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The Pardoner's Prologue And Tale
Number of words: 1833 - Number of pages: 7

.... shame, illustrating the way it lives. Chaucer found examples of this in the Romance of the Rose, the Pardoner's Prologue has some vague similarities with the figure Faux-Semblant (False Seeming) found there. As seen in the General Prologue, a pardoner is a layman who sells pardons or indulgences, certificates from the pope by which people hoped to gain a share in the merits of the saints and escape more lightly from the pains of Purgatory after they died. This particular Pardoner works for a religious house notorious for fraud in this trade. Just as the indulgenc .....


Silicon Snake Oil Second Thoughts On The Information Highway
Number of words: 401 - Number of pages: 2

.... good argument the author makes is about the claims that computers make your life simpler and easier. He says that a computer can make certain tasks simpler and easier to do if you know how to use a computer and use the specific program needed to complete the specific task. If you do not know how to use a computer or are just learning how to use one, performing new tasks can be very difficult and frustrating. This is because computers are difficult to learn about and understand because they are different from most other equipment. Even someone who knows how to .....


Running A Thousand Miles From Freedom: The Victimization Of Women In Slavery
Number of words: 870 - Number of pages: 4

.... slaves. To pull this off, they covered her face with a handkerchief. They felt that her smooth skin wouldn’t look very convincing. She also had her arm in a cast, so that they could use the alibi that the master (Ellen) was traveling to Philadelphia for medical reasons. They traveled through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland before they reached Philadelphia on Christmas day. At one point while traveling, Ellen was seated next to a friend of her owner, who knew her from childhood. To avoid him, she looked out of the window and played .....


The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan
Number of words: 953 - Number of pages: 4

.... dream will start when Suyuan pushes June to be successful in areas such as dance, academics, trivia quizzes, and piano. After failing the tasks, June begins to feel resentful towards her mother to becoming a child prodigy. She starts to see her mothers hopes as expectations, and if June did not live up to this, she would feel like a complete failure. In one incident, during a talent show, June performs a piano piece filled with mistakes. Ultimately being embarrassed, June believed that her mother was ashamed of her. "...my mother's expression was a qui .....


1984: Socialism, Fascism, Or Communism
Number of words: 298 - Number of pages: 2

.... be compared to a life dominated by Socialism, Fascism, or Communism. Socialism demands state ownership and control of the basic means of production and distribution of wealth. Both of these are going on in the book. The Inner Party controls business, and I don’t think that anyone can have private profits. They all have apartments, no houses or privately owned residents, and all eat and work in similar environments. All of these are signs of Socialism. There are classes of people, though, (the proles are different from the others), and this is not a trait of Socialism. Communism also calls for no private p .....


Anna Karenina: Foreshadowing
Number of words: 470 - Number of pages: 2

.... to her bedroom, she glances over to see who had called at such a late hour. She immediately recognizes it to be Vronsky and she feels ‘a strange feeling of pleasure mixed with a feeling of vague apprehension suddenly stirred in her heart.'( page 90)This tells of what may be the conflict in the plot. The day after the great ball Anna announces that she must leave. Dolly expresses her gratitude toward everything Anna has done to help her in her time of crisis. She tells Anna that she does not know of a person with a greater heart. Anna tells her that K .....


The Catcher In The Rye
Number of words: 667 - Number of pages: 3

.... but non of them can solve his problems. He feels more depressed and lonely. He walks around in the rain soaking wet, he is sure he is going to catch pneumonia. But before he leaves this world he wants to visit his little sister, Phoebe, to say good bye. He admires her a lot and they communicate very well. Holden realises that there are things he cannot solve by him self, and decides to rejoin his family. The style of the book is very unusual because it is told by a sixteen-year-old boy. It can give you some problems because some of the things he tells about and .....


The Frame Structure Of Franken
Number of words: 1006 - Number of pages: 4

.... of a desire that could not be satisfied directly. The two main examples for this are the Monster’s as well as Frankenstein’s story, but the themes of seductive narration and promises can be found also elsewhere in the novel. The Monster’s desire is to be loved by someone. When he realises that not only the DeLaceys but every human being will reject him because of his uglyness, he tells Frankenstein his story in order to persuade him to create a female being of his kind for his companion. At the end of Chapter 8 of Volume II (page 97 of our edition) the .....



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