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- 13851: The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe By
- ... 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 ...
- 13852: The Awakening By Kate Chopin
- ... she probably cares very little for these men, but was far more interested in what they could provide for her. Her relationships after each awakening prove her to be weak and shallow. Her actions, both great and small, demonstrate her shallow, selfish nature. Her major decisions result in her disassociation from her children and her manipulation of various lovers. Edna's minor actions also demonstrate her truly vile nature. Her venture ...
- 13853: Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
- ... finally got to Hogwarts, Harry was the laughing stock of Draco Malfoy and his friends because of his fainting from the Dementor that came into the train. Harry shook it all off and had a great first day feast with a good sleep thinking about what the rest of the year would be like. Over the next few weeks Harry was getting used to Hogwarts again for the third time, picking ...
- 13854: Comparison of "The Devil and Tom Walker" and "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
- ... mind in the plot, setting, characters, and theme. One story is more specific on setting, when the other is more into the plot. For instance, in The Devil and Tom Walker the story goes into great detail of the countryside, like the thickly wooded swamp, the beautiful dark grove, and how the land rises abruptly from the water's edge into a high ridge. Irving tries to place the reader in ...
- 13855: Neil Armstrong
- ... got older he stopped working and no one really knows where he is now. I think that it was a little weird for Neil Armstrong to want to be so private. He had such a great life and accomplished so much. I look up to him because he was so smart in school and he tried so hard to make his dream come true. I think that it must have been ...
- 13856: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... of Huckleberry Finn would not have any of the antagonism or intercourse that makes the recital interesting. The prejudice and intolerance found in the book are the characteristics that make The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn great. The author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Samuel Langhorn Clemens, who is more commonly known by his pen name, Mark Twain. He was born in 1835 with the passing of Haleys comet ...
- 13857: H.G. Wells
- ... night, who live above ground, and the Morlocks, apelike and carnivorous creatures that live below ground. Much of the realism of the story was achieved by carefully studied technical details. The Time Machine was a great success, and is the first of hundred's of writings Well's produced. The Island Of Doctor Moreau (1896) is the most horrifying of Wells's fantasies and one of the best written. The doctor ...
- 13858: Nelson Mandela
- ... president, Frederik W. de Klerk, decided to release Mandela. He also promised a gradual wind-up of the apartheid system. Nelson's important place in the liberation struggle has influenced the abolition of apartheid a great deal. He made all the difference because he rose international interests because of his demonstrations, speeches and campaigns. He didnt give up the fight while he was in prison, and he was ready to die ...
- 13859: King Philip's War
- King Philip's War It had been forty years since the last major warfare between the Puritans and Native Americans. However, great tension still existed. The natives were forced to live under Puritan rule because of the ever-growing population in the colonies. Metacom (known as King Philip to the settlers), chief of the Wampanoag, was tired ...
- 13860: Greek Tragedies
- ... after the god Dionysis spirit was passionate and communal. By contrast, the Apollonian after the god Apollo is orderly and individualistic. Dionysian art is music, Apollonian, sculpture and painting. Ultimately they are combined in the great tragic plays of the Greeks, which include Julius Caesar and Hamlet, and there is also a sort of development from Aeschylus through Sophocles. Nietzsche is a theoretical man, fundamentally anti-Dionysian, whose "illusion" is "that ...
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