stronger than others must wear handicaps so everyone will feel equal. Forcing beautiful women to wear masks actually backfires because you can tell how pretty someone is by how hideous their mask is. For example‚ the ballerina that read the bulletin aloud “must have been extraordinarily beautiful‚ because the mask she wore was hideous.” The ballerinas “were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot‚” because of their strength. It must be difficult to wear those weights
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Virgil and Horace‚ respected poets during the Roman empire wrote two collections based on Pastoral imagery and had many metaphors dealing with the change in power from Julius Caesar to Augustus Caesar. The first of Horace’s poetry is known at the Odes. And the first of Virgil’s collections are the Eclogues. In the first of Virgil’s eclogues‚ he addresses the issue of property and the differences in the lives of two Roman men. The two main characters in the first eclogue‚ Tityrus and Meliboeus
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himself he tears up his half created monster. The monster also shows shame. The monster shows shame when he looks into the water of the pond and sees his own reflection and exclaims in agony “Why did you form a monster so hideous” (93). The monster realizes that he is hideous and is ashamed of himself. He is then struck with anger and seeks revenge on Victor for giving him a repulsive face. Another example when he demonstrates shame was when he passed by the town and the people would shriek and
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Hyong Du Lim Professor Art Schuhart English 241 20 March 2013 “Now‚ Gods‚ Stand Up for Bastards”: Reinterpreting Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography Shurr emphasizes that “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has been judged as one of the most important and influential of American books” (Shurr 435). American people have admired Benjamin Franklin as a role model‚ for his self-improving mindset and his remarkable service during American Revolution‚ but the untold truth lies beneath his cowardly
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landscape features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye like windows—upon the few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of the soul... the hideous dropping off of the veil‚" ("The Fall" 312-314). Words like gloom‚ bleak‚ decayed‚ depression‚ and hideous conjunctively allow the reader to paint an eerie image in the mind’s eye. Poe utilizes these words to set the medium from the
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useful in case of an emergency‚ but that is completely false. Even with a cell phone‚ the student could miss an important call. Therefore‚ it defeats the purpose of needing a cell phone. Many schools have efficient ways to help guardians contact their progeny or vice versa‚ if there is an emergency. In addition‚ there is no use for a cell phone because the parents or guardians still have to come to school to sign their child out. To conclude‚ a good education can be
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"He struggled violently. `Let me go‚’ he cried; `monster! Ugly wretch! You wish to eat me and tear me to pieces. You are an ogre. Let me go‚ or I will tell my papa...Hideous monster! Let me go. My papa is a syndic—he is M. Frankenstein—he will punish you. You dare not keep me." (Shelley 125) William Frankenstein the brother of the monsters creator begins to shout and scream at the sight of the monster. This shows that
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introduces Himself as a God mercy and benevolence. Mr. President‚ the literal meaning of the word Islam is “Peace“. But since the 9/11 attacks the perception of the meaning of Islam has undergone a radical transition from peace to something more hideous. terrorism‚ war‚ suicide and bloodshed. Which‚ Mr. President I as a Muslim cannot tolerate anymore. So‚ let me plead my case and refute all the baseless assumptions‚ misinterpretations and misquotations put forward by the west as an argument. So first
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In the short story "The Black Cat"‚ Edgar Allan Poe uses gruesome detail and diction to establish his rule of one effect and the death of one major character. One of Poe’s rules for 19th Century Poetry is that writing should exhibit one effect or one purpose‚ which is to scare the reader. Poe uses diction and detail to put disturbing images into people’s head. In "The Black Cat" the narrator declines from sanity to madness. Poe uses detail to set up the situation where the narrator goes insane.
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hard to relate the term "giant" from an old English meaning into what we refer to as a giant today. This old norse description is from a Swedish encyclopedia: "As a collective‚ giants are often attributed a hideous appearance - claws‚ fangs‚ and deformed features‚ apart from a generally hideous size. Some of them may even have many heads or an overall non-humanoid shape. With bad looks comes a weak intellect; more than once was their temper likened to that of
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