|
Papers on English
General Prologue: Human Dishonesty, Stupidity And Virtue
Number of words: 849 | Number of pages: 4.... others had done it for
other reasons. Those reasons included making money from people's suffering and
giving to charity because someone told them to do so, rather than from the
goodness of their hearts or to ease the suffering of others. Chaucer plays off
both of these parts of charity in his portraits to show how they can be combined
differently in different people and to distinguish "true" charity from "false"
charity.
Parson exemplifies Chaucer's idea of true charity. Even though Parson
does not have any money, he considers himself rich spiritually. Going around
the village, he teaches the poor and those who can't go to c .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Great Expectations And Oliver
Number of words: 1478 | Number of pages: 6.... this simple request, "the master (at the orphanage) aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle."3
The whole beginning of Oliver Twist's story was created from memories which related to Charles Dickens' childhood in a blacking factory ( which was overshadowed by the Marshalsea Prison ).4 While working in the blacking factory, Dickens suffered tremendous humiliation. This humiliation is greatly expressed through Oliver's adventures at the orphanage before he is sent away.
Throughout his lifetime, Dickens appeared to have acquired a fondness for "the bleak, the sordid, .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Out Of This Furnace
Number of words: 1356 | Number of pages: 5.... and restart his life in America is the reason that also drove the Chinese to the United States, earlier the Irish and later the Mexicans (Discussion, 10/11/99). All of these immigrants have had to take some time to assimilate and to be accepted by the "Americans" ethnically, socially, and politically. Kracha is the first of his immediate family to come to the United States. Despite his dreams to leave poverty behind, Kracha, foolishly spends his money on alcohol, landing in New York without much money. He only has the hope of walking west until he finds his brother-in-law, Andrej Sedlar, in White Haven. Since he does not have m .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
Number of words: 1271 | Number of pages: 5.... the air opposite the crowd on the pier, and he kept doing it mechanically, without malice or inspiration, until the boat was out of sight…” There is no explanation of why the bishop
hates the town, but if he does- and passing by reveals at least indifference-such an attitude is at odds with the Christian doctrine of love and forgiveness. (pg 27, Gabriel Marquez;pg 195, Arnold Penuel)
Religion is suppose to be a positive center, but instead is something they are hypocritical about. The bishop destroys all their hope of happiness. The bishop does not follow his religion, which requires to love and forgive, instead he s .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Lean On Me
Number of words: 430 | Number of pages: 2.... 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 personality; although he changes around the school, he does it in a bizarre and vicious manner.
Another bizarre aspect of the movie is how the director, ---, portrays East Side High. After there is a time change from the 60s to the 80s, East Side transforms from a nice, well-kept, and clean school to a graffiti filled, prison-like, school that resembles an alleyway, not a high school. There are fights in the hallway and the bathrooms every time .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Antigone
Number of words: 754 | Number of pages: 3.... Creon informed his son, Haemon, of his fiancee’s deceit. Haemon, however, defended his beloved. He told his father that the whole city was on her side, but were afraid to say anything. He was instead accused of “being a woman’s accomplice”, “fighting on her side, the woman’s side.” Creon continued to threaten him with witnessing the execution of Antione. She was to “die, now here, in front of his eyes, beside her groom!” Haemon countered him with a threat of his own that he will never set eyes on him again if he continues this violence. Crion was apalled with his son. For that, was to die a very a .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Candide - Voltaires Writing St
Number of words: 1164 | Number of pages: 5.... knows his place in society or his
duty, what he's doing or what he ought to be doing, and that outside
of mealtimes...the rest of the day is spent in useless
quarrels...-it's one unending warfare.
By having this character take on such a pessimistic tone, he
directly contradicts the obviously over-optimistic tone of Candide.
In the conclusion (page 1617) an old turk instructs Candide in the
futility of needless philosophizing by saying that "...the work
keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty." In each
of these examples, the character chosen by the author comes across as
a reas .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Scars Of War
Number of words: 716 | Number of pages: 3.... blockaded the city. The parts of the city that could not be occupied by the Serbs were exposed to a barrage of
shelling and artillery fire. Everyday the city was hit by some 4,000 shells. Targets included hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, synagogues, libraries, and museums.
As you cross the last crest coming into the city, the first image you see is the Unis Skyscrapers. These two skyscrapers are of equal height and were built to symbolize the brotherhood and unity of Sarajevo. Before the war, citizens called the buildings by the names of two famous characters from Sarajevo jokes, Momo and Uzeir. The names are of di .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Flowers For Algernon
Number of words: 369 | Number of pages: 2.... intelligence thoughtlessly; Charlie shows this before he has his operation. By reaching this type of intelligence a person does not have to have a lot knowledge or a high I.Q, but you may reach peace in life by being a spiritually kind person that is previously show in the abstract definition.
The only positive effects of the intellectual growth that one can gain is to be able to experience what the concrete definition was like in one’s own personal experience. Yet the negative effects of the operation, which were great, was the intellectual and emotional growth colliding. As a human that was born with the intellectual potent .....
Get This Essay
|
|
Prisoners Dilemma
Number of words: 1048 | Number of pages: 4.... that can be used in every day living.. Any time there are peoples' interests that are affected not only by what they do but what other people do, a dilemma may occur. In some situations everyone will end up worse off if they individually pursue their own interests than if they simultaneously do what it not in their own individual interests.
(II). If I myself was in the prisoner’s dilemma, and my goal is to spend as little time in jail, I would act in an egotistic manner to maximize my freedom. My reasoning, as an egoist, would be to rat out the other guy hoping that he will remain silent. This would create the most idea .....
Get This Essay
|
|
|