... the novel have and so do I as one of my first example of the “things-are-not-what-they-seemed-theory-for-Hammett’s message.” Spade is callous, avaricious, and shares a similarity with Mike from ‘The House of Games.’ Why I think Mike and Spade are similar? For one thing Brigid O’Shaughnessy gave Spade a talk/speech about him using her pretty much the same thing Ford asked Mike in the airport. Brigid’s comment (p. 211-212) “You’ve been playing with me? Only pretending you cared-to trap me like this? You didn’t-care at all? You didn’t-don’t-I-love-me?” Ford’s “You used me...&# ...
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... of the people. The Scientific Revolution shaped the modern world by introducing mathematical and scientific theories. The formation of the empirical method , reason, and the laws of nature such as mathematical formulas, brought about more sense of thinking. Great thinkers and mathematicians such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Newton, etc., are just of the few who expanded ideas. They began to use the inductive method as a step-by-step to their understandings. The new outlook generated by the Scientific Revolution served as the foundation of the Enlightenment. The Scientific Revolution gave thinkers great confidence in the power of the mind ...
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... friend, Little Face, when they are forced to fight to see who is superior. Runs With Horses, however, only goes on three raids. On this third raid, almost the entire raid party is killed when they are ambushed by the Mexican army and the “White Eyes,” as they are referred to in the book. What is left of the entire Apache Nation, his tribe, are forced to surrender to the White Eyes and are taken as prisoners of war to Florida by train. While stopped in Texas for two months, President Cleveland decided that the Apache men where to be separated from their families and held at Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island in Pensicola Bay. The women and children were sent ...
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... realizes who has wronged him and becomes less naive. He escapes when the Abbe dies, and finds a hidden treasure that the Abbe had told him about. With his newfound riches, Dantes buys the title of “” and resurfaces in society, namely the French aristocracy. He rewards those who were good to him in the past and schemes and plots slow and painful punishments for those who wronged him. Through exacting his revenge, there are underlying subplots of young lovers, innocents, and people seeking redemption who the Count helps. Dumas’ main purpose in his writings is said to be his desire to reflect history (or rather the current events of the time). He always spoke of ...
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... no qualms over the fact that his sermons are hypocritical and the result of his evil intentions. Though he may be equally guilty of sin, he can still make others repent. His only concern is that, realizing their sinfulness; they give him money to benefit from his pardons. All the money he gets he seems to regard as his own, he does not care if he takes from very poor people, so that their children starve, so long as he can enjoy himself. tells the tale of three young men drinking at an inn. After a coffin passes by the inn, the three learn that the dead person was a friend of theirs, killed by somebody named Death. The three men decide to find this Death and exact ...
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... between Gregor and his sister Grete is perhaps the most unique. It is Grete, after all, with whom the metamorphosed Gregor has any rapport, suggesting the Kafka intended to lend at least some significance to their relationship. Grete's significance is found in her changing relationship with her brother. It is Grete's changing actions, feelings, and speech toward her brother, coupled with her accession to womanhood, that seem to parallel Gregor's own metamorphosis. This change represents her metamorphosis form adolescence into adulthood but at the same time it marks the final demise of Gregor. Thus a certain symmetry is to be found in "The Metamorphosis": wh ...
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... situation. On her arrival at Lowood, she again finds herself lonely and unwanted. The cold weather and meager meals damper her hopes of renewing her life and feeling wanted. But her continual hope for acceptance leads her to discover Helen Burns. Helen teaches Jane that love doesn't always have to come from others, but that it come through having faith in god. Jane looks to Helen as a role model but doesn't feel that she can be satisfied soley through spiritual love. Through Jane's acquaitance with Helen, she finds further comfort from Ms.Temple. Ms.Temple makes Jane feel significant and gives Jane a taste of what she needs to continue her pursuit for lo ...
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... and Dr. Dolittle freed him by talking to his dog who witnessed the whole thing and explained how it was an accident. After that they set off on a voyage to Spider monkey island where he hopes to find Long Arrow, an Indian who is the greatest naturalist of all time. When they arrive at the island they find Long Arrow and nine other Indians in a cave in which they were trapped. Another tribe on the other side of the island wanted to go to war with the peaceful Indians that had taken in the doctor and his crew. Polynesia brought millions of black parrots from South America to fight for the peaceful Indians. The parrots perched on the Indians’ heads and bit pieces fro ...
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... from his mother’s love to the physical married love. Perhaps he is shocked that Faith has sexual desires and she isn’t ashamed to let her desires be known. As she kisses him goodbye in the doorway the breeze gently blows the pink ribbons in her hair. “She is clearly the more intimate of the two” (42) and this seems to alarm Young Goodman Brown. As Brown walks into the forest he meets up with a fellow traveler who states he is late since “the clock of the Old South was striking as I came through Boston and that is full fifteen minutes agone.” (Hawthorne, p.642) This is an indication that the fellow traveler is the devil since no mortal man could cover that many ...
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... child would. Like a child at birth, the monster should have received love and care. Instead Victor, his father, hated the monster and ran from it. The monster later encountered a poor farming family. The monster watched the way that the different family members interacted with one another. In his observation of them he learned the lessons that his father had neglected to teach him. The monster learned the concepts of love and affection. When the monster watched the family he felt feelings of happiness, instead of feelings of loneliness. Eventually the monster had learned the family’s customs and understood their way of life. He realized that even tho ...
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