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Term Papers on English
The Great Gatsby And The Ameri
Number of words: 536 - Number of pages: 2.... revolting” to tom. Obviously she’s unhappy with tom yet she wont leave him for Gatsby. Daisy made this clear when Gatsby gave her the ring and she wouldn’t ware it. And she said “be my friend, be my lover” meaning she wanted him yet she wanted her life of flirting with the in crowd more then she loved Gatsby. However this is a generation that is comparable to our generation x children in how lazy they were. The roaring twenties was an era off sophistication, technology and leisure. People had what they had ant what they didn .....
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Fifth Business
Number of words: 1046 - Number of pages: 4.... seems to be a very distant person in that he likes to be around people who do not really know him. He would much rather be an observer than a very active participant. When he goes ice skating in the beginning of the story, there are a lot of people who are skating, but he can blend right in. He hs a few friends, but they are very similar to Fenstad. They like the same things and have the same attitudes about life. Fenstad does not want to seem to deviate from his own normal way of life.
Fenstad’s mother, Clara, is a character quite opposite f .....
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Why Is The Play Called The Cru
Number of words: 514 - Number of pages: 2.... the extremity and extent of the trials. It shows how important a part religion plays in the community. Seeing as people’s life styles revolved around working and praying. If people were not working or farming their lands, they are praying. On holidays they pray, there are hardly any moments of recreation or ‘fun.’ The people of Salem are deeply religious and to drift on to the side of the devil is the most serious ‘sin’ or ‘crime’ imaginable in the community.
Just as it was a sin drift on to the side of the devil in th .....
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Escapism In The Glass Menageri
Number of words: 817 - Number of pages: 3.... the steps of this fire escape for a last time and followed, from then on, in my father's footsteps, attempting to find in motion what was lost in space." Tom wanted to be free, and to him, the fire escape was the exit into freedom. Movies were also an important part of Tom's life. He went to the movies when he and his mother argued or when he felt he needed some excitement. In scene four, Amanda asks, "Why do you go to the movies so much, Tom?" and Tom replies "I go to the movies because - I like adventure. Adventure is something I don't have much of a work, so .....
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Separation Or Assimilation?
Number of words: 534 - Number of pages: 2.... pluralism as stated by Boxill are to establish
pride in one's own race, to maintain the authenticity of one's own culture, and
finally to benefit the world populace. Through pride, the disdain of
inferiorities along with self respect, one adopts an attitude of self-
segregation. Boxill argues for pride as a means of preserving one's race,
overemphasizing differences between individuals because of the color of their
skin or cultural differences, is a great defense to assimilation.
Understanding Dubois's concept of cultural authenticity is to delve into
the .....
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Iliad By Homer
Number of words: 1596 - Number of pages: 6.... direction of his personal views, ashappens with modern day political "spin". These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor Troy. It could easily be imagined that throughout time, only great things were heard about the Greeks mettle in war, and that Homer is attempting to balance the scales a bit by romanticizing the Trojan peoples, especially Hector, and bringing to light the lesser-heard tales of Greek stupidity. Shortly into Book Two, Agamemnon gives the speech to his assembly about his plan to rally the troops with reverse psych .....
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Black And White Women Of The Old South
Number of words: 1604 - Number of pages: 6.... slave, or worse. White women needed to do this in order to keep themselves from feeling that they were of higher status than every one else except for their husband. White women as, Gwin describes, always proved that they had complete control and black women needed to bow to them. Gwin’s book discusses that the white male slave owners brought this onto the black women on the plantation. They would rape black women, and then instead of the white women dealing with their husbands. They would go after the black women only since the wives had no power ove .....
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King Lear: The Element Of Disguise
Number of words: 462 - Number of pages: 2.... weild the matter;
Dearer then eyesight, space, and liberty; . . . . Beyond all
manner of so much I love you. (I,I,{56-63})
Regan speaks,
I am made of the same metal as my sister,
And prize me at her worth. In my true heart
I find she names my very deed of love,
Only she comes too short, that I profess
Myself and enemy to all other joys
Which the most precious square of sense possesses,
And find I am alone felicitate
In your dear Highness' love. (I,I,{72-80})
Clearly, these words are loaded with flattery. The third daughter,
Cordelia, cannot wea .....
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