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Scarlett Letter Log Of Chapter
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2838.... she slept with. The preacher sort of tells here to confess who did it with her. They keep yelling at here and she never confesses.
5. I predict that the preacher guy is the man who had sex with Hester.
Chapter 4
The Interview
Summary: This chapter is about how Hester goes back to jail and she starts to feel sick and here baby is sick to a physician is ordered to come. He gives the baby something and she says something like she wished it were poison. Hester's husband comes to the jail and they start talking about what had happened. Her husband trie .....
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An Analysis Of David Hume’s “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 430.... Hume gives an example of how “A blind man can form no notion of colours”. A blind man cannot form impressions of a color because he lacks the ability to see, thus without these impressions, the man cannot imagine what the color red is or what it looks like. But, if somehow the blind man is able to see, “this new inlet for his sensations” will provide the ability to conceive ideas. This ability of conceiving ideas is brought to us by the senses and through experience.
Using again the example of color, who is to say that everyone sees colors that same way? I see the color ye .....
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Shooting An Elephant: Inner Conflict
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 654.... that Orwell didn't want to shoot the elephant, but against better judgement, he did so anyway. Because of the pressure "to impress" the natives of Burma, he felt it was expected ofhim to shoot at the animal. Ironically enough, even though Orwell was the main character in his story he was converted into a pawn torn from his better judgement as a result of those yellow faces. He observed in that instant that when the white male becomes savage in his thought he produces self destruction. In this exact piece it gives an additional motive as to why Orwell's better judgeme .....
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Love And Suffering - Dantes In
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1267.... the Trojans’ Promised Land was guaranteed by fate. History is the guarantor. The theme of this work is that of how a nation came to be.
Aeneas suffers a great deal. Emerging from this suffering, Aeneas will lead his people and conquer their new homeland. Aeneas has many obstacles that stand in his way. Juno hates the Trojans and wants to do everything in her power to prevent the Trojans from reaching Rome and Italy. Aeneas has inner obstacles as well. Until Aeneas descends into Hades, he will never fully gave up his old life in Troy. He constantly thinks about his li .....
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Cry, The Beloved Country, From
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 490.... rude even during a funeral.
The setting was also significantly different in the movie. Though there was not a lot of description of the setting in the book the setting in the movie made a difference. Ndotshenti in the book was described as a drought stricken environment where it was hard to survive in. The book made it look like a beautiful valley with rolling green grass everywhere that to me almost looked like a paradise. Johannesburg gets very little description in the book but is implied through Kumalo's eyes to be an amoral and corrupt city. In the movie they really tr .....
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A Separate Peace 2
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1161.... time World War II was going on and the sixteen-year old boys were trying to preserve the peace in their lives, before they would be old enough to be drafted into the war-just one year later. One day Finny, the best athlete in the school, came up with the crazy idea to jump out of a tree into a river. All of the seventeen-year olds had accomplished this task because it was a mandatory test for the war. Phineas, naturally was the first sixteen-year old to conquer this feat; so Gene was the second. None of the other boys ever tried the jump. After a while the two made it an .....
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The Odyssey
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 474.... men unleash that throw them off course.
Although the gods and goddesses were powerful they were also benificial.
Zeus was beneficial in the way that he helped Odysseus, “Then Zeus thundered/
overhead, one loud crack for a sign.”(p.478, 1032-1033), this sign told Odysseus
to start attacking the suitors. The way Circe helps Odysseus in warning him of
dangers to come, “Circe forsaw for us and shared with me,/ so let me tell her
forcast: then we die/ with out eyes open.”(p.459, 528-530) She warned of the
Sirens, Charybdis, Scylla, and the island of the sun god. Also Ath .....
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“Et Tu Brute?” Caesar Sputtere
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 711.... strong belief in the idea of blood-revenge centered around native gods. The people of the time believed that the gods played an important role in blood-revenge, especially if one of their laws were defied. In the Odyssey, Zeus and Athena intervene on Odysseus’ behalf when Odysseus wishes to destroy the suitors that had plagued his palace for a number of years. Zeus intervenes after his sacred policy, his policy of hospitality, was violated and for that the suitors were punished. In Julius Caesar, there is no evidence of any specific gods interfering, such as dialogu .....
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