"A Good Man is Hard to Find," a short story by Flannery O'Connor, is full with a religious theme, symbols, and characters. ... This evident in this short story when the reader thinks deeper about the meanings of the themes and symbols and figures out the way they are connected to religion especially in the grandmother and misfit. ... Flannery O'Connor includes more aspects into this short story that a person could imagine. ... I acquired that idea from the website Big C Catholics since the website has a same view I did of the Misfit and the reasoning behind his killing and ...

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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a short story set in a small town that practices a violent tradition of human sacrifice every year. ... The message of this short story is that violent traditions are way past time and shouldn't be considered morally correct. ... At first, this short story is very worrying especially when compared to today's world. ... The story shows the extent of the sacrifice of human race to attain success. ... Similar to the townspeople in this short story, the military and police in many communities are always ready and willing to participate in m...

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Forster's short story "The Machine Stops" gives readers another look at a future that seems entirely plausible. In this particular short story, Forster depicts what he imagines would happen if all humans turned their back on physical contact and preferred only to be connect through a machine. ... This short story was first published in 1909, when technology had just started to contribute to society, and E.M. ... In the short story, we learn that humanity has completely lost touch with reality. ... Furthermore, the author mentions in his short story another consequence of the te...

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The novel, Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi and the short story "The Block of Death" by Sarah Nomberg-Przytyk, are two works of literature that portray how the Jews behaved. ... The thing that shocked me the most is what I read in the short story, "The Block of Death." ... Although this story is fiction, there were Jews who did do this. The story itself may be fiction, but the facts behind it were not. ... When I read the story about Cyla and Primo Levi telling his story of how he had to keep his belongings in his sight at all times in fear they would be stolen, I was in shock by these...

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Many of Hemmingway's stories point to a consuming nothingness in peoples lives as the cause of much of this ominous despair and darkness. The phrase "nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada- in his short story "A Clean Well Lighted Place- both clearly and readily portrays Hemingway's feelings on this subject. ... The young waiter is perhaps the antagonist of the story though we are never provided with a clearly defined protagonist. ... Its realism and humanness, short simple phrases, and true to life pauses and breaks in thought draw the reader quickly into the story. ... The final ...

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In two short stories "A Mother's Tale- by James Agee and "The Lesson- by Toni Cade Bambara authors impart with readers their own special meanings about life and society. ... The second story "The Lesson- seems to be more problematic, as it raises racial and classical issues. ... "Each one is himself,"" said Agee in his story and I believe these words are the most important in his whole essay. ... The children from the Toni's story are quite a good illustration for what I'm trying to say. ... To start with something I would consider youngsters to think about the words of the moth...

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As with any of the ancient Greek myths, there are always a number of permutations and interpretations of the story that lead modern readers to question what the original intent of the story actually had been. ... This type of consideration of the myth in terms of its modern application ultimately results in an understanding that it is not a story of clear-cut or unambiguous stereotypes. ... Ultimately, Medusa is compelling because she has such power and yet, she is still an example of vulnerability since such power is cut short by the actions of Perseus. ... Contemporary writers still use myth...

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The story of Hamlet presents to us not one of treason and murder, but of self-reflection and a lack of self-trust. ... Throughout the story we watch as Hamlet delves within himself to find the reason for the delay, only find out that there is no reason. ... They go a short distance and the ghost reveals to Hamlet the circumstances of his father's death, not natural causes, but murder and foul play by his own brother, the new King. ... The answer lies in each person who reads the story. ...

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They are surrounded by notifications, news stories, and profiles of people we know as friends and acquaintances. ... Although the Internet and technology has been around a short time in the overall timeline of the world, we know that it is changing the way we look at the society and ourselves. ... Besides the short term affects the Internet and media can have on adolescent brains, there is also the issue of development and behavior in young adults. ...

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" Hawthorne begins by alluding to the belief in total depravity in this short story when Goodman Brown sees Goody Cloyse in the forest and is reminded of the Puritan catechism. ... Hawthorne clearly exposes this destruction in Brown's spiritual isolation at the end of the story. This spiritual isolation occurs after the most important scene in this story: Brown's encounter with sinners in the forest. ... Hawthorne claims this sympathy as a truth, for reality in Hawthorne's stories are often represented through dreams, which in this case is Brown's encounter in the for...

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In movies that portray the act of cloning, you see many different issues present and most of the films I found followed a very similar story path as to the complex complications that would come with cloning. ... The man however, was more interested in making money than saving lives, so he injected the clones with deadly diseases so that they would have shorter life spans. ... The movies all follow the similar story line of beginning, plot, conflict, climax, and ending. ...

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He also received national attention even before Huckleberry Finn when he published his short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County- in 1865. ... Jim is another major character in the story. ... This dramatic chapter is the climax of this story. ...

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In his poem "Greed", Philip Schultz tells a story of someone who seems to be affected greatly by social class in a negative way. ... There are two sides to the story of race in society. ... The character in "Greed" provides a superlative and our only example of someone remaining optimistic no matter how short lived it may be. ... The moral of the story here is that there is no escaping despair. ...

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When creating Frankenstein in the 1800's, the story and the idea of bringing in inanimate object to life or even to create new life artificially was something of science fiction or just plain impossible. ... In the past there have been many Frankenstein stories and many people in the field of science have been quick to criticize these works of science fiction. ... Who would've known that in just a few short years, this movie of science fiction would become science "fact!" ... Who would've thought that in a little over a hundred years, the story of Frankenstein would become so...

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If that were true, ugliness would be the monster's only weakness, as the story goes on to tell of the selfless acts of kindness the creature administers. ... Finally upon hearing the creature's story Victor expresses a hint of pity for the creature, "I compassioned him and sometimes felt a wish to console him- (142), although Victor goes on to say, " But when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred" (142). ... The flashes of airbrushed and plastic beauty that are copied and pasted on every media outlet ...

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Das tells us the story about how her oldest son Bobby was a product of an affair with a friend of her husband friend. ... One last way that literary merit is portrayed in this short story is that it is thought provoking. ...

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Bystander Apathy As you wait to cross the street, a blind man is standing in front of you. Without warning, he begins to cross the street even though the light has not changed in his favor. He seems to be in no danger until you see a car about a half mile away speeding towards him. Totally unaware of the situation, the man continues walking across the street. As you and many others watch in horror he is struck by the car. ...

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When she achieves this Liesel quickly masters the power of language, which is seen in Max's short novel The word Shaker: "The best word shakers were the ones who understand the true power of words. ... All of these themes are influential to the story solidifying the personality of each character. ...

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TV Guide also says,"(Blade Runner) is a fascinating detective story about a world-weary android-killer and his renegade prey." ... Everyone of the androids will not go down without a fight, injuring Deckard badly each encounter, even though they know their lives are running short. ...

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In our own spirits we certainly did feel alone because we had accomplished our goal which was to completely escape society's rigid grasp for a short amount of time to simply get lost in nature and as Abbey put it, "just do nothing". ... Before reading the book, I already has a profound love for nature but after reading the inspiring story, I found myself experiencing this outlandish fantasy to be like Chris McCandless and wanting to escape society by any means necessary. ...

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In his short story, "The Open Boat," Stephen Crane shows us a Universe, which is totally unconcerned with the affairs of humankind; it is an indifferent Universe in which Man has to struggle to survive. ...

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The story of "X" takes place before western man had the opportunity to infringe on the environment, but this not the case for "Y". ... There is no telling what could destroy an ecosystem, only that it could take short few years, even months to destroy what has taken centuries to create and would take even longer to repair. ...

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DISCUSS "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow" - ECCLESIASTES 1:18 David Malouf's "Fly Away Peter" is the story of one man's loss of innocence, as he confronts the brutality of human nature during the First World War. ... Malouf makes clear that Jim's life was wasted because it was cut short. ...

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Consider this story about a woman, at the age of 24, who has decided to have a hysterectomy. ... If human cloning is banned then millions of people around the world will continue to have pain and suffering from diseases like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, cancer and their lives will end short of what is expected of them and could leave behind a family who will have no one to provide for them anymore. Lives ending short will no longer be a problem, because human cloning research has unlocked the "fountain of youth" and could make humans immortal. ...

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In order to explain how this story might shed some light on Aristophanes idea of love, and what he believes are the characteristics of love; we must first acknowledge the difference between physical sexual love, and a deeper spiritual love that emanates from the soul. ... His arguments do fall short in several ways: his mythological account of the division of the original human being does not provide an explanation for bisexuality, which surely must have been prevalent in his time, as well as ours. ...

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