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Shakespeare's CymbelineWilliam Shakespeare’s Cymbeline was a book of many morals, one of the many was “Arrogance hurts not only yourself but those around you” this point was raised in many scenes, using many characters. Characters such as the Queen, Cloten, Iachimo and The King (Cymbeline). And scenes such as the one ...
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1984: Symbolism And IronyImagine a cold, dark world with horrible living conditions and never quite enough to eat. A world of “Decaying, dingy cities where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.” Picture bombs dropping ...
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Zane Greyhas come to be known as "The Father of Western". He was
the first ever to give the myth of the rugged American Cowboy to American
Literature. Although some have called Grey a "hack writer" no one can
argue that his sixty-odd novels won him great popularity from the 1920's
through present time ...
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The Sun Also Rises: A HeroIn Hemingway's novels, he has an idea of a "hero", in which a man must do certain things to be considered a hero. A man has to be a "man's man". The man has to like driking beer, wild game hunting, enjoy bullfights, and participate in love affairs. In the story, The Sun Also Rises, Robert Cohn ...
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Savage Inequalities: Conditions Of Poor SchoolsIn Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol documents the devastating inequalities in American schools, focusing on public education’s “savage inequalities” between affluent districts and poor districts. From 1988 till 1990, Kozol visited schools in over thirty neighborhoods, including East St. ...
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“Playing Solo Through Life”Being put into a mind of a genius to experience and understand what this man is going through is exactly what Mark Salzaman has done in his book The Soloist. At the age of six this musical genius, Renne, began playing the cello. Renne heard the cello for the first time and said, “I had to sing ...
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How Huck Uses His Creativity, Luck, And Wits To Get Rid Of The PitsWhat would you do if you were a young teenager traveling down the
Mississippi River, not knowing where to sleep that night or find food for
your next meal? That is the dilemma faced by Huckleberry Finn, and Huck
always found a lot of trouble. When most people are in trouble they either
take the ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: ScoutIn To Kill A Mockingbird Scout is a young girl and daughter of a respected lawyer named Atticus. With her older brother Jem, she enjoys participating in many activities which are mainly masculine ones. Without a mother to teach her the ways of a woman, she lives as a tomboy (much to the ...
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The Pearl: Material Society, Material ThoughtsEver since Midas' lust for gold, it appears to be that man has acquired a
greed and appetite for wealth. Juana, the Priest, and the doctor have all
undergone a change due to money. They are all affected by their hunger for
wealth and inturn are the base for their own destruction, and the ...
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Female Power In The OdysseyThroughout time women have had to fight hard for respect and the rights that come with it. Many societies have potrayed women as second class citizens, teaching that they should be subservient to men. There have been those who have spent entire lifetimes working to break beyond the traditional ...
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Jude The ObscureIn Hardy's , Hardy shows his views on religion and
commitment to the Church which were said to have declined in the latter years of
his life. (Ingham, xxvii) Throughout the book Hardy displays his feeling that
religion is something that people use in order to satisfy themselves by giving
their ...
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Hemingway And CamusOne of the fascinations of reading literature comes when we discover in a work patterns that have heretofore been overlooked. We are the pattern finders who get deep enjoyment from the discovery of patterns in a text. And true to the calling we have noticed a pattern in and around A Farewell to ...
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Hamlets Tragic FlawIt is better not to put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Many consequences can arise when one procrastinates. An example of this is found in Shakespeare’s Hamlet through the depiction of the central character. Although Hamlet is characterized as daring, brave, loyal, and ...
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Pride And Prejudice: What's Love Got To Do With ItIn Pride and Predjuice life is not all fun and games. There are many
pressures in life: mothers with high expectations for a good marriage and a
girl's own expectation of what life and hopefully marriage will be like.
Charlotte Lucas is the oldest daughter in a large family, she is not the ...
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Ordinary Peopleby Judith Guest is an extremely serious, well-written novel that deals with the hardships of having a death in the family, and the difficulties that follow. I think that this book easily deserves a five star rating. My general reaction to this book was one of sorrow that we must cope with such ...
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The Klan UnmaskedThe Ku Klux Klan has been the most organized of the many
different White supremacy groups that came into being after the Civil
War. The ill-reputed Knights of the Klan have been involved in countless
incidents of human rights violations against blacks and other minority
groups in America. ...
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Irving's The World According To Garp: AnalysisWhen referring to John Irving's book The World According to Garp,
it has been said “His style is simplistic, almost childlike..."(55), and “
Irving's prose is the prose of a poorly educated man-his vocabulary is
uninspiring, his grammatical proprieties is severely limited."(51) It has
also been ...
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Kinsolver's The Bean Trees: Problems In Today's SocietyThe Bean Trees by Barbara Kinsolver is a book that discusses many of the
problems in today's society. I found it to be over all insightful yet a
little boring at time. There are many hidden meaning and symbols too many
to mention so I'll look at just a few.
One of the main symbols appears right ...
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The Great Gatsby: The Moment Of TruthThe Golden Age, a time when money was so abundant. Wealthy
family's always demanded to impress others rather than living their own
life. How did wealth seem to develop with scandals and how would dreams
contribute to destiny? In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel “The Great Gatsby”
Nick Carraway's ...
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Summary Of Gulliver's TravelsAnyway, I have been reading a book that is very interesting.
Gulliver's Travels is the book. It is considered classic book written in
1735, revised from its previous version by Jonathan Swift, who is the
book's original writer.
The story is about a man named Lemuel Gulliver and his ...
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Canterbury Tales-a Personal Perspective on the Medieval Christian Church
In researching Geoffrey Chaucer’s collection of stories named The Canterbury Tales, an interesting illustration of the Medieval Church becomes evident. A crooked society exists within the corrupt, medieval church community. Not all of the ...
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich: SummaryIn the book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the main character Ivan
and the other prisoners in the camp are treated very badly. Ivan tries to
make himself warm and to get enough food to keep himself alive. He does
only what is necessary to please the guards and the commanders of the ...
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Canterbury Tales (reeve CharacHis heer was by his eres ful round yshorn;
His top was dokked lik a preest biforn;
Ful longe were his legges and ful lene,
Ylik a staf, ther was no calf yseene (590-594).”
This excerpt shows the attention to detail Chaucer selected to introduce the
Reeve. Chaucer also gives the Reeve ...
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Imagery And ParallelismIn his short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", Edgar Allen Poe
presents his reader with an intricately suspenseful plot filled with a
foreboding sense of destruction. Poe uses several literary devices, among the
most prevalent, however are his morbid imagery and eerie parallelism. Hidden ...
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