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When we are first introduced to John Proctor, we discover that he’d had an affair with his family servant, Abigail Williams, when his wife Elizabeth was ill. Elizabeth finds out about the affair and dismisses Abigail. The first scene in which John and Elizabeth Proctor are seen speaking is very tense and cold. The sentence…

In this extract from the novel, Paradise of the Blind, by Duong Thu Huong, the author explores the importance of culture and tradition within the text. The extract is set in the slums of Hanoi, Vietnam during the war and outlines the lifestyle of main character Hang, her mother and relatives at this time. Through…

Who said that movies couldn’t be a reference for education? Yeah movies may be funny, scary, heartbreaking etc. , but they always find a way to allow us to make connections. For instance, Groundhog Day serves as a great visual interpretation of Plato’s teaching discussed in “The Phaedo?. ” The main teachings that are showcases…

Shayne McCormickMr. KatzSenior Project Research PaperJanuary 8, 2002The Road to Becoming a TeacherTeachers bear the heavy responsibility of molding the minds of our nations most precious resource, its children. The road to becoming a teacher is a long one, involving post-high school education, people skills, and a desire to change lives. These traits, when accompanied…

||Since the first American colonies existed, women|||have been characterized for having less civil rights|||with less career opportunities than men. For many|||years women have been fighting to enjoy their own|||rights. Women have raised their voices to demand|||their full civil and political rights. Women have|||had to overcome many economic, political, and even |||social obstacles created by men…

The Hound of the Baskervilles’ remains one of the most popular detective stories ever since its publication in 1902. ” Looking closely at the structure of the text give reasons why this may be so. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally…

On March 24, 1998, firing from the woods overlooking their school, 13-year-old Andrew Golden and 11-year-old Mitchell Johnson shot and killed four middle school students and a teacher and injured ten other students in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The two boys had a semiautomatic M-1 carbine with a large ammunition magazine, two other rifles, seven handguns and…

I am studying the comparisons between Charles Dickens’s Hard Times and Langston Hughes’s Thank You M’am. The first of the comparisons is the setting. Hard Times is set in an English Victorian classroom whereas Thank You M’am is set in modern day Harlem, America. At the start of Hard Times we are placed in a…

Today we take many things for granted. We use telecommunications to speak to others around the globe, we use technology to instantly access the knowledge of the entire planet, and we can travel great distances in short time spans, all of which creates a true global community. And, of course, this is just in the…

theticismThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is the story of moral corruption by the means of aestheticism. In the novel, the well meaning artist Basil Hallward presets young Dorian Gray with a portrait of himself. After conversing with cynical Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian makes a wish which dreadfully affects his life forever. “If…