"The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (Chopin 16). ... In The Awakening it is mainly the sea and the water; in "The Dream of an Hour" it is the sky and trees. ... Pontellier ends her life in the sea, a space of infinite potential that becomes a blank and persistent void, carrying both a promise and a threat. ... Because they are unable to communicate with the world around them, men have control over their lives. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They exist in a world of little resistance. Edna's world, which is a cage, is full of resistance or rather duties, obligations, and responsibilities designed to limit thoughts and activities. ... Edna remembers the Kentucky fields of her childhood as an ocean, she learns to swim in the gulf, and she finally escapes into the sea. ... Before her awakening, Edna is afraid of abandoning herself to the sea's embrace. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The eldest children are highly conflicted, rooting for power, fighting among each other for trivial reasons yet this is their world; fighting about who gets to be the leader or who is cowardly or who knows the best for them all is their main concern, they are very young boys themselves and require an elderly person to keep them in line. ... When Percival, the littluns who dreamt that there was a beast speaks up in the assembly, Jack hears him very clearly stating; "He says the beast comes out of the sea". ... Eliot related the water, the sea to the subconscious in The Wasteland. ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His journeys take him all over the world, however mainly Africa and Europe. ... She felt lost and lonely with no escape from a world of hell. ... The Little Prince was written in New York City in 1940 and according to some sources, the third most read book in the world in this century. ... After the beginning of World War II, Exupery moved back to France and joined the army once again. On July 31, 1944, during a mission over the Mediterranean Sea, his plane was shot down and he was killed. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

But as for now I see nothing but the endless sea of dunes and heat. ... The mind is where the world is transformed into a land of darkness and shadow, a place where dreams die and nightmares come alive. ... A world lost of color, hope and love, lost to the subconscious functions of the brain. ... The only hope for this world lies in God. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Her life in constant torment, she finds a world of sex and drug use to deal with her despair which finds her on the brink of suicide. ... Of course, we shouldn't forget his trip to China to participate in the World Championship Ping-Pong match or his tour of duty in Vietnam where he receives the Congressional Medal of Honor. ... "Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. ... Bubba, like Forrest, seems to be a decent person with a simple and nave view of the world. ...

• Word Count: 1504
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• Grade Level: High School

"Those skilled at uncommon maneuvers are as endless as the heavens and earth, and as inexhaustible as the rivers and seas Killing the enemy is a matter of arousing anger in men," Sun Tzu said. ... Look at the longest lasting Imperial power in the world - China. ...

• Word Count: 1544
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• Grade Level: High School

These men, according to Erasmus, live for the sound of rattling dice, and they are so caught up in their passions that they are oblivious to the rest of the world around them. ... Other men, "marries a woman's money, not herself, another for a small and uncertain gain exposes his life to the casualties of seas and winds, which yet no money can restore. ...

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate