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The Love Song Of J. Alfred Pru

... of his conversation. In his work, Eliot uses this quotation to foreshadow the idea that his character, Prufrock, is also trapped in a world he can not escape, the world where his own thoughts and feelings incapacitate and isolate him. Eliot paints a picture of the opening scene that depicts a drab neighborhood of cheap hotels and restaurants where Prufrock lives in his solitary gloom. He invites the reader to make a visit with him to a place that Prufrock imagines is filled with women having tea and engaging in conversation. Pruf ...

Number of words: 727 | Number of pages: 3

Macbeth 2

... audience,’Glamis, and the thane of Cawdor, the greatest is behind.’ Macbeth is sure that he will become king. However at this stage he thinks that he will acquire it legally as he sees murder as,’fantastical’(I,iii,139). The story of how Macbeth descends into butchery starts when Duncan announces that Malcolm is to be,’Prince of Cumberland’(I,iv,39) and therefore Duncan’s successor as king of Scotland. Macbeth is now in a dilemma. He has just been told he will be king by the witches. Two of their pr ...

Number of words: 1336 | Number of pages: 5

A Friendly Enemy

... and the nurse hear Medea wishing for death as if it were a treasure or something valuable. The nurse and women are not in agreement with Medea’s view of death. To them, death would be something that lurks around anything and anywhere waiting to strike. "He strikes from the clear sky like a hawk, he hides behind green leaves, or he waits around the corner of a wall"(12). To a Greek woman death is personified as a hunter or killer. She uses an animal, the hawk,to compare to death. A hawk is a swift predator that attacks unnoticed, but to Medea ...

Number of words: 513 | Number of pages: 2

Jane Eyre - Setting

... can get a sense of how women are treated, and what responsibilities they were required to uphold in society. They rarely held important jobs if they were not married. Instead, they basically had two options either as a governess or a schoolteacher. If they were married they were mothers and hostesses for their husband's parties. Jane was a very strong woman for her time, as she did not allow people to mistreat her. She is on a constant search for love and goes many places to find it. As Jane travels through each place, starting at ag ...

Number of words: 1875 | Number of pages: 7

A Literary Analysis Of Toni Mo

... years later. 22) A bill has recently been proposed, by a white Ohio congressman to apologize for slavery. That congressman is Representative Tony Hall. Hall resolves "That the congress apologizes to African-Americans whose ancestors suffered as slaves under the constitution of the United States of America until 1865 ("Should the Government" 8). The United States government should not issue an apology to African-Americans for slavery. An apology by the government for slavery would not heal the damage caused by two hundred forty four yea ...

Number of words: 876 | Number of pages: 4

The Southern Lady From Pedesta

... across the United States, to analyze southern women's perceptions about their situation. The southern woman was defined as a submissive individual whose reason for being was to "love, honor, obey, and occasionally amuse her husband." She was expected to raise "his children " and "manage his household." The central meaning of her life was family and motherhood. The everyday realities of life for a married woman were different from the expected image. Women were often transformed from single, carefree, sought -after girls to responsib ...

Number of words: 510 | Number of pages: 2

Battle At Trafalgar

... had in regards to naval warfare. Bonaparte wanted to rule the world. The largest obstacle in his way was that of the Royal Navy of England. Bonapart's idea was to cross the English Channel, moving his vast army onto British soil. If the English mainland could be penetrated, and London occupied, Napoleon felt that the Royal Navy would collapse under the French army and its allied forces. The peace Treaty of Amiens afforded Napoleon eighteen months of opportunity to put the plan of crossing the English Channel into place. Napoleon's plan ...

Number of words: 2902 | Number of pages: 11

PEA Paragraphs

... pieces and hidden under the waste basket.” Penny Ann would steal and do bad things to her younger classmates. Domnick was still talking about the bad things that Penny Ann did and brought up, “She snatched kids recess snacks right out of our cloakroom, my own and Thomas included.” She was so mean she would steal her classmate’s food. Penny Ann is a bad person because she stole kid’s supplies then denied taking them. In the story “Sugar Days” by Taylor, Elma Rae’s and Lornie’s eating habits are a result of Dever’s acciden ...

Number of words: 596 | Number of pages: 3

A Three Generation Comparison Of Discipline

... negative disciplinary act? 3. Have/would you ever spank your child? 4. What other methods of discipline do you use/believe in? 5. If you were to see a parent spanking a child in public, would you say something? 6. Would you look to yourself as patient or short-tempered? 7. To what degree of misbehavior would you rationalize a spanking? 8. Do you believe physical punishment should be permitted in other environments, such as school, or preserved primarily for parents? 9. Do you feel children today are more or less inapt to respons ...

Number of words: 1763 | Number of pages: 7

Homer 2

... of Greek history, espeshally for Ancient Greece. Modern scholars generally agree that they were written for an aristocratic audience by a single poet in Asia Minor before 700 B.C. Both epics deal with legendary events that were believed to have occurred many centuries before they were written. It is said that these works where used in Ancientt Greek education. Today we see These great works put in to the curiculem of almost every school in America! The Iliad is a story of the trojen war. It begins in the ...

Number of words: 482 | Number of pages: 2

A Summary Of West Side Story

... Bernardo. Eyes met and soon enough love was in the air, the thought of each other cursed through both of their veins. From that day of the dance, a meeting was to take place involving both gangs in which they will once and for all settle the rivalry in a rumble. Alas, tragedy strikes and strikes hard at that. The leaders of both gangs fall to the ground. Riff by the hands of Bernardo, then Bernardo by the hands of Tony. Angry and confused Maria still retains her love for Tony even after her only brother was slain, but little did they know th ...

Number of words: 377 | Number of pages: 2

Greek Tragedies

... Bottom and his friends are comic's of amateur players. Shakespeare must have derived his forest spirits from oral folk traditions, since the mysterious people of the forest might be in turn helpful mischievous or sinister. In "Henry IV Part I", the king relates a folk legend that "some night-tripping fairy" might steal babies and leave a fairy child or someone else's child. People may have believed, or half-believed, in the fairies. They might also have been imaginary figures of fun that personify nature. Another kind of medieval play in c ...

Number of words: 1231 | Number of pages: 5

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