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Self-reliance By Emerson

... is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.” Once one has reliance upon oneself, he can generate his own set of ideals and morals, not just the ideals bestowed upon him by society. In obeying these principles of life, he has created a constitution of his own. This constitution is the guiding light of his life; it leads the way to truth and ultimate liberation and provides the right path to follow. This idea brings about the transcendental concept of the belief in the worth of the individual. The individual, ...

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Its A Wonderful Life

... Life" are true stories about events that took place in my life that will be with me forever. I can remember when I was a little boy, I played my first game of baseball. My grandfather practiced with me the whole week before the game. Catching and throwing that baseball seemed like a basketball in my little hands. My grandfather showed me how to place my feet in the batters box and how to bat. From that day on, I was in love with the game of baseball. Now that I look back I wonder what meant more to me, catching that baseball or the ...

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Gene-The Character Analysis

... Phineas, not considering any other facts like his studies or anything he’s responsible of doing like the night he spent with Phineas in the Ocean when he couldn’t study for his trigonometry exam and almost missed it. Gene lacks self control until the last chapters of the book unlike Phineas who has a total control of himself and is pleased with the way he lives his life. Gene complains about the way of his life with Phineas and sometimes thinks Phineas is affecting his life in a bad way consciously whereas it’s his own fault not wordi ...

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The Great Gatsby The American

... to support his family. For all he did for his family he was rewarded by his wife leaving him for another man and for a friend to over power him with words and to get a loved one killed by a car that she was walking toward("When he came outside again a little after seven he was reminded of the conversation because he heard Mrs. Wilson's voice, load and scolding, down stairs in the garage "Beat me!" he heard her cry. "Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!" A moment later she rushed out into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting ...

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Blanche Ingram: Villain?

... to get the liberty. The author easily expresses her outstanding style of writing by the plot, the conflicts and the setting. To begin with, the book or the story is about a fifteen year old man name David Leal that with his family had not other choice but to make a raft and search for freedom, David, Miguel (David's father) and Luis (helped making the raft) were the only ones supposed to get on the raft, but while aborting the raft 'El Toro' (Luis' friend) with the help of Luis got on the raft as well, he was rude, he never had a smile of appr ...

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Cloning

... instance, we generalize many older and new techniques as . This is not a good practice because these techniques are different and impose unique concerns and issues. In the world of scientific technology, is the artificial production of organisms with the same genetic material. Scientists actually call the transferring of a nucleus from the cell of one organism to an enucleated egg cell, nuclear transfer (Wilmut 811). This will produce an organism that has the exact genetic material as that of the donor cell. Scientists are using current te ...

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Out Of The Silent Planet By C.

... the universe to him. Ransom is ultimately sent back to Thulcandra with the two earthlings who had kidnapped him. The book is told in such a way that tries to convince the reader that it actually happened, or at least could have happened, and it was able to convince me. As the character Ransom walked across England the reader felt as if beside him the whole way. When he visited Mars, even with the bizarre scenery it seemed so real. "He saw nothing but colours - colours that refused to form themselves into things. Moreover, he new nothing y ...

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Death Be Not Proud

... death at bay. One of the main reasons that Johnny remained alive for so much longer than he should have lived, was the hope that he possessed. He hoped every day of his illness that he would get better, that his parents would be spared their grief, or that some doctor would come up with a revolutionary idea that would heal him. Because of his hope, Johnny never complained or protested during the entire course of his illness. He always obeyed the doctors' wishes and followed their instructions to a "T" because he ...

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How Does Shakespeare Use Hamle

... state of mind, his indecision and his use of imagery. Hamlet’s state of mind in his first soliloquy is deeply nihilistic; Shakespeare presents the world as an ‘unneeded garden’, ‘rank in nature’. In the first soliloquy and the third, Hamlet is particularly nihilistic. In the first he says; ‘Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve into a dew!’ He clearly has suicidal tendencies, which crop up again in the third soliloquy; ‘When he himself his quietus make With a bare bod ...

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Scarlett Letter Log Of Chapter

... everybody can see her. She is set upon the scaffold for 3 hours. The baby was 3 months old when she got out of jail. Hester Pryne is her name. She remembers back in England: her parents and a man she liked and is smart. He comes to the town and he looks mad. 2. The women in the crowd are very cruel. Chapter 3 The Recognition Summary: This chapter is about the interrogation of Hester Pryne and how they are asking her whom she slept with. The preacher sort of tells here to confess who did it with her. They keep yel ...

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Cry The Beloved Country - Corruption

... that he hasn’t married; he has no problems with hiring a lawyer that will lie, effectively condemning his nephew to death. His one good trait is that he uses his political power to help further the cause of the African natives, and even this is tarnished by the fact that he only wants to further his own ambitions. He doesn’t have the heart necessary for a revolutionary leader and that will be his downfall. If he was willing to go to prison and make sacrifices for what he believed in or wanted he would have much more power than he has now ...

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Analysis Of A Streetcar Named

... she tells her sister about the lost of Belle Reve, the family mansion. In this scene we see that she felt guilty for her personality. She uses many arguments trying to justify the lost of Belle Reve. Blanche is trying to show the others that all the circumstances have lead her to be hostile, and in some way violent. Her sister abandoned her and her family at a very young age, Blanche has seen how every member of her family died and abandoned her. She feels horrible about the little phrase “Don’t let me go” that every moribund of he ...

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