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Term Papers on English
Journeys Of Odysseus And Aeneas
Number of words: 1046 - Number of pages: 4.... I wondered if Aeneas was great because his fate made him great or was he great because he had the courage and determination to live up to the role fate handed him? There is a side to Aeneas, I noticed that is not very impressive, even when I could almost understand why he feels the way he does. He is sad, tired, always waiting for his father or the gods to tell him what to do. But Aeneas always fulfills his duty to his family, to his country, and to the gods, even when he is depressed. He is never selfish. He always puts his responsibility to others firs .....
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The Arm Of The Starfish
Number of words: 504 - Number of pages: 2.... Carolyn Cutter, who is very beautiful, but isn’t such a large enemy to Adam. She works for her father, until she finds out he is working against the Embassy.
Adam Eddington was going to a small island in Portugal, Gaea, to work for Dr. O’Keefe, an acclaimed scientist. At the airport, he meets a girl named Kali. She tells him to watch out for Canon Tallis and Dr. O'Keefe. He meets Canon Tallis and Poly, Dr. O’Keefe’s daughter, and they become friends. Canon Tallis has to leave so he leaves Poly to go to Gaea with Adam. Adam loses P .....
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The Color Purple - The Struggl
Number of words: 1413 - Number of pages: 6.... until the 1920. Therefore colored women had a double edged sword, they had to fight for freedom, but not be to dominate as to effect the men. Alice Walker's The Color Purple is a good example of colored women's plight. Three obstacles black women had to overcome to be able to express themselves were Racism, the lack of education, and the stereo-type that women are inferior.
African-Americans have always experienced racism throughout their habitation in America. Slavery, is what caused most of the hatred towards blacks. African Americans were sold by their people .....
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The Artificial Family
Number of words: 645 - Number of pages: 3.... Artificial Love.” The second theme is the importance of positive communication. Mary never communicated her seriousness about her feelings between Toby and Samantha. She shared there was a problem but chose not to deal with that problem. She left Toby without even discussing their problems with him. Toby never seemed to initiate any interest in his wife’s needs. He never asked her why she felt as she did. He just said he did not see a problem.
The story begins with Mary's first words to Toby in their introduction to each other; "Did yo .....
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King Lear As A Tragic Hero
Number of words: 750 - Number of pages: 3.... was very upset with Cordelia and because of his
madness towards Cordelia thinking that she did not love him as much as
her other sisters, he divided the land in two and gave Reagan and
Goneril each half. Cordelia on the other hand received nothing as her
dowry and in turn no none would marry her except the King of France.
Giving the land to the two daughters was the first of Lear's mistakes,
for the daughters did not love him as much as Cordelia did, but they
wished to have his riches. When Goneril and Reagan are in power
they try to make L .....
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Edgar Allan Poe 2
Number of words: 597 - Number of pages: 3.... kill him because evil is present and beauty is no where to be found.
In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Madeline is beautiful once she gets sick her brother, Roderick, gets sick and everything seems to fall apart. Madeline’s beauty had kept the evil down and covered up. As Madeline gets sicker and sicker it gets worse and worse. Finally when Madeline dies beauty no longer exists Roderick goes crazy and everything is destroyed because beauty was not there to cover up all the evil that they possessed. The absence of beauty caused all evil to bre .....
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Go Ask Alice!
Number of words: 1015 - Number of pages: 4.... is intolerable and her mother is constantly Peking at her. Alice gets to know Beth Baum. Beth is Jewish and her father is a doctor. Her mother nags a lot. Alice’s parents like Beth, because she is pretty nice. In the holidays Beth goes on a summer camp for six weeks and Alice stays at her grans.
One day she meets Jill Peters and she invites her for a party. Alice doesn’t like taking drugs. She wants to stop it and to go home, but her grandpa has a little heart - attack and Alice has to help her grandma. Alice cant tell her parents why she wants to leave her gran .....
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A View From The Bridge
Number of words: 1449 - Number of pages: 6.... mystery as well as death and danger. It has commercial value as well as the population of life in it. It is dark and treacherous though, and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'. This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin, his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also .....
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