The Bear Came Over the Mountain," thrilling to the young Fiona's suggestion that they marry, observing that "She had the spark of life," and two lines later Fiona is seventy years old and losing her mind, five decades of their marriage now backstory to Grant's witnessing of her decline In "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," the tables are turned on a compulsive philanderer when his institutionalized wife, suffering from Alzheimer's, takes up with a fellow patient. ... But the passionate attachment she forms for another of the home's inmates is certainly real, and is pla...

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In the first three lines he says: "Experience, though no authority, Were in this world, were good enough for me, To speak of woe that is in all marriage." ... A perfect example of the fear and respect the town has for her is on lines 459-463 in the General Prologue: "In all the parish not a dame dared stir, Towards the altar steps in front of her, And if indeed they did, so wrath was she as to be quite put out of charity." Her extravagance and boldness are exhibited in numerous cases, including lines 457-458: "In making cloth she showed so great a bent she bettered those of Ypres and of Ghent...

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Hero is abused at her wedding ceremony and is performed as a cheater in front of everyone, when in "The Taming of the Shrew" Petruccio often makes fun of Katherine in front of people and even shows his disrespect when coming to his own wedding dressed as a clown, which was done with a purpose to humiliate Katherine. ... (Shr 2.I.222) Most of the lines of Katherine are short, consisting of one or two lines at a time, and she is avoiding the usage of complicated analogies. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway is a classic novel, telling the story of Americans in Europe in the early nineteen-twenties. The characters who are showcased in the this story are part of the Lost Generation, the generation who lived through the horrors of World War I, called the Great War in that t...

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Desdemona's bravery is also evident when she speaks in front of the Duke and his council. This is a young woman speaking in front of established older gentlemen who control the city of Venice. ... Without reading between the lines, one might come to hold the notion that Desdemona betrays her tough chick persona at the end of the play. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Mallard was held back from much of her ambitions in life: "She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression...." (257). ... Mallard sees her husband walk through the front door, the disappointment and the devastation of loss that she suffers causes her heart to fail. ... The front door opens, however, and her husband walks in. ...

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In the sub-chapter "Stickability", the Lamb family work together at their new shop, with " Lester and Quick off to the markets across the rails- (Page 58) to buy new stock, Oriel barking orders and the Lamb Girls " rattling the till, climbing the ladders, shaking out tuppeny measures of jubes- (Page 59) Here we see the Lamb family working hard together, it brings happiness to Lester, which is evident in his singing and the lines "Nothing seemed to suppress his good spirits in those weeks" (page 59). ... This is evident in the scene where Sam is standing in front of the mirror with a razor blad...

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• Grade Level: High School

He only visually appears in the final lines but the reader knows of him throughout the entire story. ... Here, she positions herself in front of an open window in a "roomy armchair-. ... The next evident symbol is the open window she places herself in front of. ...

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In act I, scene ii, Hamlet's disgust with his mother's incestuous relationship and pain over his father's death is no more clear then in the lines of his speech, "But two months dead - nay, not so much, not two. / So excellent a king, that was, to this / Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / visit her face too roughly. ... Even though this spirit is right in front of him and has done nothing to either Horatio or the other men who have seen him, Hamlet is still unable to automatically assume that this spirit is a good spirit...

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There is a social unrest in America these days regarding the Government's denial of the right to marry to many homosexual. Those completely against gay marriage, mainly conservatives and neo-Christian politicians who are using religious arguments to establish that sexuality is an atrocity. While on ...

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• Has Bibliography
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When reciting these vows to a loved one, an individual is committing oneself to a life long relationship which goes far beyond the lines of "dating." ... This is illustrated in Lou's statement, "The night before I left, I lay on the living-room couch with the front door ajar in case he came down in the middle of the night in one of his furies. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Shuar are an indigenous tribe living deep in the heart of the Amazon rain forest. They're renowned for being the last tribe in the Americas that has yet to be conquered. They are bred and raised to be fierce warriors and defend their title of being the last conquered. Because of development and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Algernon Moncrieff: Algernon, the foil to Jack, is the epitome of hedonism, a wit who scores the best of Wilde's biting lines and who cannot resist indulging in all life's luxuries. ... Lane: Algernon's butler, Lane has his share of droll lines that show he is far from a passive servant. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Claire McMurdock 10.A Year 10 'Shakespeare' Assignment 'Romeo and Juliet' Discuss the ways in which Shakespeare creates dramatic tension based around the transformation of Juliet's character. 'Romeo and Juliet' is one of Shakespeare's famous love tragedies written during the Elizabethan tim...

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• Grade Level: High School