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The Odyssey: The Qualities That Gain Respect
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 513

.... and replies “My lady goddess, here is no cause for anger. My quiet Penelope-how well I know-would seem a shade before your majesty”(87). With this quick wit he convinces her to let him go. His intelligence not only makes him more likable, but also gets him out of potentially dangerous situations. Another of his favorable traits is his bravery. His wife Penelope says “My lord, my lion heart gone, long ago-the bravest man and the best of the Danaans” (77). Odysseus exercises his bravery escape the cave of the Kyklops. The Kyklops captures Odysseus and his shipmate .....


Hume: Matters Of Fact And Rela
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1098

.... rise tomorrow. I can't know the principle of induction to be true. So I can't know the sun will rise tomorrow. Hume argues this by relating it to the explanation in his Sceptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding by defining the only two types of knowledge. Relations of ideas and matters of fact. His definition of relations of ideas is that they are the knowledge which is "either intuitively or demonstratively certain"(132). They are universal truths that include mathematics and geometry, and do not actually exist in the world except in the form of idea .....


King Lear - Imprisonment
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1386

.... descend into disorder and chaos. The storm is symbolic of this occurrence, the weather imitates the state of men. "One minded like the weather," the gentle man recognises the disquiet and unrest of the storm, as a manifestation of the turbulence in Society at the time. He is not only responsible for the harmony of a nation, as the father figure it is also his duty to maintain harmony in his house. This he does with little success when "bribes" his daughters to fuel his own ego. "Which of you shall we say doth love us most,/That we our largest bounty ext .....


Macbeth - Tragedy
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1330

.... lengths Mac-beth will go to. Then only a scene later the audience witnesses a paranoid Macbeth visualises the ‘ghost’ of Banquo. The audience felt sorrow and pity for Macbeth, after the announcement that his wife had died. Finally in the death of Macbeth at the finalé of the play, the audience has a final ounce of pity to give to Macbeth. Macbeth and Banquo were on return from their great victory, when stopped by three witches [I.iii.]. The witches had a ‘prophecy’ that involved Macbeth and the ruling throne of Scotland. The witches meet Mac-beth and are ready to d .....


Poems By Robert Frost And Leon
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 623

.... cities and towns from “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night” and “The Bus” are in both poems the character is effect by there obligations to the world. In “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night” Frost’s character is honouring his responsibilities and obligations by leaving the wood to go home to his family. In “The Bus” the character wants run away from them.In both poems the author escapes into nature. At on point in “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night” Frost’s character notices the beauty of the forest around him: “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep” (pg 127). This .....


Stephen King
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2013

.... when Stephen’s father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact on King’s life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, recalls how his family life was altered: “After my father took off, my mother, struggled, and then landed on her feet.” My brother and I didn’t see a great deal of her over the next nine years. She worked a succession of continuous low paying jobs.” Stephen’s first outlooks on life were influenced by his older brother and what he figured .....


Ulysses
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 652

.... things. To never grow mentally old. I feel this way, because look at people in this society, and I just see a hoard of people [t]hat hoard and sleep, and feed…” My life means a whole lot more to me than that. I refuse to just get through life, working a job 40 hours a week until I’m 65, and then retire in Florida with 2 kids. I want to be rich, live like a king. I want to do all there is to do under the sun, and most impertinently on my deathbed, I want to be satisfied in every respect. A particular experience that led me to these beliefs, happened my .....


Green Grass Running Water
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1536

.... topic integral to her life, and one from which a great deal of passion should be generated. However, her uninspiring and spiritless lesson causes "certain individuals" to "fall asleep," sit "virtually in each other's laps," and enter into a private "conversation." Indirectly her lecture touches upon an important religious celebration of the Native American culture, the Sun Dance. She depicts the Sun Dance, which celebrates the creation of earth and all of its components, as a trivial and meaningless component of her people's culture. Even though she portrays such a momento .....



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