly long and jagged sickle, pruning the genitals/of ...

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You Belong To Me By Mary Higgi

... day and is seriously injured. The only witness that saw her get pushed is killed the next day. Dr. Chandler starts following the case, but every time she goes to talk to someone that might be able to give her some information, they are already dead. In the end, Susan is hot on the murderer's trail, but does not realize that she is going to be the next victim. The murderer turns out to be a guy Susan has been dating. He tries to suffocate her and leaves her to die. Another doctor friend of Susan's has also been paying attention to the c ...

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Tom Sawyer: Summary

... to trade some of his possessions for a few hours of freedom he had a stroke of genius, instead of him paying people to work for him, he made people pay him to paint. Tom managed this by telling people that it isn't every day that you get a chance to paint a fence and he thought it was fun. He had people begging him to paint by the time that he was finished his story. He would have taken every boy in the town's wealth if he had not run out of paint. On June 17th about the hour of midnight, Tom and his best friend Huck were out in the grave y ...

Number of words: 1774 | Number of pages: 7

Sit-Down Book Report

... this day General Motors recognized the United Auto Workers as the collective-bargaining agency for their employees. The 4 main characters involved with the strike are GM President Alfred Sloan Jr., executive Vice President Willam Knudsen, U.A.W. President Homer Martin and the Governor of Michigan, Frank Murphy. Sloan and Knudsen represented the GM stock holders and the interest of management. They did not want collective bargaining because it would take power away from management. Martin represented the working people on GM assembly lines ...

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Evaluation Of The Lord Of The Flies

... up the mountain. He meets Jack Merridew, the chief antagonist. Jack is then a leader of choir boys, but will soon turn into a leader of savages. On the mountain, Jack hunts but does not kill a pig. He vows to kill it the next time. On their return, Ralph holds an informational meeting and informs the boys that they will be safe, but that they must start a signal fire and set up temporary shelters until help can be found. A rumour of a beast is heard, but is quickly discounted as a nightmare. It will later be a major theme in the book. ...

Number of words: 1774 | Number of pages: 7

Symbolism In The Old Man And T

... the young boy, Manolin. Manolin, the young boy, that followed Santiago was not fishing with the old man because his parents forced him to, actually he was told to stay away form the old man because he was bad luck, but because he wanted too. He liked to be around the old man and listen to what he had to say. When the old man would look at Manolin he would see himself at a younger age, someone who cared more about the elderly and their heritage than the new ways bestowed on them. Manolin symbolized the disciples of Jesus. The ones who w ...

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