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- 13591: Why Write
- ... descriptive, analytical way giving facts, interpretations, and definitions. Writers write to amuse others. The purpose is to bring pleasure others, making them laugh or smile. Humor, the most often used form of amusement, is a great tension breaker poking fun at things we all make fun of but would greatly miss if abandoned. Satire is another form of amusement, and personally my favorite. It is used to point attention at the ...
- 13592: Rumpelstiltskin
- ... do so and becomes very distraught. An enchanting little man comes to her aid, but only after she promises him her first born child. The daughter, who is now no longer a girl, goes to great lengths to get out of her promise and prospers by showing tremendous strength of character. Exploitation is defined as the use or manipulation of another person for one's own advantage ( Webster's Universal College ...
- 13593: The Bell Jar
- ... Doctor Nolan because she embodies everything her mother is not and everything that is possible for Esther to become. The description of Doctor Nolan as a complete woman reveals that Esther admires Doctor Nolan a great deal. The way each of the women is portrayed reveals a lot about Esther’s perspective. Esther stresses over the choices she feels like she has to make. Her role models contribute to the decisions ...
- 13594: Romanticism
- ... This was a Transcendentalist inspired community. Significant reform movements sought to remove the blemishes of society. This was in keeping with the inner human potential and Love that was extended to all men. It brought great humanitarism efforts to the front. Women played prominent roles as they went forth in society to clear the blemishes. Volunteerism was born in America, displaying the true American mentality. Dorothea Dix worked hard at convincing ...
- 13595: Attempts to End Slavery
- ... politics and the government. Two of the very first women that were given a right to speak publicly about the immorality of slavery were the sisters Angelina and Sarah Grimke. They argued that if a great moral reform of American society was to occur, that women had to have equality in dealing with the issue. Later on, more women such as Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton took a stance against ...
- 13596: The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe
- ... and abstaining from swearing and fighting". Two years after Marvin's reformation, he asks Miss Amelia to marry him. Miss Amelia does not love him but agrees to the marriage in order to satisfy her great-aunt. Once married, Miss Amelia is very aloof towards her husband and refuses to engage in marital relations with him. After ten days, Miss Amelia ends the marriage because she finds that she is unable ...
- 13597: Victorian Literature
- ... the individual through freedom from social restraint. The foremost art critic of the time, John RUSKIN, articulated the assumptions of many contemporary critics by showing in The Stones of Venice (1851-53) the interdependence of great art and a society's moral health. The major early Victorian poets, too, took the role of secular prophets, often expressing a longing for the free play of imaginative life. For Alfred, Lord TENNYSON, the ...
- 13598: The Awakening
- ... when she went swimming for the first time, and she had over estimated her power. ¡§Once she turned and looked toward the shore, toward the people she had left there. She had not gone any great distance¡Kshe made no mention of her encounter with death and her flash of terror, except to say to her husband, ¡¥I thought I should have perished out there alone.¡¦ ¡¥You were not so very ...
- 13599: William Blake
- ... the industrialists. The green woods and dimpling stream celebrated in Laughing Song have been bound and restricted by progress and onset of technology. Blake values the freedom of nature, writing at the time of the great industrial revolution. He is speaking out against the destruction of the meadows and abuse of precious natural resources, to make way for heavy industry and with that, capitalism. However it not just the environment or ...
- 13600: William Carlos Williams
- ... The writer of the note isn't at all sorry he ate the plums for in Williams's own words "they were delicious, so sweet and so cold. William Carlos Williams was one of the great American poets of his time and colored the otherwise drab American landscape. He was a true Imagist but also discovered his own unique style in which he used simple colloquial language precisely and sparingly and ...
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