Abigail Williams Abigail Williams ruined the lives of many people. She was a troublemaker and throughout the story she causes much commotion in the town of Salem by accusing many innocent people of witchcraft. She was very self-centered and didn’t even consider the problems of the people she implicated. Abigail Williams was an ignominious teenager that used personal vengeance to fulfill her sense of entitlement. Abby was a bitter adolescent that turned on many people to get what she wanted. She
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William Dean Howells work‚ Editha‚ perfectly exemplifies the opportunist that existed in the Gilded Age. She refuses to visualize the cruel realities of war‚ however‚ she sees the romantic aspect of war that she read in her patriotic novels. She forces her views of war on her fiancé‚ convincing him that it might be best for him to join the military. She realizes that Gearson could die in battle‚ however‚ appears to not care‚ because then the attention would be centered on her and she could act like
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Julia Young Professor Jarrell English Composition 101 25 August 2014 Summary of Faux Friendship by William Deresiewicz In the article Faux Friendships by William Deresiewicz he creates an intriguing summary of the change from traditional friendships to‚ social change and new technology. Before the new‚ more technological friendships evolved “Friendship was a high calling‚ demanding extraordinary qualities of character‚ rooted in virtue and dedicated to the pursuit of goodness and truth (Deresiewicz
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In the article‚ “college pressure” by William Zinsser‚ he convinced his theory about college pressures is about the main major pressures that measure our success in the future. Zinsser notes that college hyper-pressured as rat race leads them to financial security future which had expected for many generations of students. His sympathy to the student has trying to convince students that failure isn’t the end of the world. He is trying to tell us that this failure will give us strength to success
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Now‚ looking back at the general mood of hopelessness and numbed terror of the Cold War period‚ we can see that William Faulkner was absolutely right when he said‚ “I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail....It is his [the writer’s] privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart‚ by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and
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Being a southerner can be complex...for the past never dies. William Faulkner’s miserable short story “A Rose for Emily” displays the un-organization in which the plot follows‚ perhaps like the characters way of proceeding on with life. The author confuses his readers‚ in order to prove how the south is stuck in the past. He does this by manipulating the plot‚ which gives a perplex understanding on how the south cannot get over the outcome of the war that had already ended. Throughout his
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William James suggests that as individuals we must “almost as if it were necessary to become worthless as a practical being‚ if one is to hope to attain to any breadth of insight into the impersonal world of worths as such‚ to have any perception of life’s meaning on a large objective scale.” I personally believe that this approach is not very feasible as people need to accept their humanity and not shy away from the things that in which make them disagreeable. Even more so‚ I do believe that as
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Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a drama that takes place during the Salem Witch Trials. In the first act of the drama we are introduced to the character of Abigail Williams‚ who at first is seemingly innocent‚ however‚ we later discover that that is not the case. Abigail can be considered evil or immoral due to countless actions that are found throughout the drama. Though she does commit various atrocious acts we can’t help but feel sympathy for Abigail‚ because she is still at a young age and is
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were William Kentridge and Diane Victor. I took from each of these artists only an aspect of their dexterity. Kentridge’s animated film “Pain and Sympathy” particularly interested me. The use of monochrome line was essential to the success of this piece‚ generating the the visual impact I yearned to create. Whilst visually‚ Diane Victors work‚ (Smoke Portraits) besides being facial portraits‚ differs from my own. Although the level of emotion behind her work correlates with my work. William Kentridge’s
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William Shakespeare ’s tragic play Macbeth is set in 11th-century Scotland. The overarching political system then was feudalism‚ a system that was "based on the holding of land" and placed "an increasing emphasis on local protection‚ local government‚ and local self-sufficiency" (World History‚ Section 9-4‚ pp. 214 **). Shakespeare‚ however‚ lived during the late 16th and early 17th century‚ a time in which kings with "absolute authority" and "divine right" (W.H‚ Section 18-3‚ pp. 430) ruled a strongly
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