"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. " (82) '' Morrie. Morrie thinks that people reject to accept as true that they will one day depart this life, and for that reason, they do not live their lives as completely as they wanted it to be. Also, they represent many regrets as they grow...
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Much can be expressed about the age old saying that the punishment must fit the crime, that if actions are committed, there must be an equal response, and that in all things there must—and will be—recompense. In the “Agamemnon” by Aeschylus, and later in the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” by Homer, the...
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In Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, the lawyer—who also functions as a narrator— experiences internal struggle between religious morals and the modern capitalism ideas, but eventually chooses capitalism ideas over religious morals. Bartleby’s peculiar actions of refusing to do every activity...
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The word sacrifice is defined as the act of forfeiting one thing for another thing considered to be of greater value. The theme of sacrifice is one that is exemplified throughout both Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, the story of a selfless hero, and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, which...
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Flowers For Algernon William J. Brennan of the Supreme Court stated, "If there is bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable. " Flowers For Algernon by...
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Romeo and Juliet vs Much Ado About Nothing As illustrated by the two plays Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare was a true romantic. In each play, his characters suffer great hardship, but in the end, he delivers them to a life of eternal love. Characters plot against...
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Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank What I am about to write is a summary of The Diary of a Young Girl, written by Anne Frank. This book starts from when Anne gets her diary on her thirteenth birthday. The book is about when Anne and her family have to live in the “Secret Annex. ” On her thirteenth...
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Homer's Iliad is commonly understood as an epic about the Trojan War, but its meaning goes deeper than that. The Iliad is not only a story of the evolution of Achilleus' persona, but at times it is an anti-war epic as well. The final book proposes many questions to the reader. Why not end with the...
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Old man and the Sea: Parable of Man's Struggle with Natural Forces The "Old man and the sea" is about ? life', which is the finest and most ambitious thing for a parable to be about. Hemingway has written about life: a struggle against the impossible odds of unconquerable natural forces in...
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One part of Morrie’s personality is his ability to draw human spirit and genuine emotion from everyone he befriends. Morrie believes that love and compassion are key methods of communication. During their meetings, he tells Mitch stories about his life and about his personal beliefs; he teaches...
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From day one birds are born curious, but helpless. However, they grow and develop until one day they finally gain the confidence to leave the nest and fly away. In writer Ibsen's drama A Dolls House readers witness a very similar cycle happen to the character Nora. She is helpless and careless...
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Agamemnon Agamemnon is the first book in the Orestiean Trilogy written by the famous Greek tragedy writer, Aeschylus. Agamemnon is a story of justice and revenge. The story takes place in a city called Argos. It starts with Agamemnon, the king of Argos, away at the Trojan War. The city is eagerly...
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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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Macbeth: Macbeth A Tragic Hero In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, we discover that Macbeth is a tragic hero. Macbeth is very ambitious, courageous, and a moral coward: all these things lead to his tragic death at the end of the play. At the beginning of the play, Shakespeare defines...
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Looking for Alaska I have read ”Looking for Alaska” by John Green published in 2005. Looking For Alaska is about sixteen-year-old Miles who lived a very dull life in Florida until he decided to move to a boarding school in Alabama. There, he meets new friends, ”The Colonel”, Lara, Takumi and Alaska...
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Romeo and Juliet: A Timeless Tragedy William Shakespeare wrote his ever famous play, Romeo and Juliet, in 1595. Like many of Shakespeare’s plays, the story of Romeo and Juliet is timeless and has proven to remain perhaps the most popular story of tragic love. In 1968, 373 years after the...
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Learning real life lessons and finding your place on Earth through your actions and thoughts is one of the most important things in life. For example, in the book “The Alchemist” written by Paulo Coelho the quote “Whoever you are, or whatever it is you do, when you really want something, it’s...
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Early yesterday morning, I saw that Cecilia Kang at the Washington Post had a story up about the years-long fight for white spaces entitled: Tech, telecom giants take sides as FCC proposes large public WiFi networks. It struck me as odd, because so much in the article seemed... wrong or misleading...
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The Old Man and the Sea In the novel, The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago the fisherman can be viewed as either a failure or a success. In the aspects of Rishi, Devata, and Chhandas we can see that Santiago is not a failure. He has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish, and he is the...
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Many people often base their opinions on a person by judging his whole life in general and his attitude towards life without caring about who the person really is deep down inside. This unfair reasoning can occur in the courtroom when people are put on trial and the judge and the jury must delve...
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The central theme of this play is Nora's rebellion against society and everything that was expected of her. Nora shows this by breaking away from all the standards and expectations her husband and society had set up for her. In her time women weren't supposed to be independent. They were...
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Throughout the ages of literature, darkness has often been used as symbolic in representation for evil, concealment, and blindness. In the opening of Agamemnon, the darkness that consumed the scene was used for effect in order to convey indirectly, themes of evil, concealment, and blindness. The...
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American Lit 2 Flowers For Algernon By Daniel Keyes Pp. 149-216 Here is a quick overview of the plot for this section. Charlie goes back to the lab and he takes over the experiment. Burt tells Charlie that Algernon is losing his intelligence. Charlie goes to the Warren home to see what it is like...
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Macbeth: Macbeth A Tragic Hero - His Strengths, His Weaknesses, His Tragic Flaw and the Effect of Outside Influences on His Nature The contributions of Macbeth towards his fate in becoming the "tragic hero" is evident from the first act. Like other of Shakespearean plays, the tragic hero, Macbeth...
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Act 2; Scene 2; Lines 36-39 and 41-52 36O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo? 37Deny thy father and refuse thy name, 38Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, 39And I’ll no longer be a Capulet. 41‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy. 42Thou art thyself, thou not a Montague...
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The Diary of a Young Girl The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank, is a book consisting of letters written by Ms. Frank as a teen when she was in hiding from the Nazis during World War II. The alternate book cover I created is a drawing of Anne Frank as she writes in her beloved diary that she...
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In Homer's epic, The Iliad, there are many great characters, both mortal and immortal. However, no characters seem to match the greatness and importance of Achilles, the mightiest of the Greeks and Hector, Trojan prince and mightiest of the Trojans. Although they are the mightiest of their forces...
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Somewhere between the dawn of time and the present day, man’s foot touched down on the earth for the first time, and from that point on, man had made an eternal connection to an invisible power greater than he: nature. Both being incredibly competent writers, Steinbeck and Hemmingway acknowledged...
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In Aeschylus' Agamemnon there are many different opinions about what kind of king and commander Agamemnon was. Some argued that he was good, while others dispute that his motives were wrong. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, gained a strong hatred for him, after he sacrificed his own daughter so he...
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The 1987 film Roxanne I believe is a great successful modernization to Cyrano de Bergerac because it explains how well the similarities between each of the characters in the play are and how well detailed they become in a more present day modernization, both the movie and the book are similar. In...
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The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is composed of many small themes that combined to form two major themes in the novel. Some of the minor themes are acting before thinking and denial of unexplainable events. It is based on the two major themes of science experiments gone wrong and the ignorance...
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Macbeth: Macbeth The Tragic Hero The most recent meaning of the word Tragic Hero as defined by Microsoft Works dictionary is "A hero of noble stature whose fortunes are reversed as a result of weakness. " Many characters in the play were affected by tragedy for a number of reasons, but without...
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“It’s a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your personal legend. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire...
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In the late 1930’s and throughout the 1940’s Adolf Hitler an anti Jewish man came to power in Germany. During this Germany was in a great depression due to their loss of World War One. Hitler promised restoration and power and he was easily accepted. Once Adolf was in powered he began to invade...
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In the poem Iliad by Homer, Homer begins the epic by asking the goddess to sing about the rage of Achilles. That is the main theme of the poem. The reason why there is so much anger and conflict in the Iliad is because the Homeric law of honor and respect is being insulted which results to rage...
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Old Man and the sea: Epilogue The old man awoke to the boy staring at him. His vision was still blurry. As he wiped his tired eyes, he noticed the dry blood and cuts on his hand. He frowned, but then looked up at the boy and smiled. “I brought you some soup. ” the boy said anxiously. “I’m not...
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Themes of The Stranger Several themes in The Stranger serve as the foundation to the novel. Detachment, the first theme, is evident through Meursault’s overall attitude, Salamano’s situation, and Meursault’s desire to bury his mother without seeing her body. Meursault detached himself from the...
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Christina An Weiss AIC September 9, 2010 Tuesdays with Morrie Love is a powerful emotion and an essential human need. Without loving the ones around them and their community, people are unable to live their lives to the fullest. In Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, love is a most meaningful and...
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Cyrano de Bergerac Summary Who is Cyrano in the play Cyrano de Bergerac? In Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, Cyrano is a man who has a big sized nose, and he is in love with a beautiful woman named Roxane, but she is in love with a handsome man named Christian. All throughout the play Cyrano...
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The hunger and humor of Algernon When Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Earnest he gave birth to a wonderful character named Algernon Moncrieff. In this essay we will see how the appetites of this character add to the humor of this play. To analyze this we will look at his character traits...
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Macbeth: Summary Macbeth and Banquo, Scottish generals, are returning after crushing a rebellion against Duncan ( King of Scotland ), when they are met by three witches. The witches prophesy that Macbeth will become thane of Cawdor , then later on he will become King. Banquo is told that he will...
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?Looking for Alaska, by John Green, is a story about friendship and love. As a new student at Culver Creek (a boarding school), Miles gets a chance to start over and actually get a chance to make friends. When Miles gets to his school for the first time he meets his roommate, Chip, and they become...
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They play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by Tom Stoppard is a humorous, existentialist play where two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet are the leads, focusing mainly on their musings and actions while Hamlet occurs as background. The story is about the two main characters’ misadventures...
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Having the ability to succeed to your personal legend, and find self discovery allows people to open their minds and see the world for what it really is and how everything has a purpose in life. The story The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, Santiago makes great change from beginning, to the end of his...
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The period in which the events in The Iliad took place were different than the times of today. Back then, the most important aspect of life for a person was to be a hero and to be remembered. One's pride would come before everything else. In the present day, this concept would be thought of as...
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ENC 1101 Essay Assignment: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway There is a scene in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, when after a shark has taken a big chunk “about forty pounds” off Santiago’s prize marlin catch, Santiago begins to doubt whether he should have gone out to sea...
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Henrik Ibsen's play "A Dolls House" is a play about a woman who is living a stereotypical life and she doesn't realize it. Nora has been forced into believing that she is happy acting as a child for Torvald until she realizes the men around her stunted her growth as a person. Nora's husband was...
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The House of Atreus is one of the finest examples of uncontrollable fate in all of ancient literature. The lineage of Atreus is steeped in the spilling of family blood starting with Tantalus and continuing with Agamemnon. However it is Atreus who is responsible for the curse on the family, since...
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It All Adds Up Throughout the play Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand concentrates on Cyrano’s adoration of the exquisite Roxanne, and his attempts to win her love for the less intelligent but more attractive Christian de Neuvillette. Cyrano, a large-nosed swordsman and poet, must overcome...
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The Flowers for Algernon written by Daniel Key engages many human topics such as intellectual abilities over moral character, the reliance of the present to the past, and views of society on the mentally retarded. Keys effectively accomplishes though protagonist Charlie Gordon. The novel is...
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