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  • Summarize the Short Essay “why the Reckless Survive” by Melvin Konner

    Summarize the Short Essay “why the Reckless Survive” by Melvin Konner

    In the short essay Why the Reckless Survive by Melvin Konner. He gives an in-depth explanation of why people do reckless activities. His main point of thought is that people don’t think clearly about risk. He explains that “The American public, after years of education, wears seat belts at the rate of 20 percent and has reduced its cigarette smoking only somewhat, “The widespread success of lotteries alone shows that people do not think

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    Essay Length: 569 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Lord of the Flies Short Essay on Symbolism

    Lord of the Flies Short Essay on Symbolism

    Lord of the Flies is a novel with a story about self-preservation and survival. In the story, many symbols for subjects related to self-preservation and survival are found. Whether they are characters in the story or seemingly non-significant objects, there will be symbols found in them. The first and most obvious symbol shown in the story is the conch shell. The conch shell was first used to summon the surviving children of the plane crash.

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    Essay Length: 620 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Top
  • Frankenstein - Short Essays

    Frankenstein - Short Essays

    Frankenstein Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me Man, did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? - Paradise Lost 1. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the subtitle “The Modern Prometheus” is attached to the name of the novel. Indeed, there exists a correlation between the mythological titan who is punished for stealing the dangerous knowledge of fire for humanity and Victor Frankenstein, a man whose ruthless quest for forbidden

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Bred
  • A Short Essay on the True Story of Ah Q

    A Short Essay on the True Story of Ah Q

    A short story on The True Story of Ah Q Two very important novels from Chinese literature were written in response to societies faults. Lu Hsun's short storie "The True Story of Ah Q" and Pa Chin's famous novel The Family, both commented on political and sociological problems that occurred in China in the early 1900s. Because of major events, like the revolution of 1911 and The May Fourth Movement, these novels address the situations

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    Essay Length: 565 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Top
  • Human Trafficking Short Essay

    Human Trafficking Short Essay

    Human Trafficking the two part mini series that aired Monday on Lifetime Network caught my interest and made me research it further. The mini series Human Trafficking follows the story of four woman and girls as they are taken into the vicious world of human slavery. Human slavery is to this day is still a very real problem in the world. As I researched my topic I found that Human Trafficking is a trade that

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Victor
  • Oedipus King as a Hero

    Oedipus King as a Hero

    Oedipus is not one of those everyday heroes we see at the end of those million dollars Hollywood movies, but in fact a tragic hero who fails to achieve happiness in such a way that it brings upon fear and pity by everyone in the highest degree. In the play Oedipus by Sophocles, Oedipus' self-destruction and fall from power leaves him as the hero in the play. The very thing he fights so hard to

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    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Joe
  • Comparative Essay Oedipus and Cherry Orchard Exposition

    Comparative Essay Oedipus and Cherry Orchard Exposition

    [Last Name] Belen Valeria Petronave Literature 22/6 Comparative Essay 3 Most Greek Tragedies consist in a three act play in which the exposition, the climax and the resolution are combined in acts. Aristotle referred to these as the beginning, the middle and the end. However, nowadays, in modern dramatic plays, there are five acts; each represent an element: act one (the exposition), act two (the rising action), act three (the climax), act four (falling action),

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    Submitted: August 24, 2017 By: belen.lopezl
  • Oedipus the King

    Oedipus the King

    Oedipus the King Oedipus being shown in an updated version is a very effective and understandable way to present it to audiences. The play that was viewed in class was a good adaptation of the original play. Although modern versions of Oedipus are far different today than the way they were performed during Sophocles’s time, I think he would be impressed with the way that modern versions of his play are performed. The reason

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    Essay Length: 736 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Tragic Fate of Oedipus the King

    The Tragic Fate of Oedipus the King

    In the play Oedipus the King, Oedipus the main character meets with a tragic fate. In the beginning he is a mighty king, ruler of the city of Thebes. Then the people of Thebes come to him with a problem. The city is tragically on the surge of death. Oedipus, being the mighty king he is, is determined to solve the problem. Oedipus saved the city once before and became a hero. Now faced with

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    Essay Length: 948 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Compare and Contrast the Part That the City or State (polis) Plays in Antigone and Oedipus the King.

    Compare and Contrast the Part That the City or State (polis) Plays in Antigone and Oedipus the King.

    Compare and contrast the part that the city or state (polis) plays in Antigone and Oedipus The King. Antigone is a play about the tension caused when two individuals have conflicting claims regarding law. In this case, the moral superiority of the laws of the city, represented by Creon, and the laws of the gods, represented bt Antigone. In contrast, Oedipus The King is driven by the tensions within Oedipus himself. That play both begins

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    Essay Length: 868 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Death of a Salesman & Oedipus the King

    Death of a Salesman & Oedipus the King

    An overwhelming desire for personal contentment and unprecedented reputation can often result in a sickly twisted distortion of reality. In Sophocles' Oedipus the King, a man well-known for his intellect and wisdom finds himself blind to the truth of h life and his parentage. Arthur Miller's play, The Death of a Salesman, tells of a tragic character so wrapped up in his delusional world that reality and illusion fuse causing an internal explosion that

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Oedipus the King

    Oedipus the King

    Oedipus the King While reading classical literature one is bound to run into many types of heroes. The different types of heroes can range in their greatness, but above all, the tragic hero is viewed as being the most alluring of them all. A tragic hero, as defined by Aristotle, is a man who is great but also terribly flawed, who experiences a fall in misfortunes while still remaining admirable to the audience at the

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Oedipus the King

    Oedipus the King

    How does one take back words that were said in haste? In Sophacles’ Oedipus Rex, Oedipus longed to retract the curse that he brought upon himself but what he did could not be undone. Oedipus’ pride blinded him to himself and everything around him. He had eyes that could see physically but could not recognize any faults within himself. Ironically, a blind man was able to perceive the truth and even then Oedipus did not

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Oedipus - Irony - Essay

    Oedipus - Irony - Essay

    Irony Oedipus the King Oedipus is self-confident, intelligent and strong willed. Ironically these are the very traits which bring about his demise. Sophocles makes liberal use of irony throughout “Oedipus the King”. He creates various situations in which dramatic and verbal irony play key roles in the downfall of Oedipus. Dramatic irony depends on the audience’s knowing something that the character does not and verbal irony is presented when there is a contradiction between what

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Vika
  • Use of Dramatic Irony in Oedipus the King

    Use of Dramatic Irony in Oedipus the King

    Oedipus Rex a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles in the early days of antiquity is based upon an even more ancient story in Greek mythology. Sophocles, however, knowing that his audience is aware of the outcome of the play utilizes that foreknowledge to create various situations in which dramatic and verbal irony play key roles. Through his use of irony Sophocles manages to avoid simply retelling an old tale, though the audience is cognizant

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Top
  • Short Story Essay

    Short Story Essay

    According to Edgar Alan Poe, a short story should be like a window into someone else’s life, in other words it doesn’t really matter what happened before and it doesn’t matter what’s going to happen after. The authors of the short stories I have read in class this year, using only that window, have made me feel sorry for the characters and angry towards the resentment the rest of the community shows them because they

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Divine Right of Kings in Oedipus and Modern Society

    Divine Right of Kings in Oedipus and Modern Society

    When the president talks to God Do they drink beer and go play golf While they pick which countries to invade Which Muslim souls still can be saved? I guess God just calls a spade a spade When the president talks to God. (Oberst) The concept of the divine right of kings has been impacting history in both literature and politics throughout the ages. Today, this concept is reemerging in contemporary American politics through

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    Essay Length: 595 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Oedipus Rex Analysis Essay

    Oedipus Rex Analysis Essay

    The chorus play an important role throughout the play, they not only set up various scenes, but they represent the collective moods and feelings that are supposed to be felt at the time. When the chorus mourns, the audience mourn. They are also the voice of reason, clarity and sense, attributes to which we cannot associate with Oedipus. And so they play a vital role, connecting his actions back to the play. A way to

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    Essay Length: 1,708 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Steve
  • Compare and Contrast the Part That the City or State (polis) Plays in Antigone and Oedipus the King.

    Compare and Contrast the Part That the City or State (polis) Plays in Antigone and Oedipus the King.

    In both Antigone and Oedipus the King the city plays an important part with the majority of the action in both plays taking place in public in front of a chorus of Theban citizens. Personal conflict/crises take place in public, and when personal events take place off stage, they are relied to the chorus (and the audience) through messengers. The city also helps to move the plot of the plays along, as well providing dramatic

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    Essay Length: 449 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: regina
  • Sight and Blindess of Oedipus the King

    Sight and Blindess of Oedipus the King

    Sight and Blindness Oedipus the King by Sophocles was a play written after a devastating plague struck the city of Athens in 430 B.C. The play is about how knowledge can lead to devastation and destruction based on how the characters find out the truth of the Delphic Oracle. Years before Oedipus became the king of Thebes, the previous king, Laius, had received a prophecy that his son would grow up to kill his father.

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Short Story Essay

    Short Story Essay

    Short Story Essay on “A Rose For Emily” and “Barn Burning” Human behavior is one of the most studied and talked about traits of human beings, for it makes us who we are after all. It is prevalent in books, movies, stories, and most importantly life, everything we do involves it. In all of the short stories we read, aspects of human behavior where the basis of the writings. The short stories “A Rose For

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Oedipus the King - Blindness

    Oedipus the King - Blindness

    Blindness plays a two-fold part in Sophocles’ tragedy "Oedipus the King." First, Sophocles presents blindness as a physical disability affecting the auger Teiresias, and later Oedipus; but later, blindness comes to mean an inability to see the evil in one’s actions and the consequences that ensue. The irony in this lies in the fact that Oedipus, while gifted with sight, is blind to himself, in contrast to Teiresias, blind physically, but able to see

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Bred
  • Power of Fate in King Oedipus

    Power of Fate in King Oedipus

    Text Response: King Oedipus “Power Of Fate In King Oedipus” Are people really responsible for what they do with their lives and their actions? This very question has bamboozled the world through history. Over the years, people have questioned the influence of great or power, environment, genetics, even entertainment, as shaping how free any individual is in making choices. Oedipus the main character meets with a tragic fate. In the beginning he is a great

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Oedipus the King

    Oedipus the King

    Irony 1: Irony Oedipus the King Oedipus is self-confident, intelligent and strong willed. Ironically these are the very traits which bring about his demise. Sophocles makes liberal use of irony throughout “Oedipus the King”. He creates various situations in which dramatic and verbal irony play key roles in the downfall of Oedipus. Dramatic irony depends on the audience’s knowing something that the character does not and verbal irony is presented when there is a contradiction

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    Essay Length: 307 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Yan
  • Oedipus the King

    Oedipus the King

    Oedipus The King Uploaded by texaSS on Jun 19, 2005 Oedipus' main conflicts in Sophocles' play, Oedipus the King, revolve around the fact that he did not know himself. In his lifetime, Oedipus always believed he knew where he came from and where he belonged. And it took him a long time to finally be convinced of his true past and realize his worst fear came true. Oedipus more or less rebuffs any suggestion

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Mike

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