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In Greek mythology the oracles or gods are rarely wrong in their predictions of
the future. Yet the characters still try to fight the predictions. Do their
personalities and traits decide their future, or does fate take its course no
matter what? Oedipus was a shrewd man furnished with wit and intellect, yet his
lack of insight (the ability to see and understand clearly the inner nature of
himself... Full-text essay
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The Blind nature of Oedipus One of the main themes in Oedipus the King is
blindness. Not just physical blindness, but intellectual blindness as well. This
issue is an effective contrasting method for Oedipus at different points in the
play. By saying "blindness", however, is a little misleading. It can
be broken down into two sections: Oedipus's ability to "see", and his
willin... Full-text essay
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An Analysis of “Of the Cloth” William Trevor, “Of the Cloth,” New York,
New York, The New Yorker, March 09, 1999. “Of the Cloth” is a contemporary
work of short fiction set in the remote Irish community of Ennismolach County
during the early summer of the year, nineteen hundred and ninety seven. The
greater part of the story takes place in a small, stone rectory nestled among
the green valleys and... Full-text essay
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Life of Olaudah Equiano is a detailed story about the life of a well-educated
slave published. One section of the story in particular describes one of his
many experiences in the New World with one of his owners. This narrative is a
very powerful one telling about the treatment of slaves, but also many of the
good things Equiano experienced while he was a slave. He gives a seemingly
honest and unb... Full-text essay
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Throughout Katherine Anne Porters Old Mortality, a variety of elements are
present. Some of which consist of romance, memories and the illusions instilled
upon the legendary status of Amy. All of these elements play a solid role
towards the persuasion of Miranda. They persuaded her into acting on certain
ideas that she pulled out of the stories about her Aunt Amy. Now even though
Aunt Amy was port... Full-text essay
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The two short stories “The Darkness Out There” and “Old Mrs Chundle”
both deal with similar relationships, whilst at the same time having many
differences. The most pronounced similarity of the two stories is that both deal
with younger people’s relationships with an older person. Another marked theme
is that Hardy’s story concerns itself with the curate’s deception
(unconsciously) of Mrs Chundle,... Full-text essay
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The novel On The Road written by Jack Kerouac is a book that can be read
as a quest taken by Sal Paradise who sets out to test the American Dream by
trying to pin down its promise of unlimited freedom by following the example of
Dean Morairty. In the book “ the road” becomes a symbol of freedom or escape
for Sal and his friends. The road symbolizes an escape route from the dictates
of society: h... Full-text essay
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Experience is Everything In the book, The Once and Future King, T.H. White shows
the importance that education relies heavily upon ones own personal experiences.
When Merlyn is called on to tutor Wart, an adopted child, he uses this exact
learning method on Wart. Merlyn, who is a magician, uses transformation as a his
learning tool. Merlyn turns Wart into different animals to show Wart lessons of
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Once Upon a Social Issue Fairy tales have always been told to us as children;
whether to comfort or entertain us, they always seem to be a part of most
everyone’s childhood. When Nadine Gordimer was asked to write a children’s
story, she replied with a short story titled “Once Upon A Time”. Although
the title is characteristic of a fairy tale, she leads the tale to an ending
that is anything other... Full-text essay
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Can you imagine having to leave everything you have ever known to live in a
country on the verge of war? Lesley Shelby, the main character in One More River
by Lynn Reid Banks, knows exactly how it feels. This Jewish Canadian girl has to
emigrate to Israel with her family. Through the determination and courage of one
person we see how challenges, complications, and differences of the world are
ove... Full-text essay
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Can you imagine having to leave everything you have ever known to live in a
country on the verge of war? Lesley Shelby, the main character in One More River
by Lynn Reid Banks, knows exactly how it feels. This Jewish Canadian girl has to
emigrate to Israel with her family. Through the determination and courage of one
person we see how challenges, complications, and differences of the world are
ove... Full-text essay
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In the novel, An Open Life, by Joseph Campbell, I agree that life is like a
novel and that disasters result in structuring a great aspect of your life. If
you really think about what Mr. Campbell is saying, he is right. Looking back at
my life with all the ups and downs I have experienced, made me who I am now,
which is a great thing. I had an experience with a boyfriend which caused me to
get a g... Full-text essay
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Ordinary People by Judith Guest is the story of a family having psychological
problems, which relate to one another through superficial behaviors. They
distort reality and hide their true emotions to reduce or prevent anxiety. The
book opens with seventeen year old Conrad, son of upper middle-class Beth and
Calvin Jarrett, comes home after eight months in a psychiatric hospital, because
he had att... Full-text essay
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"Just calm down would you. For a few moments at least. You have got ages to
think about what you are taking with you, 20 minutes before you have to be out
of that door." Pausing to listen to my mother’s unhelpful words has cost
me yet another few precious seconds, seconds that I don’t have to waste, not
now anyway. I won’t snap at her mind, she is the sole reason that I have the
opportun... Full-text essay
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In Oroonoko, Behn establishes her authority within the opening lines and
consistently reminds her audience of her position as narrator by mentioning her
personal role in the story. In the second paragraph, Behn establishes this
authority by saying, “I was myself an eyewitness to a great part of what you
will find here set down, and what I could not be witness of, I received from the
mouth of the c... Full-text essay
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In Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, the author expresses her views on a African American
slave openly and passionately, which in the Seventeenth century was unsuited for
a person , let alone a woman, to do. By establishing the story from a first
person account there becomes a juxtaposition of both author and character. By
doing so the reader is able to feel more passion and anguish towards Oroonoko
rather t... Full-text essay
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist,
novelist, essayist, short-story writer, critic, and poet. He was part of the
Decadence, a loosely affiliated coterie of writers and artists of the 1890s
whose lives and works manifested a highly stylized, decorative manner, a
fascination with morbidity and perversity, and an adherence to the doctrine
"art for art's... Full-text essay
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One of the most difficult obstacles a playwright has to overcome is finding a
way to engage and interest their audience to their piece. Often having to deal
with such problems such as boredom, inattentiveness, or just a general lack of
interest, playwrights often invent dramatic devices that entice and entertain
their audiences. An example of this is the character Lane in Oscar Wilde’s
“The Import... Full-text essay
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Thornton Wilder’s Our Town spans twelve years in the life of Grover’s
Corners, New Hampshire. Throughout this time period the play portrays both
routine daily life and major events in the lives of George Gibbs, Emily Webb,
and their families. Present throughout is the Stage Manager who gives informal
commentary and explanation of the play’s characters and events. Although the
play begins and ends ... Full-text essay
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The following is a transcript of the recent hearing of the Curtis brothers.
RANDY L: Randy were you there the night of Bobs death? R: Yes your honor. L:
What happened that night and how did it happen? R: Well it all started when we
all saw the two Greasers (Pony and Johnny) in the park. We were completely drunk
and had no idea what we were doing so I guess we all just wanted to beat the two
of the... Full-text essay
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“Bzzzzzzzzz!!!” the alarm rang. Small dirty hands hit the off switch and got
out of bed. The scrawny boy walked over to the window in his old spider-man
pajamas and looked outside. Everything was white as far as the eyes could see.
The ground was covered with a silky smooth blanket of fresh new snow, which
concealed the old brown sheet from the week before. By the driveway the top of
an “open hous... Full-text essay
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I remember that cold day in October three years ago as I walked down the endless
rows of new and used cars. I was oblivious to the sounds of the congested
afternoon traffic around me. All that was on my mind was anticipation, a little
hope, and a checkbook in my pocket that seemed to weigh so heavy despite the
lack of funds it represented. It was only a matter of time before one of the
salesmen wo... Full-text essay
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'Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha' has no authorial presence at all. Yet the reader gains
a richer understanding of Paddy's situation than he, or any ten year old child,
could ever have. How does Roddy Doyle achieve this with regard to Paddy's
parent's break up? One of the first and most relevant passages in the book is
when Patrick wakes up and hears the television and from that knows that his
parents are ... Full-text essay
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The novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha has no authorial presence at all, yet the reader
gains a richer understanding of the situation than Paddy – or any other
10-year old – could ever have. With regard to the parent’s break up, how
does Doyle achieve this? There are many factors which suggest how Doyle has
succeeded in creating a 'triangular relationship' between himself the reader and
the narrator – Pa... Full-text essay
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Taking the High Road "The unexamined life is not worth living," In The
Apology, Socrates relates that the most important goal in life is the
improvement of the soul. We should search others, our environment, and ourselves
so that we may come to a better understanding of the world. The Parable of the
Cave tells of the journey that Socrates was trying to relate, in that each
person is face... Full-text essay
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What does the word parent mean to you? The definition of this word is, one who
begets, gives birth to, or nurtures and raises a child; a father or a mother.
Yet, one interprets this word difrently depending on what life has had to offer
us. Many people agree with the denotation of the word parent. “To me parents
are those who raised me”, states Ela Hernandez. Parents are people who guide
you throu... Full-text essay
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In his novel A Passage to India, Forster uses a series of repeated
misunderstandings between cultures, which become hardened into social
stereotypes, to justify the uselessness of attempts to bridge cultural gulfs. In
many instances, the way in which language is used plays a great role in the
miscommunication between the English and the Indians, as well as among people of
the same culture. This is... Full-text essay
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Pat Conroy was an author who grew up in South Carolina. His works were
influenced by his life and experiences which occurred from when he was young to
the present time. He attended Beaufred High School with a good buddy,Bruce
Harper. They did many things together from playing golf to swimming. It seemed
as though he was very close to his mother,Peggy as he talked about her much more
than he mentio... Full-text essay
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Paul was a great tall man who loved to eat pancakes. In fact he was so tall that
when his was little his parents had to leave him in the forest because they were
getting complaints from the neighbors. But Paul wasn’t alone when he got older
and was walking along the mountains and saw to big horns sticking out of the
blue snow. He pulled them up and found a big baby ox who was blue like the snow
th... Full-text essay
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It is said that books are better then the movies created from books. I feel that
the story and the film complement each other for Willa Cather’s short story,
“Paul's Case,” is about a young, Calvinist man who did not feel that he
belonged in his life. He lived on Cordelia Street in Pittsburgh, PA. Cordelia
Street was littered with cookie cutter houses, suburbanite-like city-dwellers,
and a general... Full-text essay
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Petrified Man by Eudora Welty One of Eudora Welty’s criticisms is that she
occasionally possibly misrepresents the culture and influence of the south. Do
you think that is the case in The Petrified Man? When I think of the south, I
think of southern hospitality. I picture people always talking to each other,
whether it’s just small talk or gossip, which is the case in The Petrified
Man. The dialog... Full-text essay
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Phoenix Rises From the Ashes When asked by a white hunter “ Doesn’t the gun
scare you?” while having it pointed at her, Phoenix Jackson, of Eudora
Welty’s “A Worn Path”, replies “No, sir. I seen plenty go off closer by,
in my day, and for less than what I done,” This is an example of how the
protagonist deals with another of her travails. Phoenix’s conflicts only hone
the thrust of Welty’s tale of... Full-text essay
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Art, what is Art? It is an ambiguous matter: without an exact form, an exact
meaning. Does it have any rules or restrictions? However, it can be a great
influence on the lives of people. In the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, two
lovers have fell in and out of love due to Art! Dorian Gray found Sibyl charming
because of her Art! She has not merely art, consummate art-instinct in her, but
she ha... Full-text essay
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The novel that I chose to do this report on was, "The Plague", by
Albert Camus. It is about a plague that hit the European countries in the middle
ages. I chose to describe the literary term of parallelism. Here are some
following facts about the story's plot that involve parallelism through the
novel. The novel begins at Oran where the plague becomes known. The main
character, Dr. Gerna... Full-text essay
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In all poems there is a theme, whether the theme be obvious from the start or it
be one that is difficult to find. No matter how long or short a poem or how
complicated or simple every poem that you read will have a theme. In "Beale
Street Love" by Langston Hughes, the poem illustrates a theme that would be
along the lines of a dangerous love. Hughes demonstrates this quality over and
ov... Full-text essay
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“What is going on?” were the only words I could pull from my shaking mouth.
I will never forget the pain in my gut when I opened the door to find my
nine-year-old sister watching a porno. “I found it in Billy’s room and
wanted to see what it was, I’m sorry Jes.” As I watched tears role down her
face, a feeling of rage exploded within me. It was then that I realized that
pornography is not only bei... Full-text essay
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In chapter one, a significant event was when Stephen went up to the reactor’s
office to tell of Father Dolan’s pandying him. He felt that he had been
falsely punished and did not want it to happen again. This seems to be a turning
point for Stephen because it took courage for a small boy to travel to travel
through the gloom of a strange building by himself to speak with such a
highly-honored man.... Full-text essay
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By: Valerie Gomez Stephen Dedalus, the
main character in most of James Joyce’s writings, is said to be a reflection
of Joyce himself. In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the reader follows
Stephen as he develops from a young child into a young artist, overcoming many
conflicts both internally and externally, and narrowly escaping a life long
commitment... Full-text essay
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Religion is an important and recurring theme in James Joyce's A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man. Through his experiences with religion, Stephen Dedalus
both matures and progressively becomes more individualistic as he grows. Though
reared in a Catholic school, several key events lead Stephen to throw off the
yoke of conformity and choose his own life, the life of an artist. Religion is
centr... Full-text essay
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Portrait Of The Artist By Joyce And Religion
English coursework, term papers on English, English essays
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Religion is an important and recurring theme in James Joyce's A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man. Through his experiences with religion, Stephen Dedalus
both matures and progressively becomes more individualistic as he grows. Though
reared in a Catholic school, several key events lead Stephen to throw off the
yoke of conformity and choose his own life, the life of an artist. Religion is
centr... Full-text essay
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In writing, one can express feelings they can never convey aloud. Letters allow
one to reveal their thoughts more personally and intimately than they can in
person. Staring at a blank page of paper is definitely less intimidating than
looking into someone’s eyes. Communication is such an important vitality, and
letter-writing the lacks loss of words, stuttering, awkward silences, and
uneasiness th... Full-text essay
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On an autumn day in the ancient city of London, in the second quarter of
sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name Canty. On the
same day another English baby was born of a rich family of the name of Tudor.
There was talk in England about the new baby, Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales, who
lapped in silk and satin. While on the other hand Tom Canty, who lapped in his
poor rags, w... Full-text essay
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Princess Diana was an exceptional leader. Diana worked as a kindergarten teacher
in London until her engagement to Prince Charles was announced in February of
1981. She wed Prince Charles in an internationally televised ceremony on July
29, 1981. Almost immediately, "Shy Di" as she was initially called by
the press, blossomed into the "people's Princess". Princess Diana
contrib... Full-text essay
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“Professions for Women” Through Virginia Woolf’s essay she shows how women
struggle in society. Due to these struggles, women are held back from expressing
their true selves. Virginia Woolf does not accept these struggles for she feels
that in order for any one person to be complete he or she has to explore who
they are as an individual. “Professions for Women” shows how a woman in
society wants t... Full-text essay
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In Act 3 we learned a lot more about the character and philosophy of Alfred
Doolittle. He is strangely individualistic personally and very eloquent. He is
representative of the social class of the "undeserving poor", which,
means that he is not entitled to receive financial support from the government,
since he is physically able to work. He lives only for the moment; from day to
day. Th... Full-text essay
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Graham Greene’s The Quiet American is a story about love. The main focus of
this love is from Pyle and Fowler to Phuong. Through the novel Fowler and Pyle
battle for this women’s love, but the reality is that Phuong’s love is not
obtainable. The two men even speak of her in the third person, which reflects
their idea of her as an object. Phuong sells herself to the highest bidder and
is just looki... Full-text essay
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Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in 1265. In his life, he composed
two major books of poetry: Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy. The Vita Nuova is
composed of love poems, sonnets, and lyrics. The Divine Comedy, is an epic poem
segmented into three books, each of which recounts Dante’s travels through
hell, purgatory, and heaven. The first section of The Divine Comedy, Dante's
Inferno, is... Full-text essay
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Dreams are vital to the life of every person. Without dreams, there is nothing
to plan or look forward to. The Younger family in A Raisin In The Sun by
Lorraine Hansberry has many dreams for their future that a $10,000 insurance
check guarantees them. I also have dreams and hopes for my future, college, a
job, and a family are all things that I want to have, some day. Due to Walter
Younger’s death... Full-text essay
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Dreams are vital to the life of every person. Without dreams, there is nothing
to plan or look forward to; therefore, no reason to live. The Younger family in
A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry has many dreams for the future that a
$10,000 insurance check guarantees them. I also have dreams and hopes for my
future, college, a job, and a family are all things that I want to have, some
day. D... Full-text essay
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From wise men the world inherits a literature of wisdom, characterized less by
its scheduled education than by its strength and shortness of statement. Thought
provoking and discerning, Ralph Waldo Emerson gave a cynical world an unbiased
perspective on human frailty. Emerson first and foremost was a poet. He has not
written a line which is not conceived in the interest of mankind. He never
writes... Full-text essay
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