A Review of "The Outsiders Club" Screened on BBC 2 in October 96 MA Diploma Disability Studies INTRODUCTION I decided to write a review on the social group known as The Outsiders. The group's main aim is to enable disabled adults to form personal relationships, including specifically sexual ones...
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?Title: A Comparison of the Element of hamartia in “Hamlet”, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, and “Agamemnon” Thesis: One of the elements that can be compared in the plays “Hamlet”, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, and “Agamemnon” is hamartia. Attempt has been made to analyse the main...
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Daisy Miller: Finding Personal Identity as an Ugly American Psychology 112 Vampire Academy for Phlebotomy and Psychology Dracula Smith September 20, 2010 Daisy Miller is forced to address her personal identity in the book because she is only able to identify with being American by putting down...
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When many think of wars, the first thought that comes to mind is the land which was fought over and which side won. They never consider the psychological side effect soldiers endure during war. For many, this is the only side they see so there is no exposure except through writers such as Ernest...
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12 December 2000 Social Classes in "Madam Bovary" Striving for higher social status has been the downfall of many people just as it was the destruction of Emma Bovary. In Nineteenth Century France, several class existed: peasant or working class, middle class, upper-middle class, bourgeois, and...
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How does Shakespeare present the theme of deception in the first two acts of Twelfth night? Shakespeare's Twelfth night, focuses mainly on the theme of deception in both main plot and the sub-plot. Not only do the characters deceive each other, but many of them are also self-deceived and we, as...
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In For Whom the Bell Tolls there is colossal strife and resistance against the Robert Jordan. In the book Robert Jordan is charged with the project of destroying a bridge in Segovia prior to a loyalist offensive during the Spanish civil war. Over the course of the book he acquires many...
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Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern day psychology and psychoanalysis, described human consciousness as the combination of three elements, id, ego and superego. The id is what controls our personal desires, the superego controls our ideas about where we fit in society and the ego is in between...
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The Importance of Being Earnest Play/Film Comparative Essay Oliver Parker’s (2002) film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ is sadly completely consumed by the romantic comedy style, masking Wilde’s key concerns and detracting from important comic elements of the play...
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Chapter 13: 1. They must leave because Jake received a letter from Mike stating that they would arrive on Wednesday. He received the letter on a Wednesday and so they took off on the afternoon bus. 2. Aficionado is a person who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about an activity. In the...
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As a representative work of a female author who was well ahead of her times, Jane Eyre can safely be regarded as the magnum opus of Charlotte Brontë. A literary career that spanned for a meager six years, it was really incredible as to how Charlotte Brontë could excel so much as a novelist so as...
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March 13, 2006 Madame Bovary: A Tragic Hero Every tragedy falls into two parts? Complication and Unraveling or Denouement? By Complication I mean all that extends from the beginning of the action to the part which marks the turning point to good or bad fortune. The Unraveling is that which extends...
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Documented Argument of the Awakening Kate Chopin's depiction of "The Awakening" is realistic as she develops Edna Pontellier's character from a socially and morally respectable individual to an individual that turns her back on everything closest to her as she births her new self-being. Edna...
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Dante’s Inferno exposes us all on how God punishes sinners. Dante clearly states that hell exists to punish sin and the suitability of hell’s specific punishments testifies to the divine perfection that all sin violates. Does this mean that man is not left with any other choices? Can a man still...
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The Awakening The novel, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, was written in the late nineteenth century in St. Louis after her husband Oscar died of a severe illness. Her book appeared in 1899, after she was idolized by many novels written by Darwin and Sarah Orne Jewett. Her first attempts at writing...
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Ken Wood WC 1 5/1/2012 The Divine Comedy The Divine Comedy is commonly thought as one of the many great classics of Western literature. The story describes in much detail Dante’s journey through the nine circles of hell, purgatory, and heaven. The Divine Comedy is a story full of symbolism...
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BOOK REPORT: "The Outsiders" 1. Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders. New York: Puffin Books, 1967 2. The title of this book relates to the story, because in the book, Ponyboy and Johnny are "outsiders. " They can be thought of as Outsiders because they are labeled Greasers although they do not act like...
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The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises demonstrates elements of weakened masculinity throughout the novel. The lasting effects of WWI on the characters, Jake Barnes’ insecurities, and Lady Brett Ashley’s non-conformity all contribute to the minimized presence of masculinity...
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In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare constantly alludes to the contrast between darkness and light by the use of secrets, mistaken identities and the contrast between sanity and insanity. With this motif Shakespeare shows us that if we act on first impressions without the true knowledge of the entity of...
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Bulls, being the proud strong beasts that they are, can represent many things such as strength, health and even recklessness. In the novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, bull fighting functions as a metaphor for human relations in many different ways. The story is told from the...
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Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms": Henry - A Man of Action, Self-Dicipline, and One Who Maintains Grace Under Pressure It is the nature of the beast within that fuels our inclination towards conflict and destruction. During the surreal powers of war, life hangs in the balance setting the stage for...
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***Some of the sentences do not make sense, and it seems like a word or two are missing. This essay puts the ROUGH in rough draft... For Whom the Bell Tolls Critical Analysis In 1937, Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain. This experience inspired him to write For Whom the Bell Tolls. For Whom the...
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A PRESENTATION OF THE VIEW OF WOMEN IN THE VICTORIAN AGE AND HOW THIS IS REFLECTED IN Henry James` DAISY MILLER - A STUDY (I will refer to the story as Daisy Miller and the protagonist as Daisy. ) America was still a young nation in the Victorian age and Americans hadn’t yet built up their own...
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“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.” — — “There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will...
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Feminism in Jane Eyre Jay Sheldon Feminism has been a prominent and controversial topic in writings for the past two centuries. With novels such as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, or even William Shakespeare's Macbeth the fascination over this subject by authors is evident. In Charlotte...
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Compare and contrast the sisters, Elinor and Marianne, in Sense and Sensibility to Cecily and Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest. Be sure to consider the personalities of each woman as you analyze how the demands and requirements of courtship dominate her attention and her interactions...
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In medieval and Elizabethan England, homosexuality was not only looked down upon, but was a crime punishable by law. Found perpetrators, including the famous King Edward II, were horribly punished. Edward was killed by “the slow and painful insertion of a red, hot poker into his anus&rdquo...
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A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Code Hero Ernest Hemingway's 1914-1918 autobiographical novel, A Farewell to Arms, takes place on the Italian front during World War I. Frederic Henry, the main character, is a young American ambulance driver for the Italian army during the war. He is...
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Martin Daisy Miller was not the average young European woman during the 1800’s. Much like Huckleberry Finn, Daisy, coming from America did not want to conform to the norms of European society. She wanted to be her own individual. While reading Daisy Miller there were three common themes that arose...
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Created by Ernest Hemingway in 1940, the book pictured a story of Civil War. The title for this book was taken from the poem written by John Donne. The poet created the series of prayers and meditations, and a part of these verses was taken by Hemingway and placed in the text of the novel...
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Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, first published in 1811, explores the social and cultural expectations of this period through the moderation of the important characteristics of sense and sensibility. The novel is a sharply detailed portraiture that represents the large difference between...
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There is No Beauty in the Breakdown Suicide has been defined as "the act of self-destruction by a person sound in mind and capable of measuring his (or her) moral responsibility" (Webster 1705). Determining one's moral responsibility is what all of humanity struggles with and strives to achieve...
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Twelfth Night: Which is more engaging – the main plot or the sub-plot? Shakespeare’s comedy “Twelfth Night,” is considered the last of the true comedies, his final light-hearted play before the venture into the darker, more sombre tragedies. As with many of his comedies, the basis of the story is...
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1. Can this story be read as a comment on the expectations for wealthy young women of the period? Or the lack of formal education or active endeavors for women? I think this story indirectly compare between wealthy young European woman with a wealthy young American woman. This story alludes the...
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In Flaubert's Madame Bovary, there are many symbols and details about windows and the wedding. Throughout the novel Emma Bovary, Charles' wife, is trapped inside a life that she does not long to have. Emma had fantasies of how she wanted her life to be so she rushes into marriage hoping to fulfill...
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Throughout the world people have differing ideas on what is good and bad based on whatever culture one visits one is sure to find major differences. In the period that this story takes place the US is trying to find its own identity and establish their own traditions. In the Europeans perspectives...
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Adultery committed by women in many societies is considered a sin as well as an act of betrayal towards their families and towards their husbands. In Flaubert’s ‘Madame Bovary’ and al- Shaykh’s ‘The Story of Zahra’ both the protagonists, Emma and Zahra, commit adultery in order to run away from...
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1. cantos XVI (terrace of wrath) and Canto XVII (Sloth) include important concepts about the corruption of the world, free will, the Emperor and the Pope. Canto XVII is the central Canto of Purgatory. It is the middle terrace where we read about the moral system of Purgatory (which is similar to...
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Author Amy Tan began writing the short stories that eventually became the novel The Joy Luck Club as a way of understanding the turmoil of her relationship with her mother (Lew). Those stories eventually spawned a best-selling book and a feature film which serve to not only shed more light onto...
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Both Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, and Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens, have many Victorian similarities. Both novels are influenced by the same three elements. The first is the gothic novel, which instilled mystery, suspense, and horror into the work. The second is the romantic...
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In the case of James Smith, a burglar that was found guilty of robbing his next door neighbor appealed his case to the Supreme Court based on the premise that his Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection under the law was violated when evidence the defendant claimed was seized illegally but...
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Book Data Sheet – Sense and Sensibility Setting – The setting for Sense and Sensibility is in England in the early 1800s, somewhere in a country setting. During this time, your social class and wealth was very important. The main classes were the wealthy people or the ‘lesser gentry’. The...
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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Emory University historian and women's studies scholar was once interviewed on a documentary about Kate Chopin, the author of The Awakening (Fox, 2007, p. 27). She described Chopin as, "? a woman who took women extremely seriously. She never doubted women's ability to be...
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These famous lines, narrated by Dante, open Inferno and immediately establish the allegorical plane on which the story’s meaning unfolds (I. 1–2). The use of such potent words as “journey” and “right road” signifies the religious aspect of Dante’s impending adventure and quickly notifies us that...
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?Compare and contrast Achilles vs Beowulf The way of the warriors Achilles and Beowulf were two characters that had an amazing power that made his name lives for hundreds of years. Great warriors need some to have some specific characteristics to reach their fame because we have seem in some...
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Paper Written by N. H The alluring and effective element of the novella Daisy Miller is Henry James ironic use of the unruly behavior of what should have been an innocent girly-girl. This becomes amplified when the leading protagonist in the text, Daisy Miller, demises signifying the death of any...
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The novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë consists of the continuous journey through Jane's life towards her final happiness and freedom. This is effectively supported by five significant ? physical' journeys she makes, which mirror the four emotional journeys she makes. 10-year-old Jane...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: McMurphy One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with its meaningful message of individualism, was an extremely influential novel during the 1960's. In addition, its author, Ken Kesey, played a significant role in the development of the counterculture of the 60's; this...
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Had to write a comparison/contrast of the epic hero in two different works Needed a better title got all but 2 points... February 21, 1997 Epic Works Epics by definition are long narrative poems, that are grand in both theme and style (Webster 417). They usually involve actions of great glory and...
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<center><b>Question: In the "Joy Luck Club", Amy Tan touches on an obscure, little discussed issue: the divergence of Chinese culture through American children born of Chinese immigrant parents. <br>With close reference to at least two stories in the book, discuss the truth of...
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