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Term Papers on English
Oppression
Number of words: 328 - Number of pages: 2.... to see if you will make the stand for freedom, or be oppressed. African-Americans were oppressed for hundreds of years, and when it couldn’t get any worse, they found and fought with their leaders for what they believed in, freedom. Both the Egyptians and Hitler oppressed Jews for 5000 years, when he decided to wipe out their entire race. Women were oppressed for many years until they decided to fight for equality. is hatred, but must not be confused with prejudice. In the above examples, these people were pushed down further and further until they took a s .....
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A Rose Of The South
Number of words: 582 - Number of pages: 3.... in the town thought that this was a disgrace and called a meeting to have the minister talk to Miss Emily. After this attempt did not work, the minister's wife called Miss Emily's cousins to come visit Miss Emily.
When Miss Emily 's cousins arrived, people thought that her cousins had convinced her to get married, since Miss Emily had ordered a "complete out fit of men's clothing, including a nightshirt"3. Mean while Miss Emily had gone to see the druggist for some poison. She never told the druggist what the poison was for, though he assumed that it was for .....
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Gerard Manley Hopkins Terrible
Number of words: 1411 - Number of pages: 6.... each one several pages of uninspired student translations, five to six times a year (Benzel 370). His job demanded long hours which took away time for his admiration of nature and his time for prayer. The six "terrible" sonnets have a strong contradiction to his earlier works. His early works were filled with beautiful scenes in nature and praise of God. His realization that he was not dedicating enough time to God allowed him to see how many other people lose sight of God. This and other experiences during the time while he wrote his "terrible" sonnets .....
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Making Decisons In The Road No
Number of words: 456 - Number of pages: 2.... had yet to pass by on this road since the leaves have fallen. “I kept the first for another day” (line 13). The desire to travel down both paths is expressed and is not unusual, but “knowing how way leads onto way” (line 14). The speaker of this poem realizes that the decision is not just a temporary one, and he “doubted if I should ever come back”
(line 15). This is his common sense speaking and acknowledging that what he chooses now will affect every other choice he will make in the future.
At the end of the poem, the regret hangs over the travelers’ head. .....
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The Time Maching (analysis)
Number of words: 3224 - Number of pages: 12.... Eloi devolved from the leisure class, may seem antiquated political theory. It
emerged out of the concern for social justice that drew Wells to the Fabian Society and inspired much of his
later writing, but time has not dimmed the fascination of the situation and the horror of the imagery.
The Time Machine brought these concerns into his fiction. It, too, involved the future, but a future
imagined with greater realism and in greater detail than earlier stories of the future. It also introduced, for
the first time in fiction, the notion of a machin .....
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Dr. Mengele
Number of words: 1472 - Number of pages: 6.... War II. His lonely death by drowning, in Brazil, and humiliating post-mortem fate suited the man well. Although this report might seem to follow a chronological order, it is not simply a telling of a life story. It is a look into who Josef Mengele was, and how he changed over the years.
The authors underlying main theme, throughout the book, seemed to be to show that Josef Mengele was not who his infamous legend would dictate. It is true that he was a cold and ruthless killer who murdered thousands of innocent people. He earned the nickname “The Angel o .....
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The Art Of Storytelling And Folktales
Number of words: 815 - Number of pages: 3.... to go off with
their imagination into a new world. For the listener, it is pure escapism.
The popularity of the folktale has existed so long for one main reason.
Stith Thompson , a folklorist himself, has studied reasons in which a
folktale is told. He states “Stories may differ in subject from place to
place, the conditions and purposes of taletelling may change as we move
from land to land or from century to century, and yet everywhere it
ministers to the same basic social and individual needs. The call for
entertainment...” (484) With every tale being to .....
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Macbeth - Imagery
Number of words: 1799 - Number of pages: 7.... do not fit our bodies, until we are accustomed to them. Throughout the entire play, Macbeth is constantly wearing new clothes (titles), that are not his, and that do not fit. Hence, his ambition. This ambition, as we see, is what leads to his demise. When Macbeth first hears the prophecy that he will be King, he does not see how it can be so, "to be king / Stands not within the prospect of belief" ( I, III, 73-74). However, Macbeth’s ambitious nature becomes visible when he considers murdering King Duncan to claim the throne, "If it were done, when ‘tis do .....
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