Chapter 1: The Sound of the Shell 1. How do the boys end up on the island? They are in some kind of plane crash, though the details are not all clear. 2. Who is “the voice” referred to on page 7? What does the voice represent? Piggy is “the voice” and represents the voice of reason 3. How does the...
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Sophocles' Oedipus, the King is a great representation of Greek tragedy and of the human experience. Within it, he explores the intricacies of human thinking and communication along with its ability to change as more information and knowledge is acquired. His primary focus as the story begins and...
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? ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY BY STEPHANY BERNADEAU Characteristic traits of Stacey. This book by Mildred D. Taylor talks about a black family whose love for their land and one other support and protects them during the segregation. This family is called the Logan’s family. They have to suffer...
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Turnus appears to be the main antagonist in Virgil's Aeneid. He competed with to marry Lavinia. As a character, he is somewhat similar to Aeneas. They both seem to be proud, stubborn, and won't accept fate. Turnus wanted to marry princess Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus who was king of...
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The Crucible: Although Abigail and The Girls Initiate The tragedy, Responsibility Lies With the Whole Salem Community Although Abigail and the girls initiate the tragedy, responsibility lies with the whole Salem community. Discuss. I do believe that Abigail and the girls initiated the tragedy...
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Male/Female gender roles (Minerva, Sally, Rafaela, Mamacita, Linoleum Roses) The House on Mango Street Writing Project The book called House on Mango street is about a little girl that grows up in a poor naeberhood that is full of crime and violence. I think that having a male gender in the place...
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In the epic the Odyssey by Homer (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) one of the most descriptive and best written passages in the entire epic is "The Slaying of the Suitors" (book 23 lines1-62). This is a good passage for many reasons, one of these is that it is a part of the story that has been...
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In the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll was a scientist who felt constrained by the social expectations. He created a potion that he hoped would split the good half from the evil half in him. The potion backfired and created Mr. Hyde - a second, evil, personality to...
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Giancarlo Motta Mrs. Leite Honors English Period 4 May 12, 2014 Treasure Island Book Review Treasure Island is classic a pirate tale written by acclaimed Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The story is about a young man named Jim Hawkins and his quest for the legendary treasure of “Captain...
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"A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. "? Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange is a novel about moral choice and free will. Alex's story shows what happens when an individual's right to choose is robbed for the good of society. The first and last chapters place Alex in more or less the same...
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The plot correlation stuck between England and France is created as Jarvis Lorry has an employment for Tellson's Bank in both London and Paris, and the Manettes are formerly from France. Alexandre Manette is the guy who has been in detention center for the past 18 years, but the anticipation...
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Dagny Taggart The novel's protagonist and a buisness woman and engineer who is the backbone of Taggart Transcontinental. As James Taggart's little sister, she is often belittled but gains respect and she hurdles all obstacles that come to face her family's company which includes taking...
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Corruption in Cry, the Beloved Country Corruption plagues society. It is the agony of the people, the crying of the land, the discord of society, and the mourning of the individual. Even the most elite of charitable people struggle to elude its all-ensnaring grasp. Those brave individuals who...
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The novel, "Fallen Angels", was written by Walter Dean Myers in 1988 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The writing is of a war fiction genre and also a coming-of-age story. The tale is told in a first person point of view through a fairly young African-American soldier fighting in the controversial...
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What does it mean to be Redeemed? Trevor Jordan 5-21-11 Lampa Redemption is a black and white subject, one can either achieve it or fail and hold on to their troubled past for life. Redemption is when one admits to and repents for their bad deeds and truly feels sorry, then that person does a good...
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The pigs lay, bloated bags of fat, sensuously enjoying the shadows under the trees. The bloated fat and sensuous enjoyment, and hiding the sunshine from the damp and hot weather showed that the pigs were in a calm, peaceful rest. Also as a tranquil overture for the following brutal, savage...
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Oedipus the King has many images of blindness, both physical and blindness of the mind. The characters surrounding these images are Oedipus and Tiresias the prophet. When the play begins Oedipus has vision and Tiresias cannot see, but by the end of the play, it is clear who can really see and who...
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THEMES - THEME ANALYSIS Friendship/Family Cassie develops a more adult understanding of what friendship is as well as what it isn’t. Little Jeremy Simms is, at least for the present, a real friend, perhaps because he is something of an outsider among his own people and family. Nevertheless, he...
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Vergil’s, Aeneid: Not only a Literary Masterpiece, but also a Guideline for the Future of Rome’s GreatnessMatt Beller Professor Ned Johnson Composition II 30 June 2010 Vergil’s, Aeneid: Not only a Literary Masterpiece, but also a Guideline for the Future of Rome’s Greatness If ever there was an...
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The Crucible: Hysteria and Injustice Thesis Statement: The purpose is to educate and display to the reader the hysteria and injustice that can come from a group of people that thinks it's doing the "right" thing for society in relation to The Crucible by Arthur Miller. I. Introduction: The play is...
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Kiarra Bailey English 2/5/2012 Unit 5 Activity: Researching The House on Mango Street What was going on in Chicago in the late 60's and early 70's? -High-rise apartments and skyscraper construction was booming. The Chase Tower (First National Bank) on Daley Plaza was one of the first, which was...
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The Women of the Odyssey Many people regard Homer's epics as war stories? stories about men; those people often overlook the important roles that women play in the Odyssey. While there are not many female characters in the Odyssey, the few that there are, play pivotal roles in the story and one...
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How does Stevenson present duality in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Stevenson presents duality in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in various ways. One of these variations of the duality is among the minor characters, for example Utterson and Enfield. Their similarity is that they are both respectable Victorian...
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“Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.” — — “Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” — — “Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea...
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At the start of A Clockwork Orange, you are introduced to Alex and his droogs. They are at a milkbar drinking milk-plus. Milk, plus types of drugs that enhance Alex and his droogs ultraviolence, which is the main backdrop to the story that leads to other psychological events. Drug addiction is a...
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Both Sydney Carton of A Tale of Two Cities and Huck Finn of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn face a significant number of choices in their respective narratives. For Huck, he is faced in one instance with remaining with his abusive father who has kidnapped him or leaving to return home, a...
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Atlas Shrugged Analysis of Dagny Taggart [trx_quote title="Ayn Rand" top="inherit" bottom="inherit" left="inherit" right="inherit"]"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. "[/trx_quote] Dagny Taggart separates...
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Essay Question #2 It has been said that the land is itself another character in Paton's novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. What role does the landscape play in the novel? What does the valley surrounding Ndotsheni represent? "Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men...
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Fallen Angels Essay, Research Paper In the book Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, we read about the hardships and troubles of the main character, Richard Perry, during the Vietnam war. We learn a lot about Perry throughout the book, and by the end of the book we feel like we know exactly how...
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AP English Interrogation of Dick’s Parents The feelings Richard Hickock’s parents have toward his life style are revealed as Capote incorporates jaded and disenchanted tones into the scene of their interrogation. Mr. and Mrs. Hickock spent years and years struggling to provide for Dick, their...
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Study Questions for Lord of the Flies-Assignment #4, Ch. 10-12 Chapter Ten 1. What is the significance of the title “The Shell and the Glasses”? The shell symbolizes Ralph’s authority. As Ralph loses his authority, the shell becomes unwanted and “still glimmered by the chief’s seat” (Golding 168)...
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"Gods can be evil sometimes. " In the play "Oedipus the King", Sophocles defamed the gods' reputation, and lowered their status by making them look harmful and evil. It is known that all gods should be perfect and infallible, and should represent justice and equity, but with Oedipus, the gods...
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Balcony Scene Comparison Shakespeare and Rostand employ unique writing methods in order to show the battle the characters in each of their plays, Romeo and Juliet and Cyrano de Bergerac partake in to express their true feelings for one another. Each play utilizes the motifs and themes of light...
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The Aeneid, a poem written before the era of Christ and Christianity, has been argued to be a precursor to the values of Christianity, much as the Old Testament is a precursor to the New Testament. While the Aeneid does not explicitly lay out these values, scholars have interpreted the text...
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The Crucible: The Deterioration of Salem During the Witch Trials John Hudson Mrs. Phillips The deterioration of Salem's social structure precipitated the murders of many innocent people. Arthur Miller's depiction of the Salem witch trials, The Crucible, deals with a community that starts out...
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In the House On Mango Street, Esperanza Cordero is such an inspiring character seeing as she shows the ways in which change can alter your life. Because the story is told by her, the most developed character, the reader experiences her growth along with her, which is why there is such a contrast...
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The Odyssey Odysseus was always considered to be a great man and a great hero. He was known for his brain as well as his muscle. He was an epic hero of a narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes. He possesses qualities superior to those of most men, yet remains recognizably human. These...
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Dr. Henry Jekyll - A respected doctor and friend of both Lanyon, a fellow physician, and Utterson, a lawyer. Jekyll is a seemingly prosperous man, well established in the community, and known for his decency and charitable works. Since his youth, however, he has secretly engaged in unspecified...
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Fortune and Greed As an iconic pirate adventure novel, Stevenson’s Treasure Island accommodates greed as the major driving force for the “bad guys” - the pirates. They all, starting from Captain Flint and up to John Silver and his crew are ready to risk their lives multiple time because of greed...
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"A Clockwork Orange" "A Clockwork Orange" is a film about a gang of "droogs" who take pleasure in crime. They enjoy raping and torturing their innocent victims for their own pleasure. The main characters' name is Alex. Alex's diagnosis is Antisocial Personality Disorder (Psychopath). When caught...
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Dickens showed how women can help men escape from their own shackles if life and how they made men act according to their will. Incorporation of women characters in the novel also became a way to insert a typical family setting, with a mother being the emotional support to her family Lucie...
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“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists...
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The time period of the publication of Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton coincides with the transitional era prior to the official beginning of the apartheid that lasted a few decades in the South African history. This period in the South Africa was important for the history of the country...
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Fallen Angels Essay, Research Paper September 15, 1967 Characters- “Peewee” -Gates Richie “Perry”-main character, soldier Judy Duncan-nurse Lt. Wilson Kenny-Perry’s brother Jenkins-soldier Johnson-soldier Lt. Carrol- Perry’s Lt. Sg. Simpson- Sg. Of Perry’s squad Captain Stewart Chapter 1- Perry on...
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a riveting mystery novel about the tragic murder of a family. In it, Capote provides an extensive description about the town and it's residents. Capote views Holcomb, Kansas, as a small, dry town that many people have never heard of, until that devastating night...
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Lord of the Flies has more than one “theme,” or meaning, but the overall and most important one is that the conditions of life within society are closely related to the moral integrity of its individual members. In Golding’s own words: “The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back...
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Oedipus The King; Did the prophecy cause his destiny? Undoubtedly there has been a tremendous amount of speculation and dissection of this play by countless people throughout the ages. I can only draw my own conclusions as to what Sophocles intended the meaning of his play to be. The drama...
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As its most central concept, the whole of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet revolved on the topic of love. However, despite the overexposure of the topic of love that often leads to numerous authors and poets to provide love a shaky and shallow framework, Shakespeare managed to provide a...
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“Compare and contrast the mythological aspects of the Aeneid with those found in the Greek Iliad and Odyssey. Do you think Aeneas is more of a hero than either Achilles or Odysseus? Explain your answer. ” In order to properly compare and contrast the mythological aspects of Aeneid with Iliad and...
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The Crucible: Deterioration of Social Order In Salem The trumped-up witch hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts, deteriorated the rational, and emotional stability of its citizens. This exploited the populations weakest qualities, and insecurities. The obvious breakdown in Salem's social order led to...
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