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A Worn Path

... and danger. She climbs hills, crosses streams, crawls under barbed-wire fences; she faces dangers while out in the wilderness and a hunter who threatens her life with a gun. This happens on a single trip to town. Phoenix is quite remarkable woman. 2 PhoenixтАЩs ability to make the journey and overcome these challenges shows her strong determination, dedication, devotion and the will power to endure hardship to finish her task. These weekly journeys had become a virtual ritual. Vande Kieft states тАЬMiss Eudora Welty often takes ritual act ...

Number of words: 841 | Number of pages: 4

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

... indigenous population, The American Indian. That in itself makes an important work of literature as it is one of the few books supporting the Indian cause. This is done through the use of council records, autobiographies, and first-hand accounts. Each of the book's nineteen chapters deals with a certain tribe, battle, or historical event. Brown goes into deep and explicit detail throughout, as evidenced by the book's nearly 500 pages. However, while some may complain is boring or text-book-like, I believe the opposite is actually true. Gene ...

Number of words: 650 | Number of pages: 3

Distraction In Chesnutts Novel

... influences his perception of the validity of these stories. Further, because he refuses to look beyond the rational, he is unable to see the essential elements of evil in slavery. In addition, the protagonist's faults are representative of society's ability to romanticize and gloss over the institution of slavery and are a negation of the sentimentality of slavery, prevalent in society during that period. The stories within the stories, as told by Uncle Julius, relay several themes important in rebutting the sentimentality of slavery. On ...

Number of words: 768 | Number of pages: 3

Frost 2

... this poem clearly demonstrates Frost’s belief that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. In the first stanza, the narrator says, “And sorry I could not travel both...” This quote is plainly explaining how difficult is it to make a decision because it is impossible not to wonder about the opportunity cost; what the decision maker will miss out on. There is a strong sense of regret before the choice is even made and it lies in the knowledge that in one lifetime, it is impossible to travel d ...

Number of words: 813 | Number of pages: 3

Swift's "A Modest Proposal"

... of 1720 was not a pretty place. It was a place where the pain of life was so great that it overcame any moments, however minuscule, of the joy and happiness that made life worth living to the rest of the world. As a deeply religious man, the collective attitude that the life endowed by God upon the Irish peasantry was not worth living profoundly disturbed the conscience of one man in particular, that of Jonathan Swift. How could a person, much less a group of people, be so consumed by the pain of the sin-filled world that they could not f ...

Number of words: 2436 | Number of pages: 9

The Time Machine

... The discussion itself soon elaborates into a heated deliberation between "The Time Traveler" and another member of the group Filby. Eventually "The Time Traveler" comes to tell the group of his own experiment using his philosophies and hypothesis on time travel, and in order to test his hypothesis "The Time Traveler" has made a model which he will use to test his theory on time travel. group all agrees to keep an open mind on the experiment, and not jump to any immediate conclusions by calling the model an illusion if it works. "The Time Trav ...

Number of words: 1027 | Number of pages: 4

The Bell Jar

... father died when she was nine. "My German speaking father, dead since I was nine came from some manic-depressive hamlet in the Prussia." (Sylvia Plath page 27.) Esther's father's death had showed that she was in need of a father figure for love, support and to act as a model for her life. Esther grew up with only the one influence of a parent, her mother. Often times the loss of a friendship can be a great loss of support and confidence within our lives because we can lose them forever. This is demonstrated when Buddy Willard Esth ...

Number of words: 1270 | Number of pages: 5

Oscar Romero

... across the city. Romero was impressed of the new Catholicism that was affirmed with such confidence in Vatican II. In 1970 he became auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, and there he busied himself with administration. In 1974 he became bishop of a rural diocese, Santiago de Maria. Three years later, in February 1977, became archbishop of San Salvador. In that month a crowd of protesters were attacked by soldiers in the town square of the capital. Then, on 12 March 1977, a radical priest, Rutilio Grande, was murdered. Romero had known him. Now ...

Number of words: 567 | Number of pages: 3

Huckleberry Finn - Life On The River

... pleasant life on the river is. At the beginning of the passage Huck uses the image of swimming peacefully to describe how the time passes, тАШyou might say they swum by, they slid along so quite smooth and lovely. The alliteration of swum, slid and smooth helps to formulate a mental semblance of the swift and steady motion of the river and like the rivers flowing the words also seem to easily flow. This image is appropriate as it directly relates to the motion of the river on which they are travelling. тАШHere is the way we put in the time.тА ...

Number of words: 864 | Number of pages: 4

The Good Corn & Turned: Cultural Circumstances And Its Effect On A Character's Reaction To Certain Situations

... known any other lifestyle besides her country one, her isolation caused her to become dependant on her husband and besides him Elsie was her only companion. Mrs. Marroner on the other hand was a well educated, high society woman. She lived in Boston, an upper-class suburb, had a Ph.D. and once lectured at university. Because of her suburban upbringing and education she was a confident and independent lady who relied on no-one. She was the more dominant person in their marriage whereas in The Good corn Mr. Mortimer was the dominant partner. ...

Number of words: 687 | Number of pages: 3

I, Too, Am America

... high, the common black attitude towards education has been one of neglect. Not caring about one "F," or the other, careening through high school with a gpa of 1.5. However, there are those who really care about their grades, earning the respect of their peers and friends. I strive to be in the latter group, so that I can better myself. For every black student who makes that extra effort, that better grade, there will be another person who becomes more enlightened to the facts and not the fiction of black life in America. In the act of ...

Number of words: 538 | Number of pages: 2

How "First Love" Is Represented By Different Artists

... when or who. How first loves impacted the artists play a significant role in determining the lives of the artists and their topics of writing. In Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," Hayden writes about his father and the abandonment his family showed him even though he worked so hard to provide for them. Hayden writes, "тАжcracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday blaze. No one ever thanked him" (590). Most artists observe the fact that they did not know of their first loves and do not realize their mistakes with their ...

Number of words: 867 | Number of pages: 4

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