... and a friend were going to the mall, so she asked if I would baby-sit. She left us with some pizza money. I had a few dollars, so I told Brenda that I would go in on half on the pizza. Quee did not hear that part. So, about 3:00 p.m. she comes to me to ask if she could order the pizza now. I said no because it was to early,and beside later they would be hungry again. She said you are not paying for anything so you can not tell me what to do . Yes I can because you mother left me in charge. Not over me she replied angrily. At the time I was on the telephone Paying her no attention as she was trying to impress her friend By hollowing at me. Quee and I had d ...
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... for taking the dead woman's child into his house. All of these disturbing actions on the part of Fyodor are cause for his punishment. While Fyodor neglected his fatherly duties to his other three sons, to this fourth, he rejects them completely. He finds the controversy around the mystery of the boy's conception amusing. He employs his own son as one of his servants, as his "lackey." Although incredible attention to detail is paid to the story of Lizaveta, Dostoevsky waits to speak of the boy himself. It is as if the author is all ready separating this last son. Dostoevsky claims to not want to go into detail about so as not to distract the reader from the ...
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... of the family was very important to the members of the community. When the girls were caught dancing in the woods, they lied to protect not just themselves but the reputation of their families. They claimed that the devil took them over and influenced them to dance. The girls also said that they saw members of the town standing with the devil. A community living in a puritan society like Salem could easily go into a chaotic state and have a difficult time dealing with what they consider to be the largest form of evil. Salem's hysteria made the community lose faith in the spiritual beliefs that they were trying to strictly enforce. The church lost many of its par ...
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... of our own collective unconscious. Evidence to support such a claim was found by psychologist John Laynard. In his research on schizophrenia he found the qualities of the trickster surfacing in the disorder (p.54 Euba). This suggests that the Trickster is within all of us just sitting on the borderline of conscious and unconscious though. So who is this Trickster? He has many forms both human and animal. His physical form seems to be particular to each religion. The best way to view a trickster is by his personality. "[He is] Admired, Loved, venerated for his merits and virtues, he is represented as thievish, deceitful, parricidal, incestuous, and cannibalist ...
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... It would seem to the ancient Greeks that it was a mans world and Father knew best. Without consulting Demeter about his brother marrying their daughter, Zeus just gave her away. Worst of all he did not ask Persephone how she felt about this whole arrangement. It was as if children were the possessions of their parents and had no say in their future plans. As she was being carried away she led out a cry calling her father Zeus and all the other gods to help her, but no one came. The only ones who heard her pleas were Hecate, goddess of the moon and daughter of Persaeus, and lord Helius the sun god, son of Hyperion. Them hearing her pleas was like chi ...
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... parents. At first, Paul looks down on herr Keller and his seemingly ridiculous ways. Paul had never encountered such an eccentric or bizarre piano teacher before, and immediately ridiculed his methods. He felt that he was too good to be taught by Herr Keller, when in fact it was because he felt belittled by him. This arrogance is shown when herr Keller finally lets him play the piano on their 8th lesson. "He fossicked among his own music for a few moments, finally emerging with a copy of "The Children's Bach". "I played that years ago," I protested. "You are too proud to play it again?" "It's easy." "...Bach is never easy." The fact that Paul felt that Ba ...
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... to admit to himself or Ralph their desperate situation. Piggy was originally the voice of reason in the novel. This simple act, however, shows he is changing into an unadmitting fool because he chooses not to see reality due to fear. The use of diction is also vital to the development of the characters in Lord of the Flies. The passage opens with Ralph “smudging the sweat from his face with a dirty forearm.” This conveys to the reader an exhausted boy who is at wit’s end. The words “smudging,” “sweat,” and “dirty,” connote savagery, and they show Ralph’s animalistic characteristics coming out. He has changed from a polished, civilized boy to a dirty savag ...
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... heart, also. If a speaker can reach a listener and show the listener what she means, then that is the most honorable achievement. Momaday wants the reader to know the importance of word weaving, of weaving the words to form a beautiful picture that can heal souls if spoken correctly. Momaday believes that the Native Americans who never bothered to learn to read and write, those who depend on their words, are those whose words are most powerful. The love for words, spoken with passion, makes them take on a three-dimensional quality. The words become the images and show a listener instead of telling, making the moment an experience instead of just a moment. The list ...
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... a structural requirement of the story: a savage counterpart to the refined European woman," and also that the biggest "difference is the one implied in the author's bestowal of human expression to the one and the withholding of it from the other."(Achebe, p.255) This lack of human expression and human characteristics is what Achebe says contributes to the overflowing amount of racism within Conrad's novella. Human expression, is one of few things that make us different from animals, along with such things as communication and reason. This of course, being that without human expression, the native woman is considered more of a "savage...wild-eyed and magnifice ...
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... drive space and 100 Megabytes of Random Access Memory (RAM) ,would be considered a small family computer. In addition to being faster than today's computers and having more memory, computers in the perfect world also have many more capabilities. There would be almost no limits to what a computer would be able to do. In general, computers in a perfect world be a lot better than computers of today, and the amount of people who would use computers would be much larger. The shared interest of all people in computers would allow for a much more technological world. With the demand for technology, created by extensive use of computers, the world of computers woul ...
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