Scott Fitzgerald, the corruption of the American dream is a major theme throughout the book. ... On a billboard are the luminous blue eyes of Dr. ... Fitzgerald uses this to indicate god watching over them, but the billboard has been abandoned and forgotten, showing their corruption as they are turned from god when religion is forgotten in their pursuit for wealth(The Symbol I). The blue in his eyes shows the corruption of the spirit. ... "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or vast carelessness or whatever...

• Word Count: 1016
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the novel, a common theme of self-centeredness continually arises. ... He is very troubled by his brother's death and when he nears his home, he stops to watch a lightning storm. ... The death of the innocent is a theme presented in her novel, but also a major problem in today's society. ... He was killing people who were not terminally ill; in fact only seventeen of his patients were terminally ill. ... This is a reference to ancient times, when people were murdered by severing their head from their body. ...

• Word Count: 1508
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• Grade Level: High School

People are already likely to do anything for their God especially when they live in fear of punishment or death. ... Religion is used to put fear into the eyes of the people in Gilead about going against God because they will be punished. ... They have Eyes that watch over everyone; anyone who is under suspicion or thought to have said something wrong was immediately caught and sent away or hanged-or so we thought-on the "Town Wall" for everyone to stare upon. ... Lastly, lack of feminism is a one of the big themes throughout the book. ... Women were not allowed to read like the men ...

• Word Count: 1811
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• Grade Level: High School

They simply watch the snow fall and the wind blow as they begin to accept their fate. ... This shows that the fire is a major part of the men's hallucinations and that they see it as something attractive. ... We can see that the men don't doubt God's existence or God's creation. ... This is "All their eyes are ice". Owen is obviously comparing the men's eyes t...

• Word Count: 2121
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• Grade Level: High School

The Talmud has two major components: "the Mishnah, a book of halakhah (law) written in Hebrew; and the commentary on the Mishnah, known as the Talmud (or Gemarah)." The commentaries in the Talmud were written over the course of several hundred years between 200 B.C.E. and 500 C.E. ... For the most part, the information in each tractate is organized by theme. ... According to Solomon, the theme of prayer "establishes the continuity of Oral with Written Torah and suggests that relationship with God is key to the Sages' understanding of the world.... The sage answers, "...

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• Grade Level: High School

God forbid I take it from him!" ... Of the major characters, Abigail is the least complex. ... For young girls in Salem, the minister and the other male adults are God's earthly representatives, their authority derived from on high. ... In Act IV, it is he who counsels the accused witches to lie, to confess their supposed sins in order to save their own lives. ... The other seven died before they were a day old, and Ann is convinced that they were murdered by supernatural means. ...

• Word Count: 4038
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• Grade Level: High School

His knowledge about major religions also helped him to fight danger, loneliness and doubt. ... Ironically, his father would begin by showing the danger of a tiger, allowing his two young vegetarian sons watch a tiger massacre a goat, and warned them to remember this for the rest of their lives. ... Throughout the novel, the theme of religious faith was presented in animals; Pi found the meanings of the animals as religious symbols. ... His curiosity about the three major religions and their differences provided him with many viewpoints that sustained him. ... Pi's belief in God made him s...

• Word Count: 1422
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The first of these ventures was the first ever Disney theme park - Disney World, built in 1955. ... Two of the major events to alert Christian activists to the alarming cultural change in the Disney empire took place in the late 1990's. One was the appearance of organised "gay days" at Disney's theme parks each year. ... In their 1995 report on Anti-Catholicism, the League stated: We objected not because the film showed five dysfunctional priests, but because it suggested that their depravity was a function of their religion. ... In the eyes of these protestors, Disney was in t...

• Word Count: 2220
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: High School

Melville was an "American novelist [and] a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th century literary concerns," (Melville). ... "He states this struggle in Pierre: 'Ah if man were wholly made in heaven, why catch we hell-glimpses? ... Billy Budd parallels to the Bible in their characters, symbolism and resolution of the struggle between good and evil. ... Adam was innocent in the eyes of God until he fell to the temptation of Satan to eat of the forbidden tree, therefore sinning. In the same respect, Billy Budd was innocent in t...

• Word Count: 2119
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• Grade Level: High School

Another major point that I will touch upon in each part is the play on light and dark that represents good and evil. This is a theme that runs through the entirety of this novel. ... This biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. ... The "Good God- created an ascendant, ethereal sphere. ... Contrarily, the "Evil God- set his stage. ...

• Word Count: 2051
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• Grade Level: High School

Another major point that I will touch upon in each part is the play on light and dark that represents good and evil. This is a theme that runs through the entirety of this novel. ... This biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. ... The "Good God- created an ascendant, ethereal sphere. ... Contrarily, the "Evil God- set his stage. ...

• Word Count: 2051
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• Grade Level: High School

Another major point that I will touch upon in each part is the play on light and dark that represents good and evil. This is a theme that runs through the entirety of this novel. ... This biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. ... The "Good God- created an ascendant, ethereal sphere. ... Contrarily, the "Evil God- set his stage. ...

• Word Count: 2051
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Another major point that I will touch upon in each part is the play on light and dark that represents good and evil. This is a theme that runs through the entirety of this novel. ... This biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. ... The "Good God- created an ascendant, ethereal sphere. ... Contrarily, the "Evil God- set his stage. ...

• Word Count: 2051
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• Grade Level: High School

The control Kurtz has over the Natives is unbelievable; he is their "God of Darkness." ... This is the theme of a journey into Marlow's inner-self. ... When Marlow departs on his journey through the jungles of Africa, travelling upriver he is witness to unspeakable acts; he cannot believe his eyes. ... We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign - and no memories." ... Imperialism causes much of their madness. ...

• Word Count: 2429
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• Grade Level: High School

The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. ... It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. ... She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. ... This was a group of people who had suffered tremendously, and were bound by that suffering. ...

• Word Count: 3712
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• Grade Level: High School

The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. ... It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. ... She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. ... This was a group of people who had suffered tremendously, and were bound by that suffering. ...

• Word Count: 3715
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• Grade Level: High School

Janie Crawford is unlike any character in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. ... Two places in the novel play major roles in the development of Janie. ... Janie was always young and innocent in her eyes, like a virgin. ... In Eatonville that disappointing reality was still a reoccurring theme. Janie and Joe Starks were content for a little while. ...

• Word Count: 1914
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The natives do not rob the group of their possessions as yet. ... As the party heads south, Cora tries to mark their trail, but, under the watchful eyes of the Indians, finds it difficult to do so. ... Gamut praises God and the Calvinist philosophy of predestination, by which the "saved will be saved" and the "damned will be damned". ... While he agrees with Gamut that the enemy was fated to die, he believes that the enemies' mistakes and his own party's readiness, bravery, and skill were responsible for the happy outcome. ... When he wishes to spend the night awake keeping...

• Word Count: 3072
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Jack is a thirty-year old man employed as a recall coordinator for a major automobile company. ... If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. ... When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before. ... The next major event that occurs in Jack's life, although he is unaware of it at the time, is meeting Tyler Durden. ... Only now the fingers were Nosferatu-long and the thumb was too short, but he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. ...

• Word Count: 6674
• Approx Pages: 27
• Grade Level: High School

Related Objectives • consider audience and conduct audience analysis • use effective annotation of essays and note-taking strategies • engage in brainstorming, outlining, and drafting strategies • write multiple drafts • revise, edit, and proofread drafts • evaluate their writing processes Outcome 2: Collaboration Students will engage in the collaborative, social aspects of writing. Related Objectives • effectively engage in group writing and projects • respond constructively to peers' papers • critique their o...

• Word Count: 6229
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• Grade Level: High School

Major conflict of the poem is Agamemnon's demand for Achilles' war prize, the maiden Briseis, which wounds Achilles' pride; Achilles' consequent refusal to fight causes the Achaeans to suffer greatly in their battle against the Trojans. ... Major themes of the poem are the glory of war; military values over family life; the impermanence of human life and its creations. ... Major conflict of the poem is that Aeneas is fated to travel from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he will establish a race that will lead to the founding of Rome. ... Themes of the poem are the pr...

• Word Count: 8864
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• Grade Level: High School

Humanities, as one would guess by its name, pertains to humans and does not pertain to God, Buddha, Allah or any other higher power or spiritual entity. ... The question of how the pyramids were built has not received a wholly satisfactory answer. ... Some have seriously hypothesized a massive chant in which the blocks were vibrated into place. ... For as I research and watch documentaries on these majestic structures I am captivated and aw-struck at the beauty of these buildings. ... Years ago, baskets of this sort were one of the only means for transporting water, cooking and carrying goods....

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• Grade Level: High School

Nevertheless, he continued to write, publishing his last major collection, Where I'm Calling From, in 1988. ... His wife tells the narrator that Robert and his wife, Beulah, were inseparable. ... 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
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• Grade Level: High School

He brought his young daughters, who were sent upstairs to play with O'Hare's kids. ... Finally, she confronted him: the narrator and Bernard were just babies when they fought. ... He and Mary were friends starting at that moment. ... The scouts abandon the two and tell Weary that he and Billy are on their own. ... Suddenly, Weary realizes that they are being watched by five German soldiers and a police dog. ...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

Archeological evidence indicates that a technologically and artistically advanced, proto-Yoruba (Nok) were living somewhat north of the Niger in the first millennium B.C., and they were then already working with iron. ... In Haiti the Yoruba's were generally called Anagos. ... In all of these places mentioned above, the pantheon of major Yoruba deities has survived virtually intact, along with a complex of rites, beliefs, music, dances and myths of Yoruba origin. ... (Source 1) The Yoruba make up one of the major ethnic groups in modern Nigeria where they occupy the whole of Ogun, Ond...

• Word Count: 7692
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School