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Rip Van Winkle As A Folktale
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1060.... and his only alternative was to escape from the labor of the farm and his wife. This was the start of his long, endless journey to a mysterious future...
Two of the elements in folklore is the use of supernatural and journey. Rip went on a adventure up the Kaatskill Mountains. The adventure consisted of some unusual happenings especially meeting up with the supernatural. The first element of a folktale, journey, ties in the second element, the supernatural. Irving displayed this when Rip met up with a ghost. The images of Henry Hudson’s crew displayed this. Rip and a st .....
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Summary Of "Ceremony"
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 871.... Tayo could not see the reason for killing the Japanese,
and then when the soldier killed Rocky, it made his path split like a silk
string to a spider's web, it went out in all directions. His mind snapped at
that exact moment and went into "shell-shock".
Tayo started very early trying to find his path, but yet his path
paralleled Rocky's until the time when Rocky died. Tayo's path paralleled but
was always a step behind, because he was trying to retain his heritage and still
keep with the new ways. Tayo walked a thin line trying to keep his path and
Rocky's close toge .....
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Holocaust (devil IN Vienna)
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2306.... a way to see or write to each other even when things were rough. Inges father also began to disprove of their friendship and pretty soon if either one were to mention the other’s name she would be punished. Yet the girls refused to forget each other. One day Inge received the news. She was to move away to Yugoslavia to escape Hitler’s regime. The girls promised to never forget each other and they never did; even long after the war was over. I think Doris Orgel did a wonderful job in portraying these girls as people who would forget their differences and what others said in o .....
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The Children In "Sons And Lovers" By D. H. Lawerence And "What Maisie Knew" By Henry James
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 908.... that Maisie experiences in her life exist because of her parents
extremely vicious hatred for each other. They use Maisie as a “vessel for
bitterness” (13). To Beale and Ida, Maisie was just a tool that they used
to hurt the other person. Eventually, Maisie figured out that they were
using her to be the bearer of brutily hateful messages. Consequently, she
learned not to deliver such messages. This made her parents very angry and
they decided that she had “grown incredably dull”. Thus, Maisie realized “
They had wanted her not for any good they could do her, but for harm .....
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Fahrenheit 451: A Censored And Structured World
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 452.... prefers not to have to think, but rather to allow others to think
for her to simply say "yes I agree." Mildred is the epitome of laziness. The
most complex of all the characters is the fire chief Beatty. Beatty is a man who
once was educated but has now turned his back on education and works to destroy
it. Beatty knows what is in books but chooses not to care, not to do anything
but help the destruction of books.
The loss of the characters freedom to read and to think was not an act that
was forced on the people but, embraced by the people. The people loved the idea
of not .....
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Willa Cather's "O Pioneers"
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1095.... to a place
uninhabited, but with much fortune and hard work ahead of them. 3 In 1890,
Willa attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she gained the
knowledge and creativity to write such beautiful work. In her first works,
Willa's animosity towards Nebraska was relevant in her work. 4 After she
went east in 1896 and became editor of McClure's Magazine and gained
success, her feeling toward Nebraska changed, which was evident in "The
Bohemian Girl," in 1912. 5
When she published O Pioneers in 1913, many of her memories of
childhood and life on the prairie .....
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In Search Of Excellence
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1835.... This is the foundation of its extraordinary success. Analysts showed how much could be saved if Frito would reduce its commitment to service The analysts are right, Frito would save money. However, analysts can not begin to predict the impact of service unreliability on the sales force, retailers, and eventually on the market share loss. The successful companies limited themselves to a handful of themes that were intense and repetitive, and highly successful in helping employees buy into themes. Quality and service were the hallmarks of these companies. In addition, everyone's .....
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The Animal Farm
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 482.... long hours and give them little portions of food, while he and Squealer would feast on large meals. Napoleon and Squealer took advantage of their role as governor and ate all the food, drank beer, and lived in the owner’s house. However, to the farm animals, they considered these to be the 7 commandments:
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs and has wings is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill another animal.
7. All anim .....
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