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The Anasazi Indians
521 Words - 2 Pages.... shaded in summer, with enough floodplain to grow something and a source of
water. These two story stone dwellings in cliffs were built large enough to fit
30 people in them. There is one odd fact about this: the Anasazi supposedly
carried roof beams more than 50 miles from the forests of Mt. Taylor and Chuskas.
These Indians lived as small scattered families of hunters and seed gatherers.
They developed agriculture, learned to make baskets and irrigate.
The Anasazi religion was very different compared to other religions of
the world. Anasazi Indians chose to bury their dead either in the trash or
against walls. The ghosts of the Anasazi were feared widely by most Navajos for ....
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Herman Wouk's The Winds Of War
660 Words - 3 Pages.... and somewhat
emotional queries within me, the author has already caused a clockwork
cycle to commence which will enlighten my reading and eventually create
enjoyment and furthering interests with his novel. This is what Virginia
Woolf focuses her composition about and emphasizes so very clearly
After reading her essay, I came to grasp and understand her theory that
one is best not to accept advice from another on how to read literature,
since the best advice is no advice at all. Woolf expresses the conception
that when one begins to read literature he begins to enter different stages
of interpretation that will ultimately improve his pleasure and
satisfaction. It wa ....
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Jane Austen's Persuasion: An Analysis
523 Words - 2 Pages.... eldest daughter, Elizabeth, haughty and unmarried, is now
twenty-nine. Captain Wentworth, who has had a successful career and is now
prosperous, is thrown again into Anne's society by the letting of Kellynch
(her family estate) to his sister and brother-in-law. Throughout the years
Anne has remained unshaken in her love for Wentworth. Thus Austen creates
a emotional fairy tale which keeps you dreaming and makes you believe that
true love never dies.
Austen presents her strongest feminist character in this novel.
The roles of hero and heroin are reversed and men and woman are presented
as moral equals. It is interesting that the most explicit feminist
protests by ....
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Tom Sawyer
962 Words - 4 Pages.... own terms. Tom and Huck become good friends. One night the two boys go to the grave yard. While they are there they witness the murder of the town doctor, Mr. Robinson. The boys watched as Injun Joe kills the doctor and frames a drunk by the name of Muff Potter who just happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. The boys swear never to speak of this again. Soon after this Tom falls in love with his new neighbor, Becky Thatcher. Eventually the two become engaged but the engagement falls through when Tom accidentally mentions his former love while talking with Becky. The two fued and do not speak. Meanwhile, the whole town is gossiping of the murder of Dr. Robinson a ....
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Moby Dick
3474 Words - 13 Pages.... Melville ventured for the first time into the ocean on the St. Lawrence. He was a crewman aboard the ship, and he would sail across the Atlantic Ocean to Liverpool and then back to America. However, this voyage would not be his last. Melville decided to join the crew of a whaling ship named the Acushnet. But Melville did not like his treatment on board this vessel, and would soon abandon them at an island of the Marquesas with another member of the crew. On this island they ran into a group of cannibals that, instead of harming them, would take them in. None the less, both the men would grow tired of the tribe and would escape, although Melville did remain slightly ....
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The Things They Carried: Possessions Of Character
387 Words - 2 Pages.... He
carries these things to remind him of her, of his feelings for her. At the end
of every day he ritually unwraps them and reads them. These letters are light
in weight, only ten ounces, but prove to be a heavy burden. Above all, he
carries the responsibility for the lives of his men. He is dreaming when
Lavender is shot, and so he blames himself for it. Lavender's death was
something which "He would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest
of the war." He does not always pay attention to what is most important, his
men. Lt. Jimmy Cross burns all of Martha's letters at the end of the story,
trying to forget her, to erase the memory. Still, he carries h ....
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Arthur, Tragic Hero Or Merely
1306 Words - 5 Pages.... them as his wife and daughter in the daylight. He keeps his dreadful secret from all those under his care in the church for seven years for fear that he will lose their love and they will not forgive him. He is too weak to admit his sins openly and in their entirety. Instead, he allows his parishioners to lift him in their esteem by confessing, in all humility, that he is a sinner: "The minister well knew--subtle but remorseful hypocrite that he was!--the light in which his vague confession would be viewed." (127) They love him all the more for his honest and humble character, and this is Arthur's intent. Even as he plans to run away with Hester four days after ....
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