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20/20 Vision, Not A Vision For Me

... wonder if they had many of the eye problems I did. Did they sit close to the television? Did they hold books close to their faces? Did they have to squint? I wish I could have been normal. I wished I could see but it just wasn't my destiny. I always had a vision impairment. It was always a problem my family thought was normal. This all changed towards the end of my fifth grade year in Elementary School. My teacher continuously asked me questions referring to things on the board. I told her that my glasses didn't work, but she though ...

Number of words: 1440 | Number of pages: 6

The Stories Of A People

... of myths of a particular culture, religion, race, species, kingdom, phylum, etc, etc (so far this only applies to humans). In general, myth is a narrative that describes and shows the origin of the basic characteristics and presumption of a culture. Mythic narratives usually are about stuff such as, how the world began, how humans and animals were created, why is the sky blue, why do someone go splat when they jump off a cliff, how certain customs work, and other such topics. Almost all cultures possess or at one time possessed and lived in ...

Number of words: 2437 | Number of pages: 9

Lessons To Be Learned From The

... fear complemented with excessive emotion that leads to poor decisions and actions done with complete lack of forethought. The hysteria that existed in the town of Salem was largely caused by the people’s extreme devotion to religion, as well as their refusal to delve into other possibilities to explain the predicament of the time. These circumstances still exist today, and it is quite possible, as well as frightening, that a similar event could recur today. One would like to think that one would never lose control of their opinions and tho ...

Number of words: 727 | Number of pages: 3

Is Jesus A Socialist - The Jun

... that Jesus was a man “whose whole being was one flame of hatred for wealth, and all that wealth stands” (Sinclair 334). There are examples in the Bible that might lead one to infer that Jesus was a hater of wealth, but he didn’t. In fact, he dined at many wealthy individuals’ houses, i.e. “Jesus at a Pharisee’s House” (Luke 14:1-24). If he hated the rich and “well to do” he would not even associate with them. Jesus only disliked the many lavish things that rich people did with their wealth, which blocked their relation ...

Number of words: 927 | Number of pages: 4

Chronical Of The Death Foretold

... extra time alive because the brothers Vicario were waiting for the light to turn on in the bedroom of Santiago Nasar, but this light was never turned on because Nasar was able to enter the house without switching on any lights. After the death of Santiago, his house was a complete mess. Santiago's corpse was lying in the living room in an iron cot, surrounded by fans to cool the body (act as a refrigerator), furniture was moved out to make room for everything. Clotilde Armenta's store is where a lot of the story took place. The Vicario twin ...

Number of words: 597 | Number of pages: 3

Of Mice And Men

... their apparent mutual love for each other seemed to take care of. Yet, an irrevocable rift between them sent the dream crashing down. This caused George’s feelings of love and understanding to change from being existent to non-existent. Since the passing of Lennie’s aunt, George felt an obligation to take care of Lennie as well as to act as his guardian. George fulfilled this role with love and understanding. We first see change in George’s attitude towards Lennie when they moved onto the ranch, their place of work. George immediat ...

Number of words: 754 | Number of pages: 3

By Means Of Power

... she immediately stresses the importance of putting your child before yourself. This is a metaphor for putting the needs of what is truly important before the needs of oneself. It is not only stated simply and bluntly, but the way the lines are broken up accent the idea. "Ready to kill"(3) is on its own line, while "yourself"(4) is on the next. This is the theme that is running throughout the entire poem. In the next section of Lordes poem she describes a dreamlike situation. This is where her son has been shot, probably in ...

Number of words: 784 | Number of pages: 3

Eve S Apology

... Saviour's life" (8), and yet, Pilate did not take her advice, and opted instead to have nothing to do with it, which was more cowardly than what his wife would have done. She continues this theme into the next stanzas using the fall of Adam and Eve to defend women. Lanyer plays on the age-old idea; men are stronger and superior to women. Therefore, if women are weak, she argues it is in fact men who are more at fault for the fall of humankind because it should have been expected for women to succumb to the power of temptation. Adam's acc ...

Number of words: 1051 | Number of pages: 4

The Importance Of Being

... society. Every one has this in them. We all yearn to be something we are not and we create in our own minds these self-images that are purely fantasy. People lie about who they are and where they came from. They make themselves into people they are not. It is truly one our societies ills and it appears to have been a problem in history as well in the eyes of Oscar Wilde. Another theme of the play is that people narrow their choices and trap them into a restricted mind set. The main female character of the work does this. She se ...

Number of words: 372 | Number of pages: 2

F. Scott Fitzgerald

... and hedonism which characterized the lifestyles of America’s bourgeois during the nineteen-twenties. Collectively, Fitzgerald’s novels and short stories provide some of the best insight into the lifestyles of the rich during America’s most prosperous era, while simultaneously examining major literary themes such as disillusionment, coming of age, and the corruption of the American Dream. The life of is marked by as much, if not more, romanticism and tragedy than his novels. Throughout Fitzgerald’s life, he unsuccessfully battled ...

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C And C Huck Finn, Ethan Frome

... but none other than Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Each of these novels' main characters showed a deep emotional bond with another character. Huck Finn's relationship with Jim was somewhat strange, but nevertheless was strong. Jim was a runaway slave and Huck thought that it was a sin to help a runaway slave. Despite his religious beliefs, Huck knew that he was "the best friend old Jim ever had, and the only one he's got now." He knew that by ...

Number of words: 1058 | Number of pages: 4

Santiago Is Hemingway (old Man

... Hemingway. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. Mellow, James R. Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Meyers, Jeffrey. Hemingway: A Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1985. Mr. Morden's English handout on Hemingway's life. Nelson, Raymond S. Ernest Hemingway: Life, Work, and Criticism. Fredericton: York Press, 1984. Samuelson, Arnold. With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba. New York: Random House, 1984. Sojka, Gregory S. Ernest Hemingway: The Angler as Artist. New York: Peter Lang, 1985. ...

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