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Term Papers on English
Citizen Kane By Orson Wells
Number of words: 790 - Number of pages: 3.... his secret to the death. The film follows one reporter on his search to the truth. Throughout the film, the tragical existence of powerful newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, becomes apparent. He spends most of his life in solitude. Although he was married twice, he always stayed alone. This was because of his incapacity of felling love, which was caused by his insecure childhood. Kane was unwillingly taken away from his mother as a young child; this single event molded Kane into the narcissistic man he became. The only time Kane felt safe was when he .....
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The Robber Bride
Number of words: 891 - Number of pages: 4.... other than they do with men. Not being a woman
myself makes it difficult for me to determine if this message is true,
but nonetheless, Atwood does have a lot to say about the way females
deal with each other. The character Roz constantly runs into problems
in the business world. “It’s complicated, being a woman boss. Women
don’t look at you and think Boss. They look at you and think Woman, as
in Just another one, like me, and where does she get off?”
The female characters do not “come across as more emblematic than
re .....
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Fallacy Of Personal Attack
Number of words: 206 - Number of pages: 1.... There
are three forms of personal attack, character assassination, circumstantial
and tu quoque.
Character assassination is a personal attack where the arguer's
reputation is considered evidence that his argument is false. For example,
if a convicted felon out of jail has an argument, most people will not
believe him because of his prior involvement with illegal matters. By
rejecting his argument only because he was in jail, a personal attack has
occurred.
Circumstantial personal attack is another form of the fallacy. If
a person thinks that university professors teach better that community
colle .....
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Oliver Twist 2
Number of words: 994 - Number of pages: 4.... head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle. The whole beginning of Oliver Twist's story was created from memories which related to Charles Dickens' childhood in a blacking factory (which was overshadowed by the Marshalsea Prison ). While working in the blacking factory, Dickens suffered tremendous humiliation. This humiliation is greatly expressed through Oliver's adventures at the orphanage before he is sent away.
Throughout his lifetime, Dickens appeared to have acquired a fondness for "the bleak, the sordid, and the .....
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Agatha Christie And Deception
Number of words: 920 - Number of pages: 4.... mystery novel ever written. In this acclaimed masterpiece of murder and suspense, Mr. Owen gathers ten strangers who share forgettable pasts together on an isolated Indian Island. However, the guests do not know the identity of their host. As they start telling their deepest, darkest secrets to each other, one by one, they start to die.
In this novel, deception is a significant part of the story. Agatha Christie misleads the reader by giving an impression that a mysterious, unknown figure has committed the heinous murders. Dr. Armstrong is one of the gues .....
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Van Gennep's "Rites Of Passage", Durkheim And Turner's Theory Of Communitas
Number of words: 2117 - Number of pages: 8.... the community is involved only because of its members'
relations to the girls.
Van Gennep divides Rites of Passage into three parts: separation,
transition and incorporation. In the Mescalero puberty ceremony, separation is
achieved when the girls move in to their camp homes. During this stage, the
Godmothers and Singers take the role of the parents. This may be described as
a "cessation of interaction between the individual and the group in which he or
she has been interacting" (Chapple and Coons, p. 485). However, there is not a
complete separation from t .....
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The Stranger 2
Number of words: 837 - Number of pages: 4.... perhaps in his life. He doesn't worry about his future nor his past, or maybe even his present doesn't have much significants to him. He is always distracted, and not being able to concentrate brought him some troubles. The biggest would be a senseless murder he is drawn into.
The story begins with the death of Meursault's mother in an elders' home. That was the first time he's shown his carelessness in life. He went to her funeral, but didn't cry. Basicly, what he did was just sitting there and watched the whole thing as it was someone else's mother. .....
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"The Attitude Of Fiction," "The Necklace," And "The Story Of An Hour": The Super Ego
Number of words: 690 - Number of pages: 3.... herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly part lips. She said it over and over under her breath: free, free, free."(Chopin341) She was starting to feel good about herself again.
"But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome."(Chopin341) She is starting to build her ego by planning her life by herself, so it will be great again. She sees this big dream through her super ego. She was not going to let anything stop her, until su .....
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