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Beauty When The Other Dancer I

... not "real" guns. One day she was blown in her right eye by the little toy her brothers used to play. Walker was told not to tell anything about the gun to her parents. Only in week, her parents and Alice went to see a doctor. By that time she already had a glob of whitish scar tissue. She also remembered the words of her doctor, "Of one is blind, the other will likely become blind too." It is amazing how childhood may influence the future. Since that time Alice Walker lost her self-confidence, she didn't feel that she is that cute little ...

Number of words: 781 | Number of pages: 3

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing

... classmates feel inferior- and we did.” With that statement she shows that just because she comes from the South does not mean that she is uneducated, and both she and Bailey use this to their advantage and also to taunt their classmates. Much later, at fifteen, she sets her mind to working on the streetcars in San Francisco. The first problem with this plan is that they do not allow Negroes to work on the streetcars. The second problem being that she is too young to work. But she will not be defeated. “I would have the job. I woul ...

Number of words: 788 | Number of pages: 3

Basketball

... is necessary to create space for a shot attempt or a pass. Concentration is vital to dribbling a ball up the court, with an opposing defender harassing you. With as much physical prowess that is required for success, is a mental chess match. "Thurber, make the smart play!" yelled Coach Balderama all last season.This game is only "ten percent" physical as Duke's Coach K explains it. For those who deny the mental aspects of the game, John Stockton is an ideal example. He is not the fastest, strongest, or best player on the floor. Stockton ...

Number of words: 1494 | Number of pages: 6

Madame Bovary: The Tragic Love

... impossible to truly understand modern European and American fiction without reading, Madame Bovary. Charles Bovary, the only son of a middle-class family, became a doctor and set up his practice in a rural village. He then married a women who was quite older then himself. He was unhappily married to her saying that "Her dresses barely hung on her bony frame", This coming right before her death. Upon his wife's death, Charles married an attractive young women named Emma Roualt, the daughter of one of his patients. Emma married Charles with o ...

Number of words: 596 | Number of pages: 3

Bless Me, Ultima - Character A

... a typical six-year old will suffer serious mental agonies if he or she witnesses the death of four other people. Tony, however, “[runs] the words of the Act of Contrition” (23) through his mind, praying to God promising that “[he] will sin no more.” (170) Furthermore, the typical six year old child will not possess the mentality to question the flaws of a religion nor question why God “forgives all” (173), even murderers. This is not the case for Tony, who is bothered by the fact that God will “forgive Narciso…” only “� ...

Number of words: 780 | Number of pages: 3

Sir Gawain And The Green Knigh

... dictates of courtly love. The two major streams of action and conduct merged into the content of the romance: chivalric ideals of courage and prowess in battle, along with observance of Christian virtues; and courtly love standards of carefully prescribed manners. The three major plot elements - the beheading game or contest the exchange of winnings, and the temptations - occur throughout the romances, but the Gawain-Poet was the first to combine them into a meaningful structure. The latter places the poem in relationship with Anglo-Sa ...

Number of words: 776 | Number of pages: 3

A Dolls House, Theme Of Impris

... threatened by Krogstad “ Oh it doesn’ t bear thinking. Oh I’m in the power of a man without scruples. And I’ m brought so pitifully low all because of a shiftless woman”. This threatening, from his point of view makes him incapable of escaping from his small world. His Small world, which includes his family and the bank he works in. Towards the end of the play, he says that he’ s saved and has in a way escaped from the prison he was locked up in. We find this out as he says: “ Nora I’ m saved!&# ...

Number of words: 820 | Number of pages: 3

Huckleberry Finn - Freedom

... freedom, as on his own he would have done what he wanted to. Chap.1: pg.6 "And then I put out the light and scrambled out of the window on to the shed." Huck is exercising his longing for freedom by going out at night with Tom. Chap.2: pg.6-12 Tom and Huck encounter Jim whose freedom is taken away because he is a slave. Huck joins Tom's gang and they plan to take people's freedom away by holding them for ransom. Chap.3: pg.12 "Well, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on account of my clothes." This in part why Huck ...

Number of words: 1130 | Number of pages: 5

Grapes Of Wrath

... the cruelty of the land owners that take advantage of them, their poverty and willingness to work. The combines Steinbeck adoration of the land, his simple hatred of corruption resulting from materialism (money) and his abiding faith in the common people to overcome the hostile environment. The novel opens with a retaining picture of nature on rampage. The novel shows the men and women that are unbroken by nature. The theme is one of man verses a hostile environment. His body destroyed but his spirit is not broken. The method used ...

Number of words: 1206 | Number of pages: 5

Lost Values (Macbeth)

... their minds, torturing them each time they recall it. People only discover how much they value something when they lose it. Everyone tried to walk towards success. Macbeth once indicated, Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success. (Macbeth) Macbeth's ambition for success directs him toward the murder of Duncan. Many will do anything in order to reach success. Some will cheat on others, betray others, and some will kill others. In the short story Champions, the narrator and Donnie kicked their opponents in s ...

Number of words: 941 | Number of pages: 4

Shakespeare - Comedy

... play with a totally different tone. Comparing and contrasting these three plays will help us to understand what Shakespeare thought comedy was in the 1600's and to see if our views on comedy are the same today. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a festive comedy. The play takes place in June and this is a bewitched time. In the spring the custom is to celebrate the return of fertility to the earth. During this time the young people spend the night in the woods to celebrate. Shakespeare uses the greenworld pattern in this play. The play begi ...

Number of words: 2325 | Number of pages: 9

Jane Eyre

... of Jane’s fervent love for him and what better way to test this than with jealousy? This feminine competitive jealousy can only be achieved by bringing in the stereotypical, perfect woman of the epoch. This woman is Blanche Ingram. Blanche produces enough tumult to spark Jane to get over her reticence and speak out to Rochester of the love she feels for him. A second scenario: Jane loves Mr. Rochester in her heart. She only needs something, some happenstance, where she can break through her reserve and coyness to express her feelin ...

Number of words: 692 | Number of pages: 3

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