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Study Skills

... and they have been better quality of work because I'm not rushing to finish them. This topic was also important because time management is a skill that will be useful through our whole lives. The section on talking lecture notes was an important section. If you are going to succeed in a class, you need to take good notes. These will help you study for the exams and will be the key to succeeding on the tests. I also learned that it is impossible for me to sit in my room at night and expect to get my work done. There are too many distra ...

Number of words: 461 | Number of pages: 2

Compare And Contrast The Ways

... fallacy’ as the setting is very boring and dark like the breakdown of the relationship. In “A Winters Tale” Lawrence uses a similar verse-craft to Scannel in “An Anniversary” with the relationship being described as a field but he still uses people in the poem to describe the people in the relationship. Lawrence also uses ‘Pathetic Fallacy’ as he describes a cold winter’s day when the relationship broke down. In “An Anniversary” the poet says: “The sky’s smeared mo ...

Number of words: 1376 | Number of pages: 6

Animal Farm 5

... are tired of being treated cruelly and without respect for their contributions to the farm. They believe that if they ran their own lives that they would have an ideal existance and live in harmony together and that they could do as they pleased. Napolean and Snowball (two pigs) and the cows lead the revolt in the barn after the farmer refuses to feed them adequatly. All the animals attack and defeat the farmer and his men and scare the farmers wife into sneaking out of the farmhouse and escaping. Life after the humans leave is not ...

Number of words: 350 | Number of pages: 2

Wordsworth And Coleridge

... Preface to Lyrical Ballads and Rime of The Ancient Mariner, chose to focus on the "common man" instead of the self. They do not only concentrate on personal response and rejection of the outside world. Therefore, can not be accused on the charge of solipsism. William Wordsworth was very concerned with others in the subject of his poems as well as in his real life. In "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," he would not have written, "I have pleased a greater number than I ventured to hope I should please" (141) if he was only concentrating on the sel ...

Number of words: 709 | Number of pages: 3

Animal Farm By George Orwell

... completely taken over and the kingdom is as it was under the original rulers. I will compare the animals from top of the social class to the bottom. At the top were the pigs. Each pig represented someone different in the revolution. Old Major is compared to Lenin. He was an ideologist who dreamed up a wonderful government where all the animals were equal and the humans, or the czars, were pushed out. Unfortunately his dream would never materialize. Then we are left with his predecessors. The first is Snowball. Snowball believed one hundred pe ...

Number of words: 658 | Number of pages: 3

The Things They Carried

... a slingshot. Martha, who was Jimmy Cross’s long lost lover. Martha sends Jimmy Cross letters and pictures of her. Setting: Near the village of Than Khe, in the country of Vietnam. Most of the story occurred in a dark, wet, gloomy forest type atmosphere. Imagine yourself in an atmosphere where you can die instantly from the enemies’ bombs, grenades or bullets! Narrator: Tim O’Brien, the story was told from Mr. O’Brien’s personal experiences in warfare. Events in summary: (1) A group of soldiers march in t ...

Number of words: 559 | Number of pages: 3

Calamitatum Of The Individual

... He may forewarn others against the risks of such extreme individualism, but his life clearly shows that Abelard thought his individuality was a natural part of him, a part that was as inseparable as his faith. From the beginning of Abelard's Story of my Calamities he portrays himself as an individual. The as oldest child in his family his life was intended for a military career, but as he tells us, he abandoned Mars for Minerva, denouncing the popular and glorious profession of arms for that of learning. In writing this he shows his clever and ...

Number of words: 1412 | Number of pages: 6

Lord Of The Flies - Character Analysis

... started as a self-assured boy whose confidence in himself came from the acceptance of his peers. He had a fair nature as he was willing to listen to Piggy. He became increasingly dependent on Piggy's wisdom and became lost in the confusion around him. Towards the end of the story his rejection from their society of savage boys forced him to fend for himself. Piggy was an educated boy who had grown up as an outcast. Due to his academic childhood, he was more mature than the others and retained his civilized behaviour. But his experiences on the ...

Number of words: 2310 | Number of pages: 9

The Things They Carried By Tim

... each point. The violent nature that the soldiers acquired during their tour in Vietnam is one of O'Brien's predominant themes in his novel. By consciously selecting very descriptive details that reveal the drastic change in manner within the men, O'Brien creates within the reader an understanding of the effects of war on its participants. One of the soldiers, "Norman Bowler, otherwise a very gentle person, carried a Thumb. . .The Thumb was dark brown, rubbery to touch. . . It had been cut from a VC corpse, a boy of fifteen or sixteen"(13). Bo ...

Number of words: 1531 | Number of pages: 6

Macbeth 3

... thought. The luring prophecies, sleepless nights, hallucinations, and deceptive apparitions are all products of sorcery used to cloud Macbeth’s moral judgment and lead him to further degradation. By pricking Macbeth’s desire for power and prestige with promising prophecies and giving him confidence with the apparitions, the witches lure him to commit evil deeds and to continue doing so endlessly. Their tempting prophecies bait Macbeth into their deceitful plot. Banquo, a fellow nobleman, warns him about the prophecies, “But ...

Number of words: 625 | Number of pages: 3

Do You Have What It Takes? A Breakdown Of The Educated Person

... the same qualities that form an individual. One of the most important concepts that a person learns from Science is a fundamental thinking process. This process starts with curiosity, asking the question," Why does that work?" It then moves on to theorizing or guessing. Next, this person takes his or her theory and puts it to the test by conducting various experiments. Finally this individual will draw a final conclusion from those findings. Science also helps a person look at things objectively, which means there is no feelings influe ...

Number of words: 999 | Number of pages: 4

Love Poetry

... thinks love is. All these poems are just three of the many love poems around, but each one has a different meaning and a different type of love is portrayed. John Donne was born in 1572 in London. He studied law in 1591 and then was ordained in 1615 and six years later became Dean of St. Pauls, a position he held until his death in 1631. John Donne wrote letters, elegies, satires, epigrams, devotions, sermons and poems. His songs and sonnets are loved by audiences and "The Flea" written for fun would have to one of them. In the poem it ...

Number of words: 1589 | Number of pages: 6

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