... been constructed. In 1789 America's coastline was marked by only eight or ten lighthouses; in 1839 by two hundred and fifty. Harbors had been improved, rivers and lakes rendered more navigable, roads and public buildings constructed. From a mere seventy five post offices, scattered bout the Union, the number had soared to over twelve thousand. There were now twenty five hundred miles of canals, though none had existed while Washington was in office; and the railroads “ beginning only ten or twelve years ago, are already completed over one thousand miles.” Schools, colleges, lyceums, and institutes were multiplying in scores.(1) As you can see from that examp ...
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... is the fairy-tale city of Belmont. Despite Belmont's perfection, a bit of justified hatred from Venice would ruin its innocence. (Paradise lost.) Alas, as Auden suggests, there are no utopias. In Venice, time is of the essence. If one were to momentarily forget the real world, one would be trampled down by its massive stampede of events, bonds, et cetera constantly being made, ubiquitously in its domain. Shylock and Antonio are just one pair of culprits adding to the ultimate imperfection of Venice. However, the bond made between Shylock and Antonio sets them completely apart from the normal villainy dealings, "If you repay me not on such a day... let the forfeit ...
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... and humanity. Since society acknowledges Hester's sin, she becomes an exile in her own town. "All the world Ha[s] frowned on her," and Hester must bear the brunt of her shameful isolation. When Hester walks through her town "a sort of magic circle [forms] itself around her." Devoid of any social contact, save that of her daughter, Hester must endure of lonely existence. "In all her intercourse with society, save that of her daughter, there was nothing that made [Hester] feel as if she belonged to it."; therefore, she turns to herself for reflection of her shame. When Hester must walk through the town, she suffers "an agony from every footstep." Frequent suffering ...
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... that Scout did and realize you can’t judge a person without knowing them. Atticus displays this trait of not prejudging people throughout the book, but never really talks about it until the end of the story after Scout already realizes it through all her adventures. Every summer, the boy next door comes to visit his aunt. His name is Dill. Jem, Scout and Dill, as children, find their daily childish pleasure in harassing the most mysterious character in the book Boo Radley. As Scout would say, “He went out at night when the moon was down and peeped into peoples’ windows.” Later they found out that that was obviously untrue; they were just uneducated about Boo. I ...
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... grandfather tells him to “to keep up the good fight”(Ellison16). Following this he was always doing what was right and was “considered an example of desired conduct—just as [his] grandfather had been”(Ellison 17). Once the invisible man goes off to college he begins to act in a manner to please Mr. Norton. Not only does Mr. Norton not identify with the invisible man racially, he views blacks as “a mark on the scoreboard of [his] achievement”(Ellison 95). Despite these two facts the invisible man allows himself to be a “do boy” by chauffeuring Mr. Norton to slave quarters. It is here that the protagonist ...
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... male body parts. Cronus, son of Gaia and Uranus, despised his father to a vast degree that “with his right (hand) he swung/the fiendishly long and jagged sickle, pruning the genitals/of his own father with one swoop and tossing them” without hesitation in anger(Hesiod, 66). the genitals were throw “ into the restless, white-capped sea/ Where they floated a long time. A white foam from the god-flesh/Collected around them, and in that foam a maiden developed/And grew(Hesiod, 66).” This maiden is Aphrodite. The foam signifies a womb to spontaneous creation and is resembling a women’s assets in order to support a baby. Now “from (Zeus’) own head he gave birth to ...
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... was a delicate character. She had been pampered all of her life, by her father, and by Torvald. She really didn't have a care in the world. She didn't even have to care for the children; the maid would usually take care of that. In every sense of the word, she was your typical housewife. She never left the house, mostly because her husband was afraid of the way people "would talk." I do not know if but a few people knew about their marriage, and that was they way Torvald wanted it to be. It really wasn't her fault she was the way she was. It was mostly Torvald's for spoiling her. Ibsen uses creative, but effective, animal imagery to develop Nora's character th ...
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... he began fighting with no fear. Tom Wilson is another young sodier in the 304th regiment who is called the loud soldier. When he is in the tent talking to Henry and conklin he talks about how he will not run and take on the whole army on by himself. When he is in the first battle he tries to run but is caught by an officer and made to go back and fight. His attitude changed from being confident to being scard of fighting. Jim conklin is also a soldier in the 304th regiment who talks with Henry and tom. When Conklin was talking to Henry and Wilson about how they felt about fighting their first battle, he says that he will run if he sees everyone else running. He i ...
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... resulted in the severe wounding of a recruit that Paul had comforted earlier. Paul and Kat again strongly questioned the War. After Paul’s company were returned to the huts behind the lines, Himmelstoss appeared and was insulted by some of the members of Paul’s unit, who were then only mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul’s unit were killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very distant from his family as a result of the war. He left in agony knowing that his youth was lost forever. Before returning to his unit, Paul spent a little while at a military camp where he viewed a Russian prisoner of war camp wit ...
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... to the others as she is drawn to the unadorned lamp. Kezia proceeds to find fault with the state and proportions of the doll's house and perfection with the lamp in its simplicity. As others take interests in the gaudy nature of the house, Kezia rebels: "But the lamp was perfect. It seemed to smile at Kezia, to say `I live here.' The lamp was so real." Conflict intensifies as Kezia remains the odd ball. The appreciation of the lamp is a metaphor for the actions to come. Kezia likes the lamp because she does not know any better. Thus, she decides to befriend the Kelveys because she doesn't see anything wrong in doing so. The Kelveys are a family that are shun ...
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