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“Anger is better than shame . There is a sense of being in anger. A reality of presence. An awareness of worth. ” 50 This is how many of the African Americans in Toni Morrison”s The Bluest Eye felt. They faked love when they felt powerless to hate, and destroyed what love they did have…

Civilization is when man meets his basic needs. Civilization begins to form when man is searching for something more; something better than just meeting his basic needs, for he has already achieved this. Civilization forms slowly and carefully, and once it is formed, it can change and be destroyed at any moment. Civilization is as…

The poem, Beowulf was supposedly written in the tenth century, but it was most likely told before then, orally, for centuries. There is little information about the author, on when Beowulf was first created or about the original version of the story before it was written. However the poem does, however, give us great insight…

Present Provoking Past “Analyze a characters’ response to the past as a source of meaning in a work” ” . . . the past, no matter what it was like, never becomes a matter of indifference to the present. ” Alexander Tvardovsky In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn portrays one…

To be told what you know will build up a boundary what you think you know. In both the Allegory of the Cave and The Matrix people were told by “enlightened” ones what the truth is about life. Although the subjects found it hard to believe they one day would find out that the truth…

In Lord of the Files the story is in piling you are up lifted with compassion and concern for the children. The boys realize they are no longer in a place they would call home but in area that would seemly be described has the wilderness. The reason is because they were engulfed in sand…

In Twilight of the Idols Nietzsche discusses his views on Christianity, other philosophers, and authors of his time. Nietzsche’s main focus, however, is on Christianity and how its actions and views are means to an end. He uses eloquent diction that sometimes loses the reader he makes up for his articulate word usage with elementary…

From the bayonets of milatary personals to the razor sharp scalpel neurosurgeons, there is a vast army of occupations available for capable men and women of today”s industrialized world. Ranging from lawyer to englineer. These people are the workforce of our nation. After much consideration and deep thoughts plus recommendation from friends and relative, I…

The human race has advanced over many years, and during this time, moral standards have developed. These moral standards, distinctively different from the laws of nature, are standards set specifically for humans. The play Rhinoceros, written by playwright Eugene Ionesco, associates this difference in moral standards and laws of nature. Ionesco uses Jean, a French…

One of our first thoughts, like readers, when we finish the novel is to establish two lists; one of good characters and other of bad characters. Since this paper is devoted to the character of Estella the question would be: is she a good character or a bad character But, before beginning the analysis of…