... put Hester in constant fear for her true love. He went about his life, indifferent to what he was putting her through. She was affected greatly by his schemes, and thus Chillingworth emotionally abused his wife, as was his standard of doing things. Pearl was abused because of Chillingworth's neglect towards her. He could have looked past his wife's sin and loved his daughter. He could have cared for her and supported her, but he chose not to. He failed to look into his heart and nurture his daughter. He voluntarily detached himself from her life. It was because of his stereotypical neglect that Pearl suffered in ways she didn't have to. The most severe ins ...
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... of water travel to secure a place for himself in history. Futon's innovation is best summarized in the following quote: "The mind of the individual inventor or projector was the ultimate key… The men who emerged as the most effective in developing designs of complete steamboats based upon individual and unique combinations of a complex of elements all enjoyed a capacity for spatial thinking". This shows that he himself was aware that success was as much a function of application as it was of theory. Another importuned development still paramount in toadies world, whose influence will be felt indefinitely is the development of the telegraph. Morse, through the adva ...
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... thus representing English society's belief in superiority over all other cultures. Yet, despite his belief in superiority, Swift shows that Gulliver is not as great as he imagines when the forces of nature call upon him to relieve himself. Gulliver comments to the reader that before hand he, “was under great difficulties between urgency and shame”, and after the deed says that he felt, “guilty of so uncleanly an action” (Norton,2051). By revealing to the reader Gulliver's shame in carrying out a basic function of life, Swift comments on the self imposed supremacy of English society. By humbling their representative, the author implies that despite ...
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... My grandfather was the 11th of 12 children in his family and they moved from Bridgeport, OK to "the city" of Edmond after the Depression hit and he took any job he could find to help out with the monthly income and payments. Many people did not cope with the dust bowl or the Depression very well. The younger generation had to change its way of thinking. They also had just changed the styles of everything in the 1920's (Roaring 20's!). The styles had changed a lot from the 1920's. The younger generation had to go out and find jobs...jobs such as carrying ice, newspapers, milk, working at a grocery store, or even delivering clothes to needy child ...
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... few thy voice. Take each man’s censure, but reserve they judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy (rich, not gaudy) For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station (Are) of a most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower or a lender (be,) For (loan) oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing (dulls the) edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. (1. 3. 71-87) The advice that Polonius gives to Laertes is simple and sounds foolish being told to a person of Laertes’ age. Marti ...
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... "A" as a symbol of her adultery. Yet, although she is apparently isolated from the normal association with the "decent" folk, Hester, having come to terms with her sin, is inwardly reconciled to God and herself. Hester does not isolate herself from the Puritan town; instead, her isolation is inflicted upon her. Hester tries to establish a normal and honest relationship with many of the characters in the story, but sometimes it becomes very difficult. Pearl, Hester's daughter, becomes so closely associated with the "A" on Hester's chest, becoming, as Hawthorne says, "the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life." Therefore, she be ...
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... When Pip tells lies to Joe, Mrs. Joe, and Uncle Pumblechook about Miss Havisham and reveals this fact to Joe, Joe becomes upset with Pip. “‘Terrible?’ cried Joe. ‘Awful! What possessed you?’”(99) Joe can not believe what he is hearing and takes the right course of action by making Pip really think about what he has done. A child like Pip does not see the consequences of his actions until he really thinks about the problems he has caused. Joe blatantly expresses his feelings to Pip and Pip becomes ashamed of his actions. Joe, however, did not do a very good job of being a parent in the first place for believing Pip’s outrageous story without question. Joe tries to ...
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... all over the place. He first appears in the story to request that Wil help him get his car out of the mud. Then Emil reappears to fix the plumbing,wrecking Wil's parents' nerves in the process. The atmosphere in the story is that of a small hick town in northern Wisconsin:open,friendly,relaxed and very laid-back. It strikes me as being very much like "cottage country" in northern Ontario:lakes,forest,fishing,small town life. The time is the late 1980's. The novel ends with Wil seeing that his father is watching him from shore. Wil rows over and finds that his father is tired and sad,his eyes rimmed with red from crying. Wil invites his father over to the i ...
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... “Yet it is true, each day I long for home, long for the sight of home.” As he plainly states, Odysseus greatly misses his home, and his tears show us just how much he misses it. In the duration of the story Odysseus has to make several sacrifices in order to get to the home he longs for so much. In Book 12, Circe foresees that Odysseus will have to let some of his men die. “The Ithacans set off. But Odysseus never reveals to them Circe’s last prophecy – that he will be the only survivor…” This shows how much he’s willing to do and sacrifice in order to get home. There are many obstacles that stand in Odysseus’ ...
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... information. In fact there was a Euclid of Megara, who was a philosopher who lived about 100 years before the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria. It is not quite the coincidence that it might seem that there were two learned men called Euclid. In fact Euclid was a very common name around this period and this is one further difficulty that makes it hard to find information concerning Euclid of Alexandria since there are references to numerous men called Euclid in the history of this period. There is nothing consistent in the dating given about when Euclid did all of his work but a person by the name of Itard said that situation is best summed up by the fowling three ...
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