Bruce would watch the men, hurrying around him, performing tasks that had a magical quality in the eyes of a little boy. ... Each certificate is earned after completing an apprenticeship; Bruce completed two apprenticeships-simultaneously. ... Bruce completed both apprenticeships in 3 years. ... "If our cities were without power it would be total mayhem; people lose their little, rabbit, cartoon minds when they don't have the comforts of the lifestyle they have grown accustomed to. ... I'll text you when I'm out. ...

• Word Count: 1686
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Meaning is gained from a literary text at both a literal and also a symbolic level. ... The conflict between her colonialist ideologies and those of the Aboriginal girls inflicted anguish upon the girls, and eventually this pain suffered by the girls who were removed from their families and were coerced to take up Christian beliefs alien to them was severe enough for one of the girls to poison herself in the library. ... In the Pickles, this can be seen in how the Pickles family feels the "Hairy hand of God" acting in their life. ... Besides this, the fact that they are referred to as the "La...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8

Related Objectives • read a variety of texts and analyze their rhetorical situations (i.e. context, audience, and aims) • write papers with a clearly developed thesis and support designed to appeal to various audiences and contexts • read for various purposes Outcome 4: Rhetorical Strategies Students will read and write a variety of nonfiction expository and argumentative genres. ... I require the following additional text: . 3. ... Their Eyes Were Watching God. ... Students who do not complete a Portfolio by the due date will receive an F in the class. Students ...

• Word Count: 6229
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

Gothic novels were written mainly to evoke terror in their readers; they also served to show the dark side of human nature. ... Surprisingly, there were a vast number of female Gothic authors. ... This also shows he wanted to make mankind and become god like. ... Here Mary Shelley has used long sentencing to reflect the length of the night and alliteration to emphasis Frankenstein's complete exhaustion. ... On page 57 many descriptive words are used, "Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt." ...

• Word Count: 1443
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The story of Amaterasu originated from one of the Shinto's sacred texts, the Kojiki. ... When Izanagi was purifying himself upon his arrival from the underworld, Amaterasu was born from one of his eyes. ... In the article, "Gender Difference in History Women in China and Japan" by Lyn Reese, China's society were not fans of having women leading their civilization. Their ideals of male domination and hierarchical rule, were part of the NeoConfucian beliefs (Reese). ... Amaterasu is said to be residing in the shrine, and the imperial family must watch over her. ...

• Word Count: 1394
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

It is a time of studying religious texts, of prayer, and of restful sleep. ... Realizing the importance of being together, Elie and his father lie about their age. ... Everyone is forced to march past the dead youth and stare into his eyes and at his "lolling tongue of death." ... For some people losing their faith in God is akin to losing their will to live. ... How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one 'last night' to another?" ...

• Word Count: 2227
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

How is her sexual fulfillment portrayed in the text? ... In the scholarly volume Juan Rulfo: Toda la obra (Complete Works), one searches in vain through its selection of thirty critical essays for a sustained, thorough reading of Susana San Juan. ... Hiding in God's immensity, behind His Divine Providence where I cannot touch you or see you, and where my words cannot reach you" (13). ... I was sitting here by the door, watching it dawn, watching as you went away following the path to Heaven; there, where the sky was beginning to glow with light, leaving me, growing fainter and fainter amo...

• Word Count: 3381
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography

Changes were seen politically, economically, and socially. ... One day when Galileo went to the university chapel to pray, he watched as the lamplighter carefully pulled the chandelier aside to light the lamps. ... However, the onlookers refused to believe what they had seen with their own eyes, saying Galileo had tricked them using magic and illusion. ... Every night he watched the heavens and recorded his findings. ... He was not allowed to study mathematics before age fifteen, and all math texts were removed from their home. ...

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Within this belief system, Muhammad was the last of the prophets who where chosen to communicate the words of the god Allah. Therefore, the text of the Qur'an is the exact words of Allah and conveys his exact message. ... He is too fixated upon his bounty and blindly harvests the benefits of Allah: "on their eyes is a veil; Great is the penalty they (incur).... The Qur'an acknowledges that "If (such) were Our Will. ... By fasting man acknowledges that Allah is indeed watching and judging him, thus reinforcing the omnipresence of Allah. ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

These are codes that were instituted by the early leaders of Jewish thought in order to strengthen the mitzvoth. ... For all acts one must repent both to God and to those who were wronged. ... This results in the ingraining of the invocation of their God's name upon every act, and their insistence of attributing everything, good and bad, to their God and his plan. Also, the codes that were developed were formed as a result of the harsh situations that they often found their societies in. ... The moral code of living that is accepted is directly from the Quran, and this is considered t...

• Word Count: 3357
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is, in its entirety, a political text. ... Each slave was different from the other in looks, language and culture, they each brought with them their own cultural baggage. ... The text is enormously symbolic and we see it used in vision: light, colour, perception, sight, insight. ... The Old Man hired me, nobody else; and, by God, it"ll take the Old Man to Fire me." ... I didn't know that some kinds of garbage were better than others." ...

• Word Count: 3381
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

To begin with the differences between Jane and Antoinette, I shall start with their similarity in childhood. ... Therefore, throughout Antoinette life, she was hated by white aristocracies and their servants. ... Therefore, they both grew up with a little love from people surrounded them and they lose their family and their first friend. In School, everything not beautiful like they were expecting, but they find it as a safest place than any other places, as Antoinette says: "This convent was my refuge, a place of sunshine and of death where very early in the morning the clap of a wooden...

• Word Count: 4886
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

What patterns have you discovered in the text (plot development, characterization)? ... You can feel the intensity the moment Frank lays his eyes on America and how overpowering he feels. 2. ... Both our fathers were never there to support us. ... She has a son and a husband, but never complains about giving Frankie or Malachy something to eat when they were hungry. ... Frank has seen the pain in his mother's eyes when the children went without food and clothes. ...

• Word Count: 2588
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

His wife tells the narrator that Robert and his wife, Beulah, were inseparable. ... They all drink heavily and eat a large dinner, complete with strawberry pie. ... Even when Robert tells him to open his eyes, he keeps them closed. ... "My eyes were still closed. ... Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. ...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' looming death and the sack of Troy, prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, so that when it reaches an end, the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War. ... These goddesses had another motivation, however, for favoring these particular men above all the other valorous soldiers: they were the children of gods and men. They were both the offspring of humanity and deity, and thus demanded the special attention of the gods. ... Their goddess-mothers didn't want them harmed,...

• Word Count: 8864
• Approx Pages: 35
• Grade Level: High School

This enables me to highlight their specific features. ... I will start with a general analysis of the topic related to Shakespeare's text. ... Indeed, Shakespeare's text suggests that the magical creatures of A Midsummer Night's Dream could be explained as physical allegories of nature. ... I will examine the relationship of the fairies with the human world as it is presented in Shakespeare's text and see how Michael Hoffman and Bernard Haitink, Peter Hall and John Bury interpreted it in the play and how they represented the fairies in their screen and stage production. ....

• Word Count: 9832
• Approx Pages: 39
• Grade Level: High School

The earliest Gilgamesh stories seem to come from Sumerian texts which most likely reflect the crystallization of earlier epic traditions, and was probably one of the most well-known and influential poems available (West 65). ... Achilles as the son of Thetis has a special relationship which allows him to communicate with the gods by way of Thetis's favor in the eyes of Zeus (Il. 1.490) Both characters are headstrong warriors; the epics do relate their preeminence in battle. ... In the story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, the characters have a series of adventures in which we further watch the d...

• Word Count: 4256
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The rulers of China's dynasties emphasized their role as protectors of the country's cultural tradition, supporting visual artists and writers and creating elaborate palace and temple complexes to demonstrate their fitness to rule. ... Men performed vigorous dances with swords, and it was fashionable to watch dances performed by professional dancers imported from other parts of Asia. ... In the present text I am writing down some of the important and interesting aspects of China's culture. 2-ARTS AND CRAFTS 2.1 The Clay Fertility Figures of Henan One Kind of Clay F...

• Word Count: 4737
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

"Emerson's moral doctrines could not sustain Thoreau for long," Worster concludes, "for they were aspiring branches that had no roots to support them. They were ideas that were not soiled enough." (4) Worster's figure of difference, complete with Thoreauvian pun--the spiritual airiness of Emerson's imagination can't compare to the fecal matter of Thoreau's ecological ideas--maps a path in the ecocritical reading of Thoreau by way of Emerson that remains prominent and, I would suggest at the outset, stands in need of revision. ... As I see it, this reduction stems from...

• Word Count: 9971
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Besides, it was obvious that the chain was a great affliction to the ghost; "it held up it's chain at arm's length, as if that were the cause of all it's unavailing grief". ... Then, Scrooge remembers how Marley warned him of three spirits, who were going to visit him, and that the first of the three, would be at one o'clock exactly. ... Scrooge feels relieved and joyful for his past self, that his younger sister rushes in, to take him home, with her and their father. ...

• Word Count: 5644
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School

Nor is her vengeance by any means complete. ... Jason, who has come to punish the murderess of his bride, hears that his children have perished too, and Medea herself appears to him in the chariot of the sun, bestowed by Helios, the sun-god, upon his descendants. ... Her revenge comes when she witnesses Jason's horror as she flies off to Athens in the chariot of the sun god Helios, her ancestor. The most significant player in the text is of course Medea herself. Medea, the grand-daughter of Apollo, God of the sun, is a passionate, emotional, deceptive and predominately angry individua...

• Word Count: 7698
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

In addition to drawing heavily on Joyce's personal life, the novel also makes a number of references to the politics and religion of early-twentieth-century Ireland: the majority of Irish, including the Joyces, were Catholics, and strongly favored Irish independence. ... His refusal and subsequent epiphany on the beach mark his transition from belief in God to belief in aesthetic beauty. ...

• Word Count: 4998
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He felt that most of the middle class had pulled wool over their eyes and their denial of such maturing problems was a vice that he could take from them. ... It was accepted as long as the swears were deleted and several names were changed to prevent lawsuits. ... He admired the men and women that he worked with, and felt that they were underappreciated, and eventually became disappointed with the imposing processes that dominated their lives. His political views began to take true shape as he saw that the under classes of this time period were only represented through their strivings to imp...

• Word Count: 8146
• Approx Pages: 33
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A group of boys tries to fight their way into the thicket, but Ralph fends them off. ... Jack's hunters reach the beach and stop in their tracks upon seeing the officer. ... Moved and embarrassed, the naval officer turns his back so that the boys may regain their composure. ... Ultimately, the boys' appalling savagery brings about the rescue that their coordinated and purposeful efforts were unable to achieve. ... In portraying the various ways in which the boys on the island adapt to their new surroundings and react to their new freedom, Golding explores the broad spectrum of ways ...

• Word Count: 11237
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School