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Utopia
1930 Words - 8 Pages.... to separate the thinkers thought from the literary tricks of the trade.
More's intentions in , must remain mysterious. A little more difficult to accept is the general implication of the review that the mysteriousness of the author's intent in is somehow a point in his favor, that the obscurity of his meaning enhances the merit of his work. The one point of unanimous agreement about is it is a work of social comment. Since is a work of many ideas, it is impossible of course to expand the book unless one has some notion of the hierarchy of conception in it. A caretul reading of does seem to me to reveal clearly the hierarchy of it author's ideas at the time h ....
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The Amateur Scientist
766 Words - 3 Pages.... the essay entitled "," by Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988). I found it to be very interesting and felt that Mr. Feynman was very thoughtful. Rather than explain in technical detail about his work in physics, Feynman instead related interesting anecdotes throughout his life, as a college student and graduate student at Princeton University, that gave to the reader an understanding of his work as a scientist.
The writing won my attention because his stories about his youth and his days at Princeton fascinated me. He was always exploring his environment to learn new things about science, especially how things worked. Feynman's thirst for cleve ....
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Black And White Women Of The Old South
1604 Words - 6 Pages.... black women, because of the sexual and mental abuse, felt looked down on more by whites and therefore reduced to even a lower level than that of white women‘s status of being a woman. .
A southern white female slave owner only saw black women as another slave, or worse. White women needed to do this in order to keep themselves from feeling that they were of higher status than every one else except for their husband. White women as, Gwin describes, always proved that they had complete control and black women needed to bow to them. Gwin’s book discusses that the white male slave owners brought this onto the black women on the plantation. They would rape black w ....
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Lean On Me
440 Words - 2 Pages.... angry, and set in his own ways and beliefs. His wife that left him and the one friend that he has are all reflective signs of his horrendous behavior. He walks around the school with a baseball bat, rather than a clipboard or briefcase. The fear that he "earns" is more prevalent than the respect that the students and teachers have for him. He likes to be known as "HNIC" – the "head nigger in charge." His absurd manners are strongly disliked by his fellow colleagues. He insults teachers in front of students and fires them when they do not comply with his harsh rules. The first disturbing aspect of this movie is Joe Clark’s personal ....
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Portfolio Piece
451 Words - 2 Pages.... whose theme is, don't kill something that hasn't bothered anyone else. Tom resembles the mockingbird because he's accused of a crime he didn't commit and everyone wants to kill him. Atticus was a simple man who always followed the rules. So knowing the consequences he agrees to defend Tom Robinson. Eventually Tom loses the trial, mainly because the jury was made up of all white racists. Even though Atticus believes they may win on the appeal, Tom doesn't think so. So when he was being transferred to another prison out of town Tom ties to escape. He attempts his unsuccessful. It results in his death. At this point in the story Atticus accepts that he has lost and breaks the ....
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Piano
879 Words - 4 Pages.... sees “a child sitting under the .” This child is the speaker.
The child is “sitting under the , in the boom of the tingling strings,” and he is “pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.” When the speaker was a child, he used to be under the where the strings were tingling since his mother was playing the . He used to press his mother’s feet, which were in balance. His mother was singing with a smile on her face.
The speaker sees this scenery in his mind. As a reader, I can even imagine him standing in a dark room looking at a woman singing and imagining his old days with his mother. Using the picturesque words such as “sof ....
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Hard Times 2
747 Words - 3 Pages.... in the minds of his students. Such pupils of the Gradgrind school were continually crammed with facts from day to day until they 'spilled over 'with them. Such facts were to remain in the mind, pressed down in all forms of memory until all finer sensibilities were deadened.
As dramatic and unhearted as it may sound, that is precisely what Mr. Gradgrind wished to accomplish. In my opinion, however, he was not an unkind man at all. He believed absolutely that he was doing a good deed. He was affectionate in his way; but he studiously repressed all forms of spontaneous affection and as his children grew up, it came to be realized that he was not in sympathetic touch with ....
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Shakespear In Love
600 Words - 3 Pages.... mane and he gives him the name of another playwriter.
the man kicks Shakespeare out of the castle where he goes to the window of viola where
he talks to her. Then the next day the young boy who William followed continued to
come to play rehearsal’s . The play Shakespeare was working on was to become the
modern play of “Romeo and Juliet.” the rehearsal’s go on while Shakespeare thinks the
young boy is the nephew of the nurse of viola but on a boat ride back to the castle
Shakespeare finds out that the young boy is but the viola who he has fell in love with.
Shakespeare follows her and this is where he sleeps with her. Then for th ....
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