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- 13681: BARTLEBY
- ... ignoring the problem, he left the door open for more disobedience. As expected, Bartleby continued to refuse to proofread and the narrator eventually gave up on asking him to do it. The narrator went to great lengths to avoid a confrontation. When Bartleby refused to leave the office after being fired, the narrator chose to move his office to a different location instead of removing the eccentric man by force. The ...
- 13682: Laura Secord
- ... not work but James was a Merchant. Life was good for Laura, James and their family, and it seemed the future held nothing but happiness. On June 18, 1812, war was officially declared. It was Great Britain with the Native Americans against the United States. Queenston and Niagara Falls were long awaiting the attack of the US forces from across the Niagara River. James had already left to fight in the ...
- 13683: Reading The Light
- ... put any hardships that he had had that year, and just enjoy being alive. I think that this story will stay in my mind for a long time. I think that this story portrayed a great theme: enjoy life to it’s fullest, while you can. All these stories were written well. They all had their own message that was being portrayed. I think that they each had their own style ...
- 13684: Rainer Maria Rilke
- ... 1905. Rilke would continue to travel to places such as Italy, Spain, Egypt, and Paris. While he was in Paris he developed a new style of lyrical poetry, influenced by the visual arts of the great sculptor Rodin. These poems would turn out to be New Poems published in 1908. In his later life, Rilke moved to Switzerland, where he completed Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus both published in 1923 ...
- 13685: Put Myself In My Shoes
- ... have been more deeply affected. The story's final lines show us a man who looks like a deer caught in deadlights: "He did not answer. Her voice seemed to come to him from a great distance. He kept driving. Snow rushed at the windshield. He was silent and watched the road. He was at the very end of a story". "Put Yourself in My Shoes" seems as Carver's way ...
- 13686: Pride And Prejudice: Marriage
- ... Wickham tries to elope with Georgiana Darcy only because of her fortune of £30,000 since the property of a woman automatically becomes the property of the husband in the marriage. Marriage was therefore a great security for a happy life since there was nothing like the social security, old age pensions or health insurances we are provided with today. "If you go on refusing every offer of marriage, you will ...
- 13687: Pride And Prejudice: 5 Married Couples
- ... marriage. During Elizabeth’s stay in Pemberly while Jane is ill, Austen reveals to the readers, that Elizabeth and Darcy share a common interest. For example, Miss Bingley states that ‘Miss Eliza Bennet… is a great reader…’ p34. While in a conversation between Darcy and Miss Bingley, it is stated, ‘What a delightful library you have at Pemberly,…’ p34. This illustrates to the readers that the two share the same interest ...
- 13688: Pride And Prejudice - Pride
- ... Mr. Collins, Mr. Bennet's cousin, had sent to the former. Elizabeth questions whether Mr. Collins can be a very sensible man. Her father's reply is: "No, my dear, I think not. I have great hopes of finding him quite the reverse."(p. 48). It is also said at another place that his "expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, […]." (p. 51). This shows ...
- 13689: THe Knights of the Round Table
- ... gardeners. The food was usally vegetables and herbs. They also kept pigs, cattle, chickens and bees. They kept all these things inside the castle. Inside the castle there are usually these things a chapel, a great hall, a solar room the inner castle wall and the battlements. There were heaps of knights who felt honoured at the Round Table. The tales of Galahad , the Round Table and king arthur are partly ...
- 13690: Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude" and Allende's "The House of the Spirits": Satire
- ... the fact that he died for something that he did not even practise. This rhetoric is also seen with Gerineldo Marquez who, when asked what he is fighting for b y Aureliano, replies: "For the great Liberal Party." Aureliano says that this is bad as he is fighting for "…something that doesn't have any meaning for anyone" This shows Marquez satirising the purposelessness of political conflict in Colombia.
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