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English Term Papers and Reports
Beowulf 15
604 Words - 3 Pages

.... Cain. He lives under an inherited curse and is denied God's presence. He is also known as the "guardian of sins." Grendel is also a heathen, the physical image of a man estranged by God. His enormous size and strength make him resemble early thoughts and descriptions of Satan. Beowulf and his men slept in the mead hall one night and everybody lay awake for they feared when Grendel may come. When Grendel came crashing through the great doors of the mead hall he grabbed one of Beowulf's men who he let be devoured by Grendel. When Grendel came to Beowulf he immediately saw who he was and before Grendel could grab him Beowulf got hold of him. Beowulf fought honestly without wea ....


Seabrook's Family Values: Home Sweet Home
734 Words - 3 Pages

.... essay, Family Values written by Jeremy Seabrook, explains the different types of families that make society diverse. He writes about the culture of one family and how they go about living there lives which he experiences first hand. This essay most definitely relates to my definition of what “ home “ is. In my culture, we do certain things differently. We have different values and morals, but are still somewhat similar to the American culture. My family tends to be more conservative for situations, for example boys. Also, in my house, the language typically spoken is Tagolog. Although, English is most often heard. When friends come and visit, they not ....


Essay On Two Poems Of Carol An
618 Words - 3 Pages

.... he steals a snowman in order to make a friend. He finds out that his ‘friend’ has many characteristics in common to him. His friend had ‘ a mind as cold as the slice of ice within my own brain’. The poet has a conversational tone such as asking questions. We are hearing only part of the conversation. The poem is set on a cold chilly night. The poet is more cynical and formal when she is talking about the snowman. The phrase ‘an idle mind is a devil’s workshop’ is very applicable here since the thief has nothing to do, so to keep himself busy he breaks into people’s homes. He has a rather ruthless philosophy of life that R ....


Affirmative Action
2698 Words - 10 Pages

.... such confusion is the way people word the term . If you ask one person who is in favor of , his or her response is going to be different from someone who is against it. So when I am asked what I think about , my answer seems to be twisted because I really don’t know what is. The only exposure I have had to the term is that which is taught in the classroom. Since this was such a controversial subject, the scope was very narrow, mostly terms. My key understanding is that of a definition, which I can hardly recall. I don’t know whether is a law or if it is a subset of a bunch of different laws that were passed during the civil rights movement. I am also unaware if ....


Hammlet
1117 Words - 5 Pages

.... (Barnardo - 1.1.1). "Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself" (Fransisco - 1.1.2). These masks are upon each character, placed there by either society, self-ignorance, or guilt. Ophelia, Polonius' daughter and Hamlet's lover, hid behind a mask, just like Queen Gertrude's. It was, according to the society and the culture of the time, in the best interest of the woman to display a passive behavior for their personal preservation, which served as Gertrude's mask. Gertrude was brought up to believe that when a woman protests her innocence, in any matter, too much then people will begin to think otherwise. Gertrude revealed the idea of her mask, when responding to Hamlet ....


The Scarlet Letter -x
897 Words - 4 Pages

.... the story is Hawthorne's rejection of his ancestors. His forefathers were strict Puritans, and John Hawthorne, his great-great-grandfather, was a judge presiding during the Salem witch trials. Hawthorne did not condone their acts and actually spent a great deal of his life renouncing the Puritans in general. Similarly, The Scarlet Letter was a literal "soapbox" for Hawthorne to convey to the world that the majority of Puritans were strict and unfeeling. For example, before Hester emerges from the prison she is being scorned by a group of women who feel that she deserves a larger punishment than she actually receives. Instead of only being made to stand on the scaffold and we ....


Ethan Frome 3
803 Words - 3 Pages

.... as opposed to the dark and immoral components of the setting in which the novel takes place. For example, imagery can be used in a likable manner to achieve the desired affect of making the reader enjoy and love the setting so that the theme may be elevated. In Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, Wharton first presents Starkfield as a cheery uplifting town saying, ‘The winter morning was clear as a crystal. The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white scintillating fields of far-off forest hung like smoke.’(pg.41) It also seems that whenever Mattie is around, Ethan’s view of the worl ....


Trifles By Susan Glaspell
461 Words - 2 Pages

.... looking for evidence to convict Mrs. Wright. While the men are looking the house over for evidence, they grasp a different image than the women. The men viewed the house as inadequately taken care of due to broken jars of preserves or discovering dirty towels. All the men notice is clutter. The men do not look deeper behind the meanings of this disarray. However, the women do. The women understand that the reason that things such as the towels are not clean is because she more than likely was busy doing her many other chores of the household. They also considered how much trouble Mrs. Wright went to fix the preserves. The women reason that the uncaring concern John ....



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