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Term Papers on Book Reports
Relationships In The Odyssey
Number of words: 399 - Number of pages: 2.... was willing to try because he felt something inside of him that gave him the strength to go on. Thus, this relationship between Odysseus and Telemakhos gave both of them the courage to overcome the hardships ahead of them.
While the relationship between Odysseus and Telemakhos is a blind love, the relationship between Odysseus and Penelope is a love between two people who just want to be together. Odysseus shows his love towards Penelope throughout the Odyssey. In spite of the fact that Odysseus has been gone for twenty years, he never forgets his wife b .....
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As I Lay Dying: Character's Words And Insight To Underlying Meanings
Number of words: 1183 - Number of pages: 5.... why I can talk to him
with knowing with hating with because he knows” (27). He uses his gift of
realizing things without them having to actually be told to him to gain
credibility with the reader. Who would doubt a narrator who possesses that
type of adroitness? Also, his language is clear and reflective. He uses
similes and metaphors and appears to have an acute awareness of spatial
relationships. Darl's sophisticated perception and poetic linguistics give him
the means of reaching for and maintaining his role as a competent observer and
reporter. How .....
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Analysis Of "A Raisin In The Sun"
Number of words: 365 - Number of pages: 2.... down by the white collar workers who are the white business men.
The Youngers, specifically Walter believe “no matter how hard black folks
work they can't get ahead in this world.” He also believes it is so much
harder for black people to get anywhere that he would lose all of the money
Mama had given him, trying to spread it around getting the businesses going.
The predominately white workers are trying to keep it predominately white.
The Black Americans are predominately the most prejudice ethnic
group in the story. They are not only prejudice against .....
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Death Of A Salesman Essay
Number of words: 795 - Number of pages: 3.... to follow him around in high school?” (pg. 16) It is easy to see that Willy thought the world was against him and that his life would never amount to anything. When he says “I’m always in a race with the junkyard,” (pg. 73) it is simple to sense that Willy is not satisfied with his life.
Willy’s actions also help the readers take a look into the world he lives in. With all his hopes and dreams for Biff, Willy never paid much attention to Happy. Any praise and acts of approval were always focused on Biff. This is shown when Bi .....
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The Allegory Of The Cave: Turn Around
Number of words: 1401 - Number of pages: 6.... at the wall opposite him, watching pretty shadow puppets. He
listens to the exotic, wonderful, and large words whispered in his ears by the
puppeteers. He would naturally turn around, or perhaps even stand, but chains
bind him to the ground, and the puppeteers have servants who hold his head in
place. One day, a situation arises where he finds that the chains are broken,
and he stands. This is against the will of the servants, but they have no
physical power over him, if he does not allow it. He turns round and sees the
fire and the puppeteers and then he .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper: What The Hell????
Number of words: 297 - Number of pages: 2.... be
related to the way she is being treated by her husband, John. John is very
protective of her wife because she is in all reality a very sick woman. She
feels trapped because of this and the way she sees the paper must be an
indication. She stays up late at night and hours on end during the day to stare
at worthless, tattered, yellow wallpaper.
This story really bored me to death. All I could think of was, "when is
this story going to be over?" I remember having a highly active imagination as
a child but this is ridiculous. She sees mushrooms sprouting and women shaking
bars and she's a middle aged .....
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A Portrayel Of Women In The Or
Number of words: 870 - Number of pages: 4.... she acts. The chorus leader states in line 35 "spoken like a man, my lady, loyal, full of self-command." (Aeschylus 116). Odysseus of the quick wits was held in high esteem for such craftiness, yet intelligence and wit, while exulted in a man, are threatening characteristics in a woman. In the kingdom, Clytaemnestra has been having an open affair with Aegisthus. The chorus, who acts as the voice of the common man, and therefore the voice of morality, condemn her for this affair even though it is common practice for men in ancient Greece to have many extrama .....
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Fate In Macbeth
Number of words: 1072 - Number of pages: 4.... lines of Thomas Aquinas or Kurt Vonnegut. According to Aquinas, time is something that you both exist in and are affected by or you not. One is either subject to the limitations of time or one is not. For instance, God is outside the normal limitations of time and is therefore immortal. In Macbeth, it seems, the witches are a transient hybrid of those in time and those not in time. That is to say, they can travel in and out of time at will. This ability allows them to both see the future and to change its very course. This of course proves to be an illogica .....
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