Ugliness Essays and Term Papers

The Bluest Eye

Misdirection of Anger "Anger is better [than shame]. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality of presence. An awareness of worth."(50) This is how many of the blacks in Toni Morrison's felt. They faked love when they felt powerless to hate, and destroyed what love they did have with anger. ...

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Use Of Colors

Pauline saw the beauty of life through the colors of her childhood down South. Her fondest memories were of purple berries, yellow lemonade, and "that streak of green them june bugs made on the trees the night we left down home. All them colors was in me"1. Pauline and Cholly left the colors of ...

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Damsels In Address

It is clearly evident that many fairy tales of childhood tend to shape the reader. Certain moral codes and ideals are tightly woven into the text of many fairy tales, promoting or denoting a character’s actions. In the Grimm’s fairy tales Cinderella, Brier Rose, and Rapunzel, the heroines of ...

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Cultural Write-Up On “Gone With The Wind”

It is 11:03 at night, and I have a mandatory homework to do, homework that was assigned ages and ages ago. I chose to watch “Gone With the Wind” for this cultural write-up. I had always wanted to watch that movie, yet I never have imagined that I would have to watch it under these ...

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The Catcher In The Rye: Connection To The Title

The title of the novel The Catcher In The Rye, by JD Salinger, has a substantial connection to the story. This title greatly explains the main character, Holden Caulfield, and his feelings towards life and human nature. In society he has found enormous corruption, vulgarity, harm and havoc. He ...

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The Bluest Eye

It is the dream of every little girl to be beautiful. The most cherished possession of many little girls is a doll: a beautiful, blonde haired, blue-eyed doll. It is this image that young girls strive to attain. This image haunted Pecola Breedlove as she tried to be accepted in society. The ...

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Tess Of The D'Urbervilles: Analysis Of Angel And Alec's Attitudes Toward Tess

Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Analysis of Angel and Alec's Attitudes Toward One of Thomas Hardy's greatest novels, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, was published in 1891. The novel was set during this 19th century in Wessex, Britain. Tess of the D'Urbervilles reflected the Victorian Age in Britian ...

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A Rose For Emily: Symbolism

Authors traditionally use symbolism as a way to represent the sometimes-intangible qualities of the characters, places and events in their work. In the short story, “A Rose For Emily”, William Faulkner uses symbolic elements to define and characterize Miss Emily Grierson. Faulkner uses symbolism ...

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Our Grandmothers

"If Othello didn’t begin as a play about race, history has made it one." The Venetian society that Othello is set in is representative of the writers context. The attitudes and values that Shakespeare reveals through the text are those same attitudes and values of Elizabethan society ...

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The Devils Of Loudun, By Aldou

'The Devils of Loudun', by Aldous Huxley ‘The Devils of Loudun’ is a historical account of religious fanaticism and sexual hysteria in seventeenth century France, and an investigation into the circumstances that led to the torture and execution of a local parson who, during a farcical ...

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Buddha

The word means "enlightened one." It is used today as a title to the one who has given us more religious beliefs than almost any other human who lived in this world. However, he was not given this name at birth; he had to earn it for himself by undergoing long, hard hours of meditation ...

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William Faulkner

is viewed by many as America\'s greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life filled with good times as well as bad. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short story writer, and finally one of the greatest contemporary ...

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A Farewell To Arms 4

The overall tone of the book is much different than that of The Sun Also Rises. The characters in the book are propelled by outside forces, in this case WWI, where the characters in SAR seemed to have no direction. Frederick's actions are determined by his position until he deserts the ...

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Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults In The Creation

Often the actions of children are reflective of the attitudes of those who raised them. In the novel Frankenstein : Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelly, Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the sole being that can take responsibility for the creature that he has created, as he is the only one that had ...

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The True Sinners

The main characters, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and the Puritan society represented by the townspeople, all sinned. The story is a study of the effects of sin on the hearts and minds of Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. Sin strengthens Hester, humanizes Dimmesdale, ...

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High School

Though out my 4 years at Galt High School I’ve experienced many changes, feeling, attitudes, appearances, and activities. All of these experiences have changed me as a person and made me realize who I am and who I want to become. I have grown to be a mature, respectful, and responsible young lady. ...

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Values vs. Civil Obedience: Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience

“Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.” (22). The Henry David Thoreau’s essay published in 1849, “Civil Disobedience” is a reflection of Thoreau’s deeply rooted personal values formed by the Bible and his ...

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Greasy Lake

”Bad Characters or Bad Character Wanna-be’s?” Greasy Lake is the story of three friends who are bad characters. Until they run into a situation where they question, just how bad they are. Just because they act badly and look bad does not mean they are. They are teenagers in a period, “when ...

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Racism In Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

In recent years, there has been increasing discussion of the seemingly racist ideas expressed by Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn. In some extreme cases the novel has even been banned by public school systems and censored by public libraries. The basis for these censorship campaigns has been the ...

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Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson

It is early months of 1963 in the southern city of Birmingham Alabama. A city that lies in civil unrest and bitterly divided. A city to which African Americans march, hold protests and sit-ins in an effort to gain equal rights. They are met with brutal opposition in the form of police officers, ...

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