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Frederick Jackson Turner: Closing Of The Frontier

... and its Indian heritage. After finishing his master's degree, he studied under a prominent historian who supported "germ theory" or the theory that all historical change is based on antecedents. According to "germ" theory, everything in America -- from culture to government -- would find its roots directly in European heritage. Turner disagreed with the "germ" theory, believing that environmental influences were much more important in historical development that hereditary influences. Turner could not account for the history of his ow ...

Number of words: 621 | Number of pages: 3

A Rose For Emily

... the past) views the past as "a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottleneck of the most recent decade of years." The first perspective is that of Homer and the modern generation. The second is that of the older members of the Board of Aldermen and of the confederate soldiers. Emily holds the second view as well, except that for her there is no bottleneck dividing her from the meadow of the past. Faulkner begins the story with Miss Emily's funeral, where the men see her as a "fallen monument" ...

Number of words: 1496 | Number of pages: 6

Inherit The Wind

... beliefs were right, and that if they kept those beliefs the focus of their existence, they could eventually prove themselves the victor. Yet the two had never met head-on in court. They both knew that until so, everything they did, every case they fought and one, would only be a form of practice, and a silent taunt at their foe. But until they truly fought together in court, this two man war would never be over. Thus, when the time finally arrived, when the two ingenious legal warriors who had trained together met at last for that one final ba ...

Number of words: 1120 | Number of pages: 5

Dreams 2

... own bed, it showed that he is comfortable in his life. Secondly Joe, needed to decipher if there was a predominant color, and yes it was deep brick red, that meant Joe was going to experience good things in the near future. Next Joe needed to understand that he was showing signs of regression, by sitting and crying. Once he realizes that, Joe remembers being reprimanded at work, where he felt like crawling under a rock. Lastly, Joe needs to understand that just because he was with his mother in his dream doesn’t mean that he ...

Number of words: 2667 | Number of pages: 10

Kurt Vonneguts Slaughter House

... no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time." (Pg. 88) Thus, I will state right now that Vonnegut's marvelous moments of irony are neither surprising, nor deep. They are obvious and blatantly stated, and leave Vonnegut fans analyzing the entire novel searching for the slightest hint of irony. The real irony in Slaughterhouse-Five is much more scholarly, clever, and structured. The real irony in Slaughterhouse- Five took a lot more thought and time than simply making up stories about me ...

Number of words: 1197 | Number of pages: 5

A Rose For Emily

... is further emphasized by the symbolism of the decaying house, which parallels Miss Emily's physical deterioration and demonstrates her mental decline. Her life, like the decaying house, suffers from lack of love and care. The characteristics of Miss Emily's house, like her physical appearance, are brought about by years of neglect. For example, the house is located in what was once a prominent neighborhood that has deteriorated. Originally white and decorated in "the heavily lightsome style" of an earlier time, the house has become "an ...

Number of words: 593 | Number of pages: 3

Spelling And Differently - Analysis

... face children as their parents age. After visiting the county home in an attempt to find a place for Flo to live, "Rose spoke of the view and the pleasant rooms. Flo looked angry; her face darkened and she stuck out her lip. Rose handed her a mobile she had bought for 50 cents in the County Home crafts centre.... Stick it up your arse, said Flo" (Oates 151). The reader sees no affection between the two. In fact, the tone of the story illustrates a lack of acceptance and even disappointment by Flo and shows that there has always been a dist ...

Number of words: 1391 | Number of pages: 6

Identity In Sula

... she "wanted Nel to be a warm, conventional woman." She says "there was a little bit of both in each of these women... if they had been one woman... they would have been a rather marvelous person. But each one lacked something the other had." Morrison, thus, creates two completely different women yet allows them to merge into one. The sustainment of the two selves as one proves difficult and Morrison allows them to pursue different paths. But the two women's separate journeys and individual searches for their own selves leads to nothing but d ...

Number of words: 1475 | Number of pages: 6

Frederick Douglass

... Through personal anecdotes, Douglass drew an accurate picture of the life of a slave. At the same time, these events were chosen for how they would affect the northern audience’s opinion of southern slaveholders. By using the written word, Douglass and fellow abolitionists targeted educated northern whites because they were the only group who could change the status quo. Illiterate northern whites and free northern blacks could not vote while white southerners would not vote because they did not want change. Therefore, Douglass used h ...

Number of words: 2095 | Number of pages: 8

Paradise Lost

... lost, but he still thinks he can convince them. Moloch speaks second, the "strongest and the fiercest spirit that fought in Heaven ; now fiercer by despair". He tells the devils that they should have open war, for he is a person possessed with the lust for violence and someone who just wants revenge on God. As his speech goes on he get more worked up and irate. He whips up emotion by talking of the pain they are suffering and although he knows there will be no victory - they cannot beat God - they will at least have had some ...

Number of words: 542 | Number of pages: 2

Shakespeare - Globe Theater

... the play. Not having a lighting technician to work the control panels, Shakespeare had to indicate wether it was dawn or nightfall by using a speech rich in metaphors and descriptive details. Shakespeare's theater was far from being bare, the playwright did have some valuable technical sources that he used to the best of his ability. The costumes the actors wore were made to be very elaborate. Many of the costumes conveyed recognizable meanings for the audience such as a rich aristocrat wearing silk clothes with many ruffles. Many times ...

Number of words: 562 | Number of pages: 3

Alice In Wonderland

... captivating creatures sprung from the mind of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy, stammering Oxford mathematics professor. Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an inventor, and a noted children's photographer. Wonderland, and thus the seeds of his unanticipated success as a writer, appeared quite casually one day as he spun an impromptu tale to amuse the daughters of a colleague during a picnic. One of these girls was Alice Liddell, who insisted that he write the story down for her, and who served as the model for the heroine. Dodgson eventually s ...

Number of words: 606 | Number of pages: 3

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