Birling's feelings are summed up in the last sentence of his speech before the Inspector arrives, A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own'. ... He does this confidently because he is very sure of his facts before he arrives. ... Inspector Goole, whether a real Inspector or not, is Priestley's instrument for teaching the moral lesson in the play. ... This lesson is learnt well by the younger generation but not at all by the older generation, the Birling parents. ... Birling, represent the values of the Capitalist Empire that have refused to le...

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• Grade Level: High School

Before her mom's death, Mary started schooling at Miss Franklin's school of Coventry (George1). ... Robert Evans, proud of his daughter, bought her any book she wished and arranged for her to receive lessons in German and Italian (George 2). ... In 1878, Lewes died from serious night cramps, and left Mary all alone once again (George 8). ... Before Mary died she left a masterful work in the form of the novel Silas Marner, a story about the isolation of a man who later finds happiness. ... However, Dansbury died a horrible drowning death and was not able to enjoy the money he ...

• Word Count: 2570
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare use parallel structure of the main plot and subplot that mirror each other like throughout the play. ... In Act 1, scene2, show the parallel structure of the subplot and the main plot. The Earl of Gloucester's sin is in his flesh, as we know from the plot that he enjoy having sex with Edmond's mother. ... Additionally, the good ones did not survive at last, but died together with the evils. ... Before Lear leaves the castle, he told the fool "O Fool, I shall go mad!...

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• Grade Level: High School

Is it possible for a person to be an accessory after the fact to a crime that was committed twenty-four years before they were born? ... WARNING: This review analyzes the message in the film by looking at the characters, the themes, and the plot. ... The first thing we hear is the teacher summing up his lesson: And still the question remains? ... Even before Todd meets Dussander, Todd's interest in the holocaust is evident. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His mother died when he was just 14 years old, so Peter and brothers and sister were mostly raised, and schooled by a French governess. ... He studied law and government, but he also took some music lessons on the side. ... Tchaikovsky had had not received a great deal of success before he composed his piano concerto. ...

• Word Count: 2884
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

"The victor belongs to the spoils" -Anthony Patch (p.188) "There is only one lesson to be learned from life... That there's no lesson to be learned from life." ... Finally it became The Beautiful and Damned In regards to the plot, in a technical way, The Beautiful and Damned is orderly and easy to understand. ... Toward the end of the book, the broken, debt-ridden hero, Anthony Patch, "awoke in the morning so nervous that Gloria could feel him ...

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• Grade Level: High School

You call in your son from his riding lesson and bring your daughter out of her specially made life sized doll house and bring her inside and out of danger. ... Before you can react, they have knocked on the door and demand to be let in. ... As you slowly react to the situation before you, you realize that your noble status has condemned you. ... This case was known as the "La Rouerie Plot." The case that was put before the French government stated that these individuals had organized a plot to invade the nation of France through Brittany. ...

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• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This story contains an important lesson about the pride of man and its resulting consequences. ... To stage their rebellion, the people plot to build a tower to heaven on which they will challenge God. ... This story is yet another lesson of the power of God and man's refusal to follow God. ...

• Word Count: 3285
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It seems that he dominated the public imagination as few authors have ever done, before or since. ... Born out of wedlock on January 12, 1876, he never knew his father, William Henry Chaney, who had left Jack's mother, Flora Wellman, 2 before jack's birth. ... In 1916 Jack became ill and on the advice of his doctors to ease up, to change his work habits and his diet, to stop all the use of alcohol, and to get more exercise or he would die. ... On November 22, 1916, Jack London died gastrointestinal uremia poisoning. ... The general plot of The Call of the Wil...

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• Grade Level: High School

He died in August 2, 1988 at the age of fifty (Kennedy, X. ... Plot Summary The narrator's wife used to work for a blind man called Robert whose wife has recently died, and he's coming to visit the narrator and his wife. ... They started to listen but were interrupted before the narrator can hear anything about himself. ... Beulah then died out of cancer. ... She leaves the room to get on a robe, and Robert and the narrator share marijuana who has never smoked before. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He is scared of dying and he flinches when the ax is brought down to strike him. ... - Gawain asks Sir Bercilak to "let him now do what he can to gain his good will; and afterwards he will show that he has learned his lesson" (385). ... The Green Knight issued a deadline to the knight, "Promise me, on your honor, that at the year's end you yourself will come and seek me out wherever you think I may be found, and take from me the wages for whatever you deal me today before this noble company" ("Sir Gawain 25"). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

?Describe the main events in Hitler's political career from 1918 to 1922.? When the war ended, Hitler was in hospital at Pasewalk recovering from his loss of vision, Hitler after he was discharged made his way back to Munich. He was still in uniform and still drew his rations and pay from the arm...

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• Grade Level: High School

Because Stephen Blackpool was see by many people around the bank several nights before the robbery, and was now no where to be found, he became the prime suspect along with an old woman that he had been seen with around the town. ... Gradgrind tells her in a round about way that she is sorry that she was never taught the real lessons in life just science. She died only a short time later. ...

• Word Count: 3472
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Though he was sure that his writing would bring him the fame and recognition of the causes that he championed, he wrote the following to Victor Gollancz shortly before the book was revised for the last time "I would prefer the book to be published pseudonymously. ... In 1945 his wife died during an operation, and he went off to Europe to be a reporter. ... ("Orwell-2) Eric Blair died in January 1950 of a tuberculosis hemorrhage, having just finished 1984. ...

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

Not long before his terrible death of leprosy, far from his native land, on the remote island of Tahiti, Strickland realised his lifelong dream. ... He was possessed of a devil, but you could not say that it was a devil of evil, for it was a primitive force that existed before good and ill. (109) A man so entirely indifferent to his surroundings. (110) That was in his character. ...

• Word Count: 6573
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• Grade Level: High School

Many critics regard "King Lear" as the greatest, and most tragic, of William Shakespeare's plays; indeed, some claim that it is the most tragic play ever written. And yet, it is difficult to see why we should regard "King Lear" as a tragedy for the King is basically a pathetic old man, vain and fool...

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• Grade Level: High School