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The Inconvenience Of Convenience

... The automobile itself has become one of, if not the most used item of modern convenience, ( maybe besides the microwave ) and at the same time one of our most inconveniencing. Convenience is so important to some people that they are the ones who install, or create the idea to install bathrooms and showers at campgrounds, a place where the idea is to go and " rough it. " The idea and importance of convenience has even been a reason to end one's life. It is convenient because of its quickness to end tough situations. My cousin recently us ...

Number of words: 1039 | Number of pages: 4

Tartuffe

... his father will allow Mariane, Orgon’s daughter, to marry Valere, who she is in love with, because Damis is in love with Valere’s sister. Orgon comes and tells Mariane that he wants her to marry instead of Valere because he wants to ally to his house. She is so shocked that she does not say anything. Cleante tries to tell Orgon about ’s misleading personality, but Orgon does not want to hear it. Valere finds out about this proposed marriage, and Dorine promises to help Mariane and Cleante expose for the hypocrite he is. Meanwhil ...

Number of words: 960 | Number of pages: 4

A Separate Peace - Analysis

... about the enemies that Gene had put into his own life. Gene had a best friend, his name was Finny, they were roommates and did many activities together. Finny was never the source, but the core of most of Gene's feelings, both good and bad. First, one of the biggest problems that Gene had, that is jealousy. Gene was jealous of Finny's confidency, openness, modesty, superb athletic abilities, his natural leadership skills, his ability to deal with stress easily, his care free attitude, his people skills and, of course, his good loo ...

Number of words: 2231 | Number of pages: 9

Sluaghterhouse-Five

... and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement" (back cover). Vonnegut looks into the human mind of a man, traumatized by war experiences and poor relations with his father, and determines insanity is the result. Billy’s father is a source of his instability from the beginning. Mr. Pilgrim treats Billy as if he has no feelings and he is a disgrace to him. Unfortunately for Billy, fathers are very influential in a boy’s growing up. In a terrible encounter with his father ...

Number of words: 754 | Number of pages: 3

The Bistro Styx

... the Old Neighborhood" we can deduce a number of things from the overall poem. Dove seems to go back in time to view her home as a child from a newly shifting and surreal location. The speakers in Dove’s poems are not usually at ease with their surroundings, and they tend to look upon scenes of home as seen through a distant and dispassionate eye. Dove’s home seems alien to her. Even the flowers are strangers there. Analyzing the poem farther we can see that Dove uses her views on home to further alienate from our familiar picture ...

Number of words: 1063 | Number of pages: 4

Siddhartha

... Theme The tortured adolescent who is cruelly oppressed by the "system," usually the expectations of his parents and teachers. *In his last twenty years, Hesse lived in seclusion and published little. He died in 1962, just before his works became popular in the United States. Literary period/country *Contemporary/Ancient India Characters *Siddhartha -Protagonist -Main character in action -He is stubborn in his quest and yet honored by his community and relatives. *Govinda -Siddhartha's psychological alter ego -Main charact ...

Number of words: 1524 | Number of pages: 6

Frankenstein

... ancient Egyptians and their belief of the afterlife, along with many other cultures and their beliefs of a life after death to see that overcoming death has fascinated people for centuries. This fascination can be looked at on several levels. First of all, death is frightening. It is something that is not understood completely by humans. Humans are scared of what they do not understand. This is portrayed in when the creature is shunned by society simply because he looked different from them and they did not understand him. People are s ...

Number of words: 1285 | Number of pages: 5

Analysis Of Do Not Go Gentle I

... is the first verse. The poet opens the poem with "Do not go gentile into that good night" which right away indicates that the poet is referring to not taking death lying down. The reader is given a sense of growing old. In the first stanza of the poem describe old age, "Old age should burn and rave at close of day" As you get old there is a daily struggle against death; you should fight for your life and take it day by day. In the second stanza the poet says "Though wise men at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no l ...

Number of words: 605 | Number of pages: 3

The Crucible

... him. All of this is too much for Elizabeth and the burden is very heavy. Elizabeth’s husband, John, is a religious man. He believes in God, but not the minister who preaches His word. John’s actions, though, are not so religious and devoid of sin. Abby, a young seductress, was able to gain his attention while Elizabeth was bedridden. A fiery and passionate affair scared his relationship with his wife. Elizabeth struggles with his infidelity. When Reverend Hale questions the couple on the commandments, it is evident that there ...

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For Whom The Bell Tolls

... survive and to defend their country from fascist. The environment where the actions unfolds are the roughed mountains. A lot of killing takes place in this story. It certainly was a time of fear and desperation. Many heroic military deeds are depicted here: Robert Jordan and his group of internationalists sabotaged bridges, trains and building. Lots of peasants are starved, tortured and killed, and many children were left orphaned. Part IV 1 "He lay flat on the brown, pine-needle floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high ...

Number of words: 831 | Number of pages: 4

Hamlet (william Shakespeare).

... in other words, that, very far form being mad, he is perfectly capable of recognizing his enemies. Hamlet's madness was feigned for a purpose. He warned his friends he intended to fake madness, but Gertrude as well as Claudius saw through it, and even the slightly dull-witted Polonius was suspicious. His public face is one of insanity but, in his private moments of soliloquy, through his confidences to Horatio, and in his careful plans of action, we see that his madness is assumed. After the Ghost's first appearance to Hamlet, Hamlet de ...

Number of words: 1742 | Number of pages: 7

Henry David Thoreaus Quest For

... normal, almost mundane, however Thoreau is a transcendentalist who had been living in nature for the past 2 years in an attempt to become divine and righteous. John has never heard of such a lifestyle and is drawn closer and becomes deeply interested in the argument that Thoreau makes for living simply. Thoreau explains that he "lives in a tight, light, and clean house, which hardly cost him more than the annual rent of such a ruin as [John's] commonly amounts to" (Walden, 140). Thoreau almost makes the identical argument, (although ...

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