A Tale of Two Cities is a novel written by Charles Dickens in 1859, set in London and Paris before and after the French Revolution. It tells about the struggles of the French peasantry in the hands of the ruling French aristocrats during the years leading up to the revolution, the consequent rough...
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Introduction This paper looks into two central characters in Ayn Rand’s fiction novel Atlas Shrugged, Hank Rearden and Francisco D’Anconia. As this paper points out, both characters are brilliant, driven and at one time were leaders in the same industry – metal. But, as the paper...
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The book "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton is a book about agitation and turmoil of both whites and blacks over the white segregation policy called apartheid. The book describes how understanding between whites and blacks can end mutual fear and aggresion, and bring reform and hope to a...
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Many people in this world are unsure of what their future goals may be just like this young man named Richie Perry. Richie is a smart African American and was a well behaved child who had graduated from high school in Harlem. His mother who loved to drink didn’t have enough money to send him to...
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Analytical Essay for “In Cold Blood” Truman Capote, in his narrative “In Cold Blood”, characterizes Holcomb, Kansas as a dull and trivial town. Capote expresses his views of Holcomb through diction and contrast. In the passage, Capote’s diction helps the reader to understand his view on Holcomb as...
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The Unchanging Malevolence of Humankind “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. ” Jeremiah 17:9 depicted the human heart as a thing of deceit over 2,000 years ago. Fast forward to today, is this debatable topic still relevant? William Golding explores the topic through his...
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Blindness plays a two-fold part in Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King. ” First, Sophocles presents blindness as a physical disability affecting the auger Teiresias, and later Oedipus; but later, blindness comes to mean an inability to see the evil in one’s actions and the...
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Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry is a book based on a fictionalised true story. It is set in Mississippi the 1930s during the depression after slavery had been abolished leaving the black community with nothing. The Logans are the family that the...
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Destiny, the Gods, and Fate in the Aeneid Playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca said that “Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant,” (Beautiful Quotes) and perhaps nowhere is this idea better illustrated than in Virgil’s epic poem The Aeneid. Fate drives the course of events throughout...
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Arthur Miller, in The Crucible, presents a strong protagonist as society, or mankind himself. Mankind is the tragic hero here and throughout history. Having lived through the Holocaust and McCarthyism, his tone is clear through his writing style, setting, mood and characters in the play. He makes...
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This project will take a week. Your rough draft is due Tuesday of this week, and your final copy is due on Friday of this week. You MUST turn in your rough draft in order to receive credit for this project. It is completed in phases, and the schedule is imperative. 100 points Sandra Cisneros’ book...
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The Odyssey has much to teach us about the feminine psyche. The feminine psyche is the way that the female mind and soul react to and process situations. Females are generally faithful, giving, and respectful to their mates. We have an insight into the feminine psyche in several things that...
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Following up on the reading of the “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, by Robert Stevenson, I have discovered several themes reflecting upon gothic elements, bringing the reader to experience rage, fear, and horror. Throughout the book there is a big concern about homosexuality, murder, and...
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Treasure Island - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a classic. It is filled with adventure, danger, pirates, and treasure! Following the death of Captain Flint, a child named Jim Hawkins ends up with a map to his treasure. John...
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The choice between good and evil is a decision every man must make throughout his life in order to guide his actions and control his future. This element of choice, no matter what the outcome, displays man's power as an individual. Any efforts to control or influence this choice between good and...
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had...
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Atlas Shrugged is a great novel. Ayn Rand presents a lot of ideas; egotism that people live for their own needs, industrialism that government should not disturb the economics and hinder the innovation, and objectivism that reason relies on fact and so on. There are too many points worthily...
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The novel Cry the Beloved Country is a prophecy for the future of South Africa. It alludes to and sometimes even blatantly states the conditions necessary for the end of apartheid and the beginning of peace. South Africa in the 1940's was in trouble. Kumalo, a priest, was able to see through...
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In the novel Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, Lieutenant Carroll, the first leader the soldiers have in the novel, said, “’My father used to call soldiers angel warriors, because usually they get boys to fight wars. Most of you aren’t old enough to vote yet’” (44). The extremity of the youth of...
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In Cold Blood: Passage Analysis In Cold Blood, Capote uses imagery, foreshadowing and allusion to portray Perry as a lonely man who doesn’t have his family, especially his father, there by his side to support him which slowly causes him to begin to lose his sanity and question his faith. Capote...
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Bianca Adams Ms. Knapp Honors English 16 April 2013 Lord of the Flies: Formal Essay The Bible is the number one selling book in the world almost every year. Christianity has had a huge influence on literature, and music today. A commonly known rapper named Tupac often uses God in his music. For...
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Oedipus the King by Sophocles is about Oedipus, a man doomed by his fate. Like most tragedies, “Oedipus the King” contains a tragic hero, a heroic figure unable to escape his/her own doom. This tragic hero usually has a hamartia or a tragic flaw which causes his/hers’ downfall...
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?A poem which appears to be about an ordinary everyday experience but which actually makes a deeper comment about life is “Mrs Tilscher’s Class” by Carol Ann Duffy. This poem shows the stages of emotional realisation as a child gradually enters adolescence. The focus of my essay will be to explain...
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After reading Aeneid Book 1, you should know the following: 1. Identification of characters and places: •Aeneas, Achates, Ascanius, Iulus (Ilus), Dido, Sychaeus, Pygmalion •Juno, Neptune, Venus, Jupiter, Cupid •Carthage, Tyrians, Teucrians 2. Cite lines where Virgil specifically describes Augustus...
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The Crucible: Characters Chetan Patel The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller that was first produced in 1953, is based on the true story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Miller wrote the play to parallel the situations in the mid-twentieth century of Alger Hiss, Owen Latimore, Julius and Ethel...
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Esperanza: the Person Behind the Print In The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, a little girl from a Latino heritage is given birth to. Not literally, but in the sense of characterization. Esperanza is a fictional character made up by Cisneros to bring about sensitive, alert, and rich...
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Homer, name traditionally assigned to the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the two major epics of Greek antiquity. Nothing is known of Homer as an individual, and in fact it is a matter of controversy whether a single person can be said to have written both the Iliad and the Odyssey...
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The Victorian Era (1837 – 1901) marked a period of great transition in many aspects of human life. It was an age that was characterized by rapid change and development in nearly every sphere – from advances in medial, scientific, and technological knowledge to changes in population growth, location...
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? Gail Mirabella used to train her dogs to do tricks when she was a kid. Eventually, her hobby turned into a career. Today, Mirabella works as a dog trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. Backstage before a recent show, she talked to Time Magazine Kid Reporter, Cameron Young, about...
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Anthony Burgess' novel, A Clockwork Orange has been called shocking, controversial, and horrifying. A Clockwork Orange is controversial, but to focus merely on the physical aspects of the work is time wasted. Burgess is concerned with the issue of ethics. He believes that goodness comes directly...
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Give examples of how you ended up with this theme and how it affected the story’s plot. Life’s Forfeit In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, the theme of the story is that one needs to sacrifice in order to reach the goal of self happiness. Charles Dickens shows this recurring theme mainly with the...
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My favorite scene from the captivating Ayn Rand novel, “Atlas Shrugged”, would have to be when Mr. Hank Rearden, at his trial, declared “The public good be damned, I will have no part of it! ” Mr. Rearden’s initial indictment is selling four thousand tons of his metal...
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The novel "Cry the Beloved Country" is based on the true-life story of South African apartheid, and the native's struggle for equality. During the book, Stephen Kumalo goes on a journey to find his sister, and his son, for they have left the tribal land of KwaZulu-Natal a long time ago, and...
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During war, many people change physically, mentally, and socially. War itself is disturbing to the mind. In Walter Dean Meyer’s Fallen Angels, the characters undergo many changes as they learn the true meaning of war. Perry, Peewee and Johnson all change in the sense of their personalities...
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“First, it is a commentary on the American Dream. Herb Clutter has made a wonderful life for himself--his daughter, after all, bakes apple pies. But Herb Clutter's American idyll is abruptly and arbitrarily shattered by two petty criminals. The American dream is fragile, and it only functions if...
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Somin Im Ms. Wilson AP English/ 4th period 25 February 2013 Outline Thesis: Throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding demonstrates his support for democracy and hatred for authoritarianism by demonstrating the differences between Ralph and Jack through their personalities, leadership, and...
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In Sophocles' play, Oedipus, the King, there are various instances where Oedipus tries to escape his destiny? enlightenment? only to discover the truth that he cannot. Similarly, in Plato's "allegory of the Cave" the prisoner travails to understand and adjust to his newly visited environment. In...
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? Language Arts In this amazing book titled Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry written by Mildred Taylor is a story is about an African American family living in the south during the 1930s. Stacey Logan is the oldest sibling in the Logan family. Stacey is a very kind hearted person and has great...
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The Aeneid - Character of Dido Dido is the queen of Carthage, daughter of Belus. Like Aeneas, Dido fled her homeland because of circumstances beyond her control. She leads her people out of Tyre and founds Carthage. When we first meet Dido, she is busy leading her people to build a great city. She...
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The Crucible: The Evil of Fear In The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, the strict Puritan community of Salem is bombarded with the hysteria of witchcraft. It starts when five young girls of Salem are caught dancing in the forest. Instead as mere children playing, this behavior is viewed...
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What is the american dream? Many people will answer that question by saying being successful in america. Others would say that having a nice house in a good neighboorhood, a good marriage, two kids and a golden retreiver is the american dream. Unlike these beliefs of what the american dream is for...
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Homer's poem The Odyssey depicts the tendency of people to ignore the consequences of their actions. Odysseus punished Penelope's suitors without thinking of consequences that he would have to endure. He did not acknowledge the consequences because that would prevent him from doing what he wants...
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Representatives of the Victorian Era The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Dorian Gray The novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by Robert L. Stevenson and first published in 1886. The years from 1837 to 1901 are considered the Victorian Era, so the novel is...
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?How does Jim grow and develop as a character in light of his experiences? Discuss. “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson was about a thirteen years old boy, Jim Hawkins, going on a treasure voyage. Jim grew and developed magnificently through his experiences from the beginning to end of the...
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'The Importance of Moral Choice' Choice and free will are necessary to maintain humanity, both individually and communally; without them, man is no longer human but a 'clockwork orange', a mechanical toy, as demonstrated in Anthony Burgess' novel, 'A Clockwork Orange'...
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One notable factor on the works of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain is the way they incorporate exaggeration. In Dicken’s “A Tale of Two Cities”, he exposes his opinion by involving great humor and opinion through exaggeration. This is portrayed by some characters in the story to show the point of...
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One of the most well known idioms is 'every man for himself'. The literal meaning of this idiom is everyone should do what is best for themselves, without any reservations, or concerns for other people. The legendary character Robin Hood and the Ragnar Danneskjold, the pirate in Atlas...
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The novel Cry, the Beloved Country contains many different themes, including fear, reconciliation, hope, anger and personal responsibility. However, the theme that best shapes the novel is social breakdown and racial injustice in the community. One of the novel's messages is that "inequality in...
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Dear Mama, I love you and miss you very much. Another cold night and hot day in the books. I finally got to take a shower yesterday. I can’t believe how dirty it is out here. I imagine it will only get worse. I've met all kinds of interesting folks from all over the States. I play...
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In Cold Blood: Characterization of Hickock and Smith Open up a copy of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and you will find an array of beautiful and poetic language that makes this novel nothing short of a masterpiece. Effective characterization is a key element; and it is through the use of diction...
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