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Iliad
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 596.... famed hero’s will were itself disintegrating on the battlefield. Homer uses the epithet “proud” to modify the Trojan lines, an adjective that intensifies the effect of Paris’ action of retreating by mentioning its opposite. Homer further reviles Paris by calling him, ironically, “magnificent” and “brave,” thereby heightening the indignity of his cowardly retreat.
Another contrast in Paris’ character is represented in his beauty. He is known as one of the most handsome men in Troy, but looks can be deceiving, as Hector implies when he says, “Paris, appalling Paris! Our princ .....
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The Great Gatsby-tom And Gatsb
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 492.... and blue" and then she says, "You did it, Tom. I know you didn’t mean to but u did do it. That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big hulking physical specimen of a----." Gatsby tries to be perceived as an intellectual with the huge library of books that he has. Tom and Gatsby have in common that they both want something the other has, Tom wants Gatsby's fancy car and this is seen when Tom ask Gatsby to borrow his car, on the other side Gatsby wants Daisy, who Tom sees as his property, and this is seen throughout the whole book with the parties .....
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Song Of Myself
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1230.... with Whitman's sexuality in their strongly pleasurable sensualities. The thoroughly intimate encounter with another individual in section five particularly expresses Whitman as a being of desire and libido.
Whitman begins his synthesis of the soul and body through sexuality by establishing a relative equality between the two. He pronounces in previous stanzas, "You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself," and, "Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest." Here, he lays foundation for the basic egalitarianism w .....
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Hero And Anti-hero In Casablan
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 802.... is centered around his feelings for the woman he loves. For example, when Rick was together with Ilsa in Paris he was very ambitious with his political beliefs. He was visualizing resistance and freedom for the French people. After tragically losing the love of his life, Rick ceased to show any political involvement or any strong political beliefs and began to worry only about his own well-being. On the other hand, Victor Lazlo is the type of character that is involved in politics for the love of politics. He is not dependent on the love of a woman to give him the streng .....
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Les Miserables
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 954.... asleep he stole the silver dinner ware and fled into the night. This act again can be blamed on society for Valjean, realizing that because of his criminal record he would probably never again be able to obtain a job and support himself, saw stealing the silverware as his only choice.
Had he not been caught and returned to the Bishop, Valjean probably would have been forced into a life of corruption. However, to his surprise, the priest told the police he had made a present of the silver to Valjean. He even gave Valjean the two silver candlesticks he had not taken. When the .....
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The Odyssey Report
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1354.... men in
to share our feast". This shows that menelaos must be a good guest especially to
give them shelter during a wedding. Menelaos also does not pressure Telemachos
into answering any questions before he eats and enjoys the festivities; nor does
he give any indication that he wants Telemachos to leave. He says "stay here in
my mansion for ten or twelve days and then I will give you a good send off and a
handsome gift, three horses and a chariot: I will give you a fine chalice too,
that when you pour your drop to the immortal gods you may think of me all your
days". This .....
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The Outsiders
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 507.... they wouldn’t be jumped by the socs.
18. Johnny didn’t want to spend his life running from the cops just because
he defended himself.
19.
Juvenile Delinquents
Turn Heroes
Ponyboy Curtis and John Cade were brought into hospitals yesterday
after making an heroic rescue of several young school children in a burning
abandoned church. The police have been looking for these two boys for
about a week because they are wanted for the murder a wealthy boy named
Bob. The two young men were returning to the church they had been hiding
out at .....
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Various Works Of Ee Cummings
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1054.... a puzzle point
of view, one begins to put his puzzle together. When read appropriately, the poem then reads "a leaf falls in loneliness." His style was an unbelievable break through in poetry for his time, and still is today. The originality of E. E. Cummings's poems has been surpassed by few and possibly by no other poets. He has written many poems that have the same structure as "l(a".
"In his work, Cummings experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax, abandoning traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic .....
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