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Novels Essays and Term Papers
Race and Ethnicity1. “There is no exquisite beauty,” Poe says, “without some strangeness in the proportions.” Pick a writer from the first half of the course and identify the key strangeness in his or her work, the thing that is most prominently peculiar about it. What does identifying this quality unlock for ...
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The Color PurpleOn December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks was on her way home from work when she got on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She politely sat down at the front of the bus. After a while, the bus filled up and she was asked to move so that a male passenger could have her seat. She refused, and shortly after that ...
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Dona PerfectaThroughout Benito Perez Galdos’ novel, Dona Perfecta, Galdos uses his ability to draw his characters, in such detail, that he allows the audience to relate with his main characters, Don Jose “Pepe” Rey, Rosario, and Dona Perfecta. By the order of his father, Pepe Rey has left his home to visit the ...
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Scarlet LetterIn Hawthorne's epic novel, The Scarlet Letter he discusses Pearl, a main character, and her contribution in making the novel a romantic one. Hawthorne uses three types of romantic topics relating to Pearl. Stereotypical characters, supernaturalness of characters, and the imaginary aspect of ...
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Ed GeinYou could never image how many e-mails I get from people saying "Did you know the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is true" or "A friend of a friend was in jail with the real LEATHERFACE". Who ever thought of putting that intro at the beginning of TCM with the narration of John Larroquette forever engraved ...
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The New York TrilogyRoutine Brokenness: Gaining Insight Through Imperfection
Amongst Paul Auster’s many poems, essays, and translations is The New York Trilogy, a novel consisting of three seemingly unrelated stories set in New York City. The first novella, City of Glass, is a mish-mash of mistaken, assumed, and ...
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BelovedBeloved is a dark and hunting novel, full of terrible cruelty. The ghost represents the power of the legacy of slavery, which hunted Seth for many years. Beloved is the spirit of the dead baby that returned later in the book. The novel successfully conveys the cruelty and dehumanization that ...
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The Old Man And The SeaThesis: Ernest Hemingway has been known for his use of symbolism throughout his novels. In order to portray certain character traits, Hemingway creates imagry which helps enhance the readers understanding of the characters. In Ernest Hemingway's, The Old Man and the Sea, he uses religious ...
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Death in White NoiseWho decides whether an action is good or bad? Who decides whether a person is good or bad? Not a single person can be defined as either good or bad in every decision or choice that they make. There is no black or white. They all lie within the gray area. People in the real world make choices that ...
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Be GoodAbout a month after we started Y Combinator we came up with the phrase that became our motto: Make something people want. We've learned a lot since then, but if I were choosing now that's still the one I'd pick.
Another thing we tell founders is not to worry too much about the business model, at ...
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Crossing the Bridge Between Insanity and TranquillityImagine a world divided by two separate meanings, and in between the seemingly separate worlds, lies a bridge. On one side of the bridge is a land of complete insanity. A land where the inhabitants run free with a very small sense of morality. On the other side of the bridge, however, rests a ...
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The Invisible ManIntroduction
In England a physics researcher fascinated with light and optical density will discover how to make objects and he invisible. Although this seems a great feat, selfishness will lead him to conceal his amazing discovery from the world and only to use his new found advantage on ...
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Lowell Mills GirlsThe rise of industry in America in the early nineteenth century resulted in several changes in economics and lifestyles. Factories rapidly replaced the putting out system of production. In New England textile mills, all cloth production from weaving to finishing to shipping was centralized in one ...
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HeroesIn the words of Lucy Hughes-Hallett in her book Heroes, a hero is a “dynamic, syductive” person that is “associated with courage and integrity and a disdain for cramping compromises.” With this writers and poets have described and told stories of the past. History’s heroes had a way of being a ...
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The Great Gatsby: The American DreamFitzgerald positions the characters of The Great Gatsby as emblems of these social trends. Nick and Gatsby, both of whom fought in World War I, exhibit the newfound cosmopolitanism and cynicism that resulted from the war. The various social climbers and ambitious speculators who attend Gatsby’s ...
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All Quiet on the Western Front - Horrors of WarPublished in 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front masterfully depicts the horrors of war. Erich Maria Remarque based the book on his own experience as a young infantryman in the German army during World War I. Remarque was partially influenced by Henri Barbusse’s war novel Le Feu Journal d’une ...
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Pride & Prejudice: MarriageJane Austen uses the relationships of the characters in Pride and Prejudice to accurately satirize the convention of marriage. To contradict the conventional ideals and beliefs of society, she concentrates attention on a number of important courtships, which in turn provide a backdrop to the ...
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Totalitarianism in 1984Orwell’s primary goal in 1984 is to demonstrate the terrifying possibilities of totalitarianism. The reader experiences the nightmarish world that Orwell envisions through the eyes of the protagonist, Winston. His personal tendency to resist the stifling of his individuality, and his intellectual ...
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What is Transcendentalism?What is Transcendentalism?
Readers have asked this question often. Here's my answer:
When I first learned about Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in high school English class, I admit: I couldn't figure out what the term "Transcendentalism" meant. I couldn't ...
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