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American Dream 3
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 977.... have been eating decent food, wearing warm clothes, perhaps saving enough money to purchase his manumission. (McLennan, S.) Toward the later part of the nineteenth century, the picture had changed. America had spread westward and had filled with immigrants from Asia and Europe. While this was going on America was forming the modern day government and started to put proposals together to make this "Land of the Free" cost a little bit. Those fortunate and industrious enough to do so were accumulating vast fortunes. Despite America's great wealth, freedom from basic want was .....
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Hera
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 779.... Cronus did this horrible act, because he was afraid that one day he would be dethroned by one of his children. Zeus was the only one out of the six of them not swallowed. When Zeus was old enough he fought his father, and forced him to disgorge his other brothers and sisters. was entrusted to Ocaenus and Tethys, by Rhea, to be raised while Zeus struggled with the Titans. later returned after Zeus won the war.
Zeus and got married on the summit of Mount. Ida in Phrygia. Together they were the parents of; Ares the god of war, Hephaetus the god of fire and metal work, He .....
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12 Angry Men
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 922.... two looks like the prototypical nerd; wearing glasses, looking
very awkward and small in stature. Also, juror number six looks very rough
and presumably unintelligent; very large in stature with a strong jaw line
and wearing his shirt unbuttoned at the top without a tie. We can also make
assumptions about Henry Fonda’s character(juror #8) based on his
appearance. He looks very intelligent and almost angelic in his all white
suit and with his tall and slender build. Later in the movie these ideas are
reinforced by the other three methods of characterization .....
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Native Son
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1380.... Max had the most influence on Bigger. Max helped Bigger realize what he had done wrong and how that not all white people were out to get the black man. At times Bigger felt that Max was only trying to hurt him but I think that deep down inside, Bigger knew Max was only there to help him.
A wave of excited voices swept over the room.
Bigger's fingers gripped the arms of the chair.
Max's hand touched his shoulder, Bigger turned
and Max whispered,
Sit still
Mr. Coroner?
Yes?
In the capacity of Bigger Thomas' lawyer. I'd
like to state that he does not wish to t .....
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The Jungle
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1933.... Jurgis, frustrated with the current conditions in the meat packing industry, that uses the men the same way they use swine (every part), joins a Union, as does Marjia, and various other members of his family. Investing money into a home and life into his job gets a Jurgis no where. Positions of power tend to go only to the corrupted characters. Bribes and kickbacks come as commonly as unemployment and job insecurity. He finally realizes that even a physically strong man, willing to work hard, can be beaten by the system; indeed, the system must defeat and discard him as part o .....
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Black Boy By Richard Wright
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 967.... ask his father for the money they found him with another woman getting “comfortable”. As Wrights’ mother asks for the money his father laughs at them and says he doesn’t have any money. When the woman that his father is with looks at Wright she says Wright was cute and that his father should give him something. This causes Wright to become embarrassed and hurt because when that woman told his father to give him something the only thing his father would give him was a nickel. The moment that Wright becomes a victim is when his father laughed and put the nickel back into his .....
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How Does Jane Eyre Fulfil Your
Number of pages: 15 | Number of words: 3916.... average person either wouldn't or couldn't do, for fear of what may happen to themselves. But it is not just bravery that defines a heroine. Trustworthiness, putting others before themselves and not being afraid of speaking out for something they believe is right, are just a few different qualities of a heroine.
When people associate a romantic heroine with literature, they sometimes get a different impression of the woman. In most books she is the lead part in the novel. And as well as having the characteristics of an ordinarily thought of romantic heroine, she has great .....
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Ezra Pound, Imagism, And The Influence Of The Orient
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1411.... “H.D.” (Hilda Doolittle), and Richard Aldington in 1912. The first states that the “thing” dealt with will be done so directly, whether subjectively or objectively (Spirit of Romance p.219). Pound insisted that the poem must present to the reader an active image, not a mere description of events or setting. Pound’s model for his directness was the prose of nineteenth century French authors such as Flaubert and DeMaupassant (Hakatuni p.48-49).
The second tenet of Imagism is to “use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation” of the image in question. .....
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