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Indian Camp

... they are there. He tells him that the woman is very sick and that she needs his help. The woman is screaming in agony and Nick’s father tells him that, “ What she is going through is called being in labor. The baby wants to be born and she wants it to be born. All her muscles are trying to get the baby born. That is what is happening when she screams.” This is a rather direct way of telling your son what happens when a woman is in labor, but as a doctor maybe he wanted his son to learn biologically what went on. After the baby is ...

Number of words: 738 | Number of pages: 3

Jane Eyre

... relationships. Jane must decide between reason and passion which is on of the main themes in the novel. The characteristics of the two men, who propose to Jane, conjure and symbolize the themes in . Although, Rochester and St. John offer Jane entirely different relationships both men are noticeably selfish and disregard Jane’s feelings to some degree. Both men are strong-willed, powerful, and stubborn about their ways of thinking and living. This is especially seen in St. John as Jane describes her cousin as being “as stiff about ...

Number of words: 844 | Number of pages: 4

Antigone, War Of Beliefs

... the laws of heaven through his edict. After she is captured and brought to Creon, she tells him, "Your edict, King was strong, but all your strength is weakness itself against the immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were, and shall be, operative for ever, beyond man utterly." (Page 349). Antigone's staunch opinion is one that supports the Gods and the laws of heaven. Her reasoning is set by her belief that if someone is not given a proper burial, that person would not be accepted into heaven. Antigone was a ver ...

Number of words: 910 | Number of pages: 4

The Hobbit

... Goblin scowled at them. Then Thorin stepped forward and explained to him that they did not mean to trespass. Gandolf appeared at the door and freed the group from the goblins. The group ran ahead and Bilbo was lost behind them. Bilbo found an underwater lake and a ring on an island in the lake. He found out that the ring made him invisible. In the lake also lived a creature named Gollum. Gollum was a creature that ate other people. Gollum approached Bilbo and Bilbo told him he desired to find a way out. They then played a riddle game and if B ...

Number of words: 453 | Number of pages: 2

Affirmative Action

... the movement was implemented to promote equality. Like some Americans, I am strangely confused when anyone talks about . The reason that I have such confusion is the way people word the term . If you ask one person who is in favor of , his or her response is going to be different from someone who is against it. So when I am asked what I think about , my answer seems to be twisted because I really don’t know what is. The only exposure I have had to the term is that which is taught in the classroom. Since this was such a controversi ...

Number of words: 2698 | Number of pages: 10

Fahrenheit51 4 5

... reading materials are banned because city officials believe that reading allows you to think on your own and they discourage individualism. This society had a box, sort of like a mailbox, which stood outside of the firemen's station. If someone suspected or had seen someone else with a book, that person took identification of the person with the book(s) and left it inside the box. Then the firemen, completely different from our firemen, went out to that person's house and burned all of the books that Guy Montag, who is the main character i ...

Number of words: 261 | Number of pages: 1

Barbarians

... role or absent at all. That is why it is so unusual to read a tragedy where woman is a main character and not only that – a woman is a foreigner, a barbarian. Euripides’s "Medea" was created in a period of Peloponesian War. Each war, regardless of the century it occurred, not only destroyed and killed but also caused the reappraisal of the values in the society. Literature, in Ancient Greece, used to be a main reflection of what the society thinks what values and rules it has and what impact the war had on people’s minds. ...

Number of words: 1157 | Number of pages: 5

Fifth Business - Character Foils Of Dunstan Ramsay And Percy

... and throws a snowball at Dunny, which in turn begins the setting for the novel. The two continue to compete throughout the novel, for things such as Leola’s love, military recognition, and more. Percy’s and Dunstan’s characters contrast in many ways. The most prominent way in which they contrast is their values. Dunstan values spiritual things, while Percy values only material things. Percy is impressed by and yearns for money, while Dunstan could care less about it. Dunstan explains his lack of desire for materialistic things ...

Number of words: 678 | Number of pages: 3

Five Ripe Pears And On Moralit

... arranged by The American Scholar. “I have been trying to think, because The American Scholar asked me to, in some abstract way about ‘morality,’ a word I distrust more every day….” Her task is to generate a piece of work on morality, with which she succeeds notably. She is placed in an area where morality and stories run rampant. Several reports are about; each carried by a beer toting chitchat. More importantly, the region that she is in gains her mind; it allows her to see issues of morality as a certa ...

Number of words: 684 | Number of pages: 3

The Night

... and concentration camps. We take for granted, today, our knowledge of how many Jews were killed by the Nazis. Although we have a general idea of the kind of life people led in the concentration camps, people never really stop to think about what it must have felt like not knowing what was going on or what was going to happen next. Throughout the book, Wiesel talks about people not realizing what happened. He shows the reaction of the townspeople when they first heard of Hitler and German troops. I did not realize how much effect th ...

Number of words: 596 | Number of pages: 3

The Crucible

... and cruel, unbending evil. In the play he shows us how people chase what they think is evil, (For example: not going to church, not knowing the Commandments, etc.) persecuting basically good people while the truly evil escape and are even seen as the innocent victims. The people of Salem condemned many based on the few things that were considered ‘ungodly’ and since they committed one sin, then it was assumed that they were committing many others. They were condemned because they did not follow the exact ‘rules’ in the ...

Number of words: 1060 | Number of pages: 4

Hamlets Procrastination And Co

... to kill Claudius. The more he thinks about his intention, the less he is able to execute it. The tragic flaw that Hamlet possesses is his inability to act. He vows that he is going to kill Claudius but backs out of it several times before the deed is actually done. Hamlet’s first sign of procrastination and lack of action begins to show through his character at the very beginning of the play. The ghost informs him about Claudius’ evil doings. Hamlet is prompt by replying: “Haste me to know’t; that I, with wings as swift ...

Number of words: 940 | Number of pages: 4

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