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Victory Is Mine

... she was living with, became outraged with her. She stepped in when the children were taken away. When she had to attend different doctors' offices, the sister was right there with her holding her hand. At this point, she realized the need for treatment. So she tried to get help, but just could not benefit from the programs. She learned that she was her only problem and had no one else to blame for what she had done to herself. She was the blame for her own shortcomings. She took the suggestion that were given to her: live and let live. now ...

Number of words: 472 | Number of pages: 2

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban

... In the first book, Harry receives a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He’s eventually allowed to go, and spends the next six months there learning magic, getting into trouble, and trying to solve mysteries of his past, and the school. In the second book, Harry goes back to his second year at Hogwarts, and gets into more trouble, figures out many astonishing mysteries and learns loads more magic. His best friends in the two books consist of Ron and Hermione (two of his fellow wizard students) and Hagrid the gamekeeper ...

Number of words: 1998 | Number of pages: 8

Oedipus The King - Blindness

... to the truth his whole life. When he does find the truth, he loses his physical vision. Because of the truth, Oedipus blinds himself. Jocasta was blind to the true identity of Oedipus. Even when she found out the truth, she refused to accept it. In this case, those who are blind ultimately do have a higher vision - the truth. Kind Oedipus started life with a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother. In an attempt to avoid this fate, his parents, Laius and Jocasta, sent him into the mountains to die. However, a shephe ...

Number of words: 990 | Number of pages: 4

Night

... tortures, his faith in God begins to waiver. By the end of the book Wiesel has lost his belief in God. If there is a God, how could he allow this to happen, he wonders. As the days go by, there are frequent selections. A man with a little stick decides who will live and who will die. This man acts like God. To the right you live, to the left, you die. As Wiesel watches the evil that exists, his belief in the existence of God continues to deteriorate. Wiesel asks, "Where is my God? Where is He?"(61) Wiesel continues to witness hangings, beati ...

Number of words: 403 | Number of pages: 2

The Wisdom Of Confucious

... as education, politics, and music, subjects still evident in modern day society. The book is mainly comprised of sections and chapters taken from ancient Chinese literature and translated into English by Yutang. He has also added his own commentary and a very lengthy introduction. Some of the books that Yutang used were: The Analects, written by one of Confucius’ disciples Mencius, Spring and Autumn, written by Confucius himself, and The Book of Songs, which includes over three hundred Chinese songs and anthems edited by Confucius. ...

Number of words: 717 | Number of pages: 3

The Spirit Catches You And You

... into her own hands. Reaching between her legs to ease out the head and then letting the rest of the body slip into her arms. No one else was present during this, but if her throat got dry during labor, her husband was permitted to bring her a cup of hot water. Nao Kao, her husband, could do this as long as he looked away from her body. Foua strongly believed that moaning or screaming would distract the birth, so she did not make a sound. An occasional prayer would be made to the Hmong gods and ancestors, to ease the pain. She was so quiet t ...

Number of words: 921 | Number of pages: 4

The Iliad

... Zeus has indeed vouchsafed me the fulfillment of my prayer, but what pleasure is it to me, seeing that my dear comrade Patroclus has fallen—he whom I valued more than all others, and loved as dearly as my own life? Here, Achilles talks about how much he loved Patroclus almost more than he loved himself. By what he is saying there, you can see that he is very sad, but that he will not just sit there, that something needs to be done. I think that in modern time, emotions haven’t really changed. They are something that every ...

Number of words: 794 | Number of pages: 3

Macbeth Relationship Analysis

... is clearly shown when Macbeth salutes his wife with “My dearest love” (I, v, 58) and also on the letter where he says “…my dearest partner of greatness…” (I, v, 11). The respect comes when Macbeth listens to his wife, which talks about the murder. He respects her opinion and gives her a polite answer “We will speak further.” (I, v, 71). In Act I, ii we see that King Duncan considers Macbeth a brave soldier and good man “O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!” (King Duncan, I, ii, 24). ...

Number of words: 1170 | Number of pages: 5

Hobbes' Version Of The Social Contract

... of "rights" (86). To begin with, Hobbes' idea of the state of nature is that nature (including man) is beautiful, yet viscous. Man, in fact, is more dangerous than the animals because he has the ability to reason. This ability makes man compete for things that are not tangible, like honor and dignity. This supports Hobbes' idea that man is self-centered and desires power (64). He has based his conception of mankind on the idea that all men are equal, even if others possess different strengths and talents. He argues: For such is the ...

Number of words: 831 | Number of pages: 4

Thoreau And Transcendentalism

... these ideals. "I should have told them at once that I was a transcendentalist. That would have been the shortest way of telling them that they would not understand my explanations" (H. D. Thoreau). He believed in the oneness of individual souls with nature and with God, which gave dignity and importance to human activity and made possible a belief in the power to effect social change in harmony with God's purposes (Richardson 81). Thoreau tore the veil of conventional thought away from societies clouded eyes. Born on a calm, mid-summer nig ...

Number of words: 876 | Number of pages: 4

The American 2

... he can travel to Europe, find the girl of his dreams, and marry without a problem. Unfortunately, one family has a problem with his goals. The Bellegarde’s are the supreme example of “old money,” and a dynasty that is not going to allow “new money” into it, no matter how hard Newman tries. A person cannot control his own destiny and he has to find a compromise between his freewill and destiny in order to accept his future. The novel shows this through Christopher Newman throughout the entire story. In the ...

Number of words: 2286 | Number of pages: 9

The Connection Between Ernest

... it were, then it would cease being nature. That is another reason that I believe Hemingway was infatuated with it; it cannot be touched. It cannot be tainted. “To live according to natural law, this realease of the imagination. In discovering truth we create beauty.” As I said before, Hemingway believed that nature was the ultimate. It was simple, it was beautiful, it was clean. It was perfection. For Hemingway, nature was good. It epitomized all that he stood for. Places with the clutter of men invariably led to pain and ...

Number of words: 1285 | Number of pages: 5

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