city with a convenient transportation system. The transportation system is composed of buses‚ skytrains‚ seabuses‚ taxis‚ and so on. It helps people to get to all the districts of the city. For an example‚ Skytrains and buses allow students who do not have cars to go to UBC from Richmond and North Vancouver everyday. It saves so much time for the people to move around the city. Thus‚ people who live in a city can use convenient transportation system . There are comprehensive services in a city
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Synthesis Essay Where does the desire to not just live‚ but strive come from? To not just succeed but exceed? To not just be great but be the only thing acceptable in one’s heart‚ the best. In “You Should Have Been a Boy‚” Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s determination to make her father proud‚ drove her to do what most women of her time never did: earn a higher education or speak out against injustice. In the essay‚ “Superman and Me‚” Sherman Alexie’s unrelenting passion for reading allowed him to turn
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No! I’m not judgmental at all. Some of us has said that at one point in time. But to be brutally honest‚ being judgmental is something we as people do all the time. Ask yourself these questions How many times have a stranger‚ co-worker‚ family‚ friends have judged you? How many times have you judged someone? Being judgmental is a part of our society. With all the different ethnicities and nationalities‚ we are all were worried about how people see us. So‚ is it our human nature to judge? Were we born
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The stories "Young Goodman Brown" by Hawthorne and "The Man in the Black Suit" by King are very similar and touch upon many of the same key points in literature‚ including good versus evil and allegory. However‚ they do have their differences‚ which make each story unique and interesting. Both stories are allegorical and have the main theme of good versus evil. They also have prominent characters that help to project the images of the devil‚ and how once encountered with the devil‚ their lives are
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their principles when it comes to particular situations. For example‚ one might alter their opinion on a job‚ tradition‚ or religious belief based on his/her own ethics. In the short stories “A & P‚” “The Lottery‚” and “Young Goodman Brown‚” Sammy‚ Old Man Warner‚ and Goodman Brown did just so. Each character similarly handled the situation; however‚ had entirely different reasoning and outcomes. Though each character was put into three completely different situations‚ each one had a very similar
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The Chronicle Review October 3‚ 2010 What Are You Going to Do With That? Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle Review By William Deresiewicz The essay below is adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May. The question my title poses‚ of course‚ is the one that is classically aimed at humanities majors. What practical value could there possibly be in studying literature or art or philosophy? So you must be wondering why I’m bothering to raise it here‚ at
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Matt Fondriest Fiction Paper 2-10-05 Setting and its Effect on Understanding Young Goodman Brown Every tale ever told shares similar formal elements. All of these formal elements have equally important consequence on a story. The setting of a story has direct correlations to the way that the reader consumes the meaning of the story. The setting in Young Goodman Brown allows its author‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ to leave the ending ambiguous‚ without closure. The reader is constantly expected to decide
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The Pointless Pursuit of Perfection: Implications of Young Goodman Brown The story of Young Goodman Brown delivers a core underlying message that perfection is impossible‚ and those who expect it are doomed to disappointment‚ as the author repeatedly shows through the presence of the devilish shadow figure and symbolism of the final meeting. The impossibility of perfection is manifested in the dark figure Goodman Brown meets in the forest. This shadowy figure is introduced as an “elder person as
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Symbolism in Young Goodman Brown” “Young Goodman Brown‚” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1835‚ is a short story about a man named young Goodman Brown who leaves his wife‚ Faith‚ to go on an errand into the woods with the devil. Faith begs Goodman Brown to not leave her alone‚ but he chooses to go anyways. This short story shows many signs of symbolism‚ such as the forest‚ the devil‚ the staff‚ the pink ribbons‚ Faith‚ sin‚ and guilt. These symbols help in understanding the story of young Goodman Brown
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Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story published in 1835 “Young Goodman Brown” demonstrates how the writer uses his imagination and background history of his ancestor. According to Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature‚ Hawthorne was an “American novelist and short-story writer who was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature‚ he is best known for THE SCARLET LETTER (1850) and THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES (1851)
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