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Singing To Cuba

... actions of the characters. Examples of resistance occur throughout this story, but several particular incidents provide very sufficent evidence of this. Firstly, the main character Miguelito wears a large crucifix around his neck when walking in public. This action is very taboo in this area of the world, and this fact alone plays a large role in Migelito's choice to wear it. "He left the top button of his shirt open to make sure the crucifix showed and he walked with pride, relieved to be taking a step so bold and defiant." This stat ...

Number of words: 598 | Number of pages: 3

Eve Of St. Agnes Does Porphyro

... chooses to visit Madeline is The Eve of St. Agnes. In fact, he asks Angela when the girls are weaving wool for St. Agnes (line114-117). Even Angela responds with, it seems, a sudden realization that it is St. Agnes Eve (118). If he did deliberately come to Madeline on the Eve of St. Agnes then the reader would understand that he did so to manipulate her. However, because this is not the case, the reader cannot assume that conclusion. It is true that Porphyro seeks Madeline out and comes to her home pining after her. However, the text p ...

Number of words: 868 | Number of pages: 4

Catch 22

... Pro-war society, it is obvious that had some impact on the anti-war movement of the 1960’s-1970’s. Not to say the book was the one reason the movement started, It was certainly a catalyst. A protest novel, Heller’s story portrays the absurdity of bureaucracy, the stupidity of war, and the power they both have to crush the human spirit. Heller uses a war zone setting, to satirise society at large. He compares the commanding officers to Incompetent businessmen. "Don’t mumble, and mumble "sir" when you do, and don’t inte ...

Number of words: 888 | Number of pages: 4

Silent Dancing: Memories Of Childhood

... cake looked like, the gifts I received, but I can't remember much else. Other times in my childhood I remember rather vividly, however. It's funny how memory is selective like that, how certain things can be completely retold down to every last detail. Often, however, a simple prompt can trigger an outpouring of memories that may have otherwise remained hidden deep in the mind. A sight, a sound, perhaps a smell…all of these things can trigger a deluge of retrospection. We have a home movie of this party…it is grainy and of short d ...

Number of words: 1068 | Number of pages: 4

Bread Givers

... their differences that cause their clash and, in fact, binds them closer than any of the other characters. At the beginning of the novel we learn that Sara’s father has nick named her blood and iron recognizing the fact that she has a strong will. It is Sara’s strong will that causes the most of the conflict with her and her father. Sara gets her strong will and drive from her father. She is not like her sisters who follow the cultural expectations of early marriage, but she, instead, has greater ambition for her life. Sara plans to ...

Number of words: 1696 | Number of pages: 7

Crime And Punishment - Style

... that Raskolnikov wants his theory surrounding the murder to be proven wrong, to get caught, and to be punished. This tells the reader that deep down, Raskolnikov knows in his heart what is wrong and right, and that he wants to be brought back down off his pedestal and enter back in to normal human society. Raskolnikov’s theory of the "superman" who is above all societal constraints and able to stamp out the weak and detrimental people in society for the common good, is one that is obviously skewed. This prompts Raskolnikov to do ...

Number of words: 1407 | Number of pages: 6

Behind The Urals

... worked in the most inhumane conditions, all with the intention to help their country develop under the new system of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had just gone through an entire turn around in their political, social, and economic spheres as they went from one extreme to another. The old Czarist government was always out to serve the rich landowners, while treating the peasantry as second-class humans rather than equals. However, when the Russian Revolution came to a head, and the Red Communists or Bolsheviks defeated the White Cza ...

Number of words: 1480 | Number of pages: 6

Song Of Myself

... the spirit with the flesh. Key to this integration is Whitman's notion of the ability of the sexual self to define itself. This self-definition is derived from the strongly independent autonomy with which his sexuality speaks in the poem. Much of the "" consists of a cacophony of Whitman's different selves vying for attention. It follows that Whitman's sexual self would likewise find itself a voice. A number of passages strongly resonate with Whitman's sexuality in their strongly pleasurable sensualities. The thoroughly intimate enco ...

Number of words: 1230 | Number of pages: 5

The Enlightenment Writers

... as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from oppression, and the intellectual freedom that every man has a right to whether it be oppressed by political or religious issues which were, at the time, basically the same since the church and state were still one. The Enlightenment writers pushed forward their ideas and beliefs that all men should be educated and have the ability to read so that they might learn more and rise higher, socially and politically which would lead to self betterment. Enlightenment writers and pre-Enlighte ...

Number of words: 301 | Number of pages: 2

If Only They’d Listened To Pig

... see indication of his intelligence, he says, “A conch…he used to blow it… he kind of spat… you blew from down here.” Only a bright person would know the name of a rare shell and how to blow it to make a noise. Further on at the end of chapter two Piggy compares the fire on the mountain to the fires of hell. It almost like he can “see” what is going to happen to the kids. Also he says “acting like a crowd of kids” as if was the adult on the island trying to help the “kids”. More proof of his clear thinking is the fac ...

Number of words: 899 | Number of pages: 4

Original Nature Of Man

... and envy. When they follow these instincts, they seek the ruin of others without regard for loyalty and fidelity. By birth men have the lusts of the ear and eye and a passion for music and beauty. When they follow these lusts, they commit excesses without regard for ritual and righteousness, culture and reason. Therefore when men give "rein to their congenital nature" and follow their feelings, they quarrel and grab, end up by opposing culture and confounding reason; and they culminate in violence. "Only under the restraint of law and the ...

Number of words: 1141 | Number of pages: 5

The Lesson: Expression Of Anger At An Early Age

... Miss Moore, a lady who feels that it is her duty to teach the kids certain lessons that will aid them later in life, is the leader of this journey. Miss Moore feels that it is her responsibility to teach the children about the world around them because she has had a college education. Not many people in Sylvia’s neighborhood has been to college or plans on going. Miss Moore refuses to let her education go to waste and therefore takes it upon herself to teach the children about the value systems in America. Miss Moore decides to take the chi ...

Number of words: 465 | Number of pages: 2

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