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America And I: “Light” And “Dark”
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1028.... of the emotions that should be interpreted from the story.
Even from the very beginning of the story Yezierska uses images of light and dark to describe her coming from Russia to America. She describes her hopes for America as “sunlight burning through my darkness”. In this instance she has used light and dark to emphasize her feelings. Sunlight is used to symbolize the hopes and dreams of a better life while darkness is used to illustrate the hopelessness and disparity she felt in Russia. Furthermore, she depicts the people of Russia as “colors that never saw light”. In .....
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Edgar Allen Poes Fall Of The H
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1020.... rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium” (718). This statement contributes to the collective atmosphere of despair and anguish, the narrator tries to view everything he sees in a rational manner, but upon looking at the house and its surroundings, he seems to have a heightened sense of unreality, as if he is hallucinating. Poe uses descriptive words such as decayed, strange, peculiar, gray, mystic, Got .....
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Chopin's A Pair Of Silk Stockings: Mrs. Sommers
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 526.... All of a sudden
everything she has in not good enough, she looks at her shopping bag as
"shabby" and "old". Her parcel is "very small". At this point, she wants more.
She begins to think without reason, and loses her sense of responsibility when
she puts the stockings on in the ladies room. Mrs. Sommers is "not going
through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself", she is "not
thinking at all" at this point.
Mrs. Sommers's mind is not working like it used to at the beginning.
All of a sudden nothing is too expensive, she eats the expensive restaurant,
bu .....
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All The Presidents Men
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 702.... in sequential order. They also discovered address books, one of which included a telephone number for Howard E. Hunt, a member of the White House. This was the first indication that the President and his cabinet might be involved in this break in. Woodward and Bernsein's investigate this White House connection. As they delve deeper into this lead, they discover continously larger crimes with more of the prominent White House staff is involved. Woodwas and Bernstein put to print all their astonishing findings in articles in their paper, the Post. After putting great pressure o .....
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Euclid: The Elements
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1120.... the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria. It is not quite the coincidence that it might seem that there were two learned men called Euclid. In fact Euclid was a very common name around this period and this is one further difficulty that makes it hard to find information concerning Euclid of Alexandria since there are references to numerous men called Euclid in the history of this period.
There is nothing consistent in the dating given about when Euclid did all of his work but a person by the name of Itard said that situation is best summed up by the fowling three variables: .....
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The Theme Of Carelessness In The Great Gatsby
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 702.... "Well, other people are," she said lightly.
"What's that got to do with it?"
"They'll keep out of my way," she insisted. "It takes two to make
an accident."
"Suppose you meet somebody just as careless as yourself."
"I hope I never will," she answered. "I hate careless people."(63)
She quickly responded to Nick that she doesn't need to be careful.
Daisy implied that it is the other person's responsibility to be mindful of her.
She also said that she hates careless people right after she admitted .....
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Summary Of Rosen's "My Lost World: A Survivor's Tale"
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 817.... these times.
Sara came from a very large family. Thus having many stories and
memories to tell in part one. She even has three separate chapters for
three different sets of family.
Sara Rosen's decision of explaining her family and the traditions
set forth, was an exceptional way to start the novel. It gave the reader a
more detailed image of what to expect. The reader now fully understands
what the Rosen family was experiencing while trying to survive the
Holocaust. The reader, also, now has knowledge of what the Jewish Religion
is like and realizes all the faith and tr .....
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The Heart Of Darkness
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 648.... agents (whom Marlow calls pilgrims because of their strange habit of carrying long, wooden staves wherever they go) and a crew of cannibals on a long, difficult voyage up the river.
They come across a hut with firewood stacked and a note saying it is for them but to approach cautiously. Natives attack them and the helmsman is killed before Marlow frightens the natives away with the steam whistle. They come to Kurtz's Inner Station, expecting to find him dead, but a Russian trader there assures them everything is all right and reveals that he is the one who left the wood. The .....
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