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… the novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers is 16-year-old Steve Harmon who has been arrested and put on trial for his part in a robbery in which a convenience store owner was killed. A question that people can ask while reading this novel is, was Steve…
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… to a mental hospital. Explain why there was no other solution, in spite of Blanche's many attractive qualities. When reading a novel, a short story or a play one often has an opinion about the ending. In Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named…
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… be interpreted in many ways. Antonio is the merchant of Venice and he is presented as the hero at the beginning of the comedy because he is a good Christian trying to help out a friend. Another merchant is Shylock, he is Jewish and he is presented…
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… Venice, the antagonist of the play is Shylock, a wealthy Jewish moneylender. He is probably the most memorable character in the play because of Shakespeare's excellent characterization of him. He is depicted as a greedy man and he is obsessed with…
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… Epic of Gilgamesh," and various women are chosen to represent various aspects of the mesopotamian conception of women. In the ancient times males were inessential to the preservation of life. "The Epic of Gilgamesh" shows how the inability of males…
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… European philosophical movement. The label was inspired by the tendency of some of the writers like Kierkegaard, Heidegger , Sartre and Nietzsche to use the term "existence" for a kind of being or life unique, in their view, to human beings. Only…
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… apparently transparent words into configuration of utmost symbolic density. For example during the passage where the director proposes Stephen to enter priesthood , words like "the looped cord", "the shadow"," the skull , twice emphasized waning…
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… and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered, stable and inherently meaningful world view of the nineteenth century could not, wrote T.S. Eliot, accord with "the immense panorama…
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… Schools <Tab/> Montessori never believed, that all civilization corrupted the child. On the contrary, she believed that work, the systematic mastery of the environment, met an innate need of the developing human being…
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… Our Town, the theatrical piece by Thornton Wilder, is very different from the cinematic production entitled Steel Magnolias (based on Robert Harling's original stage play). Due to their differences in setting, characters, and mood, it can be difficult…
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