The dark and gloomy physical setting lays out the mood for Dostoevsky's novel, incorporating a feeling of utter desolation in the reader. ... I am sure it's quite half through your lodging you have become so melancholy" (216). ... He lays buried within his tomb for the whole course of his sickness, and he never can escape his conscience and his constant moral questioning. It is also in his tomb where Porfiry Petrovitch, a detective, discloses that he knows Raskolnikov is indeed the murderer; Raskolnikov's insane personality then "dies" upon hearing that he has been revealed....

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" or "I wonder what will happen if I ask that girl out.... "I wonder what happens if I put my hand in the fire.... Curiosity dies, fear wins, we lose. ... I do not think you can find a intellectual great who was not extremely curious. ... Curiosity "creates an openness to unfamiliar experiences, laying the groundwork for greater opportunities to experience discovery, joy and delight....

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In my term paper, I will be focusing on specific passages from Meditations on First Philosophy, which was written in 1641. ... In order to acquire absolute certainty, Descartes must first lay a complete foundation of integrity on which to build up his knowledge. The technique he uses to lay this base is doubt. ... Descartes articulates this belief in the statement, "I"m aware that I"m aware." ... Based on this "Causal" proof he says, " I have the idea of a perfect being, and that idea has to have a cause, and since I am imperfect, the idea has to have be originated from a perfect sourc...

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Saida had one good dear friend, she was like a proper sister to her, Saida then asked Aisha her friend, if she would look after Sajda for until she comes back, Aisha thought to herself well I couldn't not accept to look after her for awhile, Aisha pleasingly said yes I"ll look after her. ... That night Saida didn't know what to do and was feeling very depressed, she got out of bed and went into the bathroom, opened the cabinet up and took some pills out, she was saying to herself shall I or shall I not? ... That night Sajda went to the toilet, she tried to open the bathroom door but...

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He lays his symbols so subtle that most of the time they're not even found or addressed even by a commentary over the book. ... Allie is Holder's younger brother who died of leukemia when he was just thirteen. Holden loved his brother more than anything and when he died he punched out all the windows in the garage. ... This is symbolic of the love he had and still has for his little brother; he even quotes latter that "you don't stop loving someone because they die" proving that he still cares for him. ... "The first thing I did when I got off at Penn station, I went into this ...

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Hinton's use of imagery allows the reader to visualize Johnny as a scared, innocent child because his is constantly being hurt by his parents in his own home, so he would not dare lay a finger on anybody else. ... I mean it. ... That was the only time I can think of that I saw him without that defeated, suspicous look in his eyes." ... Johnny never wanted to murder the Soc, he simply did not want Ponyboy to die right before his very own eyes, so he did the only thing he could do to put an end to it. ... After the Soc dies, and Pony and Johnny flee, Johnny's ways and personality do no...

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