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On The Subway

... is a good poem about everyday life in the real life that could happen to anybody and contains many questions that many people ask their-selves everyday. I chose this poem because I liked the way that it was similar to everyday life in the real world. There is the speaker of the poem who is on a subway in the city and is a frightened by the appearance of another boy with her. In this entry it does not specifically state how the speaker is and wether it was a incident that happened to the poet. The speaker talks about John H. Cross En ...

Number of words: 799 | Number of pages: 3

Beowulf 5

... over foes. All of these characteristics were invulnerable to the warrior tribes of the Anglo-Saxon Period. Throughout Beowulf, the folk hero is described as a big, strong muscular man. He had the stregth to kill Grendel and his mother. His people saw that he was strong, and they relied upon him for protection. Beowulf did himself what a number of "weaker" people had tried. He slew an unassailable monster with his bare hands. The Danes had all tried and were slaughtered. Where strenght was concerned, he was unsurpassed. Condidence, ...

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Essay On Tragic Characters Fro

... tragic character, there are many other possibilities. The plot structure can give many hints or clues of which can reveal the tragic character of the play. The play, “Antigone” offers many clues that the tragic character is in fact, Antigone. Antigone has a tragic flaw which is her arrogance, or the fact that she chooses to bury her brother, Polynices, even though the law prohibits it due to the fact that he is a traitor. Her downfall is her death which comes after she buries Polynices, she is caught and brought to Creon, whos ...

Number of words: 432 | Number of pages: 2

Pride And Prejudice - Characters

... is clearly one of the most likeable characters in the novel. With her wit, charm and charisma she is in all senses an ‘accomplished woman’. Elizabeth is a strong-minded and courageous character, who was not afraid to stand up to others. " I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.", (Ch. 34) she exclaims in response to Darcy’s initial proposal. However, with all her strong-mindedness, her courage is still shown when she admits that she is wrong after she read Darcy’s le ...

Number of words: 874 | Number of pages: 4

Pearl - A Product Of Nature (T

... eventually declares that "The truth seems to be . . . that the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognized a kindred wildness in the human child"(163). All natural things and Nature accept this little girl who has been thrust out of Puritan society. A way to strengthen this point is to show Nature's reaction to Hester. The strange thing is that the sunshine runs from Hester even though it was her sin against the Puritan laws that produced Pearl who is accepted by the sunshine or Nature. In fact "[the sunshin ...

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Bouldering

... as well as his views on education and integration of African Americans. All though this book was written in the first year of this century I believe Washington's views are still valid today. America can probably still learn from them. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in either 1858 or 1859. Birth Records were usually not available to slaves. Booker, his brother and his mother moved to Malden West Virginia after the Civil War. They went to live with his stepfather, whom they had only seen a few times before. When they arrived in Mal ...

Number of words: 2505 | Number of pages: 10

Nature

... river lost somewhere in its vastness." (Pg. 357) Dollarhide also uses personification describing the sea as a person. "Down the length and breadth of the swamp others were fighting to save what little they could, maybe even their lives." (Pg. 357) The author bonds the with the woman. Her house is built to ride with the flow of the flood. The only things around her are . Another images that runs through the story are the trees. The planks of the trees sounds like they are crying in the dark. "Planks creaked and she could distinguish th ...

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Fahrenheit 451 4

... Wallace and Hamish have the rock-throwing contest. It also showed how important the code of Chivalry was in their times when Robert De Bruce betrayed him you could tell that he was devastated. I think that we also learned that if you truly believed in something you wouldn't change what you think no matter what they would do. I think that Wallace's beliefs were worth fighting and dying for because why should you have to be oppressed be a king that would take your things and rule you cruelly. Without their own king Scotland would just be a ...

Number of words: 539 | Number of pages: 2

The Road I Should Have Taken

... Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost The Road I Should Have Taken Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” has long been hailed as a testimony to individuality and an inspiration to take chances. Instead of conforming to society’s rituals, the speaker chose to be different—to take the road “less traveled by.” However, many readers and critics alike have neg ...

Number of words: 972 | Number of pages: 4

The Blue Hotel

... with death. The moment that the Swede arrives at the "Blue Hotel" it is somehow, in The Swedes mind, transformed into a wild west hotel, by the many dime novels he has read, which made him even more uneasy about staying at the hotel. In one of the initial scenes this fear is evident "The Swede answered him swiftly and eagerly: ‘These men are going to kill me.’…. ‘I know I won’t get out of here alive’"(771). The Swede’s fear of dying had made him want to leave the hotel, but Pat Scull, the owner of , attempt ...

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Little Women Book Report

... In the beginning of the story they are all fairly young, the youngest being twelve years old, and their mother, whom they call Marmee, is left to guide them while their father is away fighting in the war. As they grow and mature, they learn many hard lessons about life. For instance, there was the time when Amy, the youngest, suffered her first punishment in school. She carries that anger, humility, and embarrassment with her for the rest of her life. There were also more serious lessons to be learned, like when one of the siste ...

Number of words: 998 | Number of pages: 4

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

... women, greed, and Mrs. Warren’s drive to provide for her daughter and shelter her for the truth. In the opening act the focus is placed on women in general. A picture of a naked woman overshadows the stage, subconsciously focusing your attention to the themes of prostitution and exploitation of women. This shows the fate women faced in society at that time. Mrs. Warren is a very colorful character gaining knowledge through life experience rather than a college degree. She is a very smart woman who is able to survive and make a ...

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