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  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill A Mockingbird - Moral In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the author intends the reader to learn that you shouldn't judge people by there race. Later on I will be telling you about a life as the Cunningham's, Bob Ewell, and Atticus. So if you listen up and pay attention you will almost be as smart as me. The Cunninghams were the poor family they were so poor they

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    Essay Length: 693 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    In the book scouts father , atticcus, tells scout and jem "id rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds.Shoot all the blue jays you want if you cannot hit them, but rememberits a sin to kill a mocking bird". In this quote the mocking bird symbolizes these two characters boo and tom because it does not have its own song. Because a mocking bird does not

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    Essay Length: 778 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Jon
  • Elements of Oedipus the King's Inner Character

    Elements of Oedipus the King's Inner Character

    Elements of Oedipus the King’s Inner Character “Oedipus the Rex,” or Oedipus the King, is renowned by some to be the “par of excellence” for Greek tragedy (Brunner, 1). The second produced of the three Theban plays by Sophocles, “Oedipus Rex” shows a variety of character qualities of the king that may not have been shown without the extreme circumstances he was subjected to. What elements of his character are revealed through the course of

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    Essay Length: 3,073 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Artur
  • To Kill a Mocking Bird

    To Kill a Mocking Bird

    To Kill a Mockingbird By: Harper Lee The main characters of this book are Scout which is the narrator, her father Atticus, her brother Jem, and her friend Dill. Scout is the narrator of the story and she is telling the story from the past point of view. She started talking about the summer when she first met Dill and they went on adventures with her older brother Jem. Scout is 8 years old and

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    Essay Length: 377 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: David
  • Social Difference in Too Kill a Mockingbird

    Social Difference in Too Kill a Mockingbird

    Social differences have changed incredibly in the last decades. The world has known an evolution that no one could have predicted. Aspects such as racism, social class and individual perception have differed drastically and now represent a modern open-minded world. The multiculturism boost our country and our world has known has brought a new wave of cultural, racial and social differences. The world has changed for the better and communities as well as individuals are

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    Essay Length: 1,267 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Pollution - the Hidden Things That Are Killing Us

    Pollution - the Hidden Things That Are Killing Us

    The Hidden Things That Are Killing Us Pollution is the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment. It is a major problem in America and as well as the world. Pollution not only damages the environment, but damages us also. It has caused many problems ranging from lung cancer to the greenhouse effect. It is all among us and yet we continue to live in our own filth. What is the reason behind

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    Essay Length: 711 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Nick Berg's Killing: 50 Fishy Circumstances, Contradictory Claims, and Videotape Anomalies

    Nick Berg's Killing: 50 Fishy Circumstances, Contradictory Claims, and Videotape Anomalies

    Nick Berg's Killing: 50 Fishy Circumstances, Contradictory Claims, and Videotape Anomalies by repost Wednesday May 26, 2004 at 04:56 AM The video tape and circumstances of the killing of Nick Berg seem fishier and fishier. This article summarizes and lists 50 anomalies around Berg and his death. A large number of anomalies surround the life and death of Nicholas Berg. A Jewish man, 26 years of age and a U.S. Citizen, he traveled alone in

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    Essay Length: 4,799 Words / 20 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Yan
  • Analyse the Ways in Which the Work of Two Contemporary British Poets Respond to and Examine Historical Characters and Events That Took Place in the First Half of the Twentieth Century.

    Analyse the Ways in Which the Work of Two Contemporary British Poets Respond to and Examine Historical Characters and Events That Took Place in the First Half of the Twentieth Century.

    Poetry generally projects emotionally and sensuously charged human experience in metrical language and the content of poetry reflects the variety of concerns of human beings in every period and in every region of the world. According to Michael Hulse “every age gets the literature it deserves” and “throughout the century, the hierarchies of values that once made stable poetics possible have been disappearing.”1 “Like everything else in contemporary poetry, form is the subject of fierce

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    Essay Length: 1,764 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Mikki
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    As readers, we saw Scout mature and grow as our narrator and as a person. She learned many things, but also lost many things. As she grew up and changed, she began to see how things really were, and gained the knowledge of the pure hate that one man can show another. Scout lost her innocence when she found this out. She began to see how cruel the world could be to someone who is

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    Essay Length: 2,120 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Monika
  • Pefection Can Kill

    Pefection Can Kill

    Perfection Can Kill As the world progresses technologically and as things change from decade to decade, the importance or longing for perfection increases. Beauty and the physical aspect of people have become so significant that people loose touch with what’s important in life. Women see photographs of models in magazines and watch the celebrities prance down a red carpet with all of their seeming perfection and they begin to compare themselves to that and strive

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Anna
  • To Kill a Mockingbird: Literary Analysis Elizabeth Capron

    To Kill a Mockingbird: Literary Analysis Elizabeth Capron

    To Kill a Mockingbird: Literary Analysis Elizabeth Capron By Harper Lee Period 2 The Plot The novel starts out in the Alabama town of Maycomb, where Scout, Jem and their widowed father, lawyer Atticus Finch, lived during the Great Depression. During one of their summers, Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill who came to live in their neighborhood for the summer. While playing, Jem and Scout tell Dill of the spooky house on

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    Essay Length: 1,287 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Kevin
  • The Great Gatsby: Did Money Kill the Great?

    The Great Gatsby: Did Money Kill the Great?

    The Great Gatsby: Did Money Kill the Great? Many people claim that The Great Gatsby is the quintessential American novel. This is due to the reoccurring theme of the book of the rise and fall of the American dream. The book is very significant because of its relation to the time period in which it was written and the actual events that were taking place in the world in and around the 1920’s. This period

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    Essay Length: 1,015 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 29, 2010 By: Kevin
  • The Time Machine - Character List

    The Time Machine - Character List

    Character List: By Mischel Figusch The Time Traveler (TT): The Time Traveler is the protagonist of the story, and he takes over the narration from Chapter III until Chapter XII. He is a scientific man, schooled in contemporary theories about relativity and an able practitioner of the scientific method of hypothesis, observation, experimentation, and conclusion (although he freely admits that many of his early theories about the future world turn out to be wrong). He

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    Submitted: March 30, 2010 By: Mikki
  • To Kill a Mocking Bird

    To Kill a Mocking Bird

    SETTING -19,20 chapter summary- These two chapters consist of the trial of Tom Robinson. Atticus, Tom's lawyer, calls only one witness, which is Tom himself. Tom states his case, which is as follows. He always passed the Ewell house on his way home from work, and Mayella often called him in to do chores for her, such as to break up 'chiffarobes' or dressers. On that specific evening, he was called inside to fix a

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    Submitted: March 30, 2010 By: David
  • Nonconformity Amongst Characters

    Nonconformity Amongst Characters

    Nonconformity Amongst Characters In House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, one common trait shared by both novels was nonconformity amongst characters. Throughout the course of both novels, nonconformity was expressed through both rebellion and forbidden love. One of the two motifs in both stories is rebellion. In Like Water for Chocolate, Tita De La Garza, the protagonist, strives for love, freedom, and individuality, and Mama Elena,

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    Submitted: March 30, 2010 By: Steve
  • Character Essay

    Character Essay

    After reading Arthur Miller's play "A view from the bridge," I am convinced that the most striking character is Marco. He is an Italian immigrant that moved illegally to the United States with his brother Rodolpho to work as longshoremen, since at the time (the play was written in 1955) his country of origin, Italy, was going through a major economic depression because of the outcome of World War II. In the play, we

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    Submitted: March 31, 2010 By: regina
  • To Kill a Mocking Bird Report

    To Kill a Mocking Bird Report

    ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Essay What Do You Think About the Presentation of The Black Characters In To Kill A Mockingbird? The presentation of the black characters in ‘To kill a Mockingbird’ is an important role of the text. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Harper Lee shows the black community as an honest, kind group of people, with very positive attitudes. Lula is the only black character in the novel with a negative attitude,

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    Essay Length: 531 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 1, 2010 By: Janna
  • Euthanaisa: To Kill or Not To Kill

    Euthanaisa: To Kill or Not To Kill

    Euthanaisa: To Kill or Not to Kill What is euthanasia? Euthanasia is the act or practice of killing somebody who has an incurable illness or injury, or allowing or assisting that person to die. The word euthanasia comes from the Greek language: eu which means "good" and thanatos which means "death". One meaning given to the word is the intentional termination of life by another at the explicit request of the person who dies. Another

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    Essay Length: 2,124 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: April 2, 2010 By: Yan
  • Character Analysis of Dorothy Plunk

    Character Analysis of Dorothy Plunk

    “It was my opinion that Dorothy Pluck, a native of War, was the most beautiful girl in our class or, for that matter, at Big Creek High.”(29) Dorothy Plunk was Sonny’s first love but she also broke his heart. In October Sky, written by Homer Hickam Jr., Dorothy is a pseudonym for a girl he knew during high school. She is known for her beauty, power, and inexperience. Dorothy was known for her beauty

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    Submitted: April 2, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Character Diary for a Lesson Before Dying

    Character Diary for a Lesson Before Dying

    Character Diary Grant Wiggins 1st Entry They say that expressing your feelings in diaries that everything else in life becomes easier that if you take the time to look inside yourself and let out everything your thinking and everything your feeling life suddenly becomes better than it every was because at least you know exactly what you are thinking at that moment and there is no one there to tell you that you are wrong.

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    Submitted: April 3, 2010 By: David
  • Character Change: Reverend Hale

    Character Change: Reverend Hale

    Joe Joe Character Change: Reverend Hale The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller. The play takes place in Salem and is a story of a witch trial. The effect of certain events that took place have caused some characters to changed throughout the play. But the most prominent change in character is that of Reverend Hale. Throughout the progression of the play Reverend Hale is the one character who changes his views of

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    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: Steve
  • Character Analysis of Hester Prynne

    Character Analysis of Hester Prynne

    Hester Prynne The character of Hester Prynne changed significantly throughout the novel “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner; she has gone against the Puritan ways, committing adultery. For this irrevocably harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her life. From the beginning, we see that Hester Prynne is a young and beautiful woman who has brought a

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    Essay Length: 2,496 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Santiago’s Character

    Santiago’s Character

    1. Describe Santiago’s character in regard to the adversity he faces. What political or historical person could you compare him to? Explain. Santiago faces many adversities in the novel but the main one that makes up the plot is Santiago being shunned as a fisherman in his village by all of the people because he can not catch one fish. A political person that compares to Santiago is Elizabeth Anne Seton. She fought for women’s

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    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: Mike
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Injustices There have been many famous pieces of literature, but one that stands out is the 1960’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. Lee, who only wrote one book in her life time, wrote of prejudice, injustice, and racism in the 1930’s. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the Deep South in the 1930’s. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story in which a black mad is accused of doing something

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    Essay Length: 1,165 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: Mikki
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    WASHINGTON - President Bush said Thursday he was satisfied with Vice President Dick Cheney's explanation about his shooting accident in Texas. “I thought the vice president handled the issue just fine,” the president said. “Yesterday when he was here in the Oval Office I saw the deep concern he had about a person who he wounded. I thought yesterday’s explanation was a very strong and important explanation to make to the American people.” The remarks

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    Submitted: April 6, 2010 By: Tasha

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