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Comparing Prince Hal And Henry's Models Of Statescraft

... was "A son who is the theme of honour's tounge..." while Prince Hal was stained by "...riot and dishonor...." In fact the King goes so far as to wish that Hotspur was his his son and not Prince Henry. Later in Act III, scene ii King Henry tells the Prince that Hal reminds him of the way King Richard acted before Henry took the throne and that Hotspur reminds the King of himself. This is the King's not so subtle way oftelling Hal that the King doesn't think he is fit to suceed him to the throne. Prince Hal on the other hand has a different ide ...

Number of words: 1047 | Number of pages: 4

The Crucible

... for some time and submitted the names of the women who were responsible for this awful spell. Eventually, other ailing girls began to give names of those who were presumably persecuting them, leaving dozens of peopled jailed. As soon as this witchcraft hysteria began to get out of hand, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony designated several of the colony’s leading citizens to assemble a special court responsible for trying all those suspected of witchcraft. It was at this point that the Salem witch trials began and would ...

Number of words: 1065 | Number of pages: 4

A Price Above Rubies

... Yossi, telling her the story of the woman who broke free of the Jewish community. The woman’s father wanted her to marry a great scholar and lead a good spiritual life. After leaving, she wanders back years later, with child. The community shuns the child, and when she dies, heaven rejects her, so she goes to hell, but the devil cannot bear to see her suffer anymore because he recognizes her as his niece, so she wanders the earth for eternity. The woman is the daughter of a demon. Sonia tells Yossi - " I love you more than anything&qu ...

Number of words: 2294 | Number of pages: 9

Tom Sawyer

... 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 yard trying ...

Number of words: 1768 | Number of pages: 7

Medea Guilty As Charged

... their generosity. Those of you who blame Jason for provoking Medea’s eccentric behavior must realize he is another victim. Jason has acted righteously and did not contribute to the tragic deaths we speak of today. He has always tried to help Medea. Soon after they met, he relieved her of a wretched, barbarian life and introduced her to our great Greek land, teaching her “how to live by law instead of the sweet will of force” (line 538). When he arrived in Corinth, he further extended his generosity. An opportunity ar ...

Number of words: 1054 | Number of pages: 4

To Kill A Mockingbird-- Plot S

... him. Dill resolves to get him to come out of his house, but nothing comes of it that summer. Scout dislikes school from the first morning. A few times when Scout and Jem walk home from school, they discover small gifts in the hollow oak tree at the edge of the Radley yard. When Dill returns for the summer, the children devise a new game of acting out their own version of Boo’s story. One night they sneak up to the Radley house to look in at a window. Mr. Radley, Boo’s uncle, chases them off with a shotgun, and as the childre ...

Number of words: 895 | Number of pages: 4

"Muddle In A Puddle": Comparison Of Essay To My Life

... strange what makes it so interesting to watch people make fools of themselves, as mentioned by Baker in this quote, "...and any one could could have spoken out as one human might speak to another....not one had said that." (156) Yet another piece really spoke to me about the ways people communicate on a daily basis. "I led the Pigeons to the Flag" was very exact to the feelings I have of miscommunications and mishearings. I can remember times in which I have done the very same things that were mentioned in this essay, like singing a tune ...

Number of words: 783 | Number of pages: 3

Animal Farm Summary

... all equal. A few days later Major dies, but his message remains in the hearts and minds of the animals. Under the leadership of the pigs, who are clearly the more intelligent of the animals, they strike against their human master and manage to get rid of him. After the rebellion, under the direction of Napoleon, the most outspoken pig, and Snowball, the most articulate pig, the animals continue to work the farm with success. The animals now come up with a set of rules to run their society. They are labeled "the Seven Commandments of Animalis ...

Number of words: 727 | Number of pages: 3

Macbeth

... death and bloodshed and shows his guilt indifferent forms. The first reference of blood is one of honour, and occurs when Duncan sees the injured sergeant and says "What bloody manis that?” This is symbolic of the brave fighter who had been injured in a valiant battle for his country. In the next passage, in which the sergeant says, "Which smok'd with bloody execution", he is referring to 's braveness in which his word is covered in the hot blood of the enemy. After these few references to honour, the symbol of blood now changes to show ...

Number of words: 861 | Number of pages: 4

Personal Identity

... happen to them, are those still memories?; do you have one soul throughout your life?), and both are thought to compose one's character and beliefs. This essay will deal with the two aspects of one's personal identity which are the most obvious in day to day life, that of the body and of soul/memory. As stated beforehand, memory and the soul bare many of the same qualities. The body and soul, however, also share this trait. Perry illustrates in his essay that the body and soul are similar because there is a "link" between one anoth ...

Number of words: 559 | Number of pages: 3

Catcher In The Rye 2

... heavy. In this book he smokes three packs of cigarettes in two days and has a lot of alcoholic drinks. He even goes on proving himself to the reader. I even had sort of a stomach-ache, if you want to know the truth." He adds "...if you want to know the truth" very often after he has added something to what he’d said before. He really is afraid people will think he’s a softy or some sort of rich sissy. If he says something he thinks is dumb or not tough enough he jokes about it. ‘When I’m somewhere I generally just ea ...

Number of words: 2154 | Number of pages: 8

Madama Bovary & Anna Karenina

... the rest of the world preventing them from making rational decisions. It was Anna and Emma's loss of reasoning and isolation that propelled them toward their downfall. Emma at the beginning of the novel was someone who made active decisions about what she wanted. She saw herself as the master of her destiny. Her affair with Rudolphe was made after her decision to live out her fantasies and escape the ordinariness of her life and her marriage to Charles. Emma's active decisions though were based increasingl ...

Number of words: 1502 | Number of pages: 6

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