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Biting The Apple
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 532.... eat the fruit, God curses them and banishes them from the Garden of Eden. After their expulsion, Adam and Eve face the hardships that God places upon them. Since Adam and Eve know good from evil, they can understand things which they never imagined. In Anthem, Prometheus and Gaea submit to the power of the Council. However, after Prometheus stumbles on to a cave that holds the secret to the "Unmentionable Times," he changes. Along with Gaea, Prometheus commits the unpardonable sin: standing forth from the mindless human herd. For this forbidden sin, the Council condemns .....
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King Lears Plot Synopsis
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1361.... loyal Kent attempts to change Lear's mind with blunt honesty, but is banished for contradicting Lear's proclamation. Lear is going to live with his eldest daughters, yet still keep the title "King." Secretly, Goneril and Regan conspire to not allow Lear to exert his title over anything.
Meanwhile, the Earl of Gloucester suffers a similar lapse in judgement. He is easily deceived by his bastard son, Edmund. Edmund draws up a phony letter that implicates the good son, Edgar, in a conspiracy to kill his father. Then, he "accidentally" allows Gloucester to see it. Edmund furthers h .....
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Human Comedy 2
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 636.... two radiant girls symbolize hope. Throughout the entire novel they are waiting for Marcus to return.
Major Conflict:
The major conflict is with Homer learning to deal with his problems and to gain a new understanding about life.
Setting: The setting is in Ithaca, California, during World War II.
Point of View: The point of view is third person omniscient.
Themes:
The quality of life is very important.
The effects of death can be good and bad.
Hard work is good for the soul.
Understanding and maturity come with experience.
Quotes
1. "The cow, ho .....
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Ballad Of Birmingham
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 442.... effected one family. It told of how our peace officers reacted to marches with clubs, hoses, guns, and jail. They were fierce and wild and a black child would be no match for them. The mother refused to let her child march in the wild streets of Birmingham and sent her to the safest place that no harm would become of her daughter.
Going to church in the ghetto in Birmingham was probably the safest place a mother could send her child. But this is where the irony takes place. The irony makes the church the warzone and place of destruction while the march was the safest pl .....
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Greenspan - The Case For The Defence
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1549.... of Jurisprudence are always turning, and I came to realise how Greenspan worked and bargained for his status in the country to be solidified. This book also flourished with innovative situations pertaining to the most diversified of criminal charges, to the most uncanny regions of law ever dealt. It was this thorough look at Greenspan's life which impressed this reviewer the most.
It was quite clear that after the fourth page, I came upon the conclusion that this casebook would create a most influential reaction to anyone who had displayed any interest towards our Law system in .....
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Families On The Fault Line
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1437.... for their problems on ethnic minorities--an attitude, she claims, that has been fostered by national administrations as a way of deflecting anger about the state of the economy and the declining quality of urban life. Rubin warns that failure to recognize the suffering of the working-class family and to seek solutions for its problems jeopardize ``the very life of the nation itself". The most striking part of this book is the evidence of the political machine that practically invites racism and other divisive forces into the situation. contributes to a broader unde .....
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Swift's A Modest Proposal
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 583.... goes on to present an idea for a solution to the problem.
He states that the best solution would be for the Irish to sell their infant children to the English. If the Irish nurse their children until they are one year old, they will be plump enough for the English to use as food. They can also use their skin to make leather that the men can make into boots, and the women can make into gloves. This way no parts of the children will go to waste. Since the English thought of the Irish as animals, they could treat them as they would treat animals. The ideas of the persona so .....
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Minnie Bibble
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 299.... Scott Fitzgerald develops in both of these ways.
Fitzgerald uses direct characterization first in describing Minnie. Direct characterization is statements or facts that the author tells the reader directly. Using this we learned that Minnie is a fifteen-year-old girl, whose father had moved her to Southampton from New Orleans in May, in order to get her mind off of boys and love. This move was not very effective, she was engaged before the first of June.
Second, Fitzgerald also uses indirect characterization, through thoughts, words, and actions and through perceptions of othe .....
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