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The Sweet Hereafter, 2 Pg Incl

... or a mirage…. I had made my choice, as I wrenched the steering wheel to the right….”(Banks, 33,34) It turns out that the choice she made killed ½ of the children on the bus. Dolores was let go from her job and alienated by her town, Sam Dent. In come the lawyers. After the accident everyone in town was mourning, and looking for some way to get over the pain. For a lot of these people, the answer was money; at least they thought it was. Mitchell Stevens Esq. was the lawyer most of the people in town chose to trust. He felt th ...

Number of words: 428 | Number of pages: 2

Edgar Allen Poe

... we find that Poe shunned such artifices of mind, systems which, he professed, have no basis in reality. Yet Poe employed in his writing the diction of the moral tome, which causes confusion for readers immersed in this tradition. Daniel Hoffman reiterates Allan Tate's position that, aside from his atavistic employment of moral terminology, Poe writes as though "Christianity had never been invented." (Hoffman 171) Poe did offer to posterity one tale with a moral. Written in 1841 at the dawn of Poe's most creative period, Poe delivers to ...

Number of words: 3420 | Number of pages: 13

Princesses In Fairy Tales

... simply because of their outstanding appearance. By examining the fairy tales of “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”, Perrault’s version of “Cinderella”, and “Pretty Goldilocks”, it will be evident that the stories revolve around one-dimensional, narcissistic individuals, otherwise known as Princesses.In “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” the princess is first introduced as a child who “had all the perfections imaginable”. (Perrault, Sleeping 66) As well, after fairies had been summoned to serve her, each one gave her a gift: to be ...

Number of words: 1028 | Number of pages: 4

Black Bart

... written on its back, each line in a different hand. Almost a year later, on July 25 of 1878, the PO8 struck again. A stage from Quincy to Oroville slowed to make a difficult turn a long the Feather River, the masked man stepped out of the bushes and asked that the box be thrown down. His soils included $379 in coins, a silver watch, and a diamond ring. Once again, when the posse reached the scene, all they found was a poem: "Here I lay me down to sleep To wait the coming morrow, Perhaps success, perhaps defeat, And everl ...

Number of words: 761 | Number of pages: 3

Beowulf

... in order and away from harm. Because speaks very highly of himself he is required to support his claims and give to the people. Hrothgar claims that flaunting is a way to keep the Geats happy because they believe what he says. “I will stand by my word make good my promises. To your Geat-friends now will make you come with counsel courage for their hearts through long comfort years”(1706). The Geats need someone to believe in and who would believe in someone with low self-esteem or someone who didn’t believe in themselves. The peo ...

Number of words: 1218 | Number of pages: 5

Ethan Frome

... and shelter. Ethan soon fell in love with Mattie but could not express it because of Zeena. Throughout the year that Mattie was with them, Ethan tried to show her that he loved her. He would walk her home after a church gathering in the winter and put his arms around her. He tried to show off to her by boasting his skill at sledding, and how he could coast down the dangerous hill and miss the big elm tree that was in the path right around a sharp bend. Mattie fell in love with Ethan too, after a picnic on a summer afternoon. One day, ...

Number of words: 892 | Number of pages: 4

Paralytic - Sylvia Plath

... happens. Will it go on?- My mind a rock, No fingers to grip, no tongue, My god the iron lung That loves me, pumps My two Dust bags in and out, Will not Let me relapse While the day outside glides by like ticker tape. The night brings violets, Tapestries of eyes, Lights, The soft anonymous Talkers: "You all right?" The starched, inaccessible breast. Dead egg, I lie Whole On a whole world I cannot touch. At the white, tight Drum of my sleeping couch Photographs visit me- My wife, dead and flat, in 1920 furs, Mouth f ...

Number of words: 1654 | Number of pages: 7

Willow

... of queen Bavmorda that falls in love. General Kail- a evil man at the top of Bavmords army Queen Bavmorda- Destroyer of Tersline that is searching for a child that can destroy her The book starts of at Nockmar castle. A child is born in the dongon with a mark. The same mark Bavmord is looking for. One of Bavmords servants smulgs the child out of the castle and miles away to a creek bed. She is being tracked by dethdogs so she bundles up and sends the child down the stream in a basket. She is killed by the death dogs but wile the child ...

Number of words: 2061 | Number of pages: 8

To Kill A Mockingbird

... to study law. She left there to spend a year in England as an exchange student. Returning to the university, she continued her studies, but left in 1950 without having completed the requirements for her law degree. She moved to New York and worked as an airline reservation clerk. Character It is said that Miss Lee personally resembles the tomboy she describes in the character of Scout. Her dark straight hair is worn cut in a short style. Her main interests, she says, are "collecting the memoirs of nineteenth century clergymen, golf, crime, ...

Number of words: 5024 | Number of pages: 19

Hektor Is A Greater Hero Than

... of a Greek hero. Although Hektor fights against the Greeks, Homer expounds on his good qualities and even makes him more heroic than Achilleus. Hektor’s shows his heroism in Homer’s description of him as the greatest of the Trojans. Homer describes Hektor’s strength and greatness several times in the epic. In Helen’s conversation with Hektor in Book VI, she appeals to Hektor and makes several statements about him being the best man among the Trojans, much better than her husband Paris. Helen says, “I wish I h ...

Number of words: 1332 | Number of pages: 5

Munros Trademarks

... math were about to change. My change of heart about math came about because of my teacher. From the first day of class I found myself fascinated by my teachers method of teaching, her attitude and the way she treated us the students. I immediately felt a strong bond with her a bond that I had never felt before with any of my other teachers. There was something about Ms. Smith that allowed me to put aside my bases about math and for once in my life look at the subject with a more objective approach. My best friend was also in the same math ...

Number of words: 1345 | Number of pages: 5

What To Write

... possible ways to avoid these mistakes. The first three sections deal with making your paper interesting. These three sections include: “Nothing About Something,” “Avoid the Obvious Content,” and “Take the Less Usual Side.” In the First section, “Nothing About Something,” Roberts goes through the steps a normal student would take in writing a 500-word essay on college football. You may begin shortly after they receive your assignment. Often times you may start well. But after about one paragraph, you run out of things to say. ...

Number of words: 754 | Number of pages: 3

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