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Do You Have What It Takes? A Breakdown Of The Educated Person
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 999.... Science also helps a person look at things objectively, which
means there is no feelings influencing experiments that can lead to fraudulent
conclusions. This can be a double edged sword however, because in many
instances when a scientist is emotionally removed from the experiments performed,
the question, "Should I?", is never asked. For instance under the reign of
Hitler many cruel medical experiments were preformed. In The Medical
Experiments by William Shirer the author states,"Prisoners were placed in high
pressure chambers and subjected to high-altitude tests until .....
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Poetry Explication
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 788.... God. Yet it is clear the poem deals with the same topic as the three sonnets with which it is grouped. The ambiguity of the poem lies in deciding which of the poem's two characters represents God and which represents the reader.
Line one presents the all-important dilemma, "There's the door. Will anybody get it?" (Jarman 170). The bather hopes someone else will get the door because his warm bath is so soothing. The bather thinks of a substantial reason why not to answer the door. Chances are that "by the time he towels off and puts on his pajamas, robe, and slippers and .....
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Ethan Frome
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 652.... to stay, they took her in to help around the house. Ethan took an immediate propensity to her cousin, Mattie, because she brought a bright light upon his dismal day. He seemed to have found someone that cared for him, was always happy and could share his youth, unlike his sickly wife who always nagged him. He longed to be with Mattie, however he had loyalty to his wife. Being married to the wrong person proved to be Ethan's first failure.
Ethan's second failure was not being able to stand up against his wife. His wife claimed that a new doctor said that she was extremely s .....
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King Lear - Clear Vision In King Lear
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1411.... my sight!," to which Kent responds, "See better, Lear, and let me still remain" (I.i.160). Here, Lear is saying he never wants to see Kent again, but he could never truly see him for who he was. Kent was only trying to do what was best for Lear, but Lear could not see that. Kent's vision is not clouded, as is Lear's, and he knows that he can remain near Lear as long as he is in disguise. Later, Lear's vision is so superficial that he is easily duped by the physical garments and simple disguise that Kent wears. Lear cannot see who Kent really. He only learns of Kent's n .....
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A Crime In The Neighborhood
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1339.... when
the Eberhardts’ shy bachelor neighbor, Mr. Green, takes interest in Marsha’s mother. Though
murder is the most visible crime in Marsha’s neighborhood, it is by no means the only one,
Marsha’s father and aunt run off together and Marsha wrongly accusses Mr. Green for the death
of Boyd Ellison.
Marsha’s father had left before the summer Boyd Ellison was killed. The divorce had a
tremendous impact on the whole family. Marsha’s twin brother and sister spent the summer away
on vacation and since Marsha had her ankle in a cast, she wasn’t able to do things most ki .....
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By Means Of Power
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 784.... Lordes poem she describes a dreamlike situation. This is where her son has been shot, probably in the face. Although "blood from his punctured cheeks and shoulders/is the only liquid for miles"(9-10), "my mouth splits into dry lips"(12). With the death of her boy she is willing to sacrifice her own need of any quenching of her lips. She is "thirsting for the wetness of his blood"(14) but it is more important to resist the temptation, "trying to make power out of hatred and destruction"(18).
The power displayed in the third section of Lordes Power is that of hatred. A poli .....
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A Farewell To Arms
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1085.... At the start of the
novel, Frederick drinks and travels from one house of prostitution to
another and yet he is discontent because his life is very unsettled.
He befriends a priest because he admires the fact that the priest
lives his life by a set of values that give him an orderly lifestyle.
Further into the novel, Frederick becomes involved with Catherine
Barkley. He slowly falls in love with her and, in his love for
her, he finds commitment. Their relationship brings some order and
value to his life. Compared to this new form of order in his life, .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2290.... Mark Twain did just that, when he wrote what is considered by many as the “Great American Epic”.
Finn, “The great American epic,” may be one of the most interesting and complex books ever written in the history of our nation. This book cleverly disguises many of the American ideals in a child floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a black slave. On the outside of the story, one can see an exciting tale of heroism and adventure; however, that is not all. The book shows Mark Twain’s idea of the classic American idealism, consisting of freedom, morality, practicality, .....
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