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The Adventures Of Huckleberry

... Huck say, "Did you want to kill him?" "What did he do to you?" and then Huck replies, "Him he never did nothin to me." Huck questions, "Well, then, what did ya kill him for?" And the young lad answers, "Why nothin, only its on accout of the fued." This scene is showing that they are killing each other for unknown reasons. Buck killed a Shephardson just because and that is the only reason. He was brought up thinking to kill the Shephardson was the right thing to do. Later in the novel it is asked, "Well, who done the shooting? Was it ...

Number of words: 768 | Number of pages: 3

A Separate Peace 2

... he can never be of any use to the war efforts with a “busted leg.” Gene Forrester, the main character in the book, returns to his old prep school-Devon- that he attended some fifteen years earlier. While there he remembers the incident that changed his life. In the summer of 1942, Gene and his friends stayed at their prep school for the summer session. His best friend in those days was a boy named Phineas, or Finny. During that time World War II was going on and the sixteen-year old boys were trying to preserve the peace i ...

Number of words: 1161 | Number of pages: 5

The Maltese Falcon

... in the film to show the distinct functions of masculinity and femininity between the characters. Sam said to Effie, “Your a nice rattle brain angel.” (, John Huston, 1941) Sam Spade’s assistant, Effie is a conservative and a practical woman. As the detective’s assistant, she possesses more of masculine qualities than feminine qualities. Since she works in an environment around men, she has a tendency to be more influenced by their activities and their ideas. Sam said to Effie, “Your a detective darling. ...

Number of words: 1676 | Number of pages: 7

Round River By Aldo Leopold

... Leopold said that "we have radically modified the biotic system because we had to. Food chains now begin with corn, and alfalfa instead of oaks and bluestem, flows through cows, hogs, and poultry instead of into elk, deer, and grouse." Therefore we can never restore damage done but only reroute it. Another point in his essay is that all land is one mechanism and if you damage one part then you intern damage or affect another part. So we cannot fully preserve land because our scientists cannot recognize all of the earth's mechanisms. For i ...

Number of words: 489 | Number of pages: 2

Sir Lancelot

... Arthur saw that Lancelot was a great man so he dubbed him a knight. Lancelot quickly established himself as the greatest knight of all time after successfully completing several quests. Among other adventures, he conquered the dark custom of a castle called Dolorous Gard, which afterwards became his own home and renamed it Joyous Gard. Soon after, Lancelot returned to Camelot and become a full Knight of the Round Table and Arthur's closest companion and champion. After joining the ranks of Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot helped A ...

Number of words: 475 | Number of pages: 2

Lord Of The Flies By William G

... the usual social controls are lifted, on desert islands real of imaginary (Sheed 121). D. ....rational (the firewatchers) pitted against the irrational (the hunters ) in Lord of the Flies (Dick 121). E. The Brilliance of Lord of the Flies can scarcely be exaggerated, and horrific as it is, it cannot be dismissed merely as a horror-comic of high literary merit, as a ‘sick’ comment of R.M. Ballentyne’s nineteenth century views of the nature of British boyhood (Allen 120). III. Authors Life: A. He [Golding] entered the Royal Navy at t ...

Number of words: 1994 | Number of pages: 8

Responsibility And Duty As The

... around her. Many philosophers have dealt with the question of whether to live a life of servitude or to pursue ones greater happiness. Immanuel Kant stipulates that the more people cultivate their reason, the less likely they are to find happiness. Kate Chopin's character Edna tries her entire life to fit in the prescribed mold of the women of her time. She invests so much time into duty and responsibility that she loses any happiness that she could hope to achieve. With time, Kant noted, the person who devotes their life to reason fi ...

Number of words: 895 | Number of pages: 4

The Client

... Mark manages to get out of the car, because Romey is under the influence of alcohol and medicines. After that, Romey gets out of the car and shoots himself. Mark and Rickey rush home. Ricky is in state of a shock and Mark calls 911. Ricky is taken to a hospital, and a police officer listens to the story of Mark. He doesn't quite believe Mark's explanation of events. Later, the FBI finds fingerprints of Mark all over the car. They repress him so much that he feels cornered and tries to get a lawyer. That lawyer becomes Reggie Love. Afte ...

Number of words: 989 | Number of pages: 4

The Odyssey

... appearing to him in a dream, urging him to return to Ithaca and warning him about the ambush of the suitors. Athene helped Penelope numerous way also. Athene helped her by comforting her so she would not go into a nervous break down over all her stress, the suitors and Odysseus returning or not. Athene gave Penelope hope of Odysseus returning. Athene even made Penelope appear more beautiful than she really was, because Penelope was actually really ragged. Athene also helped Penelope by giving her a dream of gulls, representing the suitors, ...

Number of words: 509 | Number of pages: 2

Imagination In Keats

... love, and youth. He wants the reader to imagine a world through the urn and not to see what would be present if the urn could act out the apparent scenes it portrays. Keats writes about seeing a man playing the pipes and how sweet the music is. The urn has placed a frozen image in time of people playing music and he writes about how the music is sweeter unheard. "For ever piping songs for ever new." To the speaker, the unheard song is forever new and wishes for the music not to play to the sensual ear for fear of damaging the thoughts of sw ...

Number of words: 1092 | Number of pages: 4

A Review Of Colin Palmers Slav

... belonging to Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran, who published among other works, La poblicion negra de Mexico, 1519-1810 (1946). While in the popular sense, the discussion of slavery has been heavily influenced by the history of the nineteenth century United States South, there are marked differences in systems of enslavement in particular contexts. The story of Africans in colonial Mexico does serve as a prime example of the idiosyncratic nature of African enslavement in various locales throughout the globe, but also demonstrates the consistence ...

Number of words: 623 | Number of pages: 3

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung U

... a muted declaration of independence from the past and a challenge to authority. Although Bradstreet's verses on the burning of her house in 1666 and poems on the death of three grandchildren end by reaffirming the God-fearing Puritan belief system, along the way they also question the harsh Puritan God. Further, Bradstreet's work records early stirrings of female resistance to a social and religious system in which women are subservient to men. In "The Prologue" (1650), Bradstreet writes, "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my ha ...

Number of words: 500 | Number of pages: 2

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