The three Byronic characteristics that Branwell, Rochester and Heathcliff share are their want for a woman they can't have, their proneness to being moody and their dark secrets that have occurred because of their isolated travels. ... One Byronic characteristic Rochester, Heathcliff and Branwell share is their love for a woman they can't have. ... The dark secret carried by Rochester, Heathcliff and Branwell all revolve around their want for a woman that isn't available to them. ... Lydia Robinson, Branwell's love, refused his proposal and then left him empty and broken ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Coppola created this film with "ambitious effort to show Vietnam as America's Heart of Darkness, with Joseph Conrad's story providing the narrative skeleton" "(Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 1-1) and many themes, meanings, and entire scenes from the movie do in fact come directly from Conrad's book. Aside from the adaptation of Heart of Darkness's story into the film Apocalypse Now illustrates the hardships of war in nearly every aspect of a soldiers life. ... Ford's use of imagery, darkness, and slow and long cross dissolves also create vivid realizations of the ...

• Word Count: 1876
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was truly a test of the heart of the United States as to whether or not it could overcome such a trying time. ... He had seen a nation divided, thousands of soldiers killed, families broken, and a sense of pride that Americans once shared shattered. ... According to Our Secret Constitution, How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy, by George Fletcher, Lincoln created a "Secret Constitution" in addition to the one created in 1786 by the founding fathers, through his actions. ... The Civil War was, and still is, a very dark point in American History. ...

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Also, Trujillo's dictatorship was hegemonic instead of systemic since him and his secret police dominantly controlled everything. ... Without this vital information shared by Alvarez, the world may have never known the reality Dominicans faced living under a dictatorship. ... In my opinion, Trujillo went too far when forming this secret police due to the plethora of people who ended up getting tortured and even killed. ... Chucha had darker skin, was in a new environment, and had trouble speaking some of the words Dominicans spoke. ... However, usually one couldn't leave the country ...

• Word Count: 1913
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• Has Bibliography
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This is written to be one of the more sexual scenes in the novel, thus crossing the boundaries of incest and representing a new wave of morality in society, "Her lips quivered, and her mouth locked to me and the pain whipped through me suddenly encircling my heart."" (175). ... This is perhaps a device influenced by societal ideals of the nineteenth century, the notion that communities are protected; evil will be displaced and makes the character of Dracula, himself a cold being, " he is brute, and more than brute: he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not - (304). ... In sharing ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to Mellor: Victor Frankenstein embodies certain elements of Percy Shelley's temperament and character that had begun to trouble Mary Shelley - namely and intellectual hubris and belief in the supreme importance of mental abstractions that led him to be insensitive to the feelings of those who did not share his ideas and enthusiasms. (73) Frankenstein's education is based on Percy Shelley's; both were avid students of several noted medieval alchemists as were they equally fascinated with alchemy and chemistry. ... Ingolstadt was famous as the home of the ...

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• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bismarck's Domestic Policy 1871-1890. Along with getting an IB Paper 3 question about Biz's foreign policy, you might also (instead?) encounter a question about the domestic policy that Biz pursued as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1871-1890. So let's deal with that now. OK? It is likely...

• Word Count: 10254
• Approx Pages: 41
• Grade Level: Undergraduate