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The Great Gatsby
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... Wilson, the wife of George Wilson, a poor, lower class gas station attendant. Upon learning of his wife’s affair, Wilson locks her in a room and insists that they move far away from his wife’s lover. Breaking free from the room, Myrtle rushes into the street to find Tom where she is hit by the car of Gatsby, driven by Daisy. After doing some investigating, and after being misled by Tom, Wilson believes that it is Gatsby that is having the affair with his wife. Before his wife’s death, Wilson was simply content to move his wife away; however, after her death, he is out to make her lover pay. With pistol in hand, Wilson sets out to find Gatsby ...



A Comparison Of The Characters
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... Side Story, a character with a role similar to Tybalt is Bernardo. In West Side Story, the killing of Bernardo enrages Chino to the point where he takes out a gun and searches for Tony. While trying to protect Tony from Anita, Bernardo’s girlfriend, they cause her to become extremely upset and to say that Maria is dead. Upon hearing this, Tony leaves the drug store in search of Chino. When Tony eventually finds Maria, Chino kills him. None of this would have happened, had Bernardo not gotten into a fight with Tony and been killed. Another character who is responsible for the deaths of the lovers in Romeo and Juliet is Lord Capulet. Knowing that her fathe ...



Tom Clancy: Believable Plots
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... and were incorporated into his stories allowed him to enhance motives for the fictional conflict. Many people who lost trust and belief in the Communist system defected to the United States and other countries. Through use of historical facts such as defection in The Hunt for Red October (THRO), Clancy is able to advance his plot. Defections for political reasons happened quite often during the Cold War. There were many defections in history starting back in World War II when famous people like Albert Einstein defected to the use because the Germans discriminated again him being Jewish (pg. 124-5, Vol. 9 Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia). The more recent occuranc ...



Marranos: A Lost People
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... For years, the Jews had been converting to Christianity to escape religious persecution. These Jews were called conversos. The twist to this tale is that these conversos actually were only putting on a front. They still considered themselves Jews. They practiced in secret.1 The Spanish made every attempt to search out and punish these conversos. Some Jews chose not to convert and they moved to Portugal. . Unfortunately, Portugal, in 1497, expelled the Jews from its borders as well. Anti-semitism was growing in Western Europe and the Jews needed to escape. The prime choice seemed to be so obvious. The Jews went to the New World. The immigration of the Marranos ...



All Quiet On The Western Front
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... virtually anything else; on this basis Paul and him grew quite close. Paul's unit was assigned to lay barbed wire on the front line, and a sudden shelling resulted in the severe wounding of a recruit that Paul had comforted earlier. Paul and Kat again strongly questioned the War. After Paul's company were returned to the huts behind the lines, Himmelstoss appeared and was insulted by some of the members of Paul's unit, who were then only mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very distant from his family as a result of the war. He left in agony knowing that his ...



"Paul's Case": Willa Cathers
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... a deprivation and ugliness; his room with its yellow dingy wallpaper and the painted wooden bed that had began to flake. "The nearer he approached the house the more absolutely unequal Paul felt to the sight of it all; his ugly sleeping chamber, the cold bathroom with the grimy zinc tub..." His school was described with having "bare floors and naked walls". Paul's uplifting arena was either glaring up at the actors, divas, or performers at the Schenley Hotel or at the works of art at Carnegie Hall. Even though he had spent numerous days fantasizing at masterpieces and stage plays, Paul "had no desire to become an actor, any more thatn he had to become a musi ...



A Critical Approach To "Barn Burning" (by William Faulkner)
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... in North America during the late 1800's. Being a sharecropper, Ab and his family had to share half or two-thirds of the harvest with the landowner and out of their share pay for the necessities of life. As a result of this status, Ab and his family know from the start what the future will hold -- hard work for their landlord and mere survival for them. No hope for advancement prevails throughout the story. Sarty, his brother and the twin sisters have no access to education, as they must spend their time working in the fields or at home performing familial duties. Nutrition is lacking “He could smell the coffee from the room where they would presently eat ...



Night 2
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... Jewish people to the ghettos either in the large one or the small one. Elie and his family was moved to the large one. The next step is that Elie and his family had to move to the small ghetto where they were getting ready to leave or be sent some where else. The next step of the system is everyday they take a certain amount of Jewish people into the center of the town square and then they let them sit there for a while. The next step was that they had to walk to the synagogue and then they had to walk to train after being in the synagogue for a day. Once they reach the train, the Hungarian police put eighty people in a thirty person train car. The next step is t ...



The Pit And The Pendulum
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... the intense dehumanization of the captors through distinct words (14); “I saw them writhe with a deadly locution. I saw them fashion the syllables of my name; and I shuddered because no sound succeeded.” (Poe 1(15)) This last view of humanity until the narrator's release leaves him feeling hopeless. (Burdick 91(16)) The captors, his probable last view of humanity, are an evil group who do not care at all for him. Isolation from normal surroundings is mentally draining. The setting of the dungeon is dark, dank, and generally unpleasant;(17) “The atmosphere was intolerably close,(18)...It was a wall, seemingly of stone masonry(19)--very smooth, slimy, and ...



A Summary Of Martin Luther, Lectures On Galatians
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... play only as a result of sin: "If there is any conscience or fear present, this is a sign that this [passive] righteousness has been withdrawn, that grace has been lost sight of, and that Christ is hidden and out of sight." (p. 8) The comfort of conscience is the righteousness of faith. (p. 5) Luther delineates a series of dichotomies: morality/faith, works/grace, secular society/religion (p. 7), conscience/joy, works/faith, earthly/heavenly, Adam/Jesus, sin/righteousness, death/eternal life, flesh/spirit, Law/Christ (p. 9), Law/grace, Moses the lawgiver/Christ the savior (p. 10). These follow the dualism which Paul describes: "What the flesh desires is oppos ...




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