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The Yellow Wall-paper
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 989.... of her depression and how it is dismissed by her husband and brother. "You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency -- what is one to do?" (160) These two men -- both doctors -- seem completely unable to admit that there might be more to her condition than just stress and a slight nervous condition. Even when a summer in the country and weeks of bed-rest do .....
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Heart Of Darkness
Number of pages: 15 | Number of words: 4065.... he wants to portray while Marlow goes on this "voyage of a lifetime".
Marlow begins his voyage as an ordinary English sailor who is traveling to the African Congo on a "business trip". He is an Englishmen through and through. He's never been exposed to any alternative form of culture, similar to the one he will encounter in Africa, and he has no idea about the drastically different culture that exists out there.
Throughout the book, Conrad, via Marlow's observations, reveals to the reader the naive mentality shared by every European. Marlow as well, shares this naivet&eacut .....
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Sunrise On The Veldt: Order
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 753.... in "Sunrise on the Veldt" was shown in the life cycle.
In the novel, The Wave, a teacher sought order to help keep his
classroom under control. The order helped keep the classroom under control. But
the students began to notice they were not thinking, and the order began to tear
the school apart. The teacher sought order because he wanted his students to
behave better. Scientists use order to control viruses. Viruses are classified
by several attributes; their shape, the vectors that transmit them, and their
RNA or DNA content. Once a virus is classified, it can be examined, a .....
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Christian Elements In Beowulf
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1525.... when a written tradition was introduced they began to write the story down on tablets.
The old tale was not first told or invented by the commonly known, Beowulf poet. This is clear from investigations of the folk lore analogues. The manuscript was written by two scribes around AD 1000 in late West Saxon, the literary dialect of that period. It is believed that the scribes who put the old materials together into their present form were Christians and that his poem reflects a Christian tradition. The first scribe copied three prose pieces and the first 1,939 lines of Beowulf .....
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Transcendentalism 3
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1200.... and women’s rights movements. So, what set off these changes in our society? Many trace the roots of these events back to the chief writers of the period. Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau preached beliefs in self-reliance, non-conformity, and in the Over-Soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson greatly accepted the concept of self-reliance, which is the dependence on one's own judgments, powers, or resources, rather than those of others. Emerson focused on this topic in one of his essays. “There is a time in every man’s education w .....
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A Farewell To Arms
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 517.... wife to be.
The plot in A Farewell to Arms was always active. They were never
staying in one place too long. It had a very good story line, which
was a love story that ended up in a tragedy. The main character's wife
got pregnant and she was off to have her baby when problems started
occurring. They had to have a caesarean, and the baby dies, and when
the mother of the child starts to hemorrhage Henry knows that it was
over for his wife and he was right.
From the beginning of the book until the end, the action was up. Ever
since the front page Hen .....
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The Albanian Virgin
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1469.... are also based on fiction as can it be found in earlier written short stories.
Since many of her stories are based on the region in which she was born, the characters and narrators are often thought of as being about her life and how she grew up; and making her stories appear from a feminist approach. This could also indicate why the central characters in the short stories in Open Secrets, are all women: a young woman kidnapped by Albanian tribesmen in the 1920’s in , and a young born-again Christian whose unresolved feelings of love and anger cause her to vandalize a .....
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A Man For All Seasons 3
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2064.... already married to Catherine. Therefore, he wanted the Pope to divorce him and Catherine also, for “State reasons.” When Sir Thomas didn’t agree with the divorce, many people turned away from him. His wife, Lady Alice, begged Sir Thomas to agree with the King, just to make life simpler, but Thomas refused. He believed the he wouldn’t go to Heaven if his conscience was not clear, and his conscience told him not to just tell the King what he wanted to hear, but to tell the King the truth. This is just a basic overview of what happened in A Man for A .....
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