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Term Papers on English
"Deep Play: Notes On The Balinese Cockfight"
Number of words: 1670 - Number of pages: 7.... watched the villagers interact. This is how Geertz
begins his visit in Bali. Geertz is an anthropologist and he is in Bali to
experience the culture. He and his wife are watching a cockfight take
place. Cockfights are illegal in Bali. They continue to watch the fight
and he describes the cockfight like any "layman" might see it. This way of
not interacting and seeing things from a spectators point of view, is in a
way using ethnocentrism. This means he isn't really seeing the culture as
it is. From this view point the things which take place may even l .....
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Mother-Daughter Relationships
Number of words: 556 - Number of pages: 3.... do. But all of us need to understand that this is not possible, and this control is also something that mothers
ty to implement a lot with their children, specially with their daughters.
The relationship between Rose and An Mei is very much alike the relationship the author, Amy Tan, had with her mother. Daisy wanted Amy to be perfect. She wanted her daughter to be a genious on the fields she thought were the ideal for her daughter. Daisy always told Amy what she was to do and how to do it.
The same happened to Rose. Her mother An Mei wanted her to be perfe .....
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The Crucible 7
Number of words: 2538 - Number of pages: 10.... were bewitching them. The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that there is witchcraft going on in the woods, and that the sick girl is bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. The other girls all join in so that the blame will not be placed on them. In The Crucible, Abigail starts the accusations by saying, "I go back to Jesus; I k .....
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Macbeth 2 - Fixed
Number of words: 1275 - Number of pages: 5.... 1, however, his "vaulting ambition" is starting to take over, but partly because of his wife's persuasion. He agrees that they must "catch the nearest way" (17), and kill Duncan that night. On the other hand, as the time for murder comes nearer, he begins giving himself reasons not to murder Duncan:
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself.
(I, vii, 13-16)
When Lady Macbeth enters, though, she uses her cunning rhe .....
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Scottsboro Trials And To Kill
Number of words: 1163 - Number of pages: 5.... by the racist people. Finally was granted to move the case even though the lynch mobs threatened to kill everyone who was involved in the case if it were to be moved. In this essay the bias and racism in both trials are going to be clarified and compared to each other.
Several groups of white and black men rode the trains in the thirties for transportation. One night a group of white men started a fight with the black men in the train, which led to them getting kicked off. Later on in the case it is proved that the white men start the fight because both of th .....
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No Exit 2
Number of words: 1004 - Number of pages: 4.... to act in bad faith, according to Sartre is to
manifest our freedom inauthenticaly.
Sartre assessed how when man acknowledges and accepts that
he is a living being with a biological and social past. He can
transcend beyond that to nothingness, the realm of the etre pour
soi (the “being-for-itself”). At this point he is, according to
Sartre, clearheaded and in good faith. Because he is acting in
good faith, he is not pursuing a fundamental project in an
attempt to circumvent the possibility of anguish. The outcome of
this path of .....
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King Lear
Number of words: 823 - Number of pages: 3.... does, in fact, her father's love has already made her happy. is very happy with his daughters so far, after each one's turn he gave them a part of his kingdom. When it was Cordelia's turn, whom which was Lear's favorite daughter, she spoke the truth. She told him that she loved him only the way that a daughter could. If she was to marry then she would love him half and her husband half. Lear was angry with this, even though it was the truth, it might have been that he didn't expect an answer of that type. After this, Cordelia was disowned by her father and .....
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Robert Gray
Number of words: 1420 - Number of pages: 6.... personal views on the changes seen. Though the important part comes from this, that when travelling in an area that is not known, people become more perceptive. Although the hitchhiker is a native of the area, the issue of change is raised as he himself, does not know the town any more, after the change. Gray uses the travels of this person, who has no identity except for that of a hitchhiker, to show how some people travel.
Though in North Coast Town, the travel is the main pillar of which the poem is supported. This is the crucial point of the poem, as this .....
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