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A Jury Of Her Peers

... to make the reader aware of the social injustice done to women, and in order to evoke a sense of self-worth in women reader. The characters in “ ” plays a role which knowledges a reader about the horrors of the time period when the story takes place. Simply by the name Mr. Wright, tells us that men are always right when it comes to opposition against women. Men in this story are shown to be superior to their sub species, women. It shows us that anything a man does is always right even though it might be wrong, where else a thing ...

Number of words: 759 | Number of pages: 3

Of Mice And Men

... and he likes to gossip and tell stories to new men. He has an old dog who used to help work around the farm and the men are constantly nagging him to let them shoot the dog and put it out of it's misery. Curley is the boss' son. He's a thin young man with brown eyes and a head of curly hair. 's married and doesn't pay much attention to@his wife, which uses problems requently- Curley is insecure about his height and hates bigger men. He's all the time picking fights to try and prove whose the t. Crooks is a crippled blackman who envies ...

Number of words: 780 | Number of pages: 3

The Jãtaka: "The Cheating Merchant", "The Monkey's Heroic Self-Sacrifice", And "The Hare's Self-Sacrifice"

... with this reasoning, so they argue. Wisest decides to trick Wise into giving him a double share. He makes his father hide in a hollow tree and pretend to be a tree sprite. Wisest persuades Wise to let the tree sprite decide how to divide their profits, and the tree sprite says Wisest should have a double share. The Bodhisatta (Wise) fills the trunk with straw and sets it on fire to see if the tree sprite is genuine. Wisest's father is half roasted by the flames and pulls his way out by grabbing a branch. In the end, the Buddha expla ...

Number of words: 876 | Number of pages: 4

Alcohol Abuse Among Teenagers

... a broad topic therefore I'll look at the role that alcohol plays in the society and it's impact on teenage addiction. MATTER OF CONCERN (Causes and effects) The age when young people are taking their first drink is becoming lower each year. Many studies show that preteens are experimenting with alcohol and many are already heavy drinkers (Cahalan 1997). It may be difficult for parents and teachers to believe that a seventh grade student can have an alcohol problem, but a study of student drinking practices shows that 5% of seventh-grade boy ...

Number of words: 1080 | Number of pages: 4

Hamlet - The Tragedy Of Hamlet

... often acts in a deceitful manner when dealing with Hamlet, it is only because he is carrying out plans devised by the king or queen to discover the nature of Hamlet's madness. Being the king's Lord Chamberlain, it is his duty to obey the king and queen's wishes and it is this loyalty that eventually proves to be fatal for him. An example of how Polonius' innocent involvement with the royalty results in his death can be found at the beginning of Act III, scene iv, when Hamlet stabs him while he is hiding behind the arras in Gertrude's ...

Number of words: 914 | Number of pages: 4

Death Of Salesman

... lived to serve and be decent rather than living a noble and decent life. They pursed their ideal rather than living it and thus they are unable to succeed. Willie Loman, in Death of a Salesman,, has lived his life in pursuit of the American dream. Traditionally the American dream meant oppurtunity and freedom for all, and Willie believed that. However, hard work could not earn him everything that he wanted or thoght he deserved. Willy judged himsel and those arround him by theit material accumulation, as is demanded by c ...

Number of words: 979 | Number of pages: 4

Beloved

... Sethe chose to have this engraved on the tomb, because this was the "word she heard the preacher say at the funeral (all there was to say, surely)...Dearly " (5). The baby is first christened at death, with a name by which the preacher refers to the spectators at the burial. Sethe thus named the child after herself, insofar as she, Sethe, was whom the preacher was addressing as "dearly ." In this way she brands her detached conscience with guilt. I call it her "detached conscience" because in order to go on with life Sethe needed to re ...

Number of words: 1610 | Number of pages: 6

Plato Versus Aristotle

... state. His strong interest in metaphysics is demonstrated in The Republic various times: for example, the similes of the cave, the sun, and the line, and his theory of the forms. Because he is so involved in metaphysics, his views on politics are more theoretical as opposed to actual. Aristotle, contrarily, holds the view that politics is the art of ruling and being ruled in turn. In The Politics, he attempts to outline a way of governing that would be ideal for an actual state. Balance is a main word in discussing Aristotle because he belie ...

Number of words: 1919 | Number of pages: 7

The Crucible--a Harsh Reality

... When she says, "Uncle, the rumor of witchcraft is all about; I think you'd best go down and deny it yourself," (9) she is showing her knowledge of social situations and giving her uncle, who is much older the she, advice. Abigail also thinks of herself as superior to the natives of Barbados. When her uncle discusses her work for the Proctors, she says that "they want slaves, not such as I. Let them send to Barbados for any of them!" (12). She is prejudiced against these people and her remarks reveal her snobbishness. Finally, Abig ...

Number of words: 448 | Number of pages: 2

The Great Gatsby 12

... the powdery air..."(23) The valley represents the moral disintegration of the roaring twenties by showing the barren wasteland which contains the byproducts of the pursuit of wealth and the American dream. "Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight." (23) This shows how one can get caught up all of a sudden in a cloud of ...

Number of words: 706 | Number of pages: 3

Reconstructing A Crime Scene

... points. Simon got up, and quickly flipped the channel until he came across an old Clint Eastwood movie: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly. He sat back down with a grim look on his face. "Those sons-of-bitches," Simon uttered. He was heartbroken and disappointed to see the Bears take such a serious butt whipping. He was especially embarrassed that he had to sit through this massacre in the company of his brother-in-law. "Now, calm down son. It was only a game. Let's enjoy the holiday festivities," Simon's father advised. Norton observed the c ...

Number of words: 1982 | Number of pages: 8

Hamlet

... calculatedly choosing the times when to appear mad. “ feigns insanity because it allows him to do several things that he otherwise would not be able to do…” (The Paradigm, by John S. Mamoun). is very far form being mad, he is perfectly capable of recognizing his enemies. 's madness was faked for a purpose. He warned his friends he intended to fake madness, but Gertrude, Claudius, and even the slightly dull-witted Polonius saw through it. His public face is one of insanity but in his private moments of soliloquy, through his confidenc ...

Number of words: 1541 | Number of pages: 6

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