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Longfellows Optimism In Writin

... after his first wife died. Longfellow took his wife’s death and interpreted it as a sign to look at life as fleeting and it passes quickly. I feel that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, after his wife’s death, had an optimistic view on life in the poem, “A Psalm of Life”. The second stanza seems to say that life is here and it must be lived. It is real and not just some dream. Line five supports this with the hopeful exclamation that “Life is real! Life is earnest!” In the next line he says “And the grave is not its goal”. Long ...

Number of words: 708 | Number of pages: 3

Julius Ceasar

... keeping him up but she also noticed that her questions were making him angry so she calmed the conversation down. She begged him to give her the truth of why he was up that morning and to try to prove that she was worthy she pierced her thigh and drew her own blood. This still did not get him to tell her his secret. Portia proved she was determined by not giving up without pressing for him to tell her. She also proved that she was loving by expressing her concern for her husband and offering herself as a person for him to vent his proble ...

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Analysis Of Beloved By Toni Mo

... the survivor's tale is one way that contemporary authors can depict and discuss this formative American experience. ‘Beloved’ is the tale of Sethe, a survivor of slavery, and her family. Sethe is an escaped slave who made the split second decision to kill her daughter, rather than have her return to a life of enslavement. The entire novel revolves around this horrific act; the entire story is slowly unraveled through the remembrances of Sethe and others. These memories and "re-memories" do not follow chronological order. However, when the ...

Number of words: 766 | Number of pages: 3

Effectiveness Of Capital Punishment Essays Of Orwell, Mencken, And Parker?

... and persuasive of the three due to its use of numerous concrete facts backed by an equaled number of references, unequaled narrative insights, and is titled Capital Punishment---An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again by J.A. Parker. Reader’s finishing Parker’s essay will come away feeling like they have heard the whole story, not just one narrow side of it. In fact, upon initial completion of this essay one might feel more at peace with their own emotional feelings concerning the issue of capital punishment. This feeling might also b ...

Number of words: 1023 | Number of pages: 4

Madame Bovary 6

... she is trying to find the happiness she is longing for. When Emma found out that she was to have a child, she was excited. Emma particularly wanted a boy, because she thought that it would come along with new and exciting experiences. Once she had the child, it was not a boy, she quickly lost all interest in the child. An example of Emma’s fluctuation of moods is after Leon left (part II, chapter 6). Once he left to deem herself form the lack of love toward her husband, she became the model wife. Emma went from constantly thinking ...

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A Violent Illumination Of Salvation

... University, believes O'Connor's single theme is the battle between God and the devil "dueling for the human soul in the ancient clash" (105). The illumination of salvation through violent means is essential because "both O'Connor and her God are ironists [unyielding] . . . her heros are willful characters who must be humbled in learning that the will of God must prevail" (Master-pieces 497). O'Connor portrays two varieties of sinners who possess either excessive pride or aggressive evil traits. The price of redemption is high. O'Connor ...

Number of words: 1700 | Number of pages: 7

Jane Eyre-criticism Of The Mai

... and at last I will give the explanation of how this 'innocent', 'honest' creature developed its mechanisms that influenced broad picture of Jane's personality. Jane grabbed her reward with blind happiness and joy. "I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow. Again and again he said, 'Are you happy Jane?' And again and again I answered, 'Yes.' " (224). Jane doesn't have any questions for Rochester. She accepts the rapture of the moment and steps into the future refusing to discern or reveal the vale of mystery that sur ...

Number of words: 913 | Number of pages: 4

Surfacing - A Reason To Kill

... of dealing with the pain of having an abortion is to create a false memory to cover it up. Her false memory becomes so real that she actually forgets until later in the novel that she really did have an abortion. Having the abortion was a horrifying experience for her because she had killed another creature without having a reason for doing so. The abortion symbolizes the killing of her own humanity which causes her to feel alienated from everyone around her. This feeling of alienation is like being confined in a jar. In the novel, there are ...

Number of words: 1827 | Number of pages: 7

Canterbury Tales Chaunticleer

... the Aristocracy of his time period the subject of his mockery by making the reader realize how clueless the Aristocracy can be to the way things are in the real World. Chaucer describes Chaunticleer in many different ways. One of them is his language. Chaunticleer's language is that of a scholar. He quotes many different scriptures in a conversation with Pertelote, such as, Saint Kenelm, Daniel and Joseph (from the bible), and Croesus. From each author he tells a story about an individual who had a v ...

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Elli

... diseases. The Germans also toyed with different ploys to beat the Jews, such as sterilization. This is demonstrated in Chapter Twenty in the book, they hear the rumor circulating that the Germans are putting "Bromide" in the prisoner’s food. The prisoners are provided no forms of personal hygiene such as showers, except the one they receive when they enter and leave the camp, other than that they are given no forms of washing or grooming. Their toilet facilities are non-existent, and instead they have to balance precariously over ...

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Scarlet Letter Chapter Summari

... will be to stand for several hours on the scaffold (a high platform near the market-place) in full view of everyone. She will hold her infant in her arms and will be wearing on the breast of her dress a piece of scarlet cloth formed into the letter "A." Part of her punishment is that she will continue to wear this letter on her breast for the rest of her life. As the story opens in the month of June, in 1642, a group of Puritan men and women gather in front of the door of the prison waiting for Hester to make her appearance. The early settler ...

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Color Purple 2

... who contribute to her life both in a positive way and negative. While men seem to be the ones, who make Celie’s life tough, women are the ones who give her the support she needs. For the major part of her youth she had to struggle to survive; she had to have a lot of strength and character to stay alive and to get a better life that she had at the end. Celie sees herself ugly and stupid. The reason for this is because her father and later her husband told her so. Celie had to leave school because her father raped her and got her pregn ...

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