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The Awakening: Edna's
... of society's standards to her desire.
Kate Chopin carefully, though subtly, establishes that Edna does not neglect
her children, but only her mother-woman image. Chopin portrays this idea by
telling the reader "…Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman. The mother-woman
seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle". Edna tries on one occasion to
explain to Adele how she feels about her children and how she feels about
herself, which greatly differs from the mother-woman image. She says: "I would
give up the unessential; I would give my money; I would give my life for my
children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only
something I am ...
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Life In A Medieval Village
... on the street.
Their were two types of houses, the peasant cottage,(which wasn't that big) and the long house which had more space by far. The village wasn't a very delightful place to be in. It was a place of bustle, clutter, smells, disrepair, and dust, or in much of the year mud. It was far from silent!
Every village had a lord, but only rarely was he in residence. A resident lord was usually a petty knight. The old feudal theory of lordship as a link in the legal chain of authority running from serf to monarch had lost much of it's substance. However, as far as the village was concerned such legal complications hardly mattered, anymore than whether the ...
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New Passages: Living Life On The Edge
... I personally support her view and further contend that this is where we find the presence of God. However, I also believe that we cannot limit the presence of God in our lives to only those moments when we are at the top of the mountain.
Karl Rahner refers to God as always being on our horizon. The use of this metaphor suggests that God’s presence is found only when we have reached the mountain summit. Yet, this greatly limits God’s presence in our life. Most people have often felt the presence of God in the deepest, lowest corners of thier lives. These experiences are also considered your horizons. A time to make changes in order to always keep mov ...
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A Separate Peace: True Friends
... by figuring:
" I was more certainly becoming the best student in the school;
Phineas was without question the best athlete, so in that way we
were even. But while he was a very poor student I was a pretty
good athlete, and when everything was thrown on the scales they
would in the end tilt definitely toward me"(47).
So in Gene's mind he was better than Phineas, and this appeased the grip of
jealousy for awile at least. Peace is once again retained at the Devon
school, but it wont last. Neither Gene nor Phineas can foresee the agony
which will soon be beckoning them.(4)
The summer was quickly passing for these two boys and Gen ...
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An Analysis Of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed In Life Due To His Father
... in life on his own.
Jimmy Doyle grew in a family that was quite well off financially due to
the hard work of his father. Mr. Doyle made a lot of money through hard work
and sacrifice as butcher, and he wanted nothing but the best for his son. He
did not want his son to work as hard as he did growing up. When Jimmy went away
to college, he spent more time socializing than he did studying. "Jimmy did not
study very earnestly and took to bad courses for awhile. He had money and he
was popular; ..."(p.25). Jimmy liked better to be in the company of peers
rather than study, and his father condoned it. When Jimmy was not doing well at
Dublin University, his ...
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The Pelican Breif
... and the other one in a adult cinema. Then they
show Darby in the house of her law professor whose name was
Thomas Calahan. Who happened to be a clerk for Justice
Rosenberg. Shaw then tells her professor who she is having an affair
with that she is going to try and find out who murdered them. They
show the President talking with his advisor and they are saying if the
FBI can not solve who killed the Justices then maybe they should get
someone else.
After a while they go back to Gray who is on the telephone, with
an unknown person at the time, and is talking about the murders and
the person on the telephone is saying that he knows who killed the
Justi ...
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Fahrenheit 451: Similarities To Today's World
... example, when Mildred over dosed on tranquilzers and sleeping pills, Montag had doctors take the poisen out with a machine, as she slept with the bee in her ear. When she woke up in the morning Montag said, “I wanted to talk to you…she said”(Bradbury 19).
The toaster in the Montag;s house, it did all the work. “Toast popped out of the silver toaster, was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Mildred watched the toast delieered to her plate.” (Bradbury 18).
The mechanical hound in the firehouse worked as a sercurity system only better. It was a device of terror, a machine whose perverse similarity to a trained killer-dog. It was i ...
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Canterbury Tales
... was a true, a perfect gentle-knight”(68). He owned fine horses that were a symbol of wealth at that time, but he did not show this wealth outwardly in his clothing or adornments.
The Knight’s son is somewhat his opposite. He dresses more fancily and shows off. He is a squire training to be a knight like his father. I don’t think that he is very serious about this because he enjoys the pleasures of life and not much of his training. Chaucer’s thoughts of his appearance were:
He was some twenty years of age, I guessed. In stature he was of moderate length,With wonderful agility and strength. (78-80) He stayed up mall night and partied so he did not get much sleep.
The ...
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The Scarlet Letter
... her and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, even startled to perceive how her beauty shone out and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped.
Hester receives many punishments for her adulteress affair. She has to spend time in jail as well as wearing the letter “A” and also raises her daughter without a father. This makes the punishments both private and public. Hester wishes she were dead but then changes her mind because she says to Chillingworth, “I have thought of death, have wished for it, would even had prayed for it, Yet if death be in this cup, I bid thee think again, ere ...
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To Kill A Mokingbird
... good standing in their community. She was often fussed at by the ladies of the town and by her uppity Aunt Alexandra because she did not carry herself in a lady-like manner. Instead of her having tea parties and wearing dresses, Scout climbed trees and wore jean overalls. I laughed as I read this particular part because it reminded me of when I was young and liked to climb trees. I can also relate to the closeness shared by the siblings because I am very close to my younger brother, Brandon. Charles Baker "Dill" Harris was the only other child mentioned in the story that was a friend of Scout and Jem. He was from Meridian and the trio became aquatinted because Di ...
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