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Identity In Sula
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1475.... two women's separate journeys and individual searches for their own selves leads to nothing but despair and Sula's death. Nel's realization that they were only truly individuals when they were joined as one allows them to merge once again.
Morrison portrays Sula and Nel as binary opposites at the beginning of the novel. In our first view of Nel she is as conventional and conforming as a young lady can be: Under Helene's hand the girl became obedient and polite. Her mother calmed any enthusiasms that Nel showed until she drove her daughter's imagination underground. (p.18) In .....
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Blind Obedience
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 695.... school because of the defeat.
The author is able to assume that we all share common experiences from our youth and our days in grade school, introducing the characters with a minimum of prose. The major theme is critiquing education systems that teach children what to think by repetition and memorization. Clavell uses the story to point out how that makes individuals vulnerable to manipulation.
How many education systems look at the students as individuals? Most education systems lump all the students into a nameless, impersonal mass. In the story, the “old” teacher .....
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Waiting For Godot
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 911.... the religious theme, this is parallel to Peter's denial of Jesus.
Another interpretation is that Pozzo is God, and Lucky is mankind. Perhaps Pozzo is really Godot, as he was mistaken for Godot, or maybe Pozzo is just there as a deception. Lucky wants to satisfy Pozzo with menial acts of obedience (according to Pozzo's own explanation of Lucky's actions), while Pozzo seems quite apathetic to Lucky's deeds and plights. However, in the second act, Pozzo needs Lucky to exist, because Pozzo is blind. Perhaps this is similar to the theory that God would not exist if man did n .....
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Big Brother In The Media
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1402.... of the show have sky rocketed in the past months. Although the show has had all types of comments put forward about it, Big Brother continues is ride in producing a media frenzy for the sponsors, products, and companies that it chooses to promote. There will always be different views of the show in all news treatments no matter what subject of topic is at issue.
My thesis on the subject of Big Brother is that print articles report and represent Big Brother as a market commodity for an audience to read about, follow and decide whether to buy the products involved.
The simple t .....
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Hedda Gabler 2
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 508.... terms,Hedda marked a return to the theatrical style which we term "realism," a method of playwriting in which the internal motivations of the personalities in the play are explored within a specific social context. Other hallmarks of the realistic style include the
avoidance of devices such as soliloquies in favor of more natural exposition, causally related scenes leading logically to a denouement, and the creation of individual behavior directly attibutable to the heredity or environment of the character. All external stage details were authentic to the specific and current e .....
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Song Of Myself: Individuality And Free Verse
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1500.... where he attended public school for six years before being apprenticed to a printer. Two years later he went to New York City to work in printing shops. He returned to Long Island in 1835 and taught in country schools. In 1838 and 1839 Whitman edited a newspaper, the Long-Islander, in Huntington. When he became bored with the job, he went back to New York City to work as a printer and journalist. There he enjoyed the theater, the opera, and the libraries. Whitman wrote poems and stories for popular magazines and made political speeches, for which Tammany Hall Democrats reward .....
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The Rez Sisters
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1280.... images, ideas and associations.”(p. 12 Knots in a String.) It is given that as we go through our lives and encounter different experiences our identity of yourselves and where we belong may change. As this happens we may gain or relinquish new values and from this identity and image our influenced. “A bad self-image and low self-esteem may form part of identity…but often the cause is not a loss of identity itself so much as a loss of belonging.” Social psychologists suggest that identity is closely related to our culture. Native people today have be .....
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Knowledge VS Intelligence
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 987.... process, “but these grade on thinkers are few and far between.”
Golding’s article can be easily linked to Plato’s writing, The Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato declares, ‘let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened.” He goes on to discuss men in a world of darkness who can only guess what the shadows are. The truly intelligent would see these shadows and formulate an idea as to what they are. A somewhat intelligent person or a grade two thinker would be the man that is brought into the light and enlightened. He then goes back and appl .....
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