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The Cather In The Rye
1318 Words - 5 Pages.... gebruikt om zijn zogenaamde klusjes te klaren. Hij vergrendelde het pistool met de veiligheidspal en stopte het in z’n jaszak. Hij deed de doos weer op slot en liep zachtjes het lokaal uit. Bertus liep op zijn tenen om de congiere maar niet te wekken uit zijn verdoving, als die wakker werd waren de poppen aan het dansen. Hij trok de rits van zijn leren zwarte jas helemaal dicht en sloop de nooduitgang uit. De lamp buiten sprong aan. Zonder naar te denken zette Bertus het op een lopen en verdween in de donkere nacht. Toen hij thuis kwam sloop hij zachtjes naar de schuur. Tegen de wand stond een breekijzer, hij wikkelde deze in kranten en hield het ijzer onder zijn jas. ....
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Never Cry Wolf By Farley Mowat
1375 Words - 5 Pages.... on the northern
herds of Caribou. After arriving at the remote location, he finds a group of
wolves and begins his research. He then discovers the differing peculiarities
of the wolves and finds that they are more than the savage and merciless hunters
that he had previously believed them to be. He discovers that they are in fact
a very efficient and resourceful and have their own distinctive culture. For
example he discovers that they in fact have a symbiotic relationship with the
caribou in that they keep the caribou population strong by hunting down only the
sick and weaker members of the herd. This leads to a situation where the
strongest caribou survive and thus ....
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Warriors Don’t Cry: Integration In Little Rock's Central High School
478 Words - 2 Pages.... a
lot of racial differences as a child. In fact, a white man even raped her
when she was little. She never really understood why whites hated her so
much because of her skin color. When it came time for Governor Fabus to
integrate public schools, Melba signed up immediately. She wondered what
it was like in a white school. Soon enough, she found out what it was like.
She attended one of the best schools in the country, where the upper-class
children of Little Rock went. Melba was always abused and picked on at
school. Her grandmother told her to be a warrior and not to cry, because
warriors don’t cry.
In the South, people were not treated equally in the 1950s. Jim
Crow ....
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Animal Farm: Power's Corruption
561 Words - 3 Pages.... and thus expanding the pig's power even more. They saved apples, milk and whiskey for themselves, and made the other animals work harder and longer with fewer rations than before. It's easy to see how power can effortlessly influence the greed factor.
Discrimination is another outcome of abused power. People of high power often tend to look down their noses at the ones who work for them or do not obtain the same amount of power as them. The pigs in 'Animal Farm' follow this portrayal perfectly. In the story, they begin to discriminate against the other animals. They show this by establishing the rule that if a pig and another animal meet on a path, the other a ....
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REAL BOYS
1594 Words - 6 Pages.... taught not to express his emotions. Little boys are made to feel ashamed of their feelings. Also society places an emphasis on boys separating from their mother at an unnecessarily young age. Often the result of all this is that the boys decide to be silent. They learn to suffer quietly and retreat behind the mask. This is why the boys do not express their feelings, because they are told not to. What tells them not to is the boy code. It says the men should be stoic, stable, and independent. Boys are not to share their pain or grief openly. Also this code says the boys should be daring and do risky behaviors. The most traumatizing code is the fact that boys should not expre ....
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The Generation Gap In The Joy Luck Club
839 Words - 4 Pages.... exactly take a scientist to see.
From the beginning of the novel, we hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. The mothers grew up during perilous times in China. They all were taught "to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect for their elders, and for life itself. These Chinese m ....
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Corruption Of Dorian Gray (The
1102 Words - 5 Pages.... for fashion and an interest in feminine things. Dorian becomes obsessed with the finer things in life. He collects jewels, tapestries, and instruments. "These glittering trappings and millineries of which he was so much enamoured, point perhaps to a feminine trait in him." (Woodcock, 199) Months at a time he spends collecting his precious jewels or staring at his exquisite tapestries. He is a man infatuated with the details of correctly knotting a tie or making sure he is always in fashion. Dorian is simply a fop at the height of fashion. Young gentlemen would "try to copy his style, mode of dressing. Young men tried to reproduce the accidental charm of his gracef ....
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Ernest Hemingway: Allegorical Figures In The Sun Also Rises
1198 Words - 5 Pages.... not prevent.”
D. Condition represents a peculiar form of impotence.
E. Restrained romantic.
F. Private grief with Cohn's public suffering.
G. Strongly attracted to Pedro Romero.
H. Later, when Barnes says that he hates “homos” and wants to
hit them. III. Lady Brett Ashley.
A. First appears with a group of homosexuals.
B. Wears man's hat on short hair.
C. Refers to men as fellow “chaps”.
D. All complete distortion of sexual roles.
E. The war has turned Brett into the equality of a man.
F. This is like Jakes demasculation.
G. All releases her from her womanly nature.
H. “Ste ....
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