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High School Activities As A Stepping Stone To A Successful Life

... my life as well. For example, I have learned how to respect others as well as myself, I have learned to be a team leader along with being part of a team, and I have learned honor. Sports, such as football, soccer, tennis, and track, in conjunction with clubs, such as the science club, mu alpha theta, the Spanish club, Hi-Y, and FCA, have guided me to understand what it takes to achieve a successful life. It would have been easy to drop all my extra-curricular activities and to just concentrate on school. Retrogressively, it would have be ...

Number of words: 305 | Number of pages: 2

Arthurian Romances

... characteristic best fit the standards of a good warrior and protector of the civilization. A knight is truthful, honest, capable, educated, physically fit, noble, sincere, and subservient to the king. In “Arthurian Romances” the knight has a duty to protect his country. When he approaches a situation he does not attack the other party until he has warned them. His place in the feudalist system involves other workers (vassals) to do his bidding. They suit him up in his armor and ready his horse and weapons. The knight in the first st ...

Number of words: 758 | Number of pages: 3

Beowulf 4

... "typical" Viking that thought of nothing more than killing anyone and anything he could to become immortal for his deeds through the poems and songs written about them. Beowulf was a flawed hero and showed it in many different ways with the way he acted and things he said. If you look beneath the surface of Beowulf to his character you will see that he only stood for himself and himself alone. The first, and one of the biggest problems that Beowulf shows is boastfulness, even for a Viking. One example to show how boastful Beowulf was, is ...

Number of words: 925 | Number of pages: 4

Victims Still

... instead of the offenders. However, as pointed in “”, this movement did not and has not helped the victim. The victim movement consisted of new legislation, institutions, and programs designed to help the victim. But when scrutinizing the policies, one the notices that many of the policies are deceiving. Rights that are supposedly being given to the victim are just rights that have been taken away from offenders only to strengthen the rights of the officials. Many of the programs designed to help victims are selective when it co ...

Number of words: 691 | Number of pages: 3

The Onslaught Of Love - The Br

... on and off. If one is in love his he cannot be in love one minute and not the next. He juxtaposes being in love for a minute to saying that one saw powder burn for a day or having the plague for a year. "Who will believe me…/That I have had the plague a year?/ Who would not laugh at me, if I should say,/ I saw a flask of powder burn a day?" (l. 5-8) These things are impossible just as being in love for an hour are impossible. In the second stanza of the poem, Donne begins to why it is impossible for love to last for short per ...

Number of words: 790 | Number of pages: 3

Falstaff

... character then the in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He believes that, "although, as the critics declare, is not himself, this is due to the [change in] situation, not to the inconsistency of character portrayal." In Henry IV parts I and II we see as the romantic character that is stated in the definition above, defying everything that the Classical character, Prince Hal, stands for and believes.. He refuses to take life seriously. He believes that "War is as much of a joke to him as a drinking bout at the Boar's Head." He uses people s ...

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An Analysis Of Several Works Of Literature

... "she has perhaps been run over by a car and killed", "she must have taken it in her head to give herself a holiday. No one is indispensable. I will dismiss her for this." Although Ayah has contributed much to the family, no one but Radha appreciates it. The same goes for Sidda in "Leela's Friend", who is immediately assumed to be a thief simply because he was an ex-convict. However, the characters are not totally unhappy. Both Ayah and Sidda have a close, loving relationship with their charges, Radha and Leela, who seem to cling on to ...

Number of words: 690 | Number of pages: 3

Les Miserables

... of Monsieur Madeline, starts a factory that brings wealth to the town of Montreuil. Fantine who now a young mother has an illegitimate child, Cosette, and is on her way back to her hometown, Montrueil, to find a job. She entrusts the Thenardiers with her daughter so she does not have to go back home with an illegitimate child. Fantine finds a job in Montrueil at M. Madeleine's factory and attains a limited amount of wealth. Unfortunately things get worse for Fantine all of the sudden when she is fired from her job and, ...

Number of words: 1332 | Number of pages: 5

Julius Ceaser

... as a proper action. Antony says that he will read the will, if we make a ring around Caesar's corpse. He shows us Caesar's bloodstained toga, with a tear. He shows us the rip, and says, "See what a rent the envious Casca made: Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd." When Antony showed us visual evidence of the bloody treason, and when he said the words "beloved" and "Brutus" together I sought revenge. I am furious, and detest Brutus. I hit myself on the head, for respecting him, and thinking of him as an honorable man. How foolis ...

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Revolution In A Tale Of Two Ci

... cries of our dead children were no longer be silenced, for they began to burst forth from their coffins. Their cries harmonized with those of our forefathers demanding change. "Monseigneur, the good God knows; but I don't ask it. My petition is that a morsel of stone or wood, with my husband's name, my be placed over him to show where he lies. Otherwise the place will be forgotten, it will never be found when I am dead of the same malady, I shall be laid under some heap of poor grass. Monseigneur, there are so many, they increase so fast, ...

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Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

... he states: "Alas! I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity" (p. 109). After this he experiences time and again how people, including the one who created him, flee in terror from his deformed shape, and finally, when all hope of a reversal of that situation has disappeared, he starts to use this deliberately for purposes of revenge. The incident where he loses his last hope of ever being seen as anything but a monstrosity is when William Frankenstein, the younger brother of his creator and also a young and ...

Number of words: 1033 | Number of pages: 4

The Journey Of Odysseus And Telemachos

... correlation with the journey of his father. In this, he is developed from a childish, passive, and untested boy, to a young man preparing to stand by his fathers side. This is directly connected to the voyage of Odysseus, in that they both lead to the same finale, and are both stepping stones towards wisdom, manhood, and scholarship. Through these voyages certain parallels are drawn concerning Odysseus and Telemachos: the physical journeys, the mental preparations they have produced, and what their emotional status has resulted in. These all ...

Number of words: 2541 | Number of pages: 10

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